The Religion Department is featured in this 51 Magazine article under V for Volunteered.
Fourteen students in Professor Georgia Frank’s Love, God & Sexuality course volunteered with Millay Arts, a nonprofit that offers multidisciplinary artists’ residencies, to compile a digital database of the organization’s alumni. “I wanted to develop an alternative to the thesis-driven or analytic essay and give students a chance to discover collaboratively how humanities students can provide research that’s immediately helpful to nonprofits,” Frank says. This project, Millay Lab/Savage Beauty Squad, utilized the public humanities aspect of the course and allowed students to conduct research on how a person builds a life as an artist. “Although I am a historian of ancient religion, collaborating with students on this 21st-century project has been transformative for my own research,” Frank adds. Most recently, she penned the forthcoming book Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity with Penn Press.
Students are encouraged to find other volunteer opportunities by visiting the Max A. Shacknai Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education (COVE)