With funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Luce-AAR Advancing Public Scholarship Grant program provided grants to support scholars of religion working to engage publics in innovative ways, through projects designed for presentation in public spaces and outreach through publicly accessible sites. The grant program consisted of four grant cycles: 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
Congratulations to the 2025 grant recipients!
SeyedAmirHossein Asghari
Understanding Religion and Ethics: A Persian-Language Lecture Series for Interreligious Engagement
Anna Bigelow, Stanford University
Collaborator: Karen Barkey
Mapping Shared Sacred Sites: Conviviality, Competition, and Collective Life Beyond the Mediterranean and South Asia
Kimberly Carfore, University of San Francisco
Wild Women Podcast: Engaging Ecofeminist Theology in the Public Sphere
Olufemi Gonsalves Knight
Women, Murder, and the Bible
Lauren Griffin, Louisiana State University
Louisiana History in Sacred Spaces
Anna Hennessey, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
Rebirth Tunnel Immersive Art Installation
Richard Jankowsky, Tufts University
Collaborators: Anna Kijas, Kaylen Dwyer, Matthieu Hagene
At-risk Black Tunisian Musicians and the Promise of Ethnographic Digital Humanities
Rasul Miller, University of California, Irvine
Collaborator: Fatima Siwaju
In The Shadow of Malcolm X: Islam and the Black Tradition A Transatlantic Dialogue and Workshop
Devan Stahl, Baylor University
Collaborator: Tyler Gibb
Marked by Faith: The 1950s Blood Type Tattoo Experiment and Its Bioethical Echoes
David Swartz, Asbury University
Rebel on Main: A Kentucky County Reckons with Faith, Memory, and Its Confederate Statue