ANNOUNCING THE 2010-2011 HUMANITIES CENTER DISSERTATION/THESIS FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION
The Syracuse University Humanities Center is pleased to announce two competitive Dissertation/Thesis Fellowships, available for the 2010-2011 academic year and awarded to dissertation students in the Humanities in The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University.
The deadline for the application and all supporting materials is April 2, 2010. A link to the online-application can be found below. Any supporting materials and documents will need to be submitted via email to humcenter@syr.edu, and the advisor’s letter must be delivered to the Humanities Center, 301 Tolley.
Further details regarding application requirements can be downloaded in a PDF of the announcement. If you have any questions please contact Karen Ortega at kmortega@syr.edu or call 315 443-7192.
link to online application
(Note: This link serves as part one of the application. Other materials must be submitted to humcenter@syr.edu and to the Humanities Center).
fellowships & faculty research awards
“I am very pleased to have been able to begin the HC Fellowship program this year, which I see as one of the primary missions of the Humanities Center to support faculty and student research. I am particularly thankful to the Deans in helping the Center support our best graduate students engaged in interdisciplinary Humanities and creative projects. The HC Fellowship will afford them a sustained period of time to complete their academic projects and their affiliation with the SU Humanities Center will allow these individuals to engage in conversations around their work with faculty and graduate students from across the University,” —Gregg Lambert
Fellows: The SU Humanities Center supports and provides space for Fellows to carry out their research and to share their work with the larger intellectual community through lectures, symposia, seminars, performances, or other types of presentation.
SU HUMANITIES CENTER DISSERTATION/THESIS FELLOWSHIP (2009-2010): one year awards carrying stipend and benefits comparable to fellowships by The College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) and the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA), and are generously supported this year by Dean George M. Langford, CAS and Dean Ann Clarke, CVPA. All projects show strong humanistic content and contribute to advancing study and/or creative work in the Humanities. [DOWNLOAD PDF]
Fellows will be affiliated with the SU Humanities Center during the period of the fellowship and will be expected to present their work or lead colloquia on their research or creative project that will engage other faculty both in their field and from other disciplines. Fellows will also participate actively in Humanities Center research activities and events.
2009-2010 HC Graduate Fellows are:
Aaron A. Blum (VPA, Department of Transmedia—Art Photography)
Title of Project: “Between Worlds”
Project Description: Photographic exploration of the Appalachian region of West Virginia using artist’s own memories and new insights to construct photographic interpretations of various stereotypes (social, cultural, racial) that have determined the region in the public mind. As the artist writes, “The fiction representation of West Virginia is unrealistic, but like most stereotypes there is some truth behind the generalizations. In my photographs I create a narrative illustrating how West Virginia exists somewhere between fictional views expressed by Hollywood and non-fictional views based on personal memory and experience.”
KJ Rawson (A&S, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric/LGBT)
Dissertation Title: “Archiving Transgender”
Description: Research and investigation of the practices involved in archiving transgender materials from communities, asking how these practices also function rhetorically. Three existing archives are examined and discussed in the dissertation, including The Sexual Minorities Archive in Northhampton, MA, the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, and the National Transgender Library and Archive in Ann Arbor, MI.
Jonathan Singleton (A&S, English)
Dissertation Title: “The Suspension of (Dis)Belief: Novel and Bible in Victorian Society”
Description: Historical analysis of the politics of biblical quotation in Victorian literature and Culture and the manner in which writers capitalized on the unacknowledged instabilities of contemporary religious discourse. Drawing upon diverse archival sources (such as religious pamphlets, sermons, radical tracts, and personal letters) the dissertation focuses on the works by Bronte, Gaskell, Eliot and Thomas Hardy.
SU HUMANITIES CENTER INTERNAL FACULTY FELLOWS (Beginning Spring 2010)
*note: there are no faculty fellowships being awarded for fall 2010 at this time
Awards carry a one-semester, one course reduction to complete a proposed research or creative project and to contribute to Humanities Center research activities. The fellowship is not defined as a “research leave,” according to the terms and conditions of The College, and faculty will be expected to contribute service to their departmental unit or program, and must receive approval for course reduction from the Chair or Director prior to submitting the application. The award does not carry course-replacement costs, which must be assumed by the department; a travel stipend or research burse may accompany the award, if funds are available. For Spring 2010, two faculty fellows will be appointed in The College of Arts and Sciences and one each from the Maxwell School and the College of Visual and Performing Arts (Faculty from other Schools or Colleges, or who are not at Syracuse University, are not eligible). Fellows will be expected to present their work or lead colloquia on their research or creative project that will engage other faculty both in their field and from other disciplines. Fellows will also participate actively in Humanities Center research activities and events.
Elizabeth Cohen, Assistant Professor, School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Maxwell
Book Project: Citizenship, Naturalization and Jus Soli in Calvin’s Case
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, A&S
Project: A cross linguistic investigation of verb agreement in copular sentences
Amos Kieve, Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, VPA
Book Project: Unsolved Civil Rights Era Murders: High School Outreach
Bruce Smith, Professor of English (Poetry), A&S
Book Project: The Devotions