Award 25303-CA
Research Chairs in Arts, Humanities, and Culture
- COMPETITION CLOSED
- Awards to be taken up in the 2025-2026 Academic Year
- Applications accepted until September 16, 2024
- The next competition, for awards to be taken up in the 2026-2027 Academic Year, will open in February 2025
- US$25,000 for 4 months
- Grants begin in either September 2025 or January 2026
- Fulbright Canada Program Officer, Recruitment
- Formal letters of invitation should not be sought; however, applicants are encouraged to contact the institution to discuss research interests.
With more than 300 faculty members and over 700 graduate students working in 16 departments and units, and 15 centres and institutes, the Faculty of Arts boasts a diverse range of multidisciplinary research expertise, and supports numerous outstanding and internationally recognized individual and collaborative research projects. Located in Alberta’s capital city, and housed in one of Canada’s top-tier research universities, the Faculty of Arts offers prime opportunities for research development and collaboration. Departments at the University of Alberta are recognized around the world for cutting-edge research and creation, activities supported by robust visiting scholars programs, a world-class library, leading digital initiatives, and an engaged community of scholars, students, and non-academic publics.
Faculty of Arts
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Arts and Humanities, University of Alberta
Specializations: Art & Design; Drama; East Asian Studies; Digital Humanities; English & Film Studies; History, Classics & Religion; Media and Technology Studies; Modern Languages & Cultural Studies; Music; Philosophy.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Society and Culture, University of Alberta
Specializations: Anthropology; East Asian Studies, Economics; English & Film Studies; History, Classics & Religion; Linguistics; Media & Technology Studies; Modern Languages & Cultural Studies; Political Science; Psychology; Science, Technology and Society; Sociology; Women’s and Gender Studies.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Constructing Democracy and the Nation State in Nineteenth-Century North America
The Fulbright Visiting Research Chair will study some aspect of the multi-faceted history through which popular sovereignty, nation states, and mass politics emerged in nineteenth-century North America. Calgary’s Department of History features several specialists in this area (Drs. Campbell, Colpitts, Spangler, Towers, and Whitfield). At the U of C, the Fulbright Scholar would have the tools to advance their own research agenda and opportunities to present their work to the academic community and the general public, to mentor graduate students, and to engage in scholarly dialogue across the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Specializations: Seeking a North American specialist who works on 19th-century political history, broadly defined.