Faculty Awards and Recognition
2009/2010
Dr. Irven Resnick, Philosophy and Religion Professor and Judaic Studies Chair of Excellence, has received $199,756 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to hold a five-week summer institute on Jewish history in the medieval era.
Titled “Representations of the ‘Other’: Jews in Medieval Christendom,” this institute will be held July 6 to August 11, 2010. The purpose of this institute is to gain a better understanding of the changes in the legal status, economic conditions, cultural stereotypes, and depictions of Jews as the most visible and problematic minority group in medieval Christendom, with a focus on interrelationships between medieval Jews and Christians in Western Europe. The institute will include a series of presentations by scholars with backgrounds in history, medieval Jewish history, and Jewish values. Participants include 25 faculty members from two-year to four-year colleges or universities whose teaching and research touch on some aspect of the medieval period. Faculty from various academic fields, including literature, history, theology, and psychology are expected to attend.
2008/2009
Dr. Brian Ribeiro, has been named UC Foundation Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, effective August 2008. Congratulations to Dr. Ribeiro!
Dr. William Harman, has published three chapters in a volume he co-edited with Selva J. Raj, entitled Dealing with Deities: The Ritual Vow in South Asia, released in paperback by State University of New York Press in 2007. He also published "A Miracle (or Two) in Tirucchi", in Dempsey, Corinne (ed.), The Miracle as Conundrum in South Asian Religions, SUNY Press, 2008. Dr. Harman received an Open Research Grant from the American Academy of Religion to interview the families of female martyr-bombers among Sri Lanka diaspora Tamil communities in Toronto, Paris, India, and Sri Lanka, and also received a Research Fellowship for a period of study and residence in Sri Lanka and India during his recently completed sabbatical. During his stay in Sri Lanka, his public address to the International Institute of Ethnic Studies in Colombo, Sri Lanka, "Preventing Suicide Bombing", was published on the Institute's website. Welcome back, Dr. Harman!
