The Center for the Humanities is proud to advocate for humanistic work at Grinnell College in a number of ways. Our Fellows program acknowledge the variety of ways that humanistic engagement contributes to the work of the College.
Faculty Fellows Program
The Humanities Center Fellows Faculty Program seeks to support and celebrate faculty research. It provides a half-course buyout and additional discretionary research funds to one fellow per year. Faculty from all academic divisions are eligible to apply. The lone requirement is that the fellow’s research employ or substantially engage humanistic theories, methods, practices, or materials.
The Center for the Humanities will not be moving forward with the Faculty Fellows program after the 2024-25 academic year. We will instead reallocate our resources so that we can take advantage of exciting new opportunities to expand our impact and our outreach.
Learn more about the Faculty Fellows Program.
Vivero Student Fellow Community
The Center for the Humanities is proud to partner with the Grinnell Libraries and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment’s Digital Liberal Arts Collaborative to support the Vivero Digital Fellows program. The Vivero program offers student fellows training and development opportunities in digital humanities and matches student fellows with faculty and staff-led research projects. Student fellows also staff drop-in peer mentoring hours to support other students working on digital assignments and projects. With diversity, equity, and inclusion at its core, the Vivero program seeks and selects student fellows who will help ensure that theories and practices of digital humanities reflect a spectrum of identities, voices, and perspectives.
The center’s contribution to the Vivero program includes training and professional development opportunities. We underwrite a 2-credit course introducing fellows to foundational ethical considerations, theories, and practices in digital humanities. We also support professional development opportunities that often double as networking and cohort-building experiences.
Want to learn more about the Vivero program? Please spend some time on the program’s web page, where you will find information about being a fellow and working with fellows. You can also reach out to one or both of the Vivero program’s co-leads, Liz Rodrigues and Tierney Steelberg.