2021-2022 Winners
Stephen Covell, Western Michigan University
Holy Waters: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Religion and Alcohol
Collaborator:
Zachary Smith, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
Rosalind Hinton, Independent Scholar
Resilient Matriarchs of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians:
Unpacking African Women Theologies for Gender Justice
Collaborators:
Teresia Hinga, Santa Clara University
Esther Mombo, St. Paul's University, Limuru, Kenya
Telesia Musili, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Sara Swenson, Dartmouth College
Lived Karma: Situating Interbeing in Society
Collaborators:
Susanne Ryuyin Kerekes, Skidmore College
Jessica Xiaomin Zu, University of Southern California Dornsife
2020–2021 Collaborative Research Grant Winners
R. Ward Holder, Saint Anselm College
Race and Theology: Perspectives from Tanzania and the United States
Collaborator:
Cynthia Holder Rich, Tumaini University Makumira, Arusha, Tanzania
2019-2020 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
2018-2019 Winners
Eric Hoenes del Pinal, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Mediating Catholicism: A Symposium on Global Catholic Media Practices
Collaborators:
Marc R. Loustau, College of the Holy Cross
Kristin Norget, McGill University
2017-2018 Winners
Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds
Queering, Decolonizing, Religionizing: African, Queer and Religious Studies at the Crossroads
Collaborators:
Kwame Edwin Otu, University of Virginia
Rose Mary Amenga-Etego, University of Ghana
2016–2017 Winners
Leslie Orr, Concordia University
Making Heaven on Earth: A Preliminary Study of the Nava Tirupati Temples in South India
Collaborators:
Archana Venkatesan, University of California, Davis
Crispin Branfoot, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, United Kingdom
Anna Seastrand, University of Chicago
Vera Shevzov, Smith College
God and the Gulag: Religion and "Ultimate Questions" in Post-Soviet Russia
Collaborator:
Katya Tolstaya, Vrije Universitiet, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2015–2016 Winners
Edward Curtis IV, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Islamic Religious Practice in the United States
Collaborators:
Danielle Widmann Abraham, James Madison University
Muna Ali, Arizona State University
Rose Aslan, California Lutheran University
Rosemary R. Corbett, Bard College
Maria F. Curtis, University of Houston-Clear Lake
Magfirah Dahlan-Taylor, Craven Community College
Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Marcia K. Hermansen, Loyola University
Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
Michael Muhammad Knight, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hussein Rashid, Hofstra University
Jackleen M. Salem, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2014–2015 Winners
Whitney A. Bauman, Florida International University
Mapping the Field of Religious Studies
Collaborator:
Robert N. Puckett, American Academy of Religion
2013–2014 Winners
John Corrigan, Florida State University
How Do We Study Religion and Emotion?
Collaborators:
Diana Fritz Cates, University of Iowa
Anna Gade, University of Wisconsin at Madison
M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University
June McDaniel, College of Charleston
Sarah Ross, Universität Bern
Donovan Schaefer, Haverford College
Linda Woodhead, Lancaster University
Mark Wynn, University of Leeds
2012–2013 Winners
Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology
Ahimsa, Jains, and the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan
Collaborators:
Brianne Donaldson, Coordinator for the Dharma Traditions, Claremont Lincoln University
Dilip Shah, JAINA (The Federation of Jain Associations in North America)
Sulekh Jain, International School for Jain Studies (ISJS)
Tracey E. Hucks, Haverford College
Religious Vocabularies of Africa: Obeah, Orisa, and Identity in Trinidad
Collaborator:
Dianne M. Stewart Diakité, Emory University
2011–2012 Winners
No collaborative grants awarded.
2010–2011 Winners
No collaborative grants awarded.
2009–2010 Winners
Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University
Contours of Sunni Traditionalism
Collaborator:
Jonathan A.C. Brown, University of Washington
Todd Whitmore, University of Notre Dame
Faith Under Fire: The War Testimony of Lay Leaders in Northern Uganda
Collaborator:
Rev. Dr. Joseph Okumu, Director of The Catechist Training Center Archdiocese of Gulu, Uganda
2008–2009 Winners
Whitney Bauman, Florida International University
Inherited Land: The Changing Grounds of Religion and Ecology
Collaborators:
Rick Bohannon, St. John’s University
Kevin O’Brien, Pacific Lutheran University
Gereon Kopf, Luther College
Ethics of Memory and Politics and Commemoration: The Case of the Nanijing Massacre
Collaborator:
Yuki Miyamoto, DePaul University
Winnifred Sullivan
Re-Describing the Sacred/Secular Divide: The Legal Story II
Collaborator:
Robert A. Yelle, University of Memphis
2007–2008 Winners
Adele Reinhartz, University of Ottawa
Heart (Transplant) and Soul: How Movies Mediate Meaning
Collaborator:
Sam Shemie, University of Ottawa
2006–2007 Winners
Edward E. Curtis, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Revisiting Black Gods of the Metropolis: African American Religions in the Twentieth Century
Collaborators:
Stephen W. Angell, Earlham School of Religion
Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Harvard University
Clarence E. Hardy III, Dartmouth College
Kelly Eileen Hayes, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Sylvester A. Johnson, Florida A&M University
Kathryn Lofton, Reed College
Omar M. McRoberts, University of Chicago
Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini College
Carolyn Moxley Rouse, Princeton University
Nora Lynne Rubel, Connecticut College
Danielle Brune Sigler, Austin College
Rebecca Sachs Norris, Merrimack College
Religious Games and Toys: Exploring the Serious Side of Play
Collaborator:
Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State University
Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University
The Spirit of Empire
Collaborators:
Néstor Míguez, Instituto Superior Evangélico de Estudios Teológicos
Jung Mo Sung, Methodist University of Sao Paulo
2005–2006 Winners
Georges Dreyfus, Williams College
A Web-Based Study of Drepung Monastery
Collaborator:
David Germano, University of Virginia
Tomoko Masuzawa, University of Michigan
Modernity, University, the Science of Religion: History of the Study of Religion in Japan, 1877–2000
Collaborator:
Jun’ichi Isomae, Japan Women’s University
Colleen McDannell, University of Utah
Catholics in the Movies
Collaborators:
Robert Sklar, New York University
Lary May, University of Minnesota
Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College
Thomas Ferraro, Duke University
Paula Kane, University of Pittsburgh
Anthony Smith, University of Dayton
Theresa Sanders, Georgetown University
Jeffrey Marlett, College of St. Rose
Carlo Rotella, Boston College
Peter Gardella, Manhattanville College
James Fisher, Fordham University and Curran Center for American Catholic Studies
Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University
Amy Frykholm, Colorado Mountain College
Timothy Meagher, Catholic University of America
Darryl V. Caterine, LeMoyne College
2004–2005 Winners
No collaborative grants awarded.
2003–2004 Winners
Jonathan R. Herman, Georgia State University
From Tao to Dialogue: Martin Buber's Encounter with Laozi
Collaborator:
Maurice Friedman, San Diego State University
David G. Hunter, Iowa State University
Ambrosiaster, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles
Collaborators:
Stephen A. Cooper, Franklin and Marshall College
Theodore de Bryun, Ottawa, Ontario