With funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Luce-AAR Advancing Public Scholarship Grant program provides grants to support scholars of religion who are working to engage publics in innovative ways, through projects designed for presentation in public spaces and outreach through publicly accessible sites.
Congratulations to the 2023 grant recipients!
Mae Cannon, Churches for Middle East Peace
Collaborator: Jennifer Maidrand, Drew University and Churches for Middle East Peace
Equipping Young Leaders: The Next Generation of Peacebuilders in Israel/Palestine
Buki Fatona, University Of Oxford, UK
Phil-Sci-Theo: a docuseries exploring topics in the intersect of philosophy of science and religion
Tuve Floden, Independent Scholar
Interviewing Religion: Bringing Scholars of Middle Eastern Religions to New Audiences
Sawyer French, University of Chicago
Collaborators:
Amrina Rosyada, Northwestern University
Ali Ilham Almujaddidy, Gadjah Mada University
Afifur Rochman Sya’rani, Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University
Dian Adi Marianto, Indonesian Art Institute
Eliesta Handitya, Independent Researcher
The Suryakanta: An Indonesian-Language Review of Books
Andrew Housiaux, Phillips Academy Andover
Collaborators: Chenxing Han, Independent Scholar
Listening to the Buddhists in our Backyard
Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Georgetown University
Writing Shia Ismaili Muslim Women into Community History
Heather Mellquist Lehto, Harvard Divinity School
Children’s Picture Books for Religious and Cross-Cultural Understanding
Younus Mirza, Georgetown University and Shenandoah University
The Islamic Mary: Maryam through the Centuries
Kristian Petersen, Old Dominion University
Muslim Cinema Chronicles
Elinor Pierce, Harvard University
Documentary Research and Production: A Bridge Over Hell’s Creek
Dennis Saavedra Carquin-Hamichand, University of Denver and the Iliff School of Theology
Can Embracing Hopelessness Lead to Suicide Prevention?
Dheepa Sundaram, University of Denver
Hindutva Explained: Creating public-facing digital materials for teaching about Hindu
Nationalism
Jayne Wilcox, Independent Scholar
Collaborators:
Kim Chung Hu, Grace Covenant Church
Kris Anne Swartley, Doylestown Mennonite Church
Jennifer Johnson, Johnson University
SHEcclesiology — Girls Talking Church Podcast: Advocating for Women as Public Theologians