About Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Jennifer Hughes directs (with Amanda Lucia) the ISIR festivals project funded by a grant from the Luce Foundation: Religions in Diaspora and Global Affairs (UCHRI) for which she serves as PI. As research director for the Day of the Dead humanities Studio, Hughes is producing a film (with Jim Ault) on Noche de Altares in Santa Ana. Her research focuses on religious materiality, public religion (ÔÇ£religion in the streetsÔÇØ), and lived religious experience.