Martin Marty Center Junior Fellowship

The Divinity School’s Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion invites applications for the 2025-2026 Junior Fellows Program. The Marty Center Junior Fellows program aims to support students toward a successful completion of their dissertation and aid in their transition to professional life as public intellectuals.

For the 2025-26 academic year the Fellows program will be focused on the craft of scholarly writing. It will consider the conventions and conflicts of writing in a field as interdisciplinary as the study of religion and will explore the opportunities for creativity, voice and style within its various forms through reading and writing. We will work on everything from the sentence to the structuring of book-length manuscripts. The class will be organized to accommodate analysis, discussion and workshop and the final assignment will be the revision of a seminar paper into an essay suitable for publication.

The Marty Junior Fellowship awards a prize of $2,500 for students receiving stipendiary assistance from the University or other funding source that is greater than or equal to the annual living stipend amount. Award eligibility will be confirmed by the divisional Dean of Students. The fellowship shall consist of weekly meetings through the entire academic year.

Eligibility

• Applicants must be enrolled and in good standing in a PhD program in the Divinity School, the Division of the Humanities, or the Division of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.
• Applicants must have achieved candidacy by time of application, with a committee-approved dissertation prospectus that centers around any topic in the study of religion.

Deadline

Friday, June 16th 2025