The Humanities Fellowship Advisor
Project Services
The fellowship advisor will help you to identify appropriate funding sources for your research project, refine and articulate the aim and scope of your project, and write a clear and persuasive fellowship proposal. In reviewing your proposal the advisor will respond critically, serving in the role of a non-specialist member of a fellowship review panel.
Supplemental Funding for In-Residence Fellowship Awards
The Office of Research provides supplemental funding for UTK tenured and tenure-track faculty members who receive competitive fellowship awards that require residence at an academic research center, library, or university. This supplemental funding covers housing costs in the city of the residential research institution, and limited travel costs to and from Knoxville. The amount of the supplemental award varies according to individual circumstances. How to apply.
Funding Opportunities By Department
View the links below for funding opportunities in your discipline. Please be sure to check the website of the institution for the latest information regarding the opportunity.
- Art & Music
- Classics
- English
- History
- Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Philosophy
- Religious Studies
Funding Opportunities by Source
The National Research Council recognizes fellowships from 20 funding agencies and foundations when ranking humanities departments, and we encourage faculty members to pay special attention to these agencies when considering funding sources:
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- American Academy in Rome
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Antiquarian Society
- American Council of Learned Societies
- American School of Classical Studies at Athens
- Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford)
- The Folger Library
- Ford Foundation
- Fulbright Fellowships
- The Getty Center
- Guggenheim Fellowships
- Huntington Library
- Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton)
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Gallery of Art (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts)
- National Humanities Center
- Newberry Library
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars
We are, of course, happy to work with faculty members who wish to pursue other options, and we encourage you to visit the following websites to gain additional information about funding possibilities:
- Townsend Center for the Humanities, the University of California, Berkeley
- Hall Center for the Humanities, the University of Kansas
- Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the University of Notre Dame
Contact Procedure
Faculty members wishing to participate in this project should email Alan Rutenberg, at least six weeks in advance of any deadline.