Peter Joseph Dziedzic

The Conversation U.S. is an independent, nonprofit national newsroom that has academics collaborate with editors to produce journalism for the public good. The Conversation’s religion desk’s mission is to produce explanatory journalism and analysis about the world through the lens of inter-disciplinary religion research and expertise residing in universities. The fellow will play an essential role on our religion desk by contributing ideas, unearthing interesting religion research by academics, and finding experts to explain breaking news. They will conceive ideas for stories, help shape story direction, tone and structure–and edit pieces for clarity and accuracy.

Peter Dziedzic is a PhD Candidate (ABD) in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. His dissertation, "In the Garden of Nightingales: Kashmiri Rishi Sufism and an Islamic Ecopoetics," explores the development of a nascent and innovative Islamic environmental theology of the more-than-human world in the writings and practices of the Kashmiri Rishi Sufi order. More generally, Peter is interested in pilgrimage practices in Kashmir and beyond and global traditions of Sufi literature.