The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry is proud to help facilitate and publicize and number of opportunities for academic inquiry and growth. From working group funding, to research grants, to dissertation fellowshipa, there are a number of options for students and faculty to engage with research, teaching, and learning.
APARRI Research and Working Group Grants
The Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI) will be supporting the growth and development of scholarship and public knowledge on Asian Pacific American religions. These initiatives serve three primary interrelated functions: building and diversifying scholarship, strengthening the academic pipeline, and promoting public engagement.
Graduate Group in the Study of Religion
The Graduate Group is a lively intellectual and academic community nurturing the teaching and scholarship of religion on campus. Core faculty can be a representative member of the Designated Emphasis in the Study of Religion in graduate students’ qualifying and dissertation committees, and teach courses that could apply towards the DESR.
CICI Summer Research Grants
The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry offers graduate students summer research stipends of up to $3,000 for interdisciplinary, interdivisional and/or collaborative projects on urgent contemporary issues such as authoritarianism, climate change, religion and democracy, borders and migration, race, gender and sexuality. Students working within or across the fields of critical theory, environmental arts and humanities, religious studies and digital humanities are especially encouraged to apply. Please note that these stipends cannot be used for travel.
Critical Theory Dissertation Fellowship
The Critical Theory Dissertation Fellowship is awarded to UC Berkeley Critical Theory Designated Emphasis (DE) graduate students with records of achievement and promising dissertation projects. The fellowships support students writing their dissertations, providing full fee remission (where required) and a full stipend, usually for a semester.
New Directions in Theology Grants for Graduate Students
For the Spring 2023 semester, BCSR is offering eight fellowships of $3,750 each for graduate students to explore the relationship between democracy and theology through a focus on religion and health. Led by two BCSR faculty members (Ronit Y. Stahl and Munir Jiwa), students will meet bi-weekly to read key texts in the history of religion, explore research topics, and meet Berkeley and visiting faculty working in the field. Awardees will form a cohort of graduate students from diverse disciplines that share an interest in the study of religion and theology.