Residential Research Fellowships

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Residential research groups (RRGs) are at the heart of UCHRI's activities, convening key scholars to work in collaboration on interdisciplinary topics of special significance. UCHRI promotes new scholarship in the humanities by fostering collaborative inquiry outside institutional and disciplinary structures. RRGs are in essence teams of researchers, often unknown to each other before residency, and assembled to work on a commonly defined research agenda. They are composed of a range of UC faculty, visiting scholars (including UC postdoctoral scholars), UC doctoral students, and non-UC faculty as resources allow.

RRGs are developed through a two-stage process. First, research topics for RRGs are determined by open competition or by UCHRI in consultation with its Advisory Board and UC leaders in the humanities. Through a competitive review process, RRG fellows are then selected based on their ability to contribute to the research agenda of the group. Collaboration may take many forms. In communicating across disciplines, there are challenges of language, terminology, and methodology for all RRGs. The organizing premise of the residential research program is that when those challenges are surmounted, breakthroughs in knowledge are possible.

An expected outcome of an RRG is the publication of a volume or an equivalent project arising from research pursued at UCHRI.

UCHRI's facilities for participating scholars include private offices with e-mail/Internet access, seminar and conference rooms, a multi-media room, and a reference library. Furnished apartments are provided free of charge to fellows by the Institute for use on an as-needed basis during their residencies, resources permitting.

Academic Year 2009-10
UC faculty, visiting scholars (including UC postdoctoral fellows), and UC graduate students are invited to apply for residential fellowships in the residential group:

Species Spectacles: Locating Transnational Coordinations of Animality, Race, and Sexuality
Group residency quarter: Fall 2009
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Convener:
Mel Y. Chen
Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley

Deadline: December 10, 2008
No extensions will be granted.                                                      Grantees of the program for 2008-09

Program Overview
Fellowships for participation in Residential Research Groups (RRGs) are awarded through a competitive review process. Fellows are selected for their ability to contribute to the research agenda of the group and to advance scholarship on a given subject in collaboration with others. Fellows will be in residence at the Institute, located on the Irvine campus, participating in regular group seminar meetings and colloquia. All conveners and fellows must be committed to being in residence for the entire term of the project; scholars not residing within reasonable commuting distance of the UCHRI are required to relocate temporarily to Irvine for the period of the research group's activities.

UC faculty receiving UCHRI Fellowships continue to obtain full salary from their home campuses. Faculty fellows supplement UCHRI support with sabbatical credits, grants, or other paid leave: 3 quarter credits for a one-quarter group, and 6 quarter credits for a two-quarter group. For UC faculty on a semester system, 2 sabbatical credits per semester in residence are required. Conveners do not contribute sabbatical credits. Faculty RRG Fellowships may be held only once in a four-year period.

Faculty from outside of the University of California are regularly invited to participate in some manner in RRG projects, although residential fellowships for non-UC faculty are available only as resources allow.

If a faculty member whose work could contribute to a residence group is unable to apply for a residential fellowship at the UCHRI, the faculty member is encouraged to write to UCHRI Director David Theo Goldberg, who will make the individual's work and interest known to the group. Non-resident scholars can be included in the group's work as invited lecturers or under some other mutually acceptable arrangement.

Postdoctoral applicants must have received their Ph.D. no earlier than June 2006 or must have filed their dissertation by end-June 2009 (proof will be required).

Awards will be announced in March 2009.

APPLYING FOR UCHRI RESIDENTIAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Applications must be submitted through the online FASTAPPS system (emailed, mailed, or faxed applications will not be accepted). Basic information as well as uploaded documents such as project and biographical abstracts, proposal, and abbreviated curriculum vitae, are required.

Applicants are strongly advised to read the guidelines before filling out their applications.

For programmatic questions, contact rneumann@uci.edu.
For technical assistance, contact techsupport@hri.uci.edu.