Deadline: 15 October 2011
Open to: scholars in the humanities who received or will receive their Ph.D. between December 2003 and December 2011
Stipend: $46,500, plus health insurance, plus research fund of $2500
Five (5) one-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships are available for the 2012-2013 academic year for untenured scholars in the humanities who received or will receive their Ph.D. between December 2003 and December 2011. The fellowship is open to all scholars, national and international, who meet application terms.
The programs of the Penn Humanities Forum are conceived through yearly topics that invite broad interdisciplinary collaboration. For the 2012–2013 academic year, Peripheries is set as the theme. Humanists and those in related fields are invited to submit research proposals on any aspect of this topic.
Eligibility
- For the 2012–2013 Fellowship, candidates must have received or will receive their Ph.D. between December 2003 (not before) and December 2011. You must have your degree in hand or have passed your defense no later than December 2011 to be eligible.
- The Ph.D. is the only terminal degree eligible (i.e., MFAs and other doctorates such as EdD are ineligible).
- During their year in residence, Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows will have the opportunity to pursue their own research. That research must relate to Peripheries, the Forum’s topic of study for 2012–13. Fellows must also participate in the weekly Mellon Research Seminar of the Penn Humanities Forum (Tuesdays, 12:00–2:00), and present their research at one of those seminars.
- Preference will be given to candidates whose proposals are interdisciplinary, who have not held a comparable postdoctoral fellowship elsewhere or enjoyed previous use of the resources of the University of Pennsylvania, and who would particularly benefit from and contribute to Penn’s intellectual life.
Stipend
Fellows teach one undergraduate course in addition to conducting their research. The fellowship stipend is $46,500, plus health insurance. Fellows also receive a research fund of $2500. Fellows are required to be in residence during their fellowship year (September–May).
Application
1. Application form and CV
- Complete the Application Form. Save your completed application as a PDF. Your application file name should read only: your last name_first initial.pdf (smith_p.pdf)
- Prepare a curriculum vitae. Your c.v. file name should read only: cv_last name_first initial.doc (cv_smith_p.doc)
Submit application and CV HERE.
2. Arrange for three (3) letters of recommendation
The letters should be submitted by the referees online using Reference Letter Submission Forum
File name should read only: last name_first initial_REFS LAST NAME.doc or .pdf (smith_p_JONES.doc or smith_p_JONES.pdf)
Applications will be accepted online only. Applications sent by post or email will be considered ineligible.
Deadline for the submission of the application and the letters of recommendation is 15 October 2011.