Past fellows

CSRS ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

Holly Ratcliffe Pentimenti

Hinda Avery Stories of Jewish Women in Graphic Novels: Bayla’s Got (More) Issues

Terry Marner Searching for Home-Finding Fingerposts in Neuroscience

RELIGIOUS STUDIES & WINNIFRED LONSDALE GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Catherine Reardon (MA Cand., Uvic History) – The true doctrine of Physicke' and the Lull in English Witchcraft Convictions, 1630-1640

IAN H. STEWART GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Aqsa Ijaz (PhD Cand., McGill University), Shaping the Language of Love: The Afterlife of Nizami Ganjavi’s Ḳhusrau u Shīrīn in Persianate India

Lucie Kotesovska (PhD Cand., UVic English) “Drawing in such ecstasy as I cannot describe”: Exploring Moments of Vision in the Modernist Novel and Reassessing Their Aesthetic and Spiritual Importance

CSRS GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Tanya Brittain (MA Cand., UVic Pacific and Asian Studies) Magic & Modernity: Shinto-Buddhist Talismans in Early Modern and Modern Japan

Ratana Ly (PhD Cand., UVic Law) A Legal Pluralist Approach to Realizing the Occupational Health and Safety of Construction Workers in Cambodia

Julian Evans (visiting graduate student fellow) (PhD Cand., University of Western Ontario, Theory & Criticism) Ecological Embodiment and the Elemental Imagination: Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty and Indigenous Cosmologies

HEATHER J. LINDSTEDT & BRIAN A. POLLICK GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Jessica Ziakin-Cook (MA Cand., Uvic Art History and Visual Studies) The Fool Eaten By God: Simone Weil, Cecil Collins, and the Art of Christian Contemplation

KATHERINE YOUNG GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD WINNERS

Anna lee White (PhD Cand., McGill University)

Michael Gollner (PhD Cand., McGill University) Scripturalizaiotn in Lathe Colonial South India: The Case of the Kamikagoma (1916-19)

UVIC FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

Cindy Holmes (UVic Professor, Social Work), Around the table: Exploring the relationship between food, belonging, spirituality and social justice through dinner dialogues

Zhongping Chen (Uvic Professor, History) Religion, Racism, and Reform-Revolution Rivalry in North American Chinatowns, 1896-1916

VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Reena Cheruvalath (virtual fellow) (Associate Professor, BITS Pilani – K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Humanities and Social Science) An enquiry into the role of religious themes in elementary and secondary school curriculum in understanding and articulating the concept of morality: A comparative study between India and Canada

Natalie Cooke (Professor, McGill University, English and Library) Conundrum Socials and their Contribution to Building Church Communities

Brian Froese (Professor, Canadian Mennonite University, History) ‘In their own terms’? Challenges in cross-cultural dialogues between Indigenous and non-Indigenous legal traditions in Canada

Sarah Robinson (virtual fellow) (Associate Professor, Religion) Librerating Foodways: Rerooting Traditions in U.S. Buddhist, Christian, Indigenous, and Muslim Community Projects

COMMUNITY SABBATICANT FELLOWS

Gyaltsang Rinpoche (Tibetan Buddhism), Buddhist Meditation in a Time of Pandemic

Gulcimen Yurtsever (virtual fellow) (PhD, Usak University), The investigation of the relationships between religious ethics, moral imagination, and sustainable behavior

Angela Bick (Canadian Christian Communicator’s Association, Christian Reformed Church) and Peter Schuurman (PhD, Redeemer university) Religion on Thin Ice: A Research Study of Canadian Perspectives on Deconstructing and Reconstructing Faith.

Simon Owen (PhD, Christian (United with Catholic roots), Decolonizing Expertise: Reorienting the Role of Legal Professionals in the Revitalization of Indigenous Laws.

CSRS ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

Patrick Boyle Nowhere Now Here: Improvised Music and Spiritual Discipline

Estraven Lupino-Smith Landscape Liturgy: Weaving as land based ritual

Terry Marner Searching for Home-Finding Fingerposts in Neuroscience 

RELIGIOUS STUDIES & WINNIFRED LONSDALE GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Jerry Flexer (PhD Cand.?, Uvic History) –need to ask 

IAN H. STEWART GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Isabelle Kostecki (PhD Cand., University of Montreal Anthropology/Unversity of Friboug Religious Studies in Switzerland), Supporting the Living in the Face of Death : An Anthropological Study of End-of-Life Rituals in Hospital in Quebec and Western Switzerland

Trevor Israelsen (PhD Cand., UVic Business) Institutionalizing legacy: Entrepreneurial pathways for constructing a business dynasty

Lauren Strumos (PhD Cand., University of Ottawa Classics and Religious Studies) Capturing Common Ground: Exploring Notions of Environmental and Ecological Justice Among Protestors Opposed to the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project 

CSRS GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Stacie Swain (PhD Cand., UVic Political Science) Learning to Care-Take Relations: Reorienting 􀍞Public􀍟 Space through the Politics of Indigenous Ceremony

HEATHER J. LINDSTEDT & BRIAN A POLLICK GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Jaiya Anka (PhD Cand., Uvic Art History and Visual Studies) Queens, Saints, and Sultanas: Interwoven Identities as Portrait in the Sixteenth Century

UVIC FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

Graham McDonough (UVic Professor, Curriculum and Instruction), How Supersessionist Commitments Impede Catholic Christianity’s Approach to Reconciliation with Indigenous Persons and Groups

Amy Verdun (Uvic Professor, Political Science) Religion in the European Union – values, migration and policy

INDEGNIOUS ARTS AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Shianna McAllister (PhD Cand., UVic, Political Science), The categorization and containment of Indigenous understandings of land, spirituality, and rationality through the lens of land, property, and religion

VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo (Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria, Education) Indigenous Education in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

Dustin Benac (Visiting Assistant Professor, Baylor University, Theological Seminary) Ecclesial Innovation in the Pacific Northwest

Dominique Leydet (Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Département de philosophie) ‘In their own terms’? Challenges in cross-cultural dialogues between Indigenous and non-Indigenous legal traditions in Canada

Justin Lewis (Associate Professor, University of Manitoba, Department of Religion) Listening to Hasidic Stories

Alexander Rosenblatt (Lecturer,Zefat Academic College, Literature, Arts, and Music), The revival of historical-style music in the modern Canadian church: artistic and social aspects. A study of Canadian hymnbooks (with emphasis on historical melodies) and the original works of Canadian composer Healey Willan (1880-1968).

Mark Scott (Thorneloe University), The Beauty of Souls: Literary Encounters with Marilynne Robinson

Jennifer Selby (Memorial University), Romance and the Secular Body

Timothy Stacey (Research Fellow, Leiden University, Study of Religion), The role of animist imaginaries in inspiring and sustaining resistance to resource extraction amongst non-indigenous people

John Thatamanil (Union Theological Seminary), Desiring Truth: The Fate of Knowing in a Post-Truth Era

Anna Lee White (Katherine Young Travel Award Winner (Asian Religions, McGill University), The History of Bhakti Literature from Early Modern North India

Man Kong Wong (Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University, History) The Healing Ministry: Protestant Christianity and the History of Medical Care in Colonial Hong Kong, 1842-1997 

COMMUNITY SABBATICANT FELLOWS

Jim Cohn, Deals with the Devil: The Faust theme in Marlowe, Goethe, and Mann

Matthew Ponak, Oasis Time: A Guide to Home-Based Spiritual Refreshment

Don Wren, It Kept Everyone Together: An Ethnohistory of Post-cession Pribilovian Orthodoxy

CSRS ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

Meharoona Ghani The letters to Rumi Project

Terry Marner Searching for Home-Finding Fingerposts in Neuroscience

RELIGIOUS STUDIES & WINNIFRED LONSDALE GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Katey Flechl (MA Cand., Uvic History) Female Education and Enlightenment Discourse

in Post-Revolutionary America

IAN H. STEWART GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Drexler Ortiz (PhD Cand., Uvic Psychology) Religious Experiences Among Sexual Minority vs. Heterosexual Filipinx Immigrant Youth:  

CSRS GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Randa El Khatib  (PhD Cand., UVic English), Paradise Lost and Early Modern Biblical Cartography

Eliza McClenagan  (MA Cand., UVic Germanic and Slavic Studies), German Christians and the De-Judaization of Protestant Theological Texts in Nazi Germany

HEATHER J. LINDSTEDT & BRIAN A. POLLICK GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Françoise Keating (PhD Cand., Uvic Art History and Visual Studies), Fifteenth-Century Heart Spirituality: René d’Anjou and Religious Rebirth

UVIC FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

Kathryn Chan (UVic Professor, Law), The Adjudication of Religious Refugee Claims

Maggie Jones (Uvic Professor, Economics), The Economic Legacy of Christian Missions among Indigenous Communities

COMMUNITY SABBATICANT FELLOW

Vidar Steffensen (Specialist in Adult Clinical Psychology), The Use of Buddhist Practices in Secular Therapy with Multi-Cultural Clients

VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Omer Aijazi (University of Toronto), Muslim Affects: Lived Religion and Social Repair in Pakistan’s Northern Frontier

Paul Arnold (McMaster University), Sacred Gestures in the Roman Catholic Liturgy

Daniel Boyarin (University of CA Berkeley), Why the Jews Are Not a Religion

David Eagle (Duke University), From Seminary to Early Ministry: How an Elite Divinity School Shapes Religious Leaders

Bob Gibbs (University of Toronto), Study and Dialogue: Buber and Rosenzweig

Manvinder Gill (McMaster University), Problem drinking in second-generation Sikh-Canadians

Chris Goto-Jones (PhD, UVic, former Dean of Humanities), Archetypes of Mindfulness

Behnaz Hosseini (University of Vienna), Religious Minorities in Iran and Diaspora

Dulma Karunarathna (Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Peradeniya), Retrieving Unknown Art History as a Source of Conflict Resolution and Peace Education

Jingjing Li [Kathrine Young Award recipient] (Leiden University), Discourses of Authenticity: Fabricated Texts as Lived Objects

Catherine Nutting (University of Lethbridge), Rubens and the Stoic Baroque: Classical Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Style

Edmund Pries (Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Toronto), Abelard and Heloise: an exploration of a peaceable, love-based, approach to atonement doctrine and the rejection of redemptive violence

Jennifer Selby (Memorial University), Romance and the Secular Body

John Thatamanil (Union Seminary), The Quest for Interreligious Wisdom: Religious Diversity and Theological Method

Shuangyang Wang (Zhejiang Gongshang University in China), Inter-religious dialogue without words but through music and painting：Another way to understand Zen.

Edda Wolff (Durham University), Religious Imagery in the Reconciliation Process of the Anglican Diocese of BC and Indigenous Communities

Deepali Yadav (Banaras University), Paradox of Ghandi's saintliness 

VISITING GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOW

Zach Buck (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), The Phenomenology of Healing in the Cult of Asklepios: Applying the Cognitive Science of Religion to Divine Healing Ritual

CSRS ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

Timothy Gosley The Heart Coffer

Terry Marner Searching for Home-Finding Fingerposts in Neuroscience

RELIGIOUS STUDIES & WINNIFRED LONSDALE GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Erica Greenup (MA Cand., Uvic History) Intergenerational Secularization and ‘Lived Feminism’ among formerly Catholic women on Vancouver Island since the 1960s

IAN H. STEWART GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Todd Klaiman (PhD Cand., The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Translocal Chinese Religiosity in Southeast Asia: Elite Business Families and the Rise of Chinese Monastic Budhism in Malaya, 1887-1937

Davjola Ndoja  (MA Cand., UVic Germanic and Slavic Studies), Lyrics of Hate: The Role of Music in Far-Right Movements in Germany and the On-Going Struggle with Anti-Semitism

CSRS GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Jessica Pratezina  (MA Cand., UVic Child and Youth Care), Alternative Religion Kids: Identity, Belonging and Care of Former Members of New Religious Movements

Nikki Sanchez-Hood (PhD Cand., Uvic, Indigenous Governance), Emergent Media Landscapes through an Indigenous Lens: The Ethics and Implications of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Media Technologies for Indigenous Cultural Revitalization

HEATHER J. LINDSTEDT & BRIAN A. POLLICK GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Ambreen Hussaini (PhD Cand., Uvic Art History and Visual Studies), Contemporary Creative Expressions of the Qur'an in Pakistan

VISITING GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Manvinder Gill (MA Cand., McMaster University), Problem Drinking in Second-Generation SikhCanadians

Dennis Gupa (PhD Cand., Uvic Applied Theatre), Sea Rituals, Climate Change, Applied Theatre: Indigenous Elders’ Perspectives on Ecological Sustainability 

UVIC FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

Tim Lilburn (Fall 2019) (Uvic Professor, Writing/Fine Arts), Contemplative Practices, Contemplative Pedagogies: A Three-part Examination of the Role of Contemplation in Post-Secondary Teaching

Gary Kuchar (Winter 2019) (Uvic Professor, English), Literature and the Senses of Place in the British Civil Wars: Genre, Politics and Religion from Milton to Eliot

VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Catherine Caulfield (PhD, Concordia University of Edmonton), Our Canada: Jewish-Canadian Women Writers

Abby Day (Goldsmiths, University of London), Baby-Boomers and Beyond: A Century of Religious Change

Dulma Karunarathna (Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Peradeniya), Retrieving Unknown Art History as a Source of Conflict Resolution and Peace Education

Jingjing Li – Katherine Young Award Recipient (Leiden University), Discourses of Authenticity: Fabricated Texts as Lived Objects

Yuukichi Niwayama (sessional lecturer, Seijo University), The Creation of a New Festival: Collaboration between Japanese Canadians and New Immigrants

Jennifer Selby (Memorial University), Romance and the Secular Body

Johanna Selles (University of Toronto), Creative Capacity Building: A Pedagogy for the

Religious Imagination of Older Adults

John Thatamanil (Assoc. Professor, Union Theological Seminary), The Quest for Interreligious Wisdom: Religious Diversity and Theological Method

HAROLD COWARD INDIA RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

Ramesh Bairy (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Querying the ‘Religious’: The Martha, Caste and the Contemporary

IAN H. STEWART GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Hairong Huang  (MA Cand., UVic History), Popular Religion and Guangdong Politicians: Political Mobilization over Populace during the Mid-19th to the Early 20th Centuries

Daniel Sherwin  (PhD Cand., U of T Political Science), Settler-Colonial Responses to Indigenous Resistance: A Critical Examination of Euro-Canadian Political Thought

WINNIFRED LONSDALE GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Liang Han (MA Cand., UVic History) The Integration of Religions in Victoria’s Chinatown from 1858 to 1930

VANDEKERKHOVE FAMILY FOUNDATION GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Denae Dyck  (PhD Cand., UVic English), Forming Wisdom: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Work of the Sage in Victorian Britain

Kefen Zhou (PhD Cand., UVic History), Mission to Modernize: The Contributions of Canadian Missionaries in China

Zahra Kazani (PhD Cand., UVic Art History and Visual Studies) Belief Embodied: Uncovering the Relationship of Script, Geometry and Magical Ideas in Medieval Islamicate Societies

VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Brian Froese (Assoc. Prof. of History, Canadian Mennonite University)

Kasra Ghorbaninejad (Postdoc., Dpt. of English, University of Victoria) Protesting Shias, Popish Sultans? Cross-Religious Alliance Building Across the Mediterranean in the 1600s

Michael Glowasky (St. Paul's College, University of Manitoba), Discerning the Divinge: Christian Sceiptures and Religious Identity in Augustine of Hippo

Helen Jennings (PhD Cand., Religious Studies, University of the Arctic) Religion, Tourism and Indigeneity

Pushpa Kamal Subedi (Prof. of Rural Development, Tribhuvan University)

Tatiana Tianynen-Qadir (Postdoctoral researcher, University of Tampere)

Mo Wei (PhD Cand., Shanghai Normal University) Sparkling Light of Renaissance and Religious Art in Zikawei (Xujiahui)— T’ou-Sè-Wè (1847-1949)

CSRS COMMUNITY SABBATICAN

Travis O’Brian (Rector, St. Barnabas Anglican Church) 

CSRS ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

Miles Lowry Ogham - The Tree Alphabet

Terry Marner Searching for Home-Finding Fingerposts in Neuroscience

Marina DiMaio Points of Resonance 

UVIC FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS 

Sara Beam (Spring 2019) (UVic History) The Origins of Single Motherhood in Europe During the Reformation Period: Links with Canadian Policies Toward Single Mothers Today

Megan Swift (Fall 2018) (UVic Germanic and Slavic Studies) Appropriating the Past: The Russian Orthodox Church and Putin-Era Commemoration of the Victims of Stalinist Political Repression

HAROLD COWARD INDIA RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

Ramesh Bairy (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Querying the ‘Religious’: The Martha, Caste and the Contemporary

IAN H. STEWART GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Christina Gentile (MA Cand., UVic Counselling Psychology), Nada Yoga, Pranayama & Vocal Psychotherapy: Singing and Breathing Practices as Forces for Transformation in Counselling Psychology

Zabeen Khamisa (PhD Cand., UWaterloo Religious Studies/Arts), Religion, Social Innovation, & Entrepreneurship: Understanding the Entrepreneurial Spirit of Young Canadian Sikhs

Elsie-May Mountford (MA Cand., UVic Art History & Visual Studies), On the Wires: Digital Art History and the Life Cycle of Ottoman Mosques in the Peloponnese

Paige Thombs (MA Cand., UVic Sociology/Cultural Social & Political Thought), The Rise of Secular Values in Canada and its Impact on Freedom of Religion and the Duty to Accommodate

Seyedhamed Yeganehfarzand (PhD Cand., UVic Art History & Visual Studies), Ismaili Castles: Beyond Defensive Functions

COMMUNITY SABBATICAL FELLOWSHIPS 

Michelle Brown Religious Practice as an Expression of Ethnicity in a Minority Environment: Szekely People in Transylvania

WINNIFRED LONSDALE GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Justine Semmens (PhD Candidate, History), Marriage, Moral Delinquency, and the Criminal Courts in Counter Reformation France, 1550-1650

VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Sofie Pederson (Univeristy of Southern Denmark), Being a “Good Danish Muslim”: Subjectivity Formation among Young Muslims in Denmark Mo Wei (Shanghai Normal University), Sparkling Light of Renaissance and Religious Art in Zikawei (Xujiahui)— T’ou-Sè-Wè (1847-1949)

Mo Wei (Shanghai Normal University) Sparkling Light of Renaissance and Religious Art in Zikawei (Xujiahui) – T’ou-Sé-Wé (1847-1949)

Masoud Ghorbaninejad (Northeastern University), “Protesting Shias, Pope-ish Sultans? Cross-Religious Alliance Building Across the Mediterranean in the 1600s”

Brandi Estey-Burtt (Dalhousie University), “When the Messiah Comes: Ethics, Affective Citizenship, and Faith in 21st Century Literature”

Michael Wilkinson (Trinity Western University), The Emergence, Development and Contemporary Context of Canadian Pentecostalism

UVIC GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Ethan Calof (MA Cand., UVic Slavic Studies) Giving Voice to Chaos: Changing Masculinities in Jewish Literature in Late Imperial and Early Revolutionary Russia (1903-1925)

CSRS ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

Laura Trunkey The Windspir Sisters: a magic realist novel about an asylum and the afterlife

Terry Marner Searching for Home-Finding Fingerposts in Neuroscience

Martin Adam & Jeffrey Renn Theatre Meets Religious Studies on the Path to Nirvana: What the Buddha Never Taught

UVIC FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

Neilesh Bose (Department of History/Humanities) Universalism and the Means and Ends of Comparative Religion: Global Histories of Religious Reform in Modern India

Marina Bettaglio (Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies) From Religious Imperative to Personal Religion: Maternal Mystique in Contemporary Spanish Society (1996-2016)

VANDEKERKHOVE FAMILY TRUST GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Brian Pollick (PhD Cand, Art History),  Money, Merchants and the Visualization of Morality in Late-Medieval Italy

Lauren Thompson (MA Cand, Germanic and Slavic Studies), The City That Stumbles: Obstacles in Munich’s Memorialization Processes and Gunter Demnig's Stolpersteine Project

IAN H. STEWART GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Bassam Chiblak (PhD Cand, English), The Bible as nineteenth-century British lingua franca or just how secular were the Victorians post-1859?

Atri Hatef Naiemi (PhD Cand, Art History), The Ilkhanid 'Little Cities of God'

Brandon Taylor (MA Cand, Art History), Milton's God: Deism, Puritanism, and the Religiopolitical Landscape of Early Modern England

UVIC GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Paige Thombs (MA Cand, History), Social Change in Canada and its Effect on Freedom of Religion and the Legal Duty to Accommodate

WINNIFRED LONSDALE GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

John Trafford (MA Cand, History), "The Old Gods and the New": The Politics of Ethnic and Religious Identity in Restoration Ireland

RELIGIOUS STUDIES TA  

Justine Semmens (PhD Cand, History) Marriage, Moral Delinquency, and the Criminal Courts in Counter Reformation France, 1550-1650 

VISITING GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Gry Hvass Pedersen (University of Southern Denmark), Modernity, Islamic Tradition and Higher Education: Visions of Modern Islamic Universities and Students’ Muslim Selfhoods in Asia

UVIC FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

Réal Roy (Dept. of Biology), From Cells to Prayer: Dwelling in a Cosmic Community

Daromir Rudnyckyj (Dept. of Anthropology) Anti-Debt: Islam and the Critique of Finance Capitalism

CSRS ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

Daniel Peter Biro Composition based on Ethica of Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

Terry Marner  Searching for Home-Finding Fingerposts in Neuroscience

Janet Munsil  Act of Faith: A New Play about Belief and Disability

COMMUNITY SABBATICAL FELLOWSHIPS

Louis Sutker  A Personality Assessment Scale Based on the Sefirot

Terry Ann Carter   The Influence of Buddhism on North American English Language Haiku Poets

VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Chandima Gangodawila (Univeristy of Sri Jayewardenepura), Neutralizing Bad Karma within the Ethics of Theravāda Buddhism

Tamsin Jones (Trinity College), The Allure of Trauma

Shokoufeh Sakhi (York University), Tortured bodies, victimization and the (un)making of human subjects: a study of the religio-ideological prison system in Iran (1980s)

David Seljak (St. Jerome’s University), Indigenous Peoples and Spirituality in Canada

Heather Shipley (University of Ottawa), Conflict or Cohabitation? Religion, Sexuality and Identity Assumptions

Paul Shore (University of Regina), A Contribution to the Oxford Handbook of the History of the Jesuits

Reneé Soulodre-La France (King’s University College), Fighting for Freedom: Black Auxiliaries in the Spanish and British Empires

VANDEKERKHOVE FAMILY TRUST GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

 Tim Personn (PhD Cand, Dept. of English), “Morally Passionate, Passionately Moral”: Philosophy and Affect in the Contemporary Fiction of David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, Bret Easton Ellis, Dave Eggers, and Zadie Smith

Zsofia Surjan (PhD Cand, Dept. of History), The Anxiety of Faith: Gendered Perspectives on Religious Conversion. Language Strategies in Correspondence of Central European Protestant Noble Women in the First Half of the Seventeenth-Century

IAN H. STEWART GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Munazzah Akhtar  (PhD Cand, Art History and Visual Studies), Cultural and Religious Identities at the Necropolis of Makli in the City of Thatta: Re-assessing the Architecture and Ornation of the Monuments built between the late Fourteen and mid Sixteenth Centuries

Emily Arvay (PhD Cand, Dept. of English), Renewal without Revelation: Author Chris Adrian Reinvents Grace

Katrina Kosyk  (MA Cand, Dept. of Anthropology), Notes from the Past: Examining the Practice of Sound in Greater Nicoya Shamanism

WINNIFRED LONSDALE GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Kamran Bashir (PhD Cand, History) Reading the Qur’an in British India: A Study of Ashraf `Alī Thānawī’s Qur’an Commentary, Bayān al-Qur’ān

VISITING GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Rachel Brown (PhD Cand, Religious Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University) Immigration, Integration and Ingestion: The Use of Food and Drink in Religious Identity Negotiations for North African Muslim Immigrants in Paris and Montreal

Susie Fisher  (PhD Cand, Dept. of History, University of Manitoba), Seeds from the Steppe: Material Culture and the Politics of Emotion among Mennonite Migrants in Canada, 1870-1950

Gry Hvass Pedersen (PhD Cand, Institute of History, University of Southern Denmark), Modernity, Islamic Tradition and Higher Education: Visions of Modern Islamic Universities and Students’ Muslim Selfhoods in Asia

Justin Stein (PhD Cand, Dept. for theh Study of Religion, University of Toronto), Alternate Currents: the Trans-Pacific Development of Reiki Healing

UVIC FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

Christopher Douglas (Dept. of English), Theodicy’s Nineteenth Century Troubles

Lynne Marks (Dept. of History) Feminism, Family and Faith: Tensions between Mainstream Canadian Second Wave Feminists and Immigrant and Racialized Activist Women Regarding Questions of Motherhood, Family and Faith, 1970-1990

CSRS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

Annabel Howard The Scarlet Ox and the Black Madonna

Terry Marner Searching for Home-Finding Fingerposts in Neuroscience

Celia Rabinovitch Working the Coast: From Matter to Metaphor

COMMUNITY SABBATICAL FELLOWSHIPS

Ulla Thorbjørn Hansen (Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark) The Theology of Pastoral Care in War, Crises and Disasters

Dvora Levin Ragged Light: The Study of the Connects/Disconnects between Physics/Cosmology and Religion to be Expressed in Poetry and Performance

Bob MacDonald  Hearing the Hebrew Bible

Hellen Ngatho  Women in Leadership in Religion

Joachim Ostermann Secular and Religious Interpretations of Philosophy of Nature

Adela D. Torchia   Re-engaging the Ecology, World Religions and Gandhi Dialogue

VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Jelle Creemers (The Evangelical Theological Faculty, Belgium), Emancipation, Socialization and/or Economic Calculation

Abby Day (Anth. and Soc. of Religion, University of Kent), Researching the Religious Lives of Generation A: Older Laywomen in the Church

Chandima Gangodawila (Univeristy of Sri Jayewardenepura), Neutralizing Bad Karma within the Ethics of Theravāda Buddhism

Nick Herriman (School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University), Sorcery, Law, and State: Indonesia’s Proposed Anti-Witchcraft Legislation

Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme (University of Waterloo), Religious-Secular Distinctions in Social Attitudes and Behaviour

Anne Williams (Architectural History, University of Virginia), Satirizing the Sacred: St. Joseph and Humor in Northern European Art, ca. 1300-1530

HAROLD COWARD INDIA RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

Bindu Mannil Menon (University of Delhi) Transnational Religious Publics: Migration, Visual Culture and Jama’at-e-islami in South Asia and the Middle East

VANDEKERKHOVE FAMILY TRUST GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Adam Carmichael (PhD Can., Dept. of Political Science) Problematic Settlers: Settler-Colonialism and the Political History of the Doukhobors in Canada

Agnieszka Doll (PhD Can., Faculty of Law) “Mother Poland” in Straightjackets: Exploration at the Intersection of Gender, Psychiatry, Religion and Law

Madeline Holden (MA Can., Pacific and Asian Studies) Religion and Economics: Islamic Microfinance in Indonesia

IAN H. STEWART GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Sam Grey (PhD Can., Dept. of Political Science) (Un)Forgiven: The Confluence of Religious and Civic Virtue in, and through Reparations Politics

Richard Veerapen (PhD Can., Faculty of Law) Physician Engagement with Family and Close Others of Patients during the Informed Consent Process

RELIGIOUS STUDIES TA / WINNIFRED LONSDALE GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Justine Semmens (PhD Cand, History) Morality, Deviance and the Parlement of Paris in Catholic Reformation France

VISITING GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Angela Andersen (PhD Can., The Ohio State University)

Rachel Brown (Wilfrid Laurier University) Immigration, Integration and Ingestion: The Use of Food and Drink in Religious Identity Negotiations for North …

UVIC FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

Margaret Cameron (Dept. of Philosophy), Varieties of Aristotelianism

Kathryn Chan (Faculty of Law) Faith-based organizations as loci of law: a Malawian case study

CSRS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

Trudi Lynn Smith (School of Environmental Studies, UVic) Portable Camera Obscura: Sewing Contemplation

CSRS ASSOCIATE FELLOWS

James Acken (University of Toronto), Sacred Violence and Divine Eloquence in Early Norse and Celtic Culture 

Harold Coward (University of Victoria, ret.) Word, Chant and Song as forces for Spiritual Transformation in Hinduism

Erica Dodd (University of Victoria, ret.) Treasures of the Early Church 

Scott Dolff (University of Victoria, ret.) Practicing Place: Theology and the Local

Robert Florida (Brandon University, ret.) Ethical Issues in Modern Buddhism

Mona Goode (University of Victoria) Muslim Taxation: The Evolution of Zakat as a “Sacred Tax”

Michael Hadley (University of Victoria, ret.) Radical Evil and Restorative Justice

Chelsea Horton (University of British Columbia) Mixed Blessings: Indigenous Encounters with Christianity in Canada

Terence Marner (University of Regina, ret.) The Medieval Concept of “L’Homme Armé” in the Victorian Hymn and in the 20^th-Century American Western

Graham McDonough (University of Victoria) The Catholic School as Public Ecclesial Space

Jordan Paper (York University, ret.) The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng: Past and Present

Jarrad Reddekop (Western University) Rethinking Human-Nonhuman Relations: Between Western and Amazonian Thinking

Michael Reed (University of Guelph) Ely, Art-Production and the Benedictine Reform, c. 10th-11th Centuries

Carolyn Whitney-Brown (St. Jerome’s University) Reflecting on past, present and future connections between the United Church of Canada and L'Arche in Canada and L'Arche International Founder's Project

Katherine Young (McGill University, ret.) On Tamil Religion, Caste, and Politics: Non-Brahmin Srivaisnavas Speak Out

COMMUNITY SABBATICAL FELLOWSHIPS

Saul Arbess (Department of Peace) The Role of Spiritual Institutions in Creating an Architecture for a Sustainable Peace

Roshan Danesh The Dimensions of Baha'i Law: A Study of Context, Structure and Form in Baha'u'llah's Kitab-i-Aqdas

Sorcha McEwan The Yoga Phenomenon: Body and Spirit Together Again?

Marian Partington (Restorative Justice; The Forgiveness Project) Re-membering: Articulating the Unspeakable

Dan Rutherford (Canadian Baptists of Western Canada) Church Engagement and Moral Freighting: A Canadian Perspective on Putnam and Campbell’s…

Moses Wesa (Anglican Church of Kenya) Healing Conflicts in Kenya: the Restorative Justice Approach

VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Nicola Hayward (McGill University) The Use of Funerary Art for Commemorating Social Identity: The Case of the Via Latina’s Samaritan Woman

Tamsin Jones (Trinity College, Hartford, CT) Movement Matters: New Materialism and the Study of Religious Experience

Morny Joy (University of Calgary) A Question of Influence? Hannah Arendt and Paul Ricoeur

Dietrich Jung (University of Southern Denmark) Constructing Islamic Modernities: Identity, Social Order and Religious Traditions

Andrew Klager ( University of the Fraser Valley) Interreligious Peacebuilding between Muslims and Coptic Christians in Egypt: Using Mennonite…

Francis Landy (University of Alberta) The Covenant with Death and the Constitutive Enigma: A Literary Reading of First Isaiah

Sarah Laflamme (University of Montreal) The Religious Vote in Canada: Dynamics, Mutations and International Comparison

Kristin Norget (McGill University) Practicing Catholic Indigenous Theology in Mexico

Azam Rahmani (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran) Development and Psychometric Properties of Risky Sexual Behavior Assessment Tool in Iranian Young Women

Katy Sian (University of Manchester) Sikh and Muslim conflict in the global Sikh Diaspora: A comparison of the UK and North America

Jeremy Smith (Federation University Australia) Lineages of Liberation? Civilizations Analysis, the Sociology of Religion and Latin American Critiques…

Oriana Walker (Harvard University) A Cultural History of Breathing

VANDEKERKHOVE FAMILY TRUST GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Madeline Holden (MA Cand., Pacific and Asian Studies) Religion and Economics: Islamic Microfinance in Indonesia

Vincent Gornall (MA Cand., History) Walking the Labyrinth of Religious Sites: Walking Tours and the Religious Landscape of Victoria

IAN H. STEWART GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Michelle St. Pierre (PhD Cand., History) The Meaning of Disaster: Natural Catastrophes in Twentieth-Century Europe

Adam Yaghi (PhD Cand., English) A Nation of Narrations: Religion, Hegemony, Identity & Heterogenity in the Arab American Literary Tradition

ETHICS AND CULTURE GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Sarah Wilkinson (PhD Cand., Political Science) The Politics of Cultural Possession

WINNIFRED LONSDALE GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Bonnie Sawyer (MA Cand., History) The Role of Religion and Science in the Canadian Salvation Army's Construction and Reclamation of the 'Fallen Woman'

RELIGIOUS STUDIES TA GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Justine Semmens (PhD Cand, History) Morality, Deviance and the Parlement of Paris in Catholic Reformation France     

VISITING GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Angela Andersen (PhD Can., The Ohio State University)

Rachel Brown (Wilfrid Laurier University) Immigration, Integration and Ingestion: The Use of Food and Drink in Religious Identity Negotiations for North …

UVIC FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

Cody Poulton (Pacific and Asian Studies) Encounters with the Non-Human in Japanese Theatre: Spirits, Animals, Technology

Charlotte Schallié (Germanic and Slavic Studies) Examining Secondary Anti-Semitism as a Cultural Code

CSRS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

Marita Dachsel (Writer) The Voice in Your Head

COMMUNITY SABBATICAL FELLOWSHIPS

Charles Asilutwa (Anglican Church of Kenya) A Christian Approach to Dealing with Domestic Violence in Kenya

Bill Israel (Dialogue House, Ohio) Reviewing Dr. Ira Progoff's Intensive Journal® Theory and Method Implementation

John Jolliffe (Chaplain, RCN.) The Role of the Padre in Today’s Largely Secular Military Society

Logan McMenamie (Dean, Christ Church Cathedral) Interpreting and Applying the Ancient Wisdom of the Celts

Mary Louise Meadow (Anglican Church of Canada) Transforming a Church: Second Wave Feminists, Sexual Misconduct and Anglican Canada

Dan Rutherford (Canadian Baptists of Western Canada) Church Engagement and Moral Freighting: A Canadian Perspective on Putnam and Campbell's Theory of Religious-Based Social Action

Carolyn Whitney-Brown (United Church of Canada) Exploring the Past, Present and Future Connections Between the United Church of Canada and L'Arche in Canada

VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Nicholas Adams (University of Edinburgh) Reparative Reasoning: Philosophy and Theology Entangled

 Abdelmadjid Benhabib (University of Tlemcen, Algeria) A Study About Noah’s Story in the Qur’anic Text

Rachel Brown (Wilfrid Laurier University) Immigration, Integration and Ingestion: The Use of Food and Drink in Religious Identity Negotiations for North African Muslim Immigrants in Paris and Montreal

Bruce Bryant-Scott (Heythrop College, University of London) Interruption: The Implications of the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas for Christian Theology in Canada

Siobhan Chandler (University of Waterloo) Spiritual Not Religious: Implications for Health Science Education, Research and End of Life Care.

Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto) The Grammar of Laws

Mathew Guest (Durham University) Christianity and the University Experience in Contemporary England

Nicola Hayward (McGill University) The Use of Funerary Art for Commemorating Social Identity: The Case of the Via Latina’s Samaritan Woman

Victor Sōgen Hori (McGill University) The Consecrated Life in Canada Today and The Modernization of Buddhism in Global Perspective

Andrew Klager (University of the Fraser Valley) Interreligious Peacebuilding between Muslims and Coptic Christians in Egypt: Using Mennonite Approaches to Conflict Transformation

Tim Labron (Concordia University College of Alberta) The Academy and Society on Religion and Science

Nathan Loewen (Vanier College) Teaching a Global Introduction to the Philosophy of Religions

Azam Rahmani (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran) Development and Psychometric Properties of Risky Sexual Behavior Assessment Tool in Iranian Young Women

Sam Reimer (Crandall University) Educational Outcomes Among Private Religious Schools in Canada: Insularity, Religious Preservation, and Tolerance

Merinda Simmons (University of Alabama) Selling Slave Religion: Theorizing Experience in the American South

Oriana Walker (Harvard University) A Cultural History of Breathing

VANDEKERKHOVE FAMILY TRUST GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Gaelan Gilbert (PhD Cand., English) Political Ecology and Future Community in the Later Middle Ages

Chihiro Saka (MA Cand., Pacific and Asian Studies) Exploring a Women’s Position in Buddhist History: Kumano bikuni’s Appropriation of Buddhism to the Needs of Women in Medieval Japan

IAN H. STEWART GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Caleb Langille (MA Cand., English) Ethical Monstrosity or Dis-Enclosure?:Christianity as Radical Politics in Two Movements

WINNIFRED LONSDALE GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Alison Murray (MA Cand., History) Christianity, Medicine and Agency: Monstrous Births in Early Modern France

RELIGIOUS STUDIES TA GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Justine Semmens (PhD Cand, History) The Shifting Dynamics of Sexual Deviance in Catholic Reformation France, 1550-1650

SPECIAL GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Emily Smith (MA Cand., English) Edification Without Assurance Vayleth Not Much”: Predestination and Incarnation in Sixteenth-Century Reformation Drama

UVIC FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

Martin Adam (Pacific and Asian Studies) Action and Agency in Early Buddhist Ethics

Megan Swift (Germanic and Slavic Studies) Drawing an Atheist Paradise: Soviet Book Illustrations and the Battle for the    Fairytale in Leninist and Stalinist Society, 1917-53

CSRS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

Celeste Pedri (Beader) maziniminensikaan: Performing Ojibwe Spirituality Through the Art of Traditional Beading

HAROLD COWARD INDIA RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

Rinku Lamba (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Bhakti and the Shaping of Social Imaginaries in Colonial India

VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Abdelmadjid Benhabib (University of Tlemcen, Algeria) A Study About Noah’s Story in the Qur’anic Text

Judith Berman (University of Pennsylvania) Indigenous Perspectives on Religion: George Hunt’s Unpublished Manuscripts on the Kwakwaka’wakw Winter Ceremonial

Bruce Bryant-Scott (University of Wales) Interruption: The Implications of the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas for Christian Theology in Canada

Elizabeth DeVolder (University of BC) The Silver Lining: Neoliberalism, Philanthropy and the Marketing of Hope

Mathew Guest (Durham University) Christianity and the University Experience in Contemporary England

William James (Queen’s University) Religious Diversity in English Canadian Fiction in the 21st Century

Tim Labron (Concordia University College of Alberta) The Academy and Society on Religion and Science

Nathan Loewen (Vanier College) Teaching a Global Introduction to the Philosophy of Religions: Rethinking Evil with Jacques Derrida: Openings Towards Others’ Religions

Megan Macdonald (University of London) The Performance of Religious Identity: Embodied, Material, Temporal

Mohammad Molavi (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran) A comparative Study on the position of Hadith in the Modern Qur'ānic Commentaries: (Fī- zilāl – el- Qur'ān; Al- minār, min- vahyi el- Qur'ān, and Al-furqān)

Sam Reimer (Crandall University) Educational Outcomes Among Private Religious Schools in Canada: Insularity, Religious Preservation, and Tolerance

Muhammad Said (State College for Islamic Studies, Indonesia) Interest and Riba in Islamic Financial Business Institutions: The Perspective of Ethico-Legal Hermeneutics

Merinda Simmons (University of Alabama) Selling Slave Religion: Theorizing Experience in the American South

VANDEKERKHOVE FAMILY TRUST GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Julie Froekjaer-Jensen (MA Candidate, Indigenous Governance) The Revitalization of Haida Land-Based Cultural Practices: A Framework for the Restoration of Haida Culture

Martin Hoffman (MA Candidate, History) Religion, Identity and Land in Mandate Palestine

IAN H. STEWART GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Kylee-Anne Hingston (PhD Candidate, English) “So Nigh to Glory is Our Dust”: Religion and Disability in the Mid-19^th Century Novel

Genevieve von Petzinger (PhD Candidate, Anthropology) Symbols of the Spiritual: Looking for Divinely Inspired Motifs amongst the Geometric Signs of European Ice Age Rock Art

RELIGIOUS STUDIES TA / WINNIFRED LONSDALE GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Justine Semmens (PhD Candidate, History) The Body of a She-Devil: Symbolic Violence, Female Aggression and Civility

 in France, 1550-1650

RELIGIOUS STUDIES TA GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Joanna Dawson (MA Candidate, English) Indigenous Literature in an Age of Environmental Apology and Ecological

Restoration: Diaspora and Pastoral Power

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

Harutyun Harutyunyan (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Exzellenzcluster "Religion und Politik") The Role of Religion in Political and Military Conflicts in Ancient and Modern Armenia

UVIC FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

Jordan Stanger-Ross (History) The First United Church and the Politics of Poverty in Twentieth Century Vancouver

CSRS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

Margo McLoughlin (Storyteller) In the Land of the Rose-Apple Tree: Tales of Early Buddhist Women

COMMUNITY SABBATICAL FELLOWSHIPS

Bob MacDonald (Anthony Macauley Associates) The Hebrew Psalter as Story

Mary Louise Meadow (Anglican Church of Canada, Ret.) Telling the Story of Women responding to Sexual Misconduct

in the Anglican Church in Canada

Suzanne Rumsey (The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF), Anglican Church of Canada) “But the torch will never go out.” Solidarity for a Lifetime.

VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Angela Andersen (History in Art) Muslims Viewed as Non-Muslims: The Sacred Precincts of Alevi Architecture in Anatolia

Scott Dolff (Yale Divinity School) The New Love Mysticism?: Heidi Baker and the Transformation of Neo-Charismatic Christianity in America

Brian Froese (Canadian Mennonite University) Diabolism and Post-1960s Protest: Conservative Subgroups, Cultural Critique, and the Significance of Evil

Ann-Katrin Hatje (Umeå University, Sweden) Rewriting Swedish Welfare History with Focus on Religious Dimensions, 1850-2000

Victor Hori (McGill University) Little Jade, the Language of Zen

Dietrich Jung (University of Southern Denmark) “To Be a Modern Muslim”: Islam and the Formation of Modern Subjectivities

Lene Kühle – (Aarhus University) Comparing Patterns of Religious Diversity and Pluralism: Denmark and Canada

Jackie Larm (University of Edinburgh) The Making and Breaking of Me & You at Kagyu Samye Ling: A Tibetan Buddhist

Monastery and Cultural Centre in the South of Scotland

Anton R. Lovink (University of Ottawa) The Ethnically Diverse, Racially Inclusive Gay-Positive Anglican Church of Canada?

William S. Morrow (Queen’s University) Neo-Assyrian Influences on Biblical Literature

Sarah Moser (University of Massachusetts Lowell) Re-imagining the "Muslim World”

Paul Rasor (Virginia Wesleyan College) Reclaiming Prophetic Liberalism: Liberal Religion in the Public Square