The Research Grants Jury has selected the 2026 AAR Individual Research Grants and the AAR Collaborative Research Grants
Congratulations to the 2026 winners:
AAR Indivdual Research Grants
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.
Iqbal Akhtar
The East-West Foundation/Florida International University
The Cosmic Muhammad: Recovering a Lost Mystical Tradition for Islamic Pluralism
Mary Channen Caldwell
University of Pennsylvania
Singing Conversion in Medieval Europe
Nermeen Mouftah
University of Illinois, Chicago
The Muslim Orphan Paradox: Scenes of Care and Abandonment
Qingyue (Sherry) Pan
University of Michigan
Castrated Devotion: Palace Eunuchs and the Religious Production of Power in Late Ming
Samiha Rahman
California State University, Long Beach
Black Muslim Freedom Dreams: An Ethnographic Film of the Sights, Sounds, and Spiritual
Practices in a Senegalese Sufi City
AAR Collaborative Research Grants
The AAR awards collaborative research grants, ranging from $500 to $5,000, to stimulate cooperative research among scholars who focus on collaborative interdisciplinary work with scholars outside the field of religion. These projects are proposed by AAR members and selected by the AAR Research Grants Jury.
Leonard McKinnis
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Candace Lukasik
Mississippi State University
Project: The Idea of Diaspora in the Study of American Religion.
Tulasi Sriniva
Emerson College
Marko Geslani
University of South Carolina
Project: Ritual Revisions: New Directions in Ritual Studies