Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites:
An International & Interdisciplinary Project

Principal Investigator:

Robert M. Hayden, Professor of Anthropology, Law and Public & International Affairs, University of PIttsburgh. Dr. Hayden specializes in law and politics, and has done extensive research in the Balkans, India, and among the Seneca Iroquois of New York State. (Professor Emeritus as of 2021) rhayden@pitt.edu, http://www.pitt.edu/~rhayden

Senior Co-Investigators:

Manuel Aguilar-Moreno

Professor of Art History at California State University in Los Angeles. He is an expert on pre-Columbian civilizations, the colonial history of Mexico and Mexican Muralism. Dr. Aguilar-Moreno has published on a wide range of subjects, including Mesoamerican art and history, colonial art and history of Mexico, funerary art, and the pre-Columbian ballgame;

Milica Bakić-Hayden, Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh. (Lecturer Emerita as of 2018)

Aykan Erdemir, Member of Turkish Parliament for Bursa; formerly Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Middle East Technical University; (Director of Global Research and Diplomatic Affairs at Anti-Defamation League, Washington, DC)

Enrique López-Hurtado, Investigador, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos/ Research Associate, Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. (Culture Program officer, UNESCO regional office for central America, México and Colombia; San José Costa Rica)

Devika Rangachari, Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept of History, University of Delhi.

Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir, Director, Science and Technology Museum, Middle East Technical University. (Coordinator of the Anti-Defamation League’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities)

Timothy Walker

Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Affiliated Researcher of the Centro de História de Além-Mar (CHAM); Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Teaching fields include Early Modern Europe, the Atlantic World, the Portuguese and their empire, maritime history and European global colonial expansion. Additional research topics focus on the 17th and 18th centuries, and include the European adoption of colonial indigenous medicines and slave trading in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. (Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)

Other Senior Associated Scholars:

Simeon Evstatiev, Sofia University St. Klement Ohridski

Nayanjot Lahiri, Delhi University

Graduate Student Researchers:

Hande Sözer, University of Pittsburgh

Rabia Harmansah, University of Pittsburgh

Pre-School Researchers:

Papatya Erdemir

Duru Erdemir