How to Apply and Make the Most of Fellowship Programs

A conversation with Joy Connolly and Robert Newman

Do you love applying for fellowships and want to learn about more opportunities to do so?  Do you dread applying for fellowships and need encouragement? All are welcome at this discussion. 

Joy Connolly, president of the American Council of Learned Societies, and Robert Newman, president and director of the National Humanities Center, will share their insights into how we might participate in the work and programs of their invaluable institutions. 

NHC offers everything from one year to one-month summer fellowships. ACLS offers a range of grants and fellowships for individuals and groups of scholars. The event will include remarks from each president, time for questions and an informal reception afterward.

This is a hybrid event.

• For in-person attendees, refreshments will be provided.
• For online attendees, Zoom link will be provided before the event.

Speakers:

Joy Connolly is president of the American Council of Learned Societies since 2019 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. Her interest in progressive transformation derives from her scholarship and her administrative experience. She is the author of two books, "The State of Speech" and "The Life of Roman Republicanism", and over seventy articles, book reviews, and essays. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Independent, the Village Voice, the Times Literary Supplement, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed. She speaks and writes regularly about the future of the humanities and the necessity of public funding for higher education as a keystone of a robust democracy.  

Robert Newman is the president and director of the National Humanities Center where he has significantly raised the NHC’s profile in the United States and internationally; created new, innovative programs to support humanities scholars and educators at every level; and reinforced the center’s standing as a leader in addressing contemporary concerns through humanistic thinking. His scholarship has focused on twentieth-century English and American literature and culture and narrative theory. He has published six books; over a hundred articles, reviews, and poems; and has given talks throughout the world. He has received awards not only for his scholarship but also for his institutional leadership and teaching.