Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and developed in cooperation with the Office of the Provost and the Graduate School, Quadrant is a joint initiative of the University of Minnesota Press, a leader in interdisciplinary scholarly publishing, and the Institute for Advanced Study.
Providing Tools for Scholars
With the combined resources of Mellon, the Press, and the IAS, Quadrant provides tools for scholars to pursue interdisciplinary work and offers a new, more collaborative model of scholarly research and publication. Quadrant’s structure is designed to be a significant transformation of current models of scholarly publication and collaborative work and to be an equally significant relocation of the place of the press within the university itself.
Two Quadrant Fellows Will be in Residence at IAS, Spring 2013
Quadrant Books Series
The Quadrant Books series launched in fall 2010 with the publication of Rebecca R. Scott’s Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields and Rebirth of the Clinic: Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care, edited by Cindy Patton. In spring 2011 two more Quadrant books were published: Laura Ogden’s Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades and Lisa Anna Richey and Stefano Ponte’s Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World. For more information, visit the University of Minnesota Press’s Quadrant Books page.
About the Quadrant Fellowships
From 2007 through 2012, the Quadrant program held an annual, worldwide competition for fellowships that have been awarded to sixteen interdisciplinary scholars. During their semester in residence at the IAS in Minneapolis, the Quadrant fellows receive a stipend of up to $30,000, depending on rank and experience. Fellowships include medical and dental coverage. At the IAS, fellows participate in weekly lunches and public lectures with a lively interdisciplinary community that includes University of Minnesota fellows and other Quadrant fellows. They are also involved in at least one of Quadrant’s research and publishing collaboratives: Design, Architecture, and Culture ; Environment, Culture, and Sustainability ; Global Cultures; and Health and Society. Fellows give a public lecture and present a work-in-progress in a workshop setting with their Quadrant collaborative group or groups. In addition, they work directly with an editor from the University of Minnesota Press to develop their manuscripts for submission. Manuscripts submitted to the University of Minnesota Press undergo standard peer review and Press board approval process. Quadrant fellowship applications are no longer being accepted.
For further information, contact Ann Waltner.
Sponsoring Units
- University of Minnesota College of Design
- University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment
- University of Minnesota Institute for Global Studies
- University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics