The following CHCI member organizations are participating in the CHCI/ACLS Partnership program. If you are a CHCI member and interested in attaching your organization to this program, please review the information here, or contact us.
The information presented here applies to fellowships in 2010-11 and 2011-12. The following listings include general information on each participating CHCI member organization and a list of additional benefits to fellows, if offered. We strongly encourage you to explore the websites of each participating organization for more information.
Each CHCI member organization listed below has committed to providing the ACLS resident fellow with the minimum benefits of the program, which are:
- A private or semi-private workspace with computer, and ready access to office equipment such as printers, copiers, fax machines, etc.
- Internet and telephone
- Library privileges
- Access to health insurance. “Access” is meant to mean that the member organization will either provide health coverage through an employee plan, or will assist the fellow in obtaining and/or paying for coverage. The ACLS award can be routed to your organization or university if you are able to provide employee benefits and your plan requires the fellow to be on your payroll. Each situation is different, so please contact us if you have any questions about this requirement.
Australian National University, Humanities Research Center
Bentley University, Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences
Brown University, Cogut Center for the Humanities
Cambridge University, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities
Carnegie Mellon University, Center for the Humanities
Case Western Reserve University, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities
Columbia University, Heyman Center for the Humanities
Duke University, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
Northwestern University, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Smith College, Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute
Stony Brook University, Humanities Institute at Stony Brook
Texas A&M University, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
University of California – Davis, Davis Humanities Institute
University of California – Irvine, Humanities Center
University of Cincinnati, Charles Phelps Taft Research Center
University of Connecticut, Humanities Institute
University of Edinburgh, Institute for Advanced Research in the Humanities
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
University of Iowa, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies
University of Kansas, Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for the Humanities
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Institute for Advanced Study
University of Nottingham, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Centre
University of Pittsburgh, Center for the Humanities
University of Washington-Seattle, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Institute for Research in the Humanities
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Center for 21st Century Studies
Utrecht University, Research Institute for History and Culture
Utrecht University, Centre for the Humanities
Wellesley College, Newhouse Center for the Humanities
Australian National University
Humanities Research Center
Old Canberra House Building 73
Lennox Crossing, Acton
Canberra, ACT 0200
Australia
T: +61 2 6125 2700
W: www.anu.edu.au/hrc/
Contact: Prof. Debjani Ganguly, Director
The HRC focuses on literature, history, anthropology, art history, law and language. As a general principle we encourage humanities research from interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives and have clusters of expertise in postcolonial studies, art and cultural performance, museum studies, visual culture, public memory, biography, comparative/world literature, human rights and e-humanities. Our research is not limited to any culture or region, but we have particular strengths in the study of Indigenous Australia, Europe, S and SE Asia, the Pacific and Canada. We also promote research in various media and technologies and are committed to the future of digital humanities.
Bentley University
Jeanne and Dan Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences
245 AAC
Waltham, MA 02454
T: (781) 891-2827
W: www.bentley.edu/arts-sciences-center
Contact: Prof. Chris Beneke, Director
Additional Benefits: $5,000 supplementary stipend provided by the Valente Center; up to $2,000 research/relocation funds (pending available funds); opportunity to participate in the university’s health insurance plan. The award must be routed through Bentley University to be eligible for benefits.
Bentley University is the only member of CHCI with a business focus. Bentley also possesses a strong, research-oriented arts and sciences faculty. The Valente Center, created in 2005, sponsors innovative research and programming in the arts and sciences and cross-disciplinary work at the intersection of the A&S disciplines with business, economics and technology. The center annually hosts two postdoctoral fellows, a visiting research fellow, several faculty research and teaching fellows, as well as roughly one dozen undergraduate Fellows.
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Brown University
Cogut Center for the Humanities
Box 1983
Providence, RI 02192
T: (401) 863-6070
W: www.brown.edu/Departments/Humanities_Center/
Contact: Prof. Michael Steinberg, Director
The Cogut Center supports collaborative research in the humanities, focusing on interdisciplinary and comparative work across cultural and linguistic boundaries. Through its fellowship and grant programs, visitors program, and events, the Center strives to: foster innovative work in the humanities and related disciplines; sustain and nurture international perspectives in an era of globalization; explore the history and effects of technology; examine the public role of the humanities; enrich relations between the humanities and the arts; investigate the re-emergence of issues of ethics and aesthetics; and reinvigorate the concept of critique and the role of critical theory in the humanities.
Carnegie Mellon University
Center for the Humanities
Department of English
Baker Hall 259, 5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
T: (412) 268-7176
W: www.hss.cmu.edu/humanitiescenter/index.htm
Contact: Prof. David Shumway, Director
The Humanities Center at CMU supports the distinctive vision of the humanities practiced at Carnegie Mellon. The humanities provide reflexive analysis of humankind and its artifacts, and such analyses incorporate hermeneutic, historical, formal, ethnographic, critical, and quantitative methods. This vision has yielded themes that provide a basis for interdisciplinary inquiry, including historical and global perspectives on culture; technology; languages and literature; cognition; race, gender, and identity; and ethics and public policy. The Center will support this vision by: strengthening research and teaching; fostering interdisciplinary collaboration; and urging a greater role for the humanities in an increasingly technological and global society.
Case Western Reserve University
Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
T: (216) 368-0528
W: http://www.bakernord.org
Contact: Prof. Anne Helmreich, Director
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities (BNC) is dedicated to supporting, and invigorating the humanities and the arts at Case Western Reserve and in the community. The Center includes the departments of Art History and Art, Classics, English, History, Modern Languages and Literatures, Music, Philosophy, Religion, and Theater and Dance. The Center coordinates humanistic scholarship and public humanities programs involving departments in the Humanities as well as a number of interdisciplinary programs. The Center also engages faculty doing humanistic scholarship with those in related social science departments.
Columbia University
Heyman Center for the Humanities
H2-1, East Campus Residential Center
2960 Broadway, MC: 5730
New York, NY 10027
T: (212) 854-8443
W: www.heymancenter.org/
Contact: Prof. Eileen Gilooly, Associate Director
Additional Benefits: $5,000 research allowance, made possible by the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University.
The Heyman Center for the Humanities (HCH) is the central site for the humanities at Columbia University. Each semester it presents almost two dozen public lectures, conferences, seminars, readings, and workshops on ideas and issues of importance in the humanities, arts, social sciences, international and public affairs, and the law. In addition, the Center is home to the eight post-doctoral fellows, each holding a Mellon fellowship (renewable up to three years), who comprise the Society of Fellows in the Humanities. RDR Fellows join this post-doctoral community and are encouraged to participate in its activities, such as its longstanding weekly luncheon lecture series and the occasional national and international conferences organized by the Fellows themselves and their affiliated departments. For further information, visit www.heymancenter.org and www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows/.
Cambridge University
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH)
17 Mill Lane
Cambridge
CB21RX
United Kingdom
T: +44 (0)1223 766886
W: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
Contact: Prof. Mary Jacobus, Director
The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) each year hosts up to 15 Visiting International Fellows, up to 12 Early Career Fellows from Cambridge, and a number of Post-Doctoral researchers and Research Associates who are externally funded by such bodies as the UK Arts Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, and the EU via its Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships.
Duke University
John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
2204 Erwin Rd. Box 90403e
Durham, NC 27708
T: (919) 684-1901
W: www.fhi.duke.edu
Contact: Grant Samuelsen, Associate Director
Additional Benefits: $5,000 supplementary stipend; up to $2,000 research/relocation funds (pending available funds); paid health, dental and other benefits as provided to employees of Duke University. The award must be routed through Duke University to be eligible for benefits.
The Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) at Duke University supports humanities, arts, and social science research and programs, as well as research on race and ethnicity in their historical and international dimensions. In this mission we are inspired by the work and legacy of the late John Hope Franklin. The FHI and Duke University possess particular strengths in human rights, visual studies, literary and critical theory, new media, and African American history and culture. In addition to resources at Duke, the fellow will also be provided with reciprocal access to major scholarly resources at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other area universities. The FHI is built on a collaborative model fitting Duke’s emphasis on interdisciplinarity, and RDR Fellows will become a part of a thriving intellectual community that includes not only faculty, graduate, and postdoctoral fellows, but also the 23 units and programs housed in the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies. Visit www.fhi.duke.edu for more information.
Northwestern University
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
1880 Campus Drive
Kresge 2-360
Evanston, IL 60208
T: (847) 491-7946
W: www.humanities.northwestern.edu
Contact: Prof. Wendy Wall, Interim Director
Additional Benefits: $3,000 additional funding toward research and travel expenses; paid health, dental, and other benefits as provided to employees of Northwestern University. The award must be routed through Northwestern University to be eligible for benefits.
The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities fosters interdisciplinary conversations among faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, faculty fellows, graduate and faculty affiliates, postdoctoral fellows, artists-in-residence, and the public. Governed by a faculty Humanities Council, it sponsors lectures and workshops that address topics of importance to the humanities while also challenging the assumptions governing the humanities.
In addition to our dynamic Artist in Residence Program, the Institute sponsors numerous dialogues and research workshops (recent topics include the role of the humanities scholar as public intellectual, an interdisciplinary analysis of the senses, and the post-racial turn). RDR Fellows will participate in the lunchtime colloquia, a series in which appointed Fellows and Affiliates present work-in-progress from a range of disciplines. They will also enjoy a myriad of resources available to them at Northwestern and within nearby Chicago, for instance, at the Newberry Library, The Art Institute, The Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and other dynamic institutions throughout city. Please visit www.humanities.northwestern.edu for further information about our various programs and events.
Smith College
Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute
Northampton, Massachusetts 01063
T: (413) 585-3721
W: www.smith.edu/kahninstitute/
Contact: Prof. Rick Fantasia, Director
The Kahn Liberal Arts Institute supports multi-disciplinary, collaborative research at Smith College. The institute enhances intellectual life on campus by bringing together faculty, students and visiting scholars to work in year-long multi-disciplinary projects of broad scope. Each of these collaborative projects spawns a broad range of intellectual and artistic events that are open to the entire Smith community, while providing the space and the resources for organized research colloquia for designated groups of faculty and student fellows.
Stony Brook University
Humanities Institute
1013 Humanities
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5354
T: (631) 632-7765
W: www.sunysb.edu/humanities/index.shtml
Contact: Prof. E. Ann Kaplan, Director
The HISB is an interdisciplinary Institute whose missions include stimulating innovative research through conferences, symposia, and events; curricular support and innovation; faculty and graduate student seminars on a wide range of topics; and community outreach. We have been especially interested in bridging gaps between the sciences and the arts/humanities disciplines. Our interests in cultural studies and material culture are balanced by focus on literature, media and digital arts. In past years, we have focused on psychoanalysis, history, postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism, but we look forward to continuing research in environmental issues, cosmopolitanism and global cultures.
Texas A&M University
Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
4214 TAMU
310 Glasscock Building
College Station, TX 77843-4214
T: (979) 845-8328
W: glasscock.tamu.edu
Contact: Prof. James Rosenheim, Director
The Glasscock Center is dedicated to fostering the humanities at Texas A&M University and in the world beyond the academy. In addition to bringing scholars together around a particular theme in alternate years, the Center awards a national book prize, the Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship. The Center also supports students and faculty at Texas A&M University with a number of funding opportunities. Fellows and grant recipients are integral to the Center’s programs and activities, such as colloquia, working groups, and the Humanities Informatics lecture series.
University of California, Davis
Humanities Institute
One Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616-8612
T: (530) 752-2295
W: dhi.ucdavis.edu
Contact: Prof. Carolyn De La Peña, Director
The UC Davis Humanities Institute is an interdisciplinary research center that fosters intellectual collaborations and facilitates access to research resources for faculty and graduate students who are actively engaged in research and teaching in the humanities, arts, cultural studies, and the humanistically-oriented social sciences. The DHI is also the home of the California Cultures Initiative, as well as the host of two Multi Campus Research Groups and other vibrant initiatives, including The Art of Regional Change and the Digital Humanities Initiative.
University of California, Irvine
Humanities Center
175 Humanities Instructional Building
Irvine, CA 92697-3375
T: (949) 824-3638
W: www.humanities.uci.edu/hctr/
Contact: Prof. Catherine Liu, Director
The UCI Humanities Center supports Humanities research and scholarship at UCI, and anchors the intellectual life of the University by promoting engagement with global and local issues through an investigation of culture, history, literature, technology, media and the arts, and with a critical sense of a cultural commons — a shared heritage in which diverse and collective experiences can be valorized, recognized and communicated. We showcase scholarship in action, enabling our campus community to come into contact with conversations that they cannot find elsewhere, and we work in collaboration with other units at UCI to promote a wide array of events.
University of Cincinnati
Charles Phelps Taft Research Center
PO Box 210369
2625 Clifton Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0369
T: (513) 556-0675
W: www.artsci.uc.edu/taft/
Contact: Prof. Jana Braziel, Director
The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center provides research support through competitive peer-reviewed award programs and allocations for faculty and students in ten designated Taft disciplines. Our mission is to promote a sustained intellectual community in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Cincinnati; to enhance faculty and student research; and to attract a new generation of thinkers, who can contribute to an on-going concentration of interest in the development of ideas.
University of Connecticut
Humanities Institute
Storrs, CT 06269-2098
T: (860) 486-9057
W: www.humanities.uconn.edu
Contact: Prof. Richard Brown, Director
The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute seeks to enhance research and creativity in the humanities, broadly defined. In particular, UCHI promotes the development and productivity of University of Connecticut faculty through its fellowship, seminar, and workshop programs, by bringing outside scholars to Connecticut, and by its support for conferences and journals. UCHI promotes student scholarship by the appointment of graduate and undergraduate fellows, and through advanced courses in humanities fields. UCHI also sponsors programs in which the humanities can inform public issues, calling attention to the ways that scholarly advances in the humanities enrich general understanding of the human condition.
University of Edinburgh
Institute for Advanced Research in the Humanities
Hope Park Square
Edinburgh EH8 9NW
T: 44 131 650 4671
W: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/index.html
Contact: Prof. P.Phemister@ed.ac.uk, Acting Director (2009-10)
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) is a lively international community of scholars from post-docs to distinguished emeritus Fellows. Weekly lunch meetings, work-in-progress sessions and ambitious symposia provide regular opportunities for discussion with colleagues within the Fellowship and in the University at large. Fellows have access to the full range of seminars in the University. The Institute is housed in a secluded 18th Century courtyard close to the University Library, where Fellows have full borrowing rights and access to the library’s unusually rich collection of manuscripts and rare books. It is also within easy reach of the National Library of Scotland, the Central City Library, the National Galleries and Museums, the Library of the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland, the library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the National Archives of Scotland.
The Institute offers informal mentoring, professional training and a chance to organise workshops in their own areas of interest. IASH Fellowships offer valuable international experience and a supportive and stimulating context for professional development, in addition to access to unique and extensive research resources. Healthcare is cost-free. Further information about the Institute can be found at http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/
University of Freiburg
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Albertstraße 19
D-79104 Freiburg i.Br.
T: +49 (0) 761-203 97404
W: www.frias.uni-freiburg.de
Contact: Dr. Carsten Dose, Administrator
The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) is the University of Freiburg’s international research college. It was established after Freiburg’s success in the Federal Excellence Initiative in October 2007. As a centre-piece of the Albert-Ludwigs University’s institutional strategy, FRIAS pursues three main objectives: to promote top level research, to develop new interdisciplinary areas of competence and knowledge, and to foster the advancement of outstanding junior scholars.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
805 West Pennsylvania Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
T: (217) 244-7913
W: www.iprh.uiuc.edu
Contact: Prof. Dianne Harris Director
The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois promotes interdisciplinary study in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. The IPRH provides fellowships to faculty and graduate students, who work in yearlong thematic symposia. IPRH hosts an annual conference, tied to the annual theme and featuring fellows and invited speakers. The IPRH also provides support to faculty and graduate student groups, sponsors events, exhibitions, and visiting artists, and hosts a film series coordinated with the annual theme. The IPRH also offers a free humanities course, the Odyssey Project, for members of the surrounding community living at or near the poverty level.
University of Iowa
Obermann Center for Advanced Studies
Iowa City, IA 52242
T: (319) 335-4034
W: www.uiowa.edu/~obermann/index.html
Contact: Prof. Jay Semel, Director
Additional Benefits: $1000 research stipend; paid health, dental and other benefits provided to employees of The University of Iowa
The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies provides a uniquely supportive environment where scholars working individually or in collaboration can reflect, write, and meet in easy interchange. Many Obermann Scholars are on sabbatical leave or are supported by fellowships, including NEH, NSF, NIH, ACLS, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Ford, Fulbright, and Howard Foundation awards. Other Scholars in residence are participants in summer research collaborations or summer and semester faculty seminar residencies, funded by Obermann grants. Obermann Center Scholars have a distinguished record of publication, including the publication of co-authored and co-edited works resulting from Center collaborations. The Center also hosts a Graduate Institute for Public Engagement and the Academy.
University of Kansas
Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for the Humanities
900 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045
T: (785) 864-4798
W: www.hallcenter.ku.edu
Contact: Prof. Victor Bailey, Director
Additional Benefits: $2,000 research/relocation funds; $1,000 in travel expenses; and health benefits as provided to KU employees, for which the award must be routed through KU.
The Joyce & Elizabeth Hall Center for the Humanities supports research in the humanities, arts and social sciences, especially of an interdisciplinary kind, at the University of Kansas. Its collateral mission is to sponsor programs that engage the University and the wider community in dialogue on important issues in the humanities. The HCH and KU possess strengths in American and African-American Studies, Environmental Studies, Art History, and Spanish Literature. KU has strong library resources, early-modern archival collections in the Spencer Research Library, and close proximity to the Truman, Eisenhower, and Dole libraries. RDR Fellows will become part of the rich intellectual community in the purpose-built HCH, which includes faculty, graduate, and public fellows, 13 interdisciplinary seminars, and other faculty and public programs.
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Institute for Advanced Study
131 Nolte Center
315 Pillsbury Drive SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
T: (612) 626-5045
W: www.ias.umn.edu/
Contacts: Prof. Ann Waltner, Director; Susannah Smith, Associate Director
T: (612) 626-5054
W: www.ias.umn.edu
Contact: Ann Waltner, Director
Additional Benefits: Enrollment in the subsidized employee health and dental plans (including option of coverage for spouse/same sex domestic partner and/or children) as provided to employees of the University of Minnesota. The award must be routed through the University of Minnesota to be eligible for benefits.
The Institute for Advanced Study is a University-wide interdisciplinary center that seeks to ignite creative, innovative, and profound research and discovery in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The IAS sponsors approximately fourteen internal and external fellows each semester, resulting in a stimulating atmosphere of trans-disciplinary conversation. Fellows meet once a week for lunch to discuss their work. The IAS also hosts several collaborative groups, which meet regularly and offer a variety of lectures, workshops, and symposia in which fellows may participate. A weekly lecture series, Thursdays at Four, spotlights faculty from across the university, visiting scholars, and local artists and authors, in a forum open to the public. The University Symposium, which will take up the topic of “Abundance & Scarcity” in 2010-12, also brings together the scholarly community with the well-educated Twin Cities public. Fellows may avail themselves of such university resources as the nationally acclaimed Immigration History Research Center, the Minnesota Population Center, and the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies; manuscript holdings such as those in the area of international trade and exploration prior to 1800 housed in the James Ford Bell Library, the Givens Collection of African American Literature, and the Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Studies; and many other specialized centers and collections. The IAS and the University of Minnesota Press are engaged in a collaborative publication program, the Quadrant Program; RDR Fellows whose work is topically appropriate would be invited to participate in this program. The University of Minnesota has an Office of Postdoctoral Affairs which provides an interdisciplinary community and infrastructural support for all University of Minnesota postdocs. RDR fellows would have the opportunity to join in the activities of the University of Minnesota Postdoctoral Fellows. The vibrant Twin Cities arts community—both on and off campus—also provides rich opportunities for participation, scholarship, learning, and recreation for fellows and their families.
University of Nottingham
Humanities and Social Sciences Research Centre
The Orchards Building, University Park
Nottingham,
NG7 2RD
United Kingdom
Tel: +044 (0) 115 9514838
W: www.nottingham.ac.uk/hrc/
Contact: Prof. Judith Still, Director
Additional Benefits: supplementary stipend of £6,000 for a 12-month appointment, pro-rated for shorter appointments.
The Centre for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Social Sciences is a new initiative at the University of Nottingham which serves to underpin existing and developing interdisciplinary research networks, and engage with scholars from all around the globe to form world-changing research collaborations. The Centre’s activities are focused around two annual research themes – for 2010/2011 these are Well-Being (incorporating Children and Childhood, Sex and Sexed Inequality, Health Humanities, the Culture of Work and Living with Environmental Change) and Translating Cultures (incorporating Migration, the Analysis of Democratic Culture, Post-conflict Cultures, Science Technology Culture, Connected Communities and Security) – with a programme of fellowships and events that will enable scholars to develop research ideas and establish collaborations. Enquiries regarding the full range of fellowship schemes for the academic year 2010/11 should be sent to HRC-enquiries@nottingham.ac.uk
University of Pittsburgh
Center for the Humanities
602 Cathedral of Learning
4200 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
T: (412) 624-6506
W: www.humcenter.pitt.edu/
Contact: Prof. Todd Reeser, Director
Additional Benefit: $5,000 in research and relocation funds.
The recently-founded Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh fosters advanced research in the humanities, both by University of Pittsburgh faculty and by leading scholars from around the world, who visit as long- and short-term fellows. It cultivates interdisciplinary and collaborative study, programming, and teaching. The center presents many events, both small and large, including conferences, colloquia, and lectures. Fellows can take advantage of a large, vibrant city with a low cost of living and safe, friendly neighborhoods. The Center is housed in the unique and historical Cathedral of Learning.
University of Washington
Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities
Communications Building, Suite 206
Box 353710
Seattle, WA Box 353710
T: (206) 543-3920
W: www.simpsoncenter.org
Contact: Kathleen Woodward, Director, Director
Additional Benefits: $2,500 research funds (pending available funds); health benefits as provided to university employees (requires that the award be routed through University of Washington to be eligible).
Recognized nationally for innovation and leadership in academic research and public scholarship, the Simpson Center for the Humanities serves as a generative, interdisciplinary locus for critical and cultural activity across the humanities, arts, and social sciences on campus and in the region. It has a four-fold scholarly mission: to encourage cross-disciplinary research and inquiry among university faculty and students, to pioneer innovative and cross-disciplinary graduate and undergraduate courses, to support initiatives at the leading edge of change in the humanities, and to develop public programs that promote the engagement of scholars and community members.
The Simpson Center will integrate the RDR Fellow into networks of scholarly activity by providing an office in its scholars’ suite and through participation in the Society of Scholars. Composed of UW faculty across departments and ranks and advanced dissertators who have received competitively-awarded fellowships, the Society of Scholars forms an intellectual community that meets biweekly to present and discuss individual research in progress. The Simpson Center also supports collaborative research initiatives, including recent and on-going formations in Science Studies, Cultural Studies, Transnational and Globalization Studies, Critical Area Studies, Critical Race, Ethnic, and Queer Studies, Modernist Studies, and Digital Humanities. More detail on the Simpson Center the Humanities, its facilities, and activities can be found at www.simpsoncenter.org.
Institute for Research in the Humanities
University of Wisconsin-Madison
432 East Campus Mall
Madison, WI 53706
T: (608) 262-3855
W: http://www.irh.wisc.edu/
Contact: Prof. Susan Stanford Friedman, Director
Located in the newly renovated humanities hub next to the main university libraries, the Institute fosters a stimulating, interdisciplinary community of some 35 external and internal fellows annually. Weekly seminars featuring fellow presentations are lively, intensive, and supportive and are supplemented by informal engagements across disciplinary lines throughout the year. The Institute welcomes projects in the humanities and the humanistic social sciences on any topic. Additionally, up to four external postdoctoral fellowships are awarded for those working on pre-1700 Europe, and four internal fellowships focus on issues of race, ethnicity, and/or indigeneity in global and comparative perspective. Working closely with the Center for the Humanities and other campus centers, the Institute sponsors conferences, symposia, and lectures on key issues in the humanities. Building bridges between the humanities and the arts, social sciences, and sciences, the Institute encourages innovative, broad-ranging, and collaborative research in and thinking about the humanities for the 21st century.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Center for 21st Century Studies
P.O. Box 413
3243 N. Downer Avenue , Curtin Hall 929
Milwaukee, WI 53201
T: (414) 229-4141
W: www.21st.uwm.edu
Contact: Kate Kramer, Associate Director
The Center for 21st Century Studies, a UW System Center of Excellence at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus, is a postdoctoral research institute which was founded in 1968 to foster crossdisciplinary research in the humanities. Supported by the College of Letters and Science and The Graduate School, the Center is devoted to the study of contemporary culture (with an emphasis on literature, the experimental arts and film, mass culture, performance, and everyday life) and the new critical and theoretical approaches themselves (feminism, media theory, multiculturalism, postcolonialism, cultural and social theory, and gay and lesbian theory).
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Utrecht University
Centre for the Humanities
Kromme Nieuwegracht 46
3512 HJ Utrecht
Netherlands
T: +31 (0)30 253 6105
W: www2.hum.uu.nl/cfh/
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Utrecht University
Research Institute for History and Culture
Janskerkhof 13
3512 BL Utrecht
The Netherlands
T: + 31 (0)30 538311/8239
W: www2.hum.uu.nl/Solis/ogc/english/
Contact: Dr. Frans Ruiter, Managing Director
The Research Institute for History and Culture (Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Cultuur, OGC) is one of the four research institutes within the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University. The institute facilitates and promotes research in the fields of history and culture. The 250 researchers associated with the institute carry out research in ten programs, including classical antiquity, medieval culture, cultural history, art history, musicology, textual culture, media studies, international and political history, socio-economic history and gender studies. The research institute cooperates and has exchange agreements with a number of European and American universities including UCLA.
Utrecht University
Centre for the Humanities
Kromme Nieuwegracht 46
3512 HJ Utrecht
Netherlands
T: +31 (0)30 253 6105
W: www2.hum.uu.nl/cfh/
Contact: Prof. Rosi Braidotti, Director
The Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University is a platform for pioneering, innovative research & research training activities. Through the Centre, the Utrecht humanities community profiles itself to the outside world by presenting their research and increasing the visibility and relevance of Humanities. The Centre does so by: organizing cross-faculty research; sponsoring range of academic, artistic and cultural activities for the academic community and general public; building a networks with local and international partners; and increasing the visibility of the topics and the methods that make the Humanities vital. The Centre’s current theme, “What is Human about the Humanities?” investigates the foundational categories of the Humanities.