Frances Spratt Graduate Fellowship

2012-2013 Call for Applications

The Calgary Institute for the Humanities (CIH) was established at the University of Calgary in 1976 to foster advance study and research in a broad range of subject areas reflecting its multi-disciplinary and multi-faculty orientation. It supports research in traditional Humanities disciplines such as languages and literature, history, religious studies, philosophy, as well as in philosophical and historical aspects of the social sciences, arts, sciences, and professional studies. The humanities are not conceived as a specific group of academic disciplines, but as forms of study that examine what is human - typically guided by literature, history, social and physical settings, artifact, visual and performing arts.

Purpose

The Calgary Institute for the Humanities invites applications for a Graduate Student Fellowship to be held at the Institute for up to eight months beginning September 1, 2012. Graduate students in the final phase of their Ph.D. dissertation are eligible for this Fellowship, and the dissertation should involve a topic that reflects the academic mandate of the Institute as outlined above. Awards are subject to budgetary approval. The Fellowship is not renewable.

The Graduate Student Fellow will have an office in the Institute with limited administrative support. The Fellow 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 presentations and written publications that result from the research supported.

Eligibility

Applicants at the time of tenure will be registered as full-time students and they must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents. Normally students will be from Alberta Universities.

The stipend is $5,000 Canadian.

Application procedure

An electronic PDF version of the application must include:

a curriculum vitae;
a detailed statement of the research proposal in a form that makes the applicant's research project understandable to experts in their own discipline;
a descriptive title and abstract of 150 words directed to an interdisciplinary adjudication committee; and
a brief statement from the applicant's supervisor indicating the Department is aware of the application.

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

Applicants are to provide names of three scholars whose opinion the Institute may seek. The Institute normally solicits additional external assessments. The applicant's list of assessors is to be submitted on a separate page with current email addresses as this will be our means of contacting them.

Deadline for Applications