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Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Seth Schermerhorn and Lecturer in Religious Studies Meredith Moss presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), which took place in Boston in November.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies, S. Brent Plate, recently gave invited presentations at several international venues.

Jesse Browner-Hamlin '07, who majored in religious studies and Hispanic studies at Hamilton, works at Q Prime, an artist management company in New York City.

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek S. Amar published a book titled Archaeological Gazetteer of Gaya District which he co-authored with Dr. B. K Choudhary. (pub. K.P. Jayaswal Research Institute, Ministry of Education, Govt. of Bihar, India).

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Rodriguez Plate recently published a new edition of Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World.

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek Amar presented a paper titled 'Telhara: What Does It Mean to be a Buddhist Megamonastery in the Early Medieval India,' at the 18th congress of International Association of Buddhist Studies, held at the University of Toronto.

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Seth Schermerhorn recently published “Global Indigeneity and Local Christianity: Performing O’odham Identity in the Present” as a chapter in the Handbook of Indigenous Religion(s).

Film-induced pilgrimages have become a research interest of Brent Plate, visiting associate professor of religious studies. His essay, “When Do Moviegoers Become Pilgrims?” was published at theConversation.com and reprinted in several media outlets, including Time.com.

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Seth Schermerhorn recently published a review of Upward, Not Sunwise: Resonant Rupture in Navajo Neo-Pentecostalism in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal.

Grant Kiefaber ’19, is spending most of his summer researching how Muslim refugees have integrated into the city of Utica, N.Y., near College Hill. So far finding people to interview has been a challenge, albeit a tasty one.