Prof. Sven-Erik Rose
Departments of German & Russian and Comparative Literature
Affiliated Faculty, Graduate Program in the Study of Religion
“Ethics in Collapse: The Warsaw Ghetto Writings of Yitskhok Bernshteyn”
Tuesday, Jan 14, 12:00-1:00 pm
912 Sproul Read More
Prof. Dobbins's current research interests include Occultism, Theosophy, Esotericism and Neopaganism Read More
The Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) is thrilled to share exciting news about a new initiative, the MOIFA Summer Research Fellowship Program Read More
The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed. The scholarships are open to every discipline and the next round of funding will be awarded in Winter 2024: Read More
GER 297 Modernism, Spirituality, and Transcendence Read More
The UC Davis Humanities Institute is offering Working Group (formerly Reading and Writing Groups) funding for graduate students in the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences who are interested in forming groups for reading, writing, and research collaborations. Groups may apply for up to $500 to support their activities. Read More
Admissions open until January 5th, 2025 Read More
The UC Davis Library is now accepting applications for the 2024-2025 Library Graduate Prize. Graduate students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars can win up to $1,000 for their research. Apply by December 6. Read More
Dr. Chris Jain Miller (2018. PhD) has recently published his book, Embodying Transnational Yoga: Eating, Singing, and Breathing Transformation (Routledge, 2024). You can also listen to Miller (2018, PhD) speak about his co-edited volume, Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age (Lexington, 2019) on the popular podcast, New Books Network, hosted by Dr. Raj Balkaran. Read More
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The Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Davis announces the recipients of the 2024 Mohini Jain Presidential Chair in Jain Studies Prizes Read More
Meet our new GREL faculty
Welcome our incoming GREL Graduate Students
Renew friendships and collaborations with GREL students and faculty Read More
The AAR-WR invites proposals for the 2025 Western Region Conference. Read More
The Department of Religious Studies will host a monthly informal lecture on religion by a faculty member or graduate student from UC Davis or a neighboring university campus. The lectures will offer a space for faculty to share their most recent research. Read More
His article, "Gendered Lament, Gendered Response: Reading Lamentations With Its Early Interpreters." appears the latest issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature Read More
Brent Horning received his BA in Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz, and enjoyed intensive language immersion and research in West Bengal, India for his honors thesis "Globalization of the Gaze: Divine and Secular Seeing in the Durga Puja Festival of Kolkata". Read More
Prof. Elizabeth Freeman, Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty with GREL, passed away on Sunday, June 2 Read More
This is a summer fellowship that will support Westin as he writes his dissertation Read More
This award supports Joyan's participation in the Panlongcheng Archaeology Summer School held in Wuhan, China from June 23-July 28, 2024. Read More
He will be teaching Religions of the Book [Judaism, Christianity, Islam], Bible and Ecology, and Bible and Myth over the 2024-2025 academic year Read More
Dr. Neace's dissertation is titled "Brazil’s Cosmic War: Apocalypticism, Cosmology, and Exorcism in the Pentecostal Holy War on Candomblé and Umbanda." Read More
Dr. Steele-Fisher's dissertation is titled, "The Critique of Myth in German-Jewish Thought" Read More
Sara Tillema
Graduate Program in the Study of Religion
TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2024 12:00-1:00 PM || 912 SPROUL Read More
Presented by Prof. Mike Chin - Department of Classics
TUESDAY, APRIL 16 12:00-1:00 PM
916 SPROUL Read More
Sacred Writes: Public Scholarship on Religion, hosted by Northeastern University, is designed to address a gap between disciplinary expertise and effective communication strategies. Applications are now open for our final cohort of online public scholarship training for 12 scholars focused on race, justice, and religion, funded by the Henry R. Luce Foundation. The training will run from May through July 2024, with 8 training calls scheduled for Thursday afternoons, 3-4pm ET Read More
Today, powerful forces push us to either idolize or neglect now-canonical works like Homer and the Bible, seeing them as either evidence of a unique Western genius or as exhausted and overplayed “greatest hits.” But before they were idols, worshipped or fallen, ancient Mediterranean cultural monuments were something quite different. This workshop will explore how the discoveries of criticism let us encounter them freshly, as if for the first time. Read More
Stanford University's Department of Religious Studies is excited to announce its interdisciplinary graduate student conference “Religion on the Move,” taking place on May 9 and 10, 2024 Read More
Friday, December 8th, 10:00 am in Sproul Hall 922
Congratulations, Ben, on this milestone.
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