Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry: Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellowship Grant

Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry: Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellowship Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Emory University
Last Updated: March 13, 2026

Summary

The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University offers Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellowships to support students pursuing honors projects in Humanities or Humanistic Social Science. With a focus on interdisciplinary engagement, these fellowships provide mentorship and a platform for students to present their work. The initiative aims to deepen undergraduates' understanding of the Humanities while fostering a vibrant intellectual community. Applicants are encouraged to align their projects with the annual theme of Democracy: Past, Present, Future.

Overview

NOTE: A letter of recommendation from your honors project advisor is required before the deadline of May 15, 2026 8:59pm PDT.  This is represented by the pre-proposal deadline above. Incomplete applications will not be considered after the deadline. Who We Are The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (FCHI) is Emory University's hub for the Humanities, advancing research, writing, and creative works among faculty research fellows, postdoctoral fellows, PhD completion fellows and undergraduate honors research fellows. The Center convenes scholars across a wide range of disciplines, methods, and modes of creative practice, fostering individual and collaborative research as well as public engagement. We are dedicated to rigorous humanistic inquiry and an engaged intellectual community which reaches beyond the walls of the Center. Our Mellon-funded publishing initiative amplifies humanistic research through support for the open access publication of new monographs and events that bring authors into meaningful conversations with their audiences. Each year the Center anchors its programming and recruitment of Fellows around a central theme. For this academic year, our theme will be Democracy: Past, Present, Future. What We Do The FCHI is a focal point for humanities endeavors at Emory University and serves to advance research and teaching, overall, in the humanities. The FCHI serves both those trained in the humanities and also others in the University who are interested in humanistic issues. The FCHI is dedicated to providing occasions and spaces for encouraging intellectual community and scholarship across disciplines. In addition to offering broad general support to those engaged in humanistic research across the University, the FCHI runs an annual residential Fellows program to support immersive, long form humanistic scholarship. The Fellows Program welcomes Senior Fellows from Emory's tenured faculty and faculty visiting from Atlanta area institutions,  Emory Undergraduate Honors Fellows and Dissertation Completion Fellows, as well as Post-Doctoral Fellows selected from other institutions.  Fellows enjoy an academic year of research and scholarship, intellectual engagement and programs focused on the annual theme. FCHI Fellows take active roles in the life of the Fox Center and in the intellectual life of the larger University. The Fox Center is a hub for the development of novel methodologies, digital scholarship and publishing, and innovative interdisciplinary approaches to humanistic work and public engagement. Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellowships The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry will award up to twelve Undergraduate Fellowships to support students completing honors projects in a Humanities or Humanistic Social Science field. The goal of these Fellowships is to support undergraduates as they complete their theses, introduce them to the life of the Humanities, and provide a venue for interdisciplinary interchange, mentorship, and conference-style presentation. The Fox Center's Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellowship is a selective program for Emory undergraduates who are undertaking honors research of the highest quality in humanistic and artistic disciplines. Each year we select a number of fellows whose projects engage our annual theme to join our interdisciplinary community of scholars and benefit from mentorship, research funding, and training in research skills.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website.