The Humanities Center offers various opportunities for faculty to develop and deepen their scholarship and teaching related to the humanities.
Faculty Research Seminars
Intellectual life at Carleton is at its most vital when faculty scholars are debating new ideas that shape their ongoing research/artistic production. The Humanities Center at Carleton seeks to encourage these integrative, cross-disciplinary connections through Faculty Research Seminars.
Year-Long Faculty Research Seminar
While reading pertinent theoretical and critical works centered on a common theme, participants in the annual Seminar (known as Faculty Fellows) work on their own individual research/artistic projects over the course of one academic year. The ensuing conversations with like-minded faculty are meant to prompt and provoke Faculty Fellows to advance in their scholarly and creative endeavors.
The multidisciplinary group promotes excellence and innovation in scholarship and creative work. The Fellows present the results of their intellectual/artistic inquiry to the rest of the campus through a public forum (Dialogos) the year following the Seminar.
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Term-Long Faculty Research Seminars
The Term-Long Faculty Research Seminars provides support for one term to a) small groups of interdisciplinary faculty who b) complete humanistic research projects that c) they want to sustain and deepen over the course of a term.
Faculty research projects can be at any stage of development, but the selection committee will prioritize groups where members are closer to producing a research output of some form.
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Grants
Humanities Connections NEH Grant
The Humanities Connections grant aims to build curricular connections between the humanities and STEM by providing seed grants and curricular innovation grants to faculty to develop co-taught classes.
Seed grants provide stipends of $250 to each of two faculty members (one in STEM, one in humanities) to explore the possibility of developing a co-taught class. Minimal additional funds are available for supplies (e.g. books).
Curricular innovation grants provide stipends for up to four weeks of full time work two two faculty over the summer to develop a co-taught class. Faculty need not have applied for a seed grant before applying for a curricular development grant.
While the Humanities Center will provide funding for curricular innovation grants, individual faculty must talk with the Provost and their departments about how collaborative teaching fits into their teaching plans.
Apply for a Seed Grant
Apply for a Curricular Innovation Grant
Manuscript Workshop Grant
The Humanities Center Manuscript Workshop Grant provides up to $5000 for a humanities professor with a (near) completed manuscript to invite 2-3 outside experts (including developmental editors) to campus for a one-day workshop to provide substantial feedback on the manuscript. The seminar will be moderated by a Carleton faculty member of the grant recipient’s choosing.
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Ethical Inquiry Grants
Ethical Inquiry at Carleton funds two kinds of curricular innovation grants for professors looking to integrate ethical inquiry into their classes.
Student Research Partnerships (SRPs)
The Humanities Center funds faculty-student research during Winter break and over the summer through Student Research Partnerships (SRPs). These partnerships provide an opportunity for students and faculty to work closely and collaboratively for their mutual benefit.
Under the auspices of the Humanities Center, faculty members involve students in substantive areas of their research during the winter or summer breaks either at Carleton or abroad. (Student Research Partners are different from Student Research Assistants, which are not funded through the Humanities Center)
