Tola Rodrick (Dual PhD, 2021, Religious Studies and History) accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She has also been awarded an American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Short-Term Research Grant for the 2024-2025 fellowship year for a research project entitled “The Philosophical Heritage of Late Ancient Egyptian Monasticism: Identity, Gender, and Social Construction.”