Coming Soon: 2024-2025 PRRI Public Fellows Open Call
Click here to be notified via email when the Public Fellows application goes live later this month (April 2024).
PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute) has openings for a diverse cohort of 15 non-residential Public Fellows who are engaged in public scholarship at the intersection of religion, politics, and culture. As part of PRRI’s Religion and Renewing Democracy Initiative, the organization is seeking applicants whose research agendas align with the five principal vectors of PRRI’s ongoing work: 1) religion, racial, and ethnic pluralism, 2) racial justice and white supremacy, 3) immigration and migration studies, 4) LGBTQ rights, and 5) reproductive health and rights.
The PRRI Public Fellows program promotes and supports interdisciplinary public scholarship from emerging mid-career scholars from across the humanities, humanistic social sciences, and empirical social sciences, including sociology, religious studies, political science, history, ethnic studies, American studies, and literary studies. The PRRI Public Fellows program includes an annual stipend, microgrants to foster collaborative new scholarship and professional relationships among the cohort, access to PRRI data, monthly virtual meetings including trainings and workshops, and an expenses-paid, in-person convening in Washington, D.C.
Fellows who successfully complete the program are eligible to apply for a one-time renewal at the end of their first fellowship year, but renewal is not guaranteed.
The PRRI Public Fellows application will require the following:
- Statement of interest: In 800 words or less, please explain your interest in pursuing this fellowship opportunity and your professional development goals in public scholarship
- Work samples: Provide links and PDF copies for your best three (3) public facing articles published within the last three years. The articles would preferably be published in media outlets, though publications in scholarly journals will also be accepted.
- An updated curriculum vitae
For questions, please email public.fellows@publicreligion.org.
Qualifications:
To be considered for this program, applicants must:
- Be authorized to work in the United States;
- Be three to 12 years out from earning a Ph.D. or comparable terminal degree;
- Hold a formal affiliation with an accredited college, university, seminary, or research institution in the United States;
- Have demonstrable academic expertise at the intersection of religion and at least one of the areas of PRRI’s work including:
- Religious, racial, and ethnic pluralism
- Racial justice and white supremacy
- Immigration and migration
- LGBTQ rights
- Reproductive health and rights
- *Preferred, but not required: Ideal candidates will have an aptitude and track record of socially engaged or public-facing scholarship
PRRI is seeking a diverse cohort in terms of academic disciplines (the humanities, the humanistic social sciences, and the empirical social sciences), types of institutions (college, university, seminary, or research institute housed within an academic institution), and geographic location. PRRI encourages applications from women, people of color, and other members of under-represented groups who will contribute to the diversity of this cohort.
