Those shown below are current Visiting Scholars affiliated with Cambridge Interfaith Programme.
Academic Visitors within the Faculty of Divinity are welcome to join the Interfaith Research Forum during their visit. Official Visitors from outside the Faculty of Divinity are also able to affiliate via the Interfaith Research Forum.
Dr Agustina Altman (2025)
Agustina Altman holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Currently, she serves as a Research Associate at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), as well as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires. Moreover, she teaches at the Diploma Program “Religious Diversity, Public Space, and Interculturality” at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires and at the Ecumenical Network of Theological Education (REET).
Dr Altman’s current work focuses on socio-religious change processes and their role in shaping alternative modernities in the Global South, within the context of colonial situations and postcolonial states where Christian missions have played a key role. Her research is grounded in the premise that these ‘Christianities of the peripheries’ constitute ‘liminal zones of modernity,’ wherein intricate processes of cultural creativity and tactical resistance unfold.
Dr Altman is one of three Visiting Scholars from the Global South supported by a joint grant from CRASSH & the Faculty of Divinity. View a longer profile of Agustina Altman (via crassh.cam.ac.uk).
Dr Felicity Apaah (2025)
Dr Felicity Apaah is a distinguished scholar and educator specialising in African Christianity, Pentecostalism, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and their intersections with Christian theology, mission, and Gender Studies. She is a faculty member at the University of Ghana’s School of Arts, where she brings her expertise to the study and teaching of religion in African contexts.
Dr Apaah’s current work explores the intricacies of Nana Kow Ackon V’s journey as it transcends Christian boundaries and embraces indigenous religious identities, a spirituality embraced upon her ascension to the throne in 2007. The study aims to unravel the complex interplay of her personal convictions, societal expectations, and the broader quest for unity in the context of varied religious realms and religious boundaries-making. What initiatives or dialogue has she undertaken to promote harmony and religious understanding among different religious groups following her experience of religious boundaries-making?
Dr Apaah is one of three Visiting Scholars from the Global South supported by a joint grant from CRASSH & the Faculty of Divinity. View a longer profile of Felicity Apaah (via crassh.cam.ac.uk).
Dr Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha (2025)
Dr Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha is based at the School of Translation and Cultural Studies, Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR) in Calcutta, having been a Professor in the Department of English, Kazi Nazrul University, India. He was Leibniz Value of the Past Fellow at the Peace Research Center, Frankfurt in 2023, a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Goethe University Frankfurt in 2022, and the 2021 Charles Wallace India Trust Translation Fellow at the British Centre for Translation Studies, University of East Anglia. He co-edits Kairos, A Journal of Critical Symposium and is one of the founding members of the Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South.
In Cambridge, Dr Purakayastha is working on vernacular interfaith traditions in pre-colonial Bengal, specifically the Brahmo new dispensation and its relation to Sahajiya-Sufi heterodoxy. This project identifies divergent indigenous thought geographies from the Global South as instances of immanent modernity or pre-modern vernacular modernity. It looks into histories of inter-faith constellations and epistemic infusions in pre-colonial Bengal of 16th-17th century that actualized cross-cultural heterodoxy and conviviality, building grounds for subsequent modern religious reform movements like the Brahmo Samaj mobilizations in early nineteenth century Bengal.
Dr Purakayastha is one of three Visiting Scholars from the Global South supported by a joint grant from CRASSH & the Faculty of Divinity. View a longer profile of Aindya Sekhar Purakayastha (via crassh.cam.ac.uk).
About the Academic Visitor scheme
We welcome applications from established academics to become Visiting Scholars at the University of Cambridge. Relevant applications to the Faculty of Divinity's Research Committee will be referred to our team for consideration.