The call for applications has not yet been announced. We will announce when we will be accepting applications soon!

Beginning in the fall of 2024, a series of seminars devoted to the enhancement of teaching and research will be offered in Indianapolis. The aims of all sessions of the program are to develop ideas and methods of teaching in a supportive workshop environment, stimulate scholarly research and writing, and create a community of scholars that will continue into the future.

The dates for these seminars are:

• Session I: October 17th-20th, 2024
• Session II: April 24th-April 27th, 2025
• Session III: October 9th-12th, 2025
• Session IV: April 16th-19th, 2026
• Participants will also be expected to join 3 virtual meetings.

Kristy Nabhan-Warren and TBA will lead the 2023-2025 seminars.

Kristy Nabhan-Warren is Associate Vice President of Research at the University of Iowa. Kristy is passionate about teaching and research and finds both vocations to be mutually informing and inspiring. In both the classroom and in her scholarly work, she focuses on the lived, daily experiences of American Christians and their communities. Kristy’s newest book is Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland (UNC (Press, September 2021). Based on seven years of fieldwork in rural Iowa, Meatpacking America is a finely grained ethnography as well as historically situated study of lived religion in the hog and corn producing state of Iowa.

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Applying to the Young Scholars program:

Scholars eligible to apply are those working in a subfield of the area of religion in North America, broadly understood, who have a terminal degree in hand, a full-time academic position (tenure track or renewable long-term), and have launched their careers within the last seven years. Scholars are selected with the understanding that they will commit to the program for all seminar dates. Participants are expected to produce two course syllabi, with justification of teaching approach, and a publishable research article over the course of their seminars.

Applicants must submit (a) a curriculum vitae; (b) a 750-word essay indicating why they are interested in participating and describing their current and projected research and teaching interests; and (c) email information for three scholars willing to write letters of reference (portfolios with generic reference letters are not accepted).

All application materials, including letters of recommendation, must be received by July 12th, 2024. Please note that the Center will not request supporting letters until after the application is submitted so plan accordingly. Click here to apply to the Young Scholars program.