Kevin Lewis O Neill awarded Guggenheim Fellowship April 12, 2021
Kevin Lewis O Neill, a professor in the department for the study of religion in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto, has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
The director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, O’Neill is a pioneering scholar on the subject of clerical sexual abuse, particularly as it transcends borders. He is currently writing two books. The first considers clerical sexual abuse in Latin America, with a focus on U.S. priests who moved – or were moved – to Central America to evade suspicion. The second is an ethnography of traffic in Guatemala City that realigns conversations about security, mobility, and infrastructure in Latin America.