Dear Dr. Salley,

I’m writing to invite your students to apply to a fully-funded virtual summer research program hosted by Johns Hopkins University. I lead a program in the humanities for community college students called the Humanities Collaboratory.  The program is nationally recognized, highly pedagogically innovative, and a proven success. It’s funded by the Mellon Foundation and will provide students with a generous summer stipend of $5750 for ten weeks of full-time mentored research.  Required on-campus housing at our beautiful Baltimore campus is included in the award, in addition to the stipend at no cost to the student. We will be on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus in Baltimore, Maryland and run from June 1st to August 6th. Our first year extending the program nationally was a rousing success; we look forward to partnering with additional regional community colleges. The program is nationally recognized, highly pedagogically innovative, and a proven success. We have over a 90% transfer rate for past participants, hundreds of thousands in post-program scholarships and awards, growth in academic rigor and expertise, and exceptional graduate school placement.

Our website includes more information, including two videos produced by previous years’ participants detailing the impact of the program. The really exciting part is that students can work in ANY area of the humanities and many of our past students have been general studies students, not yet aware of the breadth of humanities options but with a keen love for the discipline. This program is innovative and breaks from the one-on-one mentoring models to provide students with a team of mentors and a student-centered experienced focused on research modeling and collaboration. Students’ projects will be completely individual and customized to their interests; they do not need to have a topic prior to entering the program, as we spend the first two weeks developing their topics. In addition to the application, students will enter an interview round before final selection. Applications are online now through February 15, 2022 and are open to any current community college students with an interest in research in the humanities.

Please also share with your students the zoom link https://zoom.us/my/thehlab to attend any of these application infosessions where they will see application essays from past winners.

ü  November 3, 2021 from 2:00PM-3:00PM ET

ü  November 9, 2021 from 3:00PM-4:00PM ET

ü  November 16, 2021 from 3:00PM-4:00PM ET

We are also pleased to announce an exciting new opportunity for faculty and graduate students who would like to learn how to start and maintain a Humanities Collaboratory at their institution.  In the application, you will nominate one graduate student to accompany you through the program. You will witness how students are transformed into researchers and learn how to move away from one-to-one mentoring to a research team where students explore their individual research interests without focusing on just one content area of specialization. The faculty and graduate students selected will be on the Homewood campus from June 1 to June 10 and July 29 to August 6, 2022, travel and required housing in Baltimore will be provided. To experience the Collaboratory in person, please use the faculty application found here.  Housing will be in a gorgeous Victorian house in the historic Mt. Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore.

You’re receiving this email because you are listed online as Chair of Art History, Theory and Criticism for Maryland Institute College of Art; we apologize if we’re reaching you in error, or if we’ve mistaken your title or affiliation. We are working to reach as many schools as possible, and I’m sure in the creation of our contact list there are some mistakes.

Thank you so much for forwarding this message and the attached flyer widely, and don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or need more information! Please also consider joining a faculty or graduate training program infosession at the same link as above https://zoom.us/my/thehlab:

ü  October 27, 2021 from 4:00PM-5:00PM ET

ü  November 3, 2021 from 12:00PM-1:00PM ET

ü  November 09, 2021 from 2:00PM-3:00PM ET

Best,

Natalie

Natalie Strobach, Ph.D.

Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Research, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

Assistant Research Professor, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute 

Director of the Humanities Collaboratory

Summer Site Director for the Amgen Scholars Program

Johns Hopkins University

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