Summer 2013 Awardees

Rebecca Adelman (MCS):  “The Shadow Rules of Engagement: Visual Practices, Citizen-Subjectivities, and America’s Global War on Terror”

Kathryn Bell (Visual Arts):  “Mapping Memory: Sherman’s March and America”

Amy Bhatt  (GWST): “At Home in Globalization: Gender, Labor and the Migrant Household”

Christine Mallinson (LLC) “Minding the (Opportunity) Gap: Building Partnerships with Schools of Education to Address Systemic Language-Based Challenges in STEM Education

Marjoleine Kars (HIST) “Gendering Rebellion: Women and the Berbice Slave Uprising, 1763-1764”

Susan McCully (Theater/GWST), Eva Muson (Theater) Michele Osherow (ENGL/Judaic Studies

“Leah’s Dybbuk: Adapting and Revisioning Ansky’s Play through a Feminist Lens”

Summer 2012 Awardees

Craig Saper (LLC): “Biography of Robert Carlton Brown (1886-1959)”

Edward Larkey (MLLIC) “Transculture Television in Germany”

Elizabeth Walton (DANCE) “Paul Taylor Revealed: The Man Behind the Dance”

Summer 2011 Awardees

Tamara Bhalla (AMST): “Between History and identity: Readers, Recognition and Authenticity in South Asian- American Literature and Community”

Christopher Corbett (ENGL): “The Borderland of Fable: Myth in the Nineteenth Century American West” Preminda Jacob (VisArts): “The City Beautiful Movement in Chennai, India: Contemporary Mural Painting Confronts Urban Blight”

Previous Summer Faculty Fellows

Dresher Center Summer Faculty Research Fellow Application Process

The Dresher Center for the Humanities invites applications for research support as a  Dresher Center Summer Faculty Research Fellow. Dresher Center Summer Reserach Fellows will receive support* and assistance for developing proposals intended either to lead to their securing extramural funding for their research activities related to applying for grants or fellowships in the humanities or for working toward the completion of a book manuscript or project of similar stature.

Summer Research Fellows will receive a $6,000 stipend during the summer of 2012 to support their proposal writing efforts. Summer Faculty Research Fellows are required to submit an application for external funding or the completion of a major project to the Dresher Center ONE WEEK prior to the start of the fall semester. The Dresher Center will then review applications and/or research reports to assist the Fellow in revisions prior to the application’s submission to the CAHSS Dean, OSP and the funding agency or the submission of the manuscript or project.

Proposals are welcome and will be considered from all full-time tenure-track faculty pursuing humanities research in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.  Applications are especially encouraged from, but not limited to, full-time faculty with appointments in the Humanities disciplines.

Applications will be judged on the following criteria:

• Quality of proposed project and significance in its field;
• Likelihood of the project proposal benefitting from this SFRF assistance and the grant application attracting external support or the project finding a publisher;
• Evidence of having sought out appropriate funding match for external grant or fellowship application or having made overtures toward a publisher
• Likelihood of a proposal for funding being successfully developed within the summer of the grant-writing fellowship or project making significant headway toward publication;
• Qualifications of the faculty member to develop the proposal/research project during the summer and carry out the work of the project.

All proposals must have the recommendation of the faculty member’s department chair.  Interested faculty members should complete the application linked below.

Summer Faculty Research Application

For more information contact:
Dr. Beverly Bickel
Dresher Center for the Humanities
Performing Arts and Humanities Building 217

X56798
bickel@umbc.edu

*Funds supporting this initiative are provided by the Dresher Center for the Humanities, the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and the Office of the Vice President for Research.