FHC Faculty and Student Research Fellowships

FHC Faculty & Student Research Fellowships fund independent faculty or student projects as well as collaborative faculty-student research projects and creative activities in the humanities and the arts or humanities- and art- related fields.

Such projects and activities include but are not limited to the following:
co-authoring essays, conducting archival research, translating primary texts for publication, conference travel for developing projects, hosting public colloquia or seminars, and collaborating on public, community, and mediated humanities and arts projects.

Fellowships typically support problem-focused research in the humanities and original creative projects in the arts that are likely to have broad impacts in their fields and beyond.

Awards will be granted to projects led by individual arts and humanities faculty, majors, or interdisciplinary teams that include at least one faculty member or student from an arts or humanities discipline. Awards can also be granted to students in humanities or arts classes as well as non-humanities or non-arts majors working on research and creative projects adjacent to the arts and humanities.

Awards may cover the cost of materials (except for hardware, usually including software subscriptions and books or purchases of personal equipment), expenses related to production or publication, and travel to conferences or other sites of presentation (after exhausting traditional university travel funding, and/or when traveling with students). NB: Honoraria are not awarded through this fellowship.

Fellows may be asked to share works-in-progress briefings with one another and the university if not the wider public.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until funds have been exhausted, not to exceed $5000 per recipient over three years. The application should speak to the points above (type of research or creative activity, how the project addresses a specific problem and impacts other fields/publics, participants, and itemized budget categories).

Submitters should budget responsibly and be advised that additional funding on a given project is not likely to be granted.

Projects will be shared on the Furman Humanities Center website, with recipients responsible for creating significant content for sharing at the completion of the project (typically the end of the semester in which the work was accomplished).

When feasible, fellows will be invited and strongly encouraged to join other FHC research fellows to share, celebrate, and raise awareness of FHC research projects in a CLP panel (typically close to the close of a semester or academic year).

Recipients will be required to provide documentation stipulating how the fellowship funding was used and to what ends. Please offer progress reports to humanities@furman.edu at the close of each semester--not later than the last day of classes, providing an itemized list of expenses processed and for any planned future expenses.