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July 1, 2020

As part of our series spotlighting UC Berkeley graduate student research, BCSR recently had the opportunity to sit down with Madeline Lesser, a PhD student in English. Her dissertation is titled “Bad Prophets: the Aesthetics of Uncertainty in Revolutionary England.”

January 1, 2020

As part of our series spotlighting UC Berkeley graduate student research, BCSR recently had the opportunity to sit down with Madeline Lesser, a PhD student in English. Her dissertation is titled “Bad Prophets: the Aesthetics of Uncertainty in Revolutionary England.”

April 1, 2019

An ongoing series on current and recent Berkeley grads working on religion.

An ongoing series on current and recent Berkeley grads working on religion.

[NOTE: This post is best viewed on Medium, where we post longer-form content]

An ongoing series on current and recent Berkeley grads working on religion.

[NOTE: This post is best viewed on Medium, where we post longer-form content]

The second in an ongoing series on current and recent Berkeley grads working on religion.


(Candace Lukasik, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley)

An ongoing series on current and recent Berkeley grads working on religion.

The second in an ongoing series on current and recent Berkeley grads working on religion.


(Candace Lukasik, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley)

An ongoing series on current and recent Berkeley grads working on religion.

December 1, 2018

In mid-August Jason Klocek, a former BCSR grant winner and now Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Global Religion Initiative at Notre Dame, walked us through the aforementioned aspects of his scholarly development, part of his wider journey from coal-town Penn

sylvania to Berkeley, with with stops in Crete, Turkmenistan, and Washington D.C. along the way.

The first in an ongoing series of spotlights on current and recent Berkeley grads working on religion.

[Note: this post is best viewed on Medium, where we will be posting longer-form content.]

January 1, 2018

BCSR is delighted to announce David Marno’s appointment as new co-director. In his research Marno, an associate professor of English, explores the connections between early modern literature and religious practice, with particular focus on the nature and role of prayer in these contexts.