Fox Center Visiting Faculty Fellowship 2027-2028

The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry is pleased to open applications for our visiting faculty fellowship program. The program will host up to two fellows from local colleges and universities. Fellows will participate in a weekly interdisciplinary seminar held in-person at our on-campus Center on Wednesdays noon to 2pm during Fall and Spring semesters (see Emorys Academic Calendar for 2027-28) and receive an honorarium of $3000. We will provide parking validation for seminar days. If space allows visiting faculty fellows may also be eligible for office space.

We invite applications from full-time continuing faculty in any humanistic discipline who are eager to be part of a community of scholars engaged in innovative and interdisciplinary research and conversations around our theme of Humanities Plural. Research projects do not need to address the theme directly but we are especially interested in projects that raise clear stakes for thinking about issues raised in our theme description below.

The application deadline for applicants to submit their materials is January 18 2027 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

Applicants must be full-time continuing faculty at institutions of higher education in the Atlanta area.