BCSR rewards promising young scholars from diverse disciplines with New Directions in Theology grants and faculty mentorship to create and shape a long-term community of inquiry on religion on the Berkeley campus. These graduate students explore new directions for the study of religion through biweekly meetings convened by BCSR faculty.
Spring 2023
- Olufunke Bamidele Fasawe, Public Health
- Courtney Bither, History
- Tiffany Castillo, Social Welfare MSW-MPH CDP and Public Health MPH-MSW CDP
- Rosamond Herling, Slavic Languages and Literature
- Patricia Kubala, Anthropology
- Ryan Lackey, English
- Emily Martin, History
- Amar Zaidi, History
- Christin Zurbach, History
Fall 2021
- Courtney Bither, History
- Yesenia Brambila, Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
- Sourav Ghosh, History
- Hu Hsu, History
- Dylan Kenny, Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
- David Kurkovskiy, Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Kevin Ogunniyi, English
- Flavio Santini, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology
2019-2020
- Joshua Benjamins, Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
- Simon Brown, History
- Aaron Eldridge, Anthropology
- Nesma Gewily, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
- Ashwak Hauter, Medical Anthropology
- Maddie Lesser, English
- Allyson Tang, Chinese Language
- Alexander Ullman, English
2018-2019
- Patrick Delehanty, English
- Gideon Enz, Asian Studies
- Nikolas Gable, English and Medieval Studies
- Kristen Hook, Italian Studies
- Petra Lamberson, Buddhist Studies
- Jacob Liming, Anthropology
- Sam Stubblefield, History
- Allyson Tang, Chinese Language
2017-2018
- Remi Alie, History
- Nir Feinberg, Buddhist Studies
- Bernardo Hinojosa, English and Medieval Studies
- Kimberly Kolor, South and Southeast Asian Studies
- Kyra Sutton, Rhetoric
- Paul Thomas, South and Southeast Asian Studies
- Josefina Valdes, Anthropology
- Mustafa Yildiz, History
2016-2017
- Maxwell Brandstadt, Buddhist Studies
- Aaron Eldridge, Anthropology
- Brent Eng, Anthropology
- Shterna Friedman, Political Science
- Mohamad Jarada, Anthropology
- Landon Reitz, German
- Max Stevenson, English
- Madeline Wyse, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures