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Eliza Rockefeller '17 has been awarded the Jonathan B. Rintels Prize for the best honors thesis in the Arts and Humanities for the Class of 2017. Her thesis can be found in the Rauner Special Collections Library.
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Prof. Reiko Ohnuma has been named Chair of the Department of Religion. She is a specialist in the Buddhist traditions of South Asia, and also teaches courses on Hinduism.
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"Where Are All The Women In Jewish Studies?" ask Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff in their July 3, 2018, Forward article that explores gender bias in the field.
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Graduating Religion students Kourtney Kawano, Victoria Campbell, Christopher Huberty, and Peyton Ragsdale were awarded prizes at the Department's Commencement Reception on Saturday, June 9.
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Professor Zahra Ayubi has been awarded a New Directions in Humanities Scholarship to study contemporary gender ethics in Muslim communities.
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Listen to a podcast interview with Professor Reiko Ohnuma about her new book, Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination.
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Kijan Bloomfield, a doctoral candidate at Princeton, is here this Spring Term to teach REL 19.25, Religions of the Caribbean, and REL 19.26, Global Pentecostalism.
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Congratulations to Susan Ackerman '80, Preston H. Kelsey Professor in Religion, who was just presented with the Elizabeth Howland Hand-Otis Norton Pierce Award for a Faculty Member Who is an Outstanding Teacher of Undergraduates by the Faculty of Arts & Sciences.
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Assistant Professor of Religion Zahra Ayubi was recently honored with a Dean of the Faculty Mentoring Award for 2016-2017 for her outstanding work as a mentor of Dartmouth students.
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In an interview with Matthew Lynch (Westminster Theological Centre, UK) for OnScript, which provides author interviews on new and noteworthy publications in biblical studies, Professor Susannah Heschel talks about her book The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany.
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