Student Workers
2006-7

The Department is pleased to have once again sprouted a bumper crop of student workers, whose assignments vary from assisting in the main office to helping the faculty with their research. This year, the College of Arts & Sciences has helped REL to employ those of its student workers who assistant professors with their large enrollment REL 100 classes.

In the Spring 2007 semester, Karissa Rinas (center) joined Sarah and Jennifer to work in the main office. Among her tasks was assisting Prof. Jacobs's in his REL 100. (This photo was taken on Honors Day 2007.)

Jennifer Alfano

Jennifer is a senior with a double major in English and Religious Studies. She has not yet decided what to pursue after graduation, but her interests range from teaching high school English to opening a multicultural restaurant/coffee shop/music venue. In addition to Dr. McCutcheon's wild REL 100 class, her other department favorites include the neverending coffee supply in the lounge and the freedom to display her love for the department with different paraphernalia for every day of the week--her favorite being the coffee mug. She has a tendency to bust a move from time to time and thoroughly enjoys large bowls of tomato soup. Her favorite accordian player is Wally Ostanek.

Sarah Luken

Sarah, an REL major from Boaz, AL, is returning for her second year in the Main Office. Graduating this coming May, Sarah hopes to spend a couple of years teaching high school before she begins her stroll down the road to her J.D degree. With her newly found love for Italian culture and eagerness to explore the unexplored regions of the world, who knows where she'll end up! The sky is the limit, and the Religious Studies Department at the University of Alabama will always be her home away from home.

Tsy Yusef

Tseleq (Tsy) has B.A. in Communications and Sociology and is a senior, majoring in Religious Studies. He plans to go to graduate school after graduation to study Islamic Extremism and Quaranic Thought. He likes hanging out in the Religious Studies lounge and browsing through religion encyclopedias. Tsy is a compulsive reader, and is fascinated with Africa and the Middle East Region, social theory and CNN. He is a serious student with an incessant fervor for learning and enjoys working out about 12-15 hours a week.

Karissa Rinas

A double major in REL and Philosophy who graduates in the Spring of 2007, Karissa has a long standing interest in the philosophy of religion and a new found interest in applications of cognitive science to the academic study of religion. (Until she writes something more interesting than that, it'll remain as her description.)

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