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2008 M.A. Candidate Linda Randall Appears in Article
Linda Randall, a 2008 MA Candidate in the Department of Religion was recently featured in the Greensboro News & Record in an article titled "Amen, boss, amen." Randall is interested in religion and culture and she has written a thesis on Bruce Springsteen and spirituality. Linda is interviewed in the article about the profound meaning which listeners can find in Springsteen's music.
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Religion Students Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
The Department of Religion is happy to announce its newest class of religion students inducted in the Wake Forest University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa! Click Here to View Press Release.
The students so honored are: Benjamin David Cotey, of Kingsport, TN;
Margaret Ann Jarrell, of Columbus, GA;
Eric Ferriday Lange, of Indianapolis, IN; and Peter Ward Youngblood, of Fletcher, NC. We are proud of their accomplishment! |
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Wake Forest Magazine features Assistant Prof. Lynn Neal
"Surprising Spirituality: Connecting popular culture and contemporary religious life," is the title of a recently published special feature by the Wake Forest Magazine which spotlights the first-year seminar work of Dr. Lynn Neal and her students. Click Here to read article, as well as access multimedia resources including audio and video clips relating to the first-year seminar and Dr. Neal's other work. |
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Professor Foskett and Students Return from London
During the 2007 WFU Summer Session II, Religion Professor Mary Foskett taught her Religion 102 course abroad. Students and Faculty lived and studied at Wake Forest's Worrell House in London, England.
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Department Welcomes Rhon Manigault !
A native of Moncks Corner, South Carolina, Rhon Manigault will join the Department as Assistant Professor in African Diaspora Religions. She is completing her PhD from Emory University. She also earned a MDiv from Candler School of Theology (2002), and an AB from Duke University (1999). Rhon comes to us most directly by way of Williams College, where she was a memebr of the Department of Religion. While her broader research specializations include American religious culture and ethnography of religion, Rhon utilizes her research to integrate her interests in religion, music, history, gender, and culture. |
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Department Welcomes Tanisha Ramachandran !
Tanisha Ramachandran is completing her PhD in Religion at Concordia University, Montreal. She has created and taught several courses in the department of religion and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University, including Religions of Asia, Hindu and Buddhist Art, Feminism and Postcolonial Theory, and Feminism, Race and Racism. Tanisha has published papers in the field of women and Hinduism and has presented numerous papers at international conferences. Her current research focuses on the connections between religion and colonialism in the context in Hindu art. |
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Dr. Neal Accepted to Wabash Center Workshop
Assistant Professor of Religion Dr. Lynn S. Neal has been accepted into a workshop sponsored by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. The week-long workshop, held in Corpus Christi, Texas, gathers 15 religion scholars in their first years of teaching. As a group, the scholars and organizers will explore topics such as: course design, ethics in the classroom, religious, social, ethnic, racial, and learning diversities in the classroom, philosophy of education, among others.
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Imboden Returns from MacDonald Presentation
WIth the help of the Department of Religion, first year M.A. student Matt Imboden traveled to Abilene, TX, and presented a paper on Scots Victorian writer George MacDonald entitled 'MacDonald and the Relationship Between Literature and Theology: Postmodern Dilemmas and Imaginative Solutions.' The paper was produced as part of a course Matt is doing with Dr. Stephen Boyd on Historical Theological Paradigms. To learn more about the trip, and view a bulletin prepared by Matt himself, please click here.
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Higgins Returns from Willis Research Trip to India
Carter Higgins, a senior religion major spent the 2006/07 Winter Break abroad conducting research for his Departmental honors thesis on violence and body symbolism in South Asian asceticism. The trip was funded by The Willis Scholarship. Carter traveled to Benaras, Bodh Gaya, & Sarnath; he also managed to attened the Ardh Kumbh Mela in Allahabad. To learn more about the trip, and view a bulliten prepared by Carter himself, please click here.
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Dr. Boyd Receives 'Building the Dream' Award
Professor Steve Boyd, chair of the Religion Department, was the 2007 recipient of the 'Building the Dream Award,' given during the sixth annual WSSU & WFU joint Martin Luther King Jr. celebration on January 15, 2007. The 'Building the Dream' Award was established to honor one professor or administrator and one student from either WSSU or WFU who exemplifies the ideals that King embodied and ultimately died for.
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| Dr. Foskett Receives Omicron Delta Kappa Award for Contribution to Student Life |
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Dr. Mary Foskett was awarded the Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award for Contribution to Student Life at the Founder’s Day Convacation, February 21, 2006. The Omicron Delta Kappa Society, Inc., the National Leadership Honor Society for junior and senior college students, introduced the ODK Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Life in 1982 to acknowledge a faculty member deemed extraordinarily dedicated to the continued betterment of student life. In 1997, Lifetime University trustee Pete Kulynych and his family generously endowed the award. Since then, it has remained the only student-chosen faculty award that is both honorary and monetary.
What follows is a brief excerpt from Brett Turner’s (President of ODK) presentation of the award at the Convocation:
[Dr. Foskett] not only stands for the ideals of the Kulynych award, but reflects the very best of what a professor can become as a part of the Wake Forest community. In the words of some of Dr. Foskett’s own students: "She succeeds in combining unflinching academic professionalism with a genuine and sincere concern for the lives of students and the health of our on-campus community ... she stands for the integrity of the University’s mission”
Her students also recognize her exemplary dedication to scholarship and research, her care for the everyday challenges of student life, and the calm and welcoming atmosphere which she is able to create in the classroom. “As a teacher, she is unparalleled in her ability to invite students into new experiences and ideas.” One student observes that, “while she never allows us to settle, she can meet us where we are; and more than any professor I know, her door is always open...And what is more—-she actively extends the invitation to students who she feels may be distressed by the weight of work, or sometimes just life itself.” |
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