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Humanities Express
- Publisher: College of Humanities of The Ohio State University
- Volume IIII Issue 5
- May 2008
- Humanities Express Home
Humanities Program Spotlight:
From L-R: Associate Dean Sebastian Knowles, Professor of English David Herman, and Saul Fisher, director of ACLS Fellowship Programs
The College of Humanities welcomed Saul Fisher, Director of Fellowship Programs for the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), to lead a workshop on external fellowships in April. Fisher has as firm a grasp of issues in higher education from information technology to the economics of the university as anyone working in and for the academy today; he spoke about individual research opportunities through the ACLS and other national award programs, about the grant process generally, and about ways to optimize an application's chance of success in fellowship competition. After some brief comments by Associate Dean Sebastian Knowles on the College's subsidy program for external fellowships, David Herman, recent winner of an ACLS Fellowship, then spoke directly from experience on how to tailor one's proposal to meet the demands of a review committee.
Next year, the College will have three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows (Richard Dutton, Karen Winstead, Cynthia Brokaw), two ACLS Fellows (David Herman, Theodora Dragostinova), an American Philosophical Society Fellow (Steven Conn), a National Science Foundation winner (Philip Brown), and a Guggenheim Fellow (Judith Mayne) on its faculty, along with faculty on fellowships at Princeton (Sigrun Svavarsdottir), Vanderbilt (Maurice Stevens), Rutgers (Andreà Williams), Stanford (Stephanie Shaw), and Yale (Lilia Fernandez). This is a track record that few other colleges can match, and one of which the College of Humanities is justifiably proud. Judging by the many faculty in attendance, and the positive feedback after the event, the workshop was extremely useful in developing proposals that will bring faculty closer to significant fellowship awards, and the more significant reward of time to complete their research projects.
Workshop Ensures Fellowship Record Remains Strong
From L-R: Associate Dean Sebastian Knowles, Professor of English David Herman, and Saul Fisher, director of ACLS Fellowship Programs
Next year, the College will have three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows (Richard Dutton, Karen Winstead, Cynthia Brokaw), two ACLS Fellows (David Herman, Theodora Dragostinova), an American Philosophical Society Fellow (Steven Conn), a National Science Foundation winner (Philip Brown), and a Guggenheim Fellow (Judith Mayne) on its faculty, along with faculty on fellowships at Princeton (Sigrun Svavarsdottir), Vanderbilt (Maurice Stevens), Rutgers (Andreà Williams), Stanford (Stephanie Shaw), and Yale (Lilia Fernandez). This is a track record that few other colleges can match, and one of which the College of Humanities is justifiably proud. Judging by the many faculty in attendance, and the positive feedback after the event, the workshop was extremely useful in developing proposals that will bring faculty closer to significant fellowship awards, and the more significant reward of time to complete their research projects.
