Faculty Research Fellows
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The HI Faculty Research Fellows (FRF) Program provides faculty members with research community, support, and accountability, creating an environment where scholars can thrive. The FRF program is one academic year.
2026-2027 FRF Theme: Intelligences
For the 2026-2027 cycle, we are accepting applications that address the theme Intelligences. Since the arrival of ChatGPT, the world has erupted in debate over the possible impacts of artificial intelligence (AI). Bold claims about a new era of AI compete with dystopian prophecies about AI-accelerated unemployment and de-skilling. Questions about the putative value of AI rely substantively on claims about the quality and nature of machine intelligences and the threats to human intelligences. In short, the rhetorics of our current moment are overflowing with intelligences–machine, human, community, procedural, creative, insightful, algorithmic, insightful, and so on. In this context, the HI invites FRF proposals from faculty whose work will contribute to efforts to better understand the nature of the many intelligences, their contestation, and/or the role of intelligences in our current moment.
The Application and Selection Process Overview:
- Course Release: Faculty Research Fellows receive a single course release. The release is provided by the HI (with Chair's approval) for COLA faculty. Faculty from outside COLA should secure a commitment for a release from their dean prior to applying.
- Year-Long Program: The program spans the entire academic year.
- External Funding Opportunities: A one-on-one meeting is offered to explore options for external research support.
- Accountability Groups: In-person spring semester cohort meetings offer opportunities to share and discuss research progress.
- Project Description: Provide a 1-2 page description of your major project, book, or study for the year.
- Past Funding: Describe your funding, leave, or support from the past 3 years.
- CV: Include a current CV.
- Chair/Dean Documentation: Provide pre-approval from your Chair or Dean for a course release in Spring 2027.
- Eligibility: Tenure/Track Faculty from any college or unit are eligible to apply.
- Working Plan: Outline your goals/milestones from August 16, 2026, to May 15, 2027.
Eligibility:
- Available exclusively to Tenure/Tenure-Track faculty.
- Faculty from any college or unit are welcome to apply.
- Previous HI Faculty Fellows are eligible to reapply after a 5-year period.
- Must be on campus for in-person accountability groups and workshops in the spring semester.
- Participate in one wider UT audience talk, seminar, or workshop for early career faculty and students
Benefits
- A course release can be taken in the Fall or Spring semester.
- One-on-one meetings to explore external funding opportunities in the Fall semester.
- Spring semester co-hort gathering.
- Application Deadline: The 2026-2027 application cycle is closed.
- Decisions Communicated: March
- Course Release: The course release can be taken in Fall and Spring semester