The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute (UCHI), founded in 2001, seeks to enhance research and creativity in the humanities, broadly defined. In particular, UCHI promotes the development and productivity of University of Connecticut faculty through its fellowship, seminar, and workshop programs, by bringing outside scholars and authors to Connecticut, and by its support for scholarly conferences and journals. UCHI promotes student scholarship by the appointment of graduate and undergraduate fellows, and through advanced courses in humanities fields. UCHI also sponsors colloquia, symposia, and lectures where the learning of the humanities can inform public issues. By exploring the full range of humanistic inquiry and methodologies the UCHI calls attention to the many ways that humanities scholarship enriches general understanding of the human condition.

In 2010 UCHI will once again welcome applications from scholars for the Faculty Residential Fellowship program. The application deadline is January 15, 2010. Application materials can be found in the Faculty Residential Fellowships Section.

The 2010 panel of external reviewers for internal candidates is:

Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University

Deborah Willis, University Professor of Art and Africana Studies, New York University

Thadious Davis, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Pennsylvania

Philip Gould, Professor of English (Transatlantic Studies), Brown