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External Faculty Fellowships

A LINK TO THE ONLINE APPLICATION WILL BE AVAILABLE *HERE* IN LATE AUGUST 2008.

Application deadline: October 15, 2008.

About the Fellowships
Eligibility
Stipends
Requirements
About the Application Process
Download a Paper Application Form
Selection Criteria
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About the Fellowships
Since its inception in 1980, the Humanities Center has offered fellowships to more than 550 faculty from nearly 100 universities in the United States and other countries. External fellows come from all ranks of the professoriate and from a wide variety of disciplinary fields, colleges and universities. The Center typically offers six to eight external fellowships each year. 

Eligibility
Applicants must have a PhD and will normally be at least three years beyond receipt of the degree at the start of the fellowship year (i.e., will have received the PhD in or before September 2006 for the 2009-2010 fellowship). Junior fellowships are for scholars who will be at least three and no more than ten years beyond receipt of the Ph.D. by the start of their prospective fellowship year. Senior fellowships are for established scholars who are more than ten years beyond receipt of the PhD. External fellowships are intended primarily for individuals currently teaching or affiliated with an academic institution, but independent scholars may apply. Faculty fellowships are awarded across the spectrum of academic ranks (assistant, associate, and full professor). Scholars who are members of traditionally under-represented groups are encouraged to apply. There are no citizenship requirements for these fellowships; non-U.S. nationals are welcome to apply. Awards are made from an applicant pool of approximately 250.

Fellowships are awarded to support research projects in the humanities; creative arts projects are not eligible. The Humanities Center seeks candidates whose research is likely to contribute to intellectual exchange among a diverse group of scholars within the disciplines of the humanities. Candidates may find general guidance in determining if a project is suitable from the definition of the Act that set up the National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities.

The humanities include, but are not limited to, the following fields: history, philosophy, languages, literature, linguistics, archeology, jurisprudence, history and criticism of the arts, ethics, comparative religion, and those aspects of the social sciences employing historical or philosophical approaches. This last category includes social and cultural anthropology, sociology, political theory, international relations, and other subjects concerned with questions of value ...

Former external faculty fellows are not eligible to reapply.

Stipends
Fellows are awarded stipends of up to $60,000 and a housing and moving allowance of up to $15,000, dependent upon need. 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
An essential feature of the Center is that fellows make a contribution to the intellectual life of the Stanford community. To fulfill this obligation, most external faculty fellows participate in a Geballe Research Workshop at the Humanities Center.   Precise details regarding the intellectual contributions will be determined with the Center's Associate Director after fellowships are awarded. 

This 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 and to be in residence during Autumn, Winter, and Spring Quarters. We cater lunches for fellows every weekday; one lunch per week during the academic year is devoted to research presentations by current fellows. Fellows are expected to attend lunch regularly (at least 4 days a week), and to participate in the research presentations.

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 October 15th, 2008.

Application Content & Format:  Applications for External Faculty Fellowships include the following five parts:

 

1) Information about the applicant
*Contact information (e.g. name, address, email)
* Education (Degree dates and dissertation title)
* 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) Reference letters

All applications must be in English.  We discourage the submission of additional materials with your application and cannot return such materials to you.

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 a range of scholars from humanities fields and may not include specialists in your field).

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

Reference Letters: External Faculty 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 External Faculty Fellowships Reference Form, which may be downloaded and printed from our website.

Notification: Applicants will be notified when their applications have been received, and will be notified of the fellowship competition outcome in late March.

Download a Paper Application Form
Although we encourage online applications for our fellowships, applicants for the Stanford Humanities Center’s External Faculty Fellowship competition may instead download and complete a paper application, and send three copies to be received by the application deadline of October 15, 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 project being proposed.

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

3) The originality and intellectual distinction of the candidate's previous work.

4) The applicant's perceived ability to engage in collegial interaction and to contribute to the discussion of presentations.

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 the Fellowship Administrator.