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 2024 grant recipients!
Abel K. Aruan, Villanova University
Mukabumi Resource Center for Religion, Ecology, and Coloniality
Kathryn Barush, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University and the Graduate Theological Union
Sacred Journey as an Integrative Healing Ritual
James Bielo, Northwestern University
Collaborator: Heidi Campbell
Secondhand Religion: The Public Exhibition of Divested Religious Material Culture
Patricia Bonilla, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Sacred Playlists: Love, Laughter, and Controversies
Micki Burdick, University of Pennsylvania
Collaborators: Risa Cromer and Lea Taragin-Zeller
Religion & Reproductive Politics Public Pedagogy Project
Monica A. Coleman, University of Delaware
Podcast on Black Religious Pluralism
Lachlan Davis, University of Divinity
Texts Behind the Text: Understanding the Sources Behind the Bible
Brian Flanagan, New Ways Ministry
Collaborator: Brian Doyle
The Popecast – Public Scholarship on the History and Theology of the Papacy
M. Cooper Minister, Shenandoah University
Believing in Cure: Drawing on Personal Experience and Theories of Secularism to Illuminate the Role of Medicine in Our Collective Imagination
Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Building Online Action Resources for the Book Series “Building a Moral Economy”
Bradley Onishi, University of San Francisco
Collaborator: Lloyd Barba
Sanctuary: On the Border Between Church and State
Shirley Paulson, independent scholar
Collaborators: Deborah Niederer Saxon, Samuel Zinner, Tony Burke, Celene Lillie, Hal Taussig, Natalie Perkins, and Lē Isaac Weaver
A Free Public Online Course Introducing Nag Hammadi and Related Texts
Leslie Polk, Union Theological Seminary
Dialogues with Katie: A Stage Play Production Examining Womanist Thought on Memory as Resistance
Tiffany Puett, Institute for Diversity and Civic Life
Religions Texas Podcast Series
Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara
Collaborator: Vesna Wallace
Buddhist Traditional Arts and Technologies Past and Present
Ana María Rodríguez Alfonso, Emmanuel College Of Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Unveiling Trauma: A Video Podcast on Understanding and Healing Trauma
Eddie A. Rosa Fuentes, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
De-Generad*s After Hours: Taboos en Pelotas
Alejandra Salemi, Duke University
Healing Theology: Exploring the Intersection of Public Health and Religion through Public Education Podcasts
Rachel Schneider, Rice University
Race, Religion, and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Jason Sexton, University of California, Los Angeles
Collaborator: Testimony Ministries
Amid Hope and Redemption: Taking Stock of the Religious Roots of Mass Incarceration’s Eugenic Logic
Michael Sheehy, University of Virginia
What is Contemplation?: A Blog Interview Series
Paride Stortini, Ghent University
Remembering Restless Souls: What a Japanese Buddhist Temple Can Tell about Modern Sex Workers Migration in Asia
Lis Valle-Ruiz, McCormick Theological Seminary
Collaborators: Mayuko Yasuda, Immanuel Karunakaran, Seyo Oh
International Theological Per/Versions