Emory University: Arts and Sciences: Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Location: Atlanta, GA
Description:
The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University
DEMOCRACY: Past, Present, Future
Call for Applications
Senior Fellows Program 2024-2025
The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (FCHI) seeks applications for its senior fellowship program for tenured faculty. The program will host up to four fellows whose work advances our Center’s annual theme “Democracy: Past, Present, Future.” Senior fellows will be released from their University teaching and service commitments for the academic year. All fellows will enjoy an FCHI office, participate in a weekly interdisciplinary seminar, help plan FCHI programming (a Spring conference or workshop on the annual theme), and participate in the life of the Center. Senior Fellowships, designed for faculty who will have earned tenure by Fall 2024, run from August 1, 2024 – May 31, 2025, and provide an additional $3,000 in research funds.
Democracy: Past, Present, Future
How do the Humanities help us examine and understand Democracy? In a time of intensified political unrest across the globe our theme invites research projects that interrogate the shifting contours of democracy and struggles surrounding democratic values and rights in societies past, present, and future. In the U.S. 2024 marks the one-hundred-year anniversary of 1924 Indian Citizenship Act and Immigration Act, the sixty-year anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, and a presidential election. Around the world debates around the future of democracy and the rise of fascism abound. How can humanistic inquiry help us critically examine these pressing questions?
Democracy is measured, on one hand, by the state of political institutions and governance practices: policies, elections, legal apparatus, and judicial mechanisms. At the same time, art, education, and public cultures provide spaces where democratic belonging and freedom are actively and creatively shaped by people through debate, dissent, representation, and dialogue. Humanities research and creative works also play a critical role in analyzing and advancing democratic ideals and institutions.
We invite scholars whose research interests are resonant with such a panoramic view of democracy as shaped and transformed by a variety of forces. We especially welcome projects investigating the theme across international contexts and/or through interdisciplinary approaches spanning the humanities and humanistic social sciences and employing a range of methodologies and approaches including public and digital humanities.
We envision that fellows may pursue research on a range of historical, contemporary, social, cultural, literary, and philosophical questions about democracy, including but not limited to:
The Fox Center invites applications from candidates who are eager to be part of a community of scholars engaged in a broad range of conversations on Democracy in an inter-disciplinary setting. All Senior fellows are required to be in residence for the term of the fellowship. Each fellow will participate in the Fox Center’s weekly Research Seminar (Wednesdays 12-1:30pm), presenting their research at one of these meetings. Fellows will also collaborate in the planning of Fox Center Programming and participate in professional development sessions.
Qualifications:
Currently the Senior Fellows Program is limited to faculty who are already tenured at Emory. Eligibility is contingent upon leave history as well as the merits of the proposal. Previous funding or released time for a related project may be taken into consideration when the application is reviewed. In accordance with the College leave policy, faculty are expected to return to Emory after the fellowship and be in residence for three consecutive years. Senior fellowship recipients can reapply after an interval of ten years, although the selection committee will prioritize new applicants.
Application Instructions:
To complete the online application, you will need to have the following information and required documents available and ready to submit:
The following attachments (see Specific Instructions below) must be ready to be uploaded:
Deadline for application: The deadline for submissions and all required documents is Wednesday, January 31, 2024. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that all materials have been uploaded to Interfolio and submitted. Incomplete applications cannot be considered after the deadline.
SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS
– Project Description: 1000 words maximum, 12-point type, double-spaced Applicants should describe the specific research planned for the period of the FCHI Fellowship, explaining the basic humanistic ideas, problems, or questions to be explored. Included should be explanations of the objectives and significance of the project, and the methodology to be employed. The project description should make clear any preliminary work already completed, the present state of the proposed research, and any stages to be completed after the FCHI Fellowship ends. Applicants should detail the expected results of research conducted during the Fellowship period, including the ultimate forms of public presentation of their results (books, journal articles, lectures, papers, public humanities projects, etc.). In your project description, please include your vision for interdisciplinary contribution and engagement.
ACCEPTANCE PROCEDURES
Upon notification of an FCHI Senior Fellowship Program Award, the Fellow must agree to:
(a) conduct research in residence full-time at the FCHI for the academic year;
(b) take full responsibility for contributing to and maintaining an environment conducive to academic research while at the Center;
(c) submit a final report of progress at the end of the Fellowship;
(d) acknowledge the FCHI in all work resulting from research and writing done during the Fellowship;
(e) fulfill the Public Intellectual Contribution requirement;
(f) attend all Fellows’ lunches, lectures, and programs sponsored by the FCHI during their terms of residence;
(g) immediately notify the FCHI of any other support or of any conflicts with the restrictions and conditions of this Fellowship Program;
(h) for three years following the Fellowship, provide written reports to the Director of the FCHI detailing how their teaching and research has been influenced by the time spent during the Fellowship;
(i) return to their Emory University positions for three consecutive years immediately following their Fellowship.
PLEASE NOTE:
Currently the Senior Fellows Program is limited to faculty who are already tenured at Emory University. Faculty members awarded an FCHI Senior Fellowship are required to return to their University positions for the year immediately following the Fellowship.
If you accept another fellowship before notification about the FCHI Program, please inform the FCHI as soon as possible so that alternates can be contacted promptly.
If for any reason a Fellow’s circumstances change (such as Sabbatical Leave, Leave Without Pay, or the receipt of any grant or award that conflicts with the restrictions and conditions of this Fellowship), and the grantee is unable to use the Fellowship during the academic year for which it was granted, the Fellowship will be forfeited.
If the project involves human subjects, approval from the proper Emory Institutional Review Board Committee (IRB) is required before Fellowship funding can be released. For more information, please refer to the IRB website: www.irb.emory.edu.
If you have any questions, please contact the Fox Center at [email protected].
The FCHI regrets that currently it is unable to provide any assessments of unsuccessful applications.
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