Fellowships

Taft Center Fellowship 


The Taft Center Fellowship provides the opportunity to complete and prepare for publication a significant scholarly project in a multi-disciplinary setting; affording a research assignment for the entire academic year. Projects may include a variety of scholarly activities, including producing articles and books for publication, as well as external grant seeking activities for major projects. Although research projects need not be interdisciplinary in nature, applicants must be committed to intellectual exchange beyond their discipline and the advancement of their research project; they must contribute to the intellectual community of the Taft Center. The program is designed to support faculty who will benefit from and contribute to multi-disciplinary interaction, not merely an isolated independent pursuit of one’s research agenda (see Faculty Release and Summer Fellowships for such support). Grantees are expected to maintain a regular, active presence at the center, including attending center-sponsored events and interacting regularly with their cohort.

Although no preference will be given to faculty rank, it is expected that applicants will have a demonstrated ability to complete significant research/creative projects before the time of their application, exclusive of degree theses/dissertations. The fellowship is not appropriate for projects that demand periods of time spent away from the Taft Center. Grantees are encouraged to treat the fellowship as an opportunity to develop external funding profiles to enhance their scholarly production.

2024–2025 Center Fellows

  • Siham Bouamer, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures 
    Transnational Moroccan Culture and Global-isms

  • Kathleen Grogan, Anthropology
     Effects of lifestyle and environmental change on the human epigenome 

  • Brianna Leavitt-Alcantara, History 
    The Virgin’s Wrath: Gender, Religion, and Violence in the Maya Highlands of Chiapas

  • Amy Lind, School of Public and International Affairs 
    Memory Matters: The Feminist Politics of Memory, Resistance, and Coloniality in Postdictatorship Chile 

  • Yiazo Wang, Mathematical Sciences
    Probabilistic Aspect of Time Series, Spatial, and Network Data Modeling 

Previous Center Fellows

Previous Center Fellows
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