Religious Studies

2025 Faculty Award Winners Recognized for Outstanding Achievement

September 30, 2025

The College of Arts & Letters honored its Faculty Award Winners at the 2025 College of Arts & Letters Faculty and Staff Welcome Reception on Sept. 29 at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center. These faculty members were recognized for their outstanding leadership, teaching, innovation, and community engagement, as well as the significant impact they have made in enhancing curriculum and student experiences.

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M.A. Program Allows Graduate Student to ‘Double Down’ on What She Loves

September 26, 2025

Katie Paauwe, a student in the M.A. in Nonprofit Leadership, Global Cultures, and Social Enterprise program at Michigan State University, worked in various office management, human resources, and sales coordination positions before deciding to go back to school to earn a master’s degree.

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Religious Studies Professor to Explore Her Artistic Side as a KBS Artist-in-Residence

June 12, 2025

Blaire Morseau started doing beadwork 20 years ago, first learning how to create on a loom and then teaching herself beaded embroidery. Her beaded creations even helped pay her rent when she was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico. Morseau is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University and an 1855 Professor of Great Lakes Anishinaabe Knowledge, Spiritualities, and Cultural Practices at MSU.

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First MSU Faculty and Alum Selected for Artists-in-Residence Program at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station

May 28, 2025

Michigan State University’s College of Arts & Letters will be well represented this year among the Farmscapes to Forests: Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological Research Artists-in-Residence Program. The 2025 artists-in-residence…

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First Cohort of Students Graduate from M.A. in Nonprofit Leadership, Global Cultures, and Social Enterprise Program

May 8, 2025

The first cohort of M.A. in Nonprofit Leadership, Global Cultures, and Social Enterprise students graduated this month from Michigan State University. Launched in Fall 2023, the M.A. in Nonprofit Leadership, Global…

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New Major: Nonprofit Leadership, Religion, and Social Change

May 2, 2025

Through academic study, experiential learning, community engagement, and applied research, Nonprofit Leadership, Religion, and Social Change (NRSC) undergraduate students will develop into interculturally competent, caring professionals interested in community-based change…

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Congratulations to the First Cohort of MA Graduate Students in the Nonprofit Leadership Online Programs!

May 2, 2025

We are excited to share that the first cohort of master’s students from the Nonprofit Leadership Online Programs will be graduating this Spring! After two years of rigorous coursework, engagement,…

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Lecture Series Showcases Strong Connection Between Religious Studies and MSU Libraries’ Special Collections

January 30, 2025

Religious Studies faculty will discuss how the MSU Libraries' Special Collections informs their teaching and research as part of the Collecting Religion Lecture Series offered this semester. Hosted by MSU…

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Religious Studies Alum Awarded Prestigious International Fellowship

January 21, 2025

Mustafa Syed, a Michigan State University alum who graduated in Summer 2024 with a B.A. in Religious Studies, has been named a Schwarzman Scholar and will join an elite group of future global leaders selected from around the world for this prestigious graduate fellowship program. He is MSU’s second Schwarzman Scholar in the 10-year history of the award.

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Tracing the Roots of Indigenous Science Fiction and Futurisms in America

November 18, 2024

A photo of a Star Wars stormtrooper that hangs in Blaire Morseau’s home epitomizes both her childhood passions and current research pursuits. The photo appears in a frame with a unique Southwest design, a favorite find bought from a Native artist when Morseau was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico. Now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University and an inaugural 1855 Professor of Great Lakes Anisshinaabe Knowledge, Spiritualities, and Cultural Practices...