Bridging the Gap: The Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Program

FAIN: ZED-283644-22

Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN 37203-2416)
Bonnie Dow (Project Director: May 2021 to July 2024)

Creation of 10 post-doctoral fellowships for a program of research, teaching, and training.

This project achieves two broad goals: to provide a year of support for new humanities doctorates through the funding of ten postdoctoral fellowships (50% cost shared by Vanderbilt) embedded in a collaborative humanities initiative. Specifically, the fellows will work in one of three tracks: (1) urban humanities, (2) environmental humanities, and (3) global humanities. The fellowship has three components: project development, pedagogy, and professionalization. The postdocs will develop collaborative research projects, develop and teach a new course in their track, and broadly hone their professional skills through programming and mentoring. This project provides young humanities scholars with additional expertise and experience to enhance their chances in an increasingly competitive job market while furthering Vanderbilt’s efforts to transform and expand humanistic study in innovative ways to meet the challenges of the 21st century.