Visiting Scholars Project
Proposals
Call for proposals from tenure-track faculty members of all ranks in the Humanities
Deadline: May 15, 2010
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The UTK Office of Research, in cooperation with the Humanities Initiative, announces the second installment of a new program, the Visiting Scholars Program, intended to bring to our campus a significant number of scholars in the United States who are among the leading figures in their fields in the humanities. We propose to sponsor six visiting scholars in the 2010‐2011 academic year.
Any tenure‐track faculty member in the humanities may nominate a visiting scholar. Because this program seeks to identify leading scholars based on their recent work rather than on work celebrated in decades past, the nomination proposal should justify the invitation based on the scholar’s current contribution to his or her field.
We expect that each visiting scholar will deliver a public lecture intended for a broad departmental ‐‐ if not interdepartmental ‐‐ audience of faculty and students, both graduate and undergraduate. Departments will issue invitations and will be responsible for publicity and all other arrangements. In addition, as part of the effort of the Humanities Initiative to professionalize graduate students, we expect that each visiting scholar will participate in an advanced graduate seminar through a discussion of his or her recent work. Finally, we expect that the schedule for the visiting scholar’s visit will include ample time for sustained, private intellectual exchanges between the nominating faculty member and the visiting scholar.
Nomination proposals should include:
- A brief description of the current state of your own specific scholarly field, and a compelling case for the importance and prominence of the visiting scholar’s recent contributions to your field.
- The visiting scholar’s recent publications as well as major awards, fellowships, and other professional recognition.
- A description of your own recent publications and work in progress, discussing their place in your field, and explaining how your work would benefit from the visiting scholar’s visit.
- A description of an advanced graduate seminar that the visiting scholar will attend, explaining how the discussion of the scholar’s recent work will contribute to, and be integrated into, the graduate seminar.
Visiting scholars will receive, along with all expenses, an honorarium depending on rank: $1,000 for junior scholars at the rank of assistant or associate professor, and $1,500 for senior scholars.
Proposals should be emailed by 5pm on May 15, 2010 to Alan Rutenberg, Director, Proposal Development, Office of Research, at arutenberg@utk.edu. The selection committee will include representatives from the Office of Research and The Humanities Initiative committee or its designees.
Faculty members should direct any questions to Alan Rutenberg.