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About: Recipients of the four annually awarded Internal Faculty Fellowships receive a one-course teaching release in the spring semester of the fellowship year, a $1,000 research bursary, and an office in the Glasscock Center for the fellowship year. For recipients with more than a one-course teaching load, an additional teaching release will be arranged by the recipient's home department or program. Eligibility: Tenured and tenure-track faculty at Texas A&M University in affiliated departments are invited to apply. Written endorsement by the Department Head is required. Potential applicants should determine whether their department takes part in this program. Deadline: 5:00 p.m., 7 March 2008 for the 2008-2009 academic year. Application: The Center will be focusing on the theme “Journeys” in the selection and appointment of visiting speakers, visiting fellows, and internal fellows during the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 academic years. We conceive this theme to embrace considerations metaphorical and literal, contemporary and historical - of migration, travel, exile, transportation, exploration, tourism and more. We anticipate a lecture series, a symposium in spring 2010, and other events that will address everything from space exploration to border crossings, quest myths to cinematic travelogues, farewell rituals to forced marches, dioramas to guide books and travel diaries – and much else besides. Applications should indicate how the applicant's project addresses the Center's current theme. Projects will be chosen on the basis of their intellectual rigor, scholarly creativity, and the potential they exhibit to benefit from the recipient's collaborative engagement with the year's other Fellows. Please click here for the PDF application form for the Internal Faculty Fellowship grant program
About: Faculty Stipendiary Fellowships are offered jointly by the Glasscock Center and participating departments and interdisciplinary programs. Stipendiary Fellows receive a $1,500 research bursary to support normally reimbursable research expenses and are expected to participate in the intellectual life of the Center throughout the fellowship year. Eligibility: Faculty who are pursuing a specific research project in the humanities are invited to apply. Departments of Anthropology, Architecture, Economics, Political Science, and Recreation, Park and Tourism Science select fellows on a rotation basis; do not apply for a departmental Stipendiary Fellowship if you are in one of these departments. Faculty interested in applying for a Stipendiary Fellowship through an interdisciplinary program must contact the program director to confirm eligibility. Faculty may hold only one Stipendiary Fellowship per academic year (faculty may hold a Stipendiary Fellowship and an Internal Fellowship simultaneously). Deadline: Glasscock Center application forms are sent to departments and programs in early spring. Completed applications must be returned to the Glasscock Center by e-mail by 5:00 p.m., 7 March 2008 for the 2008-2009 academic year. Application: Applicants should complete the application form, attach the necessary documentation, and submit it to the Center. All applications will be forwarded to the designated department or interdisciplinary program. Selections will be made by departments and programs, and ratified by the Center's Advisory Committee. Please click here for the PDF application form for the Faculty Stipendiary Fellowship grant program
About: The Glasscock Center offers awards of $1,000 each per academic year to support humanities research projects conducted by lecturers, visiting and adjunct faculty. These funds may be used to support normally reimbursable research expenses connected to a humanities research project. Eligibility: All qualified faculty are invited to apply. Ad Hoc Stipendiary Fellows are selected by the Advisory Committee. Fellows must be in residence for one semester of their fellowship year and are expected to contribute to the intellectual life of the Center. Deadline: 5:00 p.m., 10 April 2008 Application: Applications should identify a specific humanities research project to which support funds will be applied.
About: Cross-disciplinary Conference Travel Grants of $1,000 are offered each year. These awards are intended to stimulate new, interdisciplinary research by allowing faculty to explore ideas and methods outside their primary research fields. The expectation is that the opportunity to attend a conference in another discipline will "jump start" research projects which are in their earliest conceptual phases. Deadline: 5:00 p.m., 6 February 2008 for travel within 12 months of the date of the award. Application: Applications should demonstrate how the project being contemplated could profit from immersion in the ideas, methods, and people at the conference proposed. We anticipate applications that evince curiosity about what another field might have to offer and speculate on the value of new methods and ideas to a developing project. Applications should not demonstrate that the project is well underway. We do not expect applicants to be qualified to work in the conference discipline. Funds will not be provided for travel to a conference at which you are scheduled to give a presentation. While the assumption is that the conference will be an academic, research-oriented conference, applications for travel to non-academic conferences or conventions that may contribute to the applicant's emerging project will also be considered.
About: Research Matching Grants supplement competitively awarded humanities research grants of up to $5,000 secured from sources external to Texas A&M University. The Glasscock Center will award grants of up to $1,000. Eligibility: Faculty and graduate students in affiliated departments and interdisciplinary programs are invited to apply. Deadline: 5:00 p.m., 6 February 2008 Application: Your application should specify how the Glasscock Center’s support will augment what this external grant already makes possible. Please click here for the PDF application form for the Research Matching grant program
About: The Glasscock Center makes available grants of up to $1,000 for travel to archives or to undertake field work to further humanities-related projects. Eligibility: Faculty in affiliated departments are invited to apply. Deadline: 5:00 p.m., 16 April 2008 Application: Applications should describe the proposed archival or field work and explain why it is essential to the project. If travel is to be made during the semester, the applicant’s program or department head must provide prior approval.
About: The Glasscock Center makes available grants of up to $1,000 to be used toward the costs of publishing a scholarly manuscript. These are not general subvention grants; direct payments to a press will not be funded. The grants are expected to cover specific extraordinary expenses such as indexing, securing permissions, translation costs, creation or reproduction of graphics (maps, tables, figures, etc.) and editorial services. All manuscripts must be accepted for publication or in press when the request is submitted. Publications receiving support must acknowledge "The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research." Copies of publications should be provided for placement in the Glasscock Center Library. Eligibility: Tenured and tenure-track faculty members in affiliated departments are invited to apply. Deadline: 5:00 p.m., 10 April 2008 Application: Please click here for the PDF application form for the Publication Support grant program
About: The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and the Texas A&M University Libraries’ Sterling C. Evans Chair jointly fund a program to assist the early development of projects in digital humanities. This program will support all faculty in any department in the university by providing a grant of up to $10,000 to a project in digital humanities (collaborative or singly directed). This program is meant to offer significant but flexible assistance to faculty – as individuals or in collaborative teams – whose current scholarly project depends on or is fundamentally inflected by information technology, computer-aided research, and/or the ‘digital revolution.’ The program is especially aimed at those who have embarked on or who are keen to embark on research in the humanities that is ‘born digital.’ Eligibility: Faculty in all departments are invited to apply. Preference may be given to untenured or newly tenured faculty applicants. Deadline: 5:00 p.m., 10 April 2008
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