IRCPL Summer Research Fellowships are available to Columbia University students for research related to the completion of their dissertation or other research projects depending on the level of study. Summer Research Fellowships are open to undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students. The fellowship provides each student a maximum of $4,000 to cover expenses directly related to their research, including travel, lodging, and materials during the Summer of 2019 (and in some cases during the 2019-2020 academic year). Previous fellows can be found here.
As part of the Rethinking Public Religion in Africa and South Asia Project, IRCPL is also funding research fellowships related to themes pertinent to the project. The goal of “Rethinking Public Religion” is to shift public and academic discourse away from a tendency to foreground discrete religious traditions, sectarian boundaries, and identity politics, which all too often reduces the variety of ways in which religion’s place can be seen within social, political, and cultural life and reinforces the boundaries between communities.
We ask participants to considering the ways in which religion becomes public through diverse forms of encounter, with a focus on interregional parallels, differences, and flows across South Asia and Africa. In particular, we are interested in research questions that are attentive to the project’s three strands of inquiry: 1) word, sound, and image; 2) space, time and memory; and 3) the body, gender, and sexuality.
