Fox Center Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2027-2028

The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry is pleased to open applications for our one-year dissertation completion fellowships. We invite applications from current Emory graduate students from any humanistic discipline who are eager to be part of a community of faculty postdoctoral fellows and students engaged in innovative and interdisciplinary scholarly conversations around our theme of Humanities Plural. (See below.)

Research projects do not need to address the theme directly but all applicants should briefly address how the project relates to significant methodological theoretical or conceptual issues in the humanities. For example an applicant working in a well-established scholarly tradition could make a case for the importance of carrying that tradition forward within the current humanities landscape; an applicant working in an emerging area of scholarship could address the broad potential of that new area and/or the methodology it entails; a project from an applicant outside of a humanities department could address how humanities scholarship matters to their work.

The Fox Center will appoint up to three dissertation completion fellows for the academic year 2026-27. Fellows will participate in a weekly interdisciplinary seminar presenting their research at one of these meetings attend thematic programming and participate in the life of the Center. Fellows who will normally be in their 6th-year of graduate study during the fellowship year will receive a 9-month stipend (September-May) 100% subsidy for the Emory University Student Health Insurance Plan (EUSHIP) and shared office space at the Center. The first stipend payment will be at the end of September and the final payment will be at the end of May.

The application deadline for applicants to submit their materials is November 18 2026 at 11.59 PM ET. The deadline for receipt of letters of recommendation is November 23 2026 at 11.59 PM ET.

Humanities Plural

At a moment when fields such as history of the humanities and humanities theory are coming into view and as hybrid formations such as digital humanities health humanities and public humanities are taking humanities scholarship into new academic and extra-academic spaces we seek to expand our horizons for thinking about the humanities as they have existed or are unfolding in our current moment. Among the questions we hope to address in our shared discussions and programming are: What are the contexts across time and space where humanistic learning occurs and matters (e.g. formal orinformal academic settings places of worship prisons online spaces museums) Where is humanistic scholarship enlisted into serving other systems of knowledge and value (e.g. medical schools think tanks revolutionary movements corporate boardrooms) and what sorts of work is it asked to do there Which communities have forged programs or practices of humanistic learning without having access to formal or elite institutional structures What are the distinct methods epistemologies aesthetics and/or values that take shape in these sites What gave rise to theory where and why has it taken root and what is its future And how do or should the humanities function in hybrid formations for example in digital humanities environmental humanities or health humanities

To be considered for this fellowship applicants must:

• be full-time students currently enrolled in doctoral degree programs at Emory Universitys Laney Graduate School;
• be in good standing both in the Laney Graduate School and in their program;
• be in candidacy at the time of application;
• be in their 5th 6th or 7th year of graduate study at the time of application;
• not have held an Emory completion fellowship previously;
• be able to complete their dissertation during the fellowship period.