Former Fellows

2019–⁠20

Mosab abou toha

Mosab Abu Toha

Harvard Scholar at Risk 2019–⁠20

Mosab Abu Toha is a young Palestinian poet living in Beit Lahia, Gaza. A graduate in English Literature, he enjoys writing stories and poems of his own....

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Mario cader

Mario Cader-Frech

Fellow in Media & Entertainment 2018–⁠21

Mario Cader-Frech supports the RLP’s efforts to foster critical reflection and collaborative relationships to improve religious literacy within the...

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John Camardella

Program Fellow in Education
MRPL '22

John Camardella is a secondary school educator who has pioneered a cultural studies approach to teaching about religion in his own school and district. He...

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shaun casey

Shaun Casey

Religious Literacy and the Professions Fellow 2018–⁠19, 2019–⁠20

Shaun Casey is director of the Berkley Center and a professor of the practice in Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service. He previously was U.S....

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Austin Crowder

Religious Literacy and Education Fellow 2019–⁠20

Austin Crowder was raised in the Los Angeles area but found his home six years ago in Memphis, Tennessee. He teaches high school government and economics...

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Abby esposito

Abby Esposito

Religious Literacy and Education Fellow 2018–⁠19, 2019–⁠20

Abby Esposito is a social studies teacher in her fourth year of teaching at Conard High School in West Hartford, Connecticut. She currently teaches United...

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Amira hass

Amira Hass

Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow 2019–⁠20

Amira Hass is the Haaretz correspondent for the Occupied Territories. Born in Jerusalem in 1956, Hass was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,...

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Andy Housiaux

Religious Literacy and Education Fellow 2019–⁠20

Andrew Housiaux has taught in public and private schools in Massachusetts and New York City since 2004. He is currently the Currie Family Director of the...

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gregory khalil

Gregory Khalil

Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Non-Resident Fellow 2019–⁠20

Gregory Khalil, a Palestinian-American social entrepreneur, is the co-founder and President of the Telos Group, a Washington D.C.-based non-...

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Debra mason

Debra Mason

Religious Literacy and the Professions Fellow 2018–⁠19, 2019–⁠20

Debra L. Mason is among the leading scholars and trainers of how religion is portrayed in the media, with more than 35 years of professional and scholarly...

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Tom mehager

Tom Mehager

Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow 2019–⁠20

Tom is the Program Manager, Globalization and Sovereignty Cluster at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He holds a first degree in cinema and television...

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atalia omer

Atalia Omer

T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding
Senior Fellow in Conflict and Peace

Atalia Omer is a Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Keough School of Global...

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rebecca pierce

Rebecca Pierce

Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Non-Resident Fellow 2019–⁠20

Rebecca Pierce is an African-American Jewish documentary filmmaker and journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work focuses on issues of...

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Kurt prescott

Kurt Prescott

Religious Literacy and Education Fellow 2019–⁠20

Kurt Prescott is the current chair of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he began...

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LaTasha Sarpy

Religious Literacy and Education Fellow 2018–⁠19, 2019–⁠20

LaTasha Sarpy is a Professor of Sociology at Bunker Hill Community College. For the past seven years, LaTasha has worked on developing a culturally...

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Noam shouster

Noam Shouster

Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow 2019–⁠20

Noam Shouster is a freelance comedian, performer, peacebuilder and activist. She has performed in a variety of venues, including East Jerusalem, Berlin,...

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Rami younis

Rami Younis

Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow 2019–⁠20

Rami Younis is a Palestinian writer and cultural activist from Lyd, who graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He currently writes for the...

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2018–⁠19

Mario cader

Mario Cader-Frech

Fellow in Media & Entertainment 2018–⁠21

Mario Cader-Frech supports the RLP’s efforts to foster critical reflection and collaborative relationships to improve religious literacy within the...

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John Camardella Headshot 2022

John Camardella

Program Fellow in Education
MRPL '22

John Camardella is a secondary school educator who has pioneered a cultural studies approach to teaching about religion in his own school and district. He...

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shaun casey

Shaun Casey

Religious Literacy and the Professions Fellow 2018–⁠19, 2019–⁠20

Shaun Casey is director of the Berkley Center and a professor of the practice in Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service. He previously was U.S....

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Abby esposito

Abby Esposito

Religious Literacy and Education Fellow 2018–⁠19, 2019–⁠20

Abby Esposito is a social studies teacher in her fourth year of teaching at Conard High School in West Hartford, Connecticut. She currently teaches United...

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Debra mason

Debra Mason

Religious Literacy and the Professions Fellow 2018–⁠19, 2019–⁠20

Debra L. Mason is among the leading scholars and trainers of how religion is portrayed in the media, with more than 35 years of professional and scholarly...

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atalia omer

Atalia Omer

T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding
Senior Fellow in Conflict and Peace

Atalia Omer is a Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Keough School of Global...

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LaTasha Sarpy

Religious Literacy and Education Fellow 2018–⁠19, 2019–⁠20

LaTasha Sarpy is a Professor of Sociology at Bunker Hill Community College. For the past seven years, LaTasha has worked on developing a culturally...

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2020–⁠21

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Salem Al Qudwa

2021–⁠22 Fellow in Conflict and Peace

An award-winning architect and university lecturer, Salem explores everyday architecture as a resource for positive social transformation. His project is...

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Mario cader

Mario Cader-Frech

Fellow in Media & Entertainment 2018–⁠21

Mario Cader-Frech supports the RLP’s efforts to foster critical reflection and collaborative relationships to improve religious literacy within the...

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John Camardella Headshot 2022

John Camardella

Program Fellow in Education
MRPL '22

John Camardella is a secondary school educator who has pioneered a cultural studies approach to teaching about religion in his own school and district. He...

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Oriel Eisner

2021–⁠22 Topol Fellow in Conflict and Peace

As the Director of the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, Oriel oversees and accompanies the delegations that bring Jewish activists to join in solidarity and co-resistance efforts with Palestinian and Israeli grassroots leaders. His project as an RCPI Topol fellow is to develop an activist residency program for Jewish artists and/or spiritual leaders to further develop their leadership skillsand projects and support organizing efforts on the ground.... Read more about Oriel Eisner

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Noura Erakat

2021–⁠22 Fellow in Conflict and Peace

An established legal scholar at Rutgers University, social justice activist, human rights attorney, and recent author of Justice for Some: Law and the...

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Abby

Abby Esposito

2020–⁠21 Religion and Public Life Fellow in Education

Abby Esposito is a social studies teacher at Conard High School in West Hartford, Connecticut. She currently teaches United States History, Genocide...

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Fady Khoury

2021–⁠22 Topol Fellow in Conflict and Peace

Fady is a Palestinian lawyer pursuing his S.J.D. degree at Harvard Law School. He is a civil and political rights attorney at the non-profit human rights...

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Rana Khoury

2021–⁠22 Fellow in Conflict and Peace

Rana Khoury, Vice President for Development & Outreach at Dar al-Kalima University, directly manages the civic engagement and adult education tracks...

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2021-22

PHIL TORREY: RPL Immigration and Refugee Fellow

Phil Torrey

RPL Immigrant Rights Fellow

Philip L. Torrey is the Director of the Harvard Law School Crimmigration Clinic, the Managing Attorney of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical...

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2022–⁠23

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John Camardella

Program Fellow in Education
MRPL '22

John Camardella is a secondary school educator who has pioneered a cultural studies approach to teaching about religion in his own school and district. He...

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Rabea Eghbariah

2022–⁠23 Topol Fellow in Conflict and Peace
Rabea Eghbariah is a human rights attorney completing his doctoral studies at Harvard Law School. He worked as an appellate public defender before joining the... Read more about Rabea Eghbariah
Ans Irfan, MRPL Candidate

Ans Irfan

Program Fellow in Public Health
MRPL '22

Ans Irfan, MD, EdD, DrPH, MPH, MRPL is an Associate Professor at the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine,...

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PHIL TORREY: RPL Immigration and Refugee Fellow

Phil Torrey

RPL Immigrant Rights Fellow

Philip L. Torrey is the Director of the Harvard Law School Crimmigration Clinic, the Managing Attorney of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical...

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Raef Zreik

Raef Zreik

Religion and Public Life Visiting Scholar in Conflict and Peace
Raef Zreik holds an LLB and LLM from Hebrew University, an LLM from Columbia University, and an SJD from Harvard Law School. His dissertation deals with... Read more about Raef Zreik