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Filippo Osella<\/strong>\u00a0is Professor of Anthropology And South Asian Studies at University of Sussex, UK.\u00a0 He has conducted extensive research in Kerala (South India), as well as in Sri Lanka, and in Gulf Cooperation Council countries such as UAE, Oman and Qatar.\u00a0 Over the years, he has researched issues concerning social mobility in the context of socio-religious reform movements and migration to West Asia (see\u00a0Osella & Osella\u00a0Social Mobility in Kerala: Modernity and Identity in Conflict<\/em>, Pluto Press 2000, … (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Connie Gagliardi<\/strong>\u00a0is the Project Assistant of this Connaught Global Challenge Initiative. She is a PhD candidate of Anthropology and Jewish Studies. Her research explores the production and politics of neo-Byzantine iconography and its resurgence amongst Christians in Palestine and Israel.\u00a0By looking at the production of icons, her research aims to understand Christian experience and religious and cultural transformations within the fraught and contested terrain of the Holy Land… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mahshid Zandi\u00a0<\/strong>has her BA and MA in cultural anthropology and is currently a PhD student in the department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She explores the relationship between memory, space, subjectivity, sacralization, and sovereignty in the Iran-Iraq War landscapes and the emerging \u201cHoly Defense\u201d museums in … (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nirmala V U<\/strong> is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Post Graduate Governemnt College Sector 11 Chandigarh. She completed her Ph D from Center for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was formerly associated with Department of Political Science, University of Calicut as Lecturer in Political Science. Her areas of research interest include… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Salah Punathil<\/strong> is a Sociologist and Assistant Professor at the Centre for Regional Studies, University of Hyderabad, India. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany. He has taught Sociology at Tezpur University, Assam (September 2011 to June 2014) and Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi (July 2009 to May 2010). His research interest includes… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sonja Thomas<\/strong> is an Associate Professor of Women\u2019s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Colby College.\u00a0 Her research examines the intersections of caste, race, gender, class, and religion in postcolonial India and community-based movements for \u201cminority rights.\u201d \u00a0She is the author of Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India <\/em>(UWA Press, 2018).\u00a0 She has also… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bindu Menon Mannil <\/strong>is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the School of Arts & Sciences, Azim Premji University, Bangalore. Her research work explores relations between media technologies, publics and politics in India. She is completing her book on the history of cinema and sensory publics in early 20th century South India. Her current research project examines the movement of media objects and forms… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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J\u00a0Devika<\/strong> is a feminist researcher and teacher at Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, who has contributed to the understanding of the history of gender, development, politics, and culture of modern Kerala. Her work is interdisciplinary and she brings to bear her training as a historian on contemporary issues. She is interested in… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dr. Ajay S Sekher<\/strong> is Assistant Professor of English at S S University of Sanskrit Kalady, Kerala. His recent books are on the… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Syed Mohammed Faisal<\/strong> is Assistant Professor at the Jindal School of Banking and Finance in Sonipat, India. The primary question that animates his teaching and research is – how are humans constituted through exchange? His inquiry is constituted in two vectors; First, his doctoral thesis in anthropology attempted to unpack the processes and significance of trust building mechanisms that communities of traders, religious solidarities and kinship groups practice in South India. He is now furthering… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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P.K. Yasser Arafath<\/strong> is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Delhi, India. He holds a PhD in history from University of Hyderabad (HCU). He was the Dr. L.M. Singhvi Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge in 2017. With a focus on transliterated texts in Arabi-Malayalam<\/em>, his current research interests lie in examining the making of vernacular frontiers in the Indian Ocean region from the 16th cen-tury. His forthcoming book, titled… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dr. Wilson Chacko Jacob<\/strong> is Associate Professor of History at Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World (Stanford 2019), which traces the life and career of an itinerant Muslim preacher and descendant of the Prophet across the Indian Ocean through India, Arabia, and the Ottoman Empire in the nine-teenth century. This singular lens affords an incredible view onto the transformations in the na-ture of sovereignty engendered by the expanding governmental powers of empire-states. The study also… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dr. R.Santhosh<\/strong> teaches Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, India. He holds a doctorate in sociology of religion and his research interest primarily revolves around questions of religious articulations in the context of late modernity. He primarily works on Islamic religiosity in contemporary India, with special focus on themes related to polit-ical mobilizations, theological contestations and engagement with ideals and practices of Indian secularism. He also… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Alejandro Paz<\/strong> is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His book\u00a0Latinos in Israel: Language and Unexpected Citizenship<\/em>, illustrates how language use and mediatized interaction are under-appreciated aspects of the politics of immigration, citizenship, and national belonging in Israel. Alejandro\u2019s current research explores\u00a0the impact of Israeli English-language news websites on the digital dissemination\u00a0<\/a>of news about Israel and Palestine specifically, and about the Middle East … (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mauricio Quir\u00f3s Pacheco<\/strong>\u00a0is an Assistant Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. He holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design with distinction from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Universidad del Dise\u00f1o, Costa Rica. He was Researcher for the Office of the Director at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) from 2010 until 2014 and has practiced in\u00a0America and Europe in offices including Stanley Saitowitz Office and the Renzo Piano… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Carlota McAllister<\/strong> is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University, in Toronto. Her monograph The Good Road: Conscience and Consciousness in a Post-Revolutionary Mayan Village in Guatemala<\/em> is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Her current project addresses a dam conflict in the remote …\u00a0(Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Petros Babasikas<\/strong>\u00a0is an architect, writer and educator.\u00a0His work explores connections among architecture, storytelling, media and public space. He is Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream at the\u00a0John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design<\/a> and founding partner of\u00a0Drifting City studio<\/a>, based in Athens, Greece. Petros\u2019 ongoing research includes\u00a06Place Toronto<\/a>, an interdisciplinary project funded by UofT\u2019s Mcluhan Centre and School of Cities investigating significant urban spaces where media …\u00a0(Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Heba Mostafa<\/strong> is Assistant Professor of Islamic art and architecture at the Department of History of Art at the University of Toronto. She received her doctorate from Cambridge University\u2019s Department of Architecture in 2012 and holds degrees in architecture and the history of Islamic architecture from Cairo University and the American University in Cairo (alternative short\u00a0version\u00a0: Heba is\u00a0an architectural historian trained in the Middle East and the UK). She has held positions at the University of California… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jayne Svenungsson<\/strong>\u00a0is Professor of\u00a0Systematic Theology<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Lund University<\/a>\u00a0in Sweden. Her recent publications include the books\u00a0Divining History: Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Jewish Thought, Utopia, and Revolution<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Monument and Memory<\/em>. Currently, she is the principal investigator of research on\u00a0\u00a0(Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Elettra Stimilli<\/strong>\u00a0is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Her recent books,\u00a0The Debt of the Living\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Debt and Guilt A Political Philosophy,<\/em>\u00a0untangle the relation between economics, contemporary politics, and religion along an original genealogy spanning from the early Christian …. (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Rafael S\u00e1nchez\u00a0<\/strong>is Senior Lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a Visiting Research Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton University\u2019s Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) in 2018 and Visiting Scholar at New York University \u2013 Shanghai in 2017. He has carried out extensive field- and archival research in Venezuela. His publications have focused on media, mass politics, populism, and spirit mediumship. His book\u00a0Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism<\/em>\u00a0appeared… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Meaghan Weatherdon\u00a0<\/strong>is a Doctoral candidate in\u00a0the Department for the Study of Religion in a collaborative program with the Department for Environmental Studies at the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0Her research considers\u00a0how Indigenous spiritualities inform and are incorporated into social and environmental movements in North America. In particular, her dissertation\u00a0focuses on the act of walking the land as a decolonizing praxis within the Journey of Nishiiyuu, a social movement in which Cree … (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Charles Hirschkind<\/strong> is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests concern religious practice, media technologies, and emergent forms of political community in the urban Middle East and Europe. He has published two books, The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics <\/em>(Columbia 2006) and Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocutors<\/em> (co-edited with David Scott, Stanford 2005). His forthcoming book,\u00a0… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nada Moumtaz<\/strong>\u00a0is Assistant Professor in the Study of Religion and Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Her research stands at the intersection of Islamic legal studies, the anthropology of Islam, and studies of capitalism, and spans the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries in the Levant. She is currently preparing her book\u00a0Remaking Islamic Charity: Economy, Religion, and Law in Modern Beirut<\/em>\u00a0for publication…. (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Armando Salvatore\u00a0<\/strong>is Keenan Chair of Interfaith Studies and Professor of Global Religious Studies (Society and Politics) at McGill University, in Montreal. His work brings to light various dimensions of religious traditions and political formations in historical and comparative perspective, particularly the case of Islam. He is the author of\u00a0The Sociology of Islam: Knowledge, Power and Civility<\/em>\u00a0and the chief editor of\u00a0The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam<\/em>. … (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Se\u00e7il Da\u011fta\u015f\u00a0<\/strong>is Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo, Canada and is a UofT alumnus.\u00a0Her main research interests lie in understanding how people make, cross and surpass religious boundaries with a particular focus on the relationship between Islam and secularism, the Islamic conduct with Christian and Jewish communities, and the legacy of the Ottoman regime of diversity in the Muslim world. Her current project entails an ethnographic study of refugee-minority relations along … (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Architect and historian\u00a0Jonathan Massey<\/strong>\u00a0is an accomplished scholar of modern architecture and a leading authority on architecture and planning education. He holds undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Princeton University as well as a Master of Architecture degree from UCLA. His professional training includes practice experience at Dagmar Richter Studio, Brantner Design Associates, and Gehry Partners along with teaching experience at several schools… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jeremy Stolow<\/strong>\u00a0is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, Montr\u00e9al, Canada. With a focus on the much-neglected transnational history of non-orthodox uses of visual media, his current research addresses what connects and distinguishes religion, techno-science, and visual culture in our contemporary, \u2018post-secular\u2019 modernity. Among Jeremy\u2019s recent publications are his books,\u00a0Orthodox By Design: Judaism<\/em>, and\u00a0Print Politics and<\/em>… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Sonja Luehrmann\u00a0<\/strong>is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Her research focuses on religion, atheism, and lived ideology in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. In her current ethnographic research, she focuses on anti-abortion activism in the post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church. Sonja Luehrmann is the\u00a0author of\u00a0Secularism Soviet Style: Teaching Atheism and Religion in a Volga Republic\u00a0<\/em>(Indiana, 2011)and\u00a0Religion in Secular Archives: Soviet Atheism … <\/em>(Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Ulrich Schmiedel\u00a0<\/strong>is Lecturer in Theology, Politics, and Ethics at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, where he also serves as Deputy Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues. Specialized in political and public theology,\u00a0his research combines systematic theology with both sociology of religion and philosophy of religion.\u00a0Ulrich\u2019s recent research is concerned with the role of religion in migrant and post-migrant contexts and offers a critical analysis and a constructive … (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Patricia Spyer<\/strong> is Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Institute Geneva that she joined in 2016. She was the Chair of Cultural Anthropology of Contemporary Indonesia at Leiden University (2001-15), Global Distinguished Professor at New York University\u2019s Center for Religion & Media and Department of Anthropology (2009-12), Visiting Scholar at New York University \u2013 Shanghai\u2019s Center for Global Asia in 2017, and Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of … (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Shahla Talebi<\/strong> is a social cultural anthropologist and associate professor of religious studies at Arizona State University. As a native of Iran, she has lived through the Revolution of 1979, and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). Both events have informed her research and scholarship, which revolve around questions of self-sacrifice and martyrdom, revolution, war, violence, memory, memorialization, history, and trauma with a concentration on\u00a0Iran and the Middle East. Her work tackles issues related to\u00a0torture, madness, … (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins<\/strong>\u00a0is a historian of Modern European political and intellectual thought with a specific focus on Europe and the World. \u00a0He primarily concentrates on such topics as conservatism, nationalism, secularism, and religion and politics. He is\u00a0writing a book for Columbia University Press titled: The Neoconservative Moment in France: Raymond Aron and the United States<\/em>. His public commentary has appeared in\u00a0The Nation<\/em>,\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>,\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em>,\u00a0Times Literary Supplement<\/em>,\u00a0… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"Julie E. Cooper<\/strong> is Senior Lecturer (US equivalent: Associate Professor) in the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University. Her research interests include the history of political theory; early modern political theory (especially Hobbes and Spinoza); secularism and secularization; Jewish political thought; and modern Jewish thought. She is the author of\u00a0Secular Powers: Humility in Modern Political Thought<\/em>\u00a0(Chicago, 2013)… (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Elaine A. Pe\u00f1a<\/strong> is currently a Visiting Scholar in Social Anthropology with the University of Edinburgh. She holds a permanent position in the United States as an Associate Professor of American Studies with the George Washington University. Pe\u00f1a received her PhD in Performance Studies with Northwestern University and accepted postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Illinois and Yale University before joining GW… (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Katharyne Mitchell<\/strong> is Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her current research explores the role of faith-based organizations in providing humanitarian aid and refuge to migrants.\u00a0She is interested in the transnational networking employed by church groups to protect asylum claimants, the policy impacts of church-based forms of activism, and the shifting meanings and practices of sanctuary… (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Mayra Rivera<\/strong> is Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies at Harvard University. She works at the intersections between critical theory, literature, and theories of coloniality, race and gender\u2014with particular attention to Caribbean postcolonial thought. Her research explores the relationship between discursive and material dimensions in shaping human embodiment.\u00a0\u00a0Her publications include, The Touch of Transcendence: A Postcolonial Theology of God<\/em> (2007) and the co-edited volumes,… (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Emily Gilbert<\/strong> is a Professor of Geography and Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research deals with questions relating to citizenship, mobility, borders, and security, and addresses how North American geopolitical relations are being reshaped through the idea of risk \u2013 both economic and social \u2013 as it has been used to discipline behavior and promote new forms of citizenship.\u00a0Her publications include the co-edited volumes, Nation-States and Money … (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Gilberto Rosas\u00a0<\/strong>is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latinx Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His expertise includes questions of state formation, immigration, criminality, race and its intersections, borders, biopolitics, and ethnographic research techniques in the thickening Mexico-United States borderlands. His award-winning book, Barrio Libre: Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier<\/em> (Duke, 2012), combines notions of state power and sovereignty with oral histories of barrio libre\u2019s inhabitants, … (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Rebecca Bryant\u00a0<\/strong>is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. Her work has focused on ethnic conflict and displacement, border practices, post-conflict reconciliation, and contested sovereignty on both sides of the Cyprus Green Line, as well as in Turkey. Her publications include\u00a0The Past in Pieces: Belonging in the New Cyprus (2012)\u00a0<\/em>and most recently\u00a0The Anthropology of the Future<\/em>, (2019, co-authored with Daniel Knight). Her research over the past decade has concerned … (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Anthropologist Andrew Gilbert<\/strong> has a PhD from University of Chicago and has been doing research in Bosnia and Herzegovina for nearly 20 years. His forthcoming monograph International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy: Encounters in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina<\/em> is an ethnographic analysis of international intervention as a series of open-ended, innovative, and unpredictable encounters across difference and inequality. It highlights the unstable and creative processes … (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Judith Ellen Brunton<\/strong> is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto\u2019s Department for the Study of Religion. Judith\u2019s current project explores how legacies of oil extraction allow for specific contemporary imaginaries of the good life in Alberta. Judith follows how oil companies, government agencies, and community organizations in Alberta use oil to describe a specific set of morals and values.\u00a0This includes case studies on: Imperial Oil\u2019s publications on history and culture, Energy Heritage sites, … (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Neena Mahadev<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences at Yale-NUS College, and a Research Associate within the Religion & Globalization Cluster at the Asia Research Institute (ARI) at National University of Singapore. She carried out dissertation fieldwork in Sri Lanka for more than 24 months in 2009-2011 with support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Her work appears in Current Anthropology<\/em>, and … (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Girish Daswani <\/strong>is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at UTSC. Girish\u2019s research interests include Ghana, religion, morality and ethics, transnationalism, corruption and activism. His most recent scholarly work has been exploring different activist and religious responses to corruption in Ghana. In addition to several journal articles, he has published a monograph entitled “Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost” (2015, University of Toronto Press) … (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Ali-Reza Bhojani<\/strong> is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education and lecturer at the Al-Mahdi Institute. He holds a PhD in Islamic legal theory from the University of Durham (2013). Ali-Reza is also a research associate at the University of Oxford and honorary fellow at the University of Nottingham following academic positions at both institutions. He is author of Moral Rationalism and Sharia<\/em>:\u00a0Independent rationality in modern Sh\u012b\u2019\u012b u\u1e63\u016bl al-fiqh\u00a0<\/em>(Routledge, 2015)\u00a0and co-editor of … (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Konrad P\u0119dziwiatr<\/strong> holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and MA in European Studies from the University of Exeter (UK), and in Sociology from the Jagiellonian University (Poland). He is a Professor at the Department of European Studies (Cracow University of Economics) and a researcher in the Centre of Migration Research (University of Warsaw) specializing in sociology of Islam, religious dimensions of migration studies and social movements …. (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Fr. Gilbert Sunghera, S.J.<\/strong> completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Irvine (focus: Environmental Psychology \u2013 how people impact their built environments) and a Master in Architecture from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. After working three years as a designer in Los Angeles, he entered religious formation with the Jesuits (a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church), and continued his study on the relationship between religion and architecture at Yale University, … (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Joel Robbins<\/strong> is the Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology and Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He is also the Deputy Head of Department and REF Coordinator of Social Anthropology and the Director of the Max Planck \u2013 Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change. His publications include Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papau New Guinea Society<\/em> (University of California Press, 2004), \u201cKeeping God\u2019s Distance: Sacrifice, Possession and the Problem of Religious Mediation\u201d (American Ethnologist<\/em>, 2017),\u00a0… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Angie Heo<\/strong> is Assistant Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School in Chicago, USA. Her work focuses on religion, media, and political economy, and she has carried out fieldwork in Egypt and South Korea. She is currently researching Evangelical Protestantism and historical configurations of missionary capitalism in the Korean peninsula. For the past decade, she has worked on Coptic Orthodoxy and material cultures of imagination in Egypt. Her recent book is The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt<\/em> (University of California Press 2018), … (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Vlad Naumescu<\/strong> is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Central European University (Vienna\/Budapest). He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Eastern Europe and South India on different Eastern Christian communities, looking at the practices, institutions and politics that shape local traditions. His most recent research…(Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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O.B. Roopesh<\/strong> is a Research Associate in Department of Humanities and Social sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). He works on contemporary South Asia, particularly South Indian Hinduism and Hindu temples. His PhD thesis is entitled… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Levin Mary Jacob<\/strong> is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, the University of Hyderabad, India. Her areas of interests include translation, religion, gender, language and travel. By reading the mission archive, her research explores the work of English Protestant women missionaries among the native Syrian Christian women of Kerala in the 19th century. She has also worked on… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Visakh M.S <\/strong>is a PhD scholar in Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. He is currently working on his PhD thesis titled… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nandagopal R. Menon<\/strong> is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Modern Indian Studies (Cemis) of the University of G\u00f6ttingen. His academic interests include… (Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Muhammed Niyas Ashraf <\/strong>is a Doctoral Fellow at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Culture and Societies, Freie University Berlin. His Ph.D. project ‘Locating Muslim Piety: Arabic- Malayalam Devotional Poetry of Mappilas in the nineteenth century Indian Ocean Littoral’ unravels the different expressions of Islamic piety reflected in Arabic-Malayalam literature under the supervision of Prof. Torsten Tschacher. He received his M.Phil. in History from the University of Delhi for his dissertation titled ‘Reading Makti Tangal: Islamic Modernity and Reform in Colonial Kerala, 1884-1912’. His recent publication…(Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bivitha Easo<\/strong> is a Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hy-derabad, India. Her key areas of interests include minority discourse; religion and politics; Chris-tianities and communities; regional modernities; children’s texts and childhood studies; among others. She has worked on “Childhood under Construction: Children’s Literature and Curricula in Contemporary Kerala” for MPhil dissertation. She is currently working on…(Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"Heather Mellquist<\/strong> Lehto is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on religion, technology, and kinship in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, and she holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and a master\u2019s degree in religious studies from Harvard. Her first book project,\u00a0Holy Infrastructure: The Multisite Church Revolution in South Korea and the United States,<\/em>\u00a0draws on two years of ethnographic research in Seoul and Los Angeles to explore the coordination of technological and religious innovation in some of the world’s first transnational multisite churches.<\/p>\n

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\"\"H\u00e9ctor Acero Ferrer, <\/strong>originally from Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, H\u00e9ctor serves as Associate Director of the Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics<\/em> (CPRSE) at the Institute for Christian Studies<\/em>. Through his involvement at the CPRSE, he has contributed to two multi-year, community-based research projects that explore the impact of religion in public life. In addition to his work at CPRSE, H\u00e9ctor is the Associate Director of the Msgr.\u00a0John\u00a0Mary\u00a0Fraser\u00a0Centre for Practical Theology\u00a0<\/em>at\u00a0Regis College, <\/em>an organization dedicated to bolster scholarship in the field of inter-religious dialogue… (Read More<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Hannah Mayne<\/strong> is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her research looks at the ongoing struggles over gendered ritual at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and practices of Jewish women\u2019s worship in feminist and ultra-orthodox communities.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Fizza Joffrey<\/strong> is a graduate student in the Department for the Study of Religion in a collaborative program with Munk\u2019s Centre for South Asian Studies. Her research explores the intersection of religion, culture, and politics in contemporary South Asia, with a specific focus on radical movements.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Zannah\u00a0Mae Matson<\/strong> is a Ph.D. Candidate in Human Geography at the University of\u00a0Toronto where her research focuses on the construction of landscapes through highway infrastructure development and counterinsurgency doctrine in Colombia. She is a course instructor in Urban Planning and Design at the Ryerson School of Urban and Regional Planning and has been a course instructor at the University of Toronto Department of Geography and Planning. In professional practice, she has worked with Public Work, MassLBP, and OPSYS Landscape Infrastructure Lab, most recently as Project Manager and Lead Exhibition Designer for the Canada Pavilion at the 2016\u00a0Architettura Biennale di Venezia<\/em>. Matson holds a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Victoria (Tori) Sheldon<\/strong> is a PhD candidate in the Anthropology Department and the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation ethnographically examines the rise of Nature Cure (prakriti jeevanam) as a practice of self-healing, a mode of public health activism, and an ecumenical discipline of renunciation in Kerala, south India.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Saharnaz Samaeinejad <\/strong>is a Joseph Bombardier CGS doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto\u2019s Centre for Comparative Literature. She works at the intersection of Marxist political philosophy, materialist-dialectical aesthetics, and lyrical responses to modernity, with a special focus on the history and politics of Persian poetic modernismduring the early-to-mid twentieth century Iran. Her dissertation explores the dialectical link between poetic creativity and critical capacity\/dialectics in the lyrical oeuvre of Furu\u0304gh Farrukhza\u0304d. She received her B.A. in Sociology from Tehran University, and her M.A. in Individualized Studies from NYU.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Elmira Alihosseini <\/strong>has received her MA in cultural anthropology from Johns Hopkins University and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Anthropology at UofT. She is currently conducting fieldwork\u00a0for her dissertation which explores the lives of Afghan refugees in Iran’s most populated shrine city, Mashhad. Moving away from the camp\/ghetto paradigm of the Refugee Studies, her research focuses\u00a0on how Hazara Afghans actively and creatively improvise multiple forms of local\/urban belonging by participating in divergent sites of neighborhood sociability.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Stephen Berquist<\/strong> is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto in the Department of Anthropology, holding MA degrees in Earth Sciences and Anthropology from Columbia University and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Stephen is involved in a range of projects. His dissertation research mobilizes archaeological excavations on the north coast of Peru to interrogate the adequacy of foundational sociological categories such as “religion” and “politics” beyond their relation to the modern secular nation-state, thus re-thinking the organizational forms of which social collectives are capable. He is also involved in ongoing archaeological research at Angkor Thom and in Arequipa and Cusco, Peru, as well as an ethnographic project in Detroit, MI where is assisting Dr. Valentina Napolitano to investigate the use and reuse of Catholic spaces.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Nicholas Howe Bukowski<\/strong> is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is interested in the relationship between sports and Christianity with regards to questions about embodied worship, religious knowledge, the ethics of engaging with popular culture, globalization, Christian geographies, evangelical sociality, and masculinity. He has an MA in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Shaughnessy Dow<\/strong> graduated from the University of Toronto with an MA in Anthropology in November 2019, and intends to return to his studies and pursue a PhD in the coming year. With a profound interest in the nexus between sport, ethnicity, religion and the meaning the mutually constitute in one another, he intends to explore these themes further in a longer doctorate thesis. With deep connections in both Scotland and Ireland, he is also interested in how a singular geographic space can be conceived of in divergent, and sometimes antagonistic ways, by different groups in ethnically plural spaces.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Marianna Reis<\/strong> is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral research focuses on urban planning and urban infrastructure in Palestinian communities in Northern Israel. In particular, her work explores the encounters between Palestinian citizens of Israel, Palestinian Israeli advocacy NGOs, and local\/state bureaucrats in negotiations over urban disrepair and development in Israel\u2019s Palestinian localities, and what they reveal about the materialities of citizenship under settler colonialism.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Christina E. Pasqua<\/strong> is a PhD Candidate in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Book History and Print Culture program at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation explores the politics of Bible translation, particularly how Christian publishing companies in North America have embraced the semiotic codes and conventions of the comic book industry to disseminate the Bible as a visual text. Visual theory and cultural production are not only central to Christina\u2019s dissertation research, but also forms of practice that she has engaged with in various ways, such as: the creation of a digital story<\/a> for the Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations project based on visual ethnographic methods and documentation (e.g., photography and photo essays), graphic design work on WordPress and event posters, watercolour painting, and comic book making. This creative labour is connected to her growing interest in translating her research into popular, arts-based media for wider audiences that better reflects how she herself is a visual learner, thinker, and educator.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Kyle Byron<\/strong> is a PhD student in the Department for the Study of Religion at University of Toronto in the area of Religion, Culture, Politics and a visiting student researcher at the Center for Right-Wing Studies at University of California, Berkeley. His research\u2014grounded in the historical and ethnographic study of street preaching in the San Francisco Bay Area\u2014explores how the promise of a future religious revival shapes and animates Christian worlds in the present.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Saliha Chattoo<\/strong> is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto in the Department for the Study of Religion. Her current project contributes to the growing field of the anthropology of Christianity and looks at Pentecostal youth and performance-based conversion events in the U.S.A. Saliha is currently serving in her third elected term on the board of the\u00a0Society for the Anthropology of Religion<\/a>, a section of the\u00a0American Anthropological Association<\/a>. She is the co-author of a chapter\u00a0entitled “Megachurches and Popular Culture: On Enclaving and Encroaching” in the\u00a0Brill Handbook of Megachurches<\/a>\u00a0(2019), and the co-editor of a special issue of\u00a0Pentecostudies<\/a>\u00a0entitled ‘Gender and Agency in Spirit-filled Christianity” (2016).<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Suzanne van Geuns<\/strong> is a doctoral student at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. Her\u00a0project investigates the instructional internet of rightwing antifeminism, analyzing advice and life lessons circulating on conservative Christian women’s blogging networks and purportedly secular forums that discuss dating, men’s rights, and male self-improvement.\u00a0United against feminism, forum users and bloggers are overwhelmingly concerned about the threat they believe emancipatory movements pose to commonsensical truths describing how men and women really are. Online instruction, in their rendering, becomes the means to hold fast to roles and norms that are fixed and transcendentally ordained. This research examines such instructions to consider how the cultural and material resources of the internet are endowed with the ability to enable gender essentialist projects of self-making and thus secure a\u00a0future free from feminist shifts.<\/p>\n

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