Program Overview

Institute for the Humanities Fellowship Program

The College of Arts & Sciences Office of the Dean and the Institute for the Humanities is sponsoring a semester-long Humanities Fellowship Program for Spring semester 2025. This program provides a course release and $1000.00 in discretionary funds to humanities and social science faculty for the advancement of projects already in progress.

Program Details

The Fellows will meet regularly over the course of the Fellowship to discuss their projects and progress and make a brief public presentation on their project at the end of the semester.

Eligibility and Application

• Eligibility: Faculty of all ranks in the College of Arts and Sciences who are working on a humanities or humanities-related project are eligible to apply.
• Priority will be given to faculty at the Associate rank who have already begun a project or conducted research and need time to write or process their research.
• Awards will be announced late August 2024.
• The course release is for Spring semester 2025.

Proposal Guidelines

• A compliant proposal submission will contain a Proposal Cover Sheet and a Full Proposal Document.
• The Full Proposal Document must consist of the following in a single PDF document not to exceed 10 pages (12-pt, Times New Roman font; one-inch margins, double-spaced):
  • A description of the overall project
  • A detailed description of the portion of the project that the fellow will work on during the course release
  • Specific goals for the period of the course release
  • Description of the sources, research, or previous work that this project will continue or develop
  • CV (2 pages)

Review Criteria

Proposals will be reviewed by a panel comprised of current and retired A&S faculty that represent humanities fields of the college. The review criteria include:

1. Are the goals for the course release reasonable to execute while still maintaining other on-campus requirements?
2. Are the goals for the time allowed by the course release clearly stated and achievable within the semester?
3. Is the project clearly described?
4. Is it clear how this project is a humanities project or will make use of the humanities?
5. Is there a clear path to peer-reviewed publication, performance, or exhibition?

Reporting Requirements

Fellows will be required to write a brief, one-paragraph report on what they achieved during their Fellowship period and how the structure of the Fellowship did or did not facilitate the advancement of their project.