Associate Professor Fellowships

The Townsend Center’s Associate Professor Fellowship program enables two associate professors in Arts and Humanities to devote the spring term to a research project of their choosing. The Associate Professor Fellows will join the Townsend Fellows group every Tuesday from 12-2 pm to discuss works in progress. The Townsend Fellows group includes junior and senior faculty, as well as seven Graduate Dissertation Fellows.

The award of an Associate Professor Fellowship carries with it the understanding that the recipient will attend the weekly Fellows meetings during the spring semester 2012 and participate actively as a member. After the appointed term as a Townsend Associate Professor Fellow, it is expected that the Fellow will teach one undergraduate course related to the research project (an interdisciplinary seminar or a junior seminar) within three years of the completion of the grant.

Eligibility

Any UC Berkeley associate professor in Arts and Humanities is eligible to apply for the fellowship. Applicants must be tenured for at least one year prior to the semester of the award. Only in exceptional cases may an Associate Professor Fellowship immediately precede or follow a leave of more than one semester.

Grant Provision

Associate Professor Fellows receive a 100% research leave from teaching responsibilities for two courses during the spring 2012 semester. Individual faculty members do not normally receive funding under more than one Townsend Center research program per year. Detailed information on the Townsend Center course replacement funds policy can be found here.

Deadline

March 1, 2012 – received by 5 p.m.

Application Materials

Download the 2012-13 Associate Professor Fellowship guidelines and application:
PDF
Microsoft Word

Information about the 2010-2011 Associate Professor Fellows

For questions about the program, please contact The Townsend Center Fellowships Administrator at townsend_fellowships@berkeley.edu or 510-643-8082.