The Center for Lincoln Studies (CLS) is dedicated to engaging with UIS’s talented faculty. The Faculty Fellows program engages faculty to become the core of the Center’s intellectual community along with the Center’s two affiliate faculty. The faculty fellows will participate in Center programs and projects and the Center will amplify fellows’ work through its website and social media and provide travel funds to aid faculty research.

The Center will launch its Faculty Fellows program with two fellows beginning in academic year 2025-2026. Each fellow serves for two years, renewable for an additional two years. The term for fellows accepted this spring will begin on August 16, 2025, and end on August 15, 2027.

Application opens: Monday, February 3, 2025

Application deadline: Friday, March 7, 2025

Eligibility

• A Faculty Fellow must be a UIS faculty member at any level (tenured, tenure-track, non-tenure track).
• A Faculty Fellow’s work should deal with Abraham Lincoln, his era, or legacy broadly construed. (For example, faculty members researching aspects of the nineteenth-century, leadership, or contemporary issues with U.S. democracy are eligible along with researchers who deal more directly with Lincoln and his life).

Expectations

• At least once per academic year, faculty fellows will be asked to share their research with the Center for Lincoln Studies community. How this is done will be established between the fellow and the Center director. (Example, a fellow shares their research as part of a Center reception, advisory group meeting, or public event.)
• Faculty Fellows make a consistent effort to become part of the life of the Center, participating in Center activities when able.

Benefits

• The Center awards up to $1,000.00 per fellow during each of the fellowship years to be used in support of research related travel expenses and/or conference registration.
• The Center will amplify faculty research, sharing it with the CLS community.