Our fellowship program is the cornerstone of our support for humanistic research. Our fellows spend a year in residence working to advance a major research project in dialogue with each other and with our annual theme. We invite applications from candidates who are eager to be part of a community engaged in innovative and interdisciplinary conversations. Our undergraduate honors fellowships, dissertation completion fellowships, and residential faculty fellowships are open to our Emory community. Our visiting faculty fellowships are open to faculty at institutions in the metro-Atlanta area. Our postdoctoral fellowships are open to early career researchers worldwide.
For academic year 2025-2026, the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry is pleased to invite applications from candidates engaged in our theme Life/Story, from any humanistic discipline, who are eager to be part of a community of scholars engaged in innovative and interdisciplinary conversations on what it means to capture a life.
How do the humanities capture a life, and in what ways does this genre—the craft of unearthing and rendering a life story—shed light upon key moments in time, social and political movements, critical junctures in history, or elements fundamental to a particular culture and place?
How are different methodologies and epistemologies mobilized in telling the story of a life that also offer broad social and political commentaries?
How does a single biography, in any medium, shed light upon central themes of the human condition?
We envision that fellows may pursue research employing a range of historical, contemporary, social, cultural, artistic, and philosophical approaches to capturing a life, including but not limited to oral and archival histories, ethnography, literary analysis, philosophy, creative writing and film.
Fellowship Information
Faculty Fellowships
The Fox Center hosts up to five internal faculty fellows each academic year. Up to four fellowship positions are available to tenured faculty in Emory’s College of Arts and Sciences and one position is available to tenured faculty in Emory’s professional schools and Oxford College. Faculty fellows are released from their university teaching and service commitments for the academic year.
The Fox Center hosts up to two Atlanta-area fellows from local Colleges and Universities for an academic year of study and residence in the Center.
Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Fox Center welcomes up to four postdoctoral fellows each academic year. Three positions are open field and one is in poetics. The postdoctoral fellowship in poetics reflects the importance of Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Book Library as a center for research in poetry.
The Fox Center, in partnership with Laney Graduate School, offers up to three Dissertation Completion Fellowships each academic year. Students enrolled in doctoral programs at Laney are eligible to apply for an academic year of residence in the Center to finish their dissertations. The fellowship is designed for students whose work is far enough advanced that the dissertation can be completed and approved during the fellowship year.
Applications for our 2025-2026 disseration completion fellowships are now open. Apply now via Interfolio!
Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellowships
The Fox Center awards up to twelve Undergraduate Fellowships to support students completing honors projects in a Humanities or Humanistic Social Science field. The goal of these Fellowships is to support undergraduates as they complete their theses, introduce them to the life of the Humanities, and provide a venue for interdisciplinary interchange, mentorship, and conference-style presentation.
