Winners of the
2005-2006 Faculty Fellowship Program:

Erin McGlothlin
Assistant Professor of German Language and Literature

Peter Kastor
Assistant Professor
of History

Harriet Stone
Professor of Romance Languages

See more information on the 05/06 winners

Announcement

The Center for the Humanities of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce that they will be selecting two faculty fellows for the academic year 2006-2007. The application filing period will run from July 1-September 30, 2005. Announcement of winners will be made in December. Please follow the prompts for detailed application instructions. All tenured and tenure-track Arts and Sciences faculty at WU are eligible to apply. The first fellowship term would be for the spring semester of 2006. Those holding the fellowship would be called Fellows of the Center and would be free of all teaching and administrative duties for that semester.

PURPOSE
	To provide greater support for research by junior and senior WU humanities faculty, who typically have fewer external opportunities for such support than their colleagues in non-humanities fields.
	To generate a greater sense of community and to spark greater innovation in scholarship and teaching across disciplines among humanities faculty by providing fellowship support for projects that involve interdisciplinary sharing and exchange.
	To enable the Center for the Humanities to become an important contributor to this sense of community by providing both a physical and intellectual environment for fellowship and research activities.
ELIGIBILITY
	All tenured and tenure-track faculty of Arts and Sciences at Washington University are eligible.
	All fellows must be in residence at the university and at the Center for the Humanities for the term of the fellowship.
APPLICATION PROCESS
	The deadline for the fellowship application is Friday, September 30, 2005.
	Applications must include: A description not to exceed 2000 words of applicant’s research project which should discuss in as much detail as possible: 1) what the project is; 2) what the applicant hopes to accomplish during the term of the fellowship; 3) why the Center should provide fellowship support for this project, i.e., how the project offers something applicant something fresh and innovative in the humanities or humanistic thinking.
	Two letters of reference in support of the application. One of the letters must be from an external faculty person and one letter must be from an internal faculty person who is not a member of the applicant’s department. Letters can be sent by email to cenhumartsci.wustl.edu.
	A current curriculum vitae.
	The successful applicant’s research proposal must demonstrate general intellectual excellence and offer a project which will have an impact in humanities scholarship or humanities teaching.
	Applications will be evaluated by outside referees.
	Awards will be announced in December, 2005.
	The entire application can be submitted via email. Please send to cenhumartsci.wustl.edu.
DUTIES
	Fellows must be in-residence at the university and make use of an office provided by the Center for the Humanities during the semester of the award.
	Fellows must attend monthly luncheons to talk informally about their research and interact with guest faculty.
	Fellows must give one formal, public lecture related to their research during the course of their Fellowship semester.
	Fellows must attend public lectures of other Fellows and at least one other event sponsored by the Center for the Humanities during their fellowship semester.
	Fellows may be requested to carry out additional duties as negotiated with the Center Director.
QUESTIONS
	Please contact Jian Leng at the Center for the Humanities, Washington University, at 314-935-4008 with questions.