Over the summer, Dr. Molly Bassett, associate professor and chair of Religious Studies, facilitated a three-day workshop on Mesoamerican codices for secondary educators at Emory’s Michael C. Carlos Museum. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend and an American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant to support work on her book manuscript. This fall, Indigenous Religious Traditions in 5 Minutes is the subject of an AAR roundtable sponsored by the Native American Studies program unit. Finally, a book chapter on sacred bundles will appear in the forthcoming American Contact: Intercultural Encounters and the History of the Book with the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Dr. Octavio Carrasco, visiting lecturer, has an article coming out in The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture called, “The Awe-ful Music of Kurt Cobain: Nirvana and the Mysterium Tremendum."
In addition to teaching Disability and Memoir and our MA students' Theories and Methods seminar this fall, Dr. Andrew Walker-Cornetta, assistant professor of Religious Studies, had several occasions to present his research and participate in scholarly conversations around the United States. In August, he was invited to deliver a talk at the 12th Annual Cultural Competency Conference at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso entitled "Learning with Religion." In September, he joined the Being Human Institute at Indiana University's Center on Religion and the Human, where he is an emerging scholar. In October, Walker-Cornetta presented research at the inaugural conference at St. Louis University's Center for Research of Global Catholicism. And at the American Academy of Religion's Annual Meeting, he will be delivering papers and remarks for both the Disability Studies and Religion Unit and the North American Religions Unit.
Dr. Monique Moultrie, associate professor of Religious Studies, gave the Rex G. and Ina Mae Powell Lecture in Religious Studies at Elon University in March 2023. In April 2023, Dr. Moultrie spoke at a Religion and Reproductive Politics panel at the University of Chicago Divinity School. In May 2023, she had recorded two book conversations with “Beyond the Gatekeepers” and LGBTQ-RAN. In June 2023, she spoke at the “Reclaiming our Spiritual Heritage” Virtual LGBTQ Conference and was interviewed for NPR’s All Things Considered. In July 2023, she received a grant for $50,000 from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation for The Garden Initiative for Black Women’s Religious Activism. The College of Arts & Sciences News Hub published an interview regarding her new book in August 2023. She spoke on a “Religion & the Public Intellectual” panel for IUPUI’s Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture in September. She spoke at Purdue University’s Department of Anthropology in October 2023. In November, she presented two papers at the American Academy of Religion in San Antonio, TX. Also, in November 2023, she was selected to receive the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Award during the GSU inaugural Ignite Awards. This award recognizes an individual whose research has made an outstanding contribution to their field.
Nathan Springer, visiting instructor in Religious Studies, was accepted into the PhD program at the University of Ottawa for admission in fall 2024.
Dr. Ashlyn Strozier, lecturer, was accepted into the Sacred Writes cohort for Fall 2023. This is a three-month public scholarship training program online, for scholars focused on “race, justice, and religion” in public scholarship, funded by a grant from the Henry R. Luce Foundation. She was also chosen for the 2024 Online Teaching and Learning Workshop for Design Thinking for Religious and Theological Educators at the Wabash Center.