This international honour, awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, recognizes Professor Beaman’s exceptional scholarly contributions and distinguished academic career. The award provides recipients with the opportunity to pursue collaborative research with leading scholars in Germany as part of the global Humboldt Network.
“Needless to say that being a member of the Humboldt community is an incredible honour and I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to strengthen my existing collaboration with German colleagues and to build new relationships.”
Professor Lori Beaman
Beaman explains that "the trajectory for my collaboration with Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, who is the professor who nominated me for a Humboldt Award, began with a workshop initiative supported by the University of Ottawa in 2015. That workshop focused on a comparison of Canada and Germany around the theme of Citizenship, Governance and Diversity."
Lori G. Beaman, Ph.D., F.R.S.C., is the Tier I Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change, and a Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa.
Her research interests include examining how nonreligious and religious people can coexist in an increasingly diverse and complex world; the concept of deep equality as an alternative to tolerance and accommodation in responding to religious diversity; and the idea of reclaiming enchantment as a way to reformulate our relationship with the environment and address issues of climate change and human/non-human animal relations.
Recent publications include The Transition of Religion to Culture in Law and Public Discourse (Routledge, 2020) and “Reclaiming Enchantment: The Transformational Possibilities of Immanence” Secularism and Nonreligion (2021).