http://www.aarweb.org/Programs/Grants/Research/2008-2009winners.asp

2008-2009 Research Grant Winners

Collaborative

Whitney Bauman, Florida International University
Inherited Land: The Changing Grounds of Religion and Ecology

Collaborators:Rick Bohannon, St. John’s University;
Kevin O’Brien, Pacific Lutheran University

Gereon Kopf, Luther College
Ethics of Memory and Politics and Commemoration: The Case of the Nanijing Massacre

Collaborator: Yuki Miyamoto, DePaul University

Winnifred Sullivan
Re-Describing the Sacred/Secular Divide: The Legal Story II

Collaborator: Robert A. Yelle, University of Memphis

Individual

Thia Cooper, Gustavus Adolphus College
Theologies of Immigration: Faith and Practice in Brazilian-American Community

Margaret Cormack, College of Charleston
Saints in Icelandic Placenames and Folklore

Susan Ross, Loyola University Chicago
Exploring Global Feminist Theologies in a Postcolonial Space: A Learning and Research Immersion Project for Feminist Graduate Students and Post-Graduates from Africa to the US

A.Whitney Sanford, University of Florida
Gandhi’s Environmental Legacy: Food Democracy and Social Movements

Caroline Schroeder, University of the Pacific
From Ascetic Ingenue to Jephthah’s Daughter: Children and the Representation of Children in Early Christian Monasticism

Laura Stivers, Pfeiffer University
Making a Home for All in God’s Compassionate Community: A Feminist Liberation Assessment of Christian Response to Homelessness and Housing

Liz Wilson, Miami University
Buddhist Gender Matters: The Sexed Lives of Celibate South Asian Buddhist Saints

 

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