Fourth-year Francesco Rahe named Rhodes Scholar

Francesco Rahe, Fundamentals and Religious Studies, 2025; 2025 Rhodes Scholar

As a Rhodes Scholar, Francesco plans to pursue a master’s degree in classical Indian religions at Oxford University this fall and is particularly interested in translating Sanskrit texts.

A previous Quad Scholar and College Summer Institute (CSI) Scholar, Rahe is the 55th student from the University of Chicago to receive the honor.

Through his study at Oxford, Rahe hopes to address interreligious divides through his studies. A Catholic himself, he believes that faiths become stronger when put in conversation with each other, and as an avid writer—Rahe is now working on his 13th novel—he feels that literature is one of the most powerful means of creating such conversations.

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