In the Media
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.
- Nancy Fraley ’93, famed distiller and noser, featured in Higher Ground
- David Kline contributes article on religion and race in America to the Daily Beacon special issue on Religion
- Major Abigail Brennan and Dr. Randy Hepner featured in new documentary on religious minorities in the Bible Belt
- Faculty present talks at Anti-Nazi Teach-In: Fascism’s Past & Present
- Dungan lecturer Diane Winston interviewed on WUOT
- Erin Darby interviewed on US move to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli capital
- Megan Bryson featured faculty on college’s Instagram
- Department launches new podcast series of visiting speakers
- Mark Hulsether blogs on his Fulbright conference in Ottawa
- Rosalind Hackett speaks in webinar on religious persecution for the joint Public Scholars Project of the AAR and the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute
- 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
- Landry Austin’s Speech at the 2017 Awards Ceremony
- Megan Bryson interviewed for PRI’s The World on death of author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Helene Sinnreich article on “White House Press Secretary Mangles Holocaust History” (The Commercial Appeal, Sunday, April 16, 2017)
- 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
- Department of Religious Studies Retirees Paying It Forward
- Rosalind Hackett featured in Faculty Appreciation Week
- Erin Darby interviewed on WATE TV about Arab Fest 2016
- Mark Hulsether reviews The Last Puritans
- Tina Shepardson’s research on history of religious violence featured in Higher Ground
- Sarah Dees blogs on her Religion in Museums class
- 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
- Jack Love publishes letter in Knoxville News-Sentinel on homosexuality in the Bible
- 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