Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts: Humanistic Studies Grant

The Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts offers postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities, fostering interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching. Committed to diversity, the Society invites applications from individuals with various experiences, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds. Fellows engage in research and teaching, contributing to a collaborative academic community. This prestigious fellowship includes opportunities for local and international field trips, workshops, and events aimed at enriching the educational experience for undergraduates in the Program in Humanistic Studies.

The Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts seeks to support innovative interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship and teaching in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. Each year, the Society chooses a new cohort of postdoctoral Cotsen fellows, who are appointed for three year terms to conduct research and to teach in a home department, often also a program, at the University. The thirteen Cotsen fellows are joined by Princeton faculty members who participate in the Society as faculty fellows. Meeting regularly for formal and informal discussion, seminars, lectures, and reading groups, the fellows in the Society pursue new knowledge and understanding within and across disciplines and aim to advance intellectual exchange across the University community.
From its beginnings, the Society has been committed to building a community of postdoctoral fellows and faculty with a great diversity of experiences and perspectives, and to creating a collaborative environment for inquiry, debate, and groundbreaking scholarship. Its array of open and discipline focused fellowships has included a fellowship in LGBT Studies (since 2005, generously supported by the Fund for Reunion/Princeton BTGALA) and a fellowship in Race and Ethnicity Studies (since 2006, with support of Princeton's President and Dean of the Faculty). For all fellowships, the Society welcomes a diverse and international pool of applicants, especially those from historically underrepresented backgrounds.
Fellowship in Humanistic Studies
This fellowship is supported jointly by the Humanities Council and the Society of Fellows and is open to candidates in the humanities disciplines represented in the Society. The fellowship’s responsibilities include research and teaching, one course each semester in the first and second years, one course in the third year. Courses are offered in a fellow’s host department and cross listed with the Program in Humanistic Studies, possibly additional programs. In the fall semester of the first two years, the fellow will join a faculty team to co-teach in the Humanities Sequence, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages. The fellow will be called upon to lead or contribute to occasional activities designed to build a sense of community among undergraduates in the Program in Humanistic Studies, which offers local and international field trips, an undergraduate society, workshops and other opportunities.

Eligibility

Applicants may apply only once to the Princeton Society of Fellows.Applicants holding the Ph.D. at the time of application must have received the degree in the specified time frame. Applicants not yet holding the Ph.D. must have completed a substantial portion of the dissertation – at least half - at the time of application. Successful candidates must fulfill all requirements for the Ph.D., including filing of the dissertation, by time frame specified. Applicants may be considered for more than one fellowship category pertinent to their research and teaching.

Ineligibility

Applicants who already applied to the Princeton Society of Fellows may not apply a second time.We therefore recommend that applicants wait to submit an application until they have completed a substantial portion of the dissertation (at least half).Candidates for/recipients of doctorates in Education (Ed.D. or Ph.D. degrees), in Jurisprudence, the DMA, and candidates for/recipients of Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University are not eligible to apply.