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October 29, 2009: Joseph Alexander Snow successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Listening to Places: A Comparative Study of Zen, Sufism, and Cosmology" (directed by Prof. Joanne P. Waghorne).
October 29, 2009: Dorina Parmenter successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, "The Iconic Book: The Image of the Christian Bible in Myth and Ritual" (directed by Prof. James W. Watts).
October 23, 2009: Edward Mooney (Professor of Religion
and Philosophy) has written Lost Intimacy in American Thought: Recovering Personal Philosophy From Thoreau to Cavell, now published by Continuum.
October 7, 2009: Prof. Joanne Waghorne attended the opening party and preview of "Maharaja" The Splendour of India's Royal Courts" at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She contributed "The Power of Public Splendour" to the accompanying volume Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts edited by curators Anna Jackson and Amin Jaffer and published by the museum.
October 7, 2009. Juliana Finucane, after successfully defending her dissertation "When Bodhisattvas of the Earth Become Global Citizen's: Soka Gakkai in Comparative Perspective" (advisor JP Waghorne) arrived in Singapore to take up her new position as a postdoctoral fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore.
September 23, 2009: Juliana Finucane successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, "When Bodhisattvas of the Earth become Global Citizens: Soka Gakkai in Comparative Perspective" (directed by Prof. Joanne P. Waghorne).
July 23,
2009: Diana Walsh
Pasulka (Ph.D. 2003) has won a five-year, $1.6
million Teaching American History grant. The grant will fund a joint
initiative between UNC Wilmington, where Pasulka is Associate
Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, and the
school districts of three local counties to "instruct teachers in
traditional American history and how religion has affected that
history" (for more, see the Star News, http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090723/ARTICLES/907234003).
July, 2009:
Edward Mooney (Professor of Religion
and Philosophy) edited Ethics, Love, and Faith in Kierkegaard:
Philosophical Engagements , published by Indiana University
Press in the Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion.
July 1, 2009:
Dean George Langford has appointed James
W. Watts (Professor of Religion) to chair the
Department of Religion from 2009-2012.
June, 2009:
John D. Caputo (Thomas
J. Watson Professor) and Linda Martín
Alcoff edited St. Paul Among the
Philosophers, the papers from the 2005 Postmodernism, Culture
and Religion Conference at Syracuse University, now published by
Indiana University Press in the Indiana Series in the Philosophy of
Religion.
May, 2009:
Hasan Kaplan (Ph.D.
2005) has published his dissertation under the title, Psychology
of New Muslim Identity in America: Psychosocial Study of the
Identity Formation of the Second Generation Muslim Adolescents in
the USA (VDM Verlag, 2009). Hasan is Assistant Professor of
Psychology & Religion at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University in
Turkey.
May 26, 2009:
Marcia Robinson
(Assistant Professor of Religion) has been awarded tenure in the
Religion Department in the College of Arts and Sciences.
May 12, 2009:
Olga Solovieva
successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation,
“Asceticism and Allegory: Exegesis as an Ascetic Performance”
(directed by Prof. Patricia Cox Miller). Olga will be a Visiting
Professor at Skidmore College next year.
April 30, 2009:
Benjamin Stahlberg
successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation,
“Spinoza's Philosophy of Divine Order” (directed by Prof. Zachary
Braiterman). Ben is a Visiting Professor at Colgate
University.
April 27, 2009:
Marc Beard successfully
defended his Ph.D. dissertation, “Writing Holiness, Writing
Violence: Suffering and the Construction of Female Sanctity”
(directed by Prof. Patricia Cox Miller). Marc is Visiting Professor
at Gettysburg College.
April 16,
2009: Svetlana Peshkova
(Visiting Professor of Religion 2007-2009) will this
fall become Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at
the University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH). She has also won a
fellowship for 2009 -2010 at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow
Wilson center (Washington, DC).
April 14, 2009:
Clayton Crockett (Ph.D.
1997) won the Outstanding Faculty Award for 2008-2009 in the College
of Liberal Arts at the University of Central Arkansas, where he is
Associate Professor and Director of Religious Studies.
April 6, 2009:
Gustav Niebuhr
(Associate Professor of Religion and the Media) received the
Unitarian Universalist Association's Frederic G. Melcher Book Award
for Beyond Tolerance: Searching for Interfaith Understanding in
America (Viking Penguin, 2008). For more, see http://sunews.syr.edu/story_details.cfm?id=5921.
March 23, 2009:
Carson Webb (Ph.D.
student) won the Albert Clark Award for best graduate paper from
Theta Alpha Kappa, the national honor society for religious studies
and theology.
February 18, 2009: Gerry Beritela
successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, “Guru
Love: On the Tropes of Eroticism in the Spiritual Relationship
between Master and Disciple” (directed by Prof. Ann Gold). Gerry is
an episcopal priest and teaches part time at LeMoyne
College.
February 9,
2009: Heath Atchley
(Ph.D. 2001) has written Encountering the
Secular: Philosophical Endeavors in Religion and Culture,
published by the University of Virginia Press. Heath teaches at
Western New England College and Mount Holyoke College.
February, 2009:
Patricia Cox Miller
published The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late
Ancient Christianity (University of Pennsylvania Press,
2009). |