A workshop sponsored by
The 1819 Social:
“How to Identify, Apply for, and Win Fellowships”
with Professor Benjamin Kahan
Friday, October 11th, 2024
4pm EST on Zoom
In this nuts-and-bolts workshop, participants will learn about the process and mechanics of applying for grants and fellowships. The session will include concrete suggestions and tips for applying for fellowships at various career stages.
The session will be led by Benjamin Kahan, the Herbert Huey McElveen Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Louisiana State University. Kahan has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and a number of other institutions. He is the author of Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life (Duke, 2013) and The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality (Chicago, 2019). He is also the editor of The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature (Cambridge, 2024), Heinrich Kaan’s “Psychopathia Sexualis” (1844): A Classic Text in the History of Sexuality (Cornell, 2016), and a co-editor of Theory Q, a book series from Duke University Press.
The 1819 Social, spearheaded by K-SAA Mentoring Director Professor Christopher Rovee (LSU), will host a series of events in the hopes of creating a site for community among graduate-student, early-career, and independent scholars. It is conceived with the ideal of a supportive community in mind as a source of camaraderie, feedback, and knowledge. Please read more on our Mentorship page.