E-Bulletin
January 2012
 
 
American Academy of Religion
In This Issue
 

IMPORTANT MEMBER UPDATES

Renew Today for 2012 Membership
A new year means it is time to check your AAR membership status! Renew today for the 2012 AAR membership year or check your status by going to your member Log in page.

Religious Studies News
The January issue of Religious Studies News is published! It contains the Call for Papers for the 2012 AAR Annual Meeting, so be sure to check it out.


ANNUAL MEETING NEWS

Call for Papers Now Available!
The January issue of Religious Studies News is now available at www.rsnonline.org. Inside you will find the 2012 Call for Papers.

Please note that 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.

Annual Meeting Registration and Housing Opens February 6 (TENTATIVE DATE)
Registration and Housing for the 2012 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, will open on Monday, February 6. Register before April 15 to receive the Super Saver discount!

AAR AWARDS NEWS

Religion and the Arts Award: Deadline February 1, 2012
Nominations are being accepted for the Religion and the Arts award, which is presented annually to an artist, performer, critic, curator, or scholar who has made a recent significant contribution to the understanding of the relations among the arts and religions, both for the Academy and for a broader public. Nominees need not be AAR members. Please, no self nominations. To be considered for the 2012 award, nominations must be made by February 1, 2012. For submission requirements and more information, please see here.

Martin E. Marty Public Understanding of Religion Award: Deadline January 25, 2012
To nominate someone for the AAR's Martin E. Marty Award, which recognizes extraordinary contributions to the public understanding of religion by those whose work speaks to the public as well as to scholars, please see here. The deadline for nominations is January 25, 2012.

ACADEMIC ABBY: Professional Advice from Your Colleagues

Do you have a question about life in academe that you are at a loss to answer by yourself but don't feel you can approach your colleagues with it? Ask Academic Abby! Academic Abby is able to answer questions large and small, from dealing with faculty dilemmas, to tenure issues, to work/life balance troubles. Questions can be submitted anonymously through an online form. Members of the AAR Status of Women in the Profession Committee will respond to each question received. The question and answer will be posted on the SWP web page and issues of Religious Studies News.

OTHER NEWS

Peer-Reviewed Syllabi
All of us would pay more attention to what and how we teach if we knew our syllabi are subject to the same scrutiny as our scholarly papers. Syllabus, a new peer-refereed journal, intends to provide an outlet for recognition and support to faculty who excel in teaching. The journal is at http://syllabusjournal.org/. It publishes original course syllabi, essays, and shorter "tool box" entries. All are subjected to blind peer review.

AAR MEMBER NOTES

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.


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Table of Contents
  1. Member Updates
  2. Annual Meeting News
  3. Awards
  4. Academic Abby
  5. Other News
  6. AAR Member Notes

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