Faculty Residential Fellowships
Depending on funding, the UCHI offers up to eight residential fellowships each academic year. Up to six of these are allocated to junior (tenure-track) and senior faculty at the University, and one or two are awarded to visiting scholars. For all faculty residential fellowships, DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: JANUARY 15.
Faculty Residential Fellowships are opportunities for individuals to pursue advanced work in the humanities. Applicants may be faculty or staff members of colleges or universities, and scholars and writers.
Projects may contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. Recipients might eventually 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.
Faculty Residential Fellowships support projects that can be completed during the tenure of an award or those that are part of a long-term endeavor. Applicants should have held the Ph.D. for five years or more or possess a record of professional accomplishment.
Faculty Residential Fellowships do not support projects to study teaching methods or theories. Neither do they support surveys of courses and programs or the preparation of institutional curricula.
Faculty Residential Fellowships - Funds, Tenure, and Conditions
Tenure normally covers an uninterrupted period of from nine to twelve whole months.
Fellows may begin tenure August 15. The latest that fellows may begin tenure is September 15. Ordinarily, fellowships run from September 1 through May 31.
External Fellows
External fellows receive a stipend of $40,000 (the present NEH stipend), faculty library privileges, and assistance in locating housing.
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Internal Fellows
Internal fellows will retain their regular appointments and salaries with R-T-D (release from teaching duties) status, except for one semester advanced course they will teach in their discipline. They will be released from departmental and administrative duties, but will retain responsibility for the supervision of graduate advisees. The dean of CLAS or their school will compensate their departments so as to replace their instructional time.
Applications follow the NEH form so that, with revision, they can be readily adapted for submission to NEH.
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All fellows are provided with offices, computers, and printers in the UCHI suite and are expected to be in continuous residence at UCHI for the term of the award. They are expected to participate in Institute activities such as informal lunches (twice weekly) and colloquia, and more formal events.
Early in their residency fellows are expected to give a short, informal presentation on their research to their colleagues, in addition to a public lecture later in their tenure.
*Note: All fellows are also required to teach one advanced seminar on their topic that will be open to upper division undergraduates and graduate students.
Graduate and Undergraduate Student Fellowships and Grants
To aid emerging UCONN scholars the UCHI offers two residential graduate fellowships and four grants for undergraduate students each year. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: FEBRUARY 20.
Graduate Student Fellows receive a full graduate assistantship (without teaching duties) and are eligible for grants of up to $1500 for research and conference travel, photocopying, and similar expenses.
Undergraduate Fellows are eligible for grants of up to $1000 for research travel, photocopying and similar expenses.
*Note: Both graduate and undergraduate fellows are expected to present their research in informal talks to the UCHI fellows and staff. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: OCTOBER 15.
All fellows are expected to acknowledge the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute in publications resulting from work supported by the Institute.
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