Activities

Charles Warren Center Fellowship

Since its founding in 1965, the Warren Center has annually hosted 6-12 visiting scholars, thus enriching Harvard’s Americanist community, and benefiting the fellows with access to Harvard’s resources at a critical point in their scholarship [link; see immediately below].  Starting in 1995, the fellowship has carried an annual theme, drawing the fellows into even closer connection by virtue of shared interests, and expanding the Center’s reach as the themes have grown increasingly interdisciplinary [link; see immediately below].  Recently the fellows’ seminar has been enriched by a graduate course taught in tandem with the workshop.  This innovation has been valuable to students, faculty, and fellows alike, underscoring the integral connection between research and teaching.

Links: the text above should link at the indicated points to

* our list of former fellows (presently at http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/peopleformerfellows.html).  I note that the sitemap doesn’t include a specific box for “former fellows,” but surely this can easily be added?

* our list of workshop themes (presently at http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/fsprogrampast.html).

Officially termed at its inception a postdoctoral fellowship, the Charles Warren Center Fellowship has most typically been held by faculty with tenure-track appointments.  The fellowship has many benefits, but health benefits have never been counted among them.  For this reason, and because we now offer a benefited true postdoc, the Warren Center Fellowship is properly termed a faculty fellowship, even as those without tenure-track appointments may apply, as long as the preceding is understood.

Current and future themes:

* 2014-15: Multimedia History and Literature: New Directions in Scholarly Design (with a link to the current fellows page, the new site’s equivalent of http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/peoplefellowscurrent.html).

* 2015-16: The History of American Capitalism (with a link to the description and application, as at http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/fsprogramfuture15-16.html).

Global American Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship

Initiated in 2013 with the generous support of Social Sciences Dean Peter Marsden, this program is focused on the history of the United States in the world, and the world in the United States.  The postdoctoral fellowship is for two years, and two are invited annually.  Thus, there are four such postdoctoral fellows in residence annually.  The program will be reviewed in summer 2015.  Each cohort is includes scholars with a variety of disciplinary backgrounds who bring a historical perspective to topics such as empire, migration, race, indigeneity, and ethnicity, and whose work investigates and/or interprets the history and experience in the United States of native peoples, or peoples of African, Asian, or Hispanic descent.

Unlike the Centers’ faculty fellowship, which does not carry health insurance, the Global American Studies postodoctoral fellowship is benefited. 

Application for 2014-15 [hyperlink, to material such as at http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/fspostdoc14-16.html.