Opportunities
With support from the VCU Office of Research and Innovation and the College of Humanities and Sciences, the Humanities Research Center is pleased to support VCU faculty at all stages of their career through grants, fellowships, co-sponsorships, and more.
Call for Applications: HRC Environmental Humanities Lab Student Fellowship Applications, Spring 2025
Deadline: December 1, 2024
The HRC Environmental Humanities Lab is seeking up to three undergraduate student fellows for Spring 2025. The fellowships are open to any undergraduate student at VCU, although preference will be given to students who have taken INTL 325. Fellows will help the co-director develop and pilot a plan for an online repository of resources concerning the environmental history of Richmond, including narrative and visual storytelling. Over the course of the semester, we will meet once every two weeks as a group to coordinate. Finally, fellows will participate in an event with the HRC to present the ongoing development of our toxic tour, and an event in situ in which we conduct part of the tour itself. A stipend of $500 will be awarded to each fellow.
Please submit your proposal using the form below. If you have any questions, please reach out to Kai Bosworth at bosworthk@vcu.edu.
Co-sponsorship Funding
Deadline: Rolling
The Humanities Research Center is pleased to provide co-sponsorship funding and support to a variety of events, programs, and academic initiatives at VCU each year. Co-sponsorship requests are reviewed on a regular basis, and funding decisions are based on availability of funds and expected reach and impact of the event. If you have any questions, please contact Rani Sisavath (sisavathr@vcu.edu).
Grants
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 $1,000, and funding is prioritized for applicants who demonstrate previous and/or ongoing contributions to the intellectual life of the HRC.
Fall Deadline: October 15
Spring deadline: March 15
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.)
Full-time tenured, tenure-eligible, and term faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at VCU are eligible to apply for these research travel grants. Funding is prioritized for applicants who demonstrate previous and/or ongoing contributions to the intellectual life of the HRC. The proposals will be evaluated by the HRC grants sub-committee and director based on the project's merit, feasibility of research plan, and impact.
Fall Deadline: October 15
Spring deadline: March 15
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.
Deadline: Rolling
Fellowships
The Humanities Research Center’s annual residential fellowship program gives up to 4-6 faculty members release from teaching responsibilities for one semester so they can focus on individual research projects and at the same time engage regularly with each other. The goal is to foster intellectual exchange and to enhance the quality of research at VCU by exposing faculty to different perspectives and methodologies. Fellows meet as a group once a week during the Fellows' Seminar to discuss their works-in-progress. Fellows are given the opportunity to give public presentations about their projects during the academic year following their residency at the Center. Publications resulting from this fellowship program must acknowledge the Humanities Research Center’s support.
Fellowship applications are now closed for the 2024-25 academic year.
With support from the Office of Health Equity, 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.
The HRC Graphic Narratives Lab is seeking three undergraduate student fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. The fellowships are open to any major, and will 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.
Fellows will also be expected to participate in and support events put on by the HRC Graphic Narratives Lab, and encouraged to attend other events at the HRC during their fellowship. If you’re interested, please submit your proposal through the form below.
Fellowship applications are now closed for the 2024-25 academic year.