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CSR Spring Award Recipients

2024-2025 Student Award Winners

At the April 22 end-of-year celebration, the Humanities Institute's center directors announced their award winners for the academic year. Undergraduate and graduate students were present to…

Apply to the Visiting Scholars Program

CSR Visiting Scholar Program – Call for Applications 

Visiting Scholar – Call for Applications

The Center for the Study of Religion at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce the continuation of our short-term visiting scholar program.

Patrick Dunn

Patrick Dunn Named 2025 Iles Award Winner

Congratulations to our 2025 Iles Award winner, Patrick Dunn. His project, We Are Not Alone: UFO Myth in the Anthropocene, explores the interplay of mythic and technoscientific forces in the modern…

Savko Award Winners Announced

Winners of Savko Undergraduate Paper Award Announced

Congratulations to Justina Sung and Seth Conklin, who have been selected as co-recipients of the Center for the Study of Religion’s Savko Award for Best Undergraduate Paper. Justina and Seth were…

People Directory

Postdoctoral Scholar, Mershon Center
Ph.D. Student, Department of Comparative Studies
Ph.D Candidate, Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures
Graduate Research Associate, Center for the Study of Religion