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Required Items

• A cover sheet: Please include your name, department, desired semester, the award releasing you from all teaching responsibilities, and a signature indicating that the DEO(s) has approved a full-time residency if the application is successful.
• A curriculum vitae: No more than three pages.
• An abstract: Include an abstract of the proposed project (in third person), including a title (100 words or less) that will be used on our website if you become a Fellow.
• A project description: This 3-5 page, single-spaced description should be clear and comprehensible to reviewers from a variety of disciplines; it should clarify how working at the Obermann Center and participating in the bi-weekly Fellows’ seminar will benefit the project and how the applicant’s participation will benefit the other Fellows. Given that the Fellows-in-Residence program is increasingly competitive and that we have limited space, please state specifically how often you anticipate using an office at the Center. The description should include the following. 

Required Items

(Please submit your CV and answers to the four questions in one .pdf document to: obermann-center@uiowa.edu.)

• An academic CV: This should be no longer than 2 pages and should include a) your projected date of graduation and your final degree; b) a list of academic accomplishments, including presentations, publications, exhibits, and teaching assignments, and c) your current contact information (mailing address, phone, and e-mail), academic department, and advisor’s name. Send your CV as a PDF to obermann-center@uiowa.edu. Be sure your name and e-mail address appear at the top of the first page.
• Responses to the four questions below: Your responses should be no longer than 200 words per question. Send your responses as a PDF to obermann-center@uiowa.edu. Be sure that your name and address are at the top of the page.
• A confidential letter of support from your faculty advisor: Provide a confidential letter of support from your faculty advisor. This should address:  a) your standing in your graduate program, b) the value of the Graduate Institute to your present and future teaching and research, and c) your potential for collaborative, publicly engaged teaching and/or scholarship. [For a definition of public scholarship, see below.] Your faculty advisor should email this letter directly to obermann-center@uiowa.edu.
• An optional confidential letter that addresses your abilities or potential abilities to work as partner with a community organization or work experience with public engagement: This letter might come from a faculty member, a mentor, or a supervisor in a volunteer position. It can address any or all of the following: a) your potential to bring this project to fruition, and b) your ability to work with a community partner, and c) the viability of your proposed project. Please have this letter e-mailed directly to obermann-center@uiowa.edu. 
• An email from the applicant’s Director of Graduate Studies: In order to ensure that the DGS of your department is aware of your participation, we require an email from the Director of Graduate Studies from your home department stating the following: “NAME OF APPLICANT is in good standing in our department. If he/she is accepted, I support his/her participation in the Obermann Graduate Institute in January 2018.” This statement—no more and no less—should be e-mailed by your DGS to obermann-center@uiowa.edu.

Required Items

• Cover Sheet
  • ​Title of the project
    • Proposed start and end dates of proposed project (any continuous 2- or 4-week period between mid-May and mid-August) when all collaborators will be in residence
    • Name, rank, department, office mailing address, and e-mail address for each collaborator
    • Short abstract (300 or fewer words)
    • A narrative (maximum five pages, single-spaced) that answers all of the following questions in the order they appear:
  • What do you propose to do?
    • Why is it an important undertaking?
    • What earlier work has been done on the project and related areas by the applicants individually or collaboratively? What work has been done by others?
    • What is the value of the collaboration? Specify the distinctive contribution of each collaborator to the interdisciplinary effort? Include the value of working together, face-to-face, during a specific time period at the Obermann Center..
    • How will the work proceed? Include a timetable for the grant period and afterwards until completion. Describe what collaborators will be doing individually or collaboratively. If applicable, describe the methodology.
    • How will the work benefit from extended, face-to-face work time between the participants? (Note that participants are expected to be actively working at the Obermann Center and not in separate locations.)
    • What will be achieved by the end of the grant period?
    • How will you disseminate your work—through publication, exhibition, other? When do you estimate the project will be completed? Please specify the most likely publisher, journal, or venue and explain. (Edited collections and textbooks generally have not fared well in this competition but are not automatically excluded: the proposal should focus only on the collaborative original research involved.)
• The curriculum vitae (maximum three single-spaced pages for each CV) of each collaborator
• A letter from your department chair endorsing the proposed project and the two- or four-week residency at the Obermann Center (sent by DEO to obermann-center@uiowa.edu)
• Submit all materials in .pdf form to obermann-center@uiowa.edu.

Required Items

Applications are due the second Tuesday in October.

• Send a letter of introduction regarding your symposium topic: including its relevance to a particular field or fields; potential for sustained impact through publication or other means of sharing knowledge beyond the immediate event; and ideas for engaging with the community.
• Include a CV: for each applying director. We encourage but do not require that one director is a senior faculty member. 

Required Items

Send the following as ONE PDF to obermann-center@uiowa.edu:

• Description of your topic that concisely explains its significance and your desired objectives as a group.
• CV for the director or co-directors of no more than two pages each.
• List of at least six probable participants.     

Required Items

Submit the following materials in a single PDF to Erin Hackathorn at erin-hackathorn@uiowa.edu by April 11, 2017:

1. A one- to two-page letter of interest that explains how your participation in HASTAC will benefit you and how your work to date reflects HASTAC’s principles.
2. A brief bio paragraph of no more than 250 words that describes you research interests (which may be your work as an artist). Include your dissertation topic, if applicable.
3. A curriculum vitae of no more than two pages.
4. An e-mail from your academic advisor addressed to erin-hackathorn@uiowa.edu stating the following: “I affirm that APPLICANT’S NAME is in good standing in NAME OF GRADUATE PROGRAM and will be on campus for the 2017-2018 academic year. I support this application to the HASTAC Scholar program.