Susan Ackerman, Preston H Kelsey Professor of Religion, Emerita provides a deft study of women's life-cycle rituals in ancient Israel in her new book, Maturity, Marriage, Motherhood, Mortality: Women's Life-Cycle Rituals in Ancient Israel.

Susan Ackerman proposes a Bible quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, that suits our troubled times: "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream."

"Religion is about community and how societies organize and structure themselves," says Religion professor Susan Ackerman '80, who majored in Religion and taught a special 250th anniversary class this Winter Term, a freshman seminar entitled "Is Dartmouth a Religion?"...

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....

Abby Thornburg '15, who is working on an independent study project with Professor Susan Ackerman this term, has mounted a small exhibit in Rauner Library focused on her research topic, Dartmouth's Geneva Bibles.

Professor Susan Ackerman '80, Preston H. Kelsey Professor in Religion, was interviewed for Dartmouth Now about the destruction of ancient Assyrian reliefs by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Iraq. For more, click title (above).

Professor Susan Ackerman ’80 recently spoke with Dartmouth Now about her work, her taste in mysteries, and what about her surprises people.

Professor Susan Ackerman has been appointed President of the New England and Eastern Canada Region of the Society of Biblical Literature. Founded in 1880, the Society of Biblical Literature is the oldest and largest learned society devoted to the critical investigation of the Bible from a variety of academic disciplines.

Professor Susan Ackerman has been appointed president of the American Schools of Oriental Research, an organization that supports and encourages the study of the Near East, from the earliest times to the present.