The Fellows Program at the Institute for Humanities Research provides faculty funding for research related to the annual theme.
Fellows may apply as individuals or as a team to engage in a year of research, to share their research with the academic community and to produce a strong application for an external grant.
Successful proposals for the Fellows Program will outline a rich scholarly project rooted in the humanities that has clear and feasible outcomes for the fellowship year and that has the potential to be funded by outside agencies.
Fellowships provide funds toward one course buyout (in the spring semester) for each faculty member as well as research funds of $2500 per faculty member.
2020-21 Fellowship Theme: Recovering the Human(e) in an Age of Dehumanization
What does it mean to be human and humane in an age that undermines our humanity? Disruptions are manifest in technological, medical, political, economic, social, racialized, gendered and ecological areas of public discourse.
Where are the methods, models and ways for being human and humane in the world together? How do the humanities recover the human(e)?
Application Guidelines:
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2020–21 Fellows: Recovering the Human(e) in an Age of Dehumanization
Linh D. Vu | Assistant Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies |
Disembodiment of Sovereignty: Human Remains, Modern China and the World |
Ana Hedberg Olenina | Assistant Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures |
Eisenstein’s Embodied Spectatorship in the Context of Contemporary Neuro-cognitive Approaches to Film |
Dave Fossum | Assistant Professor, School of Music |
Making Copyright Global: Musical Creativity and Intellectual Property in Turkey |
James E. Wermers | Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts; Faculty Fellow, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy |
Teaching Shakespeare: White Supremacy and Dehumanization in US American Education |
2019-20 Fellows: Borders and Boundaries
Calvin Schermerhorn | Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies |
20 Generations Short: The Making of America’s Racial Wealth Gap, 1619–2019 |
Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez | Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication |
Embodying 'Querencia' in the Eastern Arizona and Western New Mexico Borderlands |
Laurie Manchester | Associate Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies |
From China to the USSR: The Return of the 'True' Russians |
Anna Cichopek-Gajraj | Associate Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies |
In Transit: Postwar Journeys of Jewish and Catholic Refugees from Poland (1940s–50s) |
Miriam Mara | Associate Professor, School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies |
Literature and Food Sovereignty in Post Celtic Tiger Ireland |
William Hedberg | Assistant Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures |
Utopia in Translation: Literature, Travel and Encounter in Early Modern East Asia |