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Scholarship and Praxis

Prospective Students & Community Scholars-Activists

 
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“Being a Graduate Research Fellow at Wendland-Cook is a key component of my doctoral program, and one of the reasons why I chose Vanderbilt for my studies. Our work at the intersections of religion, economics, race, and ecology is foundational to my commitment in linking labor and community organizing methodologies with liberative theological practices, for application in my multiple roles as teacher, priest, and organizer.”

Francisco Garcia, Jr. is the Graduate Research Fellow and Student Leadership Representative at the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice, and is a PhD Student in Theology at Vanderbilt University in the Graduate Program of Religion. He is a long time labor organizer out of Los Angeles, CA, and an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church, USA.

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Fellowships and Internships

Engaged Scholarship Makes a DIfference

The Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice is happy to accept applications to our fellows program for next academic year 2024-2025. The program focuses on issues of justice in matters of religion, economics, and ecology, intersecting with race and gender. The fellowship program places VDS students in leadership roles in the key initiative of the Wendland-Cook program, the Solidarity Circles (https://www.religionandjustice.org/solidarity-circles).

Fellowship slots  are limited and applicants who have participated in Solidarity Circles previously or are familiar with our webinars (see for example, our most recent webinar: The (Im)possibility of Solidarity on the Left: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_1aARIigKs&feature=youtu.be) and popular education materials (Interventions: https://www.religionandjustice.org/interventions) are encouraged to apply.

Applications are competitive and can be found here: https://www.religionandjustice.org/apply-for-fellowship.

The Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt Divinity School provides fellowships and internships for masters students enrolled at VDS and for doctoral students in the Graduate Department of Religion and other graduate programs at Vanderbilt University.

 

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About our Fellowships

 
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Our fellows have worked with a broad range of community organizations, religious organizations, and labor and social movements. This includes working with the Southeast Center of Cooperative Development, the Nashville Central Labor Council, worker centers, organizations focusing on immigrant and undocumented labor, religious institutions, and our own webinar and public-facing work.

We also consider project proposals for fellowships from non-student scholars and activists in the Nashville area engaged in the work of economic and ecological justice who have unique insights and opportunities for intersectional engagement.

 

Are you a Vanderbilt student or community activist interested in working with us? Apply for a Fellowship!

 
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