A new Center project awards +$100K in grant aid to organizations serving the state's most vulnerable communities hit hardest by the pandemic — refugees, asylum-seekers, DACA recipients, mixed-status migrants and Native American tribes.

Yasmin Saikia, the Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies, and Chad Haines, affiliate faculty and professor in religious studies, awarded funding to highlight groups in South Asia who are marginalized because of their religious and cultural backgrounds

As systemic inequities in institutional cultures are being questioned, Center researchers launch a blog to explore how to how academic culture can embody more equitable research practices

Religion, Journalism, & Democracy in a Post-Truth Era

Read the inspirational story of Naruro Hassan, a former refugee from war-torn Somalia and Center Undergraduate Research Fellow

The Pew Research Center has reported that more and more people identify themselves as “spiritual but not religious.” How can this be explained in our highly scientific, technological society? Read more about our new $1.7M grant that will explore how we make sense of spirituality in the technoscientific age.

Narratives can connect even the most disparate groups of people. Learn more about our public event with Earl Swift, acclaimed journalist and author, and religious studies professor, Tracy Fessenden, as they discussed American responses towards climate change

Studying humanity’s imagination of peace and efforts to construct peace across space and time

Advancing transdisciplinary research and education on the religious dynamics of conflict and peace