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Ilona Gerbakher Receives 2020-2021 Fulbright Award
Ilona Gerbakher has won the 2020-2021 Fulbright Award to Morocco, in order to undertake ethnographic fieldwork for a portion of her dissertation entitled, "Medieval Texts, Modern Tellings: Medieval Sufi Handbooks and the formation of the Moroccan Sufi Self."
Departmental Statement on Race and Racism
There is perhaps nothing more central to the history of race and racism in the modern world than the diverse set of ideas, institutions and practices that are brought together under the name of “religion.” In truth, it is impossible to think about religion without already thinking about race. This is as true today as it ever was.
Teaching Racial Justice Isn’t Racial Justice, Benjamin Fong
Read this brilliant and insightful piece from PhD-alum Benjamin Fong on racial justice and education -- an important reminder that the work of promoting racial justice does not end in the classroom: Teaching Racial Justice Isn’t Racial Justice.