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: NEH Summer Stipend Internal Review
Deadline: August 15, 2024, 5:00 PM
The Humanities Research Center is now accepting NEH Summer Stipend applications for our internal review committee. The committee will select the top two to move forward, and award a small stipend to the two successful applicants to continue to develop and submit their application.
Please submit your application to Cristina Stanciu (cstanciu@vcu.edu) by August 15th.
The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. The program works to accomplish this goal by:
- Providing small awards to individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both
- Supporting projects at any stage of development, but especially early-stage research and late-stage writing in which small awards are most effective
- Funding a wide range of individuals, including independent scholars, community college faculty, and non-teaching staff at universities
Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.
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.