CTNS Fellowship Program

The CTNS Fellowship Program, part of the now concluded Science and Religion Course Program, was designed to encourage the cultivation of science-religion dialogue within curricula at select U.S. research institutions. The funding was intended to offset some of the costs associated with the development of new curricula, namely philosophical and pedagogical challenges presented by science and religion, and the already stretched schedules and scholarly resources of teaching professors who engage in the development of new research. 

The Fellowship program requires 1) a new course to be developed and taught which engages the interdisciplinary concerns of science and religion, and 2) sponsorship of an on- campus conference designed to encourage the development of science and religion curricula at the host institution. The 2002 Fellowships have been awarded to Duke University, Emory University, Harvard University, University of Arizona, University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, University of Washington, Vanderbilt University, Yale University, and jointly to University of California at Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union. Note that this was a one-time program as part of the final year of the SRCP grant.

INSTITUTION	DEPARTMENT	FELLOW
Duke University	Center for the Study of Medical Ethics & Humanities	Priscilla Wald, Associate Professor of English
Emory University	Graduate School of Arts and Sciences	Gary Laderman, Associate Professor, American Religious History and Culture, and Arri Eisen, Senior Lecturer in Biology and Director of the Program in Science and Society
Harvard University	Department of the History of Science	Anne Harrington, Professor of the History of Science
University of Arizona	Chemistry Department	Victory Hruby, Regents Professor
University of California at Berkeley, and the Graduate Theological Union		Carolyn Merchant, Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics, and Rosemary Ruether, Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology
University of Chicago Medical School and Chicago Theological Seminary		J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., and Susan B. Thistlethwaite, M.Div., Ph.D.
University of Notre Dame	Department of Theology	J. Matthew Ashley, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology
University of Washington	School of Medicine	Paul H. Lange, Nelson Chair in Urology, and Denise Dudzinski, Assistant Professor Medical History and Ethics
Vanderbilt University	Religious Studies Department	Volney P. Gay, Professor & Chair, Religious Studies
Yale University	Divinity School	Dean Rebecca S. Chopp, Titus Street Professor of Theology and Culture, and Wesley Avram, Clement-Muehl Assistant Professor of Communications