FELLOWSHIPS

Training Sessions

The first training session was held January 29-31, 1999 at Princeton University, hosted by the Center for the Study of American Religion and administered by RISC at Brooklyn College. The fellows attended sessions at which the topices addressed included: Latino cultural issues; denominational considerations; and community development organizations.

The second session was held June 24-30, 1999 in Orlando, Florida. In concert with the PARAL members who serve as co-investigators to the NSLLPC and other invited experts, the studies that they would conduct and fashion in a collegial process the approaches they would employ.

The third stage of the fellowship will engage the fellows in community studies at approximately 11 sites nationwide that will suplement the questionnaire segments of the NSLLPC.

This community site research has been funded by the Ford and the Annie Casey Foundation.

UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP

In conjunction with Brooklyn College, undergraduate fellowships have been offered for the social scientific study of religion. Undergraduate fellows must be ranked in the upper quintiles academically and be advanced to the third year of study. The undergraduate fellows receive a stipend equivalent to $3,000 a year which they may use for tuition to Brooklyn College.

The 2001-2002 fellows were integrated into the training sessions for the graduate fellows and have served apprenticeships in specially designed cross-disciplinary classes offered by the Departments of Sociology and Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College.

The Undergraduate Fellowships are administered by RISC and have been designed to allow direct experience in social science research in the field of religion. Fellows are encouraged to consider social science as a career and are supported in the selection of an appropriate graduate course of studies at the university of their choice.

Undergraduate Fellows

Theresa Vazquez
Maribel Cordero
Jason Perez  (2001 - 2002)
Maria Ponciano