Religious Studies: An Awarding Experience
Religion faculty receive important research awards in 2006-2007.
Professor Anne Porter received a grant from the Zumberge Fund Individual Grant Project for activities related to the project on "Community and Cosmotology; Participatory Political Practices in Ancient Mesopotamia."Megan Reid has been awarded a $100,000. Carnegie grant. Reid’s research will investigate concepts of punishment in Sunni Islam within the context of their sacred beginnings. Professor Megan Reid also received a grant from the Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative for her "Abu Ghraib Seminar Project: Critical Perspectives on Violence and Visual Culture." Earlier this year, she received a research grant from the American Academy of Religion. Reid received $4,000. for her proposal entitled "Judging Race and Religion: Pierre Crabites and African American Muslims in Early Twentieth-century Cairo."
Professor Lynn Swartz Dodd was honored with a 2007 USC-Mellon for Excellence in Mentoring Award. She also received a Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative Grant for her proposal entitled "Building Resources for Peace: Contested Heritage and Holy Sites in Israel and Palestine".
The 2007 USC-Mellon Innovations in Mentoring Award was awarded to Professor Bruce Zuckerman in honor of his forward-looking and creative mentoring of faculty and undergraduate students at USC College and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Zuckerman and his students are collaborating on an ancient cylinder seal project with students and professors at Illinois. In addition, Professor Zuckerman received a Raubenheimer Award in December of 2006.
Posted Tuesday, August 7, 2007