Laura Nasrallah, Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, has received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for her next book, “Divination Machines in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Randomness, Meaning, and the Sublunar Condition.”
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Miroslav Volf, Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Center for Faith & Culture at YDS, was featured in Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper for his work on the questions essential to the path of self-discovery.
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Tisa Wenger, Professor of American Religious History at YDS, was named to the 2025–2027 Mentors cohort for Young Scholars in American Religion.
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Khaleelah Harris ’21 M.A.R. appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” to discuss her work co-founding “The Beauty of Our Wellness,” a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting women who are struggling with uterine fibroids.
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Carolyn Streets ‘26 M.Div., a New Haven Public Schools teacher, has been selected as a 2025 Fund for Teachers Fellow and is receiving a grant to study in Tokyo to design a specialized graphic-based novel unit to add to literacy curricula.
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Caroline Blosser ’24 M.Div., Edward Ford ‘25 M.Div., Tanja Helmert ’24 M.Div., and Charissa Lee Yi Zhen ‘26 M.Div. have been named to the 2025 cohort of Clergy & Religious Leaders Fellows by FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics).
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Paul Jeffries ’86 M.A.R., Professor of Philosophy at Ripon College in Wisconsin, is retiring after 19 years at the school.
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Bentley Layton, a distinguished Coptic linguist and scholar of ancient Christianity who taught numerous YDS alums pursuing Yale Ph.D.’s, died on March 26.