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July 2009
Nine Graduate Students Receive
Loeb Fellowships
Contact:
Jonathan Beasley,
617.496.6004
Harvard Divinity School announces nine
recipients of John L. Loeb Fellowships for summer and term-time research
in 2009. These fellowships (ordinarily $10,000 each) are awarded to
students engaged in research on topics dealing with religious freedom,
religious tolerance, and/or the protection of religious minorities
worldwide. Projects deal with historical, cultural, social, political,
and/or economic aspects of these issues, and applications are received
from students across the University.
This year's recipients, their fields of
study, and the titles of their projects are as follows: Sa'ed Adel Atshan,
Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, "The Anthropology of
Peacemaking in Lebanon"; Christopher Bail, Sociology, "Homeland
Insecurity: The Evolution of Symbolic Boundaries Towards Muslims in the
United States and United Kingdom, 2001-07"; Eric Calderwood, Romance
Languages and Literatures, a project on a sometimes clandestine Spanish
Muslim minority community; Sarah Eltantawi, Religion, "Stoning in the
Islamic Tradition: The Case of Northern Nigeria"; Marc M. Gidal,
Ethnomusicology, "Afro-Gaucho Religion and Music: Performing Community
in Southern Brazil and Beyond"; Marc R. Loustau, Theology, "The
Csíksomlyó Pilgrimage and the Construction of Hungarian National Culture
in Transylvania, 1919-Present"; Dinyar Patel, History, a project on the
roots of the discourse on minority rights and secularism within modern
Indian political philosophy; Devaka Premawardhana, Religion,
"Transnational Pentecostalism: The Discourse of Spiritual Warfare in
Brazilian Missions to Mozambique"; and Mara Willard, Religion and
Society in the Modern West, "False Idols: Hazardous Foundations of
Religion and Nationalism."
This Loeb Fellowship program, which is
administered by Harvard Divinity School through an agreement with
Harvard Business School, is made possible by the support of John L.
Loeb, Jr., AB '52, MBA '54.
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