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Doctorial Student Nanea Renteria Awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship
Columbia University Department of Religion Doctoral Student Nanea Renteria has been awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship for her project "Two Spirits: Gender, Oral History, and the Peyote Way."
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Zoe Neuschatz Awarded the 2024 Peter Awn Undergraduate Paper Prize
The Department of Religion is pleased to announce that Zoe Neuschatz (GS ’25) is the winner of the Peter Awn Undergraduate Paper Prize. Zoe's submission "Eating is Believing: Religious Expression in Countercultural Cookbooks, 1975-1999," was written in Prof. Courtney Bender’s Fall 2023 Theory seminar.
The Peter Awn Undergraduate Paper Prize was established by the Department of Religion in 2019, to honor the memory of our colleague and his commitment to undergraduate education, and is awarded annually.
Congratulations to Zoe!
Krishna and his world: Jack Hawley's new translation of Surdas published by Harvard University Press
In 2023 Jack Hawley published a paperback volume of translations of poems bearing the name of Surdas that he and, especially, Kenneth Bryant have established as belonging to the 16th century, when Surdas lived. This selection focuses exclusively on Krishna and his world.