February 27, Benjamin Gatling Lecture “Being Sufi in Central Asia”

Please join the Religious Studies Program on Thursday, February 27th for our 3rd event in the 2024 – 2025 Religion and Politics Series! Professor Benjamin Gatling (George Mason University) will deliver the lecture Being Sufi …

KD Thompson awarded fellowship at the IRH!

Congratulations to Professor KD Thompson on receiving a competitive, one-semester fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (IRH)! Thompson will spend the Spring 2026 semester working on their book project, tentatively titled Women, Voice, …

Katrina Daly Thompson receives Library of Congress Research Residency!

Congratulations to Professor Katrina Daly Thompson for receiving a short term summer research residency to use the Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED) collections! Their residency is part of a larger project …

April 4: Fadeke Castor Guest Lecture on Black Feminist Ethnographic Lessons From African Diasporic Religions

The Religious Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is delighted to welcome Dr. N. Fadeke Castor, Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies at Northeastern University to campus. On April 4th, 2024, Dr. Castor …