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February 09, 2023

Call for Submissions: The Third Annual Peter Awn Undergraduate Paper Prize

The Departments of Religion at Columbia and Barnard are now welcoming submissions for the third annual Peter Awn Undergraduate Paper Prize. This prize of $500 will be given to the best paper written by an undergraduate for any course or seminar in Religion in the year prior. This prize honors our colleague Peter Awn’s inspired teaching and his dedication to promoting and celebrating creative inquiry. 

Submissions will be accepted until Friday, March 24 at 5 p.m. Prize will be announced in mid-April.

Eligibility: Submissions must be

January 23, 2023

Department of Religion PhD Candidate Zehra Mehdi nominated in the global inspiration list of 100 Indian Muslim women in North America

Department of Religion PhD Candidate Zehra Mehdi has been nominated in the global inspiration list of 100 Indian Muslim women in North America under the category of youth inspiration with a cutting edge approach to PhD research for her dissertation: The ‘work of Religion’: Trauma, Mourning and Political Resistance in the lives of Muslims in ‘Old Lucknow’.

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