The 2024 competition includes two opportunities. One is the standard fellowship that has supported 63 faculty projects since 2015. The other is a new option, Emerging Technologies: Perspectives from the Arts and Humanities.  For each, completed applications must be submitted through InfoReady no later than 9 p.m. Central Daylight Time, April 20, 2024. Notification of awards will be sent via email in June 2024.

Standard Fellowship

• $15,000 will be awarded in the first year of the three-year fellowship.
• Fellows can use their funds to support the advancement or achievement of their project without restriction.
• All forms of humanistic research and creative projects are supported. The fellowship does not support faculty teaching activities, such as the preparation or revision of textbooks or curriculum development.

Emerging Technologies: Perspectives from the Arts & Humanities (New)

Funding for the new program* supports artistic and humanistic research that “explores the relationships between technology and society, and the impacts technology has on culture, health, social interactions, government, cultural institutions, the environment, and other aspects of life.” The fellowship does not support faculty teaching activities, such as the preparation or revision of textbooks or curriculum development.

We invite projects that link research and scholarly works to compelling social issues where technology plays a key role. Projects that seek to understand and address the ethical, legal and societal implications of artificial intelligence (AI) are particularly encouraged.

* Inspired by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ opportunity: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (neh.gov).

Projects led by a single researcher

• $10,000 will be awarded in the first year of the two-year fellowship.
• Fellows can use their funds to support the advancement or achievement of their project without restriction.

Projects led by collaborative teams

• Two or more project directors (co-directors), each contributing equally to the research agenda(s), will lead projects in this category.
• $15,000 will be awarded in the first year of the two-year fellowship.
• Fellows can use their funds to support the advancement or achievement of their project without restriction.

Eligibility

1. be a Texas A&M PI eligible faculty engaged in scholarship in the humanities or creative work in the arts. Proposals in the social fields are eligible if they employ predominantly humanistic approaches (e.g., economic history, political philosophy, history of psychology).
2. have had a lapse of at least one year between the new application and the completion of their last A&H Fellowship.