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2003-2004 Fellow Zephyr Frank

arts Practitioner/Writer

The Arts Fellowship will not be available in 2010-2011.

About the Fellowships
Eligibility
Stipends
Requirements
Application

About the Fellowships
The Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) and the Stanford Humanities Center seek to offer one residential fellowship at Stanford for the 2009-2010 academic year to a practitioner who is also a writer, scholar, or critic pursuing a research project in the arts. This fellow will participate in a pilot fellowship program bringing together the humanities and arts in a research and creative environment on the Stanford campus.

The fellowship recipient will be in residence at the Stanford Humanities Center and will be part of an intellectual community of about 25 fellows working on projects in history, literature, philosophy, and other humanities fields. The fellow will be affiliated with one of the three SiCa centers: the Center for Arts, Science, and Technology; the Center for Global Arts; or the Center for Humanities and the Arts.

Eligibility
Applicants must demonstrate professional accomplishment as arts practitioners and as critics or scholars and must have received a relevant terminal degree (usually MFA or PhD) in or before September 2006.

Fellowships will be awarded on the basis of a scholarly or critical project in the arts and not on the basis of art production.

Stipends
The fellow will be awarded a stipend of up to $60,000 and a housing and moving allowance of up to $15,000, dependent upon need. The fellow will receive an office at the Stanford Humanities Center and access to Stanford libraries and other campus resources. Gallery, studio, rehearsal or performance space is not guaranteed although every effort will be made to find facilities and resources needed. Applicants who require additional support are expected to seek supplementary funding in the form of external grants or sabbatical or other contributions from home institutions.

Requirements
The fellow must be in residence at Stanford University during academic year 2009-2010 (September 2009 to June 2010). He or she will be expected to attend lunch at the Humanities Center regularly, to present his or her research to the Humanities Center community, and to make an intellectual contribution to Stanford University by participating in and contributing to the activities of the affiliated SiCa center.

The Humanities Center is a residential center and its intellectual life depends on collegial interaction. Accordingly, fellows are required to live within a ten-mile radius of Stanford University.

Medical Coverage
The Center is unable to provide or finance medical insurance, and fellows are required to make individual arrangements for reasonable coverage during their fellowship year. 

 

About the Application Process
Online Application System: applications may be submitted entirely online via our online application system.  Access to the online application system will open on our website in August.  Applications must be received at the Center by December 1, 2008.

Application Content & Format:  Applications for the Arts Writer/Practitioner Fellowship include the following six parts:

 

1) Information about the applicant
*Contact information (e.g. name, address, email)
* Education (Degree dates)
* Professional positions (three most recent)
* Tenure status
* Recent grant/leave support (past three years)
* Names of Referees (limit of three; include institutions and email addresses)

2) A curriculum vitae (C.V.) of no more than 10 pages

3) A statement of significance. Please explain the significance of your project to knowledge in the humanities, broadly considered (100-word maximum).

4) A brief description (not more than 1,000 words) of a research project, and an optional (1 page) project bibliography.

5) Arts Supplemental Statement. Please include a brief statement (no more than 500 words) about your credentials as an art practitioner, explaining how art practice informs your scholarly or critical work.

6) Reference letters

All applications must be in English.  A limited number of digital examples of artworks to accompany arts fellowship applications only may be sent to shc-fellowships@stanford.edu.

Research Project Description: The project description is of crucial import since many applicants possess substantial records of publications and strong recommendations.  The project description should:

1) State clearly the objectives of the project.

2) State clearly the significance of the project.

3) State clearly the methodology to be used.

4) State what will be original about the work compared to what has already been published on the topic.

5) Explain the broad significance of the project in a manner clear to nonspecialists (the selection committee is composed of experts in the humanities and the arts and may not include specialists in your field).

6) Include a brief (1 page) bibliography (optional).

Reference Letters: Arts Practitioner/Writer Fellowship applicants are required to have three letters of reference; applicants are advised to have no more than one reference letter from an individual at their home institution. We prefer that reference letters be written in English and reserve the right to request a translation. 

Reference letters must be received at the Center by the application deadline.  Consideration of letters received after that date cannot be guaranteed. 

Referees may send reference letters by mail directly to the Center, by email to shc-fellowships@stanford.edu, or electronically through our online application system. Applicants whose referees submit letters through the online system will be automatically notified when the letters are submitted, should they wish this.  Referees designated by applicants as preferring online submission will be automatically sent guidelines for submitting their reference letters.

Referees who wish to submit their letter of reference via email or on paper should be directed to our Arts Writer/Practitioner Fellowship Reference Form, which may be downloaded and printed from our website.

Download a Paper Application Form
Although we encourage online applications for our fellowships, applicants may instead download and complete a paper application, and send three copies to be received by the application deadline of December 1, 2008. 

<<click here to download paper application form

Selection Criteria
Fellows will be chosen by a multidisciplinary selection committee after an initial screening process by experts in the various disciplines.

Applications will be judged based on the following factors:

(1) The promise of the specific research or critical project being proposed, including how art practice informs the applicant’s scholarly or critical work.

(2) The project’s potential interest to scholars in different fields of the humanities.

(3) The originality distinction of the candidate’s previous work.

(4) The applicant’s ability to engage in collegial interaction and to contribute to the discussion of presentations in the humanities.

Applicants who have received a major research grant within the last three years generally will not be as competitive as other applicants.

For More Information
For further information, contact sica@stanford.edu

For information about the Stanford Humanities Center and the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts go to http://shc.stanford.edu and http://sica.stanford.edu.

Applicants will be notified of the competition results in spring 2009.