News

• Professor Sonia recently delivered a talk at Smith, see flyer below: 

• Professor Singh recently delivered a talk at at the University of Galway and UC Davis, see flyer below:
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Professor Joshua D. Urich 

• Professor Urich delivered a paper entitled “’An Indescribable Feeling that Comes with a Pain in My Chest:’ Digital Affects and Anti-Theism” at the Explaining Atheism conference in Oxford, UK [see image below].
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• “Don’t be Ridiculous!: How Ridicule Turns Social Territory into Religious Maps,” American Examples: New Conversations about Religion, Volume 3, Samah Choudhury, Prea Persaud, and Michael J. Altman eds., Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. (January 2024).

• American Examples: New Conversations about Religion, Volume 4, Candace Lukasik, Joshua D. Urich, and Michael J. Altman eds., Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press (forthcoming, 2024).

Sarah Shimer (major, ’16): Currently, I am working at Berwick Academy, a PK-12 Independent School in South Berwick, Maine, as the school’s Sustainability Coordinator and Science Department Co-Chair. I also teach Upper School Environmental Science electives (Anthropogenic Climate Change, Environmental Chemistry, Global Environmental Sustainability, and Farm to Fork) and serve as a Dorm Parent.

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I think overall, my experience at Colby as a whole prepared me for a career in independent schools, which I plan to continue. I did go on to get a Master’s in Education to help with the pedagogy side of what I do, but the skills I learned as an undergraduate have been integral to my success. And the school I’m currently at has 5 Colby alums, so leveraging those alumni connections has also been useful!

Sonja Hagemeier (major, ’15): I just graduated nursing school in December and I had 2 kids! I now work for UCHealth in Metro Denver on a surgical specialties floor. I live in Morrison, CO. 

Abby Recko (minor, ’25): I am currently working as a Senior Research Technician in a breast cancer lab at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. I live with my friend Tess White, a fellow Religious Studies major! I am working on applying to medical school, hoping to start in 2025. My job and the medical school application are keeping me pretty busy, but I also volunteer with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts, and work as a home health aide on Saturdays.

Hannah Johnson (minor, ’21): One of my favorite fun facts to tell new people is that I was a religious studies minor in college 🙂 I’m currently pursuing my PhD in clinical health psychology at the University of Florida. I’m working on what will become my masters thesis and one of my aims is going to focus on the association of religiosity and spirituality on facilitation and barriers to cancer clinical trial participation. I will hopefully have some more solid data this time next year!

Noa Gutow-Ellis (minor, ’19): Currently, I am finishing my final semester at Cardozo School of Law. Come fall, I’ll work as an attorney through the Immigrant Justice Corps as a Katzmann Fellow at the Central American Refugee Center where I will provide free legal representation to low-income immigrants on Long Island. I spent the past two years as a student attorney in the Immigration Justice Clinic at my law school which concentrates on representing people facing deportation due to some contact with the criminal legal system. We even won a case, reuniting our client with her family and preventing her deportation to Haiti. I find the practice of immigration law deeply meaningful. Although this kind of work was not on my radar while a student at Colby––I went to work at a Jewish history museum after graduating––it has felt like a natural extension of all that I learned and I am thrilled to have landed here.