The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry is pleased to open applications for our one-year dissertation completion fellowships. We invite applications from current Emory graduate students from any humanistic discipline who are eager to be part of a community of faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students engaged in innovative and interdisciplinary scholarly conversations around our theme of Humanities Plural. (See below.)
Research projects do not need to address the theme directly, but all applicants should briefly address how the project relates to significant methodological, theoretical, or conceptual issues in the humanities. For example, an applicant working in a well-established scholarly tradition could make a case for the importance of carrying that tradition forward within the current humanities landscape; an applicant working in an emerging area of scholarship could address the broad potential of that new area and/or the methodology it entails; a project from an applicant outside of a humanities department could address how humanities scholarship matters to their work.
The Fox Center will appoint up to three dissertation completion fellows for the academic year 2026-27. Fellows will participate in a weekly interdisciplinary seminar, presenting their research at one of these meetings, attend thematic programming, and participate in the life of the Center. Fellows, who will normally be in their 6th-year of graduate study during the fellowship year, will receive a 9-month stipend (September-May), 100% subsidy for the Emory University Student Health Insurance Plan (EUSHIP), and shared office space at the Center. The first stipend payment will be at the end of September and the final payment will be at the end of May.
The application deadline for applicants to submit their materials is November 18, 2026 at 11.59 PM ET The deadline for receipt of letters of recommendation is November 23, 2026 at 11.59 PM ET
Humanities Plural
At a moment when fields such as “history of the humanities” and “humanities theory” are coming into view, and as hybrid formations such as digital humanities, health humanities, and public humanities are taking humanities scholarship into new academic and extra-academic spaces, we seek to expand our horizons for thinking about the humanities as they have existed or are unfolding in our current moment. Among the questions we hope to address in our shared discussions and programming are: What are the contexts, across time and space, where humanistic learning occurs and matters (e.g., formal or informal academic settings, places of worship, prisons, online spaces, museums)? Where is humanistic scholarship enlisted into serving other systems of knowledge and value (e.g., medical schools, think tanks, revolutionary movements, corporate boardrooms), and what sorts of work is it asked to do there? Which communities have forged programs or practices of humanistic learning without having access to formal or elite institutional structures? What are the distinct methods, epistemologies, aesthetics, and/or values that take shape in these sites? What gave rise to “theory,” where and why has it taken root, and what is its future? And how do or should “the humanities” function in hybrid formations, for example in digital humanities, environmental humanities, or health humanities?
To be considered for this fellowship, applicants must:
To complete the online application, you will need to provide the following:
Please note that as part of the University’s Interfolio system, each applicant is required to complete the Equal Employment Opportunity form. The Fox Center will not have access to the completed form.
SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS
It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that all required documents are uploaded to Interfolio and submitted. Incomplete applications cannot be considered after the deadline.
ACCEPTANCE PROCEDURES
Upon notification of a Fox Center Dissertation Completion Fellowship award, recipients must agree to:
If for any reason a Fellow’s circumstances change and the grantee is unable to use the Fellowship (such as the receipt of any grant, fellowship, employment opportunity, or award that conflicts with the restrictions and conditions of this Fellowship) during the academic year for which it was granted, the Fellowship will be forfeited.
If the project involves human subjects, approval from the proper Emory Institutional Review Board Committee (IRB) is required before Fellowship funding can be released. For more information, please refer to this website: https://www.irb.emory.edu.
If you have any questions, please contact the Fox Center at foxcenter@emory.edu. The FCHI regrets that it is unable to provide any assessments of unsuccessful applications.
Laney Graduate School: Terms of Fellowship
Fellows who are awarded and accept the fellowship award agree to commit to the course teaching load or the general hours/week and responsibilities as described in the sections above. Fellows who do not uphold the requirements of the fellowship may have the fellowship revoked and may lose their funding and EUSHIP subsidy for the remainder of the fellowship term.
Please note that in cases where there are partner units involved, the fellow is responsible for responding to the fellowship director/coordinator in a timely manner and is expected to fulfill the responsibilities as outlined by the original fellowship call. If the student is unable to communicate and respond in a timely manner or is unable to fulfill those responsibilities, their stipend (and EUSHIP subsidy) may be withheld or the fellowship slot may be removed. In some fellowships, the fellow is expected to begin their role around mid/late-August.
When applicable, this fellowship award replaces other graduate school stipend and scholarship funding* a student may have been scheduled to receive for the fellowship year, and the eligibility for that funding cannot be reserved to be used in a subsequent year.
*This does not apply to smaller awards such as WiNS, Centennial, or ARCS Foundation awards.
All LGS fellows will be required to submit an intake form and an outgoing form as part of this fellowship.
Fellows who receive offers for other awards must contact the Laney Graduate School PDCP Office (LGS.profdev@emory.edu) to determine whether the two awards may be held concurrently. Please include with this email full details about the other award you may be inquiring about. In general, external fellowship awards may not be held concurrently with LGS completion/advanced fellowship awards.
Please note: Unless indicated otherwise, all LGS fellowships require on-site in-person participation and completion. There are no remote options available unless explicitly indicated.
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