Provost's Manuscript Finishing Fellowship

For this pilot round, Manuscript Finishing Fellowships will be awarded to two (2) OU Regular Faculty in the arts, humanities, or interpretive social sciences.

Preference for this grant will be given to faculty who have been at the rank of associate professor for at least five years. All associate professors who earned the rank of Associate Professor before summer 2020 are encouraged to apply.

Sensitive to the time constraints of the primary audience for this grant, the Forum is requesting the following materials:

1. Project Description. For book projects, send your book proposal. 

For other kinds of research and creative activity, send a detailed 5-10 double-spaced page description of your project that includes a project description, explanation of the contribution of the project to your field, description of audience and impact, status of conversations with particular publishers, and a highly detailed outline of the component parts of the major work. 

Keep in mind that your proposal will be read by a diverse group of faculty, some of whom may have limited knowledge about your proposed project. Therefore, the project narrative should keep jargon to a minimum.

2. Project Status and Timeline (1 page)

In up to one page, describe the current status of your book or major project. Briefly explain to the committee which aspects of project research and writing are complete, and which have yet to be completed. Include current word count. Provide a project timeline that explains how (with the support of this fellowship) the project could make substantial progress to completion by the end of the granting period. 

If the project described is a book project, provide research, drafting, editing, and completion goals for each of the remaining chapters. Include word counts. For other kinds of research and creative activity, provide a development-completion timeline for each of the remaining component parts of the major work.

3. Description of Rank History (1 page)

Within the limits of one single-spaced page, describe your history of work at rank. How long have you been at your current rank? What work have you been doing since achieving your current rank? What are the major requirements for you to achieve rank advancement? And in what ways have substantial service commitments, extra teaching commitments, or other extenuating circumstances slowed your progression through rank advancement? The committee will be particularly interested in proposals the demonstrate a record of significant contribution to the University through service to students, colleagues, and administrative tasks.

4. Applicant Full CV
   
5. Teaching Release Form, signed by chair and dean. Release Form Available HERE.
   

Proposal Submission: Save all component parts of the application as a single PDF (saved as [lastname]_PMCFellowship). All applications for the Provost's Manuscript Completion Fellowship must be submitted via email as a single PDF attachment sent to Humanities.Forum@ou.edu by the fellowship deadline. You will receive an email confirming receipt of your application.

At the conclusion of the grant period, the awardee is expected to submit a 1-2 page report to the grant program director, with copies to the academic director/chair and dean by September 30 of the year following the award. This report should describe the work completed during the fellowship period, especially as it relates to the completion and submission of the manuscript or major project.

All written publications (whether in hard copy or electronic form) should acknowledge the support of the Office of the Provost.