Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life

2010 Fellowship Recipients

The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of its graduate and undergraduate fellowships.

Graduate Fellowships

Seven Columbia graduate students have been awarded fellowships to conduct research for their dissertations. Below are the titles of their projects and their departmental affiliations:

• Joseph Blankholm, Department of Religion, “Atheist Heterodoxy and the Limits of the Secular and the Religious.”
• Rosie Bsheer, Department of History, “Making History: Petro-modernity and Spatial Transformations in Saudi Arabia.”
• Giuliana Chamedes, Department of History, “The Making of the Communist Enemy: The Catholic Church and the Origins of the Cold War, 1929-1949.”
• Abhishek Kaicker, Department of History, “The Early Modern Mughal Polity, ca. 1680-1740: A reappraisal”.
• Ayala Levin, Department of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, “Exporting National Identity: Architectural Modernism from Israel in
  the Service of Development in Sub-Saharan African states, 1957-1967.”
• Melissa Love, Department of Art History and Archaeology, “On Earth as It Is in Heaven?’: The Creation of the Bastide Towns of Southwest France.”
• Justin Reynolds, Department of History, “Sacred History: Secularization and the Meaning of History in Transatlantic Political Culture and Intellectual Life, 1945-1955.”

Undergraduate Fellowships

Four undergraduate students at Columbia have been awarded summer fellowships to conduct research abroad for their senior theses. Below are the titles of their projects and their departmental affiliations:

• Charlotte Kaufman, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, “On the Meaning(s) of Representing Islamic Radicalization in Cinema: a Case Study from Yemen.”
• Lola Boatwright, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures,
  “Entertaining the Deity: Annual Shamanic Festivals of Rebkong in Tibetan Amdo.”
• Alison Whitelaw, Department of Religion, “Wrestling With War:
  Functioning Islamic Identities in Russia’s North Caucasus.”
• Jordan Katz, Department of History, “The End of Religious Autonomy in Pre-Revolutionary France.”

Click here to view guidelines to fellowship applications.

Click here to view the past fellowship recipients.