March 2, 2011

Library of Congress Seeks Applicants For David Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality

The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is accepting applications for the David B. Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality, which offers a post-doctoral scholar an opportunity to conduct research on the impact of religion and spirituality on physical, mental and social health.

The fellowship is awarded for a period of up to 12 months at a stipend of $4,200 per month. Applications must be postmarked by Sunday, April 17. For an application form and additional information, visit www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/larson.html.

Made possible by a generous endowment from the International Center for the Integration of Health and Spirituality, the fellowship is named in honor of the center’s late founder, David B. Larson, an epidemiologist and psychiatrist, who focused on potentially relevant but understudied factors which might help in prevention, coping and recovering from illness. The fellowship is designed to continue Larson’s legacy of promoting meaningful, scholarly study of the important and increasingly interrelated fields of health and spirituality.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. The fellowship will commence anytime after Sept. 1, 2011.

The Kluge Center was established in 2000 through an endowment of $60 million from John W. Kluge. Located in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, the center was created to bring together the world’s best thinkers to stimulate and energize one another, to distill wisdom from the Library’s rich resources and to interact with policymakers in Washington. For further information on the Kluge Center, visit www.loc.gov/kluge/.

The Library of Congress, the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and the largest library in the world, holds more than 147 million items in various languages, disciplines and formats. The Library serves the U.S. Congress and the nation both on-site in its reading rooms on Capitol Hill and through its award-winning website at www.loc.gov. Many of the Library’s rich resources and treasures may also be accessed via interactive exhibitions on a personalized website at myLOC.gov.

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PR 11-047
03/02/11
ISSN 0731-3527

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