Departmental Newsletter

Click here to see a copy of the Fall 2004 "Perspectives On Religion" departmental newsletter.

Undergraduate News

The Alpha of Iowa chapter is pleased to announce that Alex Greenberg, a Religious Studies major, has been invited to accept membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.

Faculty News

Michelene Pesantubbee has been elected as the new Executive Secretary for the American Academy of Religion.  She begins her three year term on January 1, 2005.  Congratulations Michelene!!

Faculty Participants in the AAR Annual Meeting, November 20-23

Michelene Pesantubbee presided at the Women and Religion Section on November 21.  The theme was "Contemporary Women's Spirituality."  She also co-chaired the Native Traditions in the Americas Group business meeting on November 22.

Richard Turner was a panelist on "The Legacy of C. Eric Lincoln and the Study of Islam in North America," Afro-American Religious History Group on November 22.