The PRRI Public Fellows program, founded in 2017, promotes and supports interdisciplinary public scholarship through a cohort of emerging scholar-leaders from across the social sciences, humanistic social sciences, and the humanities. The program expanded in the academic year 2021-2022 as part of PRRI’s Religion and Renewing Democracy Initiative with support from the Mellon Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation.

For the 2024-2025 fellowship year, the program will include 15 diverse scholars working across the five major areas of PRRI’s work, including (1) religious, racial, and ethnic pluralism; (2) racial justice and white supremacy; (3) immigration and migration studies; (4) reproductive health and rights; and (5) LGBTQ rights.

The PRRI Public Fellows program will include a $5,000 annual stipend for each fellow and annual microgrants of $10,000 in each area of research to foster collaborative new scholarship and professional relationships among the cohort. An open call for the 2024-2025 cohort of PRRI Public Fellows can be viewed and downloaded here as a PDF.