IRCPL Announces Grantees of 2016 Search for Project and Working Group Proposals

The Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University supports academic scholarship on the study of religion, broadly defined.  We are proud of the interdisciplinary breadth of our work and are particularly excited to announce the results of our 2016 call for project and working group proposals. The awardees, from across Columbia’s campus and beyond, working in fields including architecture, literature, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and political science, exemplify our desire to create spaces which facilitate connections, conversations, and collaborations across disciplinary lines. We look forward to the seminars, conferences, research, writing, and curricular innovation which will come from these groups beginning this spring, and continuing over the next year.

Our congratulations – and thanks – go out to:

Entheogens and Psychoactive Religion
David Kittay (Religion)

A History of Difference: Piety and Space in Early Modern West Asia
Manan Ahmed (History)
Katharina Ivanyi (Religion)

Medieval and Early Modern Struggles toward Humility, Virtue, and Truth
Bachir Diagne (French)
Pierre Force (French)
Christia Mercer (Philosophy)
Alan Stewart (English / Comp Lit)

Sites of Religious Memory in an Age of Exodus
Seth Kimmel (LAIC)
Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Anthropology

Religion and Revolution
Jean L Cohen (Political Science)
Andrew Arato (Sociology, The New School)

Palestinian Jerusalem: Religion Under Occupation
Nadia Abu El-Haj (Anthropology)
Lila Abu-Lughod (Anthropology)
Nora Akawi (Architecture)
Brian Boyd (Archaeology)
Nathalie Handal (CSER)
Rashid Khalidi (History)
Brinkley Messick (Anthropology)
Salim Tamari (MEI)

Information on some of these events is already available at ircpl.org; further details will be posted as they become available. Write to [email protected] with questions.

Information on how you can apply for IRCPL support for future working groups and other proposals can be found here.

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