Funder: Library of Congress
Due Dates (Anticipated): September 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $5,000 per month for 6–12 months
Summary: Supports scholarly research on how religiousness and spirituality relate to physical, mental, and social health.
Key Information: U.S. citizens or permanent residents with a doctorate must undertake full-time residency at the Library of Congress.
Description
The David B. Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality is a postdoctoral fellowship administered by the Library of Congress’s John W. Kluge Center. It supports scientific study of the relationship between religiousness and spirituality and physical, mental, and social health. An endowment from the International Center for the Integration of Health and Spirituality supports the fellowship, which honors its founder, epidemiologist and psychiatrist David B. Larson.
Fellows undertake concentrated research using the Library’s collections. Proposals may draw on medical, psychiatric, psychological, nursing, public health, religious, ministerial, legal, sociological, anthropological, or historical perspectives, among others. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural proposals are welcomed. Projects should make a clear scholarly contribution and demonstrate why working with the Library of Congress collections benefits the research.
