Funding Opportunity from the Office of Research
Development
Cornell University Society for the Humanities: Society
Fellowships
http://arts.cornell.edu/sochum/society_fellowships.html
SUMMARY OF OPPORTUNITY:
Cornell University’s
Society for the Humanities and its Fellows have fostered pathbreaking interdisciplinary dialogue and theoretical reflection on the
humanities at large. Fellows include scholars from other
universities and members of the Cornell faculty released from
regular duties. Fellows spend their time in research and writing,
participate in the weekly Fellows Seminar, and offer one seminar
related to their research. The fellowships are held for one academic
year. Each Society Fellow will receive $45,000.
The focal theme
for 2015-2016 is “TIME.” The Society encourages applicants to
investigate the cultural, social, artistic, philosophical, and political
implications of the theme. The problematization of the concept of
time has been central to areas as diverse as theories of relativity,
native, queer and post-colonial studies. Fellows might also
consider the implications of virtual, viral, ecological, and
posthuman time. Many scholars will turn their attention to the
measure of time as it has been demarcated by historical
periodization or marshaled to distinguish between the civilized and
the profane, West and East, North and South.
ELIGIBILITY:
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Applicants must have received the Ph.D. degree before January
1, 2014.
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Applicants must also have one or more years of teaching
experience, which may include teaching as a graduate
student.
DEADLINE(S): October 1, 2014
COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITIES:
The Office of
Research Development offers assistance in identifying and
facilitating collaborations, putting together interdisciplinary teams,
programmatic and administrative development of large, crossschool proposals, and leveraging institutional resources for
outreach and education. Contact Fruma Yehiely
(yehiely@northwestern.edu), Director of ORD, for more
information.