Michael Amico - "Sensing Desire: Christianity, Materiality, and the Love between Two Civil War Soldiers"
Michael Amico, Yale University, American Studies
Nicole LaBouff - “The Drama of Religious Experience in Elizabethan England: Bess of Hardwick’s Memory Theater Embroideries"
Nicole LaBouff, University of California Irvine, History
Horace Ballard - "An Intimate Acquaintance: Jerusalem and Mecca in Nineteenth-Century American Art"
Horace Ballard, Brown University, American Civilization
Kati Curts - "Remixing Religion: Representing and Recollecting Secular Time"
Kati Curts, Yale University, Religious Studies
Mira Niculescu - "Water and Pebbles: The Polysemy of Zen Aesthetics in Contemporary Western Societies, from Consumer Culture to Jewish Meditation"
Mira Niculescu, Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; and Columbia University, Religious Studies; Jewish Studies
Gregory Johnson - "Royal Genealogies, a God of Wrath, and the Kingdom Come: Religious Performativity and its Limits in the Native Hawaiian Federal Recognition Meetings 2014"
Gregory Johnson, Department of Religious Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
Naomi Billingsley - "Transfiguring Crucifixion in the Pictorial Works of William Blake"
Naomi Billingsley, School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures, University of Manchester
Cécile Fromont - "Paper, Ink, Vodun, and the Inquisition"
Cécile Fromont, Art History, University of Chicago
Pamela Klassen - “Slow Media: The Sensory Cultures of Stories in Missionary-Indigenous Relations”
Pamela Klassen, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
Jennifer Graber - "Reading Religion in Kiowa Indian Expressive Culture"
Jennifer Graber, Department of Religious Studies, University of Texas at Austin