Glasscock Faculty Research Fellowship Application

Applications due:

March 2, 2026

Applicants are normally notified of award decisions by six weeks following the application deadline.

Fellowship Overview

PURPOSE
To fund research related to a book, major article or series of articles, or other equivalent research projects

AMOUNT
Up to $7,000

OPEN TO
Full-time faculty for whom research is a formal component of their annual assessment

The Glasscock Center for Humanities Research annually funds a number of Faculty Research Fellowships up to $5,000 each.

Funds will be made available on May 31^st and can be used until August 31^st of the following year.

SELECTION:

Selection for these highly competitive awards is made by a multi-disciplinary committee of Texas A&M faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who typically are members of the Glasscock Center’s Faculty Advisory Board or previous awardees.

ELIGIBILITY:

All full-time faculty members for whom research is a formal component of their annual assessment are eligible to apply. Eligible faculty may receive a Glasscock Faculty Research Fellowship a maximum of once every three academic years. Applicants currently receiving start-up funds or holding an endowed chair or professorship are ineligible to apply for this award.

ABOUT:

Glasscock Faculty Research Fellowships provide critical support for seeding and facilitating faculty research projects in the humanities broadly defined, including digital humanities the humanistic social sciences. These awards are designed to address a need for funding for research projects that will ultimately result in a published book, major article, series of articles, or other equivalent research projects that make an impact in the faculty member’s field and humanities in general. Funds may be used for archival and fieldwork, conference participation, software, acquisition of research skills (including language and digital humanities trainings), and other normally reimbursable expenses. Up to half of the requested funds may be used to hire a graduate or undergraduate student, or external researcher or developer.

Recipients of the fellowship are required to participate in the Faculty Colloquium Series, which will function as a working group for these works in progress, and acknowledge the Glasscock Center in any resulting publications or exhibitions. Projects will be chosen on the basis of their intellectual rigor, scholarly creativity, and potential to make a significant impact in the candidate’s field and the humanities generally.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

Applicant should upload a current four-page c.v. (as a PDF).

If you do not receive an email confirming receipt of the application from the Glasscock Center by the application deadline, please call (979) 845-8328 or email glasscock@tamu.edu.

We recommend answering application questions in a Word document and saving it for your records before pasting it into our form for submission.

Glasscock Faculty Research Fellowship Application

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Email*

Name:*

Academic Title:*

Department:*

College/School*

Previous financial support from Glasscock Center in the last three years:

Title of program

Term in which you received assistance:

I confirm that I am up-to-date on all GCHR grant reports for past awards.*

Grant Reports

YES

Other

Eligibility*

I confirm that I meet the eligibility requirements described above and, if awarded, will not have held this fellowship within a three-year period.

Colloquium*

I acknowledge that, if awarded this Fellowship, I am required to participate in the Glasscock Colloquium Series during my Fellowship year.

Project Title*

Upload your project description: Please describe your current research to a scholarly audience in the humanities (but not necessarily in your discipline) and the expected outcome at the end of the fellowship period. If the research to be undertaken is in support of a larger project, please describe *both* the larger project *and* the aspect of research a Glasscock Faculty Research Fellowship would support. Limit 1000 words.*

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Does your planned research (or a portion of it) fall under the category of digital humanities?*

Yes

Briefly describe the digital humanities component to your project.*

Please provide a simple budget (with itemizations where possible). (Limit 300 words)*

Please indicate how the fellowship funds would advance your project. Be specific (e.g., the benefit, fieldwork or archival research in specific locations or archives, collaboration with other scholars at TAMU or another location, purchase of research materials or access to digital resources, or other normally reimbursable expenses). (Limit 300 words)*

Please list any *external* funds that have supported this project and/or external funds for which you are applying (or will apply).

Please list any *internal* funds (university, college, department, etc.) that have been awarded to support this project. If applicable, include any portion of start-up funds that are supporting this project.*

If you have received this fellowship within the last five years, please briefly describe the outcome of that project (book, exhibition, article, major grant, etc.).

Upload a current c.v. (Limit of four pages)*

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Accepted file types: pdf, Max. file size: 50 MB.

Upon form submission, you should be redirected to a confirmation screen and receive an automatic confirmation email. If you do not receive either of these, there may have been a problem with your form and you will need to resubmit.

If you have any questions, please call (979) 845-8328 or email glasscock@tamu.edu.

Applications will be considered incomplete until all information has been received, at which time an e-mail confirming receipt will be sent to you.

Applicants are normally notified of award decisions by one month following the application deadline.