{"id":564,"date":"2016-05-20T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religion\/?page_id=564"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:39:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:39:35","slug":"news-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our six 2020 Religious Studies majors!\u00a0 From left to right:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/files\/2020\/05\/2020-Graduates2-revised.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-950 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/files\/2020\/05\/2020-Graduates2-revised-368x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/files\/2020\/05\/2020-Graduates2-revised-368x300.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/files\/2020\/05\/2020-Graduates2-revised-768x626.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/files\/2020\/05\/2020-Graduates2-revised-200x163.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/files\/2020\/05\/2020-Graduates2-revised.jpg 884w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jin Wei<br \/>\nSamuel Glenn<br \/>\nJack McLarnon<br \/>\nLila Patinkin<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bernhardur Magnusson McComish<\/span><br \/>\nLydia Sullivan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/08\/faculty-promotions-tenure-full-professorships\/\">Cynthia Baker Promoted to Rank of Full Professor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2015\/09\/17\/bates-welcomes-new-faculty-alison-melnick-religious-studies\/\">Dr. Alison Melnick Joined the Bates Religious Studies Department, August 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/irh.wisc.edu\/fellows\/ali-akhtar\">Ali Humayun Akhtar Named Kingdon Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2015-2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/11\/with-guggenheim-strong-to-study-western-views-of-buddhist-relics\/\">John Strong Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship 2015-2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/02\/28\/agent-provocateur-thomas-tracy-named-2014-kroepsch-honoree\/\">Professor Thomas Tracy &#8211; 2014 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/11\/10\/marcus-bruce-celebrates-appointment-to-mays-professorship\/\">Professor Marcus Bruce Named First Benjamin Mays Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our six 2020 Religious Studies majors!\u00a0 From left to right:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_hide_page_title":false,"_header_override":"","_template_width_override":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-564","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/564\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}