Supporting Scholarship at USC
Current Opportunities
The CRCC Interdisciplinary Research Group supports scholarship at USC by providing research awards for USC faculty and doctoral candidates, sponsoring working groups, and hosting a a Signature Seminar.
Annual Faculty Research Awards
The Interdisciplinary Research Group will provide up to $10,000 to support faculty research related to religion. To be considered for an award, candidates must meet be USC faculty members (T, TT, or NTT). Funds may not be used for course buy-out or salary, but otherwise are available for any legitimate research purpose, e.g. data collection, travel to archives or conferences, equipment justified by the research project, hiring of research assistants, web design or multimedia support, and expenses for research workshops or other scholarly events.For more information, visit the Annual Faculty Research Award page.
Annual Doctoral Student Research Awards
Each year, the Interdisciplinary Research Group will provide awards up to $5,000 to USC doctoral candidates to advance the study of religion. Candidates must have passed qualifying exams and be engaged in dissertation research and/or writing.For more information, visit the Advanced Doctoral Research Award page.
Past Recipients
2009-2010 Advanced Doctoral Research Awards
- 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
2009-2010 Annual Faculty Awards
- 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.