Faculty News
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For students who know the REL faculty in their classrooms,
it may come as a bit of a surprise to learn that their teachers
have rather active research and writing lives of their own.
In particular, the Fall 2007 semester has been especially
productive for the faculty in terms of their work outside
the classroom.
For example...
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Assistant Prof. Ramey's
first book manuscript--a thoroughly revised version of his
doctoral dissertation--has just been contracted by Palgrave
Macmillan Press. Apart from two peer review articles published
in his first year at UA (2006-7) he presented a paper at November
2007's American
Academy of Religion (AAR) national conference in San Diego
and he is also completing the development of a new online
version of his popular REL
220 course.
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Just back from the San Diego AAR,
Associate Prof. Trost's
edited collection
of essays--based on papers first presented at the Department's
2005 conference
on the spread of African religions, for which he was the lead
organizer--will soon be published by Palgrave Macmillan. Trost,
who is also the Department's undergraduate advisor,
is also developing a new online version of our distance education
section of REL 112.
During 2005-6 Trost was on sabbatical
and continues to work with the research materials gathered
during his time away from teaching.
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Prof. McCutcheon,
who lectured this Fall at the University
of Victoria and the Univesity
of Colorado-Boulder, has just published a co-edited
collection of essays , a book for the introductory
course, and two articles: in the Journal
of the American Academy of Religion (an essay
that was the topic of a recent lunch
discussion) and Method
& Theory in the Study of Religion. He also recently
learned that an essay of his published in 2006 in JAAR--the
field's main journal--was ranked as one of its top 10 downloads
for that year.
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Assistant Prof. Marouan--who
recently returned from a prestigious conference
held in Salzburg, Austria--has not only had another peer
review essay accepted for publication, this time with the
Columbia
Journal of American Studies, but also has a chapter
due out soon in the edited collection of essays, The
African Diaspora and the Study of Religion. These
papers were originally presented at an international
conference for young scholars organzed by the Department.
In the summer of 2007 she was granted a research grant by
the University and continues to work on revisions to her
book manuscript.
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Also just returned from attending the AAR
and NAASR
annual conference in San Diego, Assistant Prof. Murphy
(who recently hosted a lunchtime
discussion) not only has a collection of his own essays
as well as an edited anthology
on defining religion due out soon but has recently been
awarded a contract for his second monograph with State
University of New York Press. But it doesn't stop there--Murphy
has a few other book projects percolating away.
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Associate Professor Jacobs,
who was recently at a Holocaust studies conference
in Tennessee (where he was joined by two of our sudents),
is about to go on sabbatical for the Spring 2008 semester.
He plans to finish up several writing projects, including
a new monograph, The Texts of Hate, do the final
proofing on a collection of essays he's edited, Confronting
Genocide, and also finalize the manuscript
for his upcoming book, A Brief History of Judaism
(Blackwell)
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REL faculty get around...
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Read
more about some of these
new books
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