Ayana Mathis (CRF 2017, Advisory Council) has been awarded the Berlin Prize for Fall 2024. The Berlin Prize is awarded annually to US-based scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields, from the humanities and social sciences to journalism, public policy, fiction, the visual arts, and music composition. Ayana will be at the American Academy in Berlin to work on Imprinted by Belief, a collection of essays based on her New York Times article of the same name, which “explores Christianity’s indelible imprint, for better or for worse, knowingly or unwittingly, on American identity and culture as well as the ways in which Christian ideas of morality and justice continue to inform the nation’s literature.”
Read more here: https://www.americanacademy.de/the-2024-25-berlin-prize-fellows/