Please join the Religious Studies Program for our first brownbag event of the 2025-2026 academic year, “Women’s Piety and Coded Writing: The Case of Anne Halkett (c. 1623 – 1699)”! In this talk, Professor Karen …
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Congratulations Graduates and Awardees!
Congratulations to our 2024 – 2025 graduating majors, certificates, and PhD minors! We are so proud of you and all you have accomplished and look forward to seeing what you do in the future! Please …
May 8th: End of the Semester Celebration!
Help celebrate the end of the semester and congratulate our graduating students! Join us on Thursday, May 8th between 4:30 and 5:30pm in the Bradley Memorial Lobby for a graduation celebration. Open to all, especially …
April 24: Tarek Masoud, “Religious Nationalism and Democracy in the Muslim World”
For our final lecture in the 2024 – 2025 series on Religion and Politics, the Religious Studies Program is excited to welcome Professor Tarek Masoud of Harvard University to campus to present his lecture, “Religious …
Rosenblum wins National Jewish Book Award for Forbidden!
Congratulations to Professor Jordan Rosenblum! His most recent book, Forbidden: A 3000-Year History of Jews and the Pig published in 2024 by NYU Press, won a National Jewish Book Award in the category of Jewish Food …
Friday, February 28: Student Lunch with Professor Benjamin Gatling
Students, both undergraduate and graduate, are invited to a lunch with Professor Benjamin Gatling on Friday, February 28th at 12 noon in Room 332 of the Bradley Memorial Building (1225 Linden Dr. Madison, WI 53706). …
February 10 Reyhan Durmaz Lecture
Join the Religious Studies Program on Monday, February 10th at 10:30am for a lecture by Reyhan Durmaz, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania! The lecture is titled “Fields of Destruction, Baptisms …
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, …
Religious Studies Faculty Present at American Academy of Religion Meeting
Several Religious Studies Core Faculty Members and Faculty Affiliates presented research in November 2024 at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Read on for some highlights: K.D. Thompson, RS Core Faculty, presented …