Dear Colleagues,

Some questions have come up about who is eligible to apply to the 2013 
Duke Summer Institute. The Institute is funded by a federal agency, the 
National Endowment for the Humanities. It has rather strict 
qualification criteria that must be met for you to be eligible to apply. 
Here is a statement of the requirements.

The Summer Institute is designed primarily for teachers of American 
undergraduate students. Qualified independent scholars and those 
employed by museums, libraries, historical societies, and other 
organizations may be eligible to compete provided they can effectively 
advance the teaching and research goals of the seminar or institute. 
Applicants must be United States citizens, residents of U.S. 
jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United 
States or its territories for at least the three years immediately 
preceding the application deadline. Foreign nationals teaching abroad at 
non-U.S. chartered institutions are not eligible to apply. Three of the 
twenty five slots may be filled with graduate students.

In short, the program is aimed at people who are teaching 
undergraduates. As noted in my original announcement, and unlike some of 
our past institutes, this one is aimed principally at professors. There 
are three slots for graduate students, and in addition, graduate 
students who are teaching at an institution other than the one where 
they are getting their PhD would be counted in the "professor" rather 
than "graduate student" category, so would have a better chance of being 
accepted.

Bruce Caldwell

-- 
Bruce Caldwell
Research Professor of Economics
Director, Center for the History of Political Economy

"To discover a reference has often taken hours of labour, to fail to discover one has often taken days." Edwin Cannan, on editing  Smith's Wealth of Nations

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