 | February 2025: IAH Faculty Newsletter |
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| Cornell’s School of Criticism Summer Session Cornell University’s School of Criticism & Theory is hosting an intensive six-week course for study, faculty members, graduate students, and independent scholars from around the world, in the humanities and social sciences, to explore recent developments in critical theory. Participants work with the SCT’s core faculty of distinguished scholars and theorists in one of four six-week seminars. Each faculty member offers, in addition, a public lecture and a colloquium (based on an original paper) which are attended by the entire group. Deadline: Feb. 23, 2025 Seed Funding Program The College of Arts and Sciences Office of Research and Innovation proudly presents the Seed Funding Program — an initiative designed to encourage groundbreaking scholarly projects and collaborative research across all CAS disciplines. The program's mission is to support creative and bold ideas that not only push boundaries but also yield tangible benefits for our communities and society at large. The program invites proposals that focus on community transformation, innovative research trends, graduate and postdoctoral support, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Deadline: March 19, 2025 NEH Fellowships NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development in any discipline. Deadline: April 9, 2025 |
Note regarding Federally Sponsored Research Programs: The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, in coordination with the Office of Federal Affairs, is carefully reviewing recent executive communications and actions from the new presidential administration that could potentially affect research operations at Carolina. Information is being updated at the OVCR website. NC Humanities’ Large Project Grants North Carolina Humanities offers Large Project Grants to support the implementation of larger and/or extended public humanities projects such as lecture/discussion series, exhibitions, presentations, workshops and more. Funding requests may be between $5,001 and $20,000. Applicants are required to schedule a phone consultation with staff from NC Humanities by April 18, 2025. Letter of Intent Deadline: April 25, 2025 Spencer Foundation’s Small Research Grants Later this February, applications will open for the Spencer Foundation’s Small Research Grants on Education. The Small Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Deadline: Mid-April, 2025 |
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| How the Friday Award supported research in the Ecuadorian Amazon |
Brian Hsu’s Collaborations on Cherokee Word Order, Star Trek, and the Faculty Fellowship |
Brian Hsu (FFP ’24) joined us on Episode 140 of The Institute, where he shares how he fell in love with language and linguistics from a young age. Additionally, Hsu describes his recent projects about uncovering Cherokee word order and “Starship Generative Enterprise,” a Star Trek-spin on modern linguistics. We also discuss Hsu’s time as a Faculty Fellow in Spring 2024, where he worked on “Principled Probability in Language.” |
Have any news to share? Former fellows, we’d like to highlight recent news about your publications, accomplishments, and service in the newsletter! Please email the Institute’s programmatic communicator, Ruby Wang with details about your updates. |
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| NFP: Promotion on the Tenure Track |
Join fellow New Faculty Program members for lunch and presentation by Director of Faculty Administration Evan Pebesma about the promotion process on the tenure track. Lunch will be provided. The event will take place Feb. 13 at 12:30 p.m. in Hyde Hall. Registration is required. |
Hidden Gems: Lesser-Known, but Incredibly Useful Research Methods In this interactive workshop offered by the Odum Institute, participants will learn when, why and how to utilize more than two dozen lesser-known data collection and analysis methods. Social network analysis, geo-spatial techniques, along with several forms of observation methods, will be examined in both exploratory and confirmatory contexts. Participants will also learn when and how to employ a variety of cognitively oriented methods, such as free-listing, pile-sorting and ethnographic decision modelling. The session will be held on Feb. 21 from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Register by Feb. 20. |
Managing Your Research: Project Planning and Data Management for the Humanities and Social Sciences Library Data Services is offering a workshop on the various phases of research for projects in the humanities and social sciences, creating a data management plan, and long-term preservation of data. The course will also cover technologies to use, seeking funding, publishing platforms, and more. The workshop will take place on March 5 from 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
COACHE Faculty Satisfaction Survey |
UNC collaborates with the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), housed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to gather faculty feedback on their experiences at the university, their work environment, and their roles. Carolina has participated in the survey since 2009. Insights from the survey enable university leaders to recognize areas of strength and make targeted changes that enhance faculty satisfaction and improve the overall work culture at UNC-Chapel Hill. Learn more about the questionnaire. |
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