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Barclay Simpson Scholars in Public
Important Dates
Application Dates
Opens: October 11, 2024
Due: November 15, 2024
Funding Term
Six weeks in the summer 2025
Eligibility
University of Washington doctoral students in the humanities disciplines, broadly construed, of the College of Arts & Sciences who have completed their work at the master’s level and who will receive no other funding during the term of the award.
Note: applicants who are interested in the Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship and the Barclay Simpson Scholars in Public Fellowship may only apply for one of these opportunities in any given funding round.
Description
The Simpson Center for the Humanities biannually invites proposals from doctoral students in the humanities to pursue public-facing projects in their areas of study and practice.
The fellowship builds on the Simpson Center’s longstanding commitment to public scholarship and furthers the groundbreaking work undertaken by University of Washington faculty, doctoral students, and their community partners in the Simpson Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics initiative (2015-2021). Composed of 4 doctoral students, fellowship cohorts meet weekly throughout the summer to discuss their research in progress.
An ad hoc committee will be convened to review proposals.
Criteria
Awards are based predominantly on the scholarly merit of the application. The level of preparation demonstrated by applicants to undertake the project will also be considered.
Terms of Award
The fellowship carries an award of $7,500, with no benefits or tuition. The explicit intent of this support is to allow fellows to devote themselves full time to their projects during the six-week fellowship term, and it is an expectation that fellows will have no competing demands of teaching or other paid work during that time.
Projects do not necessarily have to be completed during the summer fellowship term.
Summer Residency
In-person participation in the 6 weekly meetings of the fellowship cohort is an expectation of the program. This fellowship is not appropriate for those whose projects require time away from the university during the period of the meetings of the fellows. In Summer 2025, the meetings are anticipated to take place from the beginning of A term through the end of July.
Complete the Application Form. Upload to the form as a single, bundled .pdf the below materials:
- Proposal Narrative. Limit 1,750 words (approximately 6 double-spaced pages). Proposal narratives should describe the project in language clear to non-specialists in the scholarly field. All narratives should address:
- The intellectual ambitions of the project, including guiding research questions and a brief statement about the significance of the work for the area of study and its potential contribution to the public good
- A description of the public audiences, partners, and/or stakeholders relevant to the project
- Preparation to undertake the project: please detail your level of experience with the area of the project and your competencies in any of its technical or specialized aspects; please also note, if relevant, connections with community partners or groups, if these have been established at the time of proposal submission
- A project plan, including a timeline describing what will be accomplished during the summer
- Letter of Support. Limit one, to be submitted directly by the recommender to schadmin@uw.edu. The letter should be written by 1) the students’ primary advisor (in most cases, the dissertation advisor), 2) the faculty advisor to the public-facing project (if different from the primary advisor), OR 3) a community partner relevant to the project.
- CV. Please limit to 2 pages.