CHCI Member Centers and Institutes interested in hosting SSHRC fellows

As of 28 October 2014, listed in alphabetical order by city. Click here for program overview and guidelines for participation (and here for the French version).

ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA

Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry

Emory University
http://chi.emory.edu

The Fox Center capitalizes on Emory’s thriving humanities programs and longstanding institutional commitments to interdisciplinary research and teaching. With an emphasis on a broad conception of the humanities as a whole as well as specialized research in the traditional humanities and associated social sciences, the Center stands for the central role of humanistic endeavor in the life of Emory and beyond.

The Fox Center’s annual cohort of Fellows consists of scholars drawn from across the University at all academic levels, including six Senior Fellows from both Arts and Sciences and the Professional Schools, three Dissertation Completion Fellows, and four Undergraduate Honors Fellows. They are joined by four Visiting Postdoctoral Fellows from other institutions, including an NEH Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics, along with distinguished visiting faculty.

The Fox Center can provide CHCI/SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellows with office space, copier, scanner, internet access and IT support, and full library privileges across the University. Mentoring for its Fellows has long been a priority for the Fox Center. The FCHI Staff works with all Visiting Fellows to ensure that they have opportunities to meet and interact with Emory faculty members in their own and related research areas. All FCHI Fellows are paired with a Woodruff Library Subject liaison from their research areas to help them fully utilize the range of library resources available at the University. Functioning as an intellectual commons for the humanities at Emory, the Fox Center provides ample intellectual and social opportunities for all of its Fellows, including access to all FCHI programming (regular Wednesday lunches during the term, Interdisciplinary Research Seminars, various faculty fora, roundtables with visiting scholars, and public humanities outreach via Great Works Seminars).

Located in two adjoining historic houses on Emory’s campus, the Fox Center is conveniently positioned close to Woodruff Library; the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Library with the Danowski Poetry Collection; the Michael C. Carlos Museum; Pitts Theological Library; and the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. While the focus is on supporting Fellows’ individual research and writing, the Center’s programs seek to link Emory’s humanities activities to the diverse opportunities offered by the vibrant city of Atlanta.

CHCI/SSRHC Fellows could begin residency at the FCHI in fall 2015.

Questions about Emory’s Fox Center should be directed to Professor Martine W. Brownley, Goodrich C. White Professor of English and Director of the Fox Center (martine.brownley@emory.edu; 404-727-6424).

ATHENS, GEORGIA, USA

The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts

http://www.willson.uga.edu

The mission of the Willson Center is to promote research and creativity in the humanities and arts. It supports faculty by research grants, lectures, symposia, publications, visiting scholars, visiting artists, collaborative instruction, public conferences, exhibitions, and performances. It is committed to academic excellence and public impact. The Willson Center is a showcase for Faculty innovation and achievement. It facilitates intellectual exchange with the University and the public by the encouragement of interdisciplinary activity, which extends to the sciences and other orders of knowledge. It has the capacity to offer taught programs in support of faculty and graduate research, and in partnership with alumni.

The Willson Center will provide the necessary support as outlined in the CHCI / SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships Collaboration program description. Willson Center support will include:

  • A dedicated, equipped workspace with access to copier, fax etc.
  • Internet/network access
  • Full library access
  • Opportunities for interaction with the local or virtual community of scholars

Relocation and/or housing support may be available.

The earliest term that the Willson Center will be able to accommodate a Fellow is spring semester beginning January 2015.

Interested candidates should contact Professor Nicholas Allen, director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, at na@uga.edu.

CINCINNATI, OHIO, USA

Charles Phelps Taft Research Center

University of Cincinnati
http://uc.edu/taftcenter

The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati provides competitive research support and programming in the humanities, for faculty and students in the designated Taft disciplines (Africana Studies, Anthropology, Economics, English & Comparative Literature, History, German Studies, Judaic Studies, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Romance Languages & Literatures, Sociology, and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies). 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.

We are pleased to confirm that we can provide an equipped office and mentoring opportunities. In addition, our library resources are extensive; they include access to OhioLINK, a state-funded consortium of Ohio university and college libraries and the State Library of Ohio; special collections such as the Oesper Collections in the History of Chemistry and the Winkler Center for History of the Health Professions; and the John Miller Burham Classical Library. (Click here for more information on library resources.) We are able to provide fellows support in locating housing but we are not presently able to subsidize housing or provide financial support for their research.

The earliest term that the Taft Center will be able to host fellows is Fall 2014.

Contact: Adrian Parr, Center Director and Taft Faculty Chair (parran@ucmail.uc.edu; 513.558.7367)

DUBLIN, IRELAND

Humanities Institute

University College Dublin
http://www.ucd.ie/humanities/

UCD’s Humanities Institute was established in 2002 with funding from the Irish Higher Education Authority’s Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI3) to provide a creative architectural and conceptual space for interdisciplinary research in the humanities and allied disciplines. Over the past decade, the HI has emerged as a vibrant and creative space for interdisciplinary research in the arts and humanities in Ireland. It provides infrastructure, support and a thematic framework to stimulate new research in emerging fields, develop capacity in interdisciplinary research collaboration and showcase the university’s excellence and capacity in the arts and humanities. In particular, the HI provides a creative environment for graduate students and early career researchers affiliated to HI member programs and centers. International research collaborations now include the COST Network in Transcultural Memory, PRISMES group (UCD, Paris III, University of Liverpool); the Irish Sea project (the Atlantic Archipelagos group), and AtGender (Travelling Concepts working group).

The Humanities Institute’s national collaborations include the Irish Humanities Alliance, and it supports the activities of the Irish Memory Studies Network. The institute’s current core research theme, Culture, Society and Change, has four constituent strands: ‘Culture, Identity, Expression’; ‘Space and Place’; ‘Understanding the Past’; and ‘Gender, Sexuality and Culture’. In addition, the HI aims to develop transdisciplinary research capacity within UCD and to consolidate emergent initiatives in key research areas, such as digital and media cultures, gender, memory and migration, environmental and medical humanities.

We can confirm that we are in a position to offer a CHCI / SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow the following support:

  • A dedicated, equipped workspace with access to copier, fax etc.
  • Internet/network access
  • Full access to the UCD James Joyce library as an external borrow
  • Opportunities for interaction with the local or virtual community of scholars
  • Some administrative support

Unfortunately we are not in a position to offer financial support for relocation or housing for the Fellow.

Possible start date: January 2015

Academic Contact (2014-2015): Professor Margaret Kelleher, Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, UCD School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin. Dublin 4

Contact can be made via the Institute manager, Valerie Norton on: Tel: +353 (0)1 716 4690. Fax: +353 (0)1 716 4691. Email: humanities@ucd.ie

EDINBURGH, UK

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

University of Edinburgh
http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/

All Fellows based at IASH will have an office and workstation in our historic building around an eighteenth-century courtyard, close by the main campus of the University of Edinburgh, but enjoying a secluded position which is ideal for study. IASH has up to 25 Fellows in residence at any one time, across a range of disciplines, and from a wide range of countries, and offers the full range of office facilities - photocopier, scanner, fax, internet/wifi access. All Fellows are given a visitor registration at the University allowing them to access all facilities, including the Library, which is located within five-minute walk of our building.

Every week IASH hosts a lunch for Fellows and a work-in-progress session where one of our Fellows in residence presents their research and receives feedback from colleagues.

In addition, many events from across the University of Edinburgh are held in our seminar room, giving privileged access to our Fellows if they want to attend such events. They are also free to attend any other academic events around the University, and IASH collects and publishes information about these events on our website.

With postdoctoral fellows, IASH can facilitate access to a suitable mentor in one of the Schools of the College of Humanities and Social Science, ensuring that the visit to the University of Edinburgh is fruitful. We can also facilitate access to non-University civic and public organizations with which we have close links, such as libraries, archives and governmental and non-governmental organizations, so that Fellows can make the best of the opportunity of visiting one of Europe's great small cities.

Contact IASH administrator Peta Freestone at Peta.Freestone@ed.ac.uk.

GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA, USA

Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

University of Florida
http://www.humanities.ufl.edu/about.html

Founded in 2005 and launched in 2009, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida is directed by Bonnie Effros, Rothman Chair and Professor of History. The Center has three interrelated purposes: (1) to facilitate and promote the research programs of humanities scholars at UF, (2) to provide an intellectual space and a physical location within the University and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for critical and collaborative discussions of the humanities that reach across and beyond individual disciplines, and (3) to provide a place for outreach to the community in which we live and teach. Building on the work of individual departments, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere emphasizes collaboration and critical discussion as its basic program models. The Center oversees a variety of granting programs including: faculty summer fellowships, doctoral fellowships, library enhancement grants, public humanities programs, team-teaching opportunities, and workshop/speaker series. The Center also organizes professional development events and meetings to support collaboration, public outreach, and grant-writing in the humanities.

The Center offers the following to fellows:

  • A dedicated, equipped workspace with access to copier, fax etc.
  • Internet/network access
  • Full library access
  • Opportunities for interaction with the local or virtual community of scholars

The Center cannot provide support for relocation or housing.

The earliest upcoming term that the Center could accommodate SSHRC fellows would be Spring 2015.

Contact: Professor Bonnie Effros, Director and Rothman Chair, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (beffros@ufl.edu;+1-352-392-0796)

GIESSEN, GERMANY

International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)

Justus Liebig University
https://www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/faculties/gcsc/gcsc

The International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, is funded by the German Federal Council’s Initiative for Excellence and offers its students a structured 3-year PhD program in cultural studies. Postdocs have played a prominent role in the GCSC’s research structures from the very beginning. Since 2012 the centre has even intensified its efforts to integrate postdoctoral researchers by creating new positions and systematically developing innovative opportunities for postdoc qualification, often in cooperation with international partners. As an interdisciplinary centre, the GCSC comprises a broad range of academic disciplines from history to sociology and literary studies. Set in a lively academic environment with excellent research supervision facilities, the GCSC provides a curriculum tailored to the specific needs of postgraduate students, and prepares PhD candidates for both academic and non-academic careers. Methodological pluralism, interdisciplinary cooperation, and collaboration with top-ranking international research facilities lie at the heart of our research. Within our eight Research Areas, young scholars not only find the interdisciplinary context that supports them in the development of their research interests; together with fellow doctoral students, postdocs, and professors, GCSC students organize projects and events and thereby gain further valuable qualifications.

The GCSC will provide SSHRC postdoctoral fellows with a fully equipped workspace (with access to internet, printer, telephone, fax), full library access as well as support for relocating and/or housing. Fellows will have multiple opportunities to participate in our rich research program and interact with the local community of scholars, especially in our eight research areas and working groups (for detailed information, see https://www.uni-giessen.de/fbz...).

Earliest upcoming term for accommodating a Fellow: Winter Semester 2014/15 (October 2014-February 2015). Please note that semester times in Germany vary from those in many other countries, including Canada and the US: Summer semester (mid April - mid July), Winter semester (mid October - mid February).

Name of contact person at the GCSC: Dr. Jens Kugele (Research Coordinator). Email: jens.kugele@gcsc.uni-giessen.de. Tel.: +49 641 99 30053.

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, USA

IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute

Indianapolis University-Purdue University
http://iahi.iupui.edu

Established in 2012, the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute (IAHI) supports research and creative activity across the Indianapolis University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus; serves as a campus liaison to the central Indiana community; and fosters ongoing partnerships and ventures that advance arts and humanities endeavors at IUPUI and in Indianapolis.

The IAHI showcases and promotes the major intellectual and scholarly contributions that IUPUI faculty members from across the disciplines are making in the arts and humanities, serving individual faculty members, groups, and interdisciplinary teams through grant programs, workshops, symposia, and research collaborations.

As an urban-based institute, the IAHI works closely with the Indianapolis community, connecting local institutions and residents with IUPUI. Working with Indianapolis’ diverse publics to create engaging new programming and forums for dialogue, creativity, and experiment, the IAHI also facilitates experiential and service learning opportunities for faculty-led student teams in academic programs across campus.

The IAHI is a collaboration between the IUPUI Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, the School of Liberal Arts, the Herron School of Art and Design, the IUPUI Library, the School of Informatics and Computing, the School of Engineering and Technology, and the School of Medicine.

SSHRC Fellows will have a dedicated workspace at the recently completed IAHI offices and will have the opportunity to participate in all IAHI programs, workshops, and symposia. The IAHI can provide office space for up to two SSHRC fellows each semester, and fellows may be in residence at the IAHI for one or two semesters. In addition to library and internet access, fellows will have access to office equipment including a copier and fax machine.

The IAHI will help facilitate contact between fellows and relevant faculty and community organizations.

Office space will be available beginning in January 2015.

While the IAHI does not have funding for relocation or housing, we are happy to work with fellows to find affordable and convenient accommodation in Indianapolis.

Contact: Jason M. Kelly PhD, Associate Professor of British History and FSA
Director, IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute (jaskelly@iupui.edu; tel. 317-274-1689)

IOWA CITY, IOWA, USA

The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies

University of Iowa
http://obermann.uiowa.edu/

The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa supports artists and scholars engaged in independent projects, collaborations, and interdisciplinary work. Our programs include summer Interdisciplinary Research Grants, a Summer Research Seminar, the Graduate Institute on Engagement and the Academy, an annual Humanities Symposium, diverse Working Groups, and a lively series of presentations throughout the year. The University is home to a strong academic library and unique special collections. Digital scholarship is supported by the Digital Studio of Public Arts and the Humanities. Obermann scholars frequently partner with the Center for the Book, UI art and natural history museums, and Hancher Center for Performing Arts.

The Center provides offices for six Fellows each semester, usually UI faculty members who have received funding to support their work. Visiting Fellows join the bi-weekly work-in-progress seminar for the term of their stays, whether a semester or a full academic year. All Fellows have offices, computers and technical support, access to staff, library delivery services, and the opportunity to invite speakers to campus. Visiting Fellows are welcome to join a working group or to organize a symposium in an area of interest to the Fellow and the campus. The Center is also happy to facilitate introductions to colleagues on campus and to match Fellows with actively engaged mentors. The Center had wonderful experience in hosting a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the past and welcomes the opportunity to do so in the future.

The Center can provide up to $1,000 in moving expenses, and the University rents apartments just blocks away. To learn more about the Obermann Center, please visit the website at http://obermann.uiowa.edu or contact director Teresa Mangum at teresa-mangum@uiowa.edu.

LARAMIE, WYOMING, USA

Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research

University of Wyoming
http://www.uwyo.edu/wihr/

The Institute will give the Fellow access to a copier and other necessary equipment, the internet through a designated work station, and the university library and other research resources, such as the American Heritage Center. We will certainly welcome the Fellow to our local humanities community through formal events such as seminars and workshops and through informal interaction throughout the period of residence.

The University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center is a major archive with particular strengths in Western American history, environmental history, popular culture (especially film and early television), and the history of transportation. More generally, the Institute offers well-established connections to field opportunities in Wyoming, from environmental studies, to folk culture research, public humanities project, and relationships with the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone Nations on the Wind River reservation.

The post-doctoral fellow would be assigned a faculty member as a host and consultant. It seems most appropriate to match the project of the Fellow with the interests of the faculty member. For the purpose of establishing contact and making initial arrangements, the contact person should by the Institute Director, Eric Sandeen (esandeen@uwyo.edu).

LAWRENCE, KANSAS, USA

The Hall Center for the Humanities

University of Kansas
http://www.hallcenter.ku.edu/

As the University of Kansas’ designated research center in the humanities, the Hall Center supports innovative interdisciplinary study and public outreach. Faculty scholarly development programs are at the core of our mission. The Center is the umbrella center for KU’s Title VI funded international area studies centers, and the Hall Center is a partner in supporting KU’s Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities as well as The Commons, a space for interdisciplinary inquiry that spans the humanities, arts, and sciences. Located in a dedicated, 14,000 square-foot building, the Center is within walking distance of KU’s libraries, special collections, and campus museums. A major research institution with a strong humanities presence, KU has particular strengths in humanities topics such as environmental studies, Spanish and Portuguese, Slavic Languages and Literatures, African and African American Studies, Latin American Studies, and American Studies.

The Hall Center for the Humanities can commit to providing the following support for a CHCI/SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow:

  • The Hall Center Director will facilitate mentoring relationships between a fellow and an appropriate faculty member/faculty members in an allied department and field at the University of Kansas
  • A dedicated, fully equipped office in the Hall Center with access to all necessary office equipment
  • Internet access
  • Full access to the KU Library system, including special collections libraries and museum libraries
  • Opportunities for interaction with a community of scholars, including regular seminars, lectures, Colloquia, as well as interactions with the Center’s cohort of resident faculty fellows from within KU
  • Relocation and housing support of up to $5,000, as well as assistance in finding housing in the Lawrence community

The Hall Center could accommodate a fellow beginning in Spring (January) 2015 for a semester or year-long residency.

Contact Victor Bailey, Hall Center Director and Distinguished Professor of Modern British History; vbailey@ku.edu; 785-864-7822

LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA

Centre for Theory and Criticism

University of Western Ontario
http://www.uwo.ca/theory/

The Centre for Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario is happy to join in this initiative. As a Canadian institution, the Centre has in fact hosted SSHRCC fellows in the past.

The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism is an interdisciplinary graduate program at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. The Theory Centre houses a graduate program offering MA and PhD degrees for interdisciplinary research in theory and criticism, including areas of inquiry such as Post-Structuralist Theory, Deconstruction, Social and Political Thought, Continental Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Visual Culture, Media Studies, Gender Studies, and Queer Theory, Marxist Theory, Post-Humanist Theory, 18th & 19th Century Philosophy, and History of Thought. More broadly, studies in our program are concerned with the questions raised by these movements, and with constructing a dialogue both between theory and its history and between the disciplines or discourses that have contributed to contemporary theory.

The Centre cannot provide support for relocation and/or housing. The Centre can provide a dedicated, equipped workspace with access to copier, fax etc., Internet/network access, full library access, and opportunities for interaction with the local or virtual community of scholars.

The earliest term in which the Centre will be able to accommodate a Fellow is January 2015.

Contact: Tilottama Rajan, Canada Research Chair, Distinguished University Professor, and Director, The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism (trajan@uwo.ca; tel. 519-661-84705)

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

Arts and Humanities Research Institute

King's College London
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/index.aspx

More information to come.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

School of Advanced Study

University of London
http://www.sas.ac.uk/

The School of Advanced Study at the University of London brings together 8 internationally renowned research institutes to form the UK's national centre for the support of researchers and the promotion of research in the humanities and social sciences. We provide a research base for an international community of scholars; help inspire, develop and support the conditions for research initiatives and networks; and enhance the dissemination of research, and related activities, beyond what could be achieved alone. The School is situated at the heart of the University of London in Bloomsbury, central London.

We are delighted to be able to participate in the scheme to give SSHRC fellows the opportunity to undertake their research here. We welcome expressions of interest from candidates wishing to conduct research in one, or more than one, of the following institutes’ subject areas (and their Centres):

  • Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
  • Institute of Classical Studies
  • Institute of Commonwealth Studies
  • Institute of English Studies
  • Institute of Modern Languages Research inc. the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
  • Institute of Historical Research
  • Institute of Philosophy
  • The Warburg Institute

More information on each Institute and their Centres can be accessed via the School’s website (here). We also welcome applications within the research area of the digital humanities, represented in several institutes across the School.

SSHRC fellows at the School or within the Institutes will have access to the following facilities:

  • desk space and computing facilities
  • University library and other collection of the Institutes
  • consultations with the director of the Institute and other academic figures in their field
  • participation in the School’s internal and public activities

Unfortunately, our support does not extend to financial assistance with relocation or housing. We welcome applications throughout the year (deadlines: for Autumn (deadline 1 July), Spring (deadline 1 Nov) or Summer (deadline 1 Feb)). Applications should comprise of:

  • two-page CV
  • two-page project description (including objectives, methodology and outcomes)
  • brief (one-page) statement outlining how the project fits within the research profile of the School and the chosen Institute/Centre.
  • names of the three academic referees who have agreed to support the application

Applications or initial queries should be addressed to research@sas.ac.uk “CHCI Expression of Interest” in the subject header of your email. Final approval will be communicated directly to the applicant by the chosen institute.

MADISON, WISCONSIN, USA

The Institute for Research in the Humanities

University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://irh.wisc.edu/

The Institute was founded in 1959 and is the oldest humanities institute in a university setting in the United States. It offers 40-45 fellowships in the academic year (c. 50% external; 50% internal) and 20-25 fellowships in the summer. Its mission is to foster innovative research in the humanities by creating a stimulating, interdisciplinary community of scholars; by organizing lectures, symposia, and workshops for the fellows and the campus; by building interdisciplinary bridges between the humanities and the social sciences, sciences, and arts; and by working closely with the Center for the Humanities and the associate deans of the humanities to do strategic planning, development, and advocacy for the humanities. The Institute sponsors weekly seminar presentations and a number of symposia, lectures, and other events.

The Institute can provide full access to the campus libraries and facilities; office space at the Institute located next to the main libraries; a community of Institute scholars, including 6 Mellon postdoctoral fellows.

The Institute director can locate an appropriate mentor for the fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, someone who will perform the duties outlined in the proposal. The Institute already has in place a mentoring and special seminar program for its 6 Mellon postdoctoral fellows. The IRH sponsors mentoring events such as publication and professionalization workshops as well, in addition to assisting postdoctoral fellows to integrate with their relevant departments or programs.

Earliest Term for fellow accommodation: Fall term, beginning August 24, 2015. Office space would be available in the summer, 2015. The IRH does not have funds for relocation or housing.

Contact Person: Steven Nadler, Director, Institute for Research in the Humanities, 215 Humanities Club Building, 432 E. Campus Mall, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706. smnadler@wisc.edu, 608-262-8151.

MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, USA

Center for the Humanities at Tufts

Tufts University

The Center for the Humanities at Tufts fosters interdisciplinary humanities work in comparative literature, comparative religion, world history, philosophy, anthropology, and the arts, to innovate new research and reflection. The Center hosts public lectures, seminars, conferences and colloquia by visiting artists, writers, and scholars, and brings together faculty, postdoctoral, and dissertation fellows. Fellows participate in a research seminar and attend monthly public events with distinguished visiting scholars.

The Center has offices, access to a library, Internet, and faculty that can support the fellow.

The earliest term we could accommodate a fellow would be fall 2023. Please reach out to the Director of CHAT, Heather Curtis, heather.curtis@tufts.du OR Courtney McDermott, Program Administrator at humanites@tufts.edu, 617-627-3342.

We cannot provide housing, but we may be able to offer some funds towards relocation.

    MIAMI, FLORIDA, USA

    The Center for the Humanities

    University of Miami
    http://www.humanities.miami.edu/

    The University of Miami Center for the Humanities can host SSHRC fellows beginning September 2015. The Center can provide a workspace in Otto G. Richter Library, where the Center is located, with access to the internet and copier. The Center hosts a diverse array of lectures and seminars by distinguished visiting scholars, professional development workshops, and interdisciplinary research groups where the fellow may present his or her work to receive feedback and advice.

    The Director will assist in finding a mentor for the fellow among the faculty of the University.

    Please contact Associate Director Kyle Siebrecht, ksiebrecht@miami.edu or the Director, Mihoko Suzuki msuzuki@miami.edu

    MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, USA

    The Centre for the 21st Century Studies (C21)

    University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    http://c21.uwm.edu

    The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21), a UW System Center of Excellence at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee campus, leads the way in imagining, defining, and creating the burgeoning field of 21st century studies, focusing on the intersection of the humanities, arts, and sciences (social and natural) with issues of compelling concern. Each year C21 designates a theme that lends itself to multidisciplinary study as the subject for its research and public events. A group of some six to eight fellows from different departments and disciplines at UWM, and one or two from the UW System campuses, is selected to be in residence. To further broaden the academic networks of the faculty in residence, C21 also offers an annual Provost Fellowship. Fellows meet bi-weekly throughout the year; C21 also hosts a series of public lectures, workshops, and an annual conference each year.

    SSHRC Fellows in residence at C21 would have the opportunity to join its community of annual fellows. In addition, UW-Milwaukee is home to a wide range of both well-established and upcoming scholars, across its departments and schools. C21 would be happy to facilitate work between a UWM faculty mentor and an SSHRC Fellow. C21 is able to accept SSHRC Fellows beginning as early as May, 2015.

    No financial support for housing or relocation is available but C21 can provide an office, including equipment and internet connection, as well as library access. Interested fellows are encouraged to contact Director Richard Grusin at c21@uwm.edu, or by phone at 414-229-4141. Complete information on C21 can be found at c21.uwm.edu.

    MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA

    The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture

    Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada

    The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University welcomes SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellows.

    In addition to fostering interdisciplinary faculty and graduate student research and research-creation at Concordia, our mission includes facilitating collaboration across the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts departments, located in the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Faculty of Fine Arts. The Centre does not have financial resources to fund postdoctoral fellows on its own, but hosts fellows funded through other programs or research grants by providing office space, library privileges, and the opportunity to propose an event relating to their projects. Fellows are encouraged to join one of the Centre’s interdisciplinary Working Groups and to participate in our program of public events.

    The earliest term the Center could host a new postdoctoral fellow would be January, 2024. There are no financial resources to support fellows' moving or housing.

    Please contact Mark Sussman, CISSC Director, for further information. He may be reached by email at mark.sussman@concordia.ca or by telephone at (514) 848-2424, ext. 2852.

    NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA

    Heyman Center for the Humanities

    Columbia University
    http://www.heymancenter.org

    Fellows are encouraged to participate in one or more of the various working groups that meet weekly or fortnightly at the Heyman Center and to attend the numerous lectures and conferences held each semester on themes of importance to the humanities. A list of our conferences, lectures, discussions, poetry-readings and other performances can be found under “Events” on our website.

    The Heyman Center is Columbia University’s central site for the Humanities, bringing together not only faculty and students in the various departments in the humanities, but also those in the natural and social sciences and in the professional schools of Law, Medicine, Journalism, Arts, and International Affairs who share an interest in the broad conceptual, methodological, and value-laden issues traditionally associated with humanistic study. It is also the home for the eight post-doctoral fellows, each holding a Mellon fellowship, in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, and for other post-doctoral fellows and scholars in the humanities. The Center provides space to Columbia’s Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, to the Society of Senior Scholars (a group of emeritus faculty who teach primarily in the Core Curriculum), and The Friends of the Heyman Center: all of these host seminars and colloquia of their own throughout the year. The Lionel Trilling Seminar (once a semester) and the Edward Said Memorial Lecture (once a year) are also based at the Heyman Center. Complete information on the center can be found on our website.

    The earliest upcoming term that the Center could accommodate an SSHRC fellow would be Fall 2014.

    The Heyman Center can provide an office, computer and library access, and other visiting scholar privileges. No financial support for relocation or housing is available, but the Heyman Center staff will assist in the identification of suitable local housing. Interested ACLS Fellows should contact the Heyman Center Associate Director, Eileen Gillooly (eg48@columbia.edu; tel. 1-212-854-9031)

    PAMPLONA, SPAIN

    Institute for Culture and Society / Instituto Cultura y Sociedad

    University of Navarra
    http://www.unav.edu/en/web/instituto-cultura-y-sociedad/inicio

    The Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at the University of Navarra was founded in 2010 to further research in areas related to the humanities and social sciences. Academic excellence, social impact, interdisciplinarity and internationalization are common denominators for all research carried out at the Institute. Currently, the Institute has research initiatives in eight different areas. The ICS has a staff of approximately 70 professionals (including PhD students) of 20 different nationalities who represent a broad range of academic disciplines (including, communication and media studies, linguistics, philosophy, sociology, biology, neuroscience, legal studies, economics, among others).

    The ICS works closely with the University’s new contemporary art museum, which will open its doors to the public in January of 2015. Visiting fellows may be interested in fostering collaborations with the museum and the ICS welcomes any such initiatives. More information on the museum is available at http://museo.unav.edu/en/home

    Currently undergoing a thorough renovation, the ICS’s brand new facilities and offices will be ready by summer 2015. The ICS will then be able to offer a modern and spacious work environment where all scholars will be fully connected and have access to meeting facilities, videoconferencing, etc. All fellows are granted full access to the University Library (the most extensive in Spain) and are assigned work space both at the ICS and at the Library.

    When needed, visiting fellows may rely on the assistance of the ICS support staff in order to arrange practical matters such as housing, relocation, visas, etc.

    The ICS is able to cover relocation expenses of up to a maximum of 5,000 euros. In addition, while English serves as ICS’s working language, fellows are invited to attend Spanish language classes, the cost of which is covered by the ICS.

    Contact Alex Hansen, Director, ICS: ahansen@unav.es

    PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, USA

    Center for the Humanities

    Temple University
    http://www.cla.temple.edu/chat/

    Now in its tenth year, CHAT is an established center supporting work for faculty and graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at Temple University. We offer year-long internal fellowships for both faculty and graduate students and run a related year-long Fellow Seminar where all CHAT Fellows discuss their current research projects. The SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow would become a full participant in the seminar for the time of their residency. CHAT also runs lecture series for external and internal faculty, sponsors conferences and symposia, and funds research groups, both within the University and in collaboration with other universities internationally. CHAT is located in the heart of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a rich collection of archival resources in American and European printed matter.

    We will provide the fellow with a dedicated office with network access and full library privileges, and we will contact the local department in the appropriate area and work with them to integrate the fellow into their full schedule of activities and to introduce them to the faculty, to assist in building a professional relationship and enrich the local department’s field expertise. The fellow will also participate in all CHAT activity during their stay, so will have ample opportunities to interact with other scholars.

    Residency is available beginning in January 2015.

    Interested parties should contact the Director, Peter M. Logan directly: peter.logan@temple.edu (Office tel. 215-204-8567)

    PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA

    Humanities Center

    University of Pittsburgh
    http://www.humcenter.pitt.edu

    The Humanities Center was founded in 2008 with a mission to foster advanced research in the humanities across the University of Pittsburgh and beyond. We schedule a full calendar of lectures, colloquia, symposia, and conferences; we invite scholars as short-term visitors to campus to conduct one-day or one-week programming; we cultivate interdisciplinary efforts through collaborative research grants and internal faculty fellowships; and we host many other events in our space, the beautifully renovated former Darlington Library in the Cathedral of Learning on Pitt's campus.

    This academic year, the Humanities Center is hosting two early career postdoctoral fellows-in-residence. Throughout the year, they will be presenting lectures and holding colloquia from their research, and both are organizing symposia for the spring term. These two residential fellows are participating in the Center’s regular schedule of events, which touches on many disciplines under the humanities banner. In order to encourage fruitful relationships and discussions, we encourage our fellows to meet with and engage with our faculty and graduate students both in and out of their specific fields of study.

    As a participating CHCI member, the Pitt Humanities Center would be able to establish a productive mentoring relationship for a potential CHCI/SSHRC fellow as outlined in the participation guidelines. Our administrator would be more than able to outfit a fellow with his or her own dedicated work space and the requisite office tools, and given our atmosphere of collaboration and discourse, we feel that a CHCI/SSHRC fellow would be able to easily enmesh him or herself in our culture. We will be able to work with the scholar to provide a relocation stipend based on distance traveled, as per University of Pittsburgh guidelines.

    We would welcome a CHCI fellow to join us at the start of the 2015 spring term on January 5, 2015, or at the beginning of next academic year on August 31, 2015.

    Contact: Jonathan Arac, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, Director, Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, humctr@pitt.edu

    RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

    The Humanities Research Center at VCU

    Virginia Commonwealth University
    https://humanitiescenter.vcu.edu/

    The VCU Humanities Research Center was founded in 2014 to provide a forum for intellectual exchange traversing conventional disciplinary boundaries and for fostering collaborations across the College of Humanities and Sciences, the university, and local communities. Recently designated a university center, the HRC is deeply committed to building relationships and partnerships between VCU and other institutions locally, nationally, and internationally.

    The postdoctoral fellows will join a vibrant intellectual community that has coalesced around issues of pressing contemporary concern: Environmental Humanities; Public Humanities; Digital Media; and Race, Ethnicity and Social Justice. In 2023-2024, the HRC’s core theme will be health/medical humanities, and the postdoctoral fellow would be welcome to participate in the HRC’s Medical Humanities Lab, focused on related issues, and to engage with an annual cohort of HRC residential fellows from the humanities, arts, and social sciences.

    The HRC can provide CHCI/SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellows with office space, copier, scanner, internet access, and IT support, as well as full library privileges across the University. Additionally, the fellow may choose to participate in the university’s and the College of Humanities and Sciences Mentoring programs. Opportunities for interaction and expanding mentor/collaborator networks will include the fellows’ lunches, round-tables, and formal talks at the HRC. Relocation and/or housing support is available.

    CHCI/SSRHC Fellows could begin residency at the HRC in fall 2023.

    Contact: Interested candidates should contact Cristina Stanciu, director of the Humanities Research Center, at cstanciu@vcu.edu

    SINGAPORE

    Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

    Nanyang Technological University
    http://class.cohass.ntu.edu.sg

    The Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) is an interdisciplinary research center at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. As the research hub in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS), CLASS is committed to fostering research excellence in the humanities and social sciences. It brings together scholars from various fields, so as to open new registers of thinking within their respective discourses through the recruitment of postdoctoral fellows and the sponsorship of seminars, lectures, workshops, conferences, and exhibitions.

    CLASS welcomes SSHRC postdoctoral fellows to be affiliated with us at NTU. The particular strengths of the College of HASS are Art History, Broadcast and Cinema Studies, Cultural Studies, Chinese Studies, Communication Studies, Digital Animation, Digital Filmmaking, Economics, History, Information Studies, Interactive Media, Journalism and Publishing, Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Literary Studies, Philosophy, Photography and Digital Imaging, Psychology, Public Policy and Global Affairs, Sociology, and Visual Communication.

    SSHRC postdoctoral fellows will be provided with the following facilities and opportunities during their visit:

    • Mentoring from faculty members in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
    • A workspace with internet access
    • Full access to NTU’s libraries
    • Opportunities for intellectual exchange and collaboration with the NTU community through regular seminars showcasing postdoctoral and research fellows’ research and with other international scholars through conferences, workshops, seminars, and lectures sponsored by CLASS.

    The earliest semester in which an SSHRC fellow can be in residency with CLASS is Semester 2 of Academic Year 2014-15, which begins in January 2015.

    SSHRC fellows interested in taking up residency with CLASS should contact Professor KK Luke, Director, Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at: D-CLASS@ntu.edu.sg.

    For information about CLASS and NTU’s College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, please visit http://class.cohass.ntu.edu.sg and http://cohass.ntu.edu.sg.

    SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

    The Centre for Media History

    Macquarie University
    http://mq.edu.au/research/centres_and_groups/cmh/

    The Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University is home to Australia's only centre dedicated to conducting and fostering research on the interactions between media and history. Established in 2007, the Centre for Media History is interested in the history of the media, history in the media, and history and the media. Our members are drawn from the Departments of Modern History, Politics, Media, Sociology, English and Economics.

    The Centre for Media History aims to:

    • Foster interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the media.
    • Support research and teaching of excellence in the field of media history.
    • Produce research in which our understanding of the past informs the important questions about contemporary media institutions, genres, audiences and policy.
    • Provide a stimulating and supportive environment for postgraduate students and research fellows.

    The Centre has two principal nodes that draw on Macquarie University’s nationally and internationally recognized strengths in these areas:

    History of the media

    - Research on the history of the press, radio, television, film, public opinion, book publishing and music. This research focuses not just on media industries and institutions, but on media genres, audiences and cultural forms.

    History in the media

    - Research on representations of history in (especially film and broadcast) media. Several of these members working in this area are prominent Australian documentary and filmmakers engaged in practice-led research.

    For further information, including biographies of current members, their research interests and projects, productions and publications, and events organized by the Centre, please view the website via the link above.

    The Centre for Media History will provide the necessary support as outlined in the CHCI / SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships Collaboration program description. This support will include: a dedicated, equipped workspace with access to printing facilities, copier, fax etc; internet access; full library access; and opportunities for interaction with the local or virtual community of scholars.

    Unfortunately, it is unlikely that relocation or housing support will be available.

    The earliest term that the Centre for Media History will be able to accommodate a Fellow is February 2015.

    Interested candidates should contact Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley, Director of the Centre for Media History, by email b.foley@mq.edu.au or telephone +61 2 9850 8828.

    SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA

    Institute for Culture and Society (ICS)

    University of Western Sydney
    http://www.uws.edu.au/ics

    The Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at the University of Western Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia undertakes research to help us understand, interpret and meet the challenges of the changing cultural and social landscape, such as economic instability, rapid technological developments, large-scale movements of people, and environmental crises.

    Based at the UWS Parramatta Campus, the Institute champions inter-disciplinary, engaged and collaborative scholarship in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, with an academic staff of 27 and another 19 researchers who are based in UWS Schools.

    The research focus of the Institute covers such dynamic areas as cultural diversity, transnationalism, citizenship and institutions, creative and cultural industries, heritage, city cultures, economic and cultural globalization, digital transformation, and environmental and urban change. The social and cultural impact of the ‘rise of Asia’ is a prominent area of interest.

    As practiced at ICS, cultural and social research confronts the contradictions and challenges of an increasingly globalized, heterogeneous and technologically mediated world. In so doing, it opens a terrain of sustained and engaged empirical research on social and cultural practices around the globe. In line with the UWS mission statement, ICS aims to research and service regional, national and international communities, beginning with the people of Greater Western Sydney.

    ICS can offer an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow a dedicated, equipped workspace with access to copier, fax etc; internet/network access; full library access; and opportunities for interaction with the ICS, UWS and Australian communities of scholars. ICS does not have any funds available to support a Fellow with relocation and/or housing.

    The earliest upcoming term in which ICS will be able to accommodate a visiting Fellow is the UWS Autumn Session (Term 1) of 2015, which runs from the last week of February to the last week of June next year.

    Visiting fellows may obtain advice from UWS and ICS administrative support staff in arranging things like accommodation, travel and visas.

    Contact: Professor Ien Ang (i.ang@uws.edu.au; tel: +61 2 9685 9634)

    TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA

    Jackman Humanities Institute University of Toronto

    http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/

    The Jackman Humanities Institute advances scholarship at the University of Toronto by creating new networks -- both physical and virtual -- for interaction among humanities scholars, regardless of their discipline. By offering a variety of ways for students and faculty from the University of Toronto's three campuses to learn from each other, as well as from visiting scholars, the Jackman Humanities Institute is developing new interdisciplinary modes of understanding human experience. The Institute is a community of research and study. It is a portal to the Humanities at the University of Toronto, coordinating ongoing humanities activities, and hosting initiatives such as weekly seminars and international conferences.

    The JHI will provide participating CHCI/SSHRC postdoctoral fellows with an appointed faculty member who will work closely with the resident fellow, meeting at least three times per academic term to discuss the resident fellows' ideas and to provide support and advice in the writing process. The mentor will submit a short report on the fellow’s work at the end of the period of residence to the CHCI. The JHI will also provide the resident fellow with an office, access to copier, fax, administrative support, access to the Internet, and opportunities for interaction with the local community of scholars. The resident fellow may apply to teach up one course per term at the University of Toronto through the appropriate unit as a sessional instructor, and will be compensated at current union rates.

    Participating resident fellows will be chosen on the basis of the relevance of their research to the annual theme that will be in progress during their stay. Information about upcoming annual themes is available at http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/about_us (scroll to the bottom of the page).

    The JHI does not provide support for relocation or housing.

    The earliest upcoming term when the JHI could accommodate a resident fellow would be 1 September 2019-30 June 2020, on the theme of “Strange Weather.”

    Contact Professor Alison Keith, Director, Jackman Humanities Institute jhi.director@utoronto.ca; tel. (416) 978-7415

    UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA, USA

    Institute for the Arts and Humanities

    Pennsylvania State University
    http://iah.psu.edu/

    Founded in 1966, Penn State’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities is one of the oldest and most distinctive interdisciplinary centers in the nation. Over the past fifty years, major American universities have created dozens of advanced research institutes in the humanities and/or centers for the fine and performing arts, but because the arts and humanities are almost always housed in different colleges with different administrative structures, most universities have kept their arts and humanities centers separate. Penn State, by contrast, is one of a handful of universities whose interdisciplinary institute was designed from the outset to bring together innovative work in the arts and humanities– under one roof, across two colleges.

    As a result, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities spans disciplines that range from philosophy to music, from history to dance, from comparative literature to landscape architecture. The IAH is committed to fostering interdisciplinary collaborations by involving artists and humanists in every kind of discussion and debate about what it means– and what it has meant– to be human.

    The IAH can offer SSHRC fellows a dedicated, equipped workspace with access to a copier, fax machine, email and the Internet, and Penn State’s full suite of information technology support. SSHRC fellows would have all the rights and privileges of their faculty peers at Penn State, including library access, staff assistance, and coverage of moving expenses. Together with other IAH postdoctoral fellows, SSHRC fellows would have as many opportunities for scholarly exchanges and collaborations with Penn State faculty and graduate students as they desire, and the IAH Director and Assistant Director will be happy to facilitate those exchanges.

    The IAH can begin hosting SSHRC fellows immediately. The contact people are Michael Bérubé, IAH Director and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature, at mfb12@psu.edu or by phone at (814) 865-0495.

    UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS

    Centre for the Humanities

    Utrecht University
    http://www.uu.nl/cfh

    Established in 2007, Centre for the Humanities (CfH) is a content-driven platform for trans-disciplinary research on and critical discussion of key contemporary issues at Utrecht University. Central to CfH is the interface between knowledge, the arts, culture and society. The Centre’s mission is to explore and enhance the social relevance of the Humanities today by focusing on innovative research projects, on knowledge impact activities and by assessing new directions for the Humanities in the contemporary world. The CfH aims at bringing together academics, students and the general public, and strives to create a space for meaningful and critical interaction between these audiences on the targeted topics.

    The mission of the Centre is translated into two main themes: the first is new directions in the Humanities today, which includes a critical discussion of the idea of the contemporary university; the second is the social and cultural roots of citizenship, which includes a vibrant arts program. Fellows at the Centre for the Humanities work within those themes. In addition to this, the Centre runs the Academic and the Civic program, which attempts to contribute to the analysis of the international pressures of global culture and the challenges of cultural diversity.

    Those who are interested in a fellowship at the Centre can present a project related to one of the themes and programs of the Centre as described above. Projects should be interdisciplinary and/or develop new perspectives on the humanities and its methodology.

    Fellows at the Centre for the Humanities have access to the following facilities:

    • Office space and facilities
    • IT facilities
    • University library
    • Consultations with the director of the Centre and other academic figures in their field
    • Participation in the Centre’s internal and public activities

    Fellows can be accommodated from 1 September 2014 onwards. Unfortunately, the CfH cannot assist fellows with support for relocation and/or housing.

    More information about fellowships at the CfH can be found on the CfH website, or by contacting general program manager Tobijn de Graauw (t.degraauw@uu.nl; tel.: 0031 30 2531038).

    WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, USA

    Jeanne and Dan Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences

    Bentley University
    http://www.bentley.edu/centers/valente-center

    The mission of the Jeanne and Dan Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences is to promote the arts and sciences as a vital, integral and challenging aspect of undergraduate and graduate education at Bentley. The Valente Center supports research and teaching in the disciplines and at the intersection of arts, sciences and business. The Valente Center, through its programs, promotes individual scholarship while encouraging cross-disciplinary discussion and research. It supports an intellectual community by hosting visiting scholars, postdoctoral fellows, invited speakers, Bentley faculty fellows, undergraduate student research assistants and by sponsoring lectures, seminars, workshops, an annual theme-based humanities research seminar, an international film series, and a faculty work-in-progress series.

    The Valente Center will provide the necessary support as outlined in the CHCI/SSHRC postdoctoral fellowships collaboration program description. Valente Center support will include:

    • A dedicated office space in the Valente Center
    • Access to internet, wifi, copier, printer, fax, etc.
    • Full library access
    • Opportunity to present research to colleagues in the work-in-progress series Opportunity to participate a rich intellectual community of scholars at Bentley University and other Boston area institutions
    • Access to Bentley facilities, including Faculty Dining Room, Dana Athletic Center, and regular shuttle service to Harvard Square
    • Some housing support may be available

    The earliest term that the Valente Center will be able to accommodate a Fellow is spring semester 2015.

    Interested candidates should contact Professor Gesa Kirsch, Director of the Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences, gkirsch@bentley.edu, 781-891-2506