Dr. Peter Kaufman, professor of leadership studies at the University of Richmond, will speak to Samford University religion and University Fellows students Thursday, Oct. 7, on the topic, “Hamlet’s Religion.”  The 3:45 p.m. program in Brock Forum of Dwight Beeson Hall is open to the public.

Dr. Kaufman was professor of history and of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 29 years before joining Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies in 2008.  He holds the George Matthews and Virginia Brinkley Modin Chair in Leadership Studies.

He is the author of four books and numerous scholarly articles on medieval and reformation studies and the fathers of the early modern Christian church and their writings.