Alumni College
Alumni College fellows showcase the excellent research of Texas Tech humanities scholars. Each year, the Humanities Center selects up to twelve fellows, who receive funding and who present their work at Alumni College, a public lecture series held in conjunction with Homecoming.
Call for Applications
Deadline: December 6, 2024
Fellowships of $5800 will be offered in support of faculty research in any facet of the humanities. Proposals must indicate a clear trajectory of scholarly outcomes, with funds available as of May 1, 2025, to be used by August 31, 2025.
The criteria for these fellowships include a demonstrated record of scholarly achievement and clearly articulated goals about how these funds are essential to the development and/or completion of a significant scholarly project.
Funds may be used as expense money for goods, travel, or activities in accordance with university and state policies (for instance, materials, assistance with transcription of interviews, research assistants, translators, or other expenses associated with conducting and disseminating one's research). Funds may, alternatively, be taken as summer compensation, which will be taxed and out of which fringe benefits will be taken. If applicants wish to take the award as summer compensation, we wish to see articulated in detail in both the narrative and the preliminary budget how that compensation will benefit the completion of scholarly research (e.g. to assist with caregiver costs).
Applicants are asked to provide a 100-word abstract, a 500-word narrative, a preliminary budget with detailed explanation of all costs, and an abbreviated CV.
Successful applicants will be expected to present their research at a Fall 2025 event in conjunction with the University's Homecoming Week activities, sponsored by the Humanities Center, and geared toward a general interest audience including both the TTU and Lubbock communities. If you expect to be traveling during the Fall 2025 semester, please notify the Humanities Center.
Please note that the Humanities Center does not award Alumni College fellowships to faculty in consecutive years, so 2024 fellows are ineligible for this cycle.
Additionally, fellows who can demonstrate that the fellowship contributed directly to scholarly publication within 3 years from the research semester may be eligible for an additional honorarium from the Humanities Center at that later date. Utilizing the funded research as a catalyst toward a substantial application to one of the university’s targeted external funding sources (see https://www.depts.ttu.edu/research/award-ops/major-ext-awards.php) within the same time frame (3 years) could also count for this additional honorarium.
Applications are due before midnight on December 6, 2024, via the University’s Competition Space. Winners will be announced no later than February 14, 2025.
Adjudicators will be members of the Humanities Center Board.
Humanities Center
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Texas Tech University, 2508 15th Street, Weeks Hall 221, Lubbock, TX 79409-1002 -
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humanitiescenter@ttu.edu