Since many of our faculty members do media interviews and pieces for various publications, the department is proud of this branch of our activities and would like to share them with you. Please feel free to look over the media items below.

• Stephen Hay, from Greeneville, Tennessee, built a standout Vol experience double majoring in English and Religious studies
• Religious Studies major Abby-Ann Ramsey Recognized as a 2024 Torchbearer
• Religious Studies major Evan Shannon Receives 2024 Commission for Disability Undergraduate Student Award 
• David Kline contributes article on religion and race in America to the Daily Beacon special issue on Religion
• Dungan lecturer Diane Winston interviewed on WUOT
• Erin Darby interviewed on US move to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli capital
• Megan Bryson and students in Method and Theory class write piece on Defining Religion for Daily Beacon
• Mark Hulsether interviewed on denominationalism for Daily Beacon
• Rosalind Hackett traveled to DC to advocate for the humanities
• UT lecture to discuss religion in Hindi cinema
• Interview with Helene Sinnreich by Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
• Erin Darby interviewed on WATE TV about Arab Fest 2016
• Mark Hulsether publishes four online essays in Religion Dispatches and Sacred Matters
• Tina Shepardson interviewed by Ancient Jew Review on her latest book
• Darby dig findings in Jordan featured in Tennessee Today
• Rachelle Scott interviewed on WUOT about Buddhist ghosts in Thailand
• John Hodges discusses his book, Delta Fragments, at Southern Festival of Books on C-Span
• UT Professors Help Unearth Roman Fort in Jordan
• Erin Darby interviewed on WUOT about her dig in Jordan
• Emeritus Associate Professor John O. Hodges publishes Delta Fragments: The Recollections of Sharecropper’s Son with the University of Tennessee Press
• Gilya Schmidt publishes “What a Beautiful World–So Why Do We Insist on Destroying it?” in Dharma World
• Mark Hulsether published “We Do Not Need to Live Like Rats Fighting for Scraps” in Dharma World
• Rosalind I. J. Hackett publishes “Traditional, African, religious, freedom?” in the Immanent Frame
• Megan Bryson lectures on Zen Buddhism and the Arts of Japan exhibit at McClung Museum