Research Grants
"Vocations Of the Christian Professor" Workshop
This program will consist of a three-week, on-campus workshop, summer readings and a pedagogy project, and a fall follow-up. This summer’s program will focus on the topic of integration of faith and learning, and will provide practical instruction on how faculty can make that happen in their classrooms.
Weyerhaeuser Center for Christian Faith and Learning Research Fellowships
Description: One of the Weyerhaeuser Center's aims is to enable Whitworth faculty to produce high-quality Christian scholarship and facilitate interaction with other scholars throughout the world. To that end, up to five summer research fellowships are offered to encourage scholarship that attempts to model the integration of faith and learning.
In 2015, the Whitworth faculty endorsed a model of integration that focused on four areas:
- Vocation
- Ethics
- Disciplinary assumptions
- The interrelationship between Faith and Culture
Preference will be given to those applications which focus on one or more of the four areas of integration.
Each project should propose dissemination in a:
- secular disciplinary journal (for example, American Historical Review, American Psychologist, Journal of Social Issues);
- Christian academic journal of faith and learning (e.g., Journal of Psychology and Theology, Christian Scholar’s Review, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith);
- secular or Christian popular magazine aimed at a readership of educated laypersons (e.g., Christianity Today, Books and Culture, First Things, The New Republic, Atlantic Monthly); or
- secular or Christian publishing house.
Applicants from the performing or creative arts are encouraged to submit projects proposing dissemination through a juried performance or exhibition. Scholarship related to aesthetics from a Christian perspective, to be submitted to a secular or Christian journal, is also encouraged.
Applicants must be prepared to devote six weeks to full-time research during the summer of 2020 (that is, no teaching or administrative responsibilities during the period of the research fellowship). These fellowships require submission of a manuscript to a journal or publisher, or submission of a performing or creative arts project for a juried performance or exhibition, during AY 2020-21, and prior to July 1, 2021. Applicants must also be prepared to present the results of their research in Faculty Scholarship Forum during AY 2020-21 or AY 2022-22.
Selection Criteria and Procedure: The fellowship committee will review each proposal. The committee will evaluate the proposals based on the potential scholarly significance of the project, the degree to which the proposal meets the highest standards of scholarly quality, the scholarly promise of the researcher as indicated by the quality of previous work, and the impact of Christian thinking on the proposal. Applicants will be notified of the results of the competition no later than April 15, 2020.
Due Date: All application materials must be received by the Weyerhaeuser Center by April 1.
Eligibility: Fellowships are open to all Whitworth faculty on continuing contracts (senior, junior, tenured, non-tenured). Women and minority candidates are especially encouraged to apply. Consideration also will be given for exceptional proposals from lecturers.
Only faculty who received summer research fellowships from the center in 2019 and faculty who received a 2019 Faculty Faith and Scholarship Award are not eligible to apply. (Faculty are eligible to apply for the Weyerhaeuser Center and FRD fellowships, but they will only be able to receive one.)
Amount: Each of these fellowships carries a $2,000 stipend. $1,500 of the stipend will be awarded in June 2020. The remaining $500 of the stipend will be awarded upon submission of the project for publication or exhibition prior to July 1, 2021. Extensions will be permitted for extenuating circumstances. Recipients must provide proof of submission to Dale Soden.
Procedure: Applicants must submit:
- a cover letter describing the research proposal of 1,500 words or less and,
- a curriculum vitae.
The research proposal should explain the planned research or grant submission, with reference to the important literature on the subject; describe the anticipated publication(s) or proposal; and indicate how a Christian faith perspective informs the planned research.
Contact: Any additional questions should be directed to Dale Soden, Ph.D., Whitworth University Department of History (dsoden@whitworth.edu; 509.777.4433).