Regional Faculty Fellowships
Regional Faculty Fellowships support humanities faculty researching Empire and sharing their work within Penn’s interdisciplinary community to examine imperial power, culture, and resistance.
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Funder: Wolf Humanities Center
Due Dates: November 2026 (Call opens) | March 1, 2027 (Application and recommendation deadline)
Funding Amounts: $5,000 stipend, paid in two installments, for the 2027–2028 academic year
Summary: Fellowships support standing humanities faculty conducting research on Empire and participating in the University of Pennsylvania’s interdisciplinary research community.
Key Information: Fellows must live within commuting distance of Penn and attend weekly Tuesday seminars in person, noon–2:00 p.m.
Description
The Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania offers several Regional Faculty Fellowships annually for humanities research connected to its annual theme. The 2027–2028 topic is Empire. Fellows pursue their research while joining an interdisciplinary community that includes Penn faculty, Mellon postdoctoral fellows, advanced doctoral fellows, and other participants. The fellowship includes access to Penn’s library for the award term.
The Forum on Empire invites concrete, materialist investigations of empire rather than abstract or metaphorical treatments. Research may address any geographical region, time period, or facet of empire, including struggles against imperialism and colonialism. The theme examines culture and ideology as sites of domination, resistance, negotiation, and invention, including how imperial power shapes knowledge production, cultural institutions, and the circulation of ideas.
