HRC Foundation Mentorship Program: Application Form

The Summer Institute was developed to encourage and promote LGBTQ and allied students pursuing religious studies and theological scholarship. It is open to students at the final stages of the MA, MDiv, and early stages of PhD and ThD work in the United States. Recognizing that all students doing advanced scholarly work in LGBT religious and theological studies do not fit conventional degree-granting institutional models, we will also consider those working outside traditional degree granting programs.

The Institute will function as an intensive workshop/course designed to encourage and empower students working on LGBT studies who are interested in seeing the connection between their work and LGBT justice. The program will bring together well-known scholars and theologians to serve as instructors and mentors on themes related to LGBT religious and theological studies and hermeneutics; public theology and advocacy; justice work at the intersections of identities; religious pluralism and queer studies.

We are pleased to announce that the 2013 Summer Institute will again be taught by Dr. Rebecca Alpert from Temple University. The Institute will be held July 21-26, 2013 at sponsoring host institution The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality at Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville, TN. All travel, lodging and food expenses covered. For more information about Dr. Alpert and past programs, please click here.

Application Deadline: April 15, 2013

Application Requirements

Students must be finishing their work as MA/MDiv or be currently enrolled in a doctoral program and must demonstrate their commitment to advancing LGBT equality through religious study. We will consider students in non-traditional equivalent programs. Applicants must submit the following:

• Application form (below)
• Official transcript(s) for all graduate work. Mail to: Michael Toumayan, Human Rights Campaign, 1640 Rhode Island Ave, NW. Washington, DC. 20036. Attn: Scholarship and Mentorship Program. Please contact us at [email protected] if your campus provides official transcripts via email or other alternative means.
• Three official letters of recommendation (an LGBT leader or organization is encouraged) submitted through our online form.