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 2024 winners:
2024 Individual Research Grant Winners
Alda Balthrop-Lewis, Australian Catholic University
Contemplation in a Broken Nation: Studying Politics with Thomas Merton
Meghan Clark, St John’s University
Catholic Social Teaching Case Study: Global Sisters Vaccination Network & The Principle of Subsidiarity in Practice
Mary Dunn, St. Louis University
The Enfants Trouvés of Quebec: 1800-1845
Isaiah Ellis, The University of Toronto
Apostles of Asphalt: Race, Empire, and the Religious Politics of Infrastructure in the American South
Cesar Favila, University of California, Los Angeles
Divine Eloquence in Spanish Penitential Songs from Franciscan Missionaries
Sarah Luginbill, Trinity University
Material Devotion: Portable Mass Kits, American Catholics, and the World Wars
Alyson Prude, Georgia Southern University
Across the Himalayas, Back from the Dead
Celeste Ray, Sewanee: University of the South
The Cure: Healing Soils, Flora and Fauna at Ireland's Holy Wells
Alexandra Rodriguez Sabogal, Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Dissent Devotions: Religiosity and Sex Work in Twenty-first Century Latin American Literature
Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, LeMoyne College, Syracuse
What Makes Movements Decrying “Gender-Ideology” and Promoting “Gender-Complementarity” Politically Salient in Secular Democracies?
Jeffrey Wheatley, Iowa State University
Religious Fanaticism and Race in Nineteenth-Century US Psychology and Law