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• 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

-- 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.