http://www.aarweb.org/programs/grants/Research/2006-2007winners.asp

2006-2007 Research Grant Winners

Collaborative

Edward E. Curtis, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Revisiting Black Gods of the Metropolis: African American Religions in the Twentieth Century

Collaborators:

  • Stephen W. Angell, Earlham School of Religion
  • Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Harvard University
  • Clarence E. Hardy III, Dartmouth College
  • Kelly Eileen Hayes, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
  • Sylvester A. Johnson, Florida A&M University
  • Kathryn Lofton, Reed College
  • Omar M. McRoberts, University of Chicago
  • Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini College
  • Carolyn Moxley Rouse, Princeton University
  • Nora Lynne Rubel, Connecticut College
  • Danielle Brune Sigler, Austin College

Rebecca Sachs Norris, Merrimack College
Religious Games and Toys: Exploring the Serious Side of Play

Collaborator:

  • Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State University

Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University
The Spirit of Empire

Collaborators:

  • Néstor Míguez, Instituto Superior Evangélico de Estudios Teológicos
  • Jung Mo Sung, Methodist University of Sao Paulo

Individual

Linda L. Barnes, Boston University School of Medicine
Chinese Religious Healing in America: A Social History, 1849-2004

Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University
Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine

Heidi Campbell, Texas A&M University
Exploring How Religiosity Shapes Media Use & Interaction in a Global Information Society in Israel

Frances Garrett, University of Toronto
Organization and Analysis of Digital Editions of Tibetan Religious and Medical Histories

R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University
Holy Sex: Christians and the Sexual Revolution, from the Kinsey Reports to True Love Waits

Karline McLain, Bucknell University
Envisioning Hinduism: Raja Ravi Varma and the Visual Canon

Donald S. Prudlo, Jacksonville State University
The Anti-Heretical Efforts of Peter of Verona: An Investigation into the Lived Religion of the Medieval Italian Laity

Megan H. Reid, University of Southern California
Judging Race and Religion: Pierre Crabites and African American Muslims in Early Twentieth-Century Cairo

Sufia Mendez Uddin, University of Vermont
Speaking the Same Language: Muslim and Hindu Veneration of Bonbibi

Archana Venkatesan, St. Lawrence University
Embodying Memories: Performance and Ritual Culture at the Vishnu Temple of Alvar Tirunagari, South India

Michael J. Zogry, University of Kansas
Playing or Praying? The Cherokee Anetso Ceremonial Complex and the Performance of Cultural Identity

 

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