Berkley Center

Rebecca Shah currently serves as principal investigator for the Religion and Economic Empowerment Project (REEP), funded by the Templeton Religion Trust. She is also a senior fellow at the Archbridge Institute. Based in Bangalore, India, she is a pioneering scholar of the impact of religion on the social and economic lives of poor women in the Global South and particularly in South Asia. Shah was an associate scholar with the Berkley Center's Religious Freedom Project and a part of its Christianity and Freedom Project, as well as a research fellow at the Berkley Center.