The Religious Studies Program is excited to welcome Dana Lloyd, Assistant Professor in Villanova University’s Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies, as our first speaker in a lecture series on Religion and Politics! Talk: “Land as …
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Axell Boomer, RS Undergraduate, wins national Beinecke Award!
Axell Boomer recently received a nationally competitive Beinecke Award for future graduate study, one of twenty awardees nationwide. The Beinecke Scholarship Program provides $35,000 to students of exceptional promise for graduate study in the arts, …
March 22: Professor Susan Ridgely Talk on “Southern, Catholic, Universal: The Creation of a Biracial Parish in Rural North Carolina 1870-1904”
Please join the Religious Studies Program for our 2024 March Research Brown Bag on Friday, March 22nd at 12:15pm! We’ll hear from Professor Susan Ridgely with her talk “Southern, Catholic, Universal: The Creation of a …
January 26: Amish Health Culture Brown Bag with Mark Louden
Join the Religious Studies Program on Friday, January 26 at 12:30pm for our January Brown Bag. Professor Mark L. Louden (RS Affiliate, GNS+) will present on Amish Health Culture. This brownbag will explore the health …
November 6-7: the 2023 Kutler Lectures with Riv-Ellen Prell
The Religious Studies Program is excited to be a co-sponsor for the 2023 Kutler Lectures hosted by the Center for Jewish Studies (CJS) featuring Riv-Ellen Prell, Professor Emerita of American Studies at the University of …
November 2: Dr. Quincy Newell Lecture: Black and American Indian Mormons and the Scripturalization of Mormon Texts
The Religious Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is excited to announce that Dr. Quincy Newell will be giving the lecture “Black and American Indian Mormons and the Scripturalization of Mormon Texts” on Thursday, …
Remembering Ron Numbers (1942 – 2023)
The Religious Studies Program is saddened to hear of the death of Professor Ronald L. Numbers, professor emeritus of medical history and bioethics and history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on July 24, 2023. An …
Kathryn Lofton PBK Lecture Recording Now Available!
Were you unable to make it to Kathryn Lofton’s lecture “Celebrity, Politics, Power” earlier this semester? You can now watch the recording at the following link: Kathryn Lofton: Celebrity, Politics, Power Lecture Recording On March …
Summer Class Alert: RELIG ST 374 – Rhetoric of Religion!
Do you need to catch up or get ahead on credits for the Religious Studies Major or Certificate? Want to free up space in your Fall Semester schedule? Take Religious Studies over the summer and …
Dr. Kathryn Lofton, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, to deliver lecture “Celebrity, Politics, Power” on March 23
The Religious Studies Program is excited to welcome Dr. Kathryn Lofton, currently the Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies and Professor of History and Divinity at Yale University to campus this March …