Faculty Book MS Workshops & MS Completion Fellowships

2011 - 2012

* Application cycle now open for 2013-14 Faculty Book MS Workshops - click here for CFP *

page-projects-bookms.jpgDuke faculty seeking to complete scholarly monographs and other major publication projects are highly encouraged to apply to the FHI's Mellon Book Completion Fellowships and Faculty Book MS Workshops. 

The Book Completion Fellowships - two are offered annually - allow each recipient to convene an intensive workshop on a near-complete manuscript AND to receive one semester of course release for revisions following the workshop. In coordination with this teaching release, the faculty member's home department will be provided with funds to hire a Visiting Professor. 

Each Spring semester we also offer four additional Faculty Book MS Workshops through a separate call for proposals. Two of these Spring workshops are dedicated to single-author monographs, one for a translation or collaborative project, and one for a digital scholarship project. The translation/collaboration and digital project slots each carries a $10,000 stipend for research expenses. 

Please follow links above to view the most recent CFP in each program category, including details on eligibility, proposal requirements, and terms of award. UPDATE January 2013: application cycle for 2013-14 Faculty Book MS Workshops is now open; we will be accepting proposals for 2014-15 Book Completion Fellowships in Fall 2013.

As part of our long-standing collaboration with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC Chapel hill, the FHI also works with the IAH to offer one workshop annually for a UNC-CH faculty member. For information on how to apply, please contact IAH Director John McGowan.

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Current & Previous Award Recipients (with links to published works)
* In the first phase of the program from 2008 to 2011, only workshops for scholarly monographs were offered

2012-13 Book Manuscript Completion Fellows

  • Louise Meintjes, Music
    Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Song and Dance in Post-Apartheid South Africa
  • Mark Olson, Art, Art History & Visual Studies
    Machinic Medicine: Robotic Mediations of Surgical Practice and Emergent Techno-Politics of Care

2012-13 Book Manuscript Workshops

  • Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (monograph)
    Translating Empires: The Conundrum of Collaboration in Korea and Japan
  • Kimberly Lamm, Women's Studies (monograph)
    Inadequacies and Interruptions: Writing Feminist Imaginaries in Contemporary Art
  • Katherine Hayles, Litearture (digital)
    How We Think: A Digital Companion
  • Sumathi Ramaswamy, History (digital)
    Going Global in Mughal India: A Digital Muraqqa’
  • José María Rodríguez García, Romance Studies (translation or collaboration)
    A Translation & Critical Edition of María Zambrano's Filosofía y poesía (1939)
  • Priscilla Layne, Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures, UNC
    Music, Mimicry and Black Masculinity: Resistance in Postwar German Culture

2011-12 Book Manuscript Completion Fellows

  • Fredric Jameson, Literature
    The Antinomies of Realism
  • Anne-Gaëlle Saliot, Romance Studies
    An Image and Its Undercurrents: L’Inconnue de la Seine (1898-2009)

2011-12 Book Manuscript Workshops

  • Martin Eisner, Romance Studies (monograph)
    Boccaccio’s Open Book: Making Italian Literary Culture Between Dante and Petrarch
  • Ara Wilson, Women's Studies (monograph)
    Sexual Latitudes: The Erotic Life of Globalization
  • Andrew Janiak, Philosophy (translation or collaboration)
    History of the Concept of Space
  • Michelle Robinson, American Studies, UNC
    Places for Dead Bodies

2010-11 Book Manuscript Workshops

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Sean Metzger, English
    Looks Chinese: Fashioning Asian/American Spectatorship
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Daniel Foster, Theater Studies
    Transatlantic Minstrelsy, 1750-1850: A Genealogy

2009-10 Book Manuscript Workshops

2008-09 Book Manuscript Workshops