FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

The awardees for Summer 2009, with their departmental affiliations and the topics of their current research projects, are:

Linda Dusman (Music): "I Resound Press"

Carole Stewart (English): "Tempering the Nation: African American Women's Spaces of Recovery"

Constantine Vaporis (History): '"In Search of the Samurai"

Dresher Center Summer Faculty Fellowships: The Dresher Center for the Humanities invites applications from UMBC full time faculty for research support as a Dresher Center Summer Faculty Fellow.  Dresher Center Summer Fellows will receive support* and assistance for developing proposals intended to lead to their securing extramural funding for their research activities related to applying for grants or fellowships.  Summer Fellows will receive a $5,000 stipend during the summer of 2009 to support their proposal writing efforts. Summer Fellows are required to submit an application for external funding to the Dresher Center prior to the start of the fall semester.  The Dresher Center will then review applications to assist the Fellow in revisions prior to the application’s submission to OSP and the funding agency. 

Proposals are welcome and will be considered from all full-time faculty pursuing humanities research in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.  Applications are especially encouraged from, but not limited to,  full-time faculty with appointments in the Humanities.

Applications will be judged on the following criteria:

• Quality of proposed project and significance in its field; 
• Likelihood of attracting external support;
• Evidence of having sought out appropriate funding match for external grant or fellowship application;
• Likelihood of a proposal for funding being successfully developed within the summer of the fellowship;
• Qualifications of the faculty member to carry out work.

All proposals must have the recommendation of the faculty member's department chair. 

*Funds supporting this initiative are provided by the Dresher Center for the Humanities, the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and the Office of the Vice President for Research.

Please check back on this website in 2010 for details about the application process as well as the deadline for Summer 2010.  

UMBC Faculty Research Fellows: Pending external funding applications the Dresher Center will support, on a competitive basis, the research of select UMBC faculty by providing course release and other research support. 

Visiting Scholars: Pending the outcome of external funding requests, scholars in the humanities from other universities may apply for residential research fellowships at the Dresher Center.

The call for applications for both UMBC Faculty Research Fellows and for Visiting Scholars will make explicit the guidelines and qualifications for applicants as well as the general theme for interdisciplinary research that will be sponsored in any given year.