CRCC Interdisciplinary Research Group

The Center for Religion and Civic Culture's Interdisciplinary Research Group supports scholarship related to religions with annual Fellowships of up to $10,000 for USC faculty and up to $5,000 for advanced doctoral candidates. (Some funding is also available to doctoral students participating in our annual Seminar.)

• Download the Call for Proposals for Faculty Fellowships.
• Download the Call for Proposals for Advanced Doctoral Fellowships.

2012-13 Fellows

Faculty Research Fellows

• Vern Bengtson, Davis School of Gerontology
  Does religiosity increase with age and nearness to death?
• Daniela Bleichmar, Department of Art History
  Religion, Medicine, and Nature in the Sixteenth-Century Hispanic world
• Lynn Dodd, School of Religion
  Cooperative Protection of Holy Sites and Heritage as a Means of Diffusing Political Conflict in Jerusalem’s Old City
• Stephen O'Leary, Annenberg School for Communication
  Religious Arguments over Environmentalism and Climate Change
• Brady Potts, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of Sociology
  Public Narratives Around Natural Disaster Response in the United States

Doctoral Research Fellows

• Ellen Dooley, Department of Art History
  Remedying the Decline: Art Patronage in Golden Age Seville
• Emilie Garrigou-Kempton, Department of French and Italian
  Hysteria in Lourdes and Miracles at the Salpêtrière
• Penny Geng, Department of English
  Legal Commentary in John Foxe's The Book of Martyrs
• Alvaro Marquez, Department of American Studies and Ethnicity
  Apparitions, Saints and the Intangible: Santo Toribio Romo and Immigrant Tales of a Shared Elsewhere
• Ericka Swensson, Department of History
  St. Mildred of Thanet: Biography of a Cult
• George Villanueva,. Annenberg School for Communication
  The Making of Belief: A Visual Documentary on the Cultural and Civic Work behind the Annual Santo Niño Ati-Atihan Festival in the Philippines

PAST RECIPIENTS

2010-11 Faculty Research Fellows

• Darnell Cole and Shafiqa Ahmadi, Rossier School of Education
  A Jihad in American Education: The Experience, Stereotypes and Identity of Muslims in Higher Education (book project)
• Matthew Gainer, USC Libraries
  Slab City and Lady of the Rock (photography project)
• Jane Iwamura, Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity
  American Dreams: Contemporary Reflections on Civil Religion, Race, and U.S. Film (book project)
• Macarena Gomez-Barris, Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity
  Andean Gateways: Spiritual Tourism in Cusco, Peru (book project)
• Jason Glenn, History
  The Role of Fleury and its Monks in the Social, Religious, and Political Landscapes of Medieval West Francia (book project)

2011-12 Doctoral Fellows

• Rebecca Cerling, History
  Saint Anselm and Saplings in the Garden of the Church: Child Advocacy in the Middle Ages
• Jeremy Glatstein, Art History
  The Watching Night: Print, Power and Jewish Vision in Early Modern Italy
• Bradly Nabors, Sociology
  All Are Born Atheists?: Implicit Culture and the Practice of Irreligion
• Thien-Huong Ninh, Sociology
  Transnational Religious Communities: Vietnamese Catholic and Caodai Cross-border Networks Among Co-Religionists in the U.S., Cambodia, and Vietnam
• Tasneem Siddiqui, American Studies and Ethnicity
  Specters of Islam: The Present Absence of Islam in the Postbellum Sea Islands
• Mohamed Saleh, Economics
  Muslims, Christians, and Jews in 19th and 20th Century Egypt: Human Capital Differences, Urban Segregation, and Modernization

2009-2010 Faculty Research Fellows

• Lynn Swartz Dodd (Religion) for work on her book on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations about archaeological sites in the West Bank
• Sean Roberts (Art History), for his project on Renaissance Venetian painters’ representations of exotic Turkish subjects
• David Albertson (Religion) for his research on the late medieval theologian Nicholas of Cusa and Cusa’s role in negotiating a rapprochement between science and faith at the historical moment just before religious Reformation.

2010-2011 Doctoral Research Fellows

• Kristina Buhrman (History) for her study of calendrical divination in medieval and modern Japan
• Christian Hammons (Anthropology) for his examination of the role of religion in the conflict between tradition and modernity on the island of Siberut, the largest of the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia
• Zeynep Sahin (Politics and IR) for her work on women’s participation in Islamic and Kurdish nationalist parties in Turkey
• Kristina Meinking (Classics) for her dissertation on Lactantius, a 4th-century writer who examined the anger of the Christian God in the context of extensive ancient literary, philosophical, and historical discourse