Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Poetics

Our fellowship program is the cornerstone of our support for humanistic research. Our fellows spend a year in residence working to advance a major research project in dialogue with each other and with our annual theme. We invite applications from candidates who are eager to be part of a community engaged in innovative and interdisciplinary conversations. Our undergraduate honors fellowships, dissertation completion fellowships, and residential faculty fellowships are open to our Emory community. Our visiting faculty fellowships are open to faculty at institutions in the metro-Atlanta area. Our postdoctoral fellowships are open to early career researchers worldwide.

Applications for our 2025-26 postdoctoral fellowships, dissertation completion fellowships, faculty fellowships, and visiting faculty fellowships are now open!  Applications for our 2025-26 undergraduate fellowships will open in spring 2025.

Research Theme for 2025-26: Life/Story

For academic year 2025-2026, the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry is pleased to invite applications from candidates engaged in our theme Life/Story, from any humanistic discipline, who are eager to be part of a community of scholars engaged in innovative and interdisciplinary conversations on what it means to capture a life.
 

• How do the humanities capture a life, and in what ways does this genre—the craft of unearthing and rendering a life story—shed light upon key moments in time, social and political movements, critical junctures in history, or elements fundamental to a particular culture and place?
• How are different methodologies and epistemologies mobilized in telling the story of a life that also offer broad social and political commentaries?
• How does a single biography, in any medium, shed light upon central themes of the human condition?

We envision that fellows may pursue research employing a range of historical, contemporary, social, cultural, artistic, and philosophical approaches to capturing a life, including but not limited to oral and archival histories, ethnography, literary analysis, philosophy, creative writing and film.

Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Fox Center welcomes up to four postdoctoral fellows each academic year. Three positions are open field and one is in poetics. The postdoctoral fellowship in poetics reflects the importance of Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Book Library as a center for research in poetry. 

Applications for our 2025-2026 postdoctoral fellowships are now open. Apply now via Interfolio!