Friends of the Center Research Awards

Blayne Harcey,  doctoral student, Religious Studies
Project: “Locating Lumbinī: Transnational Buddhism and the Construction of World Heritage in Nepal”

Chirasree Mukherjee, doctoral student, International Relations
Project: “How Diverse is Religion’s Influence on Conflict Intractability”

Wen Wendt, Political Science
Project: The Oxford Initiative for Global Ethics: War and Peace Series: Critical Deliberations on Peacebuilding, Memory, and Narrative (Ansari Travel Scholarship)

Eric Breault, doctoral student, Religious Studies
Project: “An Icon Of Death: Material Culture And La Santa Muerte”

Taylor R. Genovese, doctoral student, Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, SFIS
Project: “Dark Cosmism: An Ethnographic Genealogy Of Russo-Soviet and American Techno-Utopianism”

Mario Orospe Hernández, doctoral student, Religious Studies
Project: “Capitalism As Religion: On The Spiritual Life Of A Commodity Across Secular Bordering”

Pablo Alberto Ortega Poveda, doctoral student, Political Science
Project: “(Un)Usual Suspects: Explaining Violence Against Leaders and Members of Religion-Based Organizations in Non-Religion Civil Conflicts”

Saiarchana Darira, Social and Cultural Analysis; Global Management; Psychology
Project: 2020 Oxpeace Conference

Jaxon Washburn, Religious Studies; History
Project: Internship At The Joseph Smith Papers Project

Peyman Asadzadehmamaghani, doctoral student, Politics and Global Studies
Project: Patterns of Participation in Insurgency: Religious versus Leftist Groups

Brett Goldberg, doctoral student, Justice Studies
Project: Building Community in a World on Fire: Transformational Justice Responses to Challenge Rape Culture in the US

Jihye Jung, doctoral student, Political Science
Project: Korean Protestant Church Overseas Missions and Religious Conflicts in Muslim Countries

Ayesha Ashan, Economics, Sociology
Project: 2019 American Institute on Political and Economic Systems (Prague, Czech Republic)

Jeena James, Biological Sciences
Project: The Refugee Crisis in the U.S. and Italy

Katherine Panopoulos, Political Science
Project: Philosophical Underpinnings of Peacebuilding Mechanisms

Irene Rubio, Journalism and Mass Communications
Project: 2019 University of Chicago Data and Policy Summer Scholar Program

Madeline Stull, History
Project: Memories of Guilt and the Conception of Peace in the Former Yugoslavia

Leila Asadi, doctoral student, Justice Studies
Project: Dwelling in Possibility: Living as Syrian Refugee Women in the United States

Haroon Atcha, doctoral student, Political Science
Title of project: Religious Rhetoric and Nationalist Violence in Myanmar

Terry Shoemaker, doctoral student, Religious Studies
Project: Dwelling in Possibility: Living as Syrian Refugee Women in the United States

BrieAnna Frank, Journalism; Political Science
Project: Christian Allegiances to Israel in the US and Abroad

Kyla Pasha, doctoral student, Religious Studies
Project: Fleeting Utopias: Creating Ritual and Community Space from Queer Muslim Longings

Nathan Tarr, doctoral student, Political Science
Project: Repressing Faith: Repression, Religion, and Variations in Violence

Tiffany Trent, doctoral student, Theatre
Project: Radical Welcome in Youth Performing Arts Spaces on Chicago’s South Side

Alana Vehaba, doctoral student, Justice and Social Inquiry
Project: Harnessed Flames: Analyzing Self-immolation in Tibet and its Impact in Exile

Margaret Tucker, Geography and Political Science
Project: Critical Cartography and Conflict Resolution in the Caucasus

Michael Bluhm, doctoral student, Journalism and Mass Communication
Project: Tunisia and the Arab Spring: Religion and the Role of Social Media

James Edmonds, doctoral student, Religious Studies
Project: Performing Authoritative Ambiguity: Contemporary Indonesian Islamic Actualities

Terry Shoemaker, doctoral student, Religious Studies
Project: Emerging in the South: The Emerging Church Movement within the Bible Belt Region

Roopa Singh, doctoral student, Justice Studies
Project: Who Gets to Heal: Mapping Religionization and Propertization in Yoga

Mahshid Zandi, doctoral student, Religious Studies
Project: Tehran’s Holy Defense Museum: Mediating Religion, Politics, and Collective Memory

Viviane Linos, Masters Student in Women and Gender Studies
Project: Constructions of Kinship and Female Empowerment: Orthodox Christianity and Domestic Violence in Greece

Catie Carson, Psychology and Barrett, the Honors College
Project: Peacebuilding through Cultural Exchange and Service in Tajikistan

Connor Murphy, Journalism, Political Science, and Barrett, the Honors College
Project: Journalism, Freedom of Speech, and Violence in Pakistani Media

Ryan Schneidewind, Political Science
Project: Turkey’s Refugee Crisis

Jennifer Swicegood, Psychology
Project: Religion and Domestic Violence in Suva, Fiji

Farina King, doctoral student, History
Project: The Journey of Diné Students in the Four Directions: Navajo Educational Experiences in the 20th Century

Justin Nadir, doctoral student, Religious Studies
Project: Constructions of Identity and Conflict among Hindu Minorities in Muslim Java, Indonesia

Ashley Brennan, Psychology
Project: Deepening Democracy, Cultivating Community, and Building Peace: Youth Participatory Budgeting in Romania

Brieanna Griffin, Global Studies and Anthropology
Project: American Perceptions of the Muslim World: Seeking Grassroots Solutions

Lucia Cash, doctoral student, Religious Studies
Project: The Role of Religious Leaders in Peace-Building and Reconciliation in Post-Dictatorship Uruguay

Emily Fritcke, English Literature and History
Project: Understanding Religious Conflict: An Investigation of the Tension between the Greek Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church of Romania

A.J. Simmons, doctoral student, School of Politics and Global Studies
Project: Civil War Duration and its Influences

Holly Williamson, doctoral student, School of Politics and Global Studies
Project: The Implications of Gender Asymmetries: Socialization, Religion, and Wartime Rape in Bosnia

JoonSik Hwang, doctoral student, Religious Studies
Project: The Urban Religiosity of Jaipur

Galen Lamphere-Englund, Global Studies
Project: Galway University Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy

Brittany Morris, Journalism
Project: Women’s education and participation in civic society in Kuwait City, Kuwait

Gabrielle Filip-Crawford, doctoral student, Psychology
Project: The Effects of Tolerence Messages on Religiously-Infused Conflict

Cheikh Amadou Bamba Seye, Master’s student in Religious Studies
Project: Peacebuilding and Anti-Violence in Mouridism

Brittany Morris, Journalism
Project: Women and the Veil in France under President Nicholas Sarkozy

Rachel Bishop, Global Studies
Project: Quaker’s Alternatives to Violence

Danielle Back
Project: Interfaith Peacebuilders Program

Scott Ross
Project: Education and Global Studies major who travelled to Lira, Uganda on a four-month research trip

Bennett Furlow, doctoral student, Religious Studies
Project: Religion and Politics in Somalia: The Islamic Union Court

Semiha Topal, doctoral student, Religious Studies
Project: Pious yet Modern Subjects: Turkish Muslim Women in the Public Sphere

Nastja Cijic, Political Science, Global Studies
Project: South African Human Rights and Peacebuilding Program

Leticia Martinez, Justice Studies
Project: South Africa Community Fund—Programs in Peacebuilding

Blake Jones, doctoral student, History 
Project: Secular and Religious Influences in Jimmy Carter’s thoughts on Peace, Human Rights and the Global Community

Iona Mateson, doctoral student, Political Science
Project: The Participation of Hamas in a National Unity Government

Whitney Meshay, Barrett Honors College, Political Science, German, Religious Studies
Project: South Africa Community Fund—Programs in Peacebuilding

Blake Smith, Masters student in Art Education
Project: South Africa Community Fund—Programs in Peacebuilding

Sandra Afloeri, Journalism
Project: South Africa Community Fund—Programs in Peacebuilding

Alex Ginsburg, Barrett Honors College, Religious Studies
Project: Rabbis for Human Rights, Israel

Elizabeth Fritze, Barrett Honors College, English Literature
Project: South Africa Community Fund—Programs in Peacebuilding

*formerly known as the Hardt Scholarships/Fellowships in Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies