Annual Meetings 2012 Chicago, November 17–20: Call for Papers now available! See the January issue of Religious Studies News for the 2012 Call for Papers.

The new Program Administration, Proposal, Evaluation, Review, and Submission (PAPERS) System will open by Monday, February 13. The deadline for proposal submissions is Monday, March 5.

Registration and Housing for the 2012 Annual Meeting in Chicago is scheduled to open Monday, February 13. Register before April 15 to receive the Super Saver discount!

Regional Grant Winners Announced! Congratulations to the winners.

Several regional meetings have opened online registrations. Check the Regions page for more details.

Entries to the AAR's Journalism Contest for articles published in 2011 are now being accepted. Deadline is February 29.

Individual Research Grant Winners Announced! Congratulations to the winners.

The December issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion is published.

The January edition of Religious Studies News is now available.

Do you have a problem you don't feel comfortable bringing to your colleagues? Ask Academic Abby about what's bugging you right now.

"Out of Many: Religious Pluralism in America," a NEH Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges Program
Attention Community College Faculty! The Newberry Library invites applications from teams of 2-4 faculty members with sponsoring administrators from the same community college campus or system to participate in a year-long program focused on researching and designing new curriculum that integrates the study of religious pluralism into humanities teaching. Application deadline is March 23.

Introducing Sustaining and Supporting Memberships!
Let your partially tax-deductible membership support your professional guild.

Solicitation for the second ACLS Public Fellows program is underway. The program was launched last spring to demonstrate the value of employing skilled and accomplished young scholars in a variety of capacities, thereby broadening the academy’s conventional ideas of the PhD career path.

Awards
Lisa Cataldo, Fordham University
Recipient of the Stephen A. Mitchell Author's Award, granted by the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, for the outstanding paper submitted by a psychoanalyst who has been out of training for five years or less.

Scott M. Kenworthy, Miami University
Awarded the 2010 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History for his book The Heart of Russia: Trinity-Sergius, Monasticism, and Society after 1825, Oxford University Press, 2010.

Rodger M. Payne, University of North Carolina, Asheville
Participated in a Fulbright-Hays summer seminar for university faculty exploring religious diversity in Morocco and Tunisia during the summer of 2011.

Books and Major Publications
Guy L. Beck, Tulane University
Sonic Liturgy: Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition. Studies in Comparative Religion. Frederick M. Denny, Series Editor. University of South Carolina Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-61117-037-5.

Ellen Blue, Phillips Theological Seminary
St. Mark's and the Social Gospel: Methodist Women and Civil Rights in New Orleans, 1895-1965. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, November 2011. ISBN 1-57233-821-0.

Lucy Bregman, Temple University
Preaching Death: The Transformation of Christian Funeral Sermons. Baylor University Press, Oct. 2011.

Fabrizio M. Ferrari, University of Chester
Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia. Disease, Healing and Possession. London and New York: Routledge, 2011, ISBN: 0415561450.

Talya Fishman, University of Pennsylvania
Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures. University of Penn Press, 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4313-0.

Laura M. Hartman, Augustana College
The Christian Consumer: Living Faithfully in a Fragile World. Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 0199746427.

Anne E. Patrick, Carleton College
Women, Conscience, and the Creative Press: 2009 Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality. Paulist Press, July 2011, ISBN 978-0-8091-4706-9

Grace Yia-Hei Kao, Claremont School of Theology
Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World. Georgetown University Press; paperback ISBN: 9781589017337; eBook ISBN: 9781589017603; March 2011.

Career Transitions
Richard Heyduck, Wiley College
Appointed Assistant Professor of Religion at Wiley College.

Grace Yia-Hei Kao, Claremont School of Theology
Recently became the first person of Taiwanese descent as well as the first Asian American female to be awarded tenure at Claremont School of Theology.

In Memoriam
Sarah Hammond, College of William and Mary
Dr. Hammond passed away November, 2011. She was a professor of American religious history and a 2009 Lake Doctoral Dissertation Fellow at Indiana University. A tribute to Dr. Hammond, with links to other tributes, can be found at Religion Dispatches.

AAR Member Notes: Let your AAR colleagues know about your professional milestones. Member Notes are published monthly in the AAR e-Bulletin. Recent Member Notes may also be found on the Member Notes page.