CHASS Seeks Applications for Inaugural Cohort of Faculty Fellows

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences invites faculty at all ranks across the college to apply to a new interdisciplinary fellowship program aimed at exploring ways humans can sustain positive cultural and climatic change in an increasingly global and interconnected world.

The CHASS Faculty Fellows program hopes to identify four to six thought leaders in the college who are working broadly on the themes of humans, futures, and sustainability and bring them together to collaborate for the spring 2025 semester. The college and Interdisciplinary Affairs and Partnerships (IDS-IAP) are sponsoring the program.

Through the program, fellows will receive the time, space, travel and research funds (up to $3,000) to complete the semester-long fellowship. The deadline to apply is Oct. 31.

Faculty fellows will meet regularly (times to be determined) throughout the semester to read, think, discuss and present to each other on this broad interdisciplinary theme. Each fellow will propose a topic and short reading list or activities to the group. Additionally, an outside speaker may be invited to speak to the fellows and the college-wide community during the semester.

The primary goal is for the fellows to work together in a way that leads to sustained discussion and new interdisciplinary projects, including publications, grants, curriculum and community engagement, among others. Individual fellows could undertake such projects in line with the criteria for success within their own discipline and home department or by two or more fellows.

An added hope is that the fellows report what they learned to a broader CHASS audience to infuse the college with new research ideas, concepts, methodologies and tools for interdisciplinarity.

A secondary goal of the program is to connect CHASS with the broader landscape of scholars in conversation about “Envisioning Urban Futures” from the Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs (OUIP) at NC State. 

The fellows’ final product will be a series of presentations to CHASS and the NC State community with an eye on future interdisciplinary projects.