The FSU Humanities Center awards up to four faculty fellowships each year. The fellowship includes a course release and research funding. Fellows collaboratively explore the designated FSU Humanities Center topic for the fellowship year while advancing their own specific projects. They attend lectures and the annual conference as well as other FSU Humanities Center gatherings. Fellows present their research to the FSU Humanities Center community in informal settings such as lunches or workshops. Each fellow contributes to a publication on the topic. Fellows must be in residence for the duration of their appointment to the center.
Faculty Fellowships 2027-2028
The FSU Humanities Center invites applications for FSU faculty fellowships from scholars whose research projects reflect on the 2027-2028 theme of Authenticity. The center welcomes projects that examine how the genuine, the original, and the true have been defined, contested, and performed across periods and cultures. Possible areas include forgery and provenance, sincerity and the self, translation and adaptation, historical reconstruction and performance practice, the authority of sacred and canonical texts, mimesis and expropriation, and the challenges posed to authenticity by reproduction and artificial intelligence. Project fit with the theme is a central selection criterion.
Four faculty fellowships will be awarded. Fellows' appointments are subject to the consent of their department chair and the approval of the dean. Applicants should inform their department chair of their intention to apply and obtain a brief letter of support committing to release from teaching. Applicants must be in at least their second year of tenure-track employment in order to apply for a faculty fellowship. Faculty from the following FSU departments are eligible: art history, classics, English, history, modern languages and linguistics, musicology, music theory, philosophy, religion and theatre and performance research.
Appointments are for one year: Aug. 23, 2027 to Aug. 5, 2028. During their term, fellows receive a course release and research funding of $1,250.
Fellows at the FSU Humanities Center are “in residence” and are required to participate in the center’s events, which occur at least once a week throughout the year. These include lectures, the annual conference, work-in-progress workshops, podcasts, lunches and receptions. At the end of the residential year, each fellow is required to deliver a scholarly product connected to the annual theme. In most cases, this will be an article that will be gathered for publication into an edited volume, although other products, such as an exhibit or media project, might be an option.
Application Instructions
Please submit the following application materials to this form by Dec. 31, 2026. Please submit materials in a single PDF in the order listed below, with the file name “Faculty Fellowship Application - Last Name.”
- A curriculum vitae.
- List of the leaves and fellowships you have held in the past three years.
- From the Department/Program Chair, a brief letter of support committing to release from one course upon receipt of a fellowship.
- A 200-word abstract describing the research project the applicant would like to pursue during the term of the fellowship.
- A detailed statement of the research project (1500 words). Applicants may also include a one-page bibliography of the materials essential to the project.
- The name of a referee who will supply a letter, who should be a scholar at another institution. Please inform your referee of our focal theme, your proposed plans for research, and ask them to send their letter electronically to humanities.center@fsu.edu by Dec. 31, 2026.
We stress the importance of being able to consult all materials on time. Letters from distinguished referees at other institutions are extremely important. We add that the FSU Humanities Center gives special weight to candidates' descriptions of their proposed research and the contribution it might make to exploring the year's theme.
Kindly direct questions to humanities.center@fsu.edu.