Brief Description:

Description:

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites Harvard University to submit one proposal in consideration of the 2018 Sawyer Seminar opportunity.

The Sawyer Seminars are a vehicle to bring together faculty, foreign visitors, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from a variety of fields mainly, but not exclusively, in the arts, humanities and interpretive social sciences, for intensive study of subjects chosen by the participants. This programs aims to engage productive scholars in multi-disciplinary and comparative inquiry that would (in ordinary university circumstances) be difficult to pursue, while at the same time avoiding the institutionalization of such work in new centers, departments, or programs.

Sawyer Seminar awards provide support for one postdoctoral fellow to be recruited through a national (or international) competition, and for the dissertation research of two graduate students. It is expected that the graduate students will be active participants in the intellectual life of the seminars. The seminars' contributions to graduate education in the humanities and social sciences will be carefully considered even though they are not intended to be organized as official credit-bearing courses.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research is facilitating an internal competition to select the proposal that will go forward to the Mellon Foundation in consideration of the 2018 Sawyer Seminar opportunity.

Application Information:

Interested applicants are asked to submit the following (this information will appear again within the electronic application)

A one page pre-proposal, 10 point font minimum, that briefly addresses:

The originality and significance of the central questions to be addressed

The cases to be compared (e.g., nations, regions, social aggregates, time periods) and the rationale for the comparisons that are selected

The thematic "threads" that will run through the seminar

A current CV (no preferred format)

A budget narrative (budgetary guidelines from the Mellon Foundation are available here)

Additional Information, Related Websites, and Proxy Instructions:

Additional information about the AW Mellon Foundation's 2018 Sawyer Seminar opportunity is available here

Applicants with questions should contact the Research Administration department at the school where they hold a primary appointment. A list of contacts by school is available here

Contact Information:

For questions about this application, please contact Jennifer Chow at jennifer_chow@harvard.edu

Search Filters:

Institution

Harvard Business School
Harvard Divinity School
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Graduate School of Design
Graduate School of Education
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Law School
Harvard Medical School (Quad)
Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM)

Type of Competition

Limited Submission

Discipline

Arts
Humanities
Multidisciplinary
Social/Behavioral Science

Type of Award

Program/Curriculum Development
Scholarship