Past Fellows
| Year | Faculty Instructor(s) | Hardigg Lecture Title | Hardigg Fellow |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Christopher MacEvitt | Forever Young: Gender and Christian Imperial Representation in the Early Theodosian Age | Susanna Elm, University of California, Bekeley |
| 2024 | Christopher MacEvitt | Work Ethic, Sloth, and Prosperity: The Intersection of Economics and Virtues in Late Antique Christianity | Jaclyn Maxwell, Ohio University |
| 2023 | Christopher MacEvitt | Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity | Georgia Frank, Colgate University |
| 2022 | Christopher MacEvitt | Bad Faith: Why the Jews Aren't a Religion | Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2020 | Gil Raz | Dunhuang: Buddhist Art at the Crossroads of Asia | Michelle Wang, Georgetown University |
| 2019 | Gil Raz | Filled with Meaning: Why do the Contents of East Asian Statues Matter? | James Robson, Harvard University |
| 2018 | Gil Raz | Prayer & Buddhism? | Stephen F. Teiser, Princeton University |
| 2017 | Randall Balmer | Torture and Christianity | Elizabeth Castelli, Columbia University |
| 2016 | Reiko Ohnuma & Susan Ackerman | Goddesses, Women, and Star Persona in Bollywood Film | Kathleen Erndl, Florida State University |
| 2015 | A. Kevin Reinhart | The Secular Bible: Biblical Scholarship and the University in the 19th Century | Tomoko Mazuzawa, University of Michigan |
| 2014 | Ehud Benor | The Elementary Forms of Religion in Modernity | Nancy Levene, Yale University |
| 2013 | Reiko Ohnuma & Christopher MacEvitt | A Site of Blessings, Dreams & Wonders: The Egyptian Saint's Shrine as Crucible of Christianization, ca. 400-700 CE | David Frankfurter, William Goodwin Aurelio Chair Professor for the Appreciation of Scripture, Department of Religion, Boston University |
| 2012 | Reiko Ohnuma & Christopher MacEvitt | Song, Experience, and the Book in Christian Monasticism | Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School |
| 2011 | Susannah Heschel & Nancy Frankenberry | Job, God, and the Problem of Evil | Susan Neiman, Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany |
| 2010 | Nancy Frankenberry | Does the Study of Religion NEED Philosophy | Robert Neville, Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology, Boston University |
| 2009 | Nancy Frankenberry | Religion as a Natural Phenomenon and the New Atheism | Daniel C. Dennett, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy Tufts University |
| 2008 | Ehud Benor | The Rebirth of Political Theology | Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities, Columbia University |
| 2005 | A. Kevin Reinhart | John Bowen, Washington University, Saint Louis | |
| 2005 | A. Kevin Reinhart & Ehud Benor | Brian Cantwell Smith | |
| 2003 | Nancy Frankenberry & A. Kevin Reinhart | Jose Casanova, New School | |
| 2001 | Nancy Frankenberry & A. Kevin Reinhart | Pascal Boyer | |
| 2000 | Nancy Frankenberry & A. Kevin Reinhart | Stewart Guthrie, Fordham University | |
| 1999 | Nancy Frankenberry & Hans Penner | Opulence and Faith in Twelfth Century France and China: The Abbey Church of St. Denis and the Temple of Universal Mercy | Robert Gimello, University of Arizona |
2025
Christopher MacEvitt
Forever Young: Gender and Christian Imperial Representation in the Early Theodosian Age
Susanna Elm, University of California, Bekeley
2024
Christopher MacEvitt
Work Ethic, Sloth, and Prosperity: The Intersection of Economics and Virtues in Late Antique Christianity
Jaclyn Maxwell, Ohio University
2023
Christopher MacEvitt
Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity
Georgia Frank, Colgate University
2022
Christopher MacEvitt
Bad Faith: Why the Jews Aren't a Religion
Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley
2020
Gil Raz
Dunhuang: Buddhist Art at the Crossroads of Asia
Michelle Wang, Georgetown University
2019
Gil Raz
Filled with Meaning: Why do the Contents of East Asian Statues Matter?
James Robson, Harvard University
2018
Gil Raz
Prayer & Buddhism?
Stephen F. Teiser, Princeton University
2017
Randall Balmer
Torture and Christianity
Elizabeth Castelli, Columbia University
2016
Reiko Ohnuma & Susan Ackerman
Goddesses, Women, and Star Persona in Bollywood Film
Kathleen Erndl, Florida State University
2015
A. Kevin Reinhart
The Secular Bible: Biblical Scholarship and the University in the 19th Century
Tomoko Mazuzawa, University of Michigan
2014
Ehud Benor
The Elementary Forms of Religion in Modernity
Nancy Levene, Yale University
2013
Reiko Ohnuma & Christopher MacEvitt
A Site of Blessings, Dreams & Wonders: The Egyptian Saint's Shrine as Crucible of Christianization, ca. 400-700 CE
David Frankfurter, William Goodwin Aurelio Chair Professor for the Appreciation of Scripture, Department of Religion, Boston University
2012
Reiko Ohnuma & Christopher MacEvitt
Song, Experience, and the Book in Christian Monasticism
Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School
2011
Susannah Heschel & Nancy Frankenberry
Job, God, and the Problem of Evil
Susan Neiman, Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany
2010
Nancy Frankenberry
Does the Study of Religion NEED Philosophy
Robert Neville, Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology, Boston University
2009
Nancy Frankenberry
Religion as a Natural Phenomenon and the New Atheism
Daniel C. Dennett, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy Tufts University
2008
Ehud Benor
The Rebirth of Political Theology
Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities, Columbia University
2005
A. Kevin Reinhart
John Bowen, Washington University, Saint Louis
2005
A. Kevin Reinhart & Ehud Benor
Brian Cantwell Smith
2003
Nancy Frankenberry & A. Kevin Reinhart
Jose Casanova, New School
2001
Nancy Frankenberry & A. Kevin Reinhart
Pascal Boyer
2000
Nancy Frankenberry & A. Kevin Reinhart
Stewart Guthrie, Fordham University
1999
Nancy Frankenberry & Hans Penner
Opulence and Faith in Twelfth Century France and China: The Abbey Church of St. Denis and the Temple of Universal Mercy
Robert Gimello, University of Arizona