THE MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF FELLOWS has 3-year
fellowships in the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Professions for 2016-2019.
The fellowships are held at the University of Michigan with an annual stipend
of $55,000. Applications are due on September 29th, 2015.
The Michigan Society of
Fellows was founded in 1970 through grants from the Ford Foundation and
Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies for the purpose of
promoting academic and creative excellence in the
humanities, the arts, the social, physical, and life sciences, and in
the professions. In 2007, the Mellon Foundation awarded a grant to add
Mellon Fellows in the humanities. The objective of the Society is to
provide financial and intellectual support for
individuals holding advanced degrees in their fields, who are selected
for their outstanding achievement, professional promise, and
interdisciplinary interests. We invite applications from qualified
candidates for three-year fellowships at the University of
Michigan.
Candidates should be near the beginning of their professional careers.
Those selected for fellowships must have received the Ph.D. degree or comparable artistic or professional degree between June 1, 2013, and September 1, 2016.
Fellows are appointed as Assistant
Professors in appropriate departments and as Postdoctoral Scholars in
the Michigan Society of Fellows. They are expected to be in residence in
Ann Arbor during the academic years of the fellowship, to teach for the
equivalent of one academic year, to participate
in the informal intellectual life of the Society, and to devote time to
their independent research or artistic projects. This is not an
artist-in-residence program but rather an opportunity to develop one’s
work in conversation with fellows from a range of
disciplines during the three years of the fellowship. Applications from
degree candidates and recipients of the Ph.D. or comparable artistic or
professional degree from the University of Michigan will not be
considered.
Applications will be
reviewed by Society members and University faculty. Final selections
will be made in late January by Senior Fellows of the Society. Fellows
will be selected for three-year terms to begin
September 1, 2016. The annual stipend will be $55,000.
The online application is available at:
http://societyoffellows.umich.
email: society.of.fellows@umich.edu