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Grinnell Course Explores What Makes Life Worth Living

May 05, 2025
Last year, Professor Elias G. Saba received a grant to develop a class that guides students through the process of developing philosophies for a flourishing life.
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Saba Explores the Life of Plants

Apr 04, 2025
A former student inspired Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and History Elias G. Saba to think more deeply about plants.
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Associate Professor Darrius Hills Presents the 2025 Grinnell Lecture

Feb 10, 2025
Hills will present the Grinnell Lecture “The Achievement of Identity: Soul Work, Salvation, and Black Manhood in the Religious Imagination of James Baldwin” — at 11 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 13. The presentation is part of a celebration of our faculty’s collective research accomplishments.
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Saba Awarded ‘Life Worth Living’ Fellowship

Mar 21, 2024
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and History Elias Saba has been awarded a 2024 Life Worth Living Faculty Course Development Fellowship from the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.
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Darrius Hills Awarded Prestigious Fellowship from the Louisville Institute's Sabbatical Grant for Researchers

Feb 20, 2024
The grant will facilitate Hills' year-long sabbatical in 2025, during which he will embark on his second book project titled A Tale of Two Cities: Muscular Christianity and Red Pill Masculinity. The project promises to shed light on the complex intersection of American evangelicalism and contemporary popular culture.
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Planting Seeds of Hope

Apr 17, 2023
On Yom HaShoah, we honor Holocaust survivor and Professor Emeritus Harold Kasimow, beloved teacher and adviser known for his empathy, his understanding, his thoughtful silences, and his kindness.

Darrius D. Hills to Receive $2,850 Grant with the NEH Summer Institute

Apr 04, 2023
Darrius D. Hills, associate professor of religious studies, has been accepted to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute for June 2023.
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Introduction to the Contemporary Roles of Haitian Vodou

Jun 23, 2022
The Haitian Arts Digital Crossroads (HADC) presents Introduction to the Contemporary Roles of Haitian Vodou from 5-7 pm on Monday, June 27,2022 in HSSC *N3110.

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