Every year, the AAR awards individual research grants, ranging from $500 to $5,000, to support important aspects of scholarly projects, such as field work and travel to archives and libraries. These projects are proposed by AAR members and selected by the AAR Research Grants Jury.
2021–2022 Individual Research Grant Winners
Natalya Cherry, Brite Divinity School - Texas Christian University
John Wesley: A Single Life in Communities
Nathanael Homewood, Rice University
Finding Benny Hinn: Global Entanglements in Pentecostal Faith Healing
Janna Hunter-Bowman, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Beyond Sanctuary
Monique Ingalls, Baylor University
Gospel Music Goes to Uni: Musical Navigations of Religious Affiliation and Social Identity in British University Gospel Choirs
Cristina Lledo Gomez, BBI - The Australian Institute of Theological Education
A babae theology: Embracing an indigenous maternal-feminist hermeneutic for migrant Filipinas
Jennifer Ortegren, Middlebury College
New Neighbors, New Muslims: Gender, Class, and Community in Contemporary India
Jodie Vann, Dickinson College
Paeons to a New Age: The 1987 Harmonic Convergence and Contemporary “Spiritual, but not Religious” Tourism in Yucatan, Mexico
Wei Wu, Emory University
Buddhist Modernism in China’s Heartland