Recently in Humanistic Social Sciences Category
Length: 2 month - 1 year
Comments:Inaugurated in 1986, the Capitol Fellowship Program has provided financial support to more than fifty scholars researching important topics in the art and architectural history of the United States Capitol Complex. Fellowship support permits scholars--selected on the basis of their qualifications and research proposals--to use the extensive documents housed in the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the Library of Congress and the National Archives. Graduate Students enrolled in a degree program in art or architectural history, American history, American studies, museum studies, or decorative arts, and scholars with a proven record of research and publication may apply. The proposed topic must directly relate to some elements of art or architecture within the United States Capitol complex: the Capitol, the congressional office buildings, the Library of Congress buildings, the Supreme Court buildings, and the Botanic Garden. Depending upon the scope of the proposal, the fellowship may be requested for a minimum of one month and a maximum of one year. The fellowship amount is $2,500 per month, up to a maximum of $30,000 for a full year, pending the availability of funding.
URL: http://www.uschs.org/Content/72.htm
Length: 1 year
Comments:
Scholars who have received their Ph.D. degree after June 2009 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 June, 2012.) 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, 2013-2014, 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 2012-2013 will be determined in early Fall 2012. Scholars whose interests bear upon one of these themes are encouraged to apply for the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship.
URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu/humanities/fellowships/mellon.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 2013 through May 2014. Applicants must have 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 normally 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
Length: One year
Comments: The Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities, with grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William R. Kenan Trust, will appoint a number of postdoctoral fellows in the humanities for the academic year 2013-2014. Fellows newly appointed for 2013-2014 must have received the Ph.D. between 1 January 2011 and 1 July 2013. The Fellowship Stipend for 2013-2014 is $60,000. Medical benefits are provided, and subsidized housing is available. There is a $5,000 research allowance per annum.
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows/fellowship.html
Deadline: October 24, 2012
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, 2014. 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 Ms. Kelly Pollock (kpollock@uchicago.edu) by Wednesday, October 17, 2012:
- 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 (ssd-fellowships@uchicago.edu) indicating support for the project and the viability of the timeline.
The Martin Marty Center (MMC) of the Divinity School will appoint a set of twelve Junior Fellows for the 2012-2013 academic year. Ph.D. candidates from the Divinity School, and Ph.D. candidates from the Division of the Humanities or the Division of the Social Sciences whose dissertation examines a topic or topics in religion, are eligible for appointment. An application consisting of a cover letter, a CV, a copy of the dissertation prospectus, and a letter of support from the thesis advisor about the thesis is due to Terri Owens, Dean of Students in the Divinity School, no later than Monday, April 16th. The prospectus must include a statement of progress to date on the dissertation. Awards will be announced in early May.
Funded initially through a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Junior Fellows program aims to assist its members in the successful completion of their dissertation, and in the initial transition to professional life as public intellectuals. Directed by Divinity School faculty, the program is organized around a year-long seminar which has as its main business the sharing and discussion of the dissertations. Since the first public of the scholar is arguably the classroom, Junior Fellows teach a course on an aspect of their dissertation at a local college or university, and these experiences are also part of the shared discourse of the seminar. In the spring of each year, the culminating event of the seminar is a day-long conference in which the Fellows share a précis of their dissertation research with a cohort of professional people who are not scholars of religion, to test their mettle in communicating complex ideas to an educated and interested audience.
The seminar thus challenges students, as they complete their dissertations, to step back from the immediacies of specialized research to ask themselves, and one another, how that research will contribute to the institutions and the society in which they will pursue their scholarly vocations.
Because of this agenda, successful applicants will have already made significant process in the research and writing of the dissertation and will be poised, programmatically and by disposition, to participate vigorously in all aspects of this work. Alumni of the seminar describe the experience as having had a seminal influence on their careers.
Students from the Humanities or the Social Sciences receive a $4,000 stipend.
Junior Fellows will be required to attend all seminar sessions as scheduled.
All questions should be directed to Terri Owens, Dean of Students in the Divinity School, at tdowens@uchicago.edu, 773-702-8217.
Length: One Year
Comments: The Division of the Social Sciences is pleased to invite nominations for the Hanna Holborn Gray Advanced Fellowships in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. This award, established in 2005-2006, is made possible by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is designated to support our very best graduate students in the second half of their graduate program at the University. The grant is made in honor of Mrs. Gray and is given in recognition of her dedicated efforts to improve and sustain graduate education at the University and beyond and of her own notable achievements as a scholar.
One fellowship will be awarded each year in the Humanities Division and one in the Social Sciences Division with the latter selected from the humanistic Social Sciences departments (Anthropology, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, Comparative Human Development, History, Political Science, Social Thought, and Sociology).
Each department may nominate one student who is currently in the fourth year of study. Departments set internal deadline and procedures individually. Nominations should be submitted by Friday, April 13. Announcements of the winners will be made in mid-May.
URL: http://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/pdf/ssddos/Gray_Announcement_2012.pdf
Length: One Year
Comments: A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in combination with matching funds from individual donors provides endowment support for dissertation-year fellowships in the Division of the Social Sciences. Up to eight fellowships may be awarded in academic year 2012-2013. In accord with conditions set by the Mellon Foundation, this program is designed to increase completion rates and promote reductions in time-to-degree in the humanistic social sciences: Anthropology; Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science; Comparative Human Development; History; Political Science; Social Thought; and Sociology. Mellon dissertation fellowships will provide tuition, fees, and University Basic student health insurance plus an academic-year stipend of $20,000.
URL: http://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/pdf/ssddos/Mellon%20Announcement%202012-13.pdf
The Division of the Social Sciences is pleased to invite applicants for the Schiff Foundation Fellowship for Critical Architectural Writing. This award, in its seventh year, is administered by the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. The program is designed to recognize young, talented writers and engage them in critical discussions about the built environment.
The award for 2011 is $5,000 which will be given to one student enrolled in a degree-granting, graduate-level program at a Chicago-area university. Each school is allowed 2 submissions from students enrolled in courses during the 2011-12 academic year. Students must have taken a course in Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, or be taking a course in Winter 2012 that includes critical writing about the built environment.
Social Sciences student applications are due to the Social Sciences Dean of Students Office by Friday, February 24th. Students should email their application as a word attachment to ssd-fellowships@uchicago.edu. Two students will be chosen from among applicants to the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Divinity Schools to forward to the competition, along with a letter of support from each student's department chair.
Each application must include:
- An unpublished, original text, not to exceed 10 pages or 3,000 words (300 words per page), which is a critical /analytical commentary on an aspect (of their choosing) of the built environment. The text should have originated as an essay for a course taken in Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, or Winter 2012. The texts must be double-spaced in 12 pt Times New Roman font, with no less than one-inch margins. All citations must appear as endnotes on separate pages and are not counted in the page or word limits. Students may choose to write on any regional, national, or international topic related to architecture or the built environment. Students may choose to include up to two pages of images as an appendix at the conclusion of the paper.
- The student's name and university affiliation should not appear on any of the text pages. Instead, s/he should create a simple cover page that includes the title, author's name, school's name, and program/department of study.
- The submission must also include a one-page resume with the student's telephone number and an email address and information on the Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, or Winter 2012 course (class, seminar, or independent study) in which the student was/is enrolled.
The winning student will be notified in May 2012 and the award will be presented at a luncheon on a date to be determined. The prize or fellowship award may be used for any purpose towards the winner's education.
