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Residential Fellowships

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 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.

Research Theme for 2025-26: Life/Story

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.

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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.

Visiting Faculty Fellowships

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.

Dissertation Completion Fellowships

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.

URC/Fox Center Partnership

The Fox Center is partnering with the University Research Committee (URC) to support up to two eligible URC awardees to be designated Fox Center Fellows.

URC-Fox Center Awardees will join a cohort of researchers engaged in projects connected to our research theme. They will participate in a weekly works-in-progress seminar (attendance in both fall and spring semesters is required) and may be eligible for office space in the Center.

Eligibility:

Must be an Assistant Professor at Emory University
Must be a URC grant recipient in the Humanities category
Must have proposal that aligns with the Fox Center’s 2025-26 research theme, Life/Story

To learn more about your eligibility, please visit the University Research Committee’s site.

Applying:

To apply, please apply through the University Research Committee’s portal and indicate in your Research Plan that you wish to be considered for a Fox Center fellowship. If awarded a grant by the URC, your application will be routed to the Fox Center for review.

*Please note: Indicating interest in a Fox Center Fellowship will not impact the outcome of your URC grant application.

Interested proposers can find full submission details and instructions within the program's Request for Proposals (RFP).

About the University Research Committee’s Request For Proposals

The URC promotes rigorous and innovative scholarship in all academic disciplines to benefit the Emory community and beyond. The URC supports:

Early career faculty on their path toward research independence
More advanced faculty who wish to engage novel questions that enhance their expertise
Teams of faculty who seek to transcend the boundaries of their respective disciplines and undertake transformative research

Proposals for research grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded in six categories:

Arts: Performing/Visual
Biological & Health Sciences
Humanities
Mathematics & Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
Special Category: Interdisciplinary proposals with 2 or more applicants - $40,000 maximum