PhD Candidate Jordan Conley Wins Prestigious Dissertation Grant
Jordan Conley, ABD in the Ancient Mediterranean Religions track, has won a major grant from the North American Patristics Society to complete… More
BU PhD Tazeen Ali Joins 2020 Young Scholars in American Religion Program
BU PhD Tazeen Ali, who is an Assistant Professor at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St.… More
Katz Video Celebration
The BU Department of Religion collected video messages from the Katz family, previous awardees, and professors to honor Lydia and Zoe. View… More
Lydia Beyer and Zoe Beard Win Department Awards
The BU Department of Religion would like to congratulate Lydia Beyer and Zoe Beard for winning Katz Awards. The Katz Award, dating… More
BU Religion PhD Amina Chaudary Writes and Produces Film
PhD and award-winning documentarian Dr. Amina Chaudary produced a short film, Emptying Sacred Spaces, on worship during the coronavirus crisis. Watch the video… More
Professor Anthony Petro Named National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor
BU Religion Professor Anthony Petro will be the next NEH Teaching Professor at Boston University. According to an email from CAS Dean… More
Professor Prothero Publishes Religious Literacy Textbook
Prof. Stephen Prothero has published Religion Matters with W. W. Norton. According to the book's W. W. Norton page, "religion is a system… More
Professor Katz Wins PROSE Award
Prof. Katz's new book, Holocaust and New World Slavery, won a 2020 World History Prose Award from the Association of American Publishers. Get… More
Professor Zank Publishes BU Today Op-Ed for Holocaust Remembrance Day
Read Prof. Zank's article--"POV: 75 Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz, How Do We Make Sure It Never Happens Again?"-- here. More
Professor Michael Zank Publishes Op-Ed in BU Today
Responding to President Trump's executive order targeting Anti-Semitic speech on college campuses, Religion Professor and Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for… More