Relevant to Humanities and Humanistic Social Science Scholars who received doctorates between 2006 and 2012
The Andrew Mellon Foundation has indicated that it will consider one application from UBC this year for its New Directions Fellowship.
The Mellon Foundation describes the goal of the fellowships as follows:
“New Directions Fellowships assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who seek to acquire systematic training outside their own areas of special interest. The program is intended to enable scholars in the humanities to work on problems that interest them most, at an appropriately advanced level of sophistication. In addition to facilitating the work of individual faculty members, these awards should benefit scholarship in the humanities more generally by encouraging the highest standards in cross-disciplinary research.”
An interest in cross-disciplinarity is central to success with this opportunity, as is the ability to make a strong case for the necessity for training outside one’s discipline in order to successfully advance one’s research agenda.
The Faculty of Education may nominate one candidate to be assessed by the Office of the VP Research & Innovation for the University nomination. Applicants should email Robert Olaj in the ORE a project summary (300 words) and a C.V. (any format) by September 4 for the Faculty adjudication. The top-ranked application will move forward to the VPRI adjudication on September 7. If selected as the University nominee, the candidate will be notified on September 10. The nominee will then have until October 5 to prepare the full application package. It should be noted that the application involves a non-trivial amount of work and there is no flexibility in the timeline. Please direct questions to Dr. Mark Beauchamp, Associate Dean Research and Robert Olaj, Research Facilitator.
A list of previous New Directions Fellowships recipients may be found on the Mellon Foundation’s website.
