Faculty News

Professor Holly Gayley just published her first book, Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet , with Columbia University Press. It came out in time for the American Academy of Relgion conference in San Antonio, November 19-22, 2016. The book chronicles the lives and letters of Khandro...

Professor Johnson Featured in ThinkProgress Article Professor Greg Johnson lent his expertise to recent article on ThinkProgress about the events occuring at Standing Rock in North Dakota. Religion has long been a part of Native American protest movements, as has its connection to the environmentalist struggle. But religious scholars say...

Professor Terry Kleeman, of Religious Studies and Asian Languages and Civilizations, was recently interviewed by the New York Times about his new book " Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities ." Of Professor Kleeman the New York Times states: Terry F. Kleeman is a leading scholar of...

Religious Studies Professor Deborah Whitehead recently lent her expertise on the complexity of religion in the US to the Daily Camera . The article examines the demographics of Buddhism in Boulder in anticipation of the Dalai Lama's visit to CU in June 2016. Religious affiliation is tricky to measure, says...

Professor Holly Gayley and members of the Tibet Himalaya Initiative at their audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the occasion of his visit to CU Boulder. The Dalai Lama held two events at CU Boulder including a talk on "Educating the Heart and Mind" at Coors Events Center...

Professor Brian Catlos Wins 2016 Innovative Seed Grant for Mediterranean Studies Mediterranean Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field that draws on methodologies and perspectives taken from across the humanities, social sciences and the arts, and a research-driven response to the Eurocentric tendencies that continue to warp scholarship regarding the emergence...

Professor Brian Catlos' Book Earns Honorable Mention at PROSE Awards The 2015 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence gave an Honorable Mention in the category of European and World History to Brian Catlos’s Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Power, Faith and Violence in the Age of Crusade and...

Professor Sam Boyd Wins Society of Biblical Literature Award Professor Boyd has been awarded the prestigious Regional Scholar Award by the Society of Biblical Literature for 2016. The award recognizes promising scholars in the field of Biblical Studies. The award is given based on two rounds of competition. The first...

Professor Eli Sacks Hosted the Embodied Judaism Event in November In April 1969, on the first anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Jewish and African-American activists came together in Washington, D.C. to share a meal in solidarity, an event which came to be known as the Freedom...