The LGBT Dissertation Scholarship provides a stipend of $15,000 for a doctoral student with an expressed interest in furthering LGBT religious and theological study. In addition to financial assistance, the scholarship provides one-on-one mentoring opportunity with a respected scholar.
The Summer Institute is an intensive five day institute for 14 participants studying LGBT issues at the master’s and doctoral level. This year the Summer Institute will be held at Vanderbilt University School of Divinity. Students will work with prominent scholars of religion, public theologians, and media experts to explore how their scholarship can fuel a new dialogue on LGBT equality and religion in their schools, seminaries, congregations, and communities.
“HRC's Scholarship and Mentorship program has the potential to transform in profound and lasting ways the training ground for theologians and students of religion,” said Harry Knox, director of HRC’s Religion and Faith Program. “By providing these extraordinarily talented students a chance to network with each other and to envision their scholarship as serving the widest possible marketplace, we cultivate a new understanding of sexual orientation, gender identity and religion and effectively counter the repressive environment in which so many students are currently trained.”
Visit www.hrc.org/seminary to learn more about HRC’s Scholarship and Mentorship Program or to see the full list of winners.
