The Christian Scholars Foundation has awarded its 2008 Grants to Advance Christian Scholarship. CSF is a small family foundation formed to encourage and support Christian junior faculty in their efforts to gain recognition and stature in the academy, and to encourage them in the effort to integrate Christian faith and academic endeavor. The Foundation makes annual grants of $6,000 to $10,000 available for the purpose of cultivating and assisting Christian academics. Since 2007, these grants have been awarded exclusively to ESN members.

2008 Grant Recipients

The Christian Scholars Foundation has awarded two grants for this year.

Brett Foster
Assistant Professor of English
Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL)
Project: Anglo-Italian Medieval and Renaissance Literature Amid a Community of Faith

David Vosburg
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Harvey Mudd College
Project: “Biomimetic Synthesis of (+)-Davanone”, an antifungal and spasmolytic natural product

Past Grant Recipients

1999

Paul Gutjahr
Associate Professor of English
University of Indiana
Project  Partial support of research preparatory to the publication of:

1. Illuminating Letters: Essays on Typography and Literary Interpretation (University Of Massachusetts Press, 2000)
2. Editing the anthology Nineteenth Century American Popular Literature (Oxford Press, 2001)
3. “The Perseverance of Print-Bound Saints: Protestant Book Publishing in the United States 1945-2000.” In History of the Book In America Vol. 5 (Cambridge Press)
4. “Sacred Texts In the United States” in Book History 4. 2001
5. “No Longer Left Behind: Amazon.com, Reader Response and The Changing Fortunes of Christian Fiction in America”

2000

Francis Su
Professor of Mathematics
Harvey Mudd College
Project: Travel to three academic conferences; Support for Science/Faith informal discussions with students outside the classroom.

2001

Fraser Fleming
Professor of Chemistry
Duquesne University
Project: “Enhancing the Chemistry of Nitriles.” Support of Sabbatical research leading to the publication of several articles and invited seminars.

2002

Scott Manetsch (Second grant awarded in 2006)
Associate Professor of Church History
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Project: Support of sabbatical research in Switzerland on Theodore Beza, Calvin’s successor in Geneva. Pivotal to the publication of “Pastoral Care East of Eden: The Consisitory of Geneva 1586-1582” published in the Journal of Church History, and the book, Clerical Culture and Pastoral Care in Theodore Beza’s Geneva. Resulting academic presentations:

• Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (2003)
• Summer Course at John a Lasko Library, Emden, Germany (2005)
• International Congress on Theodore Beza, Geneva (2005)

2003

Denis Lamoureux  
Assistant Professor of Science and Religion
St Joseph’s College, University of Alberta
Project: Teaching/Research Assistant for “Science and Religion” course

2007

Erik Lindquist
Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science
Messiah College
Project: Studies on Canopy Amphibians of the Cloud Forests of the Chiriqui Highlands of Panama

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