Student Clubs
Basketball Team: Div Devils Intramural Basketball
Folk Traditions Club
Folk Traditions celebrates the lore and traditions of your place of origin, and of this place where we all find ourselves. We hold a dinner and regional ghost story swap around Halloween where we share the uncanny stories popular where we're from. Around the end of fall quarter, we go wassailing around the neighborhood. Winter and spring quarter events are different every year, but have included singing labor movement songs and putting on a Purim spiel. If you have an idea for a club activity, let's talk!
Leaders: Natalie Nitsch
Mortarbordis Border Morris
Founded in 1925, the Div Devils are the long-running Divinity School intramural, co-ed basketball team. We play in the winter term intramural league against other graduate departments. This team welcomes players of any and all skill level, including those who have never played organized or disorganized basketball - we skew toward the latter.
Leaders: Jake Sirota
Mortarbordis carries on and updates the ritual folk tradition of Border Morris, a dance form that involves skipping, sticks, handkerchiefs, and bells. We learn and perform traditional and original dances in this tradition on campus and around Chicago. Although historically this tradition has reflected and reinscribed historical social hierarchies, our aesthetic is egalitarian and inclusive, and we enthusiastically welcome all interested in learning to dance!
Leaders: Natalie Nitsch
Divinity Writing Group
A weekly writing group that meets in Swift Hall. The purpose of this group is to create community, especially among PhD students and candidates who are in the post-course work phase of their program, though Div student of any program are welcome to join. This group provides space for writing and helps foster community for accountability and encouragement.
Leaders: Kat Myers