Congratulations to the 2020-21 Joint Projects Award winners

As part of its mission, IRCPL works to facilitate the study of religion and public life for faculty in a wide range of departments. With the annual Joint Projects Award, IRCPL selects a number of projects and works directly with Columbia faculty to organize conferences, working groups, seminars and other programs that bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars.

The projects selected for the 2020-21 academic year are:

Nadia Abu El-Haj (Barnard, Anthropology) & Lana Tatour (Center for Palestine Studies)
Race, Religion, and the Question of Palestine

Maria José De Abreu (Anthropology)
Populism and New Theopolitical Formations in the Americas

Mana Kia (MESAAS) & Debashree Mukherjee (MESAAS)
Oceanic Imaginations: Fluid Histories and Mobile Cultures

Timothy Mitchell (MESAAS) & Mohamed Amer Meziane (Religion)
The Political Theologies of Empire and the Anthropocene

Anupama Rao (Barnard, History)
Ambedkar’s Religion

Read more about the projects.