2005
| Steve Murphy wins the 2005 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award in Religious Studies |
| Creston Davis won the Graduate School of Arts and Science Doctoral Research Award and co-edits "Theology and the Political: The New Debate" with John Milbank and Slavoj Zizek, with an Introduction by Rowan Williams, Duke University Press, 2005. He is also editing "St. Paul and Philosophy" forthcoming with Chicago University Press, is a series editor of New Slant, a new theory and religion book series by Duke University Press. His dissertation will be publish with Duke University Press as "Halos and the Void" with a foreword by Slavoj Zizek.
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May 2004
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Dominck Scarangello
awarded Japan Foundation Fellowship and Fulbright-Hayes.
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Jann Ronis awarded
the Fullbright.
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| Basit Koshul, PhD Candidate in TEC/SIP, anticpates
the publication of his first book with MacMillan/Palgrave
entitled Disenchanting Disenchantment. |
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Peter Slade wins dissertation
fellowships from the Louisville Institute for
The Study of Protestantism and American Culture,
and from the UVa, Center on Religion and Democracy.
Peter was also a finalist for the 2004 Seven
Society Graduate Fellowship for Superb Teaching
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Willis Jenkins recieves a 2004
Raven Society Scholarship for scholarship and
service to the University.
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Sarah Jacoby awarded the Fulbright,
the Fulbright-Hayes and the Blakemore fellowships.
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May 2002
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Daniel Kent and Meritxell Martin-I-Pardo
were both finalists for the Seven Society Class
of 1958 Creative Teaching Graduate Fellowhip
competition. Congratulations to Dan Kent, who
took the $5000 prize.
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April 2002
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Jacquie Bussie has been awarded
the 2001-02 All-University Graduate Teaching
Assistant Award in Arts and Humanities. Amidst
fierce competition Bussie was selected for her
strong command of subject, the capacity to inspire
students and for her highly developed organizational
and teaching skills. This award carries an honorarium
of $1000. Ms. Bussie also received the Religious
Studies Department's Outstanding Graduate Teaching
Assistant Award along with a cash prixe of $250.
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The Seven Society, one of The
University of Virginia's secret honor societies
recently honored departmental teaching assistants
Hun Lye, and Michael Thomas. Both Lye and Thomas
were nominated for the Seven Society Graduate
Fellowship Award. In addition, the Seven Society
awarded the $4000 Dr. Frank Finger award for
excellence in teaching to TA Michael Thomas.
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April 1999
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Another secret society, the Z Society, has awarded
Religious Studies Professor Larry Bouchard with
the Distinguished Faculty Award, given once
yearly to a university faculty member who exhibits
outstanding teaching and service to students.
In 1998 Professor Heather Warren was the recipient
of this award, making this the second consecutive
year that a member of the faculty of the Department
of Religious Studies has been honored.
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RELIGIOUS STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT
RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS TEACHING FELLOWSHIP
April 1999
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Valparaiso University announced recently that
J. Michael Utzinger has been appointed as a
Lilly Fellow for the academic year 1999-2000
and 2000-2001. Utzinger graduated from VU with
distinction in theology and later received a
master's of divinity from Yale University. He
is currently completing his PhD in Religious
Studies at UVa. where he has received numerous
fellowships and awards. During the summer of
1997 he was a PEW Younger Scholars Fellow
in History at the University of Notre Dame.
The Lilly Fellows Program provides postdoctoral
fellowships for teacher-scholars who seek to
renew and enrich their intellecutual and spritual
lives while preparing for leadership roles in
teaching institutions of church-related higher
education.
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Professor Benjamin C Ray was appointed to the
Daniels Family, NEH Distinguished Teaching Chair
for a three year term.
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