Professor Maggie Popkin awarded Expanding Horizons Initiative Large Experimental Humanities Grant

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.