Seed funding

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The Center’s seed funding programs seek to stimulate research and inquiry that advances analytic, interpretive, or normative engagement with religion, conflict, or peace, including quantitative, qualitative, and digital humanities proposals.

Seed grants

The Center’s seed grant program supports the development of new ideas and innovative research by investing in ASU faculty who study religion and conflict and/or peace. Research projects may be analytic, interpretive, and/or normative in nature and may include any combination of quantitative, qualitative, historical, and/or digital humanities approaches. Seed grants support projects aimed at the submission of a major grant proposal to an external funding source. Only Arizona State University tenured or tenure-track faculty or research professionals on continuing appointment are eligible to apply. Collaborative projects within ASU, or between ASU researchers and those at other institutions, are encouraged. Applications are generally taken in the spring of each year

   Download the application (deadline: April 13, 2020)

For more information about the program, contact:

Carolyn Forbes
Assistant Director
Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Campus Mail:  0802
480.965.1096
carolyn.forbes@asu.edu

Research grants

Research grants that are specific to projects housed within the Center are made available when possible. The Center does not have any new research grants of this type available at this time.

Previous Projects
2018 seed funding was awarded for research grants on the theme of Religion, Citizenship, and Globalization

For more information, contact: 

Matt Correa
Assistant Research Administrator
Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Campus Mail:  0802
480.727.6339
matt.correa@asu.edu

Faculty seminars

Faculty seminars and working groups supported by the Center are designed to facilitate connections, conversations, and collaborations on issues related to religion and conflict that cross disciplinary and departmental lines. Interdisciplinary seminars consist of ten to fifteen faculty members who meet regularly for discussion of common texts, methodological and theoretical issues that cross disciplinary boundaries, potential collaborative research projects, and works in progress. Working groups, some of which have emerged out of the interdisciplinary seminars, are focused on more specific projects and related grant development.

Applications for faculty seminars and working groups are generally taken in the spring of each year for the following academic year.

  Download the application (deadline: April 13, 2020):

PAST SEMINARS:

  • Imperialism and Resistance in Modern Muslim Thought (2018-2019)
  • Luce Seminar on Religion and Global Citizenship (2014-2017)
  • Religion, Violence and Sports (2015-17)
  • The Post-Secular Moment (2014-16)
  • Measuring Religion (2014-15)
  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Peace Studies (2006-2013)
  • Transhumanist Imagination: Innovation, Secularization, and Eschatology (2011-2013)
  • Luce Seminar on Religion, International Relations, Gender & Human Rights (2010-2012)
  • Religion and Revolution (2010-11)
  • Paradoxes of Religious Freedom (2008-09)
  • Secularism and Gender (2007-08)
  • Being Human: Science, Religion, Technology, and Law (2004-10)
  • Research Collaborative on Religion and Intergroup Conflict/Intergroup Peace (2004-06)
  • After Secularization: Religion, Conflict and the Nation-State in a Changing World (2003-05)
  • Religion and Conflict: Disrupting Violence (2003-04)
     

For more information about the program, contact:

Carolyn Forbes
Assistant Director
Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Campus Mail: 0802
480.965.1096
carolyn.forbes@asu.edu