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Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social · 20d

It’s great to see students thinking about this.

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AI Defeats the Purpose of a Humanities Education | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

While Harvard apparently worries that its educational programming is losing rigor to grade inflation and lax attendance norms, it can start making a difference by curtailing a problem in part of its o...

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Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social · 22d

My article, “Outposts in the Wilderness: Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media, 2004-2024” is out with Religion and American Culture.

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Outposts in the Wilderness: Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media, 2004–2024 | Religion and American Culture | Cambridge Core

Outposts in the Wilderness: Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media, 2004–2024

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Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social · 27d

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Christianity at the Crossroads | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social · 27d

Delighted to see David Hempton’s book, Christianity at the Crossroads, out in the world. I was a research assistant several years ago for his Gifford Lectures, on which this book is based.

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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · Sep 8

Virginia Tech, the University of Oregon, Indiana University have all proposed cuts to religious studies programs. Why?

Why Religious Studies Is in Trouble

As colleges plan to make cuts, departments in this field are finding themselves on the chopping block.

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · Aug 27

“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?

Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages

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Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social · Aug 21

It’s on the syllabus! I agree it’s a fantastic chapter.

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Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social · Aug 21

My Celebrity course is reading it this fall!

Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social · Aug 16

We read presidential addresses in one of our required PhD courses as well. We also read some of the award-winning books in the field of the last year.

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Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social · Aug 15

Haha! Next time, celibacy and charisma.

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Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social · Aug 14

I’m excited to teach my new course, “Celebrity and Charisma in American Christianity,” this fall at Harvard Divinity School!

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The Anxious Bench @anxiousbench.bsky.social · Jul 18

The Scopes trial turns 100 this month. Kelsey Hanson Woodruff writes about the legacy of the Scopes trial in Dayton, TN, and how one resident, Rachel Held Evans, tried to push evangelicalism beyond Young Earth creationism's culture war battle lines.
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Rachel Held Evans And The Specter Of Scopes In Dayton

For Rachel Held Evans, living in Dayton, Ohio--of Scopes Trial fame--was a way to combat the legacy of fundamentalism in evangelicalism.

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Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social · Jun 20

This was a great interview, Amanda! I enjoyed hearing more about your intellectual journey.

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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · Jun 9

More than 12,000 Harvard alumni, 21 state attorneys general, and two dozen universities, including five Ivy League schools, filed or plan to file amicus briefs backing Harvard in its court battle with the Trump administration, court records showed.

21 state attorneys general, multiple universities, alumni to back Harvard in court battle against Trump - The Boston Globe

Two dozen universities, including five Ivy League schools, plan to file an amicus brief, including six that joined the coalition in a filing Monday, court records show.

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Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social · Jun 8

Congrats!

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Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social · May 23

My international colleagues contribute to the excellent research and the intellectual vibrancy of the university. This is an attack on every classroom, seminar room, and laboratory at Harvard. It is an attempt to dismantle America’s higher education system at large.

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