Humanities Research Group

Our fellowship program began in 2019; since it launched, we've awarded 80 fellowships to faculty in 28 different departments or programs. Each academic year, we award 5-10 fellowships to UW faculty and staff, providing them the time, funding, and intellectual community needed to make significant progress on their projects. Fellows work together in weekly meetings to workshop their ideas and commit to the submission of a publication, performance, exhibition, or proposal within twelve months of receiving the fellowship. Furthermore, each cohort nominates one of its members to give the annual Sandeen Lecture in the Humanities.

The application cycle for the Humanities Research Group is currently closed but will open again this fall. We'll update both this page and our funding page when the application opens. Sign up for our newsletter so that you can be notified directly.

Are you an alum of the research group? We'd love to know about the successes resulting from your fellowship! You an report an outcome by completing this form or emailing us at humanities@uwyo.edu. 

Fellows reading together inside the Cooper House

The Sandeen Lecture in the Humanities

Named for the institute’s founding director, Dr. Eric Sandeen, the Sandeen Lecutre is our marquee event. Each year, fellows in the Humanities Research Group vote to decide who among them will deliver the annual lecture. The process shows that the winner has the respect of their peers and that their work showcases some of the finest humanities research on campus. The Sandeen Lecture occurs every December on the Monday before finals week. The series began in 2019 and has included the following lectures:

 

2019

Rachel Sailor, "The Broad Movement: Pictorial Photography in the American West, 1900-1950" 


2020

Caskey Russell, “‘Then Fight For It’: The History of Alaskan Native Civil Rights" 


2021

Tracey Owens Patton, “Womb Wars: Mixed Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era” 


2022

Breezy Taggart, “Reclaiming Mental Health Representations through Contemporary Art” 


2023

Kayla Burd, “The Plight and Peril of Children in Wyoming’s Juvenile System: A Legal, Historical, and Psychological Analysis”

 
2024

Allison Caine, "The Herder's Laboratory: Indigenous Climate Science in the Peruvian Andes." More information about this year's lecture.