faculty news
Prof. Catlos announces the publication of two books: The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650 and Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650–1650 co-written and co-edited, respectively with Thomas Burman (
Professor Deborah Whitehead was distinguished with an Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award for her above-and-beyond commitment to helping religious studies students succeed. The awards, chosen by the Graduate School each year, specifically recognize
Holly Gayley, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, received a 2021 Kayden Translation Award for her book, Inseparable Across Lifetimes: The Lives and Love Letters of the Tibetan Visionaries Namtrul Rinpoche and Khandro Tare Lhamo. An inspiring
Please join us April 10 from 4:00 to 6:30 MDT for a symposium and book launch for Voices from Larung Gar: Shaping Tibetan Buddhism for the Twenty-First Century, an anthology edited by Dr. Holly Gayley. More information and
Religious Studies professors Brian Catlos and Holly Gayley will be featured at an event celebrating 2019 faculty achievements hosted by the Center for Humanities & the Arts. Professor Catlos will be recognized for his book, Kingdoms of Faith: A
Prof. Brian A. Catlos will be a featured author at the Jaipur Literary Festival taking place from 22–27 January at the Diggi Palace in Jaipur, India. In a session sponsored by the Agha Khan Foundation he will be interviewed by best-
Elias Sacks, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, recently visited the University of Virginia to lecture about anti-intellectualism and Jewish thought, give a colloquium about the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory,
Dr. Brian Catlos will give a public talk on the foundational influence of Islamic Spain for the Boulder Atheists at the Boulder Public Library, Sun., Nov. 17, 2019 at 12:15 pm.
David Shneer, who is serving as the Yiddish language and cultural consultant for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ production of Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize nominated play Indecent, will be doing two talk backs: Sunday,
The CU Mediterranean Studies Group recently hosted Albert Corbetó of the Reial Academia de Bones Lletres of Barcelona, a historian of typography and the book, who gave a class on women printers in the eighteenth-century, and on the relationship