Visiting Fellow

Applications are open for the Center for Dewey Studies Visiting Fellows Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Selected Fellows will visit the Center for one or two terms during the academic year (Fall or Spring). Visiting Fellows have no teaching or administrative duties at SIU, but are here to pursue their own research and interact informally with our scholarly community. We encourage applications from scholars of all disciplines working on the life, work, or legacy of John Dewey, as well as scholars and scholar-practitioners whose work is broadly Deweyan in spirit, and who would benefit from interaction with a community of Dewey scholars. This might include those working on progressive educational reform, deliberative and participative democracy and community life, aesthetic experience and the built environment, or science and technology as practical arts for the public good.

Program benefits include: 

• A supplementary stipend of $900 per month to help defray costs of temporary relocation (4 months for single-term fellowship, 9 months for two-term fellowship).
• A desk / work space in the Center for Dewey Studies, located in the Morris Library at SIU.
• Library and computer privileges at SIU.
• Basic office support.
• Access to regular talks, discussions, conferences, workshops, and other activities at the Center.
• Ability (with instructor permission) to sit in on graduate seminars at SIU.
• Participation in the scholarly community of other visiting fellows, affiliated SIU faculty and graduate students, and local associates of the Center, providing a rich environment for discussions of Dewey studies, pragmatism, American philosophy, and related areas of inquiry.

For more information on the program expectations and structure, as well as to apply, visit: https://deweycenter.siu.edu/visit/fellows.php

For fullest consideration, applicants for the 2026-27 academic year should apply before April 15, 2026, whether they plan to come for Fall, Spring, or both semesters. After that date, applications for any remaining spots will be considered on a rolling basis.

Although the Fellowship comes with a small stipend to help offset the cost of temporary relocation, the program is designed for self-funded scholars including, but not limited to, faculty who are on paid sabbatical or who are recently retired, postdoctoral scholars with external funding for a postdoctoral fellowship, advanced doctoral students on dissertation fellowship, and scholar-practitioners with independent funding.