西瓜视频

Enriching the intellectual life of the college and community through the arts & humanities.

Founded in 2018, 西瓜视频’s Tadler Center for the Humanities promotes the arts and humanities at the college and community level by:

• fostering public awareness and understanding of the humanities through program offerings that engage audiences at local, national, and international levels;
• supporting the core values of the humanities - including aesthetic exploration, intellectual inquiry, and historical understanding - through interdisciplinary research and teaching initiatives; and 
• encouraging dialogue, creativity, and inquiry through the support of bold and innovative work by artists, writers, scholars, and students in the humanities.

The Tadler Center supports 西瓜视频 faculty in all phases of their careers by providing funding for research, creative and interdisciplinary projects, guest speakers, innovative programming and an annual fellowship.

 

Tadler Fellowship

This award provides full time faculty members with a course release in the spring semester and research funding on a case by case basis. Proposals should reflect the Tadler Center’s core commitment to creativity, excellence, and inclusivity, as well as an active, innovative engagement with the humanities' at the college and in the broader community. We are particularly interested in projects that support our core values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

Tadler Center for the Humanities Course Releases
The Tadler Center for the Humanities will grant 1-2 course releases a year, based on the merit of the applications. The Tadler welcomes proposals from faculty who are working on long term projects, such as book length manuscripts.
 
Application and Review Process
Faculty submit proposals by the deadline listed below that include: 

1. a description of the faculty member’s project; 
2. the faculty member’s goals; 
3. a timeline for the project;
4. an explanation of how the course release will benefit the faculty member and the college; 
5. confirmation that the faculty member has consulted with their dean around the planned course release, should it be awarded; and
6. confirmation that the faculty member has not received an ECFA professional development course release
   for the same semester. 
   

Deadlines: 

Proposals must be submitted no later than September 15 for the spring semester and February 15 for the fall semester. 

 

Review Process:
A three-person committee, appointed by the director, will decide on the merits of the proposals. The committee will send their recommendations to the director, who will have the final say on the applications. If a proposal is approved by the director, the director will send the decision to the provost who will ensure that the proposed course release aligns with the goals of the college before granting final approval.

 

Tadler Research & Programming Fund

 

The Tadler Center is committed to supporting programming and research in the humanities at the college. Faculty and students are invited to apply for funding for speakers, colloquia, research, internships, and travel.  Grants will be awarded on a rolling basis, based upon the originality and quality of applicants’ research proposals, as well as the availability of funds. 

 

 

Tadler Student Scholarship

 

The Tadler Center sponsors scholarships for outstanding students in the humanities. For more info, please contact The Office of Financial Aid. 

Sara Johnson Allen, Professor of Communication, and Elizabeth Winthrop, Associate Professor of English, have won this year's Tadler Fellowships.

Sara's current project is an exploration of cultural and political history, centering on her 17th century home in Ipswich, Massachusetts. She will work with local historians and archaeologists to uncover the history of the people who lived in her house over the last three centuries and thematically connect the story of the past residents with those living in the house since 2010: Sara's own family.

Elizabeth Winthrop is using her fellowship to continue work on a novel which explores the ramifications of American foreign policy in the middle east, the rise and appeal of ISIS, and the aftermath of the group’s fall in 2019. The novel specifically tells the story of one of the many young western women who has traveled to Syria to join ISIS, and the fate of the child she has after the group has been defeated.