The UConn Humanities Institute (UCHI) and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) are excited to offer year-long fellowships for undergraduate students pursuing innovative research in the humanities.
Donor Name: University of Connecticut
State: Connecticut
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 02/24/2023
Size of the Grant: $2,000
Details:
The fellowship supports a year-long research project supervised by a UConn faculty member. The project should explore big questions about human society and culture and should lead to an original contribution to your area of study. The exact parameters (length, format, etc) will be set by your faculty advisor. Depending on your major and your academic and professional plans, your project may consist of a scholarly research project or a creative product with a significant research component. At the end of the year, students will submit the final project to their faculty advisor, UCHI, and CLAS.
Benefits
Fellows will be welcomed as members of the Humanities Institute, a lively community of accomplished faculty and graduate student scholars conducting advanced research in the humanities. In addition to immersion in this intellectual community, the fellowship offers:
- A $2,000 scholarship
- A desk/work area at UCHI, located conveniently in Homer Babbidge Library for conducting research
- Bi-weekly check-in meetings
- A public presentation about the project at UCHI in the spring semester
- Participation at UCHI’s events (for example, presentations by visiting scholars and artists) and special opportunities to meet with such visiting speakers
- A field trip or cultural excursion (for example, a visit to a museum or archive) to be announced during the year
- The opportunity to present your work at the Humanities Undergraduate Research Symposium the fall following your fellowship year
- 6 credits for the academic year, through the successful completion of one 3-credit independent study each semester with the UConn faculty member supervising your project
- (For non-Honors students) Admission into the Honors Program through the successful completion of this program, if other Honors admissions criteria are met.
Eligibility Criteria
- Fellowship applicants should be rising sophomores or rising juniors in good academic standing (that is, students who will be sophomores or juniors in Fall 2023). Rising seniors are also eligible to apply, but preference will be given to students earlier in their degrees.
- Fellows from all campuses are welcome. But fellows are expected to be on the Storrs campus for their bi-weekly meetings. In the event that campus is closed for public health reasons, these meetings will be held virtually and the fellowship will be conducted remotely.
- The proposed project should be humanities research. Broadly speaking, the “humanities” means the study of human society and culture. Humanities majors or minors typically include but are not limited to: Africana Studies; American Studies; Anthropology; Art and Art History; Asian and Asian American Studies; English; History; Human Rights; Journalism; Latino and Latin American Studies; Philosophy; Sociology; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
For more information, visit University of Connecticut.
