Debra Kennard

3 weeks ago | rap.wustl.edu | Kate Lucky |Debra Kennard

The faculty of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis is pleased to announce its new cohort of postdoctoral fellows. The fellowships will begin with the 2024-2025 academic year and are renewable for the following year. Chanhee Heo is a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies (with a minor in History) at Stanford University this summer.

1 month ago | rap.wustl.edu | Kate Lucky |Debra Kennard

My service in the U.S. Senate with Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who died last week, overlapped for 14 years. Toward the end of my career there, just before I went home to Missouri, we were standing on a corner near the Capitol promising that we would stay in touch. Then Al hugged me and said, “Everyone says that, let’s really do it.”And so we did. In the 30 years since, Al and Ann Simpson and Sally and Jack Danforth spent a lot of time together, on the phone when not in person.

Jan 16, 2025 | rap.wustl.edu | Ann Bauer |Debra Kennard

The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis is pleased to share the news that Abram Van Engen has been appointed the next director of the Center effective July 1, 2025. He will also hold the title of Professor of Religion and Politics with this appointment. Van Engen is the Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities and current chair of the Department of English at Washington University in St. Louis.

Sep 12, 2024 | rap.wustl.edu | Marie Griffith |Debra Kennard

The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics seeks applications from junior scholars and recent Ph.D. graduates for up to four postdoctoral fellowships in residence at Washington University in St. Louis. The appointment is for one year, renewable for a second year. Eligible applicants must complete the Ph.D. by July 1, 2025, and are expected to have completed it no earlier than January 1, 2020.

Apr 10, 2024 | rap.wustl.edu | Marie Griffith |Debra Kennard

The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis is pleased to welcome Mark Oppenheimer, who will join the Center as Professor of Practice and Executive Editor of Religion & Politics. Oppenheimer will join the Center on May 28, 2024, and will restart the Center’s online journal, which went on hiatus in May 2023. Religion & Politics was founded in 2012 as a public project of the John C.