The Institute for Humanities Research Fellows Program

Deadline 03/22/2010

Description

The purpose of the 2010-11 Institute for Humanities Research Fellowship at Arizona State University is to engage humanities scholars from various disciplines in addressing and analyzing the role of the humanities in illuminating—and possibly enriching scientific inquiry into—human origins. One theme for the fellowship entails analysis of what it means to be human from a humanities perspective and what, if anything, comes closest to explaining human uniqueness. Is it language, consciousness, creativity, spirituality, or the imagination? Or is our species distinguished primarily by our particular forms of violence and cruelty? Or is it something else? By the same token, to what extent are humans not unique? How are we to understand the significance of the fact that we are human animals? Can the humanities offer models for cross-species inquiry?

The IHR Fellows program provides annual funding for two research teams (of two to three faculty members per team) to: 1) engage in research related to the annual theme for a calendar year, starting in May 2010; 2) share their research with the academic community (via lectures, a conference or symposium); and 3) produce a strong application for a large external grant. Each ASU Fellows team may request up to $45,000. That amount must include a one-course buyout in the 2011 spring semester for each PI/Co-PI, and may provide a summer stipend for one or more scholars.

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