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Fall Funding Round Application Dates

Opens: October 11, 2024
Due: November 15, 2024

 

 

 

Society of Scholars Faculty Fellowship

8 awards granted each year. Applications considered in fall funding round only.

Important Dates

Application Dates
Opens: October 11, 2024
Due: November 15, 2024

Funding Term
Starts: July 1, 2025
Ends: June 30, 2026

Eligibility

UW tenure-track faculty (all ranks)

  • Assistant professors must have served for at least one year (not including acting or visiting assistant professorships) before their application.
  • Faculty who have held a Society of Scholars fellowship are eligible to apply again after three years.
  • While we encourage applicants to other funding categories to meet with us before submitting a proposal, this is typically not necessary for faculty applicants to the Society of Scholars. For questions regarding this fellowship program, including matters of eligibility, or to request example proposals for review, please contact Associate Director Rachel Arteaga.

Description

The Society of Scholars supports faculty in pursuing their research and sharing their individual projects-in-progress in the multidisciplinary, bi-weekly forum of the fellowship cohort—which typically is composed of 8 members of the faculty, at all ranks, and 3 dissertating doctoral students—over the course of the academic year.

Criteria

Awards are based on the scholarly merit of the individual applications. Scholarship likely to contribute to intellectual exchange among a diverse group of colleagues especially encouraged.  

To assess scholarly merit, we have drawn on the criteria used by the NEH and the ACLS for the evaluation of fellowship proposals:

  • The intellectual significance of the proposed project; the potential of the project to advance the field or fields of study in which it is proposed and make an original and significant contribution to knowledge.
  • The quality and innovativeness of the proposal with regard to its methodology, scope, theoretical framework, and grounding in the relevant scholarly literature.
  • The clarity of the conception, definition, organization, and description of the project.

Terms of Award

  • Course release/replacement costs. Faculty fellowship recipients receive release time from teaching for two courses (preferably in a single quarter). The Simpson Center furnishes the faculty member’s home department with replacement costs for two graduate student quarters, up to the level of Predoc. Teaching Assoc. II.  These funds include benefits and tuition waivers. For a copy of the course buy-out form, please email schadmin@uw.edu.
  • Residency requirement. In-person participation in the biweekly Society of Scholars means that this fellowship is not appropriate for those whose projects require time away from the university.
  • Additional requirements. All faculty who receive fellowships are expected to submit an application for a fellowship to a national agency or foundation (such as NEH, ACLS, or the Guggenheim Foundation) or a residency site (such as the National Humanities Center) either in the fellowship year or the year thereafter.
Application Instructions

Complete the Application Form. Upload to the form as a single, bundled .pdf the below materials:

  • Proposal Narrative. Limit 1,750 words (approximately six double-spaced pages). Proposal narratives should describe the research project in language clear to non-specialists in the field. Narratives should address:
    1. Objectives
    2. Significance (to the scholarship in and outside the field)
    3. Methodology
    4. Timeline (progress to date; what will be accomplished in the fellowship year)
  • Bibliography. Limit 550 words.  Select primary and secondary sources directly related to the project.
  • CV. Please limit to five pages. Please specify any other fellowships you have received in the last three years in support of your research. 
  • Letter of Support. Limit one, from a colleague knowledgeable about your field of research. Letters may be external (from a contact at another institution) or written by a colleague at the University of Washington. Please ask that your letter be sent to us directly at schadmin@uw.edu.
  • Course Release/Buyout Form. For the course release/buyout form, please email schadmin@uw.edu.
  • Budget. NO BUDGET should be entered or attached.  Applicants should enter 0 into the "Budget amount" field in the Proposal Information form.