Department of Religious Studies
  Undergraduate Program Graduate Program Courses Student Resources For Alumni For Faculty and Staff
Religious Studies News & Events

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS: This has been a particularly productive year for Department Faculty. They have published or have had accepted for publication 15 books from such presses as Stanford, Princeton, Hawaii, UNC, Brill, Routledge and have received significant amounts of external funding for their work from such sources as the NEH, AAR, NSF, Ford Foundation, Academy of Korean Studies, Fulbright, KITLV in Holland, Chiang Chin Kuo Foundation, Metanexus, AAUW, Library of Congress, Louisville Institute.  In addition many have received internal funding from CSRC, ACMRS and IHR, and are collaborating on several major research projects including Democracy, Religion and the Secular by Ford, Difficult Dialogs by Ford, NSF on Religion and Violence and  U.S. State Department on two projects related to BiH. These activities underscore our fine international reputation and our contributions to numerous fields.

GRADUATE PROGRAM: Our doctoral program has now grown to over 35 students consisting of a large number of international and national students, and we have completed our first PhD this year. Our students have presented and published numerous papers and articles over the past year.

UNDERGRADUATE ACHIEVEMENTS: This past year we graduated the largest number of Bachelors Degrees in our history, over 40 students, many of them double majors.  They were accepted to leading graduate programs in the country, e.g. Harvard, Yale, Duke and Emory.  Our faculty have been in the lead in developing two new interdisciplinary certificate programs (Religion and Conflict and Religion and American Culture) that enhance learning opportunities for students and that strengthen connections between Religious Studies and other academic units. In addition we have drafted a proposal for revising our undergraduate major that emphasizes thematic areas of emphasis that student can pursue and that fosters interdisciplinary work. These themes include: “Religion in Global Contexts” and “Religion, Public Life and Conflict”.