Francesco Rahe

Biography

Francesco P. Rahe, Hillsdale, is a senior at the University of Chicago where he majors in both Religious Studies and Fundamentals: Issues and Texts. While at the University of Chicago, Francesco founded Critical Understandings of Liturgies and Traditions, or C.U.L.T., which is the university's first student organization devoted to fostering inter-faith discourse and overcoming religious intolerance. Francesco wrote his first novel at the age of nine and is actively working on three, one of which is a retelling of the Iliad. He is proficient in six languages, including Sanskrit, Persian, German, Biblical Hebrew, Latin and Arabic. At Oxford, he hopes to pursue an MPhil in Classical Indian Religion.