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Arts, Humanities, and Humanistic Social Sciences
Upcoming Funding Opportunities June 2015

Unless otherwise noted, all full proposals to external sponsors must be submitted to the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) for review five business days in advance of the sponsor deadline. 
For questions regarding any of the opportunities listed below, please contact Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, Research Development Specialist, at [email protected] or 617-496-2618.


INTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES

EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES
Match your project to a grant program:

I am looking for research support for my project.

 

I want to host a program for faculty, scholars, or practitioners to expand their knowledge of a topic.

 

I want to create a scholarly edition or reference volume.

 

I want to combine digital technology with the humanities or preserve a collection and/or make it easier for people to access.

 

I want to create a website with humanities content.

 

I want to create a fellowship program for individual scholars.

 

I want to develop or put on an exhibition or cultural program for the public.

 

I want to develop or produce a radio show, or television or film documentary.

 

I want to pursue systematic training.

 

I want to travel to a conference or archive to perform research.

 

I want to host an external scholar at my home institution.

 

I want to complete and/or publish a scholarly book.



INTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES

Harvard University Foundations of Human Behavior Initiativehuman_behavior
Fund for Research on the Foundations of Human Behavior
Deadline: August 31, 2015 (OSP review is not required for internal funding)
Award Amount: $40,000 for ladder faculty

This Fund provides seed grants to support transformative research in the social and behavioral sciences. Successful proposals will be those that promise to advance understanding of the social, institutional and biological mechanisms shaping human beliefs and behavior. The funds will be used to support interdisciplinary social science research projects based on innovative experimental or observational designs that make use of sophisticated quantitative methods.

The Fund also supports seminars, conferences, and other research-related activities.

For more information, see here.


Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teachingspark
Spark Grants
Deadline: July 17, 2015 (OSP review is not required for internal funding)
Award Amount: $5,000 to $15,000

The Spark Grants are designed to help "spark" promising teaching and learning projects from idea to reality and position innovations for future success. Through Spark Grants, awardees will receive resources, feedback, and community support to help them develop their ideas into prototypes, pilots, and small-scale innovations.

Funding can be used, for example, to pay for a research assistant, hire a graduate student with academic technology expertise, and convene collaborative groups.

Harvard University benefits-eligible faculty, students, staff, and postdoctoral researchers are eligible to apply for funding, individually or as groups. Approximately five grants will be awarded each semester. Funding will be awarded for up to one year, without the possibility of extensions or augmentation.

For more information, see here.


EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES

 

Regional Studies Associationrsa_travel
RSA Travel Grant
Deadline: August 28, 2015
OSP Deadline: August 21, 2015
Award Amount: up to �500

The RSA Travel Grant supports travel costs (transport only) for scholars to present works, network and participate at world-wide non-RSA events within the field. Eligible scholars must be presenting a paper at the event in the field of regional studies (sub-national) and be a member of the Association at the time of application.

 

Events for which scholars seek funding must be held a minimum of 6 weeks after the Travel Grant application deadline has passed.


For more information, see here.

 

 

Social Science Research Councilssrc_interasian
Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship: InterAsian Contexts and Connections
Deadline: August 25, 2015
OSP Deadline: August 18, 2015
Award Amount: up to $45,000

The InterAsia Program supports transregional research under the rubric InterAsian Contexts and Connections. Its purpose is to strengthen the understanding of issues and geographies that do not fit neatly into existing divisions of academia or the world and to develop new approaches, practices, and opportunities in international, regional, and area studies. 

 

These fellowships help junior scholars (one to five years out of the PhD) complete first books or undertake second projects. Proposals supported by the fellowship examine processes that connect places and peoples (such as migration, media, and resource flows) as well as those that reconfigure local and translocal contexts (such as shifting borders, urbanization, and social movements). 


For more information, see here.

 

 

American Musicological Societyams_ind_pub
Subventions for Publications for Individuals or Scholarly Organizations, Societies, and Departments
Deadline: August 17, 2015
OSP Deadline: August 10, 2015
Award Amount: up to $2,500

The AMS Subventions for Publications for Individuals makes available funds to help with expenses involved in the publication of works of musical scholarship, including books, articles, special issues of journals, and works in non-print media. 

 

Individual authors or editors, or their sponsoring organization, society, or department, may apply for assistance to defray costs not normally covered by publishers, such as illustrations, musical examples, facsimiles, accompanying audio or video examples, and permissions. Subventions are not given to defray costs associated with indexing.


For more information, see here.

 

 

American Musicological Societyams_pub_pub
AMS 75 PAYS Subventions
Deadline: August 15, 2015
OSP Deadline: August 7, 2015
Award Amount: up to $5,000

The AMS 75 PAYS Subventions provide support for the publication of first books by scholars in the early stages of their careers. The purpose of this subvention is to facilitate the publication of original and significant research in any recognized field of musicology by providing financial support to publishers in order to offset the costs of book production and thereby reduce the retail price of the book. 

 

Applications should come directly from publishers, in consultation with the author. Applications should be made after the work is complete and readers' reports and author's responses are in hand. Books receiving subventions should appear in print no later than twenty-four months after the date of application.


For more information, see here.

 

 

National Archives and Records Administrationnara_fellowship
Theodore C. Sorensen Research Fellowship
Deadline: August 15, 2015
OSP Deadline: August 7, 2015
Award Amount: up to $3,600

The Theodore C. Sorensen Research Fellowship is intended to support a scholar in the production of a substantial work in the areas of domestic policy, political journalism, polling, press relations, or a related topic. The successful candidate will develop at least a portion of his or her original research using archival materials from the Kennedy Library.

 

Preference is given to projects not supported by large grants from other institutions.


For more information, see here.

 

 

National Endowment for the Humanitiesneh_fellprogram
Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions
Deadline: August 13, 2015
OSP Deadline: August 6, 2015
Award Amount: grants provide fellowship stipends of $4,200 per month and a portion of the costs of selecting the fellows, up to $7,000

Grants for Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI) support fellowships at institutions devoted to advanced study and research in the humanities. Recognizing that at times scholars need to work away from their homes and institutions, the FPIRI program offers fellowships that provide scholars with research time, a stimulating intellectual environment, and access to resources that might otherwise not be available to them.

 

Fellowship programs may be administered by independent centers for advanced study, libraries, and museums in the United States; American overseas research centers; and American organizations that have expertise in promoting research in foreign countries.

 

Individual scholars apply directly to the institutions for fellowships. Fellowships of four to twelve months are held at the U.S. grantee institutions or--in the case of overseas research centers and organizations--abroad. 


For more information, see here.

 

 

National Endowment for the Humanitiesneh_mlco
Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations
Deadline: August 12, 2015
OSP Deadline: August 5, 2015
Award Amount (Planning): $40,000 to $75,000 for about 12 months
Award Amount (Implementation): up to $460,000 for a period of 12 to 36 months; in rare circumstances, Chairman's Special Awards of up to $1 million are available for projects that have unusual significance and promise to reach exceptionally wide audiences

Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations grants provide support for museums, libraries, historic places, and other organizations that produce public programs in the humanities.

 

Both Planning and Implementation grants support the following formats: 

  • exhibitions at museums, libraries, and other venues;
  • interpretations of historic places, sites, or regions; and 
  • book/film discussion programs; living history presentations; and other face-to-face programs at libraries, community centers, and other public venues.
Implementation grants also support:
  • interpretive websites, mobile applications, games, and other digital formats.
Planning grants support the early stages of project development, including consultation with scholars, refinement of humanities themes, preliminary design, testing, and audience evaluation.
Implementation grants support final scholarly research and consultation, design development, production, and installation of a project for presentation to the public.

For more information, see here.

 

 

National Endowment for the Humanitiesneh_media
Media Projects
Deadline: August 12, 2015
OSP Deadline: August 5, 2015
Award Amount (Development): $40,000 to $75,000 for 6 to 12 months
Award Amount (Production): up to $650,000 for 1 to 3 years; in rare circumstances, Chairman's Special Awards of up to $1 million are available for projects that will reach an exceptionally large audience

Media Projects grants support the following formats:

  • film and television projects; and
  • radio projects.
Film and television projects may be single programs or a series addressing significant figures, events, or ideas. Programs must be intended for national distribution. 
Radio projects may involve single programs, limited series, or segments within an ongoing program. They may also develop new humanities content to augment existing radio programming or add greater historical background or humanities analysis to the subjects of existing programs. 

Proposed projects might include complementary components to a film, television, or radio project. These components should deepen the audience's understanding of the subject in a supplementary manner: for example, book/film discussion programs, websites, mobile applications, museum exhibitions, or podcasts.

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

United States Department of Statefulbright
Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Deadline: August 3, 2015
OSP Deadline: July 27, 2015
Award Amount: grant benefits vary by country and type of award; generally speaking, grants are budgeted to cover travel and living costs for the grantee and their accompanying dependents

The core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program provides approximately 800 teaching and/or research grants to U.S. faculty and experienced professionals in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. Grants are available in over 125 countries worldwide. Grant lengths vary in duration: applicants can propose projects for a period of two to 12 months.

 

In matching candidates with grant opportunities, preference will be given to candidates with the most relevant professional experience. U.S. citizenship is required. 
 

For more information, see here.

 

 

Sundance Institutesundance
Documentary Fund
Deadline: August 3, 2015
OSP Deadline: July 27, 2015
Award Amount: up to $50,000

The Sundance Documentary Fund provides strategic financial support to cinematic, feature documentaries from independent filmmakers globally. The Fund supports all stages of development, production, post-production, and strategic audience engagement.

 

Eligible projects display:

  • Artful film language;
  • Effective storytelling;
  • Originality and feasibility;
  • Contemporary cultural relevance; and
  • Potential to reach and connect with its intended audience.
Preference is given to projects that convey clear story structure, higher stakes and contemporary relevance, forward going action or questions, demonstrated access to subjects, and quality use of film craft.

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

National Science Foundationnsf_sts
Science, Technology, and Society
Deadline: August 3, 2015
OSP Deadline: July 27, 2015
Award Amount: up to $400,000

The Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program supports research that uses historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate the intellectual, material, and social facets of the scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical (STEM) disciplines. It encompasses a broad spectrum of STS topics including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance, and policy issues that are closely related to STEM disciplines, including medical science. 

 

STS researchers make use of methods from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, communication studies, history, philosophy, political science, and sociology. STS studies may be empirical or conceptual.

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

National Archives and Records Administrationnara_literacy
Literacy and Engagement with Historical Records
Draft Proposal Deadline [optional]: August 3, 2015
Full Proposal Deadline: October 8, 2015
OSP Deadline: October 1, 2015
Award Amount: $50,000 to $150,000 (cost sharing is required)

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks projects that encourage citizen engagement with historical records, especially those available online, and/or projects that train people on how to enhance digital literacy skills for using historical records. The development of new online tools for literacy and engagement is highly encouraged.

 

The NHPRC is looking for projects that create models and technologies that other institutions can adopt without cost. In general, collaborations between archivists, documentary editors, historians, educators, and/or community-based individuals are more likely to create a competitive proposal.
 

For more information, see here.

 

 

National Archives and Records Administrationnara_dig_dissem
Digital Dissemination of Archival Collections
Draft Proposal Deadline [optional]: August 3, 2015
Full Proposal Deadline: October 8, 2015
OSP Deadline: October 1, 2015
Award Amount: $20,000 to $150,000 for 1 to 2 years (cost sharing is required)

The Digital Dissemination of Archival Collections program aims to make historical records of national significance to the United States broadly available through dissemination of digital surrogates on the internet. Projects may focus on the papers of major figures from American life or cover broad historical movements in politics, military, business, social reform, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience.

 

Applicants may digitize a single collection or sets of collections. Collaborations among repositories are encouraged. In addition, applicants may undertake more complex descriptive work, such as document transcription, tagging, or geo-referencing, if these additional access points are justified by the value of the material and its expected users.

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

National Archives and Records Administrationnara_publish
Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions
Deadline: August 3, 2015
OSP Deadline: August 5, 2015
Award Amount: $30,000 to $200,000 over one year

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals to publish documentary editions of historical records. Projects may focus on the papers of major figures from American history or cover broad historical movements in politics, military, business, social reform, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience.

 

The goal of this program is to provide access to, and editorial context for, the historical documents and records that tell the American story. The NHPRC encourages projects, whenever possible and appropriate, to provide access to these materials in a free and open online environment, without precluding other forms of publication.

Grants are awarded for collecting, describing, preserving, compiling, editing, and publishing documentary source materials in print and online.

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundationfirestone_graham
Letter of Inquiry Deadline: August 1, 2015
OSP Deadline: July 24, 2015
Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2015
Award Amount: $5,000 to $15,000

The Foundation supports direct costs for catalogues and other publications accompanying contemporary art exhibitions and projects, especially those supporting emerging and under-recognized artists, and produced by organizations outside the nation's cultural centers. Limited funds are also available for publications related to the grantee organization and its programs or collections. 

 

The Foundation does not provide grants for individuals, general operating expenses, capital campaigns, endowment funds, or projects solely featuring the work of deceased artists. One-time special projects are preferred. To be considered, project dates must fall within one year of the funding cycle in which the organization is requesting funds. 

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

Regional Studies Associationrsa_network
Research and Policy (Research Networks)
Deadline: July 31, 2015
OSP Deadline: July 24, 2015
Award Amount: �10,000

The Regional Studies Association (RSA), a leading global learned society in the field of regional studies and regional science, introduced an increased Research Network funding scheme available in 2015 and 2016 only. Up to five Research Networks receive up to �10,000 each in 2015 and an additional five Networks will be funded under the same scheme in 2016.

 

The purpose of a Research Network is to examine an issue of interest and concern to members of the Association, normally both corporate and individual. The issue need not necessarily have a direct policy focus but the examination would normally lead to policy-related conclusions. 

 

Eligible applicants must be RSA members.

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

Andrew W. Mellon Foundationnew_directions
New Directions Fellowships
Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: July 24, 2015, by 5PM
OSP Deadline: October 2, 2015
Sponsor Deadline: October 9, 2015
Award Amount: up to $300,000

New Directions Fellowships assist faculty members in the humanities, broadly understood to include the arts, history, languages, area studies, and zones of such fields as anthropology and geography that bridge the humanities and social sciences. Fellows pursue systematic training and academic competencies outside their own special fields in order to advance a cross-disciplinary research agenda.  

 

Eligible candidates include humanities faculty who received their doctorates between 2003 and 2009 and whose research interests call for formal training in a discipline other than the one in which they are expert. Such training may consist of coursework or other programs of organized study and may take place either at the fellows' home institutions or elsewhere, as appropriate.

Harvard has been invited to submit one proposal to the Mellon Foundation. The Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) will hold an internal competition to select one candidate to submit a full proposal to the Foundation. 

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

DAAD North Americadaad
Short-Term Lectureships for German Guest Lecturers
Deadline: July 22, 2015
OSP Deadline: July 15, 2015
Award Amount: stipend for housing, living expenses, transportation, and the shipment of teaching materials and personal luggage

The program aims to promote activity in specialized fields, help fill curricular gaps, or act as a stimulus for teaching and research. Open to scholars from all disciplines, the lectureship lasts from four weeks to six months at host North American institutions. 

 

The application is jointly filed by the host institution and prospective guest lecturer

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

National Endowment for the Humanitiesneh_hcrr
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Deadline: July 21, 2015
OSP Deadline: July 14, 2015
Award Amount: up to $350,000 over 3 years (implementation projects); up to $40,000 over 2 years (foundations projects)

Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings, and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from this program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology.

 

Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation. 

 

HCRR offers two kinds of awards: 1) for implementation and 2) for planning, assessment, and pilot efforts (HCRR Foundation grants).

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

National Endowment for the Humanitiesneh_stipends
Summer Stipends
Faculty members teaching full-time at colleges or universities must be nominated by their institutions. Each institution may nominate two faculty members. Independent scholars, emeritus, adjunct, and part-time faculty, and staff members who are not faculty members and will not be teaching during the academic year preceding the award tenure are all exempt from nomination.
Internal Competition Deadline: July 20, 2015
Sponsor Deadline: October 1, 2015
Award Amount: $6,000 over two months

 

Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources.

 

The Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months; projects may be at any stage of development. 

 

Individuals who have held or been awarded a major fellowship or research grant or its equivalent within the three academic years prior to the deadline are ineligible. A "major fellowship or research grant" is a postdoctoral research award that provides a stipend of at least $15,000. Grants from an individual's own institution and stipends and grants from other sources supporting study and research during the summer are not considered major fellowships.

 

For more information on Summer Stipends, see here.

For more information on the internal competition, see here.

 

 

NEW! Wellcome Trustwellcome_society
Collaborative Awards in Society and Ethics
Pre-Application Deadline [required]: July 17, 2015 
Full Proposal Deadline: September 25, 2015
Award Amount: awards do not normally exceed �2 million; most awards range from �1m to �1.5m

Note: Faculty based within the United States may not be primary applicants but may apply as a collaborator on a proposal. Primary applicants must be based in the UK/Republic of Ireland or a low-or middle-income country.

 

The Society and Ethics program supports research that explores the social and/or ethical aspects of biomedical research and health, with the aim of achieving improvements in human and animal health. Research may be conceptual or empirical in method and may cover global or UK issues.

 

The program funds research that:

  • Seeks to consider social, economic and cultural factors that influence health, biomedical or health research, the development and implementation of healthcare practices, and health interventions; and/or
  • Sets out to inform answers to questions about resolving ethical dilemmas arising from biomedical or health research, the development of healthcare practices, and health interventions.
Eligible research includes, but is not limited to: questions about social roles, receptions of risk and uncertainty, public attitudes and behavior, and/or increasing our understanding of the cause of health inequalities. 

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

NEW! Wellcome Trustwellcome
Collaborative Awards in Medical Humanities
Pre-Application Deadline [required]: July 17, 2015
Full Proposal Deadline: September 25, 2015
Award Amount: awards will not normally exceed �2 million, and most will be in the range of �1m to �1.5m

Note: Faculty based within the United States may not be primary applicants but may apply as a collaborator on a proposal. Primary applicants must be based in the UK/Republic of Ireland or a low-or middle-income country.

 

The Medical Humanities funding stream encourages bold and intellectually rigorous research applications that address important questions at the interface of medicine, health-related sciences, and the wider humanities. By exploring experience, knowledge and practice in context, the medical humanities can enrich our understanding of health, medicine and disease. For example, they can offer:

  • Scholarly reflection on scientific developments, clinical practice and human experience;
  • Opportunities to inform medical education and practice;
  • New methods for examining questions about health, wellbeing and illness;
  • The development of tools and techniques that allow patients and practitioners to engage reflectively and experientially.
The Fund supports scholars from a wide array of disciplines, including but not limited to: anthropology, classics, the creative arts, English, history, medicine, philosophy, psychology and sociology.

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

University of Chicago Computation Institutemeta
Metaknowledge Network: Metaknowledge Grants
Letter of Inquiry Deadline: July 15, 2015 (required)
Full Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2015
OSP Deadline: July 8, 2015
Award Amount: up to $110,000

The Metaknowledge Network brings together researchers and tool builders from a variety of fields, including sociology, psychology, history, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, ecology and evolution, biomedicine, physics, statistics, and applied mathematics. The Network promotes the sharing of ideas and methods across this nascent field to explore the dynamic ecology of human knowledge and the processes by which knowledge emerges, thrives, evolves, and dies out.

 

Successful candidates will further and exemplify the Network's standards and goals for growth, expansion, feasibility, quality, and fit with the John Templeton Foundation's Donor Intent. Selected projects will have a promising research team and propose research that will achieve substantial advances through contributing new methods and tools, understanding of new knowledge-making processes, and new disciplinary perspectives. 

 

For external applicants, the Network allows single investigators or groups; the proposal should include both a proposed project and a request to collaborate with a current Network member.

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

Music Library Associationmusic_library
Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American Music
Deadline: July 9, 2015
OSP Deadline: July 2, 2015
Award Amount: up to $5,775

Grants are awarded to support research in archives or libraries internationally on any aspect of American music. For purposes of this award, "American music" is defined as music directly relating to or that has some direct connection with the United States of America.

 

There are no restrictions as to an applicant's age, nationality, profession, or institutional affiliation. At its discretion, the committee may choose not to award a grant during any particular year. An applicant may receive only one award for any one project.

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

NEW! National Endowment for the Humanitiesneh_commonheritage
Common Heritage
Deadline: June 25, 2015
OSP Deadline: June 18, 2015
Award Amount: up to $12,000 for up to 18 months

The Common Heritage program aims to capture and preserve the vitality of America's cultural heritage found not only in libraries, museums, archives, and other community organizations, but also in all of our homes, family histories, and life stories. 

 

The program supports day-long events organized by community cultural institutions to digitize cultural heritage materials; such events will feature corresponding public programming which may take place before, during, and/or after the day of the digitization event. Historical photographs, artifacts, documents, family letters, art works, and audiovisual recordings are among the many items eligible for digitization and public commemoration. Public programs could include lectures, panels, reading and discussion, special gallery tours, screening and discussion of relevant films, presentations by a historian, special initiatives for families and children, or comments by curators about items brought in by the public.

 

NEH especially welcomes applications from small and medium-sized institutions that have not previously received NEH support.

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

National Endowment for the Humanities
Division of Preservation and Access: Research and Developmentneh_preservation
Deadline: June 25, 2015
OSP Deadline: June 18, 2015
Award Amount: up to $75,000 for planning and basic research; up to $350,000 for advanced implementation

 

The Research and Development program supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation's cultural heritage--from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recording and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence--and to develop advanced modes of organizing, searching, discovering, and using such materials. 

 

This program recognizes that finding solutions to complex problems often requires forming interdisciplinary project teams, bringing together participants with expertise in the humanities; in preservation; and in information, computer, and natural science. 

 

All projects must demonstrate how advances in preservation and access would benefit the cultural heritage community in supporting humanities research, teaching, or public programming.

 

For more information, see here.

 

 

NEW! National Endowment for the Humanitiesneh_publicsquare
Humanities in the Public Square
Deadline: June 24, 2015
OSP Deadline: June 17, 2015
Award Amount: up to $300,000 for up to 12 months

 

The Humanities in the Public Square program supports scholarly forums, public discussions, and educational resources related to the themes of a new NEH initiative, The Common Good: The Humanities in the Public Square. This program welcomes projects addressing a significant humanities theme that is important to a particular community, region, or state. 

 

Eligible projects should consist of: 

  • A public forum that engages scholars and humanities practitioners in discussion with a public audience about a theme; 
  • Subsequent public programs that would use creative formats to engage audiences in reflection on and discussion of a humanities theme for an extended period of time; and 
  • Educational resources that disseminate materials for ongoing use by teachers, students, and/or lifelong learners.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to forge partnerships with other institutions as appropriate (especially state humanities councils), to ensure that the scholarly, public programming, and educational elements are all well conceived and realized.

 

For more information, see here.

 

The Research Development (RD) team provides resources and support to FAS faculty seeking funding. This support includes: finding funding; proposal development; programs and workshops; and grantsmanship advice and strategy. To learn more, please visit our website or contact Caitlin McDermott-Murphy at [email protected] or 617-496-2618.