The 2019 call for papers has just come out from NAASR — the North American Association for the Study of Religion — asking for respondents to invited papers that will each address one of four aspects of the field in which we do our work (a format the meetings have used for the past 5 years); the association also announced its upcoming workshops for grad students, all of which will take place at its November annual meeting in San Diego. […]
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Incoming MA Student Awarded National Alumni Association Graduate Fellowship
We’re extremely pleased to announce that Keeley McMurray, who will be starting our M.A. this Fall, has been awarded a National Alumni Association Graduate Fellowship by the University of Alabama. Keeley will graduate from the University of Alabama in May 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and English. Though her curiosities in the study of religion are broad and still growing, she is currently studying the rhetorical utility of the idea of “sincerely held beliefs” in contemporary […]
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Graduate Council Fellowship Awarded to Incoming M.A. Student
We’re pleased to announce that Savannah Finver, who will begin our M.A. in the Fall, has been awarded a Graduate Council Fellowship, by the School of Graduate Studies, for the 2018-19 academic year. This award, which was also given to current M.A. student Sarah Griswold for 2017-18, is an outright scholarship and entails no teaching assistant duties. Savannah graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy/Religious Studies. Her interests are focused […]
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Wondering what our MA students study…?
Yes, REL has an MA Program now — our students recently created a curated, online project, for one of their classes, to test out how to use a new software. Want to know what else they’re doing? Heard of Our M.A.? from UA Religious Studies. Interested? Then check out the first half of our latest podcast episode to hear more from Emma, Sarah, and Sierra. […]
Letter of Advice to My Senior Year Self
Khortlan Patterson graduated from the University of Alabama in May 2016 with degrees in African American Studies and Religious Studies. As a student at Alabama, Khortlan was instrumental in desegregating the UA PanHellenic sororities and establishing the Intercultural Diversity Center. She is currently working on a book to encourage others to act as agents of social change and will pursue a Master’s in Theological Studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School next January. Dear Khortlan, You made it to your senior year […]
Thanks, Religious Studies
By Lexi Poston Lexi Poston graduated from UA in 2015 with a triple major in International Studies, Religious Studies, and Criminal Justice and a triple minor in Italian, Judaic Studies, and the Blount Minor. She is currently a graduate student in UA’s Criminal Justice Department where her research interests include prejudice, hate groups, hate crimes, human trafficking, genocide, and how perpetrators of such crimes are prosecuted. “Are you going to seminary?” At one point during undergrad, religious studies majors have […]
A Response to “Responsible Research Practices,” Part 11: Research Assistants
This is an installment in an ongoing series on the American Academy of Religion’s recently released draft statement on research responsibilities. An index of the complete series (updated as each article is posted) can be found here. The second to the last item on the draft document is the only one that concerns our work with students — odd, if you think about it, since much of teaching concerns preparing them to be researchers themselves, so you’d think that a […]
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