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For Non-Stanford
Faculty
External Faculty Fellowships
Rockefeller Fellowships
in Black Performing Arts
Associate Fellowships
For Stanford
Faculty
Internal Faculty Fellowships
For Stanford
Students
Dissertation Fellowships
Pre-Doctoral Fellowships
Undergraduate Research
Fellowships
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Each year the Stanford
Humanities Center offers residential fellowships to as many as thirty
fellows, who meet regularly in formal and informal sessions while pursuing
their individual study, research, and writing. The Center constitutes
an intellectual and social community in which historians, philosophers,
scholars of literature and the arts, anthropologists, and other humanists
of diverse ages, academic ranks, and departmental and institutional
affiliations contribute to and learn from one another's work. The Center
awards several types of fellowships:
- for scholars
with faculty appointments at universities other than Stanford or for
independent scholars
- for full-time
faculty at Stanford
- for Stanford graduate
students
- for a few Stanford
undergraduates who wish to pursue humanistic research in conjunction
with a Stanford Humanities Center faculty fellow.
Scholars able
to bring their own funding, who want to be in residence at the Center,
still must apply through the regular external faculty fellowship competition.
The Center sometimes
receives grants to offer special fellowships with specific interdisciplinary
themes such as the Rockefeller Fellowships in Black Performing Arts.
Awards are made
on the basis of rigorous competitions with the requirement that fellows
spend the entire academic year in residence at the Center. As a condition
of the fellowship, faculty fellows also make an intellectual contribution
to the Stanford community which may take the form of participation in
a research workshop or teaching a
course or seminar.
General
Eligibility Guidelines
Candidates may get some general guidance on whether their projects for
research are eligible 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 cultural anthropology, sociology, political theory,
international relations and other subjects concerned with questions
of value . . ." Especially appropriate are candidates whose research
is likely to contribute to intellectual exchange among a diverse group
of scholars within the disciplines of the humanities.
Please review individual fellowship descriptions for more detail
on specific eligibility requirements.
Evaluation
Criteria
Applications will be judged on:
(1) the promise of the specific research project being proposed
(2) the originality and distinction of the candidate's previous work
(3) the research project's potential interest to scholars in different
fields of the humanities
(4) the applicant's ability to engage in collegial interaction.
For
further information on specific Stanford Humanities Center fellowships,
please click on the appropriate heading on the left-hand side of this
page.
Stanford
Humanities Center Home Page
Revised August 5, 2003 |
