06/16/2026
What's on a Hebrew Bible scholar's summer reading list? Jeffrey Stackert, the Caroline E. Haskell Professor of Hebrew Bible, has two picks in The University of Chicago News's roundup from this year's teaching award winners.
First, Allegra Goodman's 'Intuition': "I love academic novels, and Allegra Goodman's 'Intuition' is better than most." The novel follows the ambitions and uncertainties of a cancer research lab.
Second, Professor Emeritus Bruce Lincoln's 'Secrets, Lies, and Consequences,' a murder mystery that reflects soberly on the twentieth century's worst political offenses. It revisits the 1991 assassination of Ioan Culianu in Swift Hall, and Lincoln taught himself Romanian just to write it.
Check out the full list: news.uchicago.edu/story/what-read-during-summer-2026
06/12/2026
At Convocation on June 5, we recognized this year's student prize and fellowship winners during the Hooding and Pinning Ceremony at Rockefeller Chapel. Their work this year reached from the Greek of the New Testament to contemporary Jewish prayer, from interfaith exegesis to the future of congregational life. These awards celebrate scholarship, teaching, ministry, interfaith engagement, and writing across the Divinity School. Congratulations to all of our 2026 recipients. See the full list: https://divinity.uchicago.edu/news/divinity-school-honors-2026-student-prize-winners
06/04/2026
"Quick: name the most accomplished fictional scholar to teach at Swift Hall."
The new edition of 'Criteria' is out, and if you read one thing this week, make it Will Schultz's reflection on Martin Gardner, 'The Flight of Peter Fromm,' and what Swift Hall has meant to American religious history.
It starts with a trivia question about the most accomplished fictional scholar ever to teach here. It ends somewhere much more personal.
https://divinity.uchicago.edu/news/flight-american-christianity
06/04/2026