College Support and Award Opportunities

The annual Gary Lindberg Award was established by the College of Liberal Arts in 1986 in memory of Professor Gary Lindberg of the Department of English. Professor Lindberg was an exceptional scholar and outstanding teacher whose dedication and service to the University of New Hampshire as well as the wider community exemplified the highest academic standards and ideals.

In memory of Professor Lindberg and as a means of publicly supporting superior faculty accomplishment, the College of Liberal Arts annually recognizes one truly outstanding scholar and teacher within the College. The award carries a $5,000 stipend. The recipient is invited to present the Liberal Arts Lecture to the public during the following academic year.

Lindberg Nomination Information

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Lindberg Lecture

Breaking the Build: Digital Humanities and (Re)Constructing Community in the Neoliberal University
The Lindberg Lecture by Siobhan Senier will be held Feb. 18, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. in Murkland 110. Reception at 12:40. Free and open to the public.

2019 Lindberg Award Recipient

Announced March 13, 2019

Siobhan Senier, Professor of English, has been selected as the 2019 recipient of the Lindberg Award, given annually to the outstanding teacher-scholar in the College of Liberal Arts.

Appointed to the faculty in 2000, Professor Senier focuses on Native American literature, women's studies, sustainability and environmental studies, disability studies, and digital humanities.

Professor Senier's books include Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), which serves as a model for community-responsive scholarship and establishes Professor Senier as one of the most authoritative scholars on Northeast Indigenous writing. The book's innovative digital companion, dawnlandvoices.org, edited by Professor Senier with the help of students, Native American authors, and local colleagues, is both a literary magazine and an archive of Native American literature from New England. This vibrant website reflects the passionate commitment Professor Senier brings to her advocacy for regional Indigenous communities. She is currently finishing Sovereignty and Sustainability: Indigenous New England Literary Stewardship in the 20th and 21st Centuries, to be published by University of Nebraska Press, a book that unites Indigenous studies with ecocriticism and sustainability. Other publications include Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona: A Critical Edition (Broadview, 2008) and Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, Victoria Howard (University of Oklahoma Press, 2001), and numerous refereed articles and book chapters. Professor Senier's scholarship has been recognized with the Roland H. O'Neal Professorship for Junior Faculty Excellence and the James H. and Claire Short Hayes Chair in the Humanities, as well as external funding from NEH, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Studies Association, and the NH Humanities Council.

In the classroom, Professor Senier is extremely skilled, teaching a wide range of courses from First-Year Writing to graduate seminars, as well as chairing or serving on many dissertation and thesis committees. Students routinely praise the passion, knowledge, and skill that produce "unforgettable class discussions." Expressing respect and admiration, they say she is a role model, not only as a teacher and scholar, but also as a person. Professor Senier has been innovative in her use of digital studies methodology, an expertise she has brought to bear on curriculum for the new English major option: Text, Business Writing, and Digital Studies and the Cognate in Digital Studies.

Professor Senier has demonstrated that she possesses the highest qualities of scholarship and teaching and is most deserving of the Lindberg Award. Please join me in congratulating her.

Previous Lindberg Award Winners

The College of Liberal Arts provides limited support (up to $500) for research-related activities, with particular preference given to those that will advance efforts to secure external grants and fellowships, such as travel to funding agencies in Washington, DC. There is no deadline for applications, but once funds have been depleted for a given year, requests will be deferred until the following fiscal year. To apply, please briefly describe your project and proposed budget in less than one page, indicating what if any support your department will provide. This should be addressed to Dean Michele Dillon and submitted electronically. We ask for your chair's endorsement, only in the form of a signature, so please send a copy of your application to him or her. If your request is approved, support will take the form of reimbursement of documented expenses. Please address any questions to Michele Dillon.

For summer 2020, the College of Liberal Arts will offer up to 5 research stipends to tenure-track faculty, across all three ranks. The stipends are intended to support the completion of a research or artistry project currently at an advanced stage and thus to help accelerate the submission of the project’s results for publication (either toward a book manuscript or peer-reviewed journals) or performance/exhibition. Ordinarily, teaching summer school or receipt of University summer awards cannot be combined with a summer research stipend. The amount of each award is $5,000, and will be paid in June 2020. Proposals are due to the Dean’s Office, via electronic submission to Peg.Kirkpatrick@unh.edu, no later than March 23, 2020.

The proposals will be reviewed by the College of Liberal Arts Executive Committee.

Please submit an updated CV together with a one- or two-page (single-spaced) statement of your in-progress research/artistry and describe how the summer stipend will accelerate its completion.

Please also indicate previous funding for this project and any concurrent applications for summer 2020 support, as well as other time-consuming commitments for the summer.

Limited funds are available to faculty members on an ad hoc basis to support their professional development. Proposals should be made through one’s chair and support from other sources should be sought as well.

Request for Ad Hoc Faculty Development Funds

John and H. Irene Peters Professorship in Education
This award recognizes a faculty member in the Department of Education and is intended to provide support for teaching, research, service and other activities. The award carries an annual allowance for a three-year term, which may be used to support any bona fide professional expense.

Lamberton Professor of Justice Studies
This award recognizes outstanding achievement in scholarship and teaching in the field of justice studies. The award carries an annual allowance for a three-year term.

Pamela Shulman Professorship in European and Holocaust Studies
This award recognizes an outstanding tenured faculty member who will contribute to the study of European and Holocaust studies in the classroom as well as in research in this area. The Professorship carries an annual allowance that is intended to support outreach and networking initiatives that foster professional relationships with other centers of study, as well as lectures on campus and in the region.

• Liberal Arts Burnham Faculty Fellowship Summer 2020 application:  PDF format   Word format
  Link to photos of Burnham Estate

• Guidelines for Externally Funded Fellowships and Leaves

COLA's Center for the Humanities hosts and sponsors interdisciplinary conferences; supports faculty programs, projects, and lectures; and offers faculty fellowships, an endowed chair, stipends, and workshops.

Center for the Humanities