In this interview, 2016 Christian Scholars’ Foundation Grant Recipient Carrie Bredow describes the psychology research she’s carrying out with the grant and talks about how her faith and academic work interact. For more information about the Christian Scholars’ Foundation Grant, see this post. Applications are closed for 2018 are open, click here to learn more. [Read more…] about Interview: 2016 Christian Scholars’ Foundation Grant Recipient Carrie Bredow
Christian Scholars Foundation Grant
Apply for the 2017 Christian Scholars Foundation Grant: Deadline March 15, 2017
Apply for the 2017 Christian Scholars Foundation Grant.
What do scholars in Chemistry/Biochemistry, English/American Studies/Religious Studies, Church History, Mathematics, and Psychology have in common? They’re all ESN Members who have received funding from the Christian Scholars Foundation. You can read some of their quotes on the experience here.
The Christian Scholars Foundation offers one grant of $7500 this year to a member of the Emerging Scholars Network at the junior faculty level (join ESN here for free). The grant is open to emerging scholars in a wide range of fields who are working at Christian or secular colleges and universities in the US and Canada.
Read more about the grant and start your application process by email here.
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Winners of the ESN survey drawing and . . .
Special Announcement: We Have Winners!!
I am proud to announce that Karl from Baylor University and Meghan from Queens University have won our survey drawing. They each will receive $100 worth of InterVarsity Press (IVP) books! Congratulations Karl and Meghan. Thank you to all of the participants in this year’s survey. Your partnership with the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) enables us to learn not only how to serve each of you better, but to extend the reach of the Gospel in Engaging the University. To God be the glory!
A Few More Announcements:
1) ESN March Madness ’14. Â
Which topics must Christians be prepared to engage in today’s higher education?Â
We want to hear from you, so please send in your nominations in the comments section of The Challenge of ESN’s March Madness.
BONUS: Three randomly selected $100 InterVarsity Press prizes for InterVarsity fellowships which make contributions to ESN March Madness ’14 (10 topics with at least 3 collaborators). For more details visit The Challenge of ESN’s March Madness. I encourage you to make it simple by sending an email out, including in announcements, even send a sheet of paper around at your fellowship group (or Bible study). Nominations will be closed on Wednesday, February 26 (midnight ET). The brackets and topics will be announced on Friday, February 28. [Read more…] about Winners of the ESN survey drawing and . . .
CSF-ESN Grant to Advance Christian Scholarship
Since 1999, the Christian Scholars Foundation has awarded the Grant to Advance Christian Scholarship, an annual grant to junior faculty seeking to integrate their Christian faith with their academic endeavor. ESN has partnered with CSF since 2007. This past year’s grant was awarded to Dr. Jennifer Shewmaker, Associate Professor of Psychology at Abilene Christian University, for her work on the impact of sexualized media on children and adolescents. An interview with Dr. Shewmaker about her research and the grant can be found here. The list of past recipients is also online.
I’m pleased to announce the details for 2011 grant applications. The deadline for 1-page preliminary applications will be March 15, 2011 — 5 to 10 finalists will be invited to submit full applications. Review all of the details on the ESN website.
A few key things to note:
- Grants are awarded solely to junior faculty, though the definition of “junior faculty” is intentionally left vague because of differences among institutions and disciplines. In general, the grant is award to applicants who have been on faculty for less than ten years.
- Applicants must be members of ESN. If you are not a member of ESN, why not join right now? It’s free and takes only a few minutes.
- As you’ll see from the list of past recipients, the grant has been awarded to a variety of disciplines and projects.
- The amount of the grant won’t be determined until April, but it has averaged about $8,000 in recent years.
One of the things I appreciate most about the Christian Scholars Foundation is their breadth of vision for Christians in the academy. In the short history of the grant, recipients have come from diverse disciplines — the humanities, the natural sciences, the social sciences, theology — as well as diverse institutions — public universities, private secular liberal arts colleges, Christian colleges and seminaries, even a Catholic college affiliated with a Canadian public university. Recipients’ projects have also covered a wide range of academic activities: research, course development, travel related to research and conferences, writing, publishing, TA funding. In one case, the grant supported informal student discussion groups led by a faculty member.
If you are a junior faculty member, I encourage you to consider applying. Feel free to forward the grant information to junior faculty whom you know and think would benefit.