faculty news
- Professor Holly Gayley delivered a lecture, "On Love and Destiny: Reading the Epistolary Courtship of a Buddhist Tantric Couple,” at the University of Southern California on March 22, 2017, hosted by their Deparment of Religious Studies.The
- Professor Catlos received a Boulder Faculty Assembly (BFA) Excellence Award on April 4 for Excellence in Leadership and Service. The BFA Awards recognize faculty members for outstanding work and concerted effort in advancing the
- Professor Brian Catlos' Mediterranean Studies Group was recently highlighted in the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine. Religious Studies graduate students Dillon Webster and Jeffrey Baron were also featured in the article for their work with
- The journal Professor David Shneer co-edits, East European Jewish Affairs, recently launched a special edition on the theme “Contemporary Russian Jewish American Culture.” (2016, no. 3). To celebrate the occasion,
- Prof. Brian Catlos has been invited to give the 5th annual Boyce Gray Lecture at Northwestern University on 26 April. Sponsored by the History Department and the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, the lecture series honors the
- The Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine's latest issue highlights Professor Elias Sacks and his recently published book “Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism” (Indiana University Press). Read the
- Watch Professor Greg Johnson testify in a trial in Hawaii on Thursday February 16 at noon here. It video will also be archived for viewing after Thursday
- Professor Greg Johnson was recently quoted in an article in the Washington Post on the Dakota Access Pipeline.Greg Johnson, a Hawaiian religion expert and an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, said the
- Professor Holly Gayley just published her first book, Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet, with Columbia University Press. It came out in time for the American Academy of Relgion conference in San Antonio, November 19-22, 2016.
- Professor Johnson Featured in ThinkProgress Article Professor Greg Johnson lent his expertise to recent article on ThinkProgress about the events occuring at Standing Rock in North Dakota. Religion has long been a part of Native American