Amira Mittermaier’s book, Dreams that Matter, has been awarded the 2011 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion.

Prof. Amira Mittermaier’s book Dreams the Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination, has been selected to receive the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the Analytical-Descriptive Studies category. The award will be presented during the 2011 AAR Annual Meeting In San Franciso, November 19-22.

Prof. Frances Garrett has won a SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops award to host a workshop next spring on “Tibet and the Literary.”

Prof. David Novak has just been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Prof. Ruth Marshall has received a Connaught New Researcher Award for a project entitled “Spiritual warfare: Nigerian Pentecostalism’s mission to North America.”

Prof. Amira Mittermeier has received a Connaught New Researcher Award for a project entitled “The ethics of giving: Islamic charity in contemporary Egypt.”

Doctoral student Eva Mroczek has been offered a one-year Visiting Lecturer position in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Doctoral student Jennifer Bright has won the Julia Ching Award for dissertation research travel in China this coming year.

Richard Last’s paper “Concealed Jesus Tradition in the Letter of James” won the Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society’s 2011 New Testament Student Paper Prize. He presented the paper at the EGLBS’s annual meeting in Richfield, Ohio on March 31, 2011.

Amira Mittermaier was awarded a fellowship at the School of Social Science at the Institute of Advanced Study in New Jersey.

Amira Mittermaier was awarded a SSHRC Standard Research Grant for the project, “The Ethics of Giving: Islamic Charity in Contemporary Egypt.”

Frances Garrett was awarded a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant for a three-year project entitled “Mapping an Epic: Religion and Healing in Inner Asia.”

Lindsay Macumber was awarded the Auschwitz Jewish Centre Fellows Program: A Bridge to History, through the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC. The trip consists of a three day orientation in NYC, and then three and a half weeks through Poland, including visits to Warsaw, Krakow, Lodz, and Auschwitz. The program runs from June 26-July 20, 2011.

Ben Wood has been awarded the 2010 Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Canada Scholarship for a year-long period of study in Japan.

Matthew King was awarded a Lotus Scholarship from the Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation for scholarship on Buddhist Studies.

Callie Callon has been awarded the Joachim Jeremias graduate student essay prize, awarded by the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies. This is a highly competitive award, and her achievement speaks well for the level of her scholarship. The prize will be awarded at the Annual Meeting of the CSBS in May at the University of New Brunswick, where she will also present the paper.

Ph.D. candidate Sarah Rollens received the Connaught Scholarship and the Naim S. Mahlab Scholarship, she published a review of The Myth of the Lost Gospel by E. Powell in Review of Biblical Literature (2009), and she presented “The Representative Potential of the Q Document” at the New Orleans SBL.

Ph.D. candidate Dianna Roberts won the T. and B. Simpson OGS Doctorate fellowship and the Israel and Golda Koschitsky Fellowship in Jewish Studies.

MA student Shanifa Nasser-Sunderji was awarded a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship, the U of T Kathleen Coburn Graduate Admission Award, and an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined).

Ph.D. graduate Jonathan Crane has been hired in a full-time position as Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought at the Center for Ethics at Emory University.