Untenured Faculty

Applications for research projects and research scholarships can be made in connection with the research grant programme.

Support is primarily provided for the historical humanities, in particular to support research projects in the following fields:

•     Archaeology
•     Art History
•     Historical Islamic Studies
•     History
•     History of Law
•     History of Science
•     Prehistory and Early History

The below requirements are for the Security, Society, and the State program; please see the website for additional information specific to other programs.

Grants

Proposals are invited for existing research projects. The Foundation generally only accepts applications for research project grants from postdoctoral scholars at universities, other research institutes or comparable institutions. The applicants must be actively involved in the research work of the project.

The grants for research projects involve, depending on the type of project, research and PhD fellowships for project participants, travel and material expenses as well as academic conferences and workshops. The costs incurred by visiting (foreign) scholars can also be financed as part of a research project.

The payment of fellowships is based on Gerda Henkel Foundation’s usual rates. The maximum amount of funding is € 100.000 per project application. Applications for limited travel and material grants only will not be accepted.

Program Description

These NEH grants support national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.

The projects may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few days and held at multiple locations or as long as six weeks at a single site. For example, training opportunities could be offered before or after regularly occurring scholarly meetings, during the summer months, or during appropriate times of the academic year. The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic.

First Call for Proposals in New US-UK-India Higher Education Partnership

The British Council is excited to announce the first trilateral strand of the successful UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) with the launch of the new Trilateral Research in Partnership (TRIP) Awards with the United States.  Ten awards of up to £50,000 (USD $75,000) in funds will be available to support multidisciplinary research projects between UK, US and Indian higher education institutions.

Resident Scholars

The School for Advanced Research (SAR) awards approximately six Resident Scholar Fellowships each year to scholars who have completed their research and analysis and who need time to think and write about topics important to the understanding of humankind. Resident scholars may approach their research from anthropology or from related fields such as history, sociology, art, and philosophy. Both humanistically and scientifically oriented scholars are encouraged to apply.

SAR provides Resident Scholars with low-cost housing and office space on campus, a stipend up to $40,000, library assistance, and other benefits during a nine-month tenure, from September 1 through May 31. A six-month fellowship is also available for a female postdoctoral scholar from a developing nation, whose research promotes women’s empowerment. SAR Press may consider books written by resident scholars for publication in its Resident Scholar Series.

Call for Proposals

The France Chicago Center (FCC) is currently accepting proposals from faculty members in the Divisions of the Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as the Divinity School, SSA and the Harris School who wish to apply for support for France-related initiatives they may be organizing during the 2018-19 academic year.

Deadline: Monday, April 9, 2018.

On behalf of the faculty steering committee of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing, I am pleased to invite a new round of proposals for programs and academic events at the Center in Beijing.  In addition to being home for study-abroad programs and internships, the Center supports a range of activities organized around three broad and intersecting themes:  Business, Economics, and Policy; Culture, Society, and the Arts; and Science, Medicine, and Public Health (with recognition that some activities straddle these thematic areas).
We encourage the submission of innovative ideas/proposals that will help foster global initiatives and facilitate collaboration with scholars and institutions in China the East Asia region. 

Since 2003, the Joyce Awards have distributed $1.8 million to support the commissioning of new artwork from artists of color in Chicago, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Detroit, Milwaukee and Minneapolis/St. Paul. In those ten years, Joyce Award recipients have flourished both nationally and within their communities.

Beginning in 2013, the Joyce Awards program will open its application process, so that any nonprofit organization, not solely art institutions can apply to commission work and create a project with an artist of color. Annually, a minimum of four awards of $50,000 each will be granted.

Designed to assist Taiwan-related studies, this grant provides recipients with funding to conduct research in Taiwan. Recipients are furnished with round trip, economy class airfare to Taiwan and a daily research subsidy of USD $200 per day for up to 7 days.