Activities and Organizations
Student Educational Policy Committee (SEPC)
The Student Educational Policy Committee, or SEPC, is a student-faculty liaison group that provides faculty with student input on professors, candidates, curriculum, and other departmental issues. It also organizes social events within the department.
Religious Studies SEPC students for the academic year 2019–20 are:
- Claire Pollard ’22
- Destiny Magnett ’22
- Summer Bordon ’22
- Erin Ritter ’22
- Ascher Walker Wilson ’23
Student Employment
The department occasionally hires students as research assistants. For more information, please contact the department chair.
Awards, Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships
Boren Scholarships
Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
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Fulbright Grants
In general, there are two types of Fulbright grants:
- A Fulbright , which funds one academic year of overseas study and/or research in one country
- An (ETA), which funds one academic year of teaching English in one country
Additionally, Fulbright offers several specialized grants, including:
- (which are usually given to graduate students, and only for Italy, Germany, and Hungary),
- ,
- ,
- (Mexico, Spain, and the Netherlands),
- , and
- country-specific awards to Australia, Ireland (Irish Language), Italy (slow foods and Deaf studies), Mexico (graduate degree and public policy); and the Netherlands (water management).
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Gates Cambridge Scholarships
Gates Cambridge Scholarships are highly competitive full-cost awards for full-time graduate study and research in any subject available at the University of Cambridge.
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Gilman Scholarship
The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program offers grants for U.S. citizen undergraduate students of limited financial means to pursue academic studies abroad.
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Marshall Scholarships
Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Up to forty scholars are selected each year to study at the graduate level at a UK institution in any field of study.
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Mitchell Scholarship
The Mitchell Scholarship Program, named to honor former US Senator George Mitchell’s pivotal contribution to the Northern Ireland peace process, is designed to introduce and connect generations of future American leaders to the island of Ireland while recognizing and fostering intellectual achievement, leadership, and a commitment to community and public service.
Up to twelve Mitchell Scholars between the ages of 18 and 30 are chosen annually for one year of postgraduate study in any discipline offered by institutions of higher learning in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Rhodes Scholarships
Rhodes Scholarships, the oldest international educational fellowships, were initiated after the death of Cecil Rhodes in 1902, and bring outstanding students from many countries around the world to the University of Oxford.
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