As a Center for the Humanities Fellow, you will:
- receive $2,500 in discretionary research funds;
- receive a .5 course buyout to be used during the fellowship year, reducing your teaching load to a 2.5/2 or 2/2.5;
- as part of 2.5/2 or 2/2.5 teaching load, teach a two-credit course directly relating to your current research, cross-listed between HUM or SST and your home curricular unit; and
- lead a center-sponsored event relating to your current research, format to be determined (but may take the form of a public talk, demonstration of some kind, an exhibition, a workshop, or another appropriate format).
As a fellow, you will retain eligibility for the Center for the Humanities grant programs for additional support relating to student collaboration or engagement beyond the academy.
Proposal Elements (total of approximately 1,000 words):
- a 500–750-word description of the project you will pursue as a Center for the Humanities Fellow, including the core elements of the project and their significance, progress to date, and goals for tenure as a center fellow. As you prepare your proposal, consider what is reasonably attainable during the academic year. It can be a discrete project particular to the year or a portion of an ongoing project;
- a 150–200-word description of the two-credit course you propose to teach as a center fellow, including target student audience (major, non-major, combination) and at which level of the curriculum you plan to teach. As you prepare your proposal, consider how your goals for the course relate to your research goals for the year. Please also keep in mind reasonable expectations and goals for a two-credit course. Your proposal will not bind you to a course plan; and
- a 50–75-word description of how additional research funds will support your work. This will not bind you to a particular plan.
Selection Criteria
The center encourages faculty from across the curriculum to apply for the faculty fellows program. Our selection criteria begin from a baseline understanding of the humanities as the different ways we engage cultural worlds in different times and places. The concept of humanistic inquiry widens our scope to include exploration of cultural worlds that combine theories, methods, practices, and/or materials from the humanities with other theoretical, methodological, or practice-based approaches to knowledge production.
The Center for the Humanities advisory board will evaluate proposals based on the clarity of their connection to the humanities or humanistic inquiry, the clarity with which the course description demonstrates the value of the humanities in the liberal arts, and the strength of the connection between the research project and proposed use of discretionary funds.
We request that applicants speak to the chair of their home curricular unit as they prepare their materials. The center will select and inform the fellow and correspond with the chair of the home curricular unit prior to the deadline for curricular planning.
Application deadline: Friday, January 19, 2024.