FELLOWSHIP: Joff Hanauer Endowment for Excellence in Western Civilization

Posted on | April 15, 2011 | No Comments

If you would like to be considered for the Joff Hanauer graduate fellowship, submit the following materials to the English Graduate Office BY APRIL 22, 2011:

1) Cover letter
2) A separate description of how your research and teaching plans engage Western Civilization (see below)
3) curriculum vitae

QUESTIONS–Ask Brian Reed or Kathy Mork

Call for Applications

Joff Hanauer Endowment for Excellence in Western Civilization

Applications are now open for six supplemental graduate fellowships in the amount of $5000 for the period Sept. 15, 2011-June 15, 2012 for graduate students whose work and research involves Western civilization. Hanauer Fellows will participate in a bi-monthly seminar led by Jane K. Brown, Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor for Western Civilization. The goals of the program are to foster excellent work in the Western tradition and to help prepare teachers from different disciplines who have well-reasoned convictions about the place of Western civilization in the curriculum of an American liberal arts institution. The seminar enables students from different disciplines to work together and understand the commonalities and differences in their disciplinary perspectives. The activities of the group will be determined in part by the specific interests of the fellows. Fellows will help plan a speakers program, and will be encouraged to remain connected with the program after the term of their fellowship.

Successful applicants will demonstrate a strong record of achievement and commitment to critical study of Western culture as a whole or to some specific aspect of it in a context that generates reflection on Western civilization and/or its place in a global context.

Applicants should submit 1) a letter outlining their record of achievement and commitment to studying Western civilization, and of their preparation for engaging with disciplines outside their own; and 2) a separate description of how their research and teaching plans engage the topic. This description might include exam and/or dissertation topics, your vision of your teaching career.

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