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Dresher Center for the Humanities at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County

DRESHER CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY: The Dresher Center for the Humanities at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), invites applications for Visiting Faculty Fellowships as part of its Inclusion Imperative Program. Funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Inclusion Imperative is designed to support diversity and inclusion in humanities scholarship and curriculum. Applications are welcome from full-time faculty members pursuing humanities research at four-year colleges and universities in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

Fellowships will be awarded to scholars who are committed to diversity in the academy and to the advancement of groups historically underrepresented in the professoriat. Fellows will spend one semester or one academic year advancing their research while in residence at the Dresher Center. The Dresher Center provides research support and collegial conversation in a robust humanities center environment that includes public events and symposia, grants workshops, works-in-progress talks, internal residential faculty research fellowships, and graduate student fellowships.

In the 2022-23 academic year, two faculty members will be in residence at the Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC for a period of one semester and will receive a salary support stipend of up to $25,000. These fellows will have access to an office and to administrative and research development services in the Dresher Center, as well as to the Albin O. Kuhn Library and other UMBC events and facilities. This regional program does not provide funds for housing and transportation; however, each fellow will receive funding support of up to $1,250 for research and travel-related expenses.

For more information on the fellowship and the application process, please visit our FAQ:
https://inclusionimperative.umbc.edu/visiting-faculty-fellowship/faq/. If you have questions, please e-mail inclusionimperative@umbc.edu.