Conference travel grants support travel by VCU faculty in the humanities to present their scholarly findings at major domestic and international conferences. Full-time tenured, tenure-eligible, and term faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at VCU are eligible to apply for these conference travel grants. The maximum award is $1,500, and funding is prioritized for applicants who demonstrate previous and/or ongoing contributions to the intellectual life of the HRC.

Research Travel Grants

Research travel grants foster excellence in research and creative scholarship at Virginia Commonwealth University by providing funds to support direct research costs incurred by faculty. These costs include travel to archives and other research sites, lodging, meals and expenses related to collection of data such as photocopying and photography fees. (These awards are not to be used for conference travel, for the purchase of books or equipment, or for travel to use archival material that is available on the internet.)

5x5 Collaborative Grants

The Humanities Research Center offers a number of 5×5 Collaborative Grants to encourage faculty in the humanities, humanistic social sciences, natural sciences, and the arts to organize around a topic of common interest. This can include a set of readings, an activity, or just an idea which could lead to future research/projects.

Book Support Fund

The HRC dedicates a pool of funding each year to support faculty with their book publications. Requests for funding may include (but are not limited to): book indexing fees, cover art fees, and editing fees.

The HRC Undergraduate Research Fellowships will (a) support humanities research by undergraduates at VCU, (b) connect them with the multidisciplinary networks of the Humanities Research Center, and (c) assist undergraduate students in securing future research fellowships or internships in the careers they wish to pursue. We are seeking to facilitate connections between a cohort of undergraduates (10-12) and connect them with mentors and projects in their areas of interest. The cohort will meet twice a month as the Undergraduate HRC Fellows Seminar.

Health Humanities Lab Student Fellowships

With support from the Office of Health Initiatives, the Honors College, the OVPRI, and the East Marshall Street Well Project, the HRC Health Humanities Lab offers a number of fellowships each year to graduate and undergraduate students in the Arts or College of Humanities and Sciences with an interest in the humanist study of healthcare and health disparities. The undergraduate and graduate student fellows develop their own research projects and work closely with the lab director.

Graphic Narratives Lab Student Fellowships

The HRC Graphic Narratives Lab fellowships are open to any major, and last through the fall and spring semesters. Fellows will propose a project plan, either in the creation (i.e comic strip, zine), writing (writing a script for a comic or zine), and/or scholarship of comics (i.e. an essay discussing a topic/theme within the comics genre). Fellows will be mentored by a lab co-director, and in addition to working on their projects throughout the year, will also meet once a month as a group to talk about their progress, and will organize an event once a semester to present their projects to the campus community.