WSU Faculty Funding Programs

RESIDENT SCHOLARS PROGRAM
This program is open to all WSU full-time faculty in the humanities, arts, and related disciplines. Resident scholars are provided with an office in the Humanities Center, a computer, and other office furnishings, and use of the Center's fax and photocopying machines. Residents are also eligible to apply for up to $800 for travel to conferences to report on their approved projects, or for payment for research assistance. This program should be especially attractive to faculty who will be on sabbatical leave for all or part of the year. Tentative Deadline: July 9, 2010.

FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS
The Faculty Fellowship competition is based on an annual theme. The Humanities Center’s Advisory Board selects the theme and prepares an explication for our Faculty Fellowship Competition. Awarded Fellowships now average $6,000 and recipients are expected to participate in the annual Faculty Fellows Conference held in the spring of the following year. The theme for the 2010 competition will be Gender and Sexuality. Deadline: April 9, 2010. Winners of the 2008-2009 competition, The Environment, have been announced.

OPEN COMPETITION GRANT
The Humanities Center strives to be as open and inclusive as possible in its annual competitions and to offer a variety of rich and broad themes and topics. However, the Center also recognizes that some themes or topics inadvertently might exclude important and exciting research at a critical time in its development. The intent of the "Open Competition" grant, then, is to compensate for these unavoidable exclusions. The proposed project makes an interdisciplinary and innovative contribution to the humanities or arts, does not conform to guidelines for other competitions sponsored by the Humanities Center and is at a critical point in its development toward publication. All WSU full time faculty are eligible to apply. The Center will fund up to three (3) projects up to $4,000 each . Applications are due November 13, 2009.

WORKING GROUPS IN THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS
Three or more faculty members, or faculty and graduate students, from at least two different departments meet regularly throughout the academic year to pursue a shared scholarly or creative interest. Groups will meet regularly (preferably in the Humanities Center) to share work in progress, to read and discuss texts, and otherwise address issues that arise in their own work or in the increasingly interdisciplinary humanistic and creative fields. Deadline: October 2, 2009.

Contact the Director: walter.edwards@wayne.edu