About Humanities Unbounded Visiting Faculty Fellowships
Humanities Unbounded is offering Visiting Faculty Fellowships at Duke University in a two-year model. Regular rank faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges are invited to apply. The first year is a residential fellowship that is tied to an on‐going humanities lab (whether a Humanities Unbounded departmental lab or an interdisciplinary humanities lab based at the Franklin Humanities Institute) or other Duke department, program, institute, initiative, or center. The residential experience will be followed by a second year in which Fellows may draw on resources from a consultancy fund to bring newfound research approaches to their home institution and, where appropriate, continue their collaborations with Duke partners.
Under the Humanities Writ Large grant that began in 2011 we hosted 27 additional faculty members from HBCUs and Liberal Art Colleges for year-long fellowships. The Fellowships have underscored the role of the humanities as an engine for knowledge production.
How to Apply
Interested faculty should contact humanitiesunbounded@duke.edu to begin a conversation about how to find a point of connection with the Duke scholarly community. Faculty may also begin looking for potential Duke partners by searching keywords for their research area in the “With all these words” box at Scholars@Duke.
Applications are due Monday, January 6, 2021 for the 2021-22 academic year. Selected Fellows will be notified in February 2021.
Resources While at Duke
Humanities Unbounded includes significant staff support and other resources for our Visiting Faculty Fellows. This includes access to all holdings of Duke University Libraries and the assistance of our subject area librarians; the support of our team of digital humanities technology consultants and PhD students trained in digital resources; a hosted talk at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute; office space; and a collegial community of scholars and teachers eager to engage with new colleagues.
Financial Details
The Fellowship covers salary (up to $100,000) and fringe benefits, paid to the home institution, $5,000 in research funds for use on the Fellow's project, $2,500 to spend in partnership with the Duke partner on a project of their mutual choosing, and $1,500 for travel of other staff from the home institution to visit Duke for consultation on how the work at Duke can be adapted back into the life of the home institution. In the second year, each Fellow will have access to $10,000 to be used as needed for post-residency support.
If pandemic conditions allow, Fellows will be brought to campus during spring semester before their Fellowship for a visit to meet with Duke partners and consider housing options. (Duke does not provide housing.)
We anticipate accepting four Fellows for the 2021-22 academic year.