The UConn Humanities Institute invites applications for residential fellowships. Fellowships offer a stipend, office space, and community and time for scholars to write, argue, engage, and create.
We invite and welcome fellowship applications from scholars in all disciplines and encourage applications to articulate clearly the project’s value to the humanities. Projects may contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public’s understanding of the humanities. Recipients are expected to produce scholarly articles, a monograph on a specialized subject, a book on a broad topic, an archaeological site report, a translation, an edition, or other scholarly tools. These fellowships do not support projects to study teaching methods or theories, surveys of courses and programs, or the preparation of institutional curricula. These fellowships cannot be deferred.
UConn Humanities Faculty Fellows will retain their regular appointments and salaries while being released from teaching for the academic year. They will be released from departmental and administrative duties, but they will retain responsibility for the supervision of graduate advisees. They will also be responsible for attending UCHI panels and workshops dedicated to applying for grant funding. We are particularly interested in applicants who are planning to pursue further funding during their fellowship year.
UConn Humanities Faculty Fellows will have access to office space at the Humanities Institute on the UConn Storrs Campus, and are expected to be in continuous residence at UConn for the term of the award. They are expected to participate in Institute activities including fellows’ teas, colloquia, grant workshops, related scholarly events, and offer a public talk on their research during the course of the fellowship year, which follows the calendar of UConn’s academic year. Tenure normally covers an uninterrupted period of nine to ten whole months. As part of our mid-career faculty success initiative, one Faculty Success Fellowship will be awarded each year to a faculty member who has held the rank of Associate Professor for at least five years. In the service of an impartial selection process, UCHI Faculty Fellows are chosen by a committee comprised of non-UConn Faculty members.
Priority is given to UConn faculty applicants who have not held a leave (sabbatical or other) in the 12 months preceding the academic year (September 1) of the fellowship. Former faculty fellows are eligible to apply for the academic year five years after completion of their UCHI fellowship (i.e. 2019–20 fellows are eligible to apply for 2025–26 fellowships). Finally, UConn Humanities Faculty Fellows are expected to acknowledge the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute in publications resulting from work supported by the Institute.
UCHI offers one Justice, Equity, and Repair (JER) fellowship each year, which is intended for full-time UConn faculty members whose research addresses the persistence of bias and inequities and/or offers novel approaches to raising awareness of or reflection on questions of justice, equity, and repair. Interested applicants should indicate that on the application form that you would like to be considered for the UCHI/JER Fellowship. Indicating that you would like to be considered for the UCHI/JER Fellowship does not preclude you from being offered a UCHI Fellowship—indeed, any application for the UCHI/JER fellowship is considered as an application for a standard UCHI fellowship. Criteria for successful applicants include, but are not limited to: quality of research proposal; strength of reference letters; and articulation within the proposal of how this project can contribute to a larger consideration of systemic injustice. UCHI/JER Fellows are full members of the UCHI fellowship class and have all the same benefits and responsibilities.
Application
Applications for 2025–26 fellowships must be submitted via Interfolio by February 1, 2025.
Applicants are required to submit the following materials:
- project proposal (3 pages)
- bibliography (1 page)
- Curriculum Vitae (CV) (2 pages)
Applicants must also request three signed letters of reference submitted directly by the referee through Interfolio.
All application materials must conform with our application guidelines.
Apply
For more information, contact: Humanities Institute at uchi@uconn.edu