Howard Fellowships

The Howard Foundation awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in selected fields. The Foundation targets its support specifically to early mid-career individuals, those who have achieved recognition for at least one major project. Approximately ten fellowships will be awarded in April 2012 for 2012-2013 in the fields of

Photography, Anthropology, and Archaeology

Stipends of $30,000 will be awarded to support individuals working on projects for the academic year 2012-2013. Howard Fellowships are intended primarily to provide artists and scholars with time to complete their work. They are not intended for publication subsidies, for equipment purchase, for preparation of exhibits, or to support institutional programs. Note that photography is this year's entry in the creative arts, i.e., we are interested in applications from individuals pursuing still photography as an artistic practice. Anthropology and archaeology are this year's fields in the category of historical and critical studies. There are no residency requirements for individuals who receive awards. We are aware that leave patterns and individual career plans do not necessarily correspond to the Howard Foundation cycle of awards for individuals, and fellowship recipients in a given year may accordingly postpone receipt of their fellowship funds, if that is more convenient for them. The deadline for submission of applications was November 1, 2011. Fellowship recipients will be announced in April 2012.

Sequence of Awards

The Howard Foundation offers fellowships in a five-year rotation of fields, as described below for the next five years. Please note that the fellowships are awarded in the spring of the award year, and the deadline for application is the fall of the preceding year. Successful candidates will be given the option of postponing receipt of their fellowship, so as to make the Howard competition accessible to those whose personal plans do not line up exactly with the year in which awards are offered in their fields. While the Foundation plans to follow this sequence of fields, additional changes may from time to time need to be made as warranted by the limited resources of the Foundation.

Please note that application deadline will in each case occur during November of the year preceding the award year. The specific date will be announced in May of that year.

Eligibility

In order to be eligible to apply for a Howard Fellowship, candidates should be able to answer "yes" to each of the following questions. If "no" is the correct answer to any of them, they are asked to explain on the application form what special circumstances might make them eligible anyway, given the requirements for a Howard Fellowship.

Can your current professional status appropriately be viewed as “early mid-career” as understood by the Howard Foundation? Appropriate candidates for a Howard Fellowship should have completed their formal studies within the past five to fifteen years and should also have successfully completed at least one major project beyond degree requirements that would be sufficient for the awarding of tenure at a research institution or for achieving comparable peer recognition, e.g., through publication. Candidates who are already nationally and internationally recognized leaders in their fields as reflected by their promotion to full professor or by comparable recognition in their fields of endeavor are not normally eligible for a Howard Fellowship.

Would a Howard Fellowship provide you with time off from other responsibilities to work on your proposed project? Our support is particularly intended to augment paid sabbatical leaves. In the case of independent artists or scholars, or those without paid leaves, we would expect that a Howard Fellowship would enable them to devote a substantial block of time to the proposed project.

Are you, regardless of your citizenship, currently living and working in the United States?

Does your proposed project fall within one of the fields established for this year's round of applications? Given the limits of our resources, we must adhere strictly to the fields announced each year for project proposals.

The Application Process

Applications for fellowships for 2012-2013 in  Photography, Anthropology, and Archaeology were due on November 1, 2011. This set of applications is currently being reviewed, and winners will be announced in mid-April, 2012. Application materials for the 2012 competition for fellowships for 2013-2014 in Painting, Sculpture, and the History of Art and Architecture will be available here after May 1, 2012.

Howard Fellows for 2011-2012

The Howard Foundation is pleased to announce its fellowship recipients for 2011-2012.

Previous Fellowship Recipients

Previous recipients of Howard Fellowships can be viewed here.

History

The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation was established in 1952 by Nicea Howard in memory of her grandparents. Miss Howard had a special interest in furthering the personal development of promising individuals at the crucial middle stages of their careers in the liberal and creative arts.

Howard Foundation Lecture

The Howard Foundation Lecture is an occasional series for which the Foundation invites a former Fellow to the Brown University campus for a public presentation in his or her area of expertise.

The first Howard Foundation lecture was delivered on October 8, 2009 by Robert A. Gross, The James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History at the University of Connecticut on "Helen Thoreau's Anti-Slavery Scrapbook: Abolitionism and Transcendentalism in Concord, Massachusetts." Professor Gross received a Howard Fellowship in 1988-89. A revised version of the lecture has since been published in the January 2012 issue of the Yale Review (Vol. 100, pp. 103-120).

The second Howard event was a public reading, co-sponsored by the Program in Literary Arts, by Shelley Jackson, who received a Howard Fellowship in 1998-99. Ms. Jackson read a new story "Monocerous" to a large and enthusiastic audience on December 7, 2010.

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Professor William C. Crossgrove
Administrative Director
or
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