Doctoral Fellows

The Fund for Theological Education supports a fellowship program that supplies support and enhancement to the education of African American students entering a Ph.D. or Th.D. program in religious or theological studies. Applicants must be entering their first year of an accredited graduate program and strongly considering a career in seminary teaching and research.

First Book Grant to Minority Scholars Program

The Louisville Institute’s First Book Grant Program for Minority Scholars assists junior, non-tenured religion scholars of color to complete a major research project on an issue in American Christianity related to the priorities of the Louisville Institute: Christian faith and life, pastoral leadership, and religious institutions. The grant amount requested should not exceed $40,000.

General Grants Program

The Louisville Institute’s General Grant Program occasionally supports a limited number of individual and collaborative projects by academics, pastors, or other religious leaders on current program priorities of the Louisville Institute: Christian faith and life, religious institutions, and pastoral leadership. By means of these grants, the Institute seeks to encourage pastors and academics to renew their vocational commitments and to pursue the distinctive kinds of research, writing, convening, and collaboration that promise to be most helpful to the church.

Lilly Theological Research Grants

The Lilly Theological Research Grants program is designed to enhance the skill and capacity of faculty in member institutions of the Association of Theological Schools as theological researchers and scholars. It supports research efforts of faculty, particularly at junior and non-tenured levels in order to nurture the development of their scholarship; seeks to enlarge the pool of faculty actively engaged as theological researchers; works to increase knowledge about grant seeking and the craft of theological research; and nurtures the habit of research as an ongoing aspect of scholarly life.

Pastoral Leadership Program

The Louisville Institute’s Pastoral Leadership Grant Program supports research projects by academics and pastors on the nature and challenge of contemporary pastoral leadership, with special attention to the conditions of contemporary Christian ministry and the character of pastoral excellence. The grant amount requested should not exceed $40,000.

Religious Institutions Program

The Louisville Institute’s Religious Institutions Grant Program supports research projects by academics and pastors designed to encourage reflection on the theological, historical, and sociological nature of and challenges to religious organizations and institutions in the contemporary world. The grant amount requested should not exceed $40,000.