BACKGROUND
Summer
Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that
contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public's understanding
of the humanities. Applicants may be faculty or staff members
of colleges, universities, or primary and secondary schools;
they may also be independent scholars or writers. Award recipients
usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized
subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports,
translations, editions, or other scholarly tools. Projects
may be completed during the tenure of the award or be part
of a long-term endeavor. (Award Total: $6000 for
two months)
ELIGIBILITY
- Applicants
do not need to have advanced degrees. However, individuals
currently enrolled in a degree-granting program are ineligible
to apply. Applicants who have satisfied all the requirements
for a degree and are awaiting its conferral may apply, but
such applicants must request that the dean of the conferring
school write a letter attesting to the applicant's status
as of May 1, 2004. This letter must be FAXed to the Summer
Stipends program at 202-606-8204.
- Individuals
who have held a major fellowship or research grant or its
equivalent within the last three academic years prior to
the deadline are ineligible. A "major fellowship or research
grant" is a postdoctoral research award that provides a
stipend of at least $10,000. Sabbaticals and grants from
an individual's own institution and stipends and grants
from other sources supporting study and research during
the summer are not considered major fellowships.
- Individuals
who have previously received a Summer Stipend may apply
to support a new stage in their project or a different project.
These applications receive no special consideration and
will be judged by the same criteria as others in the competition.
Previous recipients, however, must wait five years from
the time they received their award to reapply.
BARUCH'S
NOMINATION PROCEDURE
- All
eligible faculty must prepare an abstract (no more than
120 words) and a project narrative addressing the suggested
questions in the guidelines (no more than three single
spaced pages and 1785 words).
- All
proposals must be submitted to the SPAR office on or before
the internal deadline.
- The
Summer Stipend Committee will meet to discuss the submitted
proposals.
- The
Committee will then select two applicants for final submission
to NEH.
- The
WSAS Dean will contact each selected nominee regarding the
committee's recommendations for the submission.
RECENT
AWARDEES
Summer
2003
Professor
Alison Griffiths, Communications Department
Summer
2004
Professor
Thomas (TJ) Desch-Obi, History Department
Summer
2005
Professor
Noriko Watanabe, Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
Department
Last
Updated:
06/04/2008
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