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.
Congratulations to our 2025 winners:
Megan Abbas, Colgate University
Molding Islam from the Outside: Religion and the Cold War in Indonesia
Agnès Desmazières
The challenging journey of South African Catholic women toward racial equality
Rebecca Gould, SOAS University of London
Narrating Catastrophe: Willed and Forced Migration in Islamic Thoughts and History
James Kwateng-Yeboah, Saint Mary’s University
Spirited Mobilities in West Africa
Xu Ma, Lafayette College
Genealogy and Cults of Female Divinity in Early Modern China
Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University
“Making Myself:” Exploring Black Childfree Women’s Experiences of Religion, Family, and Legacy”
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Northeastern University
Queering Orthodox Christianity: LGBTQ+ Religious Worldmaking and Futurecraft
Josefrayn Sánchez-Perry, Loyola University Chicago
Without Superstition: An Unlikely History of the Telpochcalli
William Underwood, Oberlin College & Conservatory
“The Antitheses of Religion: Marx, Materialism, and the Making of American Religious Studies”