Arzoo Osanloo, director of the Middle East Center, associate professor of the Law, Societies, and Justice program, and affiliate faculty for Comparative Religion is the featured guest in an NPR Throughline podcast episode titled, “The Woman Question,” on how while what’s happening in Iran right now is unprecedented, the Iranian people’s struggle for gender equality began generations before

M.A. Applications: International Studies – Comparative Religion The application deadline for all Jackson School MAIS programs is January 31, 2023. The Jackson School offers nine programs that lead to an MAIS degree: seven world area-studies programs, a comparative religion program, and a comparative and thematic program in international studies that concentrates on the interaction of

What did it mean to be a Jewish minority in an Arab-Islamic society? How did Judaism shape Islam and vice versa? What is the future of Jewish-Arab relations? Today, Jews and Arabs sometimes seem to be entrenched in a timeless conflict. But for centuries, over 90% of the world’s Jews lived, worked, and thrived (or

This past Winter, Professor Pauwels taught her class, Gender and the Hindu Goddess (RELIG 456), during which the students were treated to a virtual visit (and those who wanted to an in-person one) to the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s (SAM) special exhibit, “Embodied Change: South Asian Art Across Time.” The students were given the option

Assistant Professor Sasha Senderovich’s new book, “How the Soviet Jew Was Made,” published by Harvard University Press in May, delves into post-revolutionary Russian and Yiddish literary, cinematic, and journalistic sources and recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure, not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity.

Christian Novetzke has been awarded a Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Grant for Summers 2023 and 2024. The grant, which he also previously received in 2013, will allow him to work on his new book project titled, “A Flower of Fire: Religion, Caste, and Gender in the Political Poetry of Savitribai Phule (1831–1897). In Jan. 2022,

In a November 10 conversation hosted by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Liora Halpern discusses her latest book, “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past” (Stanford University Press, 2021), which tells the story of Zionist settler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (mashavot) established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine.

Radhika Govindrajan, director of the South Asia Center and associate professor at the Jackson School and Department of Anthropology, has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Diana Forsythe Prize for her book, “Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas” (University of Chicago Press, 2018) by the American Anthropological Association. The Forsythe prize is given to the

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Book Talk: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture with Mika Ahuvia, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies & Comparative Religion in conversation with author and journalist Sigal Samuel. Thursday, October 14, 2021, 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time RSVP for the event here Did you know that, just like in modern-day America, most people in ancient times believed in angels? Prayers to angels, and