FREDERICK BURKHARDT FELLOWSHIPS
ACADEMIC YEAR 2009-2010
In the upcoming academic
year, the Institute will again take part in a program sponsored by the
American
Council of Learned Societies: the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowships.
These
fellowships support more adventurous, more wide-ranging and longer-term
patterns of research than are current in the humanities and related
social
sciences. Depending on the availability of funds, ACLS will provide
funding for
up to nine recently tenured faculty, most of whom will spend a year
at one of several residential research
centers, including the Institute for Advanced Study. A scholar applying
in the
current competition must normally have begun his/her tenured contract
at a U.S.
institution no earlier than the fall 2004 semester or quarter.
Applicants must
submit a research plan typically covering a three to five year period,
during
which time one year could be spent as a Member at the Institute, either
in the School
of Historical Studies
or the School
of Social Science. Qualified candidates who
would like to apply
for affiliation with either School of the Institute for Advanced Study
under
the auspices of this program should visit the ACLS website
(www.acls.org) for a
more detailed description of the terms of the fellowship and
information about
how to apply. Applications for this program must be submitted through
the ACLS
Online Fellowship Application system (OFA) by October 2, 2008. OFA is
accessible at http://ofa.acls.org
or through the ACLS website.
Please
note that the Burkhardt Fellowship Competition is in
addition to the School’s fellowship program and
that one does not have to
be
recently tenured to apply for the School’s awards.