{"id":5690,"date":"2019-09-30T16:21:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T20:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/?page_id=5690"},"modified":"2019-09-30T16:21:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T20:21:05","slug":"two-faculty-fulbrights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2019\/along-the-walk\/two-faculty-fulbrights\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Faculty Fulbrights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Trinity College faculty members\u2014Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies Timothy R. Landry<\/a> and Hobart Professor of Classical Languages Gary Reger<\/a>\u2014have been granted Fulbright awards.<\/p>\n

\"TimLandry is headed to the Africa Regional Research Program to study magico-religious objects used in sorcery in the country of B\u00e9nin. With his 10-month grant, Landry plans to begin his research abroad in fall 2019 and return to campus by fall 2020. In B\u00e9nin, Landry said, a sorcerer is a morally neutral occult expert who uses objects, such as animal remains, to create a wide range of cures, powers, and charms for clients or family members.<\/p>\n

The work Landry will be doing is closely related to the courses he teaches at Trinity, which include \u201cAnthropology of Religion,\u201d \u201cThe Occult in America,\u201d \u201cThe Cradle of Voodoo,\u201d and \u201cReligions of Africa.\u201d He also teaches a January Term course in B\u00e9nin<\/a> called \u201cWest Africa Abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m teaching a new class on magic, sorcery, and witchcraft across the globe, which I designed because of the research I\u2019ve prepared for this project,\u201d Landry said. \u201cI hope my experience is going to enrich my classes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GaryReger will spend four months in fall 2020 at the University of Western Australia in Perth, where he will study deserts. As a scholar with a long-term interest in this subject, Reger said that the grant will help fund the research and writing of a book, provisionally titled History of the Desert<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Reger\u2019s interest in deserts is multifaceted. Because deserts occupy about 30 percent of the land surface of the planet, he said, understanding them is key to understanding the planet as a whole. Also, he said, \u201cDeserts have been the locus for a lot of human activity, including important economic activity and the formation of religious traditions. And desertification is going to be a major component of climate change; we\u2019re already seeing that begin to happen. So a better grasp not just of the science of deserts but of their sociology, their history, and their cultural formation is really going to be crucial to the human future.\u201d This study of deserts connects to Reger\u2019s work in the Greek and Roman world; in spring 2019, he taught a course called \u201cRome in the Desert,\u201d a 300-level history course cross-listed with classical studies.<\/p>\n

Earlier in 2019, Trinity was named as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Top Producing Institution for the 2018\u201319 academic year and was tied with Middlebury College and Colgate University in the number one spot on the list of bachelor\u2019s institutions.<\/p>\n

Read more about Timothy Landry’s research<\/a> and Gary Reger’s research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two Trinity College faculty members\u2014Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies Timothy R. Landry and Hobart Professor of Classical Languages Gary Reger\u2014have been granted Fulbright awards. Landry is headed to the Africa Regional Research Program to study magico-religious objects used in sorcery in the country of B\u00e9nin. With his 10-month grant, Landry plans to begin his research … <\/p>\n

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