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Lifeways of Hope Fellowships

Join the Center for Religion and Cities (CRC), where we are growing a collaborative and joyful collective of academics, cultural workers, and community organizers. With generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation, we are looking to fill four fellowship positions for the Lifeways of Hope initiative at Morgan State University to start in September of 2022. The Listening Lab, Museum CoLab, Curricular Lab, and Black Queer Everything fellowships include an annual stipend of $15,000 for 10 hours of work per week. Fellows will also receive benefits (more info here), mentoring, training, travel support, and connection to a growing collective committed to new more equitable and lifegiving work on religion and cities. In keeping with the CRC’s mission to address structural disparities in urban environments, fellows will be deeply engaged with communities of color. Candidates enrolled in graduate programs or graduate degree holders seeking alternatives to traditional academic positions are encouraged to apply. Graduate students of diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. We are also open to applications from candidates with community organizing experience in lieu of academic training.

Details:
Prospective Candidates should fill out this form (enter yourself as both nominator and nominee) and send application materials to info@ReligionAndCities.org with the following: one page letter of interest, CV, and work sample (article/essay, digital humanities project, etc.). Submit applications by September 2, 2022 to be included in the initial review, applications will be accepted through September 2022 if needed. Decisions will be announced in September of 2022.

The Listening Lab Fellowship 
The goal of the Listening Lab is to facilitate more equitable relationships between community partners, universities, and museums by promoting deep listening. Through this fellowship, the fellow will research existing listening labs and projects as well as identify common issues in community-institution partnerships to shape the direction of the larger Lifeways of Hope project. The fellow will help to design the Lifeways of Hope’s model for listening, develop training materials and classroom exercises in collaboration with Museum CoLab and Curricular Lab, build a network of partners, contribute to grant writing, and coordinate and co-facilitate listening lab events virtually and in-person with the Director of the Listening Lab.

Skills Desired
- Experience with community-based research and/or non-profit/not-for-profit work
- Knowledge of Google Suite (e.g. Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, etc.) and Zoom
- Knowledge of or willingness to learn qualitative research methods and analysis

Museum Co-Lab Fellowship 
Museums and Cities as Labs for Collaborative Action (Museum Co-Lab) is a new initiative that defines ways for museums to transform from bastions of objects to public infrastructure that engages the human spirit. This work is done by activating museum spaces in Baltimore, DC, and Los Angeles, with pop-up listening circles in exhibition galleries and in virtual convenings, where students will be key participants in listening circles with artists, spiritual practitioners, museum professionals, philanthropists, and community organizers. Our goal is the collaborative and joyful rethinking of museum programming, gallery interpretation, and most significantly – museum leadership. The Museum Co-Lab fellowship offers significant experience in teaching at Morgan State University and in developing curricula and workshops, for classes and workshops previously offered, visit here. Working with the Director of Museum Co-Lab, the fellow will also facilitate field trips, paid internships and travel.

Skills Desired
- Teaching and administrative experience 
- Experience with community-based research and museum outreach
- Familiarity with the fields of religion, museum studies, cultural anthropology, and/or art history 
- Knowledge of Google Suite (e.g. Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, etc.) and Zoom

The Curricular Lab Fellowship

The Curricula Lab seeks to infuse deep listening and holistic student wellbeing practices into university and high school education on religion and cities. With the goal of moving away from passionless narratives on the tenets and doctrines about specific religions in the classroom, we’ll critically and caringly engage the lived religious, spiritual, and moral traditions that animate our cities. Curricula Lab innovations will seek to (1) empower students from underrepresented communities to view themselves as knowledge producers, (2) recognize other models of knowledge expertise, and (3) teach non-hierarchical, horizontal models of collaboration. The results of Curricula Lab will be presented at AAR’s Religion and Cities unit and other networks. Working with the Director of the Curricular Lab, the fellow will help with course design and culture, facilitate guest lectures, field trips, and paid internships with community partners, work with high school teachers to develop lesson plans, and present lessons learned in academic and public forums. 

Skills Desired
- Creative syllabus and course design 
- Teaching and mentoring experience 
- Facilitate group discussions
- Public speaking experience

Black Queer Everything Fellowship
Black Queer…Everything (BQE) is a national collective of black, queer faculty committed to cultivating the intellectual and artistic pursuits of the next generation of black, queer scholar-activists devoted to realizing meaningful social change.  BQE invests in the development of burgeoning LGBTQ+ scholar-activists through interdisciplinary, humanities-focused learning opportunities that engage renowned faculty, community activists, and scholar-activists.  Working with the Director of Black Queer Everything, the fellow will deepen our local and national network of academic and community partners, maintain a resource list of cutting edge curriculum and movement issues, contribute to grant writing, coordinate and facilitate BQE events virtually and in-person, and develop social media content. 

Skills Desired
- Familiarity with fields of study within the humanities at the intersections of queer of color scholarship and/or Africana studies
- Experience or engagement with community-based research and non-profit work
- Knowledge of Google Suite (e.g. Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, etc.) and Zoom
- Experience with facilitating group discussions
- Proficiency with public speaking
- Demonstrated commitment to black queer communities

Apply
Prospective Candidates should fill out this form (enter yourself as both nominator and nominee) and send application materials to info@ReligionAndCities.org with the following: one page letter of interest, CV, and work sample (article/essay, digital humanities project, etc.). Submit applications by September 2, 2022 to be included in the initial review, applications will be accepted through September 2022 if needed. Decisions will be announced in September of 2022.