Fellowships

To learn more about fellowships offered by the TTU Humanities Center, click on the links below:

Alumni College 2026 Fellowships
Deadline: December 5, 2025

Fellowships of $5,800 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, 2026, to be used by August 31, 2026. Applications are to be made via the Competition Space portal. The submission deadline is December 5, 2025. Winners will be announced no later than February 13, 2026.

For more information and to apply click here: Alumni College Competition 

Meet our 2025 Alumni College Fellows here: Alumni College 2025

Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities: 2025-2026 Academic Year
Competition is closed.

Meet our 2025-2026 Post-Doctoral Fellow here: Post-Doctoral Fellow

Spring 2026 Faculty Fellowships

The Humanities Center at Texas Tech is calling for applications from Texas Tech tenure-line faculty in the humanities for its Spring 2026 Faculty Fellowships competition.  The Center will award at least one full fellowship for Spring 2026, with the possibility of other individual course buyouts for additional fellows.  The full fellowship award will “buy out” the awardee’s teaching assignment for one semester to facilitate work on some major project in the humanities.  For this competition, priority will be given to untenured faculty, though if funds allow, the Center will look to buy out individual courses from additional faculty at all levels.  Any winning fellows will be expected to make a 40-minute presentation about their work to the Humanities Center community during the 2026-2027 academic year. Deadline is April 30, 2025.

To learn more please visit: Spring 2026 Faculty Fellowships

Meet our 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows here: Faculty Fellows

Meet our 2022-2023 Faculty Fellows here: Faculty Fellows

Meet our 2021-2022 Faculty Fellows here: Faculty Fellows

The Humanities Center Book Publishing Lab
Deadline: November 1, 2025

The Humanities Center's Book Publishing Lab is a competitive program for tenured or tenure-track faculty members in humanities fields, designed to support and expedite the publication of original scholarly monographs. The Book Publishing Lab will support two Faculty Fellowships, providing selected Fellows with the opportunity to workshop a publication-ready version of a manuscript-in-progress with two notable scholars in their field and an acquisitions editor from a prominent scholarly press.  

For more information and to apply, click here: Humanities Center Book Publishing Lab.

Spring 2026 Scholar-in-Residence
Deadline: November 14, 2025

The Humanities Center is calling for applications from candidates external to the university to be considered for our Scholar-in-Residence program.  The Center is particularly interested in nominees actively engaged in interdisciplinary research that addresses academic questions beyond the scholar’s primary field of study. The stipend for this residency is $40,000 for a minimum 10-week residency at Texas Tech in the Spring 2026 semester.

For more information and to apply, click here: Call for Applicants: Spring 2026 Scholar-in-Residence