Department of Religious Studies - University of Pittsburgh

New & Noteworthy

VIEW PODCAST of the First Annual Richard H. Wilmer, Jr. Lecture in Christian Studies featuring Leigh E. Schmidt speaking on "The Invention of American Spirituality">>

Announcing three new courses for Fall Term 2012>>

Department receives generous bequest from the estate of Sarah King Wilmer>>

Jason von Ehrenkrook publishes new book on Sculpting Idolatry in Flavian Rome: (An)Iconic Rhetoric in the Writings of Flavius Josephus>>

Adam Shear wins Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project Grant>>

Rachel Kranson joins department as assistant professor of modern Judaism>>

PhD candidate Hongyu Wu wins Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Doctoral Fellowship>>

Religious Studies major Cody Dickerson wins Boren Award for International Study>>

Adam Shear's The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity, 1167-1900 wins National Jewish Book Award's Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award in Scholarship and Journal of the History of Ideas' Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the Best First Book in Intellectual History>>

PhD candidate Izzet Bahar publishes book about Jewish historiography on the Ottoman Empire>>

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