Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Associate Professor of Religion
Prof. Naomi Koltun-Fromm selected by NEH to attend summer institute
Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Associate Professor of Religion, has been selected from a national applicant pool to attend one of 17 summer study opportunities supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Endowment is a federal agency that each summer supports seminars and institutes at colleges and universities so that teachers can work in collaboration and study with experts in humanities disciplines.
Professor Koltun-Fromm will participate in an institute entitled “Holy Land and Holy City in Classical Judaism, Christianity, and Islam”. The five-week program will be held at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (U.K.) and directed by Professors Irven M. Resnick (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) and Jeremy Cohen (Tel Aviv University).
Topics for the 17 seminars and institutes offered for college and university faculty this summer include narrative theory; works by Homer, Shakespeare, and Yeats; the literature of Equatorial Guinea; Russian and Soviet visual culture; Confucianism and virtue ethics; the Holy Land in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; St. Francis of Assisi; the medieval Mediterranean; Jewish culture in Venice; the United States in global perspective; the American civil rights movement; and the cultures of India, ancient Rome, the Andes, and Appalachia. The approximately 375 participants in these studies will teach over fifty thousand American students the following year.
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