Institute for the Humanities
Faculty Fellowship Application Information
2012 - 2013
The Faculty Fellowship Program of the Institute for the Humanities seeks to support research in the humanities, to strengthen teaching in the humanities, and to foster interdisciplinary dialogue at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2012–2013, the Institute will offer six year-long fellowships. The fellowships release faculty from all formal teaching and administrative obligations during the fellowship year.
Obligations
Institute fellows are required to be in residence during the fellowship year and to spend full time on their writing and research. Fellows’ other obligations include presenting a public lecture, leading an informal seminar on the fellowship project, and attending other fellows’ events during the year.
Eligibility
All full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty in humanities and related disciplines at the rank of assistant professor and above are eligible to apply for this award. Those faculty who have been Institute fellows are eligible to apply for a second fellowship five years after their first fellowship elapsed (2006-2007 or earlier). Those who have had two fellowships are eligible to reapply ten years after their last fellowship elapsed (2001-2002 or earlier) Former Fellows must apply for new projects.
In response to questions about the appropriateness of particular projects for fellowships, the Institute has adopted the broad definition used by the National Endowment for the Humanities: “the term humanities includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following disciplines: history; philosophy; languages; linguistics; literature; archaeology; jurisprudence; the history, theory, and criticism of the arts; ethics; comparative religion; and those aspects of the social sciences that employ historical or philosophical approaches.”
Completed applications for 2012-2013 Fellowships are due Monday, November 7, 2011
