UConn Humanities Institute Residential Fellowships
The UConn Humanities Institute invites applications for residential fellowships. Fellowships offer a stipend, office space, and all the benefits of a Research I university. Just as important, we offer community and time for scholars to write, argue, engage, and create.
We invite and welcome fellowship applications from scholars in all disciplines and encourage applications to articulate clearly the project’s value to the humanities. Projects may contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public’s understanding of the humanities. Recipients are expected to produce scholarly articles, a monograph on a specialized subject, a book on a broad topic, an archaeological site report, a translation, an edition, or other scholarly tools. These fellowships do not support projects to study teaching methods or theories, surveys of courses and programs, or the preparation of institutional curricula. These fellowships cannot be deferred.
UCHI offers residential fellowships each academic year in three categories:
- Visiting Humanities Fellows (external)
- UConn Humanities Faculty Fellows (internal)
- UConn Humanities Dissertation Scholars
We also invite applications from UConn undergraduates pursuing innovative research in the humanities. The Undergraduate Humanities Research Fellowship supports a year-long research project supervised by a UConn faculty member, and includes a $2000 scholarship, a desk at the Institute, full immersion in UCHI’s community of fellows and much more. The project should ask questions or explore issues and ideas that feel urgent and exciting to you. We highly encourage proposals for projects that use methods, ideas, and approaches from more than one discipline.
Visiting Humanities Fellows (External)
Visiting Humanities Fellows receive a stipend of $50,000, which is often paid directly to the fellows’ home institution, which allows them to maintain their normal salary while being relieved of teaching duties. Additionally, visiting fellows receive faculty library privileges, an office in the UCHI suite, and assistance in locating housing. They are expected to participate in Institute activities including fellows’ teas, colloquia, grant workshops, and related scholarly events. Visiting Humanities Fellows will also offer a public talk on their research during the course of the fellowship year. Tenure normally covers an uninterrupted period of nine to ten whole months. Fellows are required to be in residence for the academic year. Ordinarily, fellowships run from late August through May. Fellowship recipients will not be allowed to defer a UCHI fellowship. Finally, Visiting Humanities Fellows are expected to acknowledge the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute in publications resulting from work supported by the Institute.
Eligibility
UCHI Visiting Scholar fellowships are intended for scholars with a significant record of scholarly accomplishment. Applicants with a Ph.D. or terminal degrees in their field must have held their advanced degree for at least four years. Independent scholars—such as writers, museum professionals, and artists—need not have a terminal degree to apply, but must have an advanced record of professional accomplishment, which does not include research and publications completed during graduate school. Independent scholars with terminal degrees must have held that degree for at least four years. Former UCHI fellows are welcome and eligible to apply for fellowships five academic years after completion of their UCHI fellowship (i.e. 2019-20 fellows are eligible to apply for 2025–26 fellowships).
Application
Applications for 2025–26 fellowships must be submitted via Interfolio by February 1, 2025.
Applicants are required to submit the following materials:
- project proposal (3 pages)
- bibliography (1 page)
- Curriculum Vitae (CV) (2 pages)
Applicants must also request three signed letters of reference submitted directly by the referee through Interfolio.
All application materials must conform with our application guidelines.pdf.
