These competitive fellowships offer a $25,000 fund to tenure-track faculty in the creative arts and humanities at UO. The awards will go to highly productive tenure-track faculty working in humanistic areas:

• (a) for scholarly materials, travel, and other research expenses (copy editors, indexers, research assistants, subvention fees, etc.);
• (b) as summer, sabbatical, or fellowship salary;
• (c) or to cover the cost of a course release, with departmental approval, during the academic year. 

The open-purpose funding permits scholars to put the award to its best use depending upon where they are in their progress on a given project; if taken as salary, the $25,000 will include OPE. Please contact Rachel Kahn with questions: raj@uoregon.edu.

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1. Research or creative projects must be clearly in the arts and humanities.
2. The applicant must hold a tenure-track UO appointment during the academic year of the fellowship.
3. If an applicant has received funding from any other source(s) for the same or a closely related research or creative project, they must indicate when, from whom, how much support they have previously received, and how the current proposal differs from or advances the project previously funded.
4. If you received the Presidential Fellowship in Arts and Humanities (or its predecessor, Presidential Fellowship in Humanistic Study) in a prior year, you are not eligible to apply again. 

2024-2025   |   2023-2024   |   2022-2023   |   2021-2022   |   2020-2021   |   2019-2020

2024-2025

• Lynn Stephen: "Invisible No More! Mesoamerican Indigenous Languages, Healing, and Communities in Oregon"
• Lydia Van Dreel: "Queering Wagner with the LGBTuben Quintet"

2023-2024

• Garrett Hongo: "Nisei Bar & Grill"
• Colin Koopman: "Data Equals"  

2022-2023 

• Martha Bayless: "Games, Culture, and Meaning"
• Tannaz Farsi: "Intermediaries project"

2021-2022

• Stacy Alaimo: "Deep Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and the Creatures of the Abyss"
• Nina Armstutz: "The Avian Sense of Beauty: A Posthumanist Perspective on the Bowerbird"
• Bryna Goodman: "Speculating on Chinese Futures: Japan and the Chinese Imagination of Finance"
• Sylvan Lionni: "Crisis of the Object"
• Erin McKenna: "Predator, Prey, and Pest: The Need for an Expanded Sense of Relatedness"
• Gabriela Perez Baez: "The Revitalization of Awakening Languages"

2020-2021

• Carlos Aguirre: "The Inner History of the Latin American Literary Boom"
• Geri Doran: "In the Quiet"
• Gina Herrmann: "Rivesaltes: French Concentration Camps and the Laboratory of 20th Century Interment"
• Wonkak Kim: "Creating New Medium through Intercultural Collaboration"
• Anya Kivarkis: "Solo Exhibition at Sienna Patti Contemporary with Published Catalogue and Essays"
• Scott Pratt: "The Science of Order: Reading Josiah Royce’s Logical Theory"
• Forest (Tres) Pyle: "Romanticism’s Image, Yesterday and Tonight"
• Thomas Glynne Walley: "Complete Annotated Translation of Eight Dogs"
• Zachary Wallmark: "Nothing but Noise: Timbre and Musical Meaning at the Edge"
• Julie Weise: "Moving Citizens: Migrant Political Cultures in the Era of State Control"

2019-2020

• Erin Beck: "Regendering Justice in Guatemala: The Experience and Effects of Specialized Violence against Women Courts"
• Diana Garvin: "The Bean in the Machine: Transnational Coffee and Caffè Culture under Italian Fascism"
• Vera Keller: "Curating the early German Enlightenment"
• Sharon Luk: "Sea of Fire’: A Buddhist Pedagogy of Dying and Black Encounters Across Two Waves"
• Kate Mondlach: "Art of Attention: Body-Mind Awareness and Contemporary Art"
• Jeffrey Ostler: "Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and America’s West"
• Stephen Rodgers: "Song and the Music of Poetry"
• Stephen Shoemaker: "Qur’an and Canon: The Contours of Scripture at the End of Antiquity"
• Rick Silva: "SIGNALS 6 + 7: Research and Production in Vancouver B.C."
• David Wacks: "People of the Book : Retellings of the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia"

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