The Humanities Center offers three Summer Research Awards to fund faculty members in Humanities, Fine Arts, and Social Sciences.
The Center will provide one-time awards of $5,000 to the selected recipients in each field. The $5,000 awards will be issued as Professional Development Funds to support project expenses. We are no longer offering the award as a stipend.
How can you utilize these funds?
If you are doing archival work, use funds to pay the archive to copy or scan the documents for you.
Hire a research assistant within current hiring guidelines.
Pay for a professional development workshop or online conference directly related to your research.
Purchase supplies necessary for your project such as books, manuscripts, or art supplies.
We are allowing limited technology purchases (camera, sound recording equipment, hard drives, tablets, portable keyboard). Certain software purchases will be allowed but must be justified. No computers or laptops.
Depending on how close to publication you are, secure publication rights for images or text, or pay a subvention fee.
Goals
To encourage faculty members to reach the next level of achievement in their scholarly and creative trajectories. Both individual and collaborative achievement is encouraged. Successful applicants will describe their long-term intellectual and professional goals and how the Summer Research Award will help them achieve these objectives.
To leverage institutional investment by providing the building blocks to support larger applications for competitive extramural funding.
Criteria
Preference will be given to proposals that:
Advance projects with broad societal, scholarly and/or creative impact that extends beyond UVM into the community and the world. Successful applicants will address the potential scope and impact of their proposed project.
Support a trajectory that projects future scholarly productivity.
Articulate potential for future intra- or extramural support.
Have not received a Summer Research Award in the two previous cycles.
Applications
- Open to UVM faculty at all ranks in the Humanities, the Arts, and the Social Sciences at the University of Vermont, once every two years
- Deadline: April 1
- The maximum award amount is $5,000 (issued as PDF)
- Questions? Humanities.Center@uvm.edu
Requirements
All funds must be expended by September 1 of the following year. No extensions will be given.
Submit a report summarizing completed activities (3-5 pages) and 3-5 images by October 1.