Department News
Congratulations to Tracy Derynck who successfully defended her PhD Dissertation "The Meanings and Implications of 'life as sacred' as an Ethical-Religious Claim" on September 16, 2011.
Congratulations to Sharon Mogen who successfully defended her MA Thesis "Women and Death Rituals in Late Antiquity: Forming the Christian Identity" on August 22, 2011.
Congratulations to Morny Joy on receiving an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki on May 27, 2011.
Congratulations to Jöel Laforest who successfully defended his MA Thesis "Magical Markets and Invisible Hands: Rethinking Religion and the Capitalist Spirit" on May 20, 2011.
Congratulations to Kyle Nunweiler who successfully defended his MA Thesis "Making Sense of the Sacred: Testing Justin Barrett’s Counterintuitiveness Coding and Quantifying System on the Classical Evidence from the Hebrew Bible" on May 16, 2011.
Congratulations to Chris Emory-Moore who was the Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion Graduate Essay competition winner with his "Clear and Uncreated: The Experience of Inner Light in Gelug Tantrism and Byzantine Hesychasm."
Congratulations to Anne White on receiving the Emerald Literati Network 2011 Award for Excellence for the paper "Religious environmentalism as a vital contribution to sustainability" published in the Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy.
Congratulations to Ali Fares who successfully defended his MA Thesis "Myth within Jewish and Islamic Scriptures" on April 28, 2011.
Congratulations to Dr. Irving Hexham on the publication of his book Understanding World Religions: An Interdisciplinary Approach.
Congratulations to Kendra Marks who successfully defended her MA thesis Goddesses, Monsters, and Monstrous Goddesses: The Portrayal of Kali in the Devi Mahatmya on January 21, 2011.
Congratulations to Yasmin Merchant who successfully defended her MA thesis Vanishing Frontiers: Re-thinking the Mystical in Avicenna and Maimonides on November 29, 2010.
Congratulations to Irving Hexham who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. See the article in UToday.
Congratulations to Tenzan Eaghll who successfully defended his MA Thesis "Martin Luther and the God Who Acts: Finding Common Ground in the Current Debates on Justification"on August 25, 2010.
Congratulations to Sergey Petrov who successfully defended his PhD dissertation "The Prairie Flower: A Biography of the Russian-Ukrainian Church of Evangelical Christians in Benito, Manitoba from 1928 to 1996"on July 29, 2010.
Congratulations to Leslie Kawamura who was awarded The Order of the University of Calgary on June 10, 2010.
Congratulations to Darryl Ferguson who successfully defended his MA thesis "Beyond the Struggle: Paul Ricoeur's Revision of Recognition"on April 22, 2010.
Congratulations to Kathleen Jones who successfully defended her MA thesis "Ancient Words in Modern Times: Feminist Reinterpretations of Wisdom"on April 19, 2010.
Congratulations to Scott Currie who successfully defended his MA thesis "An Evaluation of Paul Tillich's God-talk for Contemporary Religious Studies"on November 16, 2009.
Congratulations to Aaron Jensen who successfully defended his MA thesis "In Echos of Silence: The Turn to Love and Care in Heiegger and Rosenzweig"on September 15, 2009.
Congratulations to John Conway, winner of the 2009 Humanities Silver Medallion in Religious Studies.
Congratulations to Naomi Shimosaka who successfully defended her Honours thesis "Ecofeminism as a Bridge of Discussion Between Over Industrialized Japanese Society and the Environmental Values of Shinto" on April 30, 2009.
Congratulations to Anna Samuelson who successfully defended her Honours thesis "A Translation and Study of the Vajravilasini namah Vajravarahi Sadhana (Rdo rje phag mo sgrub thabs rdo rje rnam par sgeg ma zhes bya ba)" on April 28, 2009.
Congratulations to Kyle Nunweiler who successfully defended his Honours thesis "Divine Agency in the Narrative of Abraham" on April 27, 2009.
Congratulations to John Conway who successfully defended his Honours thesis "Placing Sayyid Qutb. Place Studies Theory and the Contemporary Jahiliyyah" on April 23, 2009.
Congratulations to Aimée-Jo Benoit who successfully defended her MA thesis "The Scholar as Jazz Musician: Exploring the Role of Creativity in the Academic Study of Religion" on April 27, 2009.
Congratulations to Nicole Libin who successfully defended her PhD dissertation "The Choosing People: Constructing Jewish Buddhist Identity in America" on April 20, 2009.