Office of Research

New Directions Fellowship 2022

Limited Submissions

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has invited the UW to nominate one faculty member who wishes to pursue training outside her/his/their field for a New Directions Fellowship. Please notice that eligibility for these awards is limited to Humanities faculty at UW Seattle (including the humanistic social sciences, as well as art history and music history) who have received their PhD within the past 6-12 years (i.e., between 2010 and 2016).

  • Priority will be given to applications that manifest 1) a strong focus on issues of race, ethnicity, and migration, or 2) a focus on filling in the gaps left by more traditional narratives in the history of the Americas.
  • The second field of study must be a foray into a new area of intellectual inquiry/subject and not just an enhancement of skills to go further in the primary field. Language study, technical training, or skills acquisition such as GIS mapping do not, by themselves, constitute a new direction.

      

Application Instructions

To be considered for this fellowship, interested faculty should submit a three-page proposal, explaining the rationale, addressing interests of the foundation above and outlining their new direction education and training plan to the Office of Research Limited Submission email, limitedsubs@uw.edu, no later than Friday, July 22 at 5 PM. For more information about the fellowship and to see past awardees, please visit the Mellon Foundation website.

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

2022

Deadlines
07/22/2022 UW Internal Deadline Closed
09/23/2022 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Funding amount

$300,000

Maximum Number of Applications

1

Eligible groups
  • All campus

Inquiries and Contact Information

Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.

For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.