Isaac Weiner, professor in the Department of Comparative Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion, and Robin Judd, professor in the Department of History, celebrated their promotion to professor with their joint inaugural lecture, "Constructing Norms, Contesting Boundaries: A Conversation about Community and Scholarship." In this lecture, Dr. Judd and Dr. Weiner engaged each other in conversation about common themes and questions that animate their respective research. Dr. Judd, a historian of modern Jewish life, and Dr. Weiner, a scholar of American religious studies, are both interested in how communities, whether imagined in religious, racial, or national terms, construct and contest norms of practice and identity. In different ways, their research centers particular cases and controversies through which communities have negotiated terms of membership, and each considers how different forms of regulatory and disciplinary power have shaped these exchanges. By offering examples from their research, service and teaching, their joint presentation represented their shared theoretical and methodological influences, not the least of which is a commitment to scholarly collaboration and conversation.
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