Editing Focus on Christianity

* '''Dissertation Fellowship Program:'''                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

-- Sponsor:          Louisville Institute

-- SYNOPSIS: The sponsor provides support for the final year of writing on
promising Ph.D. and Th.D. dissertation projects pertaining to North
American Christianity, especially projects related to Christian faith
and life, religious institutions, and pastoral leadership.  The
fellowship provides a $19,000 stipend over a twelve-month period.

-- Deadline(s):      02/01/2010
Established Date: 04/15/2002
Follow-Up Date:   10/01/2010
Review Date:      08/24/2009

-- E-mail:           info@louisville-institute.org
 
-- Program URL: http://www.louisville-institute.org/Grants/programs/dfdetail.aspx

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-- OBJECTIVES: Eligible proposals should promise a significant contribution to the
study of American religion.  Preference will be given to proposals
that attempt: to describe more fully how the Christian faith is
actually lived by contemporary persons and to bring the resources of
the Christian faith into closer relation to their daily lives; and to
help us understand more adequately the institutional reconfiguration
of American religion.  Proposals on certain other issues of importance
to the churches are also welcome.  Proposed projects may employ a
variety of methodological perspectives, including, but not limited to,
history, ethics, the social sciences, and historical, systematic, and
practical theology.  They may also be interdisciplinary in nature.
The sponsor is interested in funding projects which can contribute in
significant ways to our understanding of contemporary religious
communities.  Consequently, very few dissertation projects funded in
recent years have dealt with American religion prior to the
mid-nineteenth century.

-- ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be candidates for the Ph.D. or Th.D. degree who
have fulfilled all pre-dissertation requirements, including approval
of the dissertation proposal, by February 1 of the award year, and
expect to complete the dissertation by the end of the following
academic year.  The Fellowships are intended to support the final year
of dissertation writing.

-- FUNDING: Each fellowship will provide a stipend of $19,000 for twelve months
beginning in September.  The Dissertation Fellowship program has no
residence requirement.  In the year of their award, however, all
fellows are expected to participate in the Louisville Institute's
two-day Winter Seminar.  Travel and lodging expenses for the Seminar
will be covered by the Louisville Institute.


* '''Research Travel Grants:'''                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
-- Sponsor:          Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism

-- SYNOPSIS:  The sponsor offers grants to help defray travel and
lodging costs to scholars of any academic discipline who are engaged
in projects which require substantial use of the collection of the
library and/or the archives of the University of Notre Dame.  Research
projects must be related to the study of American Catholicism.

-- Deadline(s):      12/31/2010

-- Web Site: http://cushwa.nd.edu/grant-opportunities/travel-grants/

-- Program URL: http://cushwa.nd.edu/assets/22000/researchgrant.pdf

-- OBJECTIVES:  The library collection is particularly rich in the
following areas:   Catholic newspapers, history of midwestern
Catholicism, Catholic literature, and history of Catholicism in the
U.S.  The archives hold manuscripts of historical personages, records
of twentieth century Catholic organizations, reports of European
missionary societies, and much more material related to the American
Catholic community.

-- ELIGIBILITY: Eligible applicants are scholars of any academic discipline who are
engaged in projects which require substantial use of the collections
of the library and the archives.

-- FUNDING: Awards defray travel and lodging costs while using the sponsor's
facilities. The maximum grant is $2,000.