Funder: Ohio State University
Due Dates: February 16, 2027 (Application) | April 1, 2027 (Announcement) | August 15, 2027 (Appointment begins) | September 1, 2027 (Funds released) | August 30, 2028 (Funds-use deadline)
Funding Amounts: Two-course buyout equivalent to 32% of base salary and benefits, plus $4,000 research funding for 2027–28; optional mentor receives $5,000 supplemental pay
Summary: Supports Ohio State faculty research, creative and public-facing projects exploring the 2027–28 theme, “(Re)formations,” within a multidisciplinary community.
Key Information: Fellows from all Ohio State campuses must attend the Columbus campus for monthly seminars and related events.
Description
Ohio State University’s Global Arts + Humanities (GAH) Cross-Disciplinary Research Exchange administers the Society of Fellows faculty fellowships. The 2027–28 theme, “(Re)formations,” supports research, creative and public-facing projects using arts and humanities disciplinary, cross-disciplinary and/or community-engaged approaches. It considers adaptation, reuse, translation and intertextuality, alongside the social, political, institutional, physical and artistic forms these processes shape.
Projects may investigate how remixing inherited works, objects, ideas and practices creates new meanings, what is preserved or lost, and who holds authority to transform cultural forms. The theme welcomes inquiry into whose experiences become visible or erased, revision’s potential to uncover suppressed truths or distort them, relationships between sources and iterations, refusals of conventions governing power and belonging, and the transformative potential of reforming existing structures.
