Hwansoo Kim, Professor of Religious Studies and of East Asian Languages and Literatures, has been appointed the next head of Morse College.

This is the fourth prize for Zadeh's 2023 book, which the Haskins Medal prize committee said “pairs the most rigorous scholarship, incisive inquisitiveness, and entertaining narratives to conjure up lives, feelings, and ideas from other worlds.”

In the new episode of the YDS “Quadcast,” Todne Thomas, Associate Professor of Divinity and Religious Studies, discusses her research on a Tennessee church burning and the value of ethnographic study of religious life in America.

The award was bestowed by the Status of Women in the Profession Standing Committee and awarded at the annual SBL conference in Boston.

During a recent visit to Yale, Hwansoo Kim, a Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures, engaged Kwan, in conversation about her life story and approach to cooking.

In a new course taught by Todne Thomas and Nicholas Jones, students are taking an interdisciplinary approach to the study of tarot—a divinatory medium practiced by fortune-tellers, artists, and the curious for centuries.

In a Q&A, Marta Sanvido, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, describes the impact a trip to Japan had on her studies, the “secret documents” of her most recent research, and searching for the perfect cup of coffee in New Haven.

Two members of the Yale faculty — Sarah Demers, a professor of physics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Christine Hayes, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies — were awarded the William Clyde DeVane Award for outstanding scholarship and undergraduate teaching by Yale’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa last week during its annual reception for Yale seniors.

Laura Nasrallah and Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies to recognize their excellence in humanities and social science research.

Bentley Layton, the Goff Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and a field-transforming scholar, died on March 26.