Faculty Fellows
If you are not acquainted with the society, you might want to go to About the Society section of this website to get a general sense of the society purposes, and then return here to learn more specifically of the fellows' duties.
Fellows' Duties
Faculty are appointed fellows with normal terms of three years. (Obviously this time can be adjusted for sabbaticals and other events
that punctuate faculty careers.) The duties of the faculty fellows are
deliberately designed to be few and not time consuming, in the hopes
that those duties can both be enjoyed and taken seriously.
Basically, the society holds six or seven dinners each year, generally on the third Monday of the month, and we ask that faculty members normally attend these dinners. At each dinner one faculty member gives a brief overview of a topic on which he or she is working, chosen for its interest to a general social science audience. Thus some time during the term of your fellowship, each faculty fellow is asked to give such a talk. We also hope that faculty fellows will participate in one further way: during the year, on the first Monday of each month and sometimes oftener, a student presents portions of his or her thesis to other student fellows who gather for lunch. Occasionally, if these areas of interest intersect, we might ask the faculty fellow to come to the relevant lunch. This tends to model a style for the comments that the other students wish to bring up, among other things. There is also an end of the year reception during which we come together to wish our graduate students well in their future careers and greet the new cohort of student fellows.