Faculty Fellowships

The Cogut Center for the Humanities sponsors semester-long fellowships for Brown faculty members who wish to be affiliated with and resident at the Center while pursuing their research on campus. All regular Brown University faculty (i.e. lecturers, senior lecturers, tenure-track, and tenured faculty) are eligible to apply for the fellowships. Each year, six (6) fellowships are awarded, to be distributed evenly over the fall semester and spring semesters. Recipients are relieved of their regular teaching responsibilities for the semester of the award. We are pleased to announce that in 2010-2011 each faculty fellow will receive a research/instructional fund in the amount of $2000.

Applications are reviewed by a committee of distinguished scholars from outside Brown and evaluated for both scholarly merit and the likelihood that a collective experience will enhance and be enriched by the proposed research project. Research projects must be humanistic in character but need not necessarily come from members of designated humanities departments. Fellows attend a weekly seminar consisting of a two-hour discussion of a pre-circulated essay or chapter from the work in progress.

Faculty members are invited to submit applications in Fall 2009 for the 2010-2011 academic year (either Fall 2010 or Spring 2011). Proposed fellowships may take one of two formats, as follows.

Faculty members may apply for a faculty fellowship that will not count as a leave semester. In this format, a Cogut Center Faculty Fellow will teach one semester-long seminar on a topic related to the proposed research project, and will carry out the usual administrative duties, but will be relieved of regular teaching responsibilities.
Faculty members eligible for a sabbatical may apply for a fellowship that will count as a sabbatical semester. In this format, a Cogut Center faculty fellowship relieves the faculty member from all teaching and administrative duties. Faculty members who are receiving 75% of their regular semester salary will receive the remaining 25% from the university (i.e. up to 12 ½ % of the annual salary in the case of a full academic year’s sabbatical).

To apply for consideration, the applicant must submit the original, five copies and one electronic copy of the following:

A curriculum vitae and cover letter. In the cover letter, the applicant should indicate the preferred semester, whether there is flexibility or not, and the format (no. 1 or 2 as above) under which s/he is applying.
A copy of a scholarly paper (35 pages or fewer).
A one-page abstract and a detailed proposal (1,000 to 3,000 words) outlining the research that the applicant will pursue during the term of the fellowship; applicants are also encouraged to submit a working bibliography for their project.
Two letters of recommendation from senior colleagues from within or outside Brown to whom candidates should send their research proposal. Letters of recommendation should include an evaluation of the candidate's proposed research proposal. Referees should be instructed to send their letters directly to the Cogut Center. The Center must receive all recommendation letters by the application deadline.
A seminar proposal (for those applying under format 1, as above.) The proposal should address the novelty of the proposed course and indicate those departments and/or programs to which it may be relevant.

Selections will be made by a committee of external evaluators. Assignments will be reviewed for final approval by the Dean of the Faculty in order to coordinate the overall pattern of leaves in various departments.

Deadline for application is December 1, 2009.

Successful applicants will be notified in early February 2010.