The Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University

FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

A MEMBER OF THE CONSORTIUM OF HUMANITIES CENTERS AND INSTITUTES
AUTZEN HOUSE	OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY	February 2010

NEW PROGRAM

The Center for the Humanities and the Horning Endowment are now accepting applications for a new post-doctoral fellowship in the history and philosophy of science. See below for details.

FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

Each year the Center brings together a group of up to ten Research Fellows (mainly from OSU but also visiting scholars) to pursue research and writing in an interdisciplinary environment designed to be stimulating as well as protected from the usual daily demands of academic life. The Fellowships are open to scholars pursuing projects in traditional humanities disciplines as well as the social and natural sciences that are historical or philosophical in approach, and that attempt to cast light on questions of interpretation or criticism generally found in the humanities.

Visiting Fellows receive a stipend of up to $32,000, while OSU Fellows receive a stipend that provides release time for one to two terms. In addition, all Fellows receive an office in Autzen House, a computer, and general support services. For their part, Fellows are asked to contribute to intellectual life at OSU by participating in Center programs, notably the lecture series; some visiting Fellows also teach a course or lead a seminar series.

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

Scholars not currently employed by OSU who have completed doctorates since January 2005 are eligible for a 2010-11 Fellowship in the history and philosophy of science, with a stipend of $40,000. Postdoctoral fellows will be in residence for nine months at the Center along with other fellows in a variety of humanities disciplines. Applications are welcome from all fields of the history of science, including medicine and technology, as well as the philosophy of science and intellectual history. Deadline for applications is March 1, 2010.

Post-Doctoral Fellowship Application (PDF) (Word)

INTERNAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

This Fellowship is available to OSU faculty members and generally provides release time for one to two academic terms, though Fellows may keep their offices at Autzen House for the entire academic year. In addition to providing time for research and writing, the Fellowship is intended to encourage interaction among faculty from different disciplines. All projects must fall within the general bounds of humanities research.

Internal Fellowship Application (PDF) (Word)

VISTING FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

We have had to suspend the Visiting Fellowship Program (except for the new post-doctoral Fellowship) for Academic Year 2010-2011 because of losses to the endowed accounts that support it. We hope to be able to resume the program in the near future. Please check back with us next fall.

Further information and application forms also are available by writing to Fellowship Program, The Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University, 811 S.W. Jefferson Avenue, Corvallis, OR, 97333-4506, or by calling 541-737-2450. Although the forms are available electronically, the finished application will include ten copies of the completed materials. Sorry, applications cannot be accepted by FAX.

EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR INTERNAL FELLOWSHIPS

Goals: This fellowship program is primarily concerned with offering research opportunities both for members of humanities departments as traditionally defined and for other scholars seriously interested in humanistic issues. Thus the primary emphasis is on individual research and writing. Besides the opportunity for time to read and write, these resident Fellowship awards are intended to promote an exchange of ideas among fellows during their tenure in the Center, and to encourage interaction between the fellows and the general community of students and faculty at Oregon State University. The fundamental concern of all Center programs is the vitality and quality of humanities research and teaching at Oregon State University. Primary criteria for evaluating Research Fellowship applications include the following:

Does the applicant clearly define the subject of study, the problem at issue within this subject, and present an appropriate method of carrying out this study within the proposed award period?

Is the expected outcome of this proposal made clear, i.e., the publication and/or other presentations of the results of study?

What is the probability that this award will prove successful in enabling the applicant to achieve those results?

Does this proposal lie within the bounds of the humanities as defined above?

Does the proposal present a convincing case for the significance of this study?