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Professor of Religious Studies Brent Plate is serving as the executive director of the Association of Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL) and is the editor of the journal CrossCurrents.
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For many Hamilton students, a trip to the Howard Diner delivers little more than a late-night meal. But for Yenesis Alvarez ’22, it provided an unexpected academic opportunity. “I remember [during] my freshman year,” she recalled, “this random guy at the diner came up to me and was like, ‘Hey, do you want to learn about our business program?’”
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Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven co-authored an essay titled Celebrate voting: A different approach to securing a democratic American future in the June 20 issue of The Hill with Marc Gropin, a professor at George Mason University.
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President David Wippman recently announced the appointment of four Hamilton faculty members to endowed chairs. All will be effective July 1, 2021. Tina Hall was appointed the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Teaching Excellence; Lydia Hamessley was awarded the Eugene R. Tobin Distinguished Professorship; Doran Larson was named the Edward North Chair of Greek and Greek Literature; and Quincy Newell was appointed the Walcott-Bartlett Chair of Ethics and Christian Evidences.
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Walking to Magdalena, by Associate Professor of Religious Studies Seth Schermerhorn, was published by the University of Nevada Press in 2019. Since then, the book has received many positive reviews.
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies Seth Schermerhorn was recently elected to a three-year term as a member of the Edward H. & Rosamond B. Spicer Foundation board.
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An article titled “Comparison and the Academic Study of Indigenous Religious Traditions” by Associate Professor of Religious Studies Seth Schermerhorn was recently published in Method & Theory in the Study of Religion.
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Sarah Griffis, visiting assistant professor of religious studies, recently published an article titled "Christian Interaction with Greek Tragedy in the Second and Third Centuries," in Classical Outlook, a peer-reviewed journal affiliated with the American Classical League.
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies Seth Schermerhorn recently organized a panel on which he presented his research on O’odham pilgrimages to Magdalena.
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Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven was recently appointed as a Senior Fellow at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University (GMU).
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