2024–2025 Winner
Kartik Maini, University of Chicago
Research destinations: Kerala, Tamil Nadeu
2023–2024 Winner
Aik Sai Goh, University of Virginia
Research destination: China
2020–2021 Winner
Nisheeta Jagtiani, Northwestern University
Research destination: India
2019–2020 Winner
Michael Ium, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research destination: India
2018–2019 Winner
Eva Rogaar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research destination: Russia
2017–2018 Winner
Aaron T. Hollander, University of Chicago Divinity School
Research destination: Cyprus
2016–2017 Winner
Julie Chamberlain, George Washington University
Research destinations: Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa
2015–2016 Winner
Kyrah Daniels, Harvard University
Research destinations: DR Congo and Haiti
2014–2015 Winner
Elizabeth Anderson, Yale University
Research destinations: Rome, London, and India
2013–2014 Winner
Deanna Womack, Princeton Theological Seminary
Research destinations: Lebanon, Egypt, and Turkey
2012–2013 Winner
Lauren Osborne, University of Chicago Divinity School
Research destination: Muscat, Oman
2011–2012 Winner
Michelle Bakker, Concordia University
Research destination: Kenya
2010–2011 Winner
Mashal Saif, Duke University
Research destination: Sana’a, Yemen and Lahore, Pakistan
2009–2010 Winner
Kathleen Foody, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research destination: Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Tehran, Iran