Faculty Fellows
Deadline: November 5, 2009
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Funded by the Center’s general endowment and the Ben and Selma Dorson Endowment in the Humanities, Junior and Senior Faculty Research Fellowships provide a semester-long opportunity for junior and tenured faculty to pursue humanities research with no teaching obligations.
The Center awards up to two junior and three senior fellowships annually. The Center is particularly interested in encouraging humanities faculty to seek external funding for their research. For this competition, we will give priority in the case of one fellowship, at either level, to proposals that include a plan for applying for external funds for a subsequent phase of the research. Applicants should state clearly their interest in receiving priority consideration, and they should include a statement detailing their plans to apply for outside funding, identifying sources, deadlines, and discussing how the funding would further their research.
Fellowships may be held in either semester. Fellows may occupy a research office in the Center on a space-available basis. Each fellowship provides replacement costs to the fellow’s home department. Awardees are expected to participate in the Faculty Fellows Lecture Series in the year following their fellowship.
The fellowships are available to faculty from any UNH department or program so long as their research falls within the humanities and their proposals are endorsed by their department chair and dean. Faculty who have in the twelve months prior to application received external funding that provided support for a continuous period of research equal to at least one semester are not eligible. Senior faculty fellows may combine their fellowship with a semester-long sabbatical leave, if they have the endorsements of their dean and department chair. But the fellowship may not combine with similar opportunities in or outside the University, such as the Faculty Scholars award. A selection committee convened by the Center will award the fellowships.