This program provides up to nine students in the humanities with a one-course teaching release or summer funding, enabling them to devote an entire semester to work on their dissertations. Students are required to be in residence at University Park for the duration of the grant period.

Beyond the Classroom: Extracurricular Education in Revolutionary China, 1927-1977

The Writing of Childhood in 20th-century Latin American Novels: Lispector, Arenas, Ángel, and Mercado

The Ecology of Empire: Warfare and the Environment in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World and Caribbean

Following Ghosts: Rhetoric, Memory, and the Haunting of America’s Asylums

Southernizing Multilingualism: Rethinking Language, Philosophy, and Pedagogy in Ghanaian Classrooms

Project Title: Divided Voices: Civic Contestation Over Sport Team Relocation in the Boston Metropolitan Area, 1967-1997