Congrats to Dartmouth 🌲 professor Randall Balmer, who was awarded the American Academy of Religion's 2024 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion! 🎉 American Academy of Religion ➡️ bit.ly/49S1bIQ

Remember to sign up for this webinar happening Monday, April 29, from Reading Religion: 'How to Write a Compelling Book Review.' Register here and now! aarweb.org/AARMBR/Events-…

Congratulations to Randall Balmer, the 2024 recipient of AAR's Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion! Read more about his long and distinguished record of public scholarship on religion and politics: ow.ly/3Wzw50Rpehq

Thanks so much American Academy of Religion! I'm super excited to use this grant for travel to the Thomas Merton Center and to William Melvin Kelley's papers at Emory University. It's for a project on Thomas Merton's reading in the politics of the 1960s, and I can't wait to get to the archives!

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Congratulations to William Robert, professor and chair of Religion @SyracuseU, who recently received the 2023 Religion and the Arts Book Award from American Academy of Religion for his book, 'Unbridled: Studying Religion in Performance' 📚 #WorldBookDay

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Our 2024 call for committee and jury nominations is now open! Take a look at which committees and juries have open positions and nominate yourself or someone else by June 10, 2024: ow.ly/civ950RaLWm

Our Judith Plaskow Travel Grant program awards $500 and complimentary November Annual Meeting registration to a student/ind. scholar presenting a paper informed by/contributing to feminist approaches to the study of religion. Tomorrow is the app deadline: ow.ly/fVb350QRk1S

Tomorrow is the deadline to apply for our Religion and the Arts Travel Grant program which awards a graduate student studying religion and the arts up to $1,500 to defray travel costs associated with attending the AAR November Annual Meeting. Apply now! aarweb.org/AARMBR/AARMBR/…

Happy #EarthDay ! Explore resources on the intersection of the environment, climate change, and sustainability with the #humanities through our newly updated Environmental Humanities Scholarly Resource List: bit.ly/36csPFI

Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger reviews 'Singing the Goddess into Place' by Caleb Simmons. SUNY Press
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Time is running out to apply for our Annual Meeting Travel Grants program which awards $500 and complimentary registration to this year's November Annual Meeting. Only AAR members can apply so renew or join now! Tomorrow, April 23, is the deadline: aarweb.org/AARMBR/AARMBR/…

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For Religious Studies News, Kristian Petersen interviews Rhiannon Graybill on her AAR award-winning book, 'Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible.' Read or listen now: ow.ly/tVGL50R6Vb5

#AnnualMeetings | Registration for both our Annual Meetings - the Online June Sessions and the in-person November Annual Meeting (co-hosted with SBL) - is now open! Register for both and save $40: mailchi.mp/aarweb/2024-am…

Calling all journalists! The deadline for our Journalism Awards has been EXTENDED until May 6, 2024. To get an idea of what work wins and the criteria for entering, read more on our website: ow.ly/FPp750QK7EW

In RSN, read an interview between AAR's 2023 Excellence in Teaching Award Winner, Emily Gravett, and Nichole Phillips, chair of AAR's Committee on Teaching and Learning: ow.ly/uP8q50Reem1

Calling all journalists! Our Journalism Awards are now open for submissions until April 15, 2024. To get an idea of what work wins and the criteria for entering, read more on our website: ow.ly/FPp750QK7EW

Make sure to register for the latest webinar from AAR's Academic Relations Committee happening on Tuesday, April 16 at 3 PM ET: 'Retooling Graduate Education in the Study of Religion' ow.ly/Ffg650ReeAa

From webinars to grant and proposal deadlines to regional meetings, there's a lot happening in April. Don't miss out on these opportunities: ow.ly/6BJy50RaM7b

Our WebinAAR 'AI’s Impact on Teaching and Research' from AAR's Academic Relations Committee is now available for replay! AAR members can watch the full video at the link contained in the video description: vimeo.com/933324999?shar…