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Religionmatters matters RELIGIONUNC CHARLOTTE DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES MAY 2016 Photo by Haley Twist A Message from Dr. Robinson, Department Chair As spring semes- graduate student conference on the turer in spring 2016. Joanne Robin- ter ends and sum- topic “Religion and the Other.” Grad- son received the American Academy mer sessions begin, uate students came from UVA, SFU, of Religion Award for Excellence in I would like to ex- Arizona State, Vanderbilt, UC Santa Teaching in spring 2016. James Ta- tend my apprecia- Barbara, Harvard, University of Den- bor’s blog (http://jamestabor.com) is tion to all students, ver, and Concordia Seminary for an consistently rated in the Top Ten of staff, and faculty evening and a day of rich intellectual the “Top 50 Biblioblogs,” (the list in- of the Department of Religious Stud- exchange. Joe Winters, now of Duke cludes more than 500 blogs) with over ies. My deepest appreciation goes to University, and Eric Mortensen, Guil- 1.5 million page views since 2012. Jenna Baker, who keeps the office run- ford College, gave plenary addresses. On the student front, M.A. student ning smoothly and makes coming in Thanks to the ingenuity and drive of Josh Williams was a nominee for the to work a pleasure. Special thanks as the graduate students, we are also now Graduate School’s Outstanding Assis- well to Haley Twist, Editor-in-Chief the hosts of Resonance: A Religious tant Award in spring 2016. M.A. stu- of this newsletter and our in-house Studies Journal, which publishes a dents Chelsea Carskaddon and Haley graphic designer, and to all of the stu- peer-reviewed article by a graduate Twist received second and third place dents who contributed to this edition student each month (resonanceRSJ. respectively in the “Best Oral Presen- of our department newsletter. org). tation in the Arts, Humanities, Educa- This newsletter aims to capture some Scholarly productivity abounded in tion” category at the spring Graduate of what happened in 2015-16, a year 2015, with the department receiving Research Symposium. Among under- of change, productivity, and recogni- three awards for external funding in graduates, Casey Aldridge will work tion. Our changes are many, and some addition to publishing four mono- as a Charlotte Research Scholar this are still in process. Our excitement at graphs and six peer-reviewed journal summer under the direction of Bar- welcoming William Sherman (Ph.D. articles; giving twelve conference pa- bara Thiede. Undergraduate student Stanford University) to our position pers and nine invited lectures; and Jarred Batchelor Hamilton won first in Islamic Studies has been tempered contributing two chapters to academic place for Religious Studies and Jacob by his acceptance of a prestigious books. Graduate students also gave Groves, major in Religious Studies, ACLS/Mellon Post-Dissertation Fel- four papers at academic conferences won the department award for His- lowship. He and Alexandra Kaloya- in 2015. tory in the Undergraduate Research nides (Ph.D. Yale University), who is Recognition for our work has come Conference. currently in a two-year postdoctoral from many places. John Reeves was Here’s to looking forward to another position at the Ho Center for Bud- the 2015 recipient of the Gradu- year of positive change, remarkable dhist Studies at Yale University, will ate Medallion, Hebrew Union Col- productivity, and continued recogni- join us in fall 2017. lege-Jewish Institute of Religion, in tion of faculty and students for their Quite a bit of change has happened recognition of ‘outstanding contribu- hard work and contributions to the in the M.A. program, which has been tions to scholarship’ and ‘commitment, field of religious studies. revised to improve time-to-degree and dedication, and service to Judaism allow faculty to mentor our students and the Jewish people for the past 25 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA more closely. In March, an extraor- years.’ Barbara Thiede was named a Facebook.com/ReligiousStudiesUNCC dinary group of graduate students finalist for the CLAS Award for Out- @UNCC_Rels | ReligiousStudies.uncc.edu joined together to host the inaugural standing Teaching by a Full-time Lec- FACULTY NEWS 2 Introducing our Early Entry M.A. program Requirements: Undergraduates, get a jump start on your graduate work in Religious Studies • To be considered for Early Entry admission, a student must be enrolled Beginning in the spring of 2016, we Benefits: at UNC Charlotte and complete and offer the opportunity for students in- submit an application via the Grad- terested in our MA program to earn up • Early Entry students will have pro- uate School’s admissions system, to 12 graduate credit hours while com- visional acceptance to the graduate https://mygradschool.uncc.edu, and pleting their undergraduate religious program, pending the award of the supply supporting documents. studies major. Students accepted into baccalaureate degree, generally with- • A student may be accepted at any early entry will be able to count up to in two semesters. time after completion of 75 or more 12 hours of their 4000-level under- • The MA in Religious Studies ear- hours of undergraduate course work, graduate courses toward the 30 hours ly-entry program is accelerated. Un- although it is expected that close to 90 required as part of the completion of der this model, up to twelve hours hours of undergraduate course work the religious studies MA, at the un- earned at the graduate level may be will have been earned by the time the dergraduate cost of tuition. Graduate substituted for required undergrad- first graduate course is taken. School Early Entry Program Form uate hours. In other words, up to twelve hours of graduate work may • A student must have at least a 3.2 and Description be “double-counted” toward both the overall GPA Early Entry: Get a Jump on Your baccalaureate and graduate degrees. • Taken and earned an acceptable Graduate Education Individual programs may allow addi- score on the appropriate graduate tional hours at the graduate level to be standardized test. Exceptional undergraduate students substituted. In no case may more than For more information, see the web- attending UNC Charlotte are encour- 12 hours be double-counted. site of the Department of Religious aged to apply to graduate programs • Early Entry students will be charged Studies. Please speak to the depart- and begin work toward their graduate undergraduate tuition and fees for all ment’s graduate program director degree before completion of their bac- courses (graduate and undergraduate) (Sean McCloud) and undergraduate calaureate degree. In those programs for which they register. Upon com- program director (Dan White) if you offering this outstanding opportuni- pletion of the baccalaureate degree, are interested in this opportunity. ty, undergraduate students can get a students will be charged graduate tu- head start on their graduate degree. ition and fees. Julia Robinson continues research on the First United Presbyterian Church of Charlotte Examining the history of the church, she looks at how its formation impacted Charlotte’s planning and communities BY HALEY TWIST After publishing Arguing that the church’s formation byterian Church about the history of her most recent impacted all major categories of Char- both churches as part of the Divided book last April, lotte, including its education, politics, by Race Joint Discussion Series. Race, Religion, and economy, and urban planning, Rob- After completing additional re- the Pulpit: Rev. inson is looking at the ways African search in the coming months, which Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Americans and whites utilized Chris- includes conducting more oral inter- Urban Detroit, Dr. Julia Robinson is tianity to form identities and power views and examining original papers now at work on her next book project. equities. and ledgers at the Presbyterian Her- Her research focuses on the histo- Since last summer, she has been in- itage Center in Montreat, N.C. and ry of the First United Presbyterian terviewing the descendants of some of the Presbyterian Historical Society in Church of Charlotte—the first Afri- the original establishing church mem- Philadelphia, Pa., she hopes to have can American Presbyterian society in bers, and also looks at the Church’s re- the first draft of her monograph com- Mecklenburg County—and how it has lationship with Charlotte’s First Pres- pleted in 2017. formed the larger African American byterian Church. On May 15th and community in Charlotte since 1866. 22nd, 2016, she spoke at First Pres- 3 FACULTY NEWS Department receives grant from the Wabash Center With grant funding, the Department is researching RELS student experiences BY CHELSEA CARSKADDON DEPARTMENT FACULTY Department Chair Joanna Maguire Robinson - Ph.D., University of Chicago Last fall, Kent Brintnall and Jo- retreat is now being used to develop Full-Time Faculty anne Robinson were awarded a grant phase two, which will take place in fall Kent Brintnall - Ph.D., Emory University through the Wabash Center for 2016. This will consist of three to four Eric Hoenes del Pinal - Ph.D., Teaching and Learning in Theolo- focus workshops during which the University of California, San Diego gy and Religion. Since, the two have faculty can work on different aspects Kathryn Johnson - Ph.D., Harvard been working to ensure the Depart- of their teaching, such as assessment— Tina Katsanos - M.A., USC Columbia ment faculty are making their excel- including development of assign- Sean McCloud - Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill lent teaching explicit. ments and evaluation of writing—and John C. Reeves - Ph.D. Hebrew Union Our faculty has long been told by recruitment. Phase three will begin in College-Jewish Institute of Religion students that it is the professors who spring 2017, as students will again be Julia Maria Robinson - Ph.D., ultimately convince students to be- brought into the project and given the Michigan State University come majors and minors in the pro- opportunity to respond to what the Janna Shedd - M.A., UNC Charlotte gram.
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