Fellowship & Grant Opportunities
The Bucknell University Humanities Center provides several fellowship and grant opportunities for both faculty and students who wish to study and work in the humanities.
Fellowship & Grant Opportunities
High-Impact Teaching (HIT) Grant
The Humanities Center offers High-Impact Teaching (HIT) Grants of up to $2,000 to allow faculty to experiment with collaborative course-related activities that are not typical or not fully covered by any other campus resource.
All faculty members currently teaching a course in the humanities or humanistic social sciences are eligible to apply for these HIT Grants regardless of departmental affiliation.
Application deadline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis from Aug. 28, 2023 – March 31, 2024.
Theme Year High-Impact Teaching Grant
The Theme Year High-impact Teaching (TY-HIT) Grants of up to $2,000 allow faculty to experiment with course-related activities that align with and amplify the AY 23–24 Bucknell Humanities Center (BHC) theme: "Colonial Entanglements."
All faculty members currently teaching a course in the humanities or humanistic social sciences are eligible to apply for the Theme Year High-Impact Teaching Grants regardless of departmental affiliation. The faculty cluster leading themed programming is also eligible to apply. Collaborations between humanities and non-humanities faculty are encouraged.
Applications deadline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis Aug. 28, 2023 – March 31, 2024
Faculty Research Fellowship (FRF) Grants
Humanities Center Faculty Research Fellowships are intended to provide faculty in the humanities with the resources needed to support and enhance ongoing research leading to publication in peer-reviewed venues (print and/or digital). For one academic year, the fellowship provides an award of $3,000, which must be taken as a reimbursable account for research-related expenses, not as a stipend. The fellowship period will be Oct. 9, 2023 – June 30, 2024.
Tenured and tenure-track faculty whose research focuses on the humanities and humanistic social sciences are eligible for the fellowship regardless of the faculty member’s departmental affiliation. When sufficient funds are available, applications from VAPs will be considered.
Application deadline: Applications are due Friday, Sept. 22, 2023.
High-Impact Research (HIR) Grants
The Humanities Center offers grants up to $1,500 to assist faculty in engaging in short-term research-related activities that are not fully covered by any other campus resource.
Such activities may include, but are not limited to, research-related trips to archives, libraries or museums; purchasing books or software that are not available on campus; meeting with research collaborators; or any other worthwhile, potentially high-impact short-term research activities that require a budget and will lead to scholarly results that can be specified.
All tenured and tenure-track faculty members whose research focuses on the humanities or humanistic social sciences are eligible to apply for these HIR Grants regardless of departmental affiliation. When sufficient funds are available, applications from VAPs and adjuncts will be considered.
Application deadline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis from Aug. 28, 2023 – March 31, 2024.
Pre-publication Support (PPS) Grants
The Humanities Center provides Pre-publication Support grants (PPS) of up to $1,000 to assist faculty in bringing their research to publication. For example, the PPS grant may be used to support consultations or workshops on an article, chapter, book proposal or other work in progress with an external scholar in the faculty member's field of expertise. The PPS grant may also help defray costs of publication when other available University funds are not available.
All tenured and tenure-track faculty members whose research focuses on the humanities or humanistic social sciences are eligible to apply for the PPS grants regardless of departmental affiliation. Priority will be given to applications from untenured faculty members. When sufficient funds are available, applications from VAPs and adjuncts will be considered.
Applications deadline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis from Aug. 28, 2023 – March 31, 2024.
Collaborative Research Group (CRG) Grant
The Bucknell Humanities Center (BHC) seeks to foster new and emerging collaborative research groups among faculty with shared interests on a research topic in the humanities. The Collaborative Research Group (CRG) grant is designed to encourage the formation of these research clusters, to provide resources for their ongoing collaborations, and to assist in achieving their objectives. The BHC currently hosts several successful collaborative research groups (working groups) focused on the environmental humanities, health humanities, public humanities, and digital humanities. These groups have generated two consecutive Themed-Year programs for the BHC, won a major NEH grant aimed at curricular innovation, and created new research initiatives like the Bucknell Summer Institute. In order to encourage the growth of additional humanities Collaborative Research Groups in emerging areas of faculty interest, the BHC will offer grants up to $1,500 in start-up funds. Some examples of how the funds may be used include: ordering books for a faculty reading group; as honoraria for an external consultant or visiting scholar; establishing cross-institutional collaborations; funding group trips to nearby sites, archives, or museums relevant to the group's research focus. Collaborative Research Groups must involve a minimum of three faculty from two or more departments at Bucknell.
All tenured and tenure-track faculty members whose research focuses on the humanities or humanistic social sciences are eligible to apply for the CRG Grants regardless of departmental affiliation.
Applications deadline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis from Aug. 28, 2023 – March 31, 2024.
Student Research (MSR) Grant
The Humanities Center offers grants of up to $1,500 per project to support students who endeavor to engage in non-credit-bearing research projects in the humanities.
Funds are available only for reimbursable project expenses and may not be requested as a stipend. Examples of projects include travel to an academic conference; organizing a film series; travel to an archive, library or museum; hosting an ethnic food night; engaging in a service-learning activity; or inviting a speaker to campus.
This grant is not intended to fund projects for which academic credit will be awarded. Each applicant must have a sponsoring faculty member whose primary field is in the humanities.
Applications deadline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis from Aug. 28, 2023 – March 31, 2024.
Academic Year Research (AYR) Grant for Faculty-Student Collaboration
The Academic-Year Research (AYR) grant is intended to enable student-faculty teams to conduct collaborative research during the regular academic year. The program is designed to support projects focused on humanistic inquiry and involving faculty-student teams. A variety of configurations are possible, including two-member teams as well as teams of multiple faculty and multiple students. The award provides each student collaborator (SC) with up to $1,500 in wages, paid hourly, for at least 20 weeks of work, and each faculty member with up to $2,000 in research funds. Faculty funds will be available as a reimbursement account for expenses associated with the collaborative project, and may not be requested as a stipend.
The grants are designed to foster collaborative work, not administrative work (copying, scanning, office, etc.). The student must be a genuine collaborator on the project. In addition, the faculty advisor(s) will serve as an informal mentor to the student(s). All projects that focus on the humanities or humanistic social sciences are eligible for the award regardless of the departmental affiliation of faculty and student applicants. Eligible projects may result in work that develops into a student honors thesis, but students may not simultaneously receive academic credit and a fellowship for the same work.
Application deadline: Applications are due Friday, Sept. 22, 2023.
For More Information
| Prof. Maria Antonaccio Director, Bucknell Humanities Center Professor, Religious Studies (2013–16) Presidential Professor of Religious Studies Faculty Affiliate, Environmental Email: antonacco@bucknell.ed | Kathi Venios Academic Assistant Email: klv006@bucknell.edu |
Notes About Applying
- Before seeking project funding, students should familiarize themselves with the grant application procedures.
- All materials must be submitted via the online application by 11:59 p.m. on the relevant deadline date.
- All applications must be submitted using the online application.
Contact Details
Humanities Center
Location
Hildreth-Mirza Hall