Brief Description:

Description:

The Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship is designed to celebrate and empower faculty who embrace public engagement as part of their scholarly work. The fellowship funds ambitious, often collaborative projects to infuse into public life the richness, profundity, and nuance that give humanities their lasting value.
Harvard University, as a single institution, may nominate up to two applicants to this opportunity. The Office of the Vice Provost for Research is facilitating the internal process to identify candidates.

The Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship consists of an award of $50,000 designed to be flexible to the needs of the project proposal. Applicants should note that those who wish to secure leave of a full semester or more, the rate by the fellowship to an institution for a semester of leave is up to $40,000; in cases where $40,000 does not fully cover half of the nominee's annual salary and benefits, the Foundation expects that the home institution will ensure that the fellow continues to receive both without interruption. Such longer term leave must be taken before the end of summer 2019.

Application Information:

Eligible applicants are asked to submit the following (this information will be repeated again within the body of the electronic application)

A working title of the proposal

A project overview: Provide a compelling summary of your public-facing project, making clear the humanities content, intended public, form of engagement, and key partners, activities and desired outcomes. Indicate the project's status and any work already completed. Two pages max, single spaced, 10 point font minimum. Associated graphics/references may be placed on blank pages at the conclusion of the overview

A current CV

Eligibility Criteria:

To be eligible for nomination an applicant must

Be a humanities professor who took up tenure between fall 2012 and fall 2017

and/or

Be a full time, untenured humanities professor with at least two full years of service at Harvard University

Additional Information, Related Websites, and Proxy Instructions:

The Whiting Foundation website

Applicants with questions about this funding opportunity and other research funding related topics are encouraged to contact the Research Administration office at the school where they hold a primary appointment. A list of contacts by school is available here

Technical problems with the application portal should be brought to the attention of Autumn Bennett in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research.

Contact Information:

For questions about this application, please contact Autumn Bennett at autumn_bennett@harvard.edu

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Institution

Harvard Business School
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Position

Jr.Tenure Track Faculty/Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Professor/ Senior Faculty

Type of Competition

Limited Submission

Discipline

Humanities

Type of Award

Fellowship
Sabbatical