Research Fellowship Winners - 2026
The American Society of Church History supports cutting-edge scholarship through two competitive prize fellowships.
Nominations for these awards open in January of each year. Click here for more details on the application process.
The John F. Wilson Fellowship ($1,000)
The John F. Wilson Research Fellowship, endowed by Professor Wilson's former students, gives priority to graduate student projects reflecting the interests and work of their mentor: the religious and intellectual life of the American colonies, the relationship between church and state, and religion in contemporary America.
The 2026 John F. Wilson Research Fellowship was awarded to Courtney MacPhee, a PhD student at Stanford University, whose dissertation, “Imperial Apocalypse: Religious Radicals and the Making of England’s Revolutionary Empire,” examines how radical puritan eschatology shaped American colonization in the mid-seventeenth century.
The American Society of Church History Research Fellowship ($1,000)
The ASCH Research Fellowship supports research in any area of the history of Christianity being undertaken by society members who are graduate students, independent scholars, or contingent faculty.
The 2026 ASCH Research Fellowship is awarded to Dr. Chanhee Heo, currently a postdoctoral fellow at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University, for her first book project, a monograph on Korean migrants who traversed the Pacific from Korea to Hawai‘i and the American mainland in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.