Application Period Has Ended
Request for Proposals: ABSTRACT
The Mind & Life Institute, with funding from The John Templeton Foundation, invites Contemplative Studies Fellowship grant applications that propose to bring fresh perspectives from the humanities into contemplative neuroscience and contemplative clinical science. One-year grants will be available for humanities and social science scholars holding Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor (or equivalent) rank at their academic institution. Fellowship grants will be awarded in line with American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) guidelines based on academic Rank:
- $60,000 for Full Professor and equivalent
- $40,000 for Associate Professor and equivalent
- $35,000 for Assistant Professor and equivalent
Additionally, successful applicants are expected to document their eligibility for matching funds from their respective institutions (e.g., through support for some percentage of one’s salary or benefits not fully covered by the amount of the fellowship).
Mind and Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship (MLCSF) applicants are required to show how their research strategy and subject matter engage with scientific approaches to the study of contemplative practice in fields such as clinical science, neuroscience and so on.
The MLCSF grant program will have two complementary strands:
Strand one will focus on encouraging new kinds of scholarly reviews and critical analyses of recent scientific work, with the goals of raising new questions, improving methods, and drawing out broader implications of the scientific work. Projects in this strand can be formulated in terms of various fields or methodologies, including but not limited to religious studies, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology.
Strand two will focus on facilitating new kinds of active partnerships between humanistic scholars and laboratory scientists, with the goals of developing new interdisciplinary methods and a richer approach to the questions at hand. Funded projects will fall under one of three rubrics: Field-based projects, Laboratory-based projects, or Interdisciplinary team-based projects.
MLCSF recipients will be required to attend the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute (MLSRI), and recipients at more advanced stages of their research may be invited to deliver MLSRI plenary lectures or lead break-out workshops and discussion groups based on their research
Click here for the complete RFP
Click here for Proposal Guidelines
The application period has closed. MLCSF Awards will be announced by April 15, 2012.
Any questions about the MLCSF (application process, eligibility, etc.) should be directed to mlcsf@mindandlife.org.
MLCSF Advisory Board
- John Dunne, Ph.D., Co-Chair
Associate Professor, Dept. of Religion
Emory University
http://religion.emory.edu/faculty/dunne.html - Anne Harrington, Ph.D., Co-Chair
Professor of the History of Science
Harvard University
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/bios/harrington.html - Evan Thompson, Ph.D., Co-Chair
Professor of Philosophy
University of Toronto
http://individual.utoronto.ca/evant/ - Christian Coseru, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy
College of Charleston
http://coseruc.people.cofc.edu/ - Jay L. Garfield, Ph.D.
Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy
Smith College
http://www.smith.edu/philosophy/jgarfield.html - Alfred Kaszniak, Ph.D.
Mind and Life Chief Academic Officer
Head, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona
Professor, Psychology, Psychiatry, and Neurology, University of Arizona
Director, Neuropsychology, Emotion, and Memory Lab
http://emotion.web.arizona.edu/Kaszniak.htm
- Robert Sharf, Ph.D.
Professor of Buddhist Studies, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures
University of California, Berkeley
http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/sharf/ - Ann Taves, Ph.D.
Holder of the Virgil Cordano OFM Endowed Chair in Catholic Studies
Professor of Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.religion.ucsb.edu/Faculty/taves.htm
