We're so glad Peter Dziedzic (Peter D.) is with us this summer on The Conversation U.S.'s Religion & Ethics team. A PhD candidate in Religious Studies at Harvard, Peter's research explores Sufism in Kashmir, Islamic environmental philosophy, pilgrimage traditions and comparative religion. He's spending the summer with us as an inaugural fellow in the American Council of Learned Societies' Graduate Internships in the Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future initiative, and we're grateful to have him on the team.
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