2024-2025 Boniuk Institute Graduate Scholars
The Boniuk Institute is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 Graduate Scholars, whose tenure will begin in the fall of 2024. Scholars will partake in a range of scholarly research and outreach endeavors, helping to create and launch the Institute's study of religion in Houston and receiving training in and contributing to qualitative/ interpretive interview data analysis and academic publications.
Scholars will attend the weekly Scholars' Meeting of the Boniuk Institute's Religion and Public Life Center, where they will present their ongoing research to a scholarly group of peers, and they will participate in the Boniuk Institute Reading Religion Salon, where they will review current literature on topics of religion, religious pluralism, and tolerance with an eye toward publishing the reviews. They will contribute to the Institute's monthly newsletter and assist with the planning, preparation, and running of a scholarly conference to be held in the spring of 2025.
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Akpan Ubong-Abasi
Department of Religion
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Mai Lootah
Department of Religion
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Akpan is a PhD candidate in African/ African American Religions. His research interest is in the comparative study of religions with keen attention to interaction of religions/ inter-faith relations, theorizing measures and paradigms towards addressing evolving tensions between intra/ interfaith traditions.
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Mai holds a master's degree in Cultural Astronomy from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Her research interests include the history of science, Islamic philosophical thought, Islamic art, Sufism, mysticism, and linguistics.
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