Applications have opened for non-UMBC faculty to apply for the Inclusion Imperative's 2021-2022 Visiting Faculty Fellowship! Please share with your colleagues at other institutions. If you are a full-time UMBC faculty member interested in becoming a collaborator to the 2021-2022 fellows, please contact us at inclusionimperative@umbc.edu

Accepting Applications for 2021-2022 Visiting Faculty Fellows

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The Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC invites applications for Visiting Faculty Fellowships as part of its Inclusion Imperative Program. Funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Inclusion Imperative is a five-year initiative to support diversity and inclusion in humanities scholarship and curriculum. Applications are welcome from full-time faculty pursuing humanities research at four-year colleges and universities in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

Fellowships will be awarded to scholars who are committed to diversity in the academy and to the advancement of groups historically underrepresented in the professoriate. Fellows will spend one semester or one academic year advancing their research while in residence at the Dresher Center. The Dresher Center provides research support and collegial conversation in a robust humanities center environment that includes public events and symposia, grants workshops, works-in-progress talks, internal residential faculty research fellowships, and graduate student fellowships.

Faculty will be in residence at the Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC for a period of either one semester or one academic year and will receive a salary support stipend of up to $50,000 (one year) or $25,000 (one semester). They will have access to an office and to administrative and research development services in the Dresher Center, as well as to the Albin O. Kuhn Library and other UMBC events and facilities. This regional program does not provide funds for housing and transportation; however, each fellow will receive funding support of up to $2,500 for research and travel-related expenses.

For more information on the fellowship and the application process please visit our FAQ.

Applications are due by January 15, 2021. Nomination and recommendation letters are due by February 1, 2021 (please review and follow the application instructions for these letters).

Questions: email inclusionimperative@umbc.edu