Cox Family Visiting Scholar/Artist Fellowship: Spring 2009
Deadline for applications: must be postmarked by January 18, 2008
**Please note: CHA will not solicit applications for a Spring 2010 Visiting Scholar/Artist. We will resume the application process in AY 2009-10 for a visitor in Spring 2011.**
The Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA) at the University of Colorado at Boulder is pleased to announce a competitive research fellowship for the Cox Family Visiting Scholar/Artist. Founded in 1997, the Center for Humanities and the Arts serves as a focus for humanistic scholarship and artistic creation across the University of Colorado at Boulder and helps bring that work to the campus, the state, the nation, and the scholarly world.
Eligibility
The Center for Humanities and the Arts will award one visiting fellowship for Spring 2009. (This is in addition to the approximately four faculty and four graduate student fellowships available to members of the University of Colorado at Boulder community.) Applicants must hold the rank of Associate Professor or above, or equivalent. Applicants should be able to point to important scholarly and/or artistic achievements as well as to a project to be pursued during the fellowship. Projects are welcome that connect with any field in the humanities and arts. CHA particularly encourages interdisciplinary projects that are likely to engage scholars and/or artists across a range of departments.
The Fellowship
The fellow is asked to be in residence at the University of Colorado at Boulder for the Spring 2009 semester (January to May), to engage in the work of CHA, and to contribute to the University's intellectual community. The fellow will present a talk to the university community and will be invited either to teach a graduate seminar or to work with a faculty research group. The fellow will be the Spring 2009 Cox Family Visiting Scholar/Artist.
CHA will provide the fellow with a stipend of $33,000 to be paid monthly as wages over the spring semester with federal and state taxes, social security, etc., withheld. In addition, the fellow will receive a $1000 research account and be provided with an office, phone, and library privileges; CHA will supply office support (fax, photocopying, etc.). The University of Colorado does not provide the fellow with moving expenses, a parking permit, physical fitness membership, nor health insurance; however, the fellow may purchase health insurance on an individual basis through the University of Colorado's Payroll and Benefits Services. Fellows may hold other support during their fellowship; please note such support in the application.
Selection Process
CHA's Steering Committee, comprised of an interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars from across the campus, reviews proposals and decides on the award of the fellowship. CHA seeks applicants with a demonstrated record of excellence in scholarship or creative work who are engaged in an important project of interest to a wide range of colleagues and disciplines.
Application Instructions
Applications should include the following items, in this order:
- Application Cover Sheet for Cox Family Visiting Scholar/Artist (MS Word document)
- Curriculum Vitae -- please limit to three (3) pages
- Project Description: 1000 words maximum, plus a brief (1-2 pages) bibliography. Please double space, in a typeface of at least 12 pt. The project description will be the main evidence the evaluators will have about the project. Please provide a description of your project that will be clear to a selection committee of scholars from a wide range of disciplines. State the objectives of your project and its significance to work in the field: what is the new knowledge or creative work that will result? Indicate where you are in your project and what you hope to accomplish while on the fellowship (will a book result? an essay or essays? etc.) Please describe how this project will contribute to the humanities and arts in general. Attach a brief (1-2 page) bibliography of work relevant to your project.
- Proposed Intellectual Contribution (MS Word document)
- References: on Application Cover Sheet for Cox Family Visiting Scholar/Artist
Please note that the deadline for applications is January 18, 2008. The selection committee's consideration of applications postmarked after that date cannot be guaranteed.
Please send to:
Center for Humanities and the Arts
Visiting Scholar/Artist Committee
University of Colorado
280 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0280
By fax: (303)735-2624
By email: paula.anderson@colorado.edu
