Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Postdoctoral Fellowship provides up to $50,000 (USD) to early career theological educators with vocational and professional formation through a two-year placement as a visiting scholar at a graduate theological school, college, university, or education and research organization in the United States and Canada. As part of the Louisville Institute's Vocation of the Theological Educator (VTE) Initiative, these fellows engage in intentional, focused, professional formation and teaching as they explore a calling to be a theological educator for future pastoral leaders. Postdoctoral Fellows receive pastoral and faculty peer mentoring as part of their formation, as well as joining their cohort at the October, January, and May VTE gatherings. The fellowship provides an annual minimum salary stipend of $50,000 (USD) plus housing, health insurance, and moving costs. Final amounts are negotiated between the placement institution and the Louisville Institute to ensure the fellow receives adequate and appropriate compensation as a visiting professor. The Louisville Institute ordinarily places Postdoctoral Fellows in an appropriate, ATS-accredited theological school, or less often at a college or university, based on the needs of the institutions, the disciplinary expertise of the fellows, and theological and contextual fit between the two.