Funder: Ohio State University
Due Dates: November 1, 2026 (Call issued) | March 15, 2027 (Application deadline) | April 15, 2027 (Fellowships announced) | August 15, 2027 (Appointment begins) | September 1, 2027 (Research funds released)
Funding Amounts: $62,000 salary plus benefits and $4,000 professional-development fund; 12-month residency
Summary: Supports scholars and artists exploring “(Re)formations” through arts and humanities research, creative practice, advocacy or policy-oriented work.
Key Information: Fellows must participate in a monthly seminar and teach one undergraduate course in spring 2028; production and exhibition are not supported.
Description
Ohio State University’s Global Arts + Humanities (GAH) administers the Society of Fellows: External Fellowships through its Cross-Disciplinary Research Exchange. The 2027–28 theme, “(Re)formations,” invites projects examining adaptation, reuse, translation and intertextuality, alongside the social, political, institutional, physical and artistic forms these acts shape. Fellows pursue scholarly, artistic, advocacy or policy-oriented work using arts and humanities disciplinary or cross-disciplinary approaches and/or community-engaged methods.
Projects may investigate how inherited works, objects, ideas and practices are remade, what is preserved or lost, whose experiences become visible or erased, and who holds authority to transform existing forms. The fellowship builds a multidisciplinary research community through a shared seminar and engagement with Ohio State faculty and students. Artistic work centers on creative leadership, professional development or research rather than production or exhibition.
