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Professor André Christie-Mizell was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Award from Vanderbilt’s Organization of Black and Professional Graduate Students (OBGAPS).
May. 5, 2015—The OBGAPS award is presented to faculty members for outstanding and sustained efforts in developing and supporting graduate and professional students. The awardee must also have earned a reputation for scholarship and distinguished service to Vanderbilt.
Professor Shaul Kelner receives fellowship from the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan
Jan. 29, 2015—Professor Shaul Kelner will spend Spring 2016 as a Fellow of the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. The Institute’s 2015-16 theme is Secularization/Sacralization. Prof. Kelner will work on a book project that examines the intersections of religion and politics in the Cold War-era movement to secure emigration rights for Soviet Jews....
Professor Richard Pitt receives a sabbatical grant from the Louisville Institute
Jan. 10, 2015—Professor Pitt receives sabbatical funding for his project, Church Planters: Orientations, Opportunities, and Outcomes of Religion Entrepreneurship. For more information: http://www.louisville-institute.org/Grants/ggrantpast.aspx?id=13&year=2015
Professor Dan Cornfield is quoted in Fusion about Immigrant Contributions to Nashville
Nov. 24, 2014—http://fusion.net/story/32719/why-obama-picked-americas-country-music-capital-to-give-a-big-immigration-speech/