Congratulations to Professor Maggie Popkin, who has been awarded an Expanding Horizons Initiative Large Experimental Humanities Grant for her project “Embodied Religion and Extended Reality: The Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Humanistic Study of Sacred Space,” co-directed with Professor Tina Howe of the Religious Studies Department. The grant will support the research and development of two co-authored articles and a co-authored book on the intersection of extended reality technologies and religious knowledge, as well as an international symposium on the topic in Greece in spring 2025.