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Hwansoo Kim, religious studies professor, named next Morse head
Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis announced that religious studies professor Hwansoo Kim will start as the next head of Morse College on July 1.
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Travis Zadeh wins 2026 Haskins Medal for "Wonders and Rarities"
The Haskins Medal is the most prestigious award granted by the Medieval Academy of America.
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Maria Doerfler Publishes 'Death and The Afterlife in Syriac Christianity: Creating Social Identity and Emotional Communities'
Maria Doerfler here explores this body of largely ignored literature that has been attributed to Ephrem the Syrian.
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Sarit Kattan Gribetz receives mentorship award from the Society of Biblical Literature
The award was bestowed by the Status of Women in the Profession Standing Committee and awarded at the annual SBL conference in Boston.
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The Worlds of Tarot: Students explore the history and meaning of divinatory cards
A new course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of tarot—a divinatory medium practiced by fortune-tellers, artists, and the curious.
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RLST welcomes new faculty member Marta Sanvido
Marta Sanvido describes the impact a trip to Japan had on her studies and the “secret documents” of her most most recent research.
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Sterling Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Christine Hayes, Receives Honorary Degree from JTS
Dr. Christine Hayes, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, received an honorary degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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Phi Beta Kappa honors two celebrated Yale teachers and a long-serving academic dean
Two professors, one retired and the other part of the active faculty, received the DeVane award, Yale College’s oldest teaching award.
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Laura Nasrallah one of two FAS faculty honored with 2025 ACLS Fellowships
The American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship supports and recognizes excellence in the humanities.
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Passover pop-up exhibit at Sterling teaches visitors about Jewish tradition
The exhibit featured books telling the Passover story from many centuries and regions of the world.