DECOLONISING THE MUSEUM: ARKOTONG LONGKUMER
“When I was growing up in Kohima, Nagaland, in Northeast India, I heard stories about Rani (queen) Gaidinliu, a woman who lived nearby. People said …
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60 SECOND INTERVIEW WITH SNEHA ROY
Dr Sneha Roy is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. A socio-cultural anthropologist, she is a graduate of Delhi University, Durham, and Wales Trinity St. David. …
SEBASTIAN MOLL READER OF CULTURE
Sebastian Moll’s path has never been conventional. Following studies in Bonn and Lausanne, he first came to Edinburgh for an MTh (2005) on the second …
AMY PLENDER SERVING GRENFELL
Alumna Amy Plender (MA Hons 2015, MTh 2017) is a civil servant who works on the UK Government’s response to the Grenfell Tower fire. “I …
New School Promotional Films
This year the School is working hard to boost recruitment so, we commissioned two new promotional videos, an undergraduate and postgraduate one. The aim of …
New Courses on Old Languages Syriac and Sanskrit
This year, New College launched new courses on two ancient languages with great significance to religious traditions across the world: Syriac and Sanskrit. Dr Salam …
Esther Mombo becomes Honorary Doctorate
In 1994, the Kenyan theologian Esther Mombo arrived in Edinburgh to begin a PhD at the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the …
Mary of Guise
Visitors to New College will be well familiar with the statue of John Knox that looms large in the quad—a memorial that vividly depicts his …
Changing the Prison Service
Our students go on to many different careers. We spoke to Sophie (MA Hons, Theology) about her path from New College to the prison service. …
New College News
Latest updates from around the School. Principal Jack Prof. Alison Jack has been inducted as Principal of New College, succeeding Prof.David Fergusson. Her installation was …
New College Festival
Following their critically acclaimed Winter Tales book festival in 2021, Professors Alison Jack and Jolyon Mitchell welcomed a range of outstanding speakers and writers to the Mound in November 2022 for Books and Belief — a two-day event on the creative range of ways in which writers explore a diverse range of beliefs.
Dr Eric Lewis Williams
New College alumnus Dr Eric Lewis Williams graduated with a PhD in Religious Studies in 2015. Following a first academic appointment at Harvard University, where he was Lecturer in African and African American Studies, his career took a surprising turn when he became Curator of Religion at the Smithsonian.
