Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere
College of Arts and Sciences
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University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
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Call for Proposals
The Center for the Humanities & the Public Sphere is pleased to announce its call for proposals for 2010-2011. These programs will be supported by the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities and the Jerome A. Yavitz Fund. The Center encourages proposals submissions from faculty (and, in relevant instances, graduate students) from disciplines across the humanities at the University of Florida.
Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching in the Humanities (deadline 15 January 2010)
The Center has sponsored this pilot program in conjunction with the University of Florida Honors Program to encourage faculty members in different departments and colleges to collaborate in the classroom. Faculty members will thereby have the opportunity to create innovative undergraduate interdisciplinary courses in the humanities, many of which would be difficult or impossible for a single faculty member to teach independently. The inspiration for this project is the belief that establishing relationships between faculty in separate disciplines is a long-term undertaking. However, the intensive experience of co-teaching a course from different disciplinary perspectives will create new synergies in the classroom and encourage faculty members from across the university to find new possibilities for connectivity and potential collaborative research or creative projects in and related to the humanities. The Center plans to create six team-taught courses in spring 2011.
Support for Workshops and Speaker Series in the Humanities (deadline 29 January 2010)
In order to support some of the best and most exciting work taking place within the humanities and to build bridges between the humanities and related fields, the Center sponsors collaborative exchanges between faculty and students by supporting workshops and speaker series that promote interdisciplinary themes and highlight faculty and graduate student achievements. Organizers will use funds to invite innovative faculty from outside the University to participate in these collaborations with resident faculty, students, and members of the wider community.
Summer Fellowships in the Humanities (deadline 12 February 2010)
With the objective of supporting ranked faculty advance their careers, the Center will begin offering fellowships to tenure-track and tenured faculty in the humanities in summer 2010. These grants will allow recipients to make significant progress on existing creative/research projects. Although the competition for Summer Fellowships in the Humanities will be open to faculty of all ranks, special consideration will be given to those whose projects will directly support their bids for promotion to associate or full ranked status. The Center expects to be able to fund five awards of $3000 in 2010.
Library Enhancement Program in the Humanities (deadline 19 March 2010)
This grant program allows faculty to expand the existing University of Florida library collections in areas in and related to the humanities that are currently underserved. Resources may include print, digital, or audio-visual media that enhance scholarly research and teaching in the humanities as well as related disciplines. Requests that address the needs of broader constituencies of the University beyond the immediate applicants are judged especially favorably. This year, the Center expects to be able to award three grants of up to $5000.
Public Humanities (under development)
The Center is currently developing a program that will enhance existing collaboration between the University of Florida and communities on and off campus. Given the University’s enormous resources in human expertise, the Center intends to foster, support, and publicize humanities initiatives that foster public scholarship and civic engagement.
The documents above describe these programs in greater detail and list the application procedures. Any queries about these initiatives may be sent to the Center Director, Bonnie Effros, at beffros@ufl.edu. Completed proposals should be sent by electronic attachment to humanities-center@ufl.edu.
