Events

2020 Annual Meeting

Your AAR staff continues to work toward holding the Annual Meeting in Boston, Nov. 21-24, 2020. We are aware of the uncertainty and contradictory projections related to the COVID-19 pandemic and with health and safety as a priority, we will continue monitoring the guidance of governments and health experts as we plan and make decisions. Should any changes need to be made related to the 2020 Annual Meeting, we will promptly notify you.

2020 Regional Meetings

Open Registration:

All remaining regional meetings for 2020 have been canceled

Academy Fund Contributors

Fiscal Year 2017

The American Academy of Religion gratefully acknowledges the following contributors to the Academy Fund. Contributions to this fund support Annual Meeting travel grants, international dissertation research fellowships, other international initiatives, new programs, and the general operations of the Academy. For more information about supporting the work of the AAR, please see here.

The following list reflects donations received from July 2016 through June 2017. Thank you!


Visionary
Gifts of $500 and above

Anonymous
Warren G. Frisina
Louis  Ruprecht
Robert Wilson-Black
Glenn Yocum

Benefactor
Gifts from $250 to $499

Barbara DeConcini
Eugene V. Gallagher
Greg Hoenes
Michael McCurry
Mary McGee
Robert C. Neville
Peter J. Paris
Riess W. Potterveld
Jeffrey Stout

Patron
Gifts from $100 to $249

Scott C. Alexander
Rebecca Alpert
Carol S. Anderson
David S. Blix
Whitney Bodman
John Borelli
Helen Boursier
Susan Power Bratton
Rita Brock
Kimberly Rae Connor
Maria T. Davila
Nathan Eric Dickman
Jualynne E. Dodson
Martha L Finch
Fred Glennon
Alan Godlas
Luis A. Gonzalez
Garrett Green
Natalie Gummer
Juliane Hammer
Roger Hatch
Jess Hollenback
Amir Hussain
Mary Jo Iozzio
Mark Juergensmeyer
Patricia O'Connell Killen
Doug King
Michael Muhammad Knight
John N. Langfitt
Bruce Lawrence
Jennifer S. Leath
Kristen Lucken
Michael B. Lukens
Rachel Fell McDermott
Thomas J. McElligott
John McGreevy
Richard McGregor
Julie Miller
Diane L. Moore
James Moseley
J. Diane Mowrey
Vasudha Narayanan
Gordon D. Newby
Carl Olson
John T. Pawlikowski
Kusumita P. Pedersen
Brian K. Pennington
Rebecca Todd Peters
Vicki Cass Phillips
Bill Pitts
Wayne Proudfoot
Mikal Austin Radford
Darby Ray
Martha Reineke
Kathleen M. Sands
Richard N. Stewart
David T. Stewart
Ronald Stone
Winnifred Sullivan
Shinichi Takeda
Beth Taylor
Deanna A. Thompson
Emilie M. Townes
Judith Weisenfeld
Courtney Wiley-Harris
Edward Wimberly
David O. Woodyard
Yohan Yoo
Laurie Zoloth

Advocate
Gifts from $50 to $99

Ivan Abrahams
Jeffrey Adams
Sebastien Bakatuinamina
TA Bashir
Whitney Bauman
Donna Bowman
Kent Brintnall
Bernadette Brooten
Malcolm Clark
Charles Conway
Kay Mooney Cox
Emily Erwin Culpepper
Sharon Davis
Corinne Dempsey
Danielle Dempsey
Erin Marie Diericx
Gary Dorrien
Joseph D. Driskill
Eric Dubuis
Michael Eric Dyson
William W. Elkins
James L. Empereur
Edward J. Enright
Millicent Feske
Gretchen Freese
Robert Geraci
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
Naomi R. Goldenberg
Luis Gonzalez-Reimann
Clifford Green
R. Marie Griffith
William David Hart
Susan E. Hill
Teresia Mbari Hinga
Bradford E. Hinze
Barbara A. Holdrege
Clyde holler
Robert Hughes
Charles B. Jones
Catherine Keller
Pintu Kumar
Pui Lan Kwok
Sarah Heaner Lancaster
Emmanuel Lartey
Laura S. Levitt
Michael Lodahl
Nancy M. Martin
sandry matondo
Mark A. McIntosh
Alan G. Meyers
Merrill P. Miller
Robert C. Monk
Leslie A. Muray
Nicholas O'Connell
Rodger Payne
Philip H. Pfatteicher
Regina Pfeiffer
Stephen G. Ray
Gene Reeves
Tyler T. Roberts
Rosetta E. Ross
William Russell
Richard S. Sarason
William Schweiker
Vera Shevzov
Angela Sims
C. Peter Slater
Frederick M. Smith
Jacqueline I. Stone
Steven Vose
Traci C. West
Raymond Whitehead
Preston N. Williams
Tyanna Yonkers
Willie Young
Woncheol Yun

Friends and Contributors
Gifts up to $50

Susan Abraham
Esther Acolatse
Ineda Adesanya
Afe Adogame
Mehnaz Afridi
Emem Agbiji
Abubaker Ahmed
James W. Albers
Michelle Alexander
Anastasia Alexandros
Stephen Angell
Maria Antonaccio
Tom Armbruster
Ellen T. Armour
Clayton Ashton
Charles Atkins
Nancy Ault
Hina Azam
Martha Jean Mugg Bailey
Stephanie Basford
Matthew Beach
Tom Beaudoin
Evan Berry
Vincent Biondo
Heather Blair
Kathryn Blanchard
William L. Blizek
Christine M. Bochen
Donald Brash
Frank Burch Brown
Sid Brown
Christopher Brugh
Robert A. Bruttell
Sharon Peebles Burch
Leah Buturain Schneider
José I. Cabezón
Vincent Calvetti
Eileen Campbell-Reed
Katie G. Cannon
Amy Carr
Guy C. Carter
Lisa M. Cataldo
Vincent Cesarani
Colin Chalmers
Mark A. Chancey
M. Alejandro Chaoul
Marianne Chen
James M. Childs
Min-Ah Cho
Dolores L. Christie
John Cibotti
Christopher Cimorelli
David Clairmont
Shannon Clarkson
Barbra R. Clayton
Terry Cooper
Rosemary R. Corbett
Nancy H. Corcoran
Concepcion Corotan
S. David Cox
Dwayne Craig
Leonard Curry
Robert J. Daly
John Davenport
Rebecca David-Hensley
Jennifer Davidson
Stephen T. Davis
Iris De La Rosa
Matthew Deen
Adarsh Deepak
Jessica Delgado
Fritz Detwiler
Andrew Dole
Robert E. Doud
Jamil Drake
Mary Duerksen
Arvin Eballo
R. Daren Erisman
Ken Evers-Hood
Massimo Faggioli
Gertrude Fester
Bruce L. Fields
Savannah Finver
Gavin Flood
Jim Fodor
Shannon Frediani
Mary McClintock Fulkerson
Sheila Gallagher
Guillermo Garcia
Nathan Garcia
K. Healan Gaston
William P. George
Paul R. Gilliam
Ann Gleig
Shoshana Razel Gordon
Ari M. Gordon
June-Ann Greeley
William Greenway
John A. Grim
Katie Grimes
Rosalind I. J. Hackett
Isabella Hall
Jaco Hamman
Roy Hammerling
John T. Hardie
Ryan Harper
Kim Harris
Melanie  L. Harris
Gregory Havrilak
Diana L. Hayes
Douglas Hedley
Phyllis Herman
Lisa M. Hess
Ken Holder
Susan T. Hollis
Michael Hoonhout
Nancy R. Howell
Benjamin J. Hubbard
Krista E. Hughes
Thomas Hughson
Massimo Introvigne
Ronald Ivey
Morgan Jackson
Greg Johnson
David L. Johnston
Isobel Johnston
Katherine Janiec Jones
Margaret D. Kamitsuka
Linda Kawentel
Laurel D. Kearns
Mary Keller
Sung-Hae Kim
Mari Kim
Nami Kim
Natasha Klukach
Nico Koopman
Heikki J. Koskinen
Simangaliso R. Kumalo
Kristen E. Kvam
Terri Laws
Brian Lee
Mikael Leidenhag
John K. Leonard
Todd T. Lewis
Reid Locklin
Christo Lombard
James J. Londis
Jeffery D. Long
Sudabee Lotfian
David Lowell
Sonja Luehrmann
John Lyden
Nathan Lyons
Shaul Magid
Jeffrey H. Mahan
William K. Mahony
Gerard Mannion
John J. Markey
Heather R. Martin
Alfred Warren Matthews
John W. Matthews
H. John McDargh
Barbara A. McGraw
Michael McNally
Joyce Ann Mercer
Ian Mevorach
Barbara Meyer
Gordon S. Mikoski
Grant Miller
Amy S. Miller
Sharon Murphy Mogen
Paul D. Molnar
Robert Montgomery
Rebecca Moore
Marili Moore
Charlotte Moore
Raymond T. Moreland
Sarah Morice Brubaker
Lucinda Mosher
Roland Mullins
Mary Catherine Munroe
Stephen R. Munzer
Ronald Y. Nakasone
Daniel Nava
Mary Kaye Nealen
Lawrence Nelson
Rowshan Nemazee
Thomas A. Noble
Marcella Norling
Sally Norris
Vivian-Lee Nyitray
David Odell-Scott
Thomas Oord
Malachy Osunwa
Peter Oulton
Jon Pahl
Jungwoo Park
Anne Parker
Lorena Parrish
Mary Pearson
Ibrahím Pedriñán
Martyn Percy
Ted Peters
Jonathan Petty
Chad Pevateaux
Lauren F. Pfister
Tina Pippin
Annabella Pitkin
Geoffrey Pollick
Ellen Posman
Janice Poss
Ute Possekel
Brian Powers
David Powers
Christopher Queen
David Quinter
Timothy Rainey
Daniela Lucia Rapisarda
Virginia Kaib Ratigan
John Reardon
Jenna Reinbold
Yuan Ren
Bryan S. Rennie
Norman Richardson
Kurt Anders Richardson
W. Mark Richardson
Laura Viktoria Richter
Cynthia Rigby
Diane E. Riggs
Philip Boo Riley
Susan A. Ross
Robert Russell
Taunalyn Rutherford
Melva L. Sampson
Kerry San Chirico
Makiko Sato
Elizabeth A. Say
Jame Schaefer
Jalane D. Schmidt
Mary  L. Schneider
Christine C. Schnusenberg
Wolfgang Schuerger
David Schultenover
Marla Segol
Masahiro Shimoda
Anonymous
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt
David Simonowitz
Helene Slessarev-Jamir
Jay Smith
Andrew Smith
Yushau Sodiq
Savoy Stevens
M Richard Stevens
Ken Stone
David Stowe
Max Strassfeld
Michael F. Strmiska
Nelson Strobert
David Stubbs
Henrik Syse
Alvaro Tejada
Kizzy Thomas
Glory J. Thomas
Curtis L. Thompson
Chris Tirres
Deberniere Torrey
Jonathan Tran
Jeffery L. Tribble
Theodore Trost
Norma Turner
Jakub Urbaniak
Benjamin Valentin
Luco J. van den Brom
Nelly van Doorn-Harder
Ken Vandergriff
Karen Nelson Villanueva
Katharina von Kellenbach
Michael J. Walsh
Michelle A. Walsh
Kathleen Walsh
Diana Walsh-Pasulka
Janet Walton
David H. Warren
Alan J. Watt
John Wells
J. Kendrick Wells
Heather White
Stacy Williams-Duncan
Andre Willis
Jonathan Wilson
Charles Wilson
Colleen Windham-Hughes
Margaret Withgott
Connor Wood
Laurie Wright Garry
Hongyu Wu
Sakena Young-Scaggs
Zhang YunYan
Penny Ziemer


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