2022-2023 Winners
Susannah Crockford, University of Exeter
Stephen Christopher Johnson, University of Copenhagen
Ioannis Gaitanidis, Chiba University
Business Spirits: Contested Terrains of Trade Models and Religious Value
Jeremy Farrel, New York University Abu Dhabi
Nizar Habash, New York University Abu Dhabi
Antonio Musto, New York University
Giovanni DiRusso, Harvard University
One Language, Many Paths: Modeling Epistemological Claims about God in a Corpus of Arabic Texts from the 9th–10th centuries CE using Natural Language Processing
Robert Geraci, Manhattan College
Yong Sup Song, Youngnam Theological University & Seminary
Cross-cultural Religious Values and the Development of Ethical AI
Sonia Hazard, Florida State University
Elizabeth Cecil, Florida State University
Birgit Meyer, Utrecht University
Daniela De Simone, Ghent University
Material Ecologies: Indigeneity, Objects, and Environments in the Study of Religion
2020-2021 Winners
Rahimjon Abdugafurov, Emory University
Sherzod Eraliev, University of Helsinki
Donohon Abdugafurova, Emory University
Migrant Religiosity: Uzbek Muslims in Moscow and New York
Michael Ostling, Arizona State University
Kateryna Dysa, National University of Kyiv
Hab. Katarzyna Kotyńska, Polish Academy of Sciences
Łukasz Hajdrych, Polish Academy of Sciences
Translating the Early Modern Devil into and out of Polish: (Mis)Understanding Preternatural Beings across Time and Space
Siniša Zrinščak, University of Zagreb
Laura R. Olson, Clemson University
Marko Veković, University of Belgrade
Democracy from behind the Altar: Social and Political Values of Clergy in the Post-Conflict Balkans
Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University
Majid Daneshgar, University of Freiburg
Edward Said in Religious Studies: North America and the Middle East
Reid B. Locklin, University of Toronto
Mara Brecht, Loyola University Chicago
Anne M. Carpenter, St. Mary’s College of California
Darren Dias, University of St. Michael’s College
Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer, Australian Catholic University
Mary Beth Yount, Neumann University
Lonergan in the Post-Colony American Academy of Religion
Florence Pasche Guignard, Université Laval
Pascale F. Engelmajer, Carroll University
Giulia Pedrucci, University of Verona
Sucharita Sarkar, D.T.S.S. College of Commerce
Beyond Mother Goddesses: New Directions for International Scholarship on Motherhood in Religious Studies
2019-2020 Winners
Garry Sparks, George Mason University
Saqijix Candelaria Dominga López Ixcoy, Universidad Rafael Landívar
Translating the Americas’ First Theology
Amy L. Allocco, Elon University
Xenia Zeiler, University of Helsinki
Sweetening and Intensification: Processes and Currents Shaping Hindu Ritual Practices in Contemporary South Asia
Zaynab El Bernoussi, Al Akhawayn University
Nermeen Mouftah, Butler University
Morocco’s Abandoned Children: Islam, Law, and the Regulation of Care and Kinship
Anna Andreeva, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies
Jessey J.C. Choo, Rutgers University,
Hsin-Yi Lin, Fo Guang University
Daniela Tan, Zurich University
Religion, Medicine, and Women’s Health in Premodern East Asia
Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini University
Thorsten Wettich, University of Bremen
Lutheran and German identification - Influence of Liturgical Observance and Theological Education
Fortune Sibanda, Great Zimbabwe University
Ezra Chitando, University of Zimbabwe
Rosalind I. J. Hackett, University of Tennessee
Rastafari in Africa: Religious, Political, and Cultural Presence
2018-2019 Winners
Gil Ben-Herut, University of South Florida
R. V. S. Sundaram, University of Mysore
Ragaḷe Stories of Śiva’s Saints: First Translation to English
Steven Engler, Mount Royal University
Ângela Cristina Borges Marques, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas
Guaraci M. Dos Santos, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas
Alexandre Frank Silva Kaitel, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas
Ritual Polyphony in Afro-Brazilian Religions
Katherine Ewing, Columbia University
Meriem El-Haitimi, Université Internationale de Rabat
Badr Guennoun, Université Internationale de Rabat
Reshaping MIddle-Class Subjectivities through the Reinvention of Sufism in Morocco
Adrian Hermann, University of Bonn
Deirdre de la Cruz, University of Michigan
Jayeel Cornelio, Ateneo de Manila University
The Philippines as a Site of Religion: Regional Connections and Global Entanglements
Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini University
Thorsten Wettich, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Lutheran and German identification at the Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church (Philadelphia)
Corey Williams, Leiden University
Oladimeji R. Ogunoye, Obafemi Awolowo University
Transnational Pentecostalism in the Age of #MeToo: Sexual Violence and Harassment From Lagos to Los Angeles
2017–2018 Winners
Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida, USA
Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College, USA
Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Routes to Shangri-La: The Emergence of Ladakh as a Global Buddhist Destination
Gregory P. Grieve, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA
Christopher Helland, Dalhousie University, Canada
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, University of Bremen, Germany
Xenia Zeiler, University of Helsinki, Finland
Religion and Video Game Development in Asia – National Identities, Nationalism and Radicalization
Matthew B. Ingalls, American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Michael V. Pérez, University of Washington, USA
Somos Chilenos, Somos Musulmanes: Localizing Islam in Chile
June McDaniel, College of Charleston, USA
Andrea Acri, École Pratique des Hautes Études, France
The History, Rituals, and Roles of the Pedandas of Bali
Younus Mirza, Allegheny College, USA
Johanna Pink, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
The Production of Exegetical Orthodoxy: A Global Modern Publication History of the Qur’anic Commentary of Ibn Kathir (d. 1373)
Fatima Tofighi, University of Religions and Denominations, Iran
Thomas Lynch, University of Chichester, UK
Ulrich Schmiedel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Hannah Strømmen, University of Chichester, UK
Liberalism’s Islams and Islam’s Liberalisms Constructing a Contrast in a Paradigmatic Period
2016–2017 Winners
Yaqoob Bangash, IT University of the Punjab, Pakistan
Arun W. Jones, Emory University, USA
“Dear Sisters, let us go on a little trip”: The Religious of Jesus and Mary and Women’s Education in Colonial Punjab, 1856–1947
Deidre Green, Brigham Young University, USA
Amy Hoyt, University of the Pacific, USA
Gertrude Fester, Sol Plaatje University, South Africa
Kristen J. Leslie, Eden Theological Seminary, USA
Julie Allen, Brigham Young University, USA
Women, Religion, and Transitional Justice: Ethnographic Research in Rwanda
Azfar Moin, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Noman Baig, Habib University, Pakistan
Saint Shrines and Sovereignty in Pakistan
Lauren Pfister, Hong Kong Baptist University
Ricardo Mak King Sang, Hong Kong Baptist University
Tatiana L. Pang, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Piotr Adamek, Monumenta Serica, Germany
A Comparative Sinological Assessment of The Four Books and Its Commentaries by Zhu Xi Produced in the 1820s by the Russian Orthodox Missionary-Scholar Iakinf (1777–1852)
Ute Possekel, Harvard Divinity School, USA
J. F. Coakley, Cambridge University, UK
Liturgy, Learning, and Exegesis in Late Antique Persia: Thomas of Edessa’s Explanations of the Feasts
Tehseen Thaver, Bard College, USA
Hamed Fayazi, Qom Islamic Seminary, Iran
Operations of Ambiguity in Medieval Shi‘i Qur’an Commentaries
2015–2016 Winners
Andrea Acri, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore
Verena H. Meyer, Columbia University, USA
Sex and Transgression as Ways to God in 19th Century Java: The Suluk Lonthang between Islam, Tantrism, and Javanism
Robert Geraci, Manhattan College, USA
Renny Thomas, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, India
Ayudha Puja in Academia and Industry
Sarah Jacoby, Northwestern University, USA
Padma 'tsho, Southwest University for Nationalities, China
The Formation of Female Religious Exemplars in Tibet
Jens Kreinath, Wichita State University, USA
Marianne Moyaert, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
On Inter-rituality: Comparing local theologies of shared religious practice at Christian-Muslim pilgrimage sites—an exploration
Gaël Hily, Université Rennes 2, France
Geneviève Pigeon, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Colloque Migrations et territoires celtiques: religions, croyances, traditions
2014–2015 Winners
Chad Bauman, Butler University, USA
James Ponniah, University of Madras, India
Christians and Religious Violence in Sri Lanka
Amber L. Griffioen, University of Konstanz, Germany
Mohammad Sadegh Zahedi, Imam Khomeini International University, Iran
Longing, Suffering, and Love in Medieval Christian and Islamic Mysticism
Christian Haskett, Centre College, USA
Rana P.B. Singh, Banaras Hindu University, India
Varanasi’s Tiny Temples and the Making of Hinduism
John J. McGraw, Aarhus University, Denmark
Ronald Fischer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Dimitris Xygalatas, University of Connecticut, USA
Divination & Decision-Making: Ritual Techniques of Distributed Cognition in the Guatemalan Highlands
SherAli Tareen, Franklin and Marshall College, USA
Waris Mazhari, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, India
The Politics and Poetics of Islamic Law in Contemporary South Asia
2013–2014 Winners
Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh, UK
Damaris Parsitau, Egerton University, Kenya
The Feminization of New Immigrant African Pentecostal Diasporic Religious Cultures
Jesudas Athyal, Boston Theological Institute, USA
Joshua Kalapati, Madras Christian College, India
A Comparative Study of the Identity and Social Distinctions among Indian Christians, at Home and in the Diaspora
Holly Gayley, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Padmatsho, Southwest University for Nationalities, China
Monastic Ideals and Nomadic Lived Realities: Buddhist Ethical Reform on the Ground in Contemporary Tibet
Hwansoo Kim, Duke University, USA
Brian Bocking, University College Cork, Ireland
Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University, USA
Shin’ichi Yoshinaga, Maizuru National College of Technology, Japan
Asian Buddhism: Plural Colonialisms and Plural Modernities—Workshop #3
Joel Lee, Columbia University, USA
Masood Alam Falahi, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti University, India
Carla Bellamy, Baruch College, USA
Manpreet Kaur, Vysoka Skola Muzickych Umeni Theatre Academy, Slovak Republic
Contesting Untouchability in Islam: the Religious History of Dalit Muslims in India
Ariana Maki, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Yonten Dargye, National Library and Archives of Bhutan, Bhutan
Historical Artists of Bhutan