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The Center for the Humanities is dedicated to invigorating the academic life of Drake University and providing an intellectual center for the College of Arts and Sciences. In order to fulfill its mission, the Center will both initiate projects and respond to proposals by individual faculty or groups of faculty that promise to draw upon and contribute to scholarship and pedagogy in the humanities. Faculty are encouraged to develop proposals that represent a broad range of academic experiences and draw upon the full range of available resources; all proposals will receive full consideration by the Board. To facilitate best use of its endowment funds, however, the Center has identified typical categories for funding and has developed several programs that are likely to receive priority consideration.
The Center currently encourages proposals from faculty for the following programs and funding options:
- Invited Speakers
- Endowment Professorships
- Advanced Studies
- Research Leave
- Research Materials
- Research Travel
- Sabbatical Support
- Scholar-in-Residence
- Small Conference Model
- Summer Research Leave
- Tenure-Track Support
- Truman Award
- Working Groups
To encourage the organization of conferences, the Center provides a Small Conference Model, although proposals need not follow this model exactly. Information regarding the Center's programs and the Small Conference Model are available in the programs list on the left side of the page.
The Center also funds three Endowed Professorships, the Truman Award to a junior-level student, and several awards to students in the name of emeriti faculty.
The Center seeks to develop additional programs, and faculty are encouraged to discuss any suggestions they may have for new programming with the Director or members of the Board.
Proposals are to be submitted to the Board via email to the College of Arts and Sciences. Faculty are encouraged to discuss proposals with the Director prior to formal submission. [See Application Procedures]
The Center is administered by a Director and a Board. The Board consists of representatives from the departments of English, History, Modern Languages and Literatures, Philosophy and Religion, and Rhetoric and Communication Studies, a representative from Humanities-oriented Social Sciences faculty, and the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences (ex-officio).
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