CURA Announces 2021-22 Religion and World Affairs Fellows
The Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA), an affiliated institute of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, announced the selection of it’s 2021-2022 Religion and World Affairs Fellows.
Selected fellows – joining with backgrounds in anthropology, international relations, political science, religion, sociology, writing, medicine, and theology – will participate in the twice-monthly interdisciplinary Colloquium on Religion and World Affairs to workshop papers. Each fellow gets the opportunity to present their own paper as part of the Colloquium and participate in the discussion of papers by other fellows and invited authors from outside BU.
The selected 2021-2022 fellows are listed below:
- Mehrdad Babadi, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Christopher Boyd Brown, Associate Professor, School of Theology
- Nicole Correri, PhD Student, Graduate Division of Religious Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Amirah Fadhlina, PhD Student, Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Nilakshi Goswami, Research Associate, Anthropology
- Seigen Johnson, Masters Student, School of Theology
- Kathryn Lamontagne, Lecturer, College of General Studies
- Luis Menéndez-Antuña, Assistant Professor, School of Theology
- Gana Ndiaye, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Magda Mohamed, PhD Student, Graduate Program in Religion, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Mónica Isabel Rey, PhD Candidate, Graduate Program in Religion, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
- Joshua S. Smith, PhD Student, Graduate Program in Religion, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Evan Stewart, Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Stephen Waldron, PhD Student, School of Theology
The theme for the 2021-2022 Colloquium is “Religion, Gender, and Sexuality.” Submitted research will consider the role of religion in shaping gender or sexual identities, issues of inclusion and exclusion in religious communities, gendered analysis of religious experience, the dynamics of gender or sexuality in the organization of religious communities, engagement of religious groups in public policy related to gender and sexuality, as well as many other topics. Through this academic series, CURA hopes to build a working group that draws from diverse disciplines, methods, and regions of the world.
The full list of fellows, including headshots and bios, can be read online.
Founded in 1985, CURA was the first interdisciplinary research center in the United States focused on religion and global affairs. CURA seeks to build a community of scholars from BU and beyond with a shared interest in religion and world affairs. CURA joined the Pardee School of Global Affairs in 2015 and continues to sponsor collaborative research projects, public lectures, and gatherings for faculty, graduate students, and others, and to support the Pardee School’s curriculum in religion and global affairs. Learn more about CURA here.