Outstanding Scholars Named As 2025 Career Enhancement Fellows

The Institute for Citizens & Scholars has named 24 new Career Enhancement Fellows for the 2024–25 academic year.

The Career Enhancement Fellowship, funded by the Mellon Foundation and administered by Citizens & Scholars, seeks to increase the presence of outstanding junior faculty committed to campus diversity and innovative research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.

The 2024 Career Enhancement Fellows’ research advances disciplines such as history, Chicana and Chicano Studies, religious studies, gender and women’s studies, literature, African Diaspora Studies, and more. Beyond academic diversity, the 2024 Fellows come from an equally diverse range of institutions from across the country. Selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants, Fellows are expanding perspectives within their disciplines and are committed to research and service that increases engagement on campus. (Full list of Fellows, institutions, and departments below.)

The program provides Fellows with a six-month or one-year sabbatical stipend (up to $35,000); a research, travel, or publication stipend (up to $1,500); mentoring; and participation in a professional development retreat. For 2024, ten junior faculty members will receive 12-month Fellowships and 14 will receive six-month Fellowships.

Administered at Citizens & Scholars since 2001, the Career Enhancement Fellowship has supported more than 500 junior faculty members, creating a robust network of scholars committed to research and engagement in core fields in the arts and humanities. Fellows have gone on to serve in administrative and leadership roles, receive high honors like MacArthur Fellowships, and teach new generations of students.