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Julia Watts Belser

April 11, 2025

Julia Watts Belser Book Wins 2025 Grawemeyer Religion Award

Rabbi Julia Watts Belser, Berkley Center senior research fellow, has been awarded the 2025 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her book Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole (2023). Belser's insights challenge current exclusionary norms and open new paths for inclusive theology. 

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April 5, 2025

Becky Hsu on Community and Kinship in Contemporary China

Berkley Center Senior Fellow Becky Yang Hsu recently appeared on the New Books Network Podcast to discuss her latest edited volume, The Extraordinary in the Mundane: Family and Forms of Community in China (2024). In the episode Hsu highlights the role of informal social ties and family networks in community formation in China.

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The WFLF 2024-2025 fellows and the WFLF team.

February 9, 2026

Women Faith Leaders Speak on Maternal Health Gaps in Kenya

Kenyan nuns are providing vital maternal health care in climate‑stressed regions. Member of the Women Faith Leaders Fellowship (WFLF) 2025-2026 cohort Sister Michelle Njeri, OSF, and WFLF alumna Sister Teresa Kiragu, ASN, are quoted on their faith‑driven efforts to protect mothers and newborns.

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January 29, 2026

Religion, Ethics, and World Affairs Minor Program Inspires Students to Research and Reflect

The Religion, Ethics, and World Affairs Minor (REWA) is an academic program run by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. As a core project of the center’s student programs, the REWA minor invites Georgetown students to learn about the many ways in which religious traditions have been uniquely intertwined with the everchanging world around us.

Jerome Copulsky speaks at an event.

January 1, 2026

Jerome Copulsky on What Comes After the Declaration of Independence

In a Liberty Fund essay, Berkley Center Research Fellow Jerome Copulsky reflects on what the founding document left open once independence was declared, arguing that the declaration offers guiding ideals, but the work of turning those principles into reality falls to each generation. 

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