CFP: Humanities Fellowships for Cultural Heritage - DEADLINE 14 JANUARY

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With thanks to Donna Christian at CAL - from OELA Newsline:

Applications Invited for Humanities Fellowships at the Smithsonian Center
for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Deadline: January 14, 2004 (Letters of Interest)
[Source: RFP Bulletin ( November 5, 2004)]

The Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships at the Smithsonian Center
for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (http://www.folklife.si.edu/) are
designed to help expand and refine theoretical frameworks for cultural
heritage to include grassroots voices. The primary focus of the 2005-06
fellowships is the relation between cultural heritage and economic pursuits.
Rockefeller Fellows are humanities-oriented thinkers engaged in the work of
academic institutions, public organizations, and cultural communities.

Applicants for 2005-06 should be interested in developing ideas, principles,
and frameworks for understanding the economic dimensions of the production,
distribution, and/or consumption of cultural heritage. Applicants will be
expected to focus their critical inquiry on such issues as cultural capital,
intellectual property, community-based rights, cultural tourism, employment,
and poverty reduction, and will demonstrate originality of approach and
significant potential for making a contribution to the formulation of
cultural heritage policy and practice.

A maximum of six fellowships per year will be awarded. All fellowships will
include a stipend in addition to an allowance for travel to and from
Washington, D.C. Applicants need not be U.S. citizens to be eligible, and
approximately half the fellows will be drawn from outside the U.S. The
fellowship term is six weeks to five months, between September 1, 2005, and
July 31, 2006.

For more information, visit:
http://www.folklife.si.edu/opportunities/fellowships_RF.html