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The Denbo Center offers Faculty Fellowships to qualified full-time, tenure-stream faculty in its nine affiliated humanities departments. A DCHA Faculty Fellowship is a full-year research release from teaching and service while in residency at the Denbo Center. All successful applicants are required to participate in the life of the Center by working daily in the personal office provided at the DCHA, participating in and presenting their work in once-weekly Chandler Seminars, and (if desirable) participating in ongoing DCHA faculty seminars related to their work.

Residency for Faculty Fellows includes a personal office, access to our library liaison, opportunities publicly to present research and to work with distinguished visiting scholars, and use of all Center facilities. Fellows are eligible for travel funding through the DCHA Riggsby Travel Fund.

How it works

The Faculty Fellowship helps optimize research toward a significant investigative project by extending a UT faculty member’s already slated one-semester leave into a full year of concentrated research. That is, one semester of the Faculty Fellowship year is funded by the Denbo Center, while a second semester is obtained by the faculty member by using or combining

• a faculty development leave
• banked courses
• a pre-tenure semester leave
• a paid leave of absence
• a zero teaching semester, or
• a leave funded by an externally awarded fellowship.

To qualify for a Faculty Fellowship, faculty

• must have a defined research project
• must be eligible for leave through one of the avenues cited above, and
• must have applied for an external, national fellowship for the same project in the immediately past funding cycle or provide concrete evidence of intent to apply in the upcoming cycle before the start of the DCHA fellowship. (Examples of such fellowships include, but are not limited to, the NEH, ACLS, and Guggenheim.) External grant applications with deadlines after the Denbo Center deadline of November 1 will be considered provisional: no Denbo Center fellowship award will be confirmed until evidence of an external fellowship application is received. An applicant with questions should consult with the Denbo Center director.

How to apply

All application materials must be received in the DCHA office by the close of the workday on November 1 (or the subsequent workday if this date is a holiday or on a weekend) of the current calendar year. Faculty should follow the directions for application on this application form.

Any faculty applicants with questions should consult with the Denbo Center director by phone or email at any time.