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2026
2025
Grant for Researchers Awards
Hawa Ozien Abu
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Project:
Assessing the Need to Integrate Chaplaincy Services in Geriatric Outpatient Clinics to Promote Holistic care of Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions
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Edson Chipalo
University of Cincinnati
Project:
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Forgiveness: The Mediating and Moderating Roles of Religiosity Among African Immigrants
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Ryon Jayson Cobb
Rutgers University
Project:
The Most Segregated Hour Revisited: Congregational Diversity, Black Identity, and Political Life Across the Lifecourse
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Di Di
Santa Clara University
Project:
When Calling Becomes AI: The Spiritual Impact of AI on Christian Workers
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Gregory C. Ellison II
Emory University, Candler School of Theology
Project:
Growing in Love to Heal the Fractured Heart: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Wholeness Inspired by Howard Thurman’s Vision for Self, Community, and Church
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Timothy Dale Epp
Redeemer University
Project:
Perceptions and Encounters: The Social History of Anabaptist-Black Relations
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Gaston Enrique Espinosa
Claremont McKenna College
Project:
The Spiritual Impulse of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
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Sergio M Gonzalez
Marquette University
Project:
Sanctuary on Trial: Criminalizing Immigrant Solidarity in Modern America
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Leonel Guardado
Fordham University
Project:
“Más que la palabra escrita”—“More than the written word”: the oral traditions of Gustavo Gutiérrez’ theology
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Sonia Hazard
Florida State University
Project:
Christianity and the Book in the Cherokee Diaspora, 1821-1861
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Jacqueline M. Hidalgo
University of San Diego
Project:
Children of The Apocalypse: The Coloniality of Revelation and U.S. Latine Responses to Environmental Crisis
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Tyler Lefevor
Utah State University
Project:
Building theological bridges between cisgender/heterosexual and LGBTQ+ Christians
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Vanessa Nicole Oliphant
University of Mississippi
Project:
Culturally Relevant Faith Based Exercise Mental Health Treatment with Black Women Involved in the Church: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Ansley L. Quiros
University of North Alabama
Project:
Committed: How the Lives, Work, and Love of Civil Rights Activists Charles and Shirley Sherrod Offer a Historical Model for the Present Moment
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Daniel Ramirez
Claremont Graduate University
Project:
Latina Pentecostal Congregations, Education Success, and Flourishing: Case Studies in Community Wealth
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Sam Reimer
Crandall University
Project:
The Canadian Churches Study
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Brittany Romanello
University of Akansas- Fayetteville
Project:
Righteous Desires: Discipleship, Dating, and Devotion Among Politically Conservative Christian Young Adults in the U.S. West and South
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Erin Runions
Pomona College
Project:
Beyond Prison Hell: Disrupting a Biblical Tradition
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Charles Thomas Strauss
Mount St. Mary's University
Project:
Catholics and the Nuclear Age, 1945–1990
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Grace Tien
Northwestern University
Project:
Churches and the Tiny Home Movement
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Laurie A Walker
Montana State University
Project:
Native American Boarding School Short Film & Small Group Facilitation Guide
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Joanna Wuest
Stony Brook University
Project:
The Souls of Shareholders: Faith-Based Investing and the War on Corporate Social Justice
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Orit Avishai Bentovim
Fordham University
Project:
What Christianity Loses When Conservative Christians Win in Court: Religious Freedom as a Cautionary Tale
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Catherine A. Brekus
Harvard University
Project:
Chosen Nation: Christianity, Politics, and American Destiny
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Eileen R. Campbell-Reed
Vanderbilt Divinity School
Project:
The State of Women and LGBTIQ Clergy in the U.S.
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Jaime Clark-Soles
Perkins School of Theology | SMU
Project:
Psychedelics and Soul Care: What Christians Need to Know
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Kathryn A Common
Methodist Theological School in Ohio
Project:
Season of Origins: Centering Decolonial Justice in the Liturgical Year
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Rebecca Lee Copeland
Boston University School of Theology
Project:
Replanting the Uprooted: A Social-Ecological Approach to the Synoptic Gospels
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Elizabeth W. Corrie
Emory University, Candler School of Theology
Project:
Youth-Centered Deliberative Dialogue: Motivating Intergenerational, Faith-Based Action to Address Climate Change
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Gregory Lee Cuellar
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Project:
Lamenting Postcolonial Trauma: A Poetic Indictment of Empire
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Paul A. Djupe
Denison University
Project:
The New Dynamics of Choosing Churches?
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Matthew Elia
Saint Louis University
Project:
We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Racial Justice, Climate Apartheid, and the Future of Solidarity
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Maggie Elmore
Baylor University
Project:
Unholy Border: How the Catholic Church Created New Gateways to America
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Matt R. Jantzen
Hope College
Project:
Confederate Theology: Christianity, Racial Capitalism, and Abolitionist Democracy
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Stephen Mark Koeth
The University of Notre Dame
Project:
Unless the Lord Builds the House: A Religious History of American Public Housing
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Prema Ann Kurien
Syracuse University
Project:
THE IMPACT OF IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR CHILDREN ON MULTIRACIAL MEGACHURCHES
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Brandon C. Martinez
Providence College
Project:
Religious Social Capital and the Browning of the American Church: The Case for Latine Congregations
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Melody Maxwell
Acadia Divinity College
Project:
Called to Serve: Sharing the Stories of Atlantic Baptist Women in Ministry
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Priscilla McCutcheon
University of Kentucky
Project:
Black Geographies and Placemaking through Brush Harbors and the Rural Black Church
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Kathleen Mroz
Emmanuel College
Project:
No Salvation Outside the Body: A Theology of Eating Disorder Recovery
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Oneya Fennell Okuwobi
University of Cincinnati
Project:
The Effectiveness of Christian Racial Diversity Consultants for Racial Justice
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Rebecca Todd Peters
Elon University
Project:
Shaping Theologies of Reproductive Dignity, Justice, and Love: Learning from the Abortion & Religion Study
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Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
Northeastern University
Project:
Queering Orthodox Christianity: LGBTQ+ Religious Worldmaking and Futurecraft
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Mike Tapper
Indiana Wesleyan University
Project:
Worship Leader Wellness and Music Equity Initiative
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Heather R White
University of Puget Sound
Project:
The Architecture of Pride: City Churches and Queer Communities after Stonewall
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Sara Williams
Fairfield University
Project:
Journeys to the Margins: American Christians in the Palestinian Holy Land
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Deanna Ferree Womack
Candler School of Theology at Emory University
Project:
Middle Eastern Christianity in the Americas: Transnational Transformations of the World’s Oldest Churches
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Brian Yong Lee
Loyola University Chicago
Project:
The Origins and Future of Christian Forgiveness: Community, Metaphysics, and the Christian Social Imaginary
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George Jacobs Mazza
National Coalition Building Institute
Project:
US Mainline Protestant Preaching on Jews and Judaism: A Qualitative Content Analysis
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Kimberly Rios
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Project:
Bridging Science and Faith: A Socio-Cognitive Approach to Increasing Christians’ Representation in Science
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