Recently in Humanistic Social Sciences Category
Length: 1 year
Comments:
Scholars who have received their Ph.D. degree after June 2008 in any field of inquiry in the humanities or humanistic social sciences - broadly conceived - are invited to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship, made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Wesleyan University. (Candidates do not need to have their PhD in hand at the time of application, but will need to have it by the time the Fellowship begins in September, 2011.) The purpose of this Fellowship is to provide scholars who have recently completed their Ph.D.'s with free time to further their own work in a cross-disciplinary setting, and to associate them with a distinguished faculty.
One Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow will be appointed to the Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities for the whole academic year, 2011-2012, and each Fellow will be awarded a stipend of $40,000. He or she will teach a one-semester undergraduate course; participate in the collegial life of the Center for the Humanities, which sponsors conferences, lectures, and colloquia; and give one public lecture. The Fellow will be provided with an office at the Center for the Humanities, and will be expected to work there on weekdays while the university is in session, and to reside in Middletown. The themes for 2011-2012 will be "Fact and Artifact" and "Visceral States: Affect and Civil Life", please click here for complete descriptions of the themes. Scholars whose interests bear upon one of these themes are encouraged to apply for the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship.
URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu/chum/post_doc_fellowship.html
Length: Up to a year
Comments:The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities offers residential fellowships to scholars and writers in the humanities. We seek applications that are intellectually stimulating, imaginative, and accessible to the public. There are no restrictions on topic, and applications are invited from across the broad spectrum of the humanities.
Fellowships are open to faculty members in the humanities, independent scholars, and others working on projects in the humanities. Applicants need not have advanced degrees, but the VFH generally does not support work toward a degree. Postdoctoral applicants are strongly encouraged to apply for projects other than dissertation revisions. The maximum fellowship stipend is $15,000 per semester. Fellowships are awarded for one semester or a full academic year.
URL: http://www.virginiafoundation.org/research/fellowships/
Length: 9 months
Comments: The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year, September 2011 through May 2012. Applicants must hold doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Young scholars as well as senior scholars are encouraged to apply, but they must have a record of publication, and new Ph.D.s should be aware that the Center does not support the revision of a doctoral dissertation. In addition to scholars from all fields of the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects. The Center is also international and gladly accepts applications from scholars outside the United States.
URL: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellowships/appltoc.htm
Deadline: January 2011 (was 1/31 in 2009)
Length: One Year
Comments: DeKarman fellowships are open to students in any discipline, including international students, who are currently enrolled in a university or college located within the United States. Only candidates for the PhD who will defend their dissertations by June 2012 are eligible for consideration. Special consideration will be given to applicants in the Humanities. A minimum of ten (10) fellowships, $22,000 for graduate students will be awarded for the regular academic year, paid through the fellowship office of the university in which the recipient is enrolled for study in the United States. To be competitive, graduate applicants should have outstanding letters of recommendation, significant publications, and have completed several chapters of the dissertation at the time of application. Although the competition is open to students from any university or college, the vast majority of awards go to students at top-tier schools.
URL: http://www.dekarman.org/
Deadline: November 10, 2010
Length: One year
Comments: The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships are to assist graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. This program aims to encourage timely completion of the Ph.D. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2012. Applicants must be no more than six years in the degree program; awardees can hold this Fellowship no later than their seventh year.
Stipend: $25,000, plus funds for research costs of up to $3,000 and for university fees of up to $5,000.
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/default.aspx?id=512
PLEASE NOTE: Students will be asked to list an individual who will submit a letter of institutional support. For students in the Social Sciences Division, this should be Dean of Students Patrick Hall (bp-hall@uchicago.edu).
In order for Dean Hall to write his letter of institutional support, applicants need to email the following materials to Associate Dean of Students Kelly Pollock (kpollock@uchicago.edu) by Friday, November 5, 2010:
- Updated CV
- 1-page abstract of the dissertation
- Timeline for the expected completion of dissertation writing and defense
In addition, the applicant should also have his or her dissertation advisor email Ms. Pollock (kpollock@uchicago.edu) indicating support for the project and the viability of the timeline.