The Boston Athenæum offers short-term fellowships to support the use of Athenæum collections for research, publication, curriculum and program development, or other creative projects. Each fellowship pays a stipend for a residency of twenty days (four weeks) and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenæum. Scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, teaching faculty, and professionals in the humanities as well as teachers and librarians in secondary public, private, and parochial schools are eligible.
Applications for most fellowships are due annually by April 15. Additionally, the Athenæum participates in the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, a collaboration of 31 major cultural agencies that will offer at least two dozen $5,000 awards for eight weeks of research between June 1, 2024 and May 31, 2025. Applications are submitted online via the Massachusetts Historical Society, and are due February 1, 2024.
The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation recently issued its 2024 call for applications for Fellowships of Higher Education of Present and Prospective Teachers.
The primary purpose of the fellowship is to enable teachers (with an emphasis on present teachers at the college or university level) to study abroad or at some location other than that with which they are most closely associated. The aim is to stimulate and broaden the minds of teachers so as to improve and enhance the quality of their instruction.
Grants are primarily for travel and related expenses (salary, scholarships, and equipment are not allowable on these grants). In 2023, the average award was $6,105.
If you intend to apply, please complete and submit an ORCS Pre-Approval Request no later than Friday, December 8 (instructions for using the pre-approval form can be found here). The final application documents must be delivered to ORCS at least three business days before the sponsor deadline of January 5, 2024.
Forms and templates for the program can be downloaded here. The application consists of the following:
Project Description (three pages maximum)
Curriculum Vitae showing the application to be a university or college teacher
Detailed budget indicating the estimated travel expense to be incurred in carrying out the project
Completed Candidate Information Form (see attached document)
Two letters of recommendation from fellow faculty members or professors. One of these must be from your department chair The supporting letters must be on official letterhead.
ORCS will officially submit all proposals for Whiting fellowships on behalf of the applicants and the College. All resulting awards will be made to the College, which manages the funds on behalf of the awardees.
Award winners will be notified by email on Monday, April 8, 2024. Grants typically do not exceed $6,000 and may begin as early as the Summer of 2024. Projects must be completed no later than May 31, 2026. Applications received after January 5, 2024 will not be considered by the Foundation.
If you have any questions about this opportunity or the application process, please contact Eric Asetta or Diana Potter.
The following fellowship opportunity was forwarded to ORCS from our friends in Iwasaki Library. We are sharing it with faculty for whom it may be of interest.
If you are interested in applying, or have any questions, please contact eric_asetta@emerson.edu.
The Lang Fellowship is a two-year program designed to animate humanities teaching and equip educators at liberal arts colleges and small universities in the United States to enlarge their students’ historical sensibilities through bibliographically informed instruction with original historical sources. The deadline to apply is Friday, 17 November 2023 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
an annual stipend of $1,500 for travel, housing, course books, and other costs related to the Fellow’s RBS course attendance
and the opportunity to apply for matching funds of up to $1,000 each year of the fellowship to further the Fellow’s efforts to foster book-historical humanities teaching at their home institution
RBS will be hosting an informational Zoom session about the program on Wednesday, 25 October at 7 p.m. ET. You may register to attend by filling in this form. The session will be recorded and shared if you miss the live stream.
Rare Book School (RBS) is an independent, non-profit, and tax-exempt institute supporting the study of the history of books and printing and related subjects, governed by its own board of directors. Founded in 1983, it moved to its present home at the University of Virginia in 1992.
RBS is committed to supporting diversity and to advancing the scholarship of persons of every race, gender, sexual orientation, creed, and socio-economic background, and to enhancing the diversity of the professions and academic disciplines it represents. RBS is also currently accepting applications for its scholarships (due 1 November) and Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography: Junior Fellows Program (due 17 November).
As the summer comes to a close, it’s a good time to start thinking ahead to the fall, when a lot of fellowship applications are due. Fellowships have deadlines all year, but a large majority are due in the fall (September through December) for the following academic year.
This post provides examples of some fellowships of interest to Emerson faculty that are due this fall.
For more information about fellowships, how they can supplement a pre-tenure or sabbatical leave, or when to apply for one, please contact us at orcs@emerson.edu.
The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation recently issued its 2023 call for applications for Fellowships of Higher Education of Present and Prospective Teachers.
The primary purpose of the fellowship is to enable teachers (with an emphasis on present teachers at the college or university level) to study abroad or at some location other than that with which they are most closely associated. The aim is to stimulate and broaden the minds of teachers so as to improve and enhance the quality of their instruction. Grants are primarily for travel and related expenses (salary, scholarships, and equipment are not allowable on these grants).
If you intend to apply, please complete and submit an ORCS pre-approval form (which can be accessed via your Emerson ID and PIN) no later than Friday, December 9 (instructions for using the pre-approval form can be found here). The final application documents must be delivered to ORCS at least three business days before the sponsor deadline of January 6, 2023.
Forms and templates for the program can be downloaded here. The application consists of the following:
Project Description (three pages maximum)
Curriculum Vitae showing the application to be a university or college teacher
Detailed budget indicating the estimated travel expense to be incurred in carrying out the project
Completed Candidate Information Form (see attached document)
Two letters of recommendation from fellow faculty members or professors. One of these must be from your department chair The supporting letters must be on official letterhead.
Award winners will be notified by email on Monday, April 3, 2023. Grants typically do not exceed $6,000 and may begin as early as the Summer of 2023. Projects must be completed no later than May 31, 2025. Applications received after January 6, 2023 will not be considered by the Foundation.
If you have any questions about this opportunity or the application process, please contact Eric Asetta or Diana Potter.
The Radcliffe Fellowship is an opportunity to step away from usual routines and dive deeply into a project. Based in Radcliffe Yard—a sanctuary in the heart of Harvard University—fellows join a uniquely interdisciplinary and creative community. With access to Harvard’s unparalleled resources, Radcliffe fellows develop new tools and methods, challenge artistic and scholarly conventions, and illuminate our past and our present. This fellowship is open to full and part-time faculty who have received a doctorate or terminal degree at least 2 years prior to the start of the fellowship, and who have published a monograph or at least two articles in refereed journals or edited collections.
Applications in humanities, social sciences, and creative arts (which includes film/video, visual arts, creative writing and journalism) are due by September 8, 2022, and applications in science, engineering, and mathematics are due by September 29, 2022
Radcliffe welcomes proposals relevant to the Institute’s focus areas, which include:
Law, education, and justice
Youth leadership and civic engagement
Legacies of slavery
Women, gender, and society
Applying for a Radcliffe Fellowship is a direct-to-sponsor proposal submission, meaning that an application does not require the signature of an authorized Emerson official. We nonetheless strongly encourage you to notify your department chair and/or school dean if you are thinking of applying.
While ORCS cannot submit a Radcliffe proposal on your behalf, we are happy. to proofread and provide feedback on your application. We will give feedback on any materials sent to us by Monday, August 29.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us!
Typically participants are filmmakers, artists, journalists, or creative technologists, and the OpenDocLab and Black Public Media communities are primarily composed of storytellers. The mission of this joint program is to support and develop the emerging-tech storytelling skills of a maker who is underrepresented within creative technology industries and bring Visiting Artists into community with like-minded storytellers.
This is a 9-month independent study program from September 2022 to May 2023. Recipients have the option to do the program remotely or in person at MIT. This is an individual application, and both full-time and part-time faculty are eligible to apply. The deadline to apply is July 7, 2022.
More information, including how to apply, can be found here:
Pre-Approval due Aug 19; Applications due Sept. 21
The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced its annual Summer Stipends fellowship competition for 2022. The NEH deadline for eligible proposal submissions is Wednesday, September 21. The award amount is $6,000 beginning May 1, 2023.
From the NEH web site: The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. The program works to accomplish this goal by:
Providing small awards to individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both
Supporting projects at any stage of development, but especially early-stage research and late-stage writing in which small awards are most effective
Furthering the NEH’s commitment to diversity and inclusion in the humanities by encouraging applications from independent scholars and faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and community colleges
Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.
NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS
For those of you who may be considering applying, please note that Emerson may nominate two tenured and/or tenure-track facultymembers to apply for the award. Because of this limitation, it is necessary for Emerson to review all potential submissions in an internal limited submission process. Applications submitted by tenured/tenure-track faculty without a nomination will automatically be rejected by the sponsor.
THE LIMITED SUBMISSION PROCESS On or before Friday, August 19, potential applicants must complete the Application Form for Provost’s Nomination via Google Forms. Applicants must include a one-paragraph summary of their proposed project for review by the Provost.
By September 2, after review by the Provost, nominations will be announced by the Office of Academic Affairs. The nominees will then have the opportunity to complete their proposals in time for submission to the NEH by its September 21 deadline.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Applications to NEH are submitted via Grants.gov. ORCS will assist the nominees with this process.
FURTHER INFORMATION: To find more information about the program, including a previously recorded webinar in which NEH staff answer questions from potential applicants, click on this link. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Eric Asetta or Diana Potter.
As we head into the summer season, it’s a good time to start thinking ahead to the fall, when a lot of fellowship applications are due. Fellowships have deadlines all year, but a large majority are due in the fall (September through December) for the following academic year.
This post provides examples of some fellowships of interest to Emerson faculty that are due this fall.
For more information about fellowships, how they can supplement a pre-tenure or sabbatical leave, or when to apply for one, please contact us at orcs@emerson.edu.
