Four recent Guggenheim Fellowship winners will provide a panel discussion of how they approached the grant competition, plus Q&A with participants. The featured panelists will be Myriam J.A. Chancy, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities at Scripps College; John Cort, Professor Emeritus of Asian and Comparative Religions at Denison University; Pradip Malde, Professor of Art at the University of the South; and Philip Metres, Professor of English at John Carroll University. 

This webinar should be useful for faculty at liberal arts colleges who are interested in applying for the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 (or further into the future) and would like a sense of how colleagues at liberal arts colleges have approached the competition. The Guggenheim is a fairly unusual fellowship, so this webinar may provide some helpful insights even for faculty who are seasoned grant applicants.

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Three recent American Council of Learned Societies’ Fellowship winners (Eduardo Moncada, assistant professor of political science at Barnard College; Christina Neilson, associate professor of Renaissance and Baroque art history at Oberlin College; and Brent Rodríguez-Plate, professor of religious studies and media studies at Hamilton College–project abstracts available at the links) will provide a panel discussion of how they approached the grant competition, plus Q&A with participants.

This webinar should be useful for faculty at liberal arts colleges who are interested in applying for the ACLS Fellowship and would like a sense of how colleagues at liberal arts colleges have approached the competition. The next two rounds of the ACLS Fellowship are restricted to untenured faculty members who earned their PhDs no more than eight years ago. All of our panelists received the award as untenured faculty, which we hope will make their advice particularly relevant to this year’s applicant pool.

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The Office of Grants and Contracts congratulates Assistant Professor of History and Director of Davidson in India, Sarah Waheed, on a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award.

The Fulbright fellowship in India funds six months of research for the project “Chand Bibi Sultan: Why a Medieval Muslim Queen from Southern India Matters Today.”  In researching the life of a 16^th century queen, Professor Waheed intends to highlight the prominent role of women leaders “challenging the narratives of an India long characterized by perpetual Hindu-Muslim conflict, where Muslim women, if they figure in them at all, largely exist on the margins or ‘behind the veil’ as oppressed victims of enduring patriarchy.”

In addition to the Fulbright fellowship, Professor Waheed has also been awarded an American Institute of Pakistan Studies fellowship in support of her research on the impact of the coronavirus on women, workers, and religious minorities in Pakistani cities.

The Making of Modern Brazil

The Imagination and Imaginal Worlds in Buddhism

City of Print:  New York and the Periodical Press

Radio and Decolonization:  Bringing Sound into 20^th Century History

The Visual Culture of the American Civil War and its Aftermath

Engaging Geography in the Humanities

David Hume in the 21^st Century:  Perpetuating the Enlightenment

Worlds in Collision:  Nahua and Spanish Pictorial Histories and Annals in 16^th Century Mexico

Emmanuel Levinas:  Ethics of Democracy

The Office of Grants and Contracts is available for guidance or to review your application.  Contact Mary Muchane at ext. 2644 to schedule an appointment.

The workshop will be held April 24, 2019 in the Robins School of Business, Ukrop Auditorium from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. This event is free, but pre-registration is required to guarantee space. A limited number of one-on-one consultations with an NEH program officer will be offered from 2pm – 5pm (use registration link to reserve your consult session; offered on a first-come, first-serve basis).

Stefanie Walker, NEH’s senior program officer for the division of research programs will lead the workshop. Walker will provide an overview of NEH programs and initiatives, share strategies for proposal development, and moderate a mock panel session.

For questions about this workshop, please contact Brenda Thomas, director of grant support, at (804) 289-8005 or bthomas2@richmond.edu.