Willson Center Grants and Awards

The deadline for Willson Center Research Fellowship applications is coming up next week, October 6:

The Willson Center Research Fellowship supports excellence in arts and humanities research. Applicants must hold doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Tenured and Tenure-track scholars are eligible to apply. Fellowships can be held every five years. The Willson Center Research Fellowships are intended to support humanities and arts scholars. Interdisciplinary research is encouraged, including with the sciences, social sciences and other domains. Fellowships provide course release from two normally assigned courses in one academic year.

All tenured and tenure-track faculty are eligible to apply.

The fellowships are a great way for Franklin faculty to support or augment support for research in their discipline. Time is one of most elusive and valuable commodities in the career of any scholar and the Willson Center actively supports of our arts and humanities researchers by allowing them time to pursue the important work that produces books, grants, papers and innovative projects.