HOW TO JOIN CBA  

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Process to Join CBA

To apply for or upgrade Membership in CBA :

Step 1. Review the Membership Categories below. [Note Sustaining Members click HERE.]

Step 2. Choose the category appropriate to you. Click on Membership On-line Application, complete, and submit. N.B. Unless you are upgrading your membership, all candidates must be sponsored by a Full Member of the Association. Those upgrading their membership must submit a current CV to the Executive Director.

Step 3, Request that your sponsor email the CBA Office at cba-office@cua.edu, endorsing your application. 

Step 4. Candidates are voted on during the Business Session of the Annual General Meeting (AMG).
In the Spring, candidates will receive notification that their online record has been created. Later, an email invitation to attend the Annual General Meeting will be sent to all candidates.

Step 5. In August, the new members approved at the AGM will receive an e-mail with their membership status and instructions on how to complete their member profile on the CBA website.

Step 6.  In October, dues notices emailed for the next year's membership dues. New members have access to CBQ online once the membership status email has been sent. New members (other than Graduate Student) will receive the October issue of The Catholic Biblical Quarterly gratis.

Applications and sponsor notifications (Steps #2 & #3) must be received by the CBA Office at least one month before the next International Meeting of the CBA. Applications are evaluated by the Committee on Membership and eligible candidates are elected to membership at the Business Meeting during the Annual General Meeting. (For information on the next meeting, click on Meetings.)

• All memberships dues (and the subscription to CBQ) are for the calendar year with the exception of Sustaining memberships which are annual based upon the join date and begin receiving CBQ with the next issue published.
• Reminder! Sustaining Members are not voted on but join directly through the website here. 

Membership Categories and Benefits: Menu

• Membership Types
  
  • Full Member
  • Associate Member
    • Graduate Student Member (subset of Associate Member)
  • Upgrading Membership
  • Sustaining Member
• Lifetime Memberships
  • Honorary
  • Life
  • Benefactor

MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES

FULL MEMBER

ASSOCIATE MEMBER

Qualification Criteria: Those who are engaged in or have completed post-baccalaureate studies in biblical or allied fields or have taught Sacred Scripture for at least one year at the major-seminary or college level. 

GRADUATE STUDENT MEMBER 

Qualification Criteria: Those who are engaged in post-baccalaureate studies in biblical or allied fields.

Member Benefits:

• Access to the online edition of The Catholic Biblical Quarterly (CBQ)
• Discount on the CBQ Monograph Series and CBQ Imprints..
• Attendance (non-voting) at the CBA Annual General Meeting.
• Ability to apply for Travel Grants to the AGM.
• Also see CBA's Verbum Emerging Scholars Fellowship
• Application for Graduate Student only has to be completed once. 

Candidates for Graduate Student  Membership must be formally sponsored by a Full Member of the Association. Sponsors are to send an email to cba-office@cua.edu, notifying the Committee on Membership that the candidate's application is being endorsed.

Candidates for membership (received before the deadline) will be presented for vote at the next annual general meeting of the Association.

Dues, once approved during the next International Meeting of the CBA, are $10

Application for Graduate Student Membership: CLICK HERE

Once the degree is conferred, Graduate Student Members need to apply for Associate or Full membership.