In conjunction with the Rice Seminars, the Humanities Research Center at Rice University hosts yearlong residential fellowships for outstanding junior scholars. The Rice Seminars are designed to promote humanistic research, broadly understood. Fellows receive a $55,000 salary and benefits. Primary obligations include active participation in the Rice Seminar, developing or continuing individual or collaborative research projects, and teaching a semester-long course. Applicants from any humanistic discipline are eligible to apply and must have received a PhD between July 1, 2016, and June 30, 2019.