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The American Academy of Religion held its Southeast regional meeting March 1-3 at the College of Charleston with ������Ƶ faculty and students from ������Ƶ’s Department of Religious Studies offering presentations during the gathering.

Professor Rebecca Todd Peters presented “Beyond the Abortion Imaginary” in the Ethics section; Associate Professor Ariela Marcus-Sells presented “A New Vision” for Teaching Islam in the Pedagogy section; and Assistant Professor Andrew Monteith presented “Eugenics, Religion, and Biological Theories of Morality” in a joint History of Christianity/Religions in America section.

Five ������Ƶ students who are part of the Multifaith Scholars program at ������Ƶ presented papers from their undergraduate research including: Ashley Burnett whose paper, “Creation and Curation: The Narrative of Festival Culture” was mentored by Lecturer Kathleen Crosby in the English Department; Claire Przybocki whose paper “Catholic Nationalism and Muslim Migrants in Poland” was mentored by Professor Brian Pennington; Bethany Marzella whose paper “Between Conflict and Coexistance: Intra-Islamic Relations in Iraq” was mentored by Associate Professor Sandy Marshall in History and Geography; Jasper Serenity Myers whose paper “’Honestly, I wish I were dead’: On Death, Desire, Divine Inspiration, and Sappho’s Poetic Perversion of Eros” whose co-mentored by Professor Kristina Meinking in Classical Studies and Professor Lynn Huber in Religious Studies; and Daniel Scheff whose paper “Mirror, Mirror: Srivaishnava Women’s Reflections of Self Through a 9th Century Hindu Saint” was mentored by Professor Amy Allocco.

Jasper Serenity Myers, double-major in Religious Studies and Classical Studies received the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Paper award for her paper on Sappho’s poetry which included original translations.