Awarded Fellowships
The Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity is pleased to announce three grant recipients for Nagel Fellowships in 2009.
Mark Fackler
Mark Fackler (CAS Dept.), to collaborate with Levi Obonyo of Kenya on "Media and Peace in East Africa: A Case Study and Call." Their research will concentrate on the ways in which the journalists of East Africa participate in the political process, and the extent to which their work can not only foster transparency and accountability in government, but actually promote civil restraint and conflict resolution.
Amy Patterson 
Amy Patterson (Political Science Dept.), conducted an additional set of consultations with civic, healthcare and religious leaders in southern Africa to complete work on her book, The Church, Politics, and AIDS in Africa.
Ruth Groenhout
Ruth Groenhout (Philosophy Dept.), will collaborate with Yu Zhenhua of the East China Normal University to plan a conference, "Cultures of Knowledge, East and West." Funding for her project is being provided by "Science, Philosophy and Belief," a joint initiative of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the Nagel Institute, and a network of scholars across China, and supported with a grant from the Templeton Foundation.
Nagel Fellowships are designed to support the work of Calvin faculty to advance the aims of the Nagel institute:
- promote a deeper understanding of Christian movements from the global South and East,
- partner with Christian scholars and support Christian thought and cultural engagement in the global South and East, and
- provoke a reorientation of Christian thought and cultural expression in the global North toward the concerns of world Christianity.
Nagel Fellowship awardees from 2007