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Elon students awarded Critical Language Scholarships by the U.S. Department of State
March 10, 2020
Through the scholarships, Taylor Garner ’20 and Kathryn Gerry ’20 will have the opportunity to study foreign languages deemed critical to U.S. diplomacy and outreach.
Elon students present research at annual religious studies conference
March 3, 2020
Five Elon undergraduates speak at the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion in Athens, GA, one takes best paper prize.
Liz Kineke to speak on the relationship between religion and journalism on March 2
February 25, 2020
Kineke, former executive producer for CBS Religion & Culture and an award-winning journalist, will discuss her insights from her career on the religion beat.
Claussen publishes on Jewish veganism
February 18, 2020
“Musar and Jewish Veganism” appears in Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism: Studies and New Directions, a new volume edited by Jacob Ari Labendz and Shmuly Yanklowitz.
Agnes and Robert Heller share stories of sorrow, triumph during Holocaust Remembrance Day
February 14, 2020
The couple, who met following World War II, shared with a packed crowded stories about their childhoods in Hungary, hiding during World War II and their lives after the war.
Amy Allocco is awarded a Collaborative International Research Grant
February 14, 2020
Amy Allocco has received a Collaborative International Research Grant from the American Academy of Religion to support joint fieldwork in India, a symposium, and a special journal issue with a colleague from the University of Helsinki.
Su’ad Abdul Khabeer to speak on race, religion, and hip-hop on Feb. 27
February 13, 2020
Su’ad, a professor and Director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program at University of Michigan, will speak and perform based on her 2016 critically acclaimed book, Muslim Cool: Race, Religion and Hip Hop in the United States.
Gift from Elon family creates dynamic team-teaching course in religious studies
February 7, 2020
John and Kristin Replogle P’18 of Raleigh, North Carolina, made the endowment gift in honor of their daughter’s transformative experience at Elon.
Claussen presents on role-playing pedagogy at Jewish Ethics conference
January 13, 2020
Geoffrey Claussen, associate professor and chair of the Department of Religious Studies, presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Jewish Ethics
Allocco publishes book chapter on feminist anthropology and mentoring
December 17, 2019
The chapter is included in a volume that grew out of an April 2018 symposium at Colgate University honoring two of Allocco’s undergraduate mentors.