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Henry Luce Senior Fellowship

Honoring the American magazine publisher, the Henry Luce Senior fellowship has been awarded annually since 1996. Henry Luce built a publishing empire including Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, becoming one of the most powerful figures in the history of American journalism. Time sought to present news in narrative form and stressed world events, an area that Luce believed was neglected in American newspapers and magazines. Publications frequently utilized library research materials to make stories and articles more complete.

The Henry Luce Senior fellowship was endowed by the Henry Luce Foundation and was designed to support scholars who could be especially effective in stimulating interdisciplinary exchanges among their peers. The Henry Luce Foundation, established by Henry in 1936, honored his parents who were missionary educators in China. Today, the Foundation advances its mission through grantmaking and leadership programs in the fields of Asian studies, higher education, religion and theology, art, and public policy.

1996–1997 Paul Strohm Indiana University, Bloomington Usurpation and Symbolic Legitimation in Lancastrian England
1997–1998 Richard Trexler Binghamton University, State University of New York Playing the Crucified: The Social Drama of Good Friday in Past and Present
1998–1999 Bertram Wyatt-Brown University of Florida Melancholy’s Children: Southern Writers and Alienation
1999–2000 Sherry Ortner Columbia University The Newark: An Ethnographic Study of Class and Culture in the United States
2001–2002 Elizabeth Clark Duke University Rewriting the History of Early Christianity
2002–2003 Sherman Cochran Cornell University Inside a Chinese Family: The Private Correspondence of the Lius of Shanghai, 1910–1956
2003–2004 Stephen Murray Columbia University Telling the Story of Gothic: Building and Interlocutor
2004–2005 Joel Marcus Duke University The Passion Narrative in the Gospel of Mark
2005–2006 Gary Macy University of San Diego Ordination and Women in the Medieval West
2006–2007 James Dobbins Oberlin College Religious Meanings in Japanese Buddhist Art
2007–2008 David Wong Duke University Chinese Philosophy, Moral Psychology, and Practical Reason
2008–2009 Tomiko Yoda Duke University Girl Time: Gender, Media, and Postmodern Consumer Culture in Japan
2009–2010 Charles Orzech University of North Carolina at Greensboro The Secrets of the Three Mountains: Esoteric Buddhism in Continental East Asia, 755–1279
2010–2011 Bernard Levinson University of Minnesota Revelation and Redaction: The Role of Intellectual Models in Biblical Studies
2011–2012 Dorothy Wong University of Virginia Formation of an International Buddhist Art Idiom in East Asia, c. 640–760
2012–2013 Cynthia Brokaw Brown University Transforming the Frontier: Education, Book Culture, and the Rise of ”Sichuan Learning”
2013–2014 Jinhua Chen University of British Columbia Sacred Bone: Relic-Worship in Medieval China
2014–2015 Jinhua Jia University of Macau Religiosity and Literacy: The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China (618–907)
2015–2016 Norman Kutcher Syracuse University Eunuchs in the Age of China’s Last Great Emperors
2016–2017 Christopher Grasso College of William & Mary Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War
2017–2018 Caroline Jones Massachusetts Institute of Technology Contested Visibilities and the Anthropogenic Image
2018–2019 Bart Ehrman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Invention of Heaven and Hell
2019–2020 Olga Dror Texas A&M University Ho Chi Minh’s Cult in Vietnamese Statehood
2020–2021 Rivi Handler-Spitz Macalester College Contentious Conversations: Masters, Disciples, and the Culture of Yulu Literature in Late Ming China
2021–2022 Howard Chiang University of California, Davis A Transcultural Revolution of the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis and Chinese Culture across the Pacific
2022–2023 David Brakke The Ohio State University A Religion of the Books: The New Testament and Other Early Christian Scriptural Practices
2023–2024 Richard J. Powell Duke University Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect
2024–2025 Kim Haines-Eitzen Cornell University Crossing the River of Fire: Apocalypse, Transformation, and the Elements in Late Antiquity