Summer 2025 Institute for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship
Summer 2025 Institute for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship
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Job Description
The Institute for the Humanities Summer Fellowship program supports an intellectual community of tenured/tenuretrack and lecturer II/III/IV faculty to spend six to eight weeks in residence in the institute. Summer fellows will pursue their research and participate in nine crossdisciplinary seminars coordinated by the institutes director from June 2July 2. We seek applicants working in humanities research areas who demonstrate capacity to contribute to and gain from interdisciplinary exchange through the summer fellows seminar.
Summer Faculty Fellowship
Fellows will receive $8000 in additional pay or research funds; each fellow will have the use of a private office at the institute and access to the resources of the Institute.
Expectations
- Faculty fellows must be in residence in person at the Humanities Institute during spring term 2025.
- Faculty fellows must attend and participate in all of the scheduled twohour Fellows Seminars.
- Faculty fellows are required to present their work during one Fellows Seminar.
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold a fulltime tenured/tenuretrack or a lecturer II/III/IV position with a 75 or more averaged appointment on the Ann Arbor campus during the regular (September April/May) academic year. (Full time for Lecturer II/III/IV faculty is defined in accordance with MOU #3 of LEOUM contract which states Employees whose appointment effort during the fall and winter semesters averages at least 75 in both the fall and winter semesters.
- Incoming newly hired faculty are not eligible to apply.
- Faculty who have already held a Humanities Institute Michigan Faculty Fellowship are eligible to apply six years after the end of their earlier award.
- Faculty who will be a Humanities Institute Michigan Faculty Fellow in the current or following year are not eligible to apply.
- In winter 2025 faculty may not apply for both the summer fellowship and the yearlong fellowship.
- Faculty and lecturers may not hold a teaching appointment during spring term of the fellowship if awarded a Humanities Institute Summer Fellowship.
- Prospective applicants must consult with their chairs or deans about unit policies and expectations regarding leaves and fellowships before applying.
- Applicants must notify the head(s) of the unit(s) in which they hold funded appointments of their intention to apply for a Humanities Institute Summer Fellowship.
- Summer Faculty Fellows become eligible to apply for a Michigan Faculty Fellowship one year after the end of their award (for example 2025 Summer Faculty Fellows are eligible to apply for a Michigan Faculty Fellowship for the 202627 academic year).
Selection Criteria
The selection committee looks for applicants and projects that will benefit from and contribute to the interdisciplinary nature of the group of fellows and the work of the fellows seminar. It seeks to achieve variety and balance in the disciplines represented by the fellows.
Projects are judged based on (A) promise and significance of the proposed research project; (B) the humanities and arts content of the project; (C) the quality significance and breadth of the applicants prior work.
Employment Type
Temp
