Research Fellowship
The Center for the Humanities may appoint a small number of non-stipendiary Research Fellowships for a semester or a year to scholars working in the humanities or the social sciences. Research Fellows may be given the use of an office at the Center, together with the services and resources that the Center provides. The expectations for Research Fellows include attendance at the Monday Night Lecture Series and Tuesday morning colloquia that follow the lectures. Research Fellows are also expected to work in their Center offices while the university is in session. Each Fellow may be asked to deliver one public lecture.
Research Fellowships are primarily designed for innovative scholars with paid sabbaticals or with fellowship grants from a source outside Wesleyan (such as the Guggenheim Foundation or the National Endowment for the Humanities) or for advanced graduate students with stipends. Generally speaking, they are not intended to serve as a mechanism by which visiting faculty may extend their tenure at the University.
Applications: Inquiries about Research Fellowships should be made to the Director by March 1. Appointments to Research Fellowships are made by the University and require an application that includes a letter of application, addressed to the Director, and a brief statement of plans for research while at the Center, and a curriculum vitae.