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Religious Studies Faculty win 2010 Teaching awards

Robert Orsi received the E. LeRoy Hall Award for Teaching Excellence on May 5, 2010. Weinberg College Teaching Awards applaud excellence in instruction, significant contributions to curricular innovation, exemplary mentoring of research and independent study, and fostering of a sense of community both inside and outside the classroom. University awards recognize faculty throughout Northwestern who have consistently demonstrated outstanding performance in classroom teaching or who have developed significant innovations influencing the methods and teaching effectiveness of other faculty.

Wallace Best

Concerning "Goodbye, Christ": Langston Hughes, 1930s America, and the Politics of Poetry
McCormick Tribune Forum
Wednesday, June 2, 5:30 PM
Reception following

Wallace Best is Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University. A Northwestern University PhD, Prof. Best's research and teaching center on African American religious history, religion and literature, Pentecostalism, the Nation of Islam, religion, gender and sexuality, and Womanist theology. He is the author of Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952, Princeton University Press. He is currently at work on two books: an anthology entitled Elder Lucy Smith: Documents from the Life of a Pentecostal Woman Preacher and an exploration of the religious thought of the poet Langston Hughes, entitled Langston's Salvation: American Religion and the Bard of Harlem.

"Religion Meets RelStudies @ Northwestern" Lecture Series Schedule

Please see the Lecture Series page for more information.

Past Events

The Persecuted Body: Evangelical Media and Spectacles of Suffering on the Global Stage

Global America Inaugural Lecture
October 22, 2010 • 4:00 PM
Melani McAlister, American Studies and International Affairs, The George Washington University

Melani McAlister is the author of Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945 (University of California Press, rev. ed. 2005, orig. 2001); and co-editor of Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and numerous scholarly journals.

Making of the Last Prophet

The Perry Lecture in Religion
Block Auditorium map, Evanston Campus
Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 5:00pm

Religion and Identity

A Graduate Conference at Northwestern University
April 24-25, 2009

ROBERT ORSI: Inaugural Lecture
Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies

"The Catholic Imaginary: Catholic Studies in the University "
Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center Video
Thursday, November 6, 2008, 4:00 pm

The Global Luther

An International Conference at Northwestern University
Feb. 21-23, 2008

To view a list of events, visit the section of Plan-It Purple for the Department of Religious Studies.