Howard Fellowships

The Howard Foundation awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in selected fields. The Foundation targets its support specifically to early mid-career individuals, those who have achieved recognition for at least one major project. Approximately ten fellowships will be awarded in April 2010 for 2010-2011 in the fields of

Creative Writing in English: Fiction and Poetry

Stipends of $25,000 will be awarded to support individuals working on specific writing projects for the academic year 2010-2011. Howard Fellowships may not be used to prepare exhibits or to support institutional programs. There are no residency requirements for individuals who receive awards. We are aware that leave patterns and individual career plans do not necessarily correspond to the Howard Foundation cycle of awards for individuals, and fellowship recipients in a given year may accordingly postpone receipt of their fellowship funds, if that is more convenient for them. The deadline for submission of applications was November 9, 2009, and the candidates for this year's fellowships are in the process of being evaluated. Fellowship recipients will be announced in early May, 2010.

Sequence of Awards

Beginning in the fall of 2010, the Howard Foundation plans to follow a five-year rotation of fields for its annual fellowship competition, as described below. Successful candidates will be given the option of postponing receipt of their fellowship, so as to make the Howard competition accessible to those whose personal plans do not line up exactly with the year in which awards are offered in their fields. While the Foundation plans to follow this sequence of fields, additional changes may from time to time need to be made as warranted by the limited resources of the Foundation.

Please note that application deadline will in each case occur during November of the year preceding the award year. The specific date will be announced in May of that year.

Eligibility

In order to be eligible to apply for a Howard Fellowship, candidates should be able to answer "yes" to each of the following questions. If "no" is the correct answer to any of them, they are asked to explain on the application form what special circumstances might make them eligible anyway, given the requirements for a Howard Fellowship.

Can your current professional status appropriately be viewed as “early mid-career” as understood by the Howard Foundation? Appropriate candidates for a Howard Fellowship should have completed their formal studies within the past five to fifteen years and should also have successfully completed at least one major project beyond degree requirements that would be sufficient for the awarding of tenure at a research institution or for achieving comparable peer recognition, e.g., through publication. Candidates who are already nationally and internationally recognized leaders in their fields as reflected by their promotion to full professor or by comparable recognition in their fields of endeavor are not normally eligible for a Howard Fellowship.

Would a Howard Fellowship provide you with time off from other responsibilities to work on your proposed project? Our support is particularly intended to augment paid sabbatical leaves. In the case of independent authors, or those without paid leaves, we would expect that a Howard Fellowship would enable them to devote a substantial block of time to the proposed project.

Are you, regardless of your citizenship, currently living and working in the United States?

Does your proposed project fall within one of the fields established for this year's round of applications? Given the limits of our resources, we must adhere strictly to the fields announced each year for project proposals.

The Application Process

Application materials for the 2011-2012 competition in Creative Non-Fiction, Translation into English, Literary Studies, and Film Studies will be available for printing out around May 1, 2010. Applications will need to be submitted by November 9, 2010.

Howard Fellows for 2009-2010

The Howard Foundation is pleased to announce its fellowship recipients for 2009-2010.

Previous Fellows

Previous recipients of Howard Fellowships can be viewed here.

History

The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation was established in 1952 by Nicea Howard in memory of her grandparents. Miss Howard had a special interest in furthering the personal development of promising individuals at the crucial middle stages of their careers in the liberal and creative arts.

Howard Foundation Lecture

The Howard Foundation Lecture is an occasional series for which the Howard Foundation invites a former Howard Fellow to the Brown University campus for a public presentation in the fellow's area of expertise. The first Howard Foundation lecture was delivered on October 8, 2009 by Robert A. Gross, The James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History at the University of Connecticut on "Helen Thoreau's Anti-Slavery Scrapbook: Abolitionism and Transcendentalism in Concord, Massachusetts."

Correspondence To:

Professor William C. Crossgrove
Administrative Director
or
Susan M. Clifford, Coordinator

The Howard Foundation
Brown University
Box 1945
Providence, RI 02912

Express Mail Address:

Brown University
The Howard Foundation
194 Meeting Street, Room 012
Providence, RI 02912

(401) 863-2640 voice
(401) 863-6280 fax

E-mail: Howard_Foundation@brown.edu

Web site: http://www.brown.edu/Howard_Foundation

Brown Home Page