Past Hardigg Fellows
Year | Faculty Instructor(s) | Hardigg Lecture Title | Hardigg Fellow |
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 |