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Samuel L. Boyd has recently published a new article in the Conversation on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. You can find it here.
Hilary Falb Kalisman's new book, Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 2022), is featured in Jadaliyya, a Middle Eastern Studies
On October 21, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan will moderate a roundtable for the "Challenging Conversations" series, hosted by North Carolina German Studies. The title of the event is "Historikerstreit 2.0.”? The German
Brian A. Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies, has published a new textbook and companion sourcebook, The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650 and Texts from the Middle. Learn more about
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan recently hosted two international Holocaust Studies conferences at Appalachian State: a symposium for educators on film and photography during the Holocaust, and an academic conference
As we enter the 2022-2023 academic year, we are pleased to announce a variety of new developments in the Program in Jewish Studies at 91PORN.We are very excited to welcome two new members to Jewish Studies, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, the new- Gregg Drinkwater has been named one of the inaugural recipients of the Association for Jewish Studies’s new Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholar Research Grants, which will support his project "Prelude to Pinkwashing: Homonationalism
Views on abortion differ not only among major religious traditions, but within each one. Samira K. Mehta, CU expert on religion, gender and sexuality, shares on The Conversation.Read the June 13th article here.Samira
Director Elias Sacks' review of Randi Rashkover's book "Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity, and the Theopolitical Problem” has been published in Modern Theology. You can access the review here.
Beverly Weber has a new co-written article in the special issue of Feminist Formations: Time, Urgency, and Collaboration in the Corporate University. Read her article “Decolonizing Time, Knowledge, and Disability on the Tenure