Fellows' Podcasts

ISM Fellow and religious ethicist Ryan Darr pulls no punches in talking global climate crisis.

Katie Dimmery’s work focuses on the ways in which communities and identities are shaped by artistic ritual in the southwest region of China.

Dr. Peter Boudreau sheds light on time in Byzantium through his work on Byzantine calendar icons.

Cory Hunter speaks with Sindy Yang (MAR ‘25) about his research on gospel music.

Nadia Kizenko joins Ariana Hones (MDiv ‘25) in conversation to discuss Kizenko’s research on Orthodox liturgy in Ukraine.

Samantha Slaubaugh offers insights into her work on Douceline of Digne as a rare paradigm of liturgical practice among the Beguines of Marseilles.

ISM Fellow and art historian Catalina Ospina investigates the oral production of resin-glossed mopa mopa objects by indigenous colonial Andean artists

ISM Fellow Dr. Melanie R. Hill, grew up attuned to the rhythms and cadences of African American preaching.

Dr. Christopher-Rasheem McMillan talks about Christianity, dance, gender, color and queerness in 2021 is like putting on a new pair of shades.

Bongani Ndodana-Breen explores his latest composition.

In the spiralling connections of Haitian culture, Rebecca Dirksen notes that the “spaces of Carnival often become political spaces.”

Dr. Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina was riding the train into Paris as a university student when she had a scholarly and spiritual revelation.

Dr. Carla Neuss is an ISM Fellow with a Ph.D. in theatre & performance studies from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2021.

As a pianist and singer growing up in Kenyan Pentecostalism, Dr. Jean Ngoya Kidula absorbed a multi-layered musical and religious landscape.

Dr. Fitzgerald’s project at The ISM is entitled “No Pure Lands: The Contemporary Buddhism of Tibetan Lay Women.”

Melvin L. Butler journeys into this crossing of boundaries and its impact on Jamaican congregations and the music they make.