Description

The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry is pleased to open applications for our visiting faculty fellowship program. The program will host up to two fellows from local colleges and universities whose work advances our 2026-27 theme, habitat. Fellows will participate in a weekly interdisciplinary seminar, held in-person at our Center, and receive an honorarium of $2,000. If space allows, visiting faculty fellows may be eligible for office space.

We invite applications from full-time, continuing faculty in any humanistic discipline who are eager to be part of a community of scholars engaged in innovative and interdisciplinary research and conversations around our 2026-27 theme, habitat. The application deadline for applicants to submit their materials is January 16, 2025 at 11.59 PM ET.

habitat

The concept of habitat connotes both a physical place for living and the necessary conditions for thriving. Heidegger famously argued that to be human is to dwell. But what does it mean to dwell amidst environmental precarity, political displacement, and technological transformation? How have human relationships with the places we inhabit been experienced, negotiated, and imagined across different periods and geographies? How have we made sense of our surroundings and, in turn, formed our notions of home?

Human activity has long left its marks on our world-from the deforestation of medieval Europe to the sweeping planetary impacts of industrialization. At the same time, floods, wildfires, and earthquakes remind us that we are subject to forces beyond our control. As dwellers on Earth, we live not only among built structures and political borders, but also within multispecies and geological systems whose scales of time and complexity often exceed our comprehension. Poet Joy Harjo implores us to "remember the earth whose skin you are." Yet while we are imbricated in these systems, we are also storytellers and meaning-makers, describing, contesting, and reimagining the conditions of our existence.

We anticipate that our Fellows will approach the concept of habitat through diverse lenses on the human experience, including, but not limited to, environmental humanities, science and technology studies, Indigenous and postcolonial studies, and urban studies. Projects may examine moments of rupture and reconfiguration, ecological interdependence, forced migration, multispecies coexistence, or the politics of shelter and space in industrial and post-industrial environments. This year's theme invites inquiry into how we dwell-and what it might mean to dwell well-in a shared and uncertain world.

Qualifications

Applicants must be full-time, continuing faculty at institutions of higher education in the Atlanta area.

Application Instructions

To complete the online application, you will need to provide the following:

• Project description (1000 words maximum, including a timeline for the fellowship year)
• Curriculum vitae
• Email information for your department chair

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS

Project description:Applicants should describe the specific research/writing planned for the period of the fellowship, the expected output, and a detailed timeline. Describe in detail the project's engagement with the annual theme and how this work will benefit from and contribute to the interdisciplinary scholarly environment.

Letter from department chair: The applicant's department chair will be automatically notified via Interfolio to upload their letter of endorsement. Letters should be no longer than two pages and should indicate: (a) support for the applicant's participation in the Fellowship program; (b) an assessment of the contribution the applicant would make to the interdisciplinary research seminar and to the Center more broadly.

It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure that all required documents are uploaded to Interfolio and submitted. Incomplete applications cannot be considered after the deadline.

ACCEPTANCE PROCEDURES

Upon notification of a Faculty Fellowship award, recipients must agree to:

1. attend all Fellows' seminar meetings and thematic programming organized by the FCHI during their Fellowship;
2. submit a final report of progress to the Director at the end of the Fellowship;
3. acknowledge the FCHI in all work resulting from research and writing done during the Fellowship;
4. immediately notify the FCHI of any other support or of any conflicts with the restrictions and conditions of this Fellowship Program.

Please note: If for any reason a fellow's circumstances change and the grantee is unable to use the fellowship during the academic year for which it was granted, the Fellowship will be forfeited. If the project involves human subjects, approval from the proper Emory Institutional Review Board Committee (IRB) is required before Fellowship funding can be released. For more information, please refer to the IRB website: www.irb.emory.edu. The FCHI regrets that it is unable to provide any assessments of unsuccessful applications.

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