The Center for the Humanities - Washington University

Faculty Fellowship Program

The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences is proud to announce its Spring 2010 Faculty Fellows. The three recipients are Asad Ahmed, Ph.D., assistant professor of Arabic and Religious Studies; Angela Miller, Ph.D., professor of Art History and Archaeology; and Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., professor of Anthropology, all in Arts & Sciences.

Each Fellow will spend a semester in-residence at the center, researching a new book project while performing various duties as fellows, which includes delivering one formal, public lecture about their work.

The faculty fellowships, now in their fourth year, are designed to provide a supportive environment for innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching. The fellowships are open to all tenured and tenure-track faculty in the Arts & Sciences. A panel of university faculty and outside reviewers selects winners.

Applications for the 2010-2011 academic year will be accepted from July 1 to October 16, 2009, with announcement of the winners in January 2010.

Faculty Fellows:

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.

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.

Elegibility

- 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


- Applications must include:
	A description, not to exceed 1000 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 cenhum@artsci.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 for 2009-2010 Faculty Fellows will be announced in January, 2010.
- The entire application can be submitted via email. Please send to cenhum@artsci.wustl.edu.

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