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CHCI/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipents(RDR) Fellowships Program: CHCI Member Site Descriptions
Arizona State University, Institute for Humanities Research Institute for Humanities Research T: (480) 965-3000 Contact: Prof. Sally L. Kitch, Director; Carol Withers, Assistant Director,carol.withers@asu.edu
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As a dynamic new model for a research university, Arizona State is an extraordinary venue for research within and across many fields and disciplines (see www.asu.edu, and click on “New American University”). The IHR represents the university’s commitment to the humanities as a valuable component of its research mission, which emphasizes the social and cultural significance of academic scholarship. Thus, The IHR is particularly supportive of humanities scholarship that is socially engaged and transdisciplinary in its impact.
The ADR fellow will be free to participate in the cross-disciplinary exchanges that are common at ASU, as well as in the dynamic humanities research community the Institute’s projects and initiatives have fostered since its inception in 2005-06. He/she will also have the opportunity to interact at weekly seminars/lunches with ASU and Visiting Fellows, who in 2008-09 will be working on projects related to the theme, “Humanities and Political Conflict.”
In addition, the ADR fellow can participate in on-going Institute seminars, including a faculty seminar series that seeks to define the humanities for humanists and considers links among humanities fields and disciplines in terms of methodologies and epistemologies. The current year’s series is entitled “Truth, Evidence, and/or Fiction in Humanistic Inquiry.” Other IHR activities include an occasional series on “The Humanities at Work,” in which faculty discuss the relationship between their research and real-world problems and activities. For example, a presentation for the series in 2008 will discuss the use of narrative in the education of medical students. The IHR has also initiated a workshop series on digital humanities, for which there is much support at ASU, and the ADR Fellow will be welcome to participate. Jeanne and Dan Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences
T: (781) 891-2827
Contact: Prof. Cyrus Veeser, Director cveeser@bentley.edu
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Located in the greater Boston area, Bentley College is the only member of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes with a business focus, but the college also possesses a strong, research-oriented arts and sciences faculty. Our college has the oldest business ethics center in the country and publishes Business and Society Review (Blackwell), a refereed journal produced jointly by the philosophy department and the Center for Business Ethics. Bentley is also a member of the UN Global Compact’s Academic Network for Principles for Responsible Business. The Valente Center, created in 2005, sponsors innovative research in the arts and sciences and especially cross-disciplinary work at the intersection of those disciplines with business, economics and technology. The Center annually hosts a postdoctoral fellow in the arts and science and five Bentley faculty fellows. All fellows meet biweekly for luncheons hosted by the Center and present their research in the Center’s Working Seminar series, which invites commentators from area universities.
We offer supportive and stimulating contact with fellows and Bentley faculty more broadly. A $16.5 million reconstruction of Baker Library completed last year makes that facility one of the most high-tech in the country. The campus is 20 minutes from Harvard Square, and a free shuttle bus makes the run hourly. The atmosphere, both for the fellows and for faculty generally, is friendly and supportive. The RDR fellow will present her research in the Working Seminar series and would have the opportunity to participate in an almost overwhelming number of seminars, workshops, and lectures at Bentley and nearby institutions including Brandeis, Harvard, Tufts, MIT, Boston University and Boston College. The Valente Center would be an especially appropriate placement for an RDR fellow pursuing research that engages with business, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, economics or technology, although we are happy to receive applications from fellows in any arts and sciences discipline and subfield.
Cogut Center for the Humanities
T: (401) 863-6070 Contact: Prof. Michael Steinberg, Director
- Fully Equipped Office
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The Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University supports collaborative research among scholars in the humanities, focusing on interdisciplinary and comparative work across cultural and linguistic boundaries. Through its fellowship and grant programs, distinguished visitors program, and regularly scheduled events, the Cogut Center strives to:
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Foster innovative work in the humanities and related disciplines.
The Cogut Center will inaugurate a newly renovated building in fall, 2008. Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities
T: (216) 368-0528 Contact: Prof. Anne Helmreich, Director; Mary Davis, Associate Director
Basic Benefits - Fully Equipped Office
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The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University would offer a rich and productive research environment for a RDR fellow. The Center’s Directors, who will guide and support the RDR Fellow’s tenure at CWRU, are Associate Professor of Art History and Art Anne Helmreich and Assistant Professor of Music Mary E. Davis.
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities (BNC) is dedicated to celebrating, supporting, and invigorating the humanities and the arts at Case Western Reserve University and throughout the Northeast Ohio community. The Center includes the departments of Art History and Art, Classics, English, History, Modern Languages and Literatures, Music, Philosophy, Religion, and Theater and Dance. The Center coordinates humanistic scholarship and public humanities programs involving CWRU’s departments in the Humanities as well as a number of interdisciplinary programs, such as Asian Studies. The Center also engages faculty doing humanistic scholarship with those in related social science departments: Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Communication Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology.
In addition to serving as the hub for humanities activities on the campus of CWRU, the BNC is currently expanding its collaborative role to include University Circle and other Cleveland arts and culture organizations. University Circle, a world-class center of innovation in health care, education, and arts & culture, refers to the over 40 cultural institutions located adjacent to the campus. Most notable of these and significant in terms of research possibilities in the humanities because of the strength of their permanent collections, library holdings, and scholarly programming are the Cleveland Museum of Art (which houses the fourth largest art library in the United States), the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Cleveland Orchestra and Musical Arts Association, the Cleveland Botanical Garden, and the Western Reserve Historical Society. CWRU has the advantage of having significant collaborations with many of these organizations such as joint degree programs, faculty positions, and research studies. For example, the Historical Society’s affiliation with the university is further supported through a joint appointment in the History department which reflects the strength of the Society’s collections in American history, including industrialization and the immigrant experience. The BNC also organizes programs with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the Associate Director of the Center is the university’s liaison with this institution.
In addition to those public programs developed in collaboration with these institutions, the BNC offers a variety of participatory programs relevant for a RDR Fellow. Most notably, the RDR fellow would be invited to participate in BNC’s annual thematic seminar, an 8-10 week seminar in which a pre-selected group of faculty, advanced graduate students, and members of the University Circle community come together on a weekly basis to investigate a selected topic, developing scholarly questions and a mode of inquiry collaboratively. Related activities include public lectures, workshops open to members of the public through pre-registration, and other programming.
The theme for academic year 2008-2009 is “Museums”, taking advantage of CWRU’s location in University Circle, which encompasses an extraordinary concentration of museums. A museum is typically defined as a permanent institution dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of artifacts. Such work entails acquisition, conservation, and interpretation of objects. Service to society and public accessibility are considered within its purview. The museum’s public is exceedingly diverse, ranging from experts in the scholarly community to schoolchildren. The museum experience includes study, education, enjoyment, and inspiration – purposes that sometimes seem to be in conflict. The seminar seeks to address how the museum can serve these multiple agendas – many of which are shared with the university—as well as the relationship between the museum and the university. The seminar will allow participants to examine the intersections between the university and the museum and to consider the past, present, and future of these collaborative institutions. Seminar programming will include collaborations with CWRU’s neighboring cultural institutions.
In addition, RDR fellows would be able to participate in the BNC “Work in Progress” Colloquium series which provides the opportunity for CWRU faculty and advanced graduate students to share the results of research with colleagues in the humanities. The colloquia represent the process of intellectual work in various humanities disciplines -- the making of knowledge “in progress.” Such colloquia occur on an ongoing, regularly scheduled basis.
A RDR fellow would therefore find at BNC/CWRU the necessary support for a rich period of scholarly productivity because of the quality of research facilities offered by CWRU and University Circle. In addition, the fellow would find a warm, collegial atmosphere with faculty, graduate students, and institution staff committed to the significance and importance of arts, culture, and the humanities.
John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
T: (919) 684-1901 Contact: Prof. Srinivas Aravamudan, Director; Grant Samuelsen, Associate Director - Fully Equipped Office
Founded in 1999, the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University is an interdisciplinary humanities center dedicated to supporting humanities, arts, and social science research and teaching at Duke. We seek to encourage serious humanistic inquiry throughout the entire University and to instill the general public with an awareness of the centrality of the humanities to the quality of human life and social interaction. We also promote scholarship that enhances social equity, especially research on race and ethnicity in their most profound historical and international dimensions. In this ambitious mission, we are inspired by our namesake, John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History.
Located in the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, the Franklin Humanities Institute is built on a fundamentally collaborative model fitting Duke's emphasis on facilitating interdisciplinary cross-fertilization. Through an array of innovative programs, we seek to encourage the conversations, partnerships, and collaborations that are continually stimulating creative and fresh humanistic research, writing, and teaching at Duke.
RDR Fellows will become a part of a thriving intellectual community that includes not only internal faculty fellows, Duke graduate student fellows, and up to four additional postdoctoral and other external fellows, but also the 23 interdisciplinary units and programs housed in the John Hope Franklin Center. The FHI will also assist in the creation of connections to Duke departments and faculty. The fellow will be asked to present a talk on their work in the context of the FHI’s Current Residents lecture series. Humanities Institute
T: (631) 632-7765 Contact: Prof. E. Ann Kaplan, Director - Fully equipped office
The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook is now celebrating its 20th Anniversary. HISB is an interdisciplinary Institute whose missions include stimulating innovative interdisciplinary research through conferences, symposia, and distinguished lecture series; curricular support and innovation; organizing faculty and graduate student seminars on a wide range of topics; and community outreach. We have been especially interested in bridging gaps between the sciences and the arts/humanities disciplines. Our interests in cultural studies and material culture are balanced by focus on literature, media and digital arts. In past years, we have focused on psychoanalysis, history, postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism, but we look forward to continuing research in environmental issues, cosmopolitanism and global cultures.
HISB’s highly productive interdisciplinary faculty from a range of departments in the College of Arts and Science will provide internal stimulation for Fellows. We can offer scholars an office in a new Humanities Building that is a focal point on the campus; internet and telephone access; library access and swift interlibrary loan service: There will be ample opportunities to participate in the kinds of Institute programs noted above: We will be able to provide medical insurance for Fellow and family if the Mellon funds are routed through Stony Brook University. We are working with CHCI to achieve this. We also hope to obtain funds to add to what Mellon offers.
Stony Brook's pleasant campus is on the scenic north shore of Long Island about 55 miles east of New York City, with easy train access. Many will appreciate working in the New York Public Library and other NYC archives. We look forward to welcoming you to Stony Brook. Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
T: (979) 845-8328 Contact: Prof. James Rosenheim, Director - Fully equipped office
Texas A&M University is situated 100 miles from both Houston and Austin and offers a world-class research environment with a strong commitment to humanities research. During 2008-2009 and 2009-2010, the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research will be pursuing the theme of “Journeys” – metaphorical and literal, contemporary and historical. RDR Fellows with a research interest in migration, travel, exile, transportation, exploration, tourism, and more are encouraged to consider the Glasscock Center as the site for their fellowship.
The Glasscock Center occupies 4,000 sq. ft. in a building that also houses the Department of History. The Center provides offices for seven internal fellows and eight part- and full-time staff and features a comfortable library, a conference room, and kitchen area. Texas A&M University’s main library and its rare books library and archives are directly opposite the Glasscock Building. The Center offers a fortnightly faculty colloquium, visiting lecture series, annual symposium, and numerous co-sponsored events throughout the year. RDR Fellows are welcome at all these events, have access to the visiting scholars the Glasscock Center frequently hosts, and have regular opportunities to join colleagues over humanities lunches, Wednesday coffee hours, and miscellaneous receptions. RDR Fellows may also participate in any of the fifteen interdisciplinary Humanities Working Groups that the Center sponsors and will be encouraged to present a free-standing lecture, seminar, or colloquium in the Glasscock Center.
The Dean’s Office in the College of Liberal Arts will work with the Glasscock Center to augment the RDR Fellow’s ACLS stipend by as much as 15%, and a department relevant to the RDR Fellow’s primary disciplinary focus will be identified as another potential source of support.
Humanities Institute
T: (530) 752-2295
Contact: Prof. Carolyn De La Pena, Director - Fully equipped office
We have ample resources here to host such a scholar, both in the way of infrastructural and research support. The DHI (http://dhi.ucdavis.edu/) is the central research unit for humanities faculty at UC Davis, both in the division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies and in the Social Sciences. The facility will provide easy access to coffee, supplies, a copy machine, and refrigerator/kitchen as well as the seminar room where research clusters regularly meet and speakers are frequently hosted.
Opportunities to participate in research/academic activities abound. The Davis Humanities Institute currently operates eighteen research clusters (http://dhi.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=13). These clusters enable faculty and graduate students in emerging interdisciplinary areas to share work and host events. Fellows would be eligible to participate in any of these, as well as other events and workshops that the Institute co-sponsors each year (roughly thirty over the year). We also will allow postdoctoral fellows to participate in either of our two residential research groups planned for next year, on topics yet to be determined.
The DHI also serves as the home for the California Cultures Initiative, a collaborative undertaking that sponsors community-based and research-oriented projects focused on issues concerning our region, broadly considered. Postdoctoral scholars working on research connected to the Davis or Northern California regions may find this particularly appealing. Potential postdoctoral scholars should also note that UC Davis has one of the leading special collections in the history of food, beverage, and agriculture, housed at Shields Library. We are also the home of the Robert Mondavi Institute of Food and Wine Science and the new Foods for Health Initiative. Both projects are actively courting humanities scholars who work on related issues and providing lively forums for exchanges between the humanities and the sciences.
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities Contact: Prof. Mary Jacobus, Director
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The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) each year hosts up to 15 Visiting International Fellows, up to 12 Early Career Fellows from Cambridge, and a number of Post-Doctoral researchers and Research Associates who are externally funded by such bodies as the UK Arts Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, and the EU via its Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships.
The infrastructural support offered to externally funded fellows includes: office space; internet and telephone access; access to all University Libraries; opportunities to participate in all Centre activities including work-in-progress seminars, lectures, workshops, and conferences. Medical coverage is usually available for academic visitors and their families through the National Health Service. Fellows have access to University seminars and activities and may be eligible for college membership.
The University has an existing separate programme for Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships attached to specific Faculities who are also included in the Centre's hospitality and research community. CRASSH is located in the Old Cambridge University Premises in the centre of Cambridge with convenient access to libraries, departments, and colleges. Charles Phelps Taft Research Center
T: (513) 556-0675 Contact: Prof. Richard Harknett, Director - Fully equipped office
The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati offers RDR Fellows a diverse and engaging intellectual environment in which to pursue their own research. RDR Fellows will benefit from the Taft Center’s commitment to multidisciplinary interactions across our ten disciplines through engagement with six year-long UC Faculty Center Fellows, Visiting Scholars from around the world who reside at the Taft Center for 10 weeks to a year and some 25 invited external speakers. The RDR Fellow will also come into contact with our fourteen Dissertation Fellows and ten Undergraduate Senior Thesis Fellows. We would expect the RDR Fellow to make a formal presentation of their research during the academic year of the fellowship.
Taft House serves as living space for Dissertation Fellows and Taft Visiting Scholars, office space for the Taft Center, and lecture space for Taft Center activities.
Humanities Institute
T: (860) 486 9057
Contact: Prof. Richard Brown, Director - Fully equipped office
The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute is eager to participate in the ACLS RDR fellowship program. It complements our existing program of internal and external faculty and dissertation fellowships, and adds a component we have long been hoping to include.
The Humanities Institute would require the post-doctoral fellow to participate in Institute luncheons, talks, and seminars in the same way as other fellows. We will make every effort to integrate the postdoctoral fellow on a fully equal basis, and to connect the fellow with faculty and graduate students who are working in related areas of interest.
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
T: (217) 244-7913
Contact: Prof. Christine Catanzarite, Acting Director - Fully equipped office
As a host site, the IPRH would provide a stimulating intellectual environment, access to world-class research facilities, and a geographic location that is convenient to Chicago and St. Louis. In addition to
the basic benefits listed above, the IRPH can offer the RDR fellow opportunities to participate in yearlong IPRH Fellows’ Seminar, the option to present public lecture on Fellow’s research to campus community, or participate in a public panel discussion that is built around the Fellow’s research and includes appropriate U of I faculty members, and the option to participate in the interdisciplinary Reading Groups sponsored by the IPRH (48 groups in 2007-2008), and other IPRH and campus events and activities. Fellows may also take advantage of campus-wide benefits provided to the entire U of I community, including the option to purchase membership in the campus recreation center, which includes extensive indoor and outdoor facilities, and free access to campus and local bus systems.
The University is in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana (total population 180,000) in east-central Illinois. The campus is situated about 140 miles south of Chicago, 125 miles west of Indianapolis, and 180 miles northeast of St. Louis.
Detailed information about the University of Illinois and its programs and resources can be found online at www.uiuc.edu/overview/index.html.
The University Library holds more than ten million volumes and 22 million items and materials in all formats, languages, and subjects, including 9 million microforms, 90,000 serials, 148,000 audio-recordings, 12,000 films, and 650,000 maps. These collections form the bulk of I-Share, the statewide library online catalog. Currently there are 65 I-Share libraries and more than 30 million library items represented in the I-Share catalog. Users at these I-Share libraries may borrow books directly from the 65 I-Share library participants.
Among the Library's most notable collections are its holdings in Slavic and Eastern European history, literature, and science; music, especially Renaissance music; 17th- and 18th-century American and British literature; American, British and Irish history, including a distinguished collection of Lincolniana; French, German, and Italian literature, including world-famous Proust, Rilke, Dante, and Tasso collections; Latin American history and literature; historic and modern maps; linguistics; entomology, ornithology, botany, chemistry and mathematics; and serials across all disciplines.
The Library is also world-famous for its outstanding collection of emblem books and incunabula; and collections, including personal papers, of John Milton, Marcel Proust, H.G. Wells, Carl Sandburg, and Avery Brundage of the international Olympic movement.
Other facilities and resources at the University of Illinois include 16 colleges and instructional units; more than 150 affiliated research centers and institutes; the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, a world-class performance venue, and the Krannert Art Museum, the second-largest museum in Illinois; the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Institute for Genomic Biology, and National Center for Supercomputing Applications; and numerous opportunities for public engagement.
Obermann Center for Advanced Studies T: (319) 335-4696 Contact: Prof. Jay Semel, Director - Fully equipped office The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa would be delighted to host scholars awarded the ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients (RDR) Fellowships. In the last thirty years, over 150 Scholars from other institutions have enjoyed residencies at the Obermann Center, drawn by our many interdisciplinary grants programs as well as our policy of providing a home to Scholars supported by NEH, Guggenheim, Mellon, Exxon, NSF, ACLS, Fulbright, and other awards whose interests bring them to the University of Iowa. The Obermann Center provides visiting Scholars with a fully equipped office that All Center Scholars are invited to participate in regular informal discussion of Scholars' projects and social events hosted by the Center and in campus events such as the Obermann Humanities Symposia. The many resources at the University of Iowa include extensive holdings in nineteenth-century magazines, the Hardin Library collection of medical books, the Iowa Women's History collection, one of the nation's largest culinary book collections, and the UI Museum of Art collections, especially in African art and European prints. The University is home to distinguished humanities departments, programs and institutes for film, rhetoric, cultures, language, and prestigious writing programs as the Writers' Workshop, the International Writers' Workshop, the Playwriting Workshop, and the Non-Fiction Writing Program. Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for the Humanities
T: (785) 864-4798
Contact: Prof. Victor Bailey, Director - Fully equipped office Founded in 1977, the Hall Center supports research, especially of an interdisciplinary kind, in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts, and provides an innovative intellectual community across the different disciplinary domains. Its collateral mission is to sponsor programs that engage the university and the wider community in dialogue on issues that bring the humanities to bear on the quality of life for all citizens.
We are in a 14,000 sq. ft. purpose-built humanities center, completed in 2005. We host 12 faculty and graduate interdisciplinary seminars (presenters are both KU and visiting scholars), a fall semester faculty colloquium, and a resident fellows seminar. Each year, we have celebrations of faculty authors, dissertation to book workshops, and grant/fellowship proposal writing workshops. We have offices for distinguished professors, for dissertation-completion fellows, for KU internal fellows (in residence for the semester), and for a public humanities fellow. We have created a vibrant intellectual community of scholars, of which the fellow would be an integral part. RDR fellows can choose to be in residence either in 2009-2010 or 2010-2011. KU has strong library and archival resources in many subjects. It has particular research strengths in Environmental Studies, History, Art History, Spanish and Portuguese, and East Asian Studies. The KU campus is at the center of Lawrence, 35 miles west of Kansas City. Pallas Institute for Art Historical and Literary Studies
T: + 31 (0)71 5272166/2154
Contact: Dr. Juliette Roding, Interim Director
Basic Benefits
- Fully equipped office Institute for Advanced Study
T: (612) 626-5045
Contacts: Prof. Ann Waltner, Director; Susannah Smith, Associate Director - Fully equipped office
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at the University of Minnesota would be pleased to host a CHCI/ACLS postdoctoral fellow in the humanities or related social sciences. The IAS will provide fellows with a private office, internet and telephone access, full user privileges in the University of Minnesota Libraries (collections of over 6 million volumes), and access to subsidized medical and dental insurance for the fellow and his/her family.
To receive insurance, the fellowship must be routed through the University of Minnesota; RDR fellows will be employees of the University for the duration of their fellowship. All fellows of the IAS have offices in the Nolte Center (or in nearby Folwell hall); the proximity contributes to a collegial, interdisciplinary environment.
The IAS sponsors approximately 10 internal fellows each semester from throughout the University of Minnesota as well as a number of visiting scholars, resulting in a stimulating atmosphere of trans-disciplinary conversation. Fellows meet once a week for lunch to discuss their work. The IAS also hosts several collaborative groups, which meet regularly and offer a variety of lectures, workshops, and symposia in which fellows may participate. A weekly lecture series, "Thursdays at Four," spotlights faculty from across the university, visiting scholars, and local artists and authors, in a forum open to the public. The University Symposium, which will take up the topic of “Bodies & Knowing” in 2008-10, also brings together the scholarly community with the well-educated Twin Cities public. Fellows may avail themselves of such university resources as the nationally acclaimed Immigration History Research Center, the Minnesota Population Center, and the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies; manuscript holdings such as those in the area of international trade prior to 1800 housed in the James Ford Bell Library, the Givens Collection of African American Literature, and the Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Studies; and many other specialized centers and collections.
The IAS and the University of Minnesota Press are engaged in a collaborative publication program, the Quadrant Program; RDR Fellows whose work is topically appropriate would be invited to participate in this program. The Graduate School of the University of Minnesota has an Office of Postdoctoral Affairs which provides an interdisciplinary community and infrastructural support for all University of Minnesota postdocs. RDR fellows would have the opportunity to join in the activities of the University of Minnesota Postdoctoral Fellows, a cohort of three per year chosen in a national competition whose work incorporates one or more values of interdisciplinarity, engagement with communities beyond academe, and issues of equity and diversity. The vibrant Twin Cities arts community—both on and off campus—also provides rich opportunities for participation, scholarship, learning, and recreation for fellows and their families. Just selected by Frommer’s as one of its top travel destinations for 2007, Minneapolis itself provides an exhilarating urban experience. Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities
T: (206) 543-3920 Contact: Miriam Bartha, Associate Director - Fully equipped office
Recognized nationally for innovation and leadership in academic research and public scholarship, the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington serves as a generative, interdisciplinary locus for critical and cultural activity across the humanities, arts, and social sciences on campus and in the region. It has a four-fold scholarly mission: to encourage cross-disciplinary research and inquiry among university faculty and students, to pioneer innovative and cross-disciplinary graduate and undergraduate courses, to support initiatives at the leading edge of change in the humanities, and to develop public programs that promote the engagement of scholars and community members.
The Simpson Center has an impressive record of postdoctoral support including a four-year post-doctoral residency program funded by the Rockefeller Foundation in the domain of critical Asian studies and a program of postdoctoral fellows funded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
The Simpson Center will provide for the RDR Fellow’s integration into networks of scholarly activity and inquiry through participation in the Society of Scholars, as well as other Center-funded research clusters. Composed of UW faculty across departments and ranks and advanced dissertators who have received competitively-awarded fellowships, the Society of Scholars forms an intellectual community that meets biweekly to present and discuss individual research in progress. The Simpson Center also supports collaborative research initiatives, including recent and on-going formations in Science Studies, Cultural Studies, Transnational and Globalization Studies, Critical Area Studies, Critical Race, Ethnic, and Queer Studies, Modernist Studies, Digital Humanities, and Visual Culture. These would all provide networks of interlocuters and collaborators for a resident Early Career fellow.
In addition to direct services provided through the Simpson Center itself, a Mellon/ACLS RDR Fellow would benefit from support provided through the University of Washington’s Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, dedicated to cross-campus professional development/career services for postdoctoral fellows including workshops in publishing, teaching, and grant writing. Center for 21st Century Studies
T: (414) 229-4141
Contacts: Prof. Daniel Sherman, Director; Kate Kramer, Associate Director; John Blum, Associate Director for Advancement and Planning - Fully equipped office
The Center for 21st Century Studies, founded in 1968 as the Center for 20th Century Studies, promotes interdisciplinary research in the humanities, humanistic social sciences, and the arts on the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee campus and beyond. The Center is based in Curtin Hall on the UWM campus, overlooking Lake Michigan.
The Center’s main activities—its calendar of public events and the resident fellowship program for UWM and UW System faculty—are organized around research themes. We especially welcome RDR fellows interested in the theme for 2007-09, Past Knowing, a consideration of the relationship of knowledge to its limits, or whose work relates to our 40th-anniversary conference in October, 2008 “Since 1968,” which explores theoretical paradigms, forms of protest, uses and configurations of public space, and artistic practices that emerged or were tested in the fulcrum of 1968. The fellow will be part of the Center’s intellectual life through participation in its fellows’ seminars (with the opportunity to lead one seminar) and the Center’s public programming. |