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Religious Studies Professor Jennifer Glancy, Ph.D. was recently awarded a highly competitive summer stipends award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to pursue a new project, “The Ancient Christian Understanding of Slavery and Contemporary Discourse on the Meaning of Being Human.” She will spend the next two months drafting a chapter of a yet-to-be-named book that bridges two subjects that are more closely aligned than many may think. At stake both in the ancient world and in contemporary discourse is whether humanity is a quality in which all humans fully participate, or whether humanity is a precarious quality that can be squandered or stolen.

Dr. Glancy was recently named the Rev. Kevin G. O’Connell Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities, and has been honored in the past as the Rev. Msgr. A. Robert Casey Teacher of the Year and the Rev. Richard M. McKeon Scholar of the Year. Read more about the award and Dr. Glancy here.

All summer stipends applications are evaluated by peer review panels and by the National Council on the Humanities. This year more than 800 applications were received, and only 8 percent were funded. Read the NEH release here. (Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this project do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.)