Dear Religion & Education Colleagues
Listed below is a list of funding sources that have supported scholars in the field of religion and education. I curated this list in 2016; some sources may be out of date and others may need to be added. I welcome your edits and additions.
Cheers,
Nate
Dr. Nathan C. Walker
Assistant Chair/Chair-Elect
Religion & Education special interest group
American Education Research Association
201 Funding Sources for Researchers in the Field of Religion & Education
Last updated: July 27, 2016
- American Council Learned Societies, East European Language Training Grants
- Action Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
- Action Institute - Novak Award
- Adrienne M. and Charles Shelby Rooks Fellowship for Racial and Ethnic Theological Students: Doctoral Studies and Master of Divinity Degree
- A Foundation for Theological Education (AFTE) John Wesley Fellowship
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship Program
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Educational Advancement Foundation
- American Academy of Religion Collaborative Research Grants
- American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grants
- American Academy of Religion International Dissertation Research Grants
- American Academy of Religion Selva J. Raj Fellowship
- American Antiquarian Society Visiting Academic Research Fellowships
- American Association of University Women
- American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowships
- American Council of Learned Societies
- American Council of Learned Societies - Eastern Europe Dissertation Fellowships
- American Council of Learned Societies - Fellowships
- American Graduate Fellowships
- American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Grant
- American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Research Grant for Research in U.S. Legal History
- American Historical Association Michael Kraus Research Grant in American Colonial History
- American Historical Association’s Bernadotte E. Schmitte Grant for Research in European, African, or Asian History
- American Indian Graduate Center
- American Indian Graduate Center - fellowships and loans
- American Institute for Contemporary German Studies Summer Grant
- American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship
- American Research Center in Egypt
- American Research Institute in Turkey Research Fellowship
- American Scandinavian Foundation
- American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowships
- American School of Classical Studies at Athens Summer Sessions
- American Theological Library Association
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies
- Archaeological Institute of America
- Asian Art and Religion Fellowship
- Association for Religion and Intellectual Life
- Bishop Murphy Scholarship for Women in Graduate Theological Study
- Bivins Foundation Religious Scholarship Program for Christian ministers
- Boston University Women’s Council
- Boston University Women’s Guild
- Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion (Doctoral Travel Scholarship)
- Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- Canadian Studies Grant Program - Doctoral Research Award
- Cannon Endowment Scholarship Fund for Military Chaplains
- Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies Pre-doctoral Residential Research Fellowships
- Center for the Philosophy of Religion - fellowships
- Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture - Young Scholars in American Religion Program
- Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
- Center on Religion and Chinese Society - Postdoctoral Fellowship for Quantitative Analysis at Purdue University
- Chapmans University’s Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics and Society
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
- Chateaubriand Fellowship Program - France
- City University of New York, Committee for the Study of Religion
- Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical & Cultural Research - postdoctoral research in resident scholars program or short-term residency program
- Congregational Studies Fellowships
- Council for European Studies Fellowship Program
- Council on Library and Information Resources Dissertation Fellowships
- Critical Language Scholarship
- CrossCurrents Research Colloquium Fellowship
- Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism
- Dan David Prize scholarship - doctoral and postdoctoral
- David Library of the American Revolution Research Fellowships
- Dempster Graduate Fellowship
- Dissertation Proposal Development Fund
- Dumbarton Oaks Fellowships
- Engaged Fellowships for Studying Congregations
- Episcopal Divinity School’s Daniels Memorial Fellowship
- Female Interpreters of Religious Laws - semester-long residency
- First Book Grant for Minority Scholars
- Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
- Forum for Theological Exploration
- Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Jewish Studies
- Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Award
- Fulbright Scholar Program
- Fund for Nurturing Unitarian Universalist Scholarship
- Fund for Theological Education North American doctoral fellowship
- Gates Cambridge Scholarships
- Georgetown University - American Studies Association
- Georgia Harkness Scholarship Award
- German Historical Institute, Fellowship in the History of Religion and Religiosity
- Getty Research Grants
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation, Humanities Program
- Global Religion Research Institute - Global Religion Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
- Guggenheim Foundation - Dissertation Fellowship
- Harold Wilke Scholarship, United Church of Christ
- Harvard-China Scholarships
- Harvard College Houghton Library Short-Term Fellowships
- Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions - Dana McLean Greeley International Internship
- Harvard Divinity School Resident Fellowship program
- Harvard Divinity School, Science, Religion and Culture doctoral fellows
- Harvard University Asia Center Graduate Research Grants
- Harvard University Asia Center Graduate Summer Language Grants
- Harvard University Committee on General Scholarships: Frank Knox Traveling Scholarships
- Harvard University Committee on General Scholarships: Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowships
- Harvard University Committee on General Scholarships: Sinclair Kennedy Traveling Fellowship
- Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics graduate fellowships
- Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
- Harvard University Foreign Languages and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships
- Harvard University Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston
- Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
- Higgins Scholarship
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund College Scholarship Program
- Hispanic Theological Initiative
- Hispanic Theological Initiative Post Comprehensive Exams Year Fellowship
- Hosei International Fund Foreign Scholars Fellow
- Humane Studies Fellowships
- Human Rights Campaign Scholarship Database
- Human Rights Watch Fellowships
- Huntington Library Fellowships
- Idaho Humanities Council
- Indiana U. Fellowship: Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture
- Institute for Humane Studies - Summer Research Graduate Fellowship
- International Order of the King’s Daughters and Sons
- International Reporting Project - International Fellowships in Journalism, U.S. Religion Fellowships
- Islamic Scholarship Fund
- J. K. Russell Fellowship in Religion and Science
- Jacob Javis Fellowship Program
- Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program
- Jennings Randolph Peace Program
- John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics - dissertation completion and postdoctoral research fellowship
- John Carter Brown Library Fellowships
- John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowships
- John Haynes Holmes Memorial Fellowships (Unitarian Universalist)
- John Haynes Holmes Memorial Fund
- Julius B. Richmond Fellowship
- Justin Haruyama Ministerial Scholarship
- K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award
- Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace: Investing in the Study of Critical Languages
- Kenyon College, Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship
- Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowships
- Liberty Company of Pennsylvania and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Visiting Research Fellowship in Colonial and U.S. History and Culture
- Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in African American History Dissertation Fellowship
- Lilly Fellows Postdoctoral Teaching Program
- Lilly Fellows Program in the Humanities and the Arts
- Lopex Scholarship for Latina and Latino Seminarians, United Church of Christ
- Louisville Institute - Dissertation Fellowships
- Luce Fund for Theological Education
- Marshal Scholarship
- Massachusetts Historical Society Research Fellowship
- Massachusetts Historical Society Short-Term Research Fellowships
- Mater Dei Institute of Education
- McGill University, Internal Dissertation Fellowships
- McNeil Center for Early American Studies - dissertation fellowship
- Mellon Graduate Fellowships in Sociology of Religion at Notre Dame
- Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship
- Museum of Jewish Heritage - Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics
- Narrative Writing Fellowships in Science and Religion
- National Academies Fellowships
- National Security Education David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships
- National Security Education Program - David L. Boren Fellowship
- Newberry Library Fellowships
- New England Women Ministers Association
- Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
- New York University, Center for Religion and Media
- Norcliffe Foundation, Puget Sound Area of Washington State
- North Carolina State University’s Building Future Faculty Program
- Northern Baptist Education Society
- Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
- Paulist Center
- Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowships
- Phillips Talbot Global Ministry Fellowship
- Point Foundation
- Princeton Fellowship: Center for the Study of Religion
- Princeton Fellowship: Niehause Center for Globalization and Governance
- Princeton Fellowship: Program in Law and Public Affairs
- Princeton University - Postdoctoral Associate in FAith and Work
- Religious Research Association
- Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, non-paid Fellowship Program
- Renate Voris Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
- Richard U. Light Fellowship Program
- Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation - dissertation fellowship and postdoctoral research fellowship
- Roothbert Fund
- Rotary International: World Peace Fellows
- School for Advanced Research - resident scholar fellowship
- Selva J. Raj Endowed International Dissertation Research Fellowship
- Sheng Yen Education Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Chinese Buddhism
- Smithsonian Institution Graduate Student Fellowships
- Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship
- Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (7 grants and awards available)
- Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowships for Research Related to Education
- Spencer Foundation Small Research Grants
- Supreme Council, Freemasons
- The Rhodes Scholarship
- U. Chicago Fellowship: Marty Center
- U.S. Loan Forgiveness / Teaching Programs
- United States Institute of Peace / Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace
- University of Geneva, Postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue
- University of Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion
- University of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion, Politics, and Society
- University of Victoria, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, postdoctoral research fellows
- USA Funds Access to Education Scholarships
- W. B. Small Trust
- Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
- Wellesley College, Department of Religion, Elisabeth Luce Moore Postdoctoral Fellow, religion and healing medicine
- William R. Johnson Scholarship
- Williams College, Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation Fellowship
- Women’s Policy Institute
- Women’s Travel Club Travel Scholarship
- Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
- Yale University Pew Program in Religion and American History