Announcing Our 2026 Travel Grant Winners

We are happy to announce the 2026 awardees of our November Annual Meeting Travel Grants. AAR hosts three annual journey grant applications:

Please be part of us in recognizing and celebrating these students!

The Judith Plaskow Travel Grant

This yr, because of the generosity of a number of donations made to the Judith Plaskow Travel Grant Fund, we had been in a position to reward two grants to students scheduled to current on the November Annual Meeting.

2026 Recipients

Shenaz Haqqani, Mercer University
Amy Allan, NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community

Funded in honor of the previous AAR president’s influential work in Jewish feminism and Plaskow’s enduring legacy in feminist approaches to the examine of faith, the Judith Plaskow Travel Grant is awarded yearly to a pupil or impartial scholar who’s scheduled to current a paper centrally knowledgeable by and/or contributing to feminist approaches to the examine of faith on the November Annual Meeting.

The Religion and the Arts Travel Grant

2026 Recipient

Abigail Schweizer, Yale Divinity School

Funded by way of the generosity of Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, the Religion and the Arts Travel Grant is awarded yearly to a graduate pupil finding out faith and the humanities who’s with out institutional help to attend the November Annual Meeting.

The Annual Meeting Travel Grant

The Annual Meeting Travel Grant program awards 15 grants on a aggressive foundation to members who take part within the November Annual Meeting.

2026 Recipients

Donagh Coleman, University of California Berkeley
Rachaell Diaz, University of Florida
Anahita Hoose, International School for Jain Studies
Rushnae Kabir
Rev. Kendrick Kemp, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Younghwa Kim
Jessica Knippel, Claremont Graduate School
Donghyung Lee, Yale University
Samira Musleh, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
Vaidehi Paneri, Syracuse University
Anthony Scott, University of Tokyo
Mark Inigo Tallara, University of the Philippines Diliman
Darig Thokmay, University of Cambridge
Pablo Vazquez, Graduate Theological Union
Aixin Yi, Boston University