People
The New Directions in the Study of Prayer project is led by a multi-disciplinary SSRC advisory committee. Launched in September 2011, NDSP invited proposals from scholars in all disciplines for studies that will enhance knowledge of the social, cultural, psychological, and cognitive dimensions of prayer, and of its origins, variations, and correlations in human life. In September 2012, NDSP announced the selection of twenty-eight grantees, including both researchers and journalists. Over the coming years, grantees will participate in a series of interdisciplinary workshops and digital initiatives organized in conjunction with the project.
Advisory Committee |
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Courtney BenderProfessor, Department of Religion, Columbia University |
Paul BloomBrooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor, Department of Psychology, Yale University |
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Anna GadeVilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Charles HirschkindAssociate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley |
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Kevin LaddAssociate Professor, Department of Psychology, Indiana University, South Bend |
Hazel MarkusDavis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, Stanford University |
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Birgit MeyerProfessor, Department of Religious Studies and Theology, Universiteit Utrecht |
Peter van der VeerDirector, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen |
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Diane WinstonKnight Chair in Media and Religion, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California |
Researchers |
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Mark AveyardAssistant Professor, Department of Psychology, American University of Sharjah |
Anderson BlantonPostdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Fenella CannellReader, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science |
Thomas CsordasProfessor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego |
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Shira GabrielAssociate Professor, Department of Psychology, SUNY Buffalo |
Parvis Ghassem-FachandiAssistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University |
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Jeremy GingesAssociate Professor, Department of Psychology, The New School |
Leor HaleviAssociate Professor, Department of History, Vanderbilt University |
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Nicholas HarknessAssistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University |
Jonathan LanePostdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education |
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Sonja LuehrmannAssistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University |
Tanya LuhrmannProfessor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University |
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Ruth MarshallAssistant Professor, Department for the Study of Religion and of Political Science, University of Toronto |
Elizabeth McAlisterAssociate Professor, Department of Religion, Wesleyan University |
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John ModernAssociate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College |
Sanal MohanAssociate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University |
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Ebenezer ObadareAssociate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas |
Robert OrsiProfessor, Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University |
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Fareen ParvezAssistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Rebekah RichertAssociate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside |
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Don SeemanAssociate Professor, Department of Religion, Emory University |
Mark TaylorProfessor, Department of Religion, Columbia University |
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Stephen F. TeiserProfessor, Department of Religion, Princeton University |
Henry WellmanProfessor, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan |
Journalists |
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Norris ChumleyProducer and Host, Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life |
Elizabeth DrescherSenior Correspondent, Religion Dispatches |
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Peter ManseauFreelance Journalist |
Savitri MedhatulFreelance Journalist |
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Emma-Kate SymonsFreelance Journalist |
Christine WickerFreelance Journalist |
NDSP Editors |
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Taline CoxEditorial Associate |
Candace E. WestManaging Editor |
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Wei ZhuEditorial Associate |
Zachary ZinnTechnical Consultant |