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Congratulations to Ph.D. student Mohit Kaycee for receiving two competitive fellowships for his fieldwork research. He received the 2022-23 International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) awarded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). The IDRF fellowship is funded by the Mellon Foundation and supports doctoral students conducting dissertation research on non-US or US Indigenous cultures and societies around the world. He has also been awarded the 2022 American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Junior Fellowship.

Josef Sorett, Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion, has been appointed as the next Dean of Columbia College and Vice President of Undergraduate Education, effective July 1, 2022.

The Department of Religion is pleased to announce that Natalie Cimino (GS’22) is the recipient of the 2022 Peter Awn Undergraduate Paper Prize.