Proposal Requirements
Application Deadline: April 1
Please complete the online application below. We invite applications from tenured, tenure-track, and contingent faculty members in the humanities and humanities-related fields.
Please note that recipients of the Humanities Institute's faculty research grants cannot simultaneously accept a grant from the University Grants Program, which is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Creative Scholarship.
You will be asked in the online form to submit:
- an abstract (100 words or less)
- a project description (2 pp. single spaced max.) that describes the following aspects of the project:
- Topic and research contribution
- Significance with respect to:
- The applicant’s disciplinary/interdisciplinary field(s) of study
- The applicant’s research career
- Methods and work plan
- Final product and dissemination (e.g. publication in a peer-reviewed journal) and timeline for completion
- Short bibliography
- a CV indicating accomplishments relevant to the project (2 pp. single spaced max.)
- a list of any other grants awarded or sought for this project
- a proposal budget and budget narrative (1 p. single spaced max.)
- Allowable budget items include research activities essential to the project:
- Travel to conduct research
- Purchase of research materials, supplies, services and support
- Costs associated with collaborating with other scholars
- Grant funds may not be used for regular conference travel. The committee will however review, on a case-by-case basis, proposals that request travel funds for completing a project (including e.g. collaborating with colleagues or meeting with editors)
- Note: summer salary is an allowable expense.
- Please note that grants distributed as summer salary must be taxed as income, which may significantly reduce the award amount received.
- Allowable budget items include research activities essential to the project: