Jewish Studies and the Department of Religion announce the Spring 2024 launch of the Anne Frank House’s traveling exhibit and experiential learning (EL) program at UGA. This initiative will offer an enriching docent training program that will empower students to engage in public service, community outreach, and DEI education.

The Department of Religion congratulates all of our wonderful students who graduated (or will graduate) from our program with a minor, major, MA, or PhD in 2022-2023. We appreciate the many ways that you have contributed to the life of our department, and we very much hope that you will keep in touch!

We also wish to express our thanks to all the graduates who were able to join us for our departmental graduation ceremony this year. Thank you for making this such an enjoyable event!

Congratulations to Robert Foster, who has been selected as one of the first recipients of UGA’s Non-Tenure Track Faculty Research Excellence Award. This award recognizes exceptional research productivity and commitment to excellence by a non-tenure track faculty member. Recipients demonstrate an exceptional degree of research novelty and impact on their field of study

Prof. Hoda Mahmoudi will give a lecture titled "Institutional and Personal Investment in the Fight Against Racial Prejudice" on April 12 at 4:00pm in Peabody Hall 115. Professor Mahmoudi holds The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, College Park.

On April 12, Prof. Hoda Mahmoudi will give a lecture titled "Institutional and Personal Investment in the Fight Against Racial Prejudice." Professor Mahmoudi holds The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, College Park.

"The Present and the Future in the Present: Religion, Values, and Climate Change," Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

Congratulations to Adrianna Watson, who has been selected by the President's office to receive the 2023 Presidential Award of Excellence! Adrianna is a religion major, who will be graduating in May 2023.

The Presidential Award of Excellence is awarded to undergraduate students in their final year of study who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, strong extracurricular involvement, and/or service to and involvement in their respective school or college. Students selected for this award exemplify the best of UGA’s undergraduate student body.

Human Becoming in an Age of Science, Technology, and Faith (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2022)

Philip Hefner — Edited by Jason P. Roberts and Mladen Turk — Contributions by Anna Case-Winters, Ann Milliken Pederson, Karl E. Peters, Ted Peters, Gregory R. Peterson, Jason P. Roberts, and Mladen Turk

On Tuesday, February 21 at 4:30 in Peabody Hall 115, Jewish Studies is sponsoring a talk "Education against Auschwitz: The Challenge of Learning about- and from- the Holocaust" by guest speaker Doyle Stevick.   

On Tuesday, February 21 at 4:30 in Peabody Hall 115, Jewish Studies is sponsoring a talk "Education against Auschwitz: The Challenge of Learning about- and from- the Holocaust" by guest speaker Doyle Stevick.