The UConn Humanities Institute invites applications for our 2026–27 residential fellowships. These fellowships offer a release from teaching duties, office space, and time for scholars to write, argue, engage, and create in community with other brilliant scholars.
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. Former UCHI fellows are welcome and eligible to apply for fellowships five academic years after completion of their fellowship (i.e. 2020–21 fellows are eligible to apply for 2026–27 fellowships).
UCHI offers residential fellowships each academic year in three categories:
Visiting Humanities Fellows (external)
UConn Humanities Faculty Fellows (internal)
UConn Humanities Dissertation Scholars (internal)
Applications are due February 1, 2026.
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For more information, contact: Humanities Institute at uchi@uconn.edu