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Application Deadline: February 23, 2007
(page updated 12/12/06)
Associate Professors and Professors
in departments of the arts and humanitieis (Art and Art History, Classics, English, History, Modern Languages and Literatures, Music, Philosophy, Religion, or Theater and Dance), and in humanities-related disciplines in the College of Arts and Sciences, may apply for a Senior faculty Fellowship. The fellowship releases her or him from all teaching responsibilities for the fall semester in order to participate in the Baker-Nord Seminar and to conduct research related to the Seminar theme. Up to four Senior Faculty Fellowships will be awarded for the fall of 2007. Applicants will prepare a research proposal that will explain their research plans vis-à-vis the theme of the seminar. All monies/support associated with this award must be expended by March 30, 2008.
Application Deadline
Applications, which must include a "Request for Leave" form signed by the department chair, must be received in the Baker-Nord Center by February 23, 2007. An interview is required as part of the application process.
A selection committee will nominate up to four finalists to the Dean of Arts and Sciences by the end of February. Fellowship recipients will be notified of the awards by the Baker-Nord Center director after the leave requests have been approved at the department, College and university levels. It is anticipated that such notifications will be made by the end of April or mid-May.
For a description
of the Baker-Nord Seminar program, of which the Senior Faculty
Fellowships are a part, click here .
It is anticipated that Senior Faculty Fellows will assume a leadership role in the seminar. The Center has no set expectations of particular outcomes from
the Seminar. Our hope is that the Seminar will take on a life
of its own, invigorating the intellectual lives of its participants
by providing an interdisciplinary and genuinely collegial context
in which to discover new avenues of critical inquiry. In the
case of the Senior Faculty Fellows, it is further expected that
the Seminar will support and advance their current research
and writing in progress.
The Baker-Nord Center
welcomes applicants to consider how their own scholarly work
in progress would tie into and expand on this theme in ways
that open up new avenues for research and creative work in the
humanities.
General Overview
- Available to Associate Professors and Professors
in departments of the arts and humanities (Art and Art History,
Classics, English, History, Modern Languages and Literatures,
Music, Philosophy, Religion, or Theater and Dance) and in
humanities-related disciplines within the College of Arts
and Sciences at Case.
- Funds will be provided by the Baker-Nord Center to the fellow's department with the approval of department chair, College and Provost in order to release her or him from all teaching and administration
responsibilities during Fall 2007.
- Up to four Senior Faculty Fellowships will
be awarded.
- Completed applications must be submitted
by February 23, 2007.
- Decisions will be announced during February
2007.
- Final Report: A final report, from those receiving awards, will be due to the Baker-Nord Center by January 15, 2008. Copies of the report will be shared with the Fellows' chairs and the College of Arts and Sciences. The report is to detail the Fellows activites during the seminar and projected outcomes.
Eligibility
- The applicant must be an Associate Professor
or Professor in a department of the arts or humanities (Art History and Art, Classics, English, History, Modern Languages
and Literatures, Music, Philosophy, Religion, or Theater and
Dance) or in a humanities-related discipline within the College
of Arts and Sciences at Case.
- The applicant must have had no other paid
research leaves during the 2005-06 or 2006-07 academic years.
For purposes of this application, a paid research leave is
considered to be a fellowship or grant (any amount) which
effectively released the faculty member from all teaching
responsibilities for one semester or more. Sabbatical leaves
do not count as paid research leaves in this example. The Senior
Faculty Fellowship may be combined with a scheduled sabbatical
leave pending approval of department chair, College and Provost.
- The applicant must be committed to full participation
in the Fall Baker-Nord Seminar.
- The applicant must express genuine interest
in engaging the general theme of the seminar in a
collegial, interdisciplinary intellectual environment and willing to assume a leadership role in the seminar.
- The applicant must be willing to advise the
Baker-Nord Center on its plans for Humanities Week in the
spring. The theme for Humanities Week will be related to the
seminar theme.
- Senior Faculty Fellows will write a final report on their experience in the seminar and progress on their own projects. The report is due January 15, 2007.
Application Procedure
Completed applications will include the following:
- Application
cover sheet
- A proposal (max. 5 pages, double-spaced,
12-point font, 1-inch margins) that answers the following
questions: (a) What is your project? (b) How does your project
relate to the theme? (Feel free
to add to, or expand on, the Center's general explication of
this theme.) (c) How would participation in the seminar serve
your larger research project? (d) How would the supported
leave time serve your larger research project? The proposal
also must include a statement of commitment to full
participation in the Seminar, including willingness to assume a leadership role in the seminar and to share
work in progress with the other seminarians and willingness
to advise the Center on plans for Humanities Week in the spring.
- A short bibliography (max. 1 page) of works
relevant to your project.
- A curriculum vitae.
- A completed CAS Request for Leave form, signed by the applicant's department chair.
- An interview.
- A
letter from the applicant's department chair indicating agreement
to release the applicant from teaching during the fall of
2007 (replacement funds to be provided by the Baker-Nord Center
). The letter also should indicate, briefly, the chair's support
for the project.
Questions? Contact Timothy K. Beal, Director.
Mail complete application packets to:
Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities
Senior Faculty Fellowships
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106-7120
Campus deliveries to:
Clark Hall Room 101, Loc. Code 7120
Packets must be received by February 23, 2007.
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