Program Overview

Program Overview

The Humanities Center Grant Development Workshops aim to increase external funding for individual and collaborative faculty projects.

Program Details

The inaugural workshop was coordinated in January 2021 by Mary Jean Corbett, Distinguished Professor of English. Fourteen faculty members participated, including two collaborative project teams. They met for two intense days of proposal review. Each received $250 in research funding and a proposal review from Fred Winter, Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Funding and Support

• Teams developing collaborative applications also received up to $2,000 to plan on-campus events related to their research proposal.
• The program included an initial information session explaining university policies related to humanities grants.
• A talk by Fred Winter on how to identify and secure significant external funding to support humanities research was also part of the program.

Program Schedule

The program is not offered every year.

Eligibility and Participation

• Fourteen faculty members participated in the inaugural workshop.
• The workshop included two collaborative project teams.
• Participants received research funding and a proposal review.
• Teams developing collaborative applications received additional funding for on-campus events.