HI Faculty Fellowships

The Humanities Institute (HI) offers fellowships for University at Buffalo tenured and tenure-track faculty engaged in humanistic research. HI defines the humanities broadly, accepting proposals from a wide range of disciplines, including literature, history, classics, anthropology, sociology, geography, art, music, architecture, law, and more.

These residential fellowships provide the Fellow’s department with course replacement funds at the standard College of Arts and Sciences adjunct rate ($4,500 per course effective July 1, 2024) to support a semester of course release (two 3-credit hour courses), which will allow the Fellow to focus primarily on a major research project and to participate actively in HI programs. HI fellowship leaves are classified as research leaves and do not affect semester accumulations towards sabbatical eligibility (“the sabbatical clock”).

The fellowships are generously supported by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

The HI Faculty Fellows are key components of the intellectual climate of the Humanities Institute, and it is our expectation that they will be actively involved in creating and sustaining an intellectual community. Indeed, we hope this will be one of the great benefits of the award. Therefore, we ask each Fellow to present their work in a public forum (customarily as part of the Scholars@Hallwalls event series), to participate in the other Fellows’ lectures, and to attend the Fellows’ seminars the week after each public lecture. 

Faculty Research and Follow-Up: Fellows will pursue their research topics as outlined in their proposals. The semester following the leave, Fellows must submit a one-page summary of their research that outlines project goals, how the fellowship helped the recipient towards those goals, how close the project is to completion, and how it will be made available to the public (e.g. the publication of a book, a series of articles, an exhibition, a documentary film, a performance). The UB Humanities Institute should be acknowledged in any publicly distributed works resulting from the research completed during the fellowship period. Recent publications, including edited volumes, resulting from the fellowship are celebrated annually at the HI Spring Book Celebration.

As with all faculty research leaves, the faculty member will be required to provide a research leave report to their department Chair for submission to the Office of the Dean of their college/school within the University at Buffalo.