Global Fellows

Jethro Calacday

  • PhD: Trinity College, Cambridge

  • Discipline: History

  • Dissertation: “American Imperialism and the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines”

  • Current Location: Cambridge, UK

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Andrew Dickson

  • PhD: School of Global Studies, University of Sussex

  • Discipline: International Relations

  • Dissertation: “Religious Engagement in Contemporary British Foreign Policy: The Birth of a Postsecular Paradigm?”

  • Current Location: London, UK

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Jacob Katumusiime

  • PhD: Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda)

  • Discipline: Interdisciplinary PhD (Religion and Politics)

  • Dissertation: “Beyond Religio-Cultural Violence: A Historico-Political Re-Contextualization of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God.’

  • Current Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

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Thahir Jamal Kiliyamannil

  • PhD: University of Hyderabad (India)

  • Discipline: Comparative Literature

  • Dissertation: “Islam, State, and Sovereignty: Genealogy of Muslim Subject Formation in Malabar”

  • Current Location: Hyderabad, India

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Dina Osama Lotfy

  • PhD: Cairo University, Egypt

  • Discipline: Political Science

  • Dissertation: “Religious Institutions’ Stances towards Autocratization”

  • Current Location: Cairo, Egypt

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Ely Orrego-Torres

  • PhD: Northwestern University

  • Discipline: Political Science

  • Dissertation: “Freeing Religion: Transnational Religio-Spiritual Networks in the Americas”

  • Current Location: Chicago, Illinois