Emerging Scholar Awards | New Directions in the Humanities Research Network

The Emerging Scholar Program foregrounds graduate students and early career researchers as vital contributors to the future of humanistic, educational, ethical, and human-centered inquiry.

Across the Common Ground Imagining Futures Series, the program creates opportunities for emerging voices to participate in focused online exchange, connect with wider research communities, and contribute to conversations that shape future directions in their fields.

For Imagining Human Worlds, the program especially welcomes emerging scholars working across the humanities, learning, digital pedagogy, religion, ethics, and human-centered technologies, including those bringing new questions about meaning, learning, identity, belief, and human futures.

I’m so grateful to have been selected as one of the online Emerging Scholars, which gave me the opportunity to participate in the conference from afar. It was a privilege to connect with other researchers, have thought-provoking conversations with them through online talking circles and discussion boards, and share my work in such a welcoming and interdisciplinary environment."

Melanie Hyo-In Han, 2025 Awardee

I was honoured to be part of the Emerging Scholars and had the opportunity to interact with many of my peers and senior scholars from different academic institutions around the world at the conference. The experience was invaluable and helpful to my academic development."

Jun Zhang, 2023 Awardee

I appreciated the chance to engage with scholars coming from similar fields and give them my thoughts. It also helped with my research."

Xinming Xia, 2023 Awardee