Congratulations to the 2019-2020 Research Grant Winners!
To fulfill its commitment to advance research in religion, the AAR each year grants awards ranging from $500 to $5000 to support projects proposed by AAR members and selected by the AAR Research Grants Jury. The research projects can be either collaborative or individual.
2019-2020 Winners
Collaborative Research Grant Winners
Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University
What’s Going On?: Conversations on the Religious Dynamics of Black Popular Culture
Collaborator:
Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University
Sufia Uddin, Connecticut College
Dwelling in the Sundarbans: Identity through sense of place, religion, and work
Collaborator:
Madeline Blount
Individual Research Grant Winners
Sophie Bjork-James, Vanderbilt University
Religion and Opposition to Organized Racism in the Northwestern United States
Michel Chambon, Hanover College
Spring Couplets and the Materialization of Chinese Christianity
Emily Clark, Gonzaga University
Spiritual Matters: American Spiritualism and Material Culture
Brian A. Hatcher, Tufts University
Where have all the Giris gone? The rise and fall of a monastic network in Bengal
Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis
The Henry McNeal Turner Project
Breanna J. Nickel, Augustana College
Balthasar Hubmaier’s Expulsion of the Regensburg Jews
Valerie Stoker, Wright State University
In Charisma’s Wake: Writing the Early History of the Mādhva Brahmin Movement
Luke Whitmore, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Ecology, Post-Secularism, and Cosmopolitics in the Central Indian Himalaya
Rebecca Wollenberg, University of Michigan
God’s Monograph: Medieval Jewish Reading Practices and the Emergence of Modern Judaism
Visit the Individual and Collaborative Research Grant pages for more information.