Grants & Awards
2021-2022
"Transparency: Intellectual Honesty at its Best" from the Honesty Project at Wake Forest University. An abstract is here.
Summer Fellowship in Science-Engaged Theology from the New Visions in Theological Anthropology Project at the University of St Andrews.
2019-2020
"Expansive Other-Regard and Civic Excellence," with Megan Haggard, from the Self, Virtue, and Public Life Project at the University of Oklahoma. An abstract is here.
Summer Research award from The Christian West and the Islamic East: Theology, Science, and Knowledge Project at University of Missouri, St. Louis.
My project title is "Recovering a Role for Moral Character and Ascetic Practice in Religious Epistemology".
2018-2019
Academic Cross-Training Fellowship from the John Templeton Foundation.
My focus during this Fellowship will be to acquire advanced training in the Psychology of Character and to build a research network with Psychologists whose research interests overlap with my own. My mentor for the Fellowship is Peter Hill.
Fellowship from the Epistemic Responsibilities of the University Project.
My focus for this Fellowship is on the value of including intellectual virtues education within the context of Introductory Logic & Critical Thinking classes.
2017-2018
Summer stipend from the Pantheism and Panentheism Project.
Here is an abstract of my paper, "The Awesome Argument for Pan(en)theism"
2016-2017
Beacon Project grant for individual research leading to a monograph titled Putting Others First: The Christian Ideal of Others-Centeredness.
Here is a link to an abstract of the book project.
Religious Experience Cluster Group Grant from the Experience Project for interdisciplinary group research workshops on religious experience.
I am co-leading this group with Meredith Warren.
2015-2016
Special Divine Action Cluster Group Grant from the Special Divine Action Project for interdisciplinary group research on special divine action.
I co-led this group with Ryan Mullins.
Summer Stipend from the Embodied Religion Project for a co-authored summer research project on collective virtue and religious experience.
My co-author is my wife, Meghan Byerly.
White Rose Early Career Ethics Researchers Grant for networking with early career ethicists at York, Leeds, and Sheffield.
The project leader was Matthew Smith.
2014-2015
Grant from the Immortality Project for a group research project leading to the publication of Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven, co-edited with Eric Silverman.
Eric and I were co-PIs on this project.
2013-2014
Analytic Theology Cluster Group Grant from the Analytic Theology Project for interdisciplinary group research on Analytic Theology.
I co-led this group with Elizabeth Newman.
2012-2013
Analytic Theology Summer Stipend for summer 2012 and summer 2013 from the Analytic Theology Project for summer writing projects in Analytic Theology.
"Transparency: Intellectual Honesty at its Best" from the Honesty Project at Wake Forest University. An abstract is here.
Summer Fellowship in Science-Engaged Theology from the New Visions in Theological Anthropology Project at the University of St Andrews.
2019-2020
"Expansive Other-Regard and Civic Excellence," with Megan Haggard, from the Self, Virtue, and Public Life Project at the University of Oklahoma. An abstract is here.
Summer Research award from The Christian West and the Islamic East: Theology, Science, and Knowledge Project at University of Missouri, St. Louis.
My project title is "Recovering a Role for Moral Character and Ascetic Practice in Religious Epistemology".
2018-2019
Academic Cross-Training Fellowship from the John Templeton Foundation.
My focus during this Fellowship will be to acquire advanced training in the Psychology of Character and to build a research network with Psychologists whose research interests overlap with my own. My mentor for the Fellowship is Peter Hill.
Fellowship from the Epistemic Responsibilities of the University Project.
My focus for this Fellowship is on the value of including intellectual virtues education within the context of Introductory Logic & Critical Thinking classes.
2017-2018
Summer stipend from the Pantheism and Panentheism Project.
Here is an abstract of my paper, "The Awesome Argument for Pan(en)theism"
2016-2017
Beacon Project grant for individual research leading to a monograph titled Putting Others First: The Christian Ideal of Others-Centeredness.
Here is a link to an abstract of the book project.
Religious Experience Cluster Group Grant from the Experience Project for interdisciplinary group research workshops on religious experience.
I am co-leading this group with Meredith Warren.
2015-2016
Special Divine Action Cluster Group Grant from the Special Divine Action Project for interdisciplinary group research on special divine action.
I co-led this group with Ryan Mullins.
Summer Stipend from the Embodied Religion Project for a co-authored summer research project on collective virtue and religious experience.
My co-author is my wife, Meghan Byerly.
White Rose Early Career Ethics Researchers Grant for networking with early career ethicists at York, Leeds, and Sheffield.
The project leader was Matthew Smith.
2014-2015
Grant from the Immortality Project for a group research project leading to the publication of Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven, co-edited with Eric Silverman.
Eric and I were co-PIs on this project.
2013-2014
Analytic Theology Cluster Group Grant from the Analytic Theology Project for interdisciplinary group research on Analytic Theology.
I co-led this group with Elizabeth Newman.
2012-2013
Analytic Theology Summer Stipend for summer 2012 and summer 2013 from the Analytic Theology Project for summer writing projects in Analytic Theology.
