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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., 5 March 2009 for the 2009-2010 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 co-funded by the Glasscock Center and participating departments and interdisciplinary programs. Stipendiary Fellows receive a $1,500 research bursary to support normally reimbursable research expenses for a specific project and are expected to participate in the intellectual life of the Center throughout the fellowship year. Eligibility: Tenured and tenure-track faculty pursuing research projects in the humanities are invited to apply. Faculty may hold only one Stipendiary Fellowship per academic year and may hold a Stipendiary Fellowship and an Internal Fellowship simultaneously. Some departments award Stipendiary Fellowships on a rotation basis, others by competition (see below). Selection is made by departments and programs and decisions are ratified by the Center's Advisory Committee. Deadline: 5:00 p.m., 2 March 2009 for the 2009-2010 academic year. Application (non-rotation departments and all interdisciplinary programs): Submit only one application. Complete the online application form, attach the necessary documentation, indicate the department or program through which you are applying, and submit the online application to the Center. Applications are forwarded to the department or interdisciplinary program designated on the application for selection. Application (rotation departments): Faculty in Anthropology, Architecture, Economics, Geography, Political Science, Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences, Sociology should not submit an online application unless they are applying through an interdisciplinary program in a year they are not designated by rotation. Designated recipients in rotation departments should send a title and abstract to James Rosenheim, Director (j-rosenheim@tamu.edu) before March break. 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 September 2009 Application: Applications should identify a specific humanities research project to which support funds will be applied.
About: Cross-disciplinary Conference Travel Grants of $750 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., 8 October 2009 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., 8 October 2009 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., 19 November 2009 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 manuscript of humanities-related scholarship. These may be general subvention grants or grants 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., 5 November 2009 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 announce the third year of support for the early development of projects in digital humanities. This program will assist faculty in any department in the university by providing up to $10,000 to a project in digital humanities (collaborative or singly directed). Preference may be given to untenured or newly tenured faculty applicants. This program is meant to offer significant but flexible assistance to faculty – as individuals or in collaborative teams – whose scholarly project depends on or is fundamentally inflected by information technology, digitization, and computer-aided research. 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.’ Applicants for this grant must provide the following:
Applicants are strongly encouraged to familiarize themselves with existing resources by contacting any of the following:
A committee comprising faculty from various disciplines will evaluate applications on the basis of their originality, feasibility, and potential for external funding and for publication. Recipients will be expected to give a presentation about their funded project as part of the Glasscock Center’s annual Digital Humanities Lecture Series, provide an account of how the funds awarded were expended, and submit a report on the progress this award made possible. Deadline: 5:00 p.m., 20 April 2009
About: The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is now accepting proposals to support interactions between faculty and students focused on investigations of ethical issues or ethics in general. Efforts may be channeled through existing or new courses, free-standing seminars, panel discussions, symposia, workshops, visiting speakers, or other events. Any proposed course or event must directly address and wrestle with ethical questions – past or present – pertinent to contemporary societies, cultures, and individuals. Perspectives from any discipline or method are welcome, including the study of texts, histories, philosophies, religious traditions, cultures, aesthetic movements, current events, and theories. Two awards in the amount of $750 each will be made for the academic year 2010-2011 to underwrite reimbursable expenses in support of the course or related research (speaker fees, cost of course materials, field-trip expenses, refreshments for meetings, rental of space or equipment for presentations, other research related expenses, and the like). Applicants for this grant must provide the following:
At semester’s end, grantees must provide a report to the Glasscock Center on the success of their curriculum enhancement efforts. They will also be asked to administer two assessments, based on a template provided with the acceptance letter, to their students at semester’s beginning and end. This grant is made possible by the Mary Jane and Carrol O. Buttrill ’38 Endowed Fund for Ethics and is part of the Fund’s series of lectures and roundtable discussions coordinated by the Glasscock Center. Deadline: 5:00 p.m., 5 April 2010 Please click here for the PDF application form for the Ethics Curriculum Enhancement grant Program
About: From fall 2008 through spring 2010, the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is exploring “Journeys,” a theme that invites metaphorical and literal approaches to migration, travel, exile, transportation, exploration, tourism and numerous other kinds of journeys in the contemporary or historical world. Over two years, the Glasscock Center is offering a “Journeys” lecture series, symposia in fall 2009 and spring 2010, and other events featuring topics that may range from space exploration to border crossings, quest myths to cinematic travelogues, farewell rituals to forced marches, and guide books and travel diaries to dioramas. In order to draw undergraduates into this thematic exploration, the Glasscock Center invites proposals from faculty who will adapt existing, or develop new, one-semester upper-division undergraduate courses in ways that overtly investigate “Journeys.” Successful applications will take advantage of the Center’s four internal Faculty Fellows and their work, of lectures by the Center’s visiting speakers, and of seminars and other thematic events. These applications will integrate the theme into the course via readings, discussions, or writing assignments (visiting speakers may also be available for class visits). Successful applicants will receive a research bursary of $1,000 and $500 to support class-related activities or events (an outside visitor, the cost of a student forum at semester’s end, and the like). The Center anticipates making as many as three Investigative Course Grants this spring. A full roster of events and speakers for 2010-2011 will be available by 1 April 2010; consult our website for updates. Applicants for this grant must provide the following:
Deadline: 5:00 p.m., 5 April 2010 Please click here for the PDF application form for the Investigative Course grant Program |
