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Humanities Center
Faculty Fellowship Competition
The Humanities Center sponsors an annual Faculty Fellowship
Competition on a specific theme. Fellowships provide Wayne State
University faculty with summer funding to help pay for expenses
related to their research projects including travel, research assistance,
salary and fringe benefits. All WSU full-time faculty in the humanities,
arts, and related disciplines are eligible to submit proposals,
except those who have received funding from the Center within the
last two years. Details on the 2010-2011 competition, on "Gender
and Sexuality," can be found below. Recipients of awards for
the 2009-2010 competition on "The Environment" have
now been announced.
2010-2011 Theme:
"Gender and Sexuality"
Please click here to view the Gender and Sexuality flier
Fifteen (15) copies of the application and
CV should be submitted to the Director, Humanities Center,
by 5:00 PM on April 9, 2010. Each application
must have an application coversheet. (Coversheet and guidelines
can be downloaded on the left.)
EXPLICATION:
Since the introduction of feminist theory to the
academy in the 1970s, studies of gender and sexuality have become
among the most rapidly evolving, influential, and pressing areas
of scholarly inquiry and political activism. This year’s Humanities
Center Faculty Fellowship Competition encourages projects in the
areas of genders, sexualities, their representations and asymmetrical
power structures. Inherently interdisciplinary, this work allows
us to better understand the overlapping intersections among identities,
behaviors, experiences, histories, and cultures. For example, recognizing
representations of early modern crossdressing can provide context
for and insight into contemporary genderqueer identities. In the
domain of visual art, exploring the work of artists like Artemisia
Gentileschi or Frida Kahlo provides us with complex ways of rethinking
the female body, violence, sexuality, and cultural identity. This
work can also cross the traditional boundaries between theory and
praxis, as academic research impacts communities, curricula, and
policy. For example, the urgency of examining the marginalization
of and violence towards women within the dominant masculinist context
of warfare—past and present—might perhaps be best expressed
by considering the current ongoing systematic rape of women in the
Democratic Republic of Congo, which has already claimed some 500,000
victims. In our own community, theorizing technologies of gender
can enable new methods for considering the experiences of women
and men in Detroit’s manufacturing crisis.
The Humanities Center welcomes applications from all
disciplinary perspectives, on topics related to the broad topics
of gender and sexuality. Some possible topics include:
The Faculty Fellowship awards grants of up
to $6,000 for summer salary, research assistants, travel or a combination
of these.
Fifteen (15) copies of the application and CV should
be submitted to the Director, Humanities Center, by 5:00
PM on April 9, 2010. Each application must have an application coversheet.
The Humanities Center
Attn: Walter F. Edwards, Director
2226 Faculty/Administration Building
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
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Congratulations
to the recipients of the Humanities Center's 2009 Faculty Fellowship
Competition Awards:
Dora Apel, Art and Art History
Eric Ash, History
Victor Figuroa, CMLLC
Richard Grusin, English
Guerin Montilus, Anthropology
Bruce Russell, Philosophy
John Strate, Political Science
Anca Vlasopolos, EnglishE
Monica White, Sociology
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