Penn Faculty Fellowships
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Penn Faculty Fellowships support Penn faculty with research funds and course relief for humanities and allied research tied to an annual theme, bringing projects into interdisciplinary conversation.
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Funder: Wolf Humanities Center
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $5,000 research fund, $3,000 plus one course relief, or two course reliefs for tenured faculty
Summary: Research funds and/or course relief support standing Penn faculty conducting humanities and allied research related to the Center’s annual theme.
Key Information: Fellows must remain in-service throughout September–May and participate in weekly Mellon Seminars.
Description
The Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania offers annual fellowships to standing faculty in the humanities and allied departments. Awards support individual research related to the Center’s annual theme while bringing fellows into an interdisciplinary community. The documented 2027–2028 theme is Empire, inviting concrete, materialist investigation of empire across any geographical region or historical period, including struggles against imperialism and colonialism.
The Empire program examines culture, ideology, knowledge production, and institutions as sites of imperial governance and contestation. Penn Faculty Fellows join Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows, Regional Faculty Fellows, and Doctoral Fellows in weekly Mellon Seminars. This shared program places individual projects in conversation with research across disciplines and career stages through presentations and responses to colleagues’ work.
