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MOIFA Summer Research Fellowship Program Now Accepting Applicants
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
Laura Bassi Scholarship Accepting Applicants
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
Added Graduate Class, Winter 2025
GER 297 Modernism, Spirituality, and Transcendence Read More
2024-25 DHI Working Groups: Calls for Proposals
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
Graduate Program In The Study of Religion - PhD in the Study of Religion
Admissions open until January 5th, 2025 Read More
UC Davis Library Graduate Student Prize
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
GREL Alum Chris Miller (2018, PhD) publishes new book; featured on New Books Podcast
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
UC Davis Ranked No. 3 Public University for Setting Grads Up for Financial Success
The rankings, from The Wall Street Journal and its research partners College Pulse and Statista, consider how much a school improves students’ chances of graduating and their future earnings with results from student and alumni surveys on college life and diversity. Read More
2024 Mohini Jain Presidential Chair in Jain Studies Prizes
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
Graduate Study of Religion Social
Meet our new GREL faculty
Welcome our incoming GREL Graduate Students
Renew friendships and collaborations with GREL students and faculty Read More
Call For Papers || American Academy of Religion-Western Region
The AAR-WR invites proposals for the 2025 Western Region Conference. Read More
2024-2025 Notes From The Field Lecture Series
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
GREL Graduate Aron Tillema Publishes Article in Journal of Biblical Literature
His article, "Gendered Lament, Gendered Response: Reading Lamentations With Its Early Interpreters." appears the latest issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature Read More
The GREL welcomes Brent Horning, our newest graduate student.
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
Remembering Elizabeth Freeman
Prof. Elizabeth Freeman, Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty with GREL, passed away on Sunday, June 2 Read More
Westin Harris receives UC Humanities Consortium Graduate Support Award
This is a summer fellowship that will support Westin as he writes his dissertation Read More
Joyan Tan awarded Graduate Summer Support Award from the L&S Dean's Office
This award supports Joyan's participation in the Panlongcheng Archaeology Summer School held in Wuhan, China from June 23-July 28, 2024. Read More
Aron Tillema Accepts Position at Santa Clara University
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
Sarah Neace successfully defends her dissertation
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
Benjamin Steele-Fisher successfully defends and filed his dissertation
Dr. Steele-Fisher's dissertation is titled, "The Critique of Myth in German-Jewish Thought" Read More
Event - Notes From the Field - Sara Tillema "Deconversion, Deconstruction, & Ex-Vangelical Experience In The Us"
Sara Tillema
Graduate Program in the Study of Religion
TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2024 12:00-1:00 PM || 912 SPROUL Read More
Event - Notes From The Field: Prophets and Puppets: Notes on Ancient Healing and Entertainment
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
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
Event - Towards a Counterhistory of the Western Canon | The “Original Fragments” of the Bible and Homer
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
Call for Papers: Religion On the Move Graduate Student Conference
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
Benjamin Fisher's Dissertation Defense
Friday, December 8th, 10:00 am in Sproul Hall 922
Congratulations, Ben, on this milestone.
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GREL Alum Chris Miller featured on New Books Podcast
Chris Miller discusses his new book, Embodying Transnational Yoga Eating, Singing, and Breathing in Transformation Read More
Call for Essays - The Mohini Jain Presidential Chair in Jain Studies Best Graduate Essay Prize
Deadline: Friday, May 17, 2024 Read More