IAS Faculty Fellowship Application

Application Deadline:
Monday, November 3, 2025
Applications open September 15

IAS Residential Fellowships are designed to allow fellows to participate in and benefit from the IAS’s interdisciplinary community. Up to twelve faculty fellows are selected annually to spend a semester in residence at the IAS, where they can benefit from collaboration with other fellows and share their work across disciplines. Each faculty fellow is provided with individual workspace and a computer in the IAS’s offices in Northrop on the Twin Cities campus. Fellows are required to attend the weekly Residential Fellows work-in-progress seminars and are expected to participate in other activities of the IAS, including joining the IAS community at IAS public events.

Eligibility

  • All University of Minnesota regular faculty from the five system campuses are eligible to apply.
  • Fellowships are open to faculty at all ranks. We encourage applications from assistant and associate professors.
  • We encourage applications from faculty doing community-engaged scholarship.
  • Scholars who are engaged in collaborative work may apply in teams of two or three. Those applying as part of a team may include the same general project description in their individual applications, but each must also include at minimum a paragraph describing precisely what their contribution to the final project will be. Applications from faculty applying in teams will be evaluated on individual merit as well as part of the group.
  • NOT ELIGIBLE: Those who have held an IAS Residential Fellowship in 2020-2021 or later, or who are current members of the IAS Advisory Board. 

Logistics

  • The Institute covers half of the fellow’s B-base salary and fringe for the semester in residence, up to a maximum of $35,000. (This will cover half of a semester’s salary and fringe of faculty whose B-base salary is below $102,489; the home college is responsible for the fellow’s remaining salary and fringe.)
  • This is a residential fellowship. In order to create and maintain community, fellows are expected to be physically present at the IAS during their semester in residence for weekly work-in-progress seminars and to attend IAS public presentations.
  • Fellows from the Crookston, Duluth, Morris, and Rochester campuses will receive $15,000 for relocation expenses during the fellowship semester; please note that relocation funds are taxable.
  • Fellowships are intended to give the faculty member time to work on research and creative work, therefore faculty members may not teach (regular or overload) during their fellowship semester.
  • Residential faculty fellowships are not official leaves; fellows may still have non-teaching responsibilities in their home departments. We strongly encourage applicants to discuss with their department chair/head, in advance of applying, the implications of a semester’s teaching leave. All applications are subject to departmental and collegiate approval for this teaching leave.