Winter 2018 New Comparative Religion Course for Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Students! JSIS 578 C – Special Topics: Cross- Cultural Religious Literacy https://jsis.washington.edu/maais/overview/courses/descriptions/#5782 JSIS 578 C – Special Topics: Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy  Mondays, 9:30a-12:20p 5cr Chris Seiple Finding solutions to global challenges demands different perspectives, as well as partnerships among individuals and institutions who do

Sasha Mariel  was a Comparative Religion Program MAIS graduate, who finished our program the Spring of 2016. Since leaving the University of Washington, Sasha  has enrolled in a MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Virginia. This year Sasha has received a funded fellowship from TENT: Creative Writing at the Yiddish Book Center,

This upcoming autumn Jonathan Wegner will  begin his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School. His area of concentration will be in the Jewish and Christian Bible. Areas of interest and tentative research include cosmic/imagined religious spaces, the role of spatio-geographic discourse in drawing religious boundaries between Jew and Pagan, and subsequently Christian