Associate Professor Fellowships

The Associate Professor Fellowships program enables up to three associate professors to devote one full term to a research project of their choosing. Each applicant must work with a “counterpart” from the full professor ranks. The counterpart may be from any department, discipline, or school other than the applicant's own. Counterparts are expected to meet sufficiently with their fellow so that they can respond to the fellow’s research. The hope is that some pairs will continue the interaction even beyond the official term of the grant. The fellows and counterparts will meet in six working sessions (two hours each) during the spring semester and will also join the Townsend Fellows group at one or more of their regular meetings, when the associate professor will discuss his or her research with the larger group.

It is expected that the fellow will teach one undergraduate course related to the research project (an interdisciplinary seminar or a junior seminar) within three years of the completion of the grant.

Eligibility

Any UC Berkeley associate professor in the humanities is eligible to apply for the fellowship. Applicants must be tenured for at least one year prior to the semester of the award. Only in exceptional cases may an Associate Professor Fellowship immediately precede or follow a leave of more than one semester.

Grant Provision

Fellows receive a 100% research leave from teaching responsibilities for the spring semester. Individual faculty members do not normally receive funding under more than one Townsend Center research program per year. Replacement funds are transferred directly to the awardee’s department. Information on the Townsend Center replacement funds policy can be found here. Additionally, counterparts receive a research stipend of $2,000.

Download the 2010-2011 Associate Professor Fellowships guidelines and application:
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The application deadline for 2010-2011 is March 1, 2010.

For information about the 2009-2010 Associate Professor Fellows, click here.

For questions about the program, please contact Fellowships Coordinator Bridgette Lehrer at blehrer@berkeley.edu.