Skip to content

Taft-Nicholson Center

College of Humanities

Main Navigation

Image of Faculty Fellow Seth Keeton on the Center's performance stage, with text reading Faculty Fellows

 

Applications for the 2026 season are now open, and will close on March 31, 2026. Follow the directions below to apply.

 

Summer Faculty Fellowships at the Taft-Nicholson Center provide dedicated writing time for faculty members from the University of Utah to work on creative or academic research and writing projects. Faculty who have held a University of Utah faculty appointment for one year or longer are eligible to apply, and Fellowships are available from July 1 through July 25, 2026.

The Taft-Nicholson Environmental Humanities Education Center (TNEHEC) and the Vice President for Research will award the faculty member $1,000-$2,000 (depending on length of stay) which is intended to cover lodging, travel to and from the Center, food, and supplies.  Fellows will be housed in Thoreauvian cabins in University Village.  The Village consists of 11 cabins, a bathhouse and a kitchen/dining cabin.  Fellows may purchase meals for $65/day when courses are in session at the TNEHEC.

See our directory of Fellows, past and present, to learn about the interdisciplinary work happening at the Center each season.

Application Instructions

The Taft Nicholson Summer Fellow Residencies are available to faculty in all disciplines for 1-3 weeks of dedicated writing time for scholarly pursuits of research or creative projects. Awards for the faculty member will be $1,000-$2,000 (depending on length of stay) which is intended to help defer the cost of travel to and from the Center and cover per diem to purchase food and supplies.

Instructions

  1. Completed application form (including chair’s signature).
  2. Statement of what you intend to accomplish during the fellowship. The statement should be no more than 2 pages, single spaced.
  3. A 150 word abstract.
  4. Statement of why the TNEHEC is an appropriate location for the fellow’s residency.
  5. Application packet is due to the College of Humanities Dean’s Office RM 2100 LNCO or electronically to Taft-NicholsonCenter@utah.edu by March 31st  for the upcoming season.
  6. Final selections of Fellows will be announced by April 30, for the upcoming season.
  7. If successful in your bid for a Taft Nicholson Summer Fellow Residencies, you will be required to:
    1. Submit a report to within one year of the end of the award period.
    2. Submit two copies of the creative work resulting from the award.
    3. Comply with University of Utah policy regarding all potentially patentable research. (See Policy and Procedures Manual 6-4).

Click Here to download and print out the application form (.doc)

Application Deadline: March 31

Application materials: 

  1. Application Form (includes department chair’s signature)
  2. Statement of what you intend to accomplish during the fellowship. The statement should be no more than 2 pages, single spaced.
  3. A 150 word abstract
  4. Statement of why the TNEHEC is an appropriate location for the fellow’s residency

Applications will be reviewed for the following criteria:

  1. Soundness and significance of the proposal
  2. Proposals potential benefit to the individual, the University and the community
  3. The chair’s evaluation of proposal

The recipient of the Taft-Nicholson Summer Fellow Residency must submit a 1 page, single-spaced, Final Report within one year after receiving the award, summarizing the research activities you undertook with this fellowship.

 

The committee will not consider a new application from an investigator until a final report from the previously awarded Taft-Nicholson Summer Fellow Residency is submitted. 

Please submit your final report  to TNEHEC Summer Faculty Fellow Review Committee Taft-NicholsonCenter@utah.edu.

Last Updated: 11/24/25