The Department of Religion congratulates the following 2025 graduates from our MA and PhD programs. We are grateful to have shared in your educational journey and so excited to see what great steps you take next.

Congratulations to all of you!

Dr Alan Godlas' co-edited book A Luminous Intellect: Essays in Honor of Hamid Algar has been published by Brill. Dr Godlas is an Associate professor Emeritus.

Congratulations to two Religion PhD students, Anne Manning and Meg Rooney, on their selection for the Graduate Student Leadership Development Program (GradLEAD).

On December 10, 2025, the students in the RELI 3500 course on Antisemitism hosted a pop-up exhibit in the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library to showcase Georgia Jewish History. Their curation highlights the long, rich, and often complex history of Jewish life in the state.

PhD Candidate Blessing Temitope Adewuyi was awarded as a 2025 Sadler Scholar in Bioethics and ELSI Fellow thro