Dr. Kenneth Keulman, the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, has been named the new holder of the Provost Distinguished Professorship II.

This professorship was established by Keith Jacobs, a Loyola University New Orleans Professor of Psychology, who named the university as his beneficiary, and this gift—along with a matching grant from the Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund Endowed Professorship Program—created three endowed professorships.

The first individual to hold the Provost Distinguished Professorship II was Sandra Rosenthal in the Department of Philosophy. Dr. Bernard A. Cook was the second professor invested with this honor. Keulman's award makes the fourth distinguished professorship held by faculty in the Department of Religious Studies, including Dr. Robert Gnuse (the James C. Carter, S.J., Bank One Distinguished Professorship of the Humanities,) Dr. Denis Janz, (the Provost Distinguished Professor of the History of Christianity,) and Dr. Catherine Wessinger (the Reverend H. James Yamauchi, S.J., Professor of the History of Religions.)

Religious Studies is also proud to count amongst its faculty Father Edward Vacek, S.J., Ph.D., the first Reverend Stephen J. Duffy Chair in Catholic Studies.

Update: Read details about the investiture ceremony here: http://www.loyno.edu/news/laag/20140228/5028?utm_source=LAAG&utm_medium=...