University of Calgary

Annual Fellowship Competition

2012-2013 Call for Applications

The Calgary Institute for the Humanities was established as a university-level research institute at the University of Calgary in 1976.  It fosters advanced study and research in a broad range of subjects reflecting its multi-disciplinary and multi-faculty orientation.

The Humanities Institute supports research in traditional humanities disciplines such as languages, literature, history, religious studies, and philosophy, as well as in philosophical and historical aspects of the social sciences, sciences, arts, and professional studies.  The humanities are not conceived as a specific group of academic disciplines but include all forms of study that examine what is human - typically guided by literature, history, social and physical settings, artifact, visual and performing arts.

Purpose

Fellowships normally provide partial release from teaching duties to facilitate concentration on a research project. Successful applicants must be free from administrative responsibilities and teach at a reduced course load during the Fellowship. Funding for partial release from teaching will be a matter of arrangement between the Institute and the Fellow's Department and Faculty. No stipend will be paid directly to Fellows.

Annual Fellows will be expected to conduct their research at the Institute. They will be expected to share their research in a public lecture and in an in-house seminar, and to involve themselves in the community of scholars working at the Institute. The Institute's support should be acknowledged in all oral and written publications that result from the research supported.

Eligibility

The Calgary Institute for the Humanities invites applications for Fellowships to full time faculty at the University of Calgary to conduct research at the University during the academic year 2012-2013. All scholars with teaching appointments at the University that continue through the 2012-2013 academic year are eligible to apply. Awards are subject to budgetary approval.

Full-time faculty of the University of Calgary who have previously held an Annual Fellowship are eligible for an additional Annual Fellowship five years after the completion of their previous Annual Fellowship. Applications from previous Annual Fellows will not be considered separately but will be considered within the pool of all applications. In addition to considering the merits of the new project, however, special attention will be paid to the productivity resulting from the prior Fellowship.

Applications: Two Staged Application Process

Letter of Intent Stage

An electronic PDF version of the application must include:

  1. A descriptive title and abstract (maximum 2 pages and a short bibliography);
  2. Names of five scholars whose opinion the Institute may seek. CIH normally solicits additional external assessments.  The applicant's list of assessors should include current email addresses as this will be our means of contacting them.

Due Date:  September 19, 2011

Formal Application Stage

An electronic PDF version of the application must include:

  1. a curriculum vitae;
  2. a detailed statement of the reserarch proposal in a form that makes the applicant's research project understandable to experts in his or her own discipline;
  3. a descriptive title and abstract of 150 words directed to an interdisciplinary adjudication committee; and
  4. a brief statement from the applicant's Head of Department indicating the Department is aware of the application.

To be submitted to the Institute at cih@ucalgary.ca.

Due Date:  October 14, 2011 

Term of Fellowship

The term of the fellowship will normally be one year.  The fellowship will commence September 1, 2012.

Submission of Letter of Intent and formal Application

Letter of Intent and applications are sent to the Director, The Calgary Institute for the Humanities, the University of Calgary (telephone: 220-7238);  (e-mail: CIH@ucalgary.ca); (web page: http://www.ucalgary.ca/cih/).  The results of the competition will be made known early in the new year.