| Name | Year | Project |
| Tzvi Abusch | 2001-02 | The healing "message" in the anti-witchcraft literature of Babylonia and Assyria |
| Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf | 2003-05 | Policy recommendations for improving the experience of war-displaced women in Sudan |
| Monni Adams | 2002-03 | Ritual and religious practice in the forest zone of West Africa |
| Afeosemime Adogame | 2003-04 | African migrant churches in the United States |
| Akbar Ahmed | 1983-84 | Islam and Pakistan |
| Shahab Ahmed | 2007-08 | "Curriculum, Canon, and Interpretive Authority in the Madrasahs of Pakistan" |
| Ashok Ahuja | 1995-96 | The relationship between film and the soteriology of narrative |
| Bachtiar Alam | 1994-95 | "Religious Processes and Agricultural Development in Okinawa" |
| (Mary) Jacqui Alexander | 2000-01 | "Nobody Knows My Name: The Struggle Over Memory and Spiritual Practice in Nineteenth-Century Trinidad" |
| Yousef Sami Al-Herimi | 1995-96 | |
| Azizah Al-Hibri | 1985-86 | |
| Mujahid Al-Sawwaf | 1976-77 | |
| Mordechai Altshuler | 2000-01 | Jewish religious life in the Soviet Union, 1944-64 |
| Sekandar Amanolahi | 1988-89 | |
| Devadarshan Ambalavanar | 1994-96 | The relationship between Tamil Christianity and Tamil culture |
| Barbara Ambros | 1995-97 | Pilgrimage during the Heian period in Japan and the role of gender in the study of pilgrimage |
| Elizabeth Amoah | 1989-90 | Women and the spiritual churches in Ghana |
| Sarath Amunugama | 1989-90 | |
| Rachel Angogo | 1981-82 | Linguistics |
| Diane Apostolos-Cappadona | 1996-97 | The interconnection between religion and art in the work of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Mircea Eliade, and Daisetz T. Suzuki |
| Arjun Appadurai | 1975-76 | |
| Carol Appadurai | 1975-76 | |
| Paula Arai | 1986-87 | |
| Philip Arnold | 2002-03 | The mistaken connection between wampum and money in U.S. history |
| R. Andrew Arthur | 1993-94 | The phenomena of religious trance states |
| Maheswari Arulchelvam | 1980-81 | Comparative philosophy, Hinduism |
| Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu | 2003-04 | The new religions of Ghana and the continuing relevance of health, wealth, and personal well-being in African religiosity |
| Irit Averbuch | 1978-83 | Comparative religion, Japanese religion, Japanese folk religion |
| 1987-90 | "Yamabushi Kagura: A Study of Traditional Ritual Dance in Contemporary Japan" | |
| Vincent Avery | 1982-83 | |
| Eyal Aviv | 2004-05 | "Neither Religion nor Philosophy: The Role of Mind-Only Thought in the Formation of Modern Chinese Buddhism" |
| Joseph Awolalu | 1973-74 | |
| P. D. Ayres | 1986-87 | |
| Mahmoud Ayoub | 1974-75 | "Dimmah in Qur'an and Hadith: A Study of Meaning" |
| Ana Mariella Bacigalupo | 1996-97 | "The Power of the Machis: The Rise of Female Shaman/Healers and Priestesses Among the Chilean Mapuche" |
| Ali Badr-El-Din | 1988-90 | Crime and punishment in Islam |
| Kuk-Won Bae | 1988-89 | "Hermeneutics of Faith: A Critical Understanding of Homo Fidelis of Wilfred Cantwell Smith and its Implication for the Future Study of Religion" |
| Benjamin Bagby | 2002-03 | Creation and research for the music performance "Chant Wars," a representation of the 9th-century confrontation between the Carolingians and the various regional chant traditions they sought to replace |
| Matthew Bagger | 2001-02 | Uses of paradox and contradiction in religious discourses |
| Victor Balaban | 1999-2000 | "Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements: An Interdisciplinary Study" |
| Bao Weimin | 2000-01 | "Family Ancestor in the Making of Regional Deity: Hu Gong Cult in Chinese Popular Religion" |
| Kahar Barat | 1995-96 | Translation of the "Uygur Xuanzang Biography" (688 ce), perhaps the largest Buddhist text translated from ancient Chinese into a Western alphabetic language, Uygar Turkic |
| Meir Bar-Ilan | 1988-89 | |
| Julie Michelle Barker | 1995-96 | |
| Avriel Bar-Levav | 1997-98 | "Patterns for Comprehending Jewish Attitudes Towards Death" |
| Fredrik Barth | 1996-97 | Social anthropology |
| Jean-Claude Basset | 1983-84 | Interreligious dialogue |
| Misty Bastian | 1998-99 | "Vultures of the Marketplace: The Ogu Ununwaanyi (Woman's War) of 1929 in Southeastern Nigeria" |
| Mikael Bauer | 2004-09 | Chinese and Japanese medieval Buddhism |
| Bettina Baumer | 1993-94 | Philosophy and theology |
| Dianne Bazell | 1981-85 | |
| Moshe Benovitz | 2006-07 | Talmud and Rabbinic Literature |
| Ehud Ben-Or | 1986-91 | "A Concept of Prayer" |
| Israel Ben-Yosef | 1983-84 | |
| Persis Berlekamp | 2000-02 | Wonder and its images in Medieval Islam |
| Victoria Bernal | 1990-91 | Philosophy |
| Rosemarie Bernard | 1995-96 | "The Historical Metaphor and Notions of the Sacred in the Ritual System of the Shikinen Sengu of Ise Jingu" |
| Purushottama Bilimoria | 1991-92 | The Indian Mimamsa theory of text and hermeneutics in comparison with their Western philosophical counterparts |
| Raoul Birnbaum | 1986-87 | Asian studies |
| Anne Blackburn | 1998-99 | "Buddhist Learning and the Formation of Monasticism" |
| 2004-05 | "Researching Buddhist Institutional Histories" | |
| Heather Blair | 2006-08 | Japanese religions; Mountain Kinpusen and its role in political changes circa 1100 |
| Alain Blomart | 1998-99 | Classics |
| Alfred Bloom | 1959-61 | "Shinran, His Life and Thought" |
| 1992-93 | "Shin Buddhism in Modern Culture" | |
| James Bloy | 1983-84 | Music |
| Melissa Borja | 2003-04 | Religious change among Hmong refugees from Southeast Asia resettled in Stockton, California |
| Eugene Borowitz | 1982-83 | |
| Joan Branham | 2007-08 | Theories of sacred space, the relationship of gender, blood, and sacrifice in the ancient Jerusalem Temple, and the iconography of late-antique synagogues and churches |
| Patrice Brodeur | 1997-98 | Contemporary Arab Muslim literature on religious Others |
| Douglas Brooks | 1982-83 | "Srividya Tradition in South India: A Study of the Texts and Contexts of Sakti Worship" |
| Karen Brown | 1985-86 | "Mama Lola: An Ethnobiography of a Vodou Priestess Living in Brooklyn" |
| Edwin Bryant | 1998-99 | Hinduism |
| Art Buehler | 1992-93 | The foundation of Naqshbandi authority and charisma in the Punjab, 1857-1947 |
| Stephen Burgard | 2014 | "Reclaiming the Political Center: How Ideology, Religion, and Values Divide Us, and What We Can Do about It" |
| David Burrell | 1989-90 | |
| Georgia Bush | 1991-92 | Interaction between religious and political ideologies in the rise of Hindu nationalism |
| William Bushell | 1993-94 | Contemporary tradition of Ethiopian Orthodox Christian eremitic asceticism |
| Manduhai Buyandelgeriyn | 2000-02 | Shamanistic healing practices among the Buriads of the Dornod Province in Eastern Mongolia |
| Candi Cann | 1999-2000 | Underground Christianity in modern Communist China |
| 2004-06 | Comparative study of Christianity in China and Latin America | |
| John Carman | 2008-09 | Christian-Hindu Interaction in South Indian Village Society |
| John Ross Carter | 1971-72 | |
| Javier Castaño | 1996-97 | Castilian Jews in the fifteenth century |
| Jocelyne Cesari | 1998-99 | "Islam in the West: The Issue of Pluralism" |
| Cha Mei | 2001-03 | Self-cultivation in Confucianism |
| Darshan Chahil | 1980-81 | |
| Chang Xiaqing | 1993-94 | "Mystical Tibetan Bon Religion on the Snow Mountain" |
| Cynthia Chapman | 1993-97 | Religion and politics in the prophetic literature (Hebrew Bible) |
| Chen Lai | 1986-87 | History of Chinese philosophy |
| Chen Wei-gang | 1989-95 | Relationship between interpretation theory and Confucianism |
| John Chirban | 2002-03 | Orthodox Christian approaches to healing |
| Saadia Chishti | 1999-2000 | "Fitra: The Islamic Nature of Man" |
| William Chittick | 1995-96 | Arabic texts on Islamic cosmology and the cosmological teachings of Ibn al-'Arabi |
| Chang-Sool Choi | 1997-98 | Early Buddhism—Four Seon (Dhyana) Theory |
| Sathianathan Clarke | 1991-92 | Religion and culture of the Paraiyar ("Out-Caste") communities of South India |
| Constance Classen | 1991-92 | Olfactory symbolism in different religions of the world as a medium for the Divine |
| Ruth Clements | 1994-95 | "Peri Pascha: Origen's Transformation of the Passover Narrative in Relation to Rabbinic Exegesis" |
| Sarah Coakley | 2006-07 | "Justice and Mercy in Jewish and Christian Tradition and American Criminal Law" |
| Thomas Coburn | 1986-87 | Religion |
| Martin A. Cohen | 1995-96 | Eastern mysticism, theology, and philosophy through research on Aurobindo, George Simon, and Ramakrishna |
| Michael Cohen | 2002-03 | "Abuse of Power in Religion and Medicine: Legal and Ethical Perspectives" |
| Monica Coleman | 1994-95 | "Deliverance as Ministry: American Captivity Narratives by Women, 1682-188?" |
| David Collins | 1983-85 | |
| Alanna Cooper | 2002-03 | "Silencing the Periphery to Write a History of Jewish Peoplehood: The Jews of Bukhara, Yemen, Georgia, and Kurdistan Talk Back" |
| John Cort | 1982-85 | "Liberation and Wellbeing: A Study of the Svetambar Murtipujak Jains of North Gujarat" |
| 1987-90 | "Liberation and Wellbeing: A Study of the Svetambar Murtipujak Jains of North Gujarat" | |
| Harriet Crabtree | 1982-89 | "The Quest for True Models of the Christian Life: An Evaluative Study of the Use of Traditional Metaphor in Contemporary Popular Theologies of the Christian Life" |
| Heather Curtis | 2003-04 | The intersections of cultural discourses, medical practices, and religious devotion in late nineteenth-century North America |
