(CLOSED) Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program

Sponsor Name: 
Andrew Mellon Foundation
Amount: 
$7,000,000
Description of the Award: 

The purpose of the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program aims to support the social sciences and humanities.

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program will award up to thirty-five major fellowships of $200,000 each, lasting one or two years, that will enable recipients to, among other things, travel, hire research assistants, and take sabbaticals from their institutions in order to focus on their research.

Penn State may nominate a maximum of two candidates, one junior and one senior scholar.

We are asking that each college nominate a maximum of two candidates, one junior (maximum of 10 years out from Ph.D., 2008-2018) and one senior scholar from your full-time faculty for an internal downselect. Faculty members must be nominated by their colleges BEFORE they can apply.

Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program Topics for 2019:

Global connections and global ruptures

Possible topic areas include, but are not confined to, international law; nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons; war and peace in the 21st century; threats to democratic institutions; nationalism; national sovereignty; migration and immigration; refugee crises; human rights; race; gender; religion; access to education; demographic changes; challenges to cultural legacies; national security and civil liberties; poverty; terrorism; and translation, transmission, and transformation of cultures.

Strengthening U.S. democracy and exploring new narratives

Possible topic areas include, but are not confined to, access to education, civic participation, the voting process, political polarization, the party system, migration and immigration, inequality, the widening poverty-wealth gap, religion, gender, race, individual rights and privacy, forms of cultural expression, incarceration, judicial and criminal justice reform, rule of law, and the public good

Environments, natural and human

Possible topic areas include, but are not confined to, political and economic stability, global climate change, health, inequality, human rights, defining the Anthropocene, ethical implications of environmental issues, and literary and cultural expressions of environmental change.

Technological and cultural creativity—potential and perils

Possible topic areas include, but are not confined to, cybersecurity, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, the impact of technology on privacy, civic participation, impact of traditional and social media, accountability of tech industry, challenges to and varieties of individual expression, the power of imagery, approaches to death and dying, cognitive science and human creativity, definitions of the human and the post-human, and ethical issues raised by medical and scientific research.

Instructions and Criteria

A junior scholar is defined as a scholar who received his/her Ph.D. ten years ago or less—that is, between 2008 and 2018.

A senior scholar is a scholar more than ten years out from his/her Ph.D.

Proposals incorporate, among other elements, historical precedents, cultural underpinnings, and moral arguments.

Nominations will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

Originality and promise of the idea

Quality of the proposal

Potential impact on the field

Record of the nominee

Plans to communicate findings to a broad audience

All recipients must be U.S. citizens or have permanent U.S. residency status.

Fellowships will not be awarded to support dissertations, debt repayments, lobbying efforts, the purchase of equipment, or rent.

Fellowships may be used to support such expenses as salary, fringe benefits, project-related travel, research assistants, and translators.

The fellowship must begin no later than September 1, 2019.

NO indirect/overhead costs will be allowed or paid to the institution; the successful nominee shall receive the entire fellowship for support of his/her research project.

Winners may not accept other fellowships in addition to the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship for the same period of time.

Limit (Number of applicants permitted per institution): 
1
Sponsor Final Deadline: 
Nov 08, 2018
OSVPR Application or NOI Instructions: 

Interested applicants should send the following documents in sequence in one PDF file (Proposal name: Last name_CarnegieFellows2019 no later than 4:00 p.m. on the internal submission deadline:

1. Letter of nomination from dean or department head. The letter should include a brief description of the candidate’s qualifications and potential and describe how their contributions will address pressing issues and cultural shifts affecting us at home and abroad.

2. One to two page prospectus prepared by the nominee that describes their project, including a projected work plan and approximate time frame.

3. Nominee’s curriculum vitae

4. An estimate of budgetary requirements – see accompanying document and template.

Questions concerning the limited submissions process may be submitted to limitedsubs@psu.edu.

To be considered as a Penn State institutional nominee, please submit a notice of intent by the date provided directly below.
This limited submission is in downselect: 
Penn State may only submit a specific number of proposals to this funding opportunity. The number of NOIs received require that an internal competition take place, thus, a downselect process has commenced. No Penn State researchers may apply to this opportunity outside of this downselect process. To apply for this limited submission, please use this link:
OSVPR Downselect Deadline: 
Thursday, October 4, 2018 - 4:00pm
Notes: 
Junior Scholar Nominee: Myrick, Jessica (Bellisario College of Comm, Media Studies), Senior Scholar Nominee: Plutzer, Eric (Liberal Arts, Pol. Sci) 10/19/18