DRESHER CENTER for the HUMANITIES SUMMER FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

The Dresher Center for the Humanities invites applications 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 in the humanities. Summer Fellows will receive a $5,000 stipend during the summer of 2012 to support their proposal writing efforts. Summer Fellows are required to submit an application for external funding to the Dresher Center ONE WEEK 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 the CAHSS Dean, 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 disciplines.  Three awards are available.

Applications will be judged on the following criteria:

-      Quality of proposed project and significance in its field; 

-      Likelihood of the project proposal benefitting from this SFF assistance and the grant application   

       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 grant-

       writing fellowship;

-      Qualifications of the faculty member to develop the proposal during the summer and carry out the

        work of the project.

All proposals must have the recommendation of the faculty member's department chair.  Interested faculty members should complete the application (see link below).  Vist our website in early Spring 2012 for details and the application form for the 2012 Fellowships.

For more information contact:

Dr. Rebecca Boehling, Director

Dresher Center for the Humanities

Library 216H

X56798

boehling@umbc.edu

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

Summer 2011 Awardees

Tamara Bhalla (AMST): "Between History and identity: Readers, Recognition and Authenticity in South

     Asian- American Literature and Community"
Christopher Corbett (ENGL): "The Borderland of Fable:  Myth in the Nineteenth Century American West"
Preminda Jacob (VisArts): "The City Beautiful Movement in Chennai, India:  Contemporary Mural Painting

     Confronts Urban Blight"

Previous Summer Faculty Fellows