Congratulations to This Year’s Winners
We are pleased to announce the 2025 awardees of our November Annual Meeting Travel Grants. AAR hosts three annual travel grant programs:
- Annual Meeting Travel Grants
- Religion and the Arts Travel Grant
- Judith Plaskow Travel Grant
Please join us in recognizing and celebrating these scholars!
The Judith Plaskow Travel Grant
2025 Recipient
Emma Ceruti, University of Toronto, Emmanuel College
Funded in honor of the former AAR president’s influential work in Jewish feminism and Plaskow’s enduring legacy in feminist approaches to the study of religion, the Judith Plaskow Travel Grant is awarded annually to a student or independent scholar who is scheduled to present a paper centrally informed by and/or contributing to feminist approaches to the study of religion at the November Annual Meeting.
The Religion and the Arts Travel Grant
2025 Recipient
Nathan Samayo, Princeton Theological Seminary
Funded through the generosity of Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, the Religion and the Arts Travel Grant is awarded annually to a graduate student studying religion and the arts who is without institutional support to attend the November Annual Meeting.
The Annual Meeting Travel Grant
The Annual Meeting Travel Grant program awards 25 grants on a competitive basis to members who participate in the November Annual Meeting.
2025 Recipients
Abraham Wu, University of Cambridge
Akeem Adagbada
Anabella Martinez, Baylor University
Bhadrajee Hewage, University of Oxford
Chang In Sohn, Graduate Theological Union
Claire Maligot, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose, Italy
David Justice
Faezeh Izadi, University of Calgary
Hilary Scarsella
Isobel-Marie Johnston
Kimerer LaMothe
Madison Lyonhart
Mariangela Carpinteri, University of California, Santa Barbara
Marleen Thaler, University of Vienna
Moina Maaz
Nomenjanahary Mamisoa Rakotomalala, Graduate Theological Union
Riad Ghobrial
Sam Victor
Sarah Nahar, Syracuse University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Shinmyung Kim
Snehashish Das, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Tomoya Fujihara
Valentyna Kuryliak, Ukrainian Institute of Arts and Science
Wesley Biddy, Pentecostal Theological Seminary
Ying Cao, Wycliffe College, TST, UofT