Eligibility
Grant funds are available to full-time faculty members and faculty equivalent academic professionals (FEAPs). Eligible faculty members include tenured or tenure-track, teaching, service, clinical, research, librarian, and continuing visiting faculty members.
If you receive a grant, you are granting us permission to count you as an affiliated faculty member and should you choose to you may list said affiliation on your CV.
Past recipients of a Humanities Center grant are eligible for funding but must explain how their proposed project varies from their past funded project. Past recipients of a Humanities Center grant who have not submitted a final report for that grant are not eligible.
If you have questions about allowable expenses, contact humanitiescenter@mail.wvu.edu.
Grants for Humanities Collaboration
The Center will fund awards for either interdisciplinary teams of: 1) three or more scholars or 2) project-based partnerships between scholars and community partners (both categories may include students as scholarly investigators). Each team will work on a topic centered on humanities inquiry, with at least two disciplines represented. Collaborative Grants will support faculty members whose projects share subject matter and result in related or linked research products. While all team members need not be formally appointed in humanities disciplines, a strong humanities presence is required. That said, scholars from outside disciplines are encouraged to participate. The lead Principal Investigator is expected to submit letters of collaboration as attachments to the proposal. Maximum budget: $13,000. (A maximum of $15,000 may be requested if at least the additional $2,000 is allocated to a student.)
Components:
- Project Narrative: Attach a two-page narrative as a PDF (single-spaced, Times New Roman or comparable font, 11-point or larger). The narrative should explain the project, its relationship to the humanities, how it addresses interdisciplinary (if applicable), and its planned outcomes (including public outcomes). Reviewers will assess the merit and the outcomes of the proposal.
- A Workplan: Attach a schedule as a .PDF for the period of performance of no more than a page, and should not include information that belongs in the narrative statement. Explain the tasks you expect to accomplish, and specify the part or stage of the project that the award will support. Identify what, if any, parts of the project you have already completed. If you will not complete the project during the period of performance, state when you expect to complete it.
- CV: Attach two-page CVs of each team member as a single PDF.
- Budget: Attach a budget for your project as a PDF.
- Letter(s) of Collaboration: For a Grant for Humanities Collaboration, attach letter(s) of collaboration as a single PDF.
Pedagogy Innovation Grant
The Center will provide awards to directly support innovative teaching practices, including team-teaching an interdisciplinary course, course development, and specific pedagogy-focused professional development. Courses attached to the grant should realistically be scheduled within two years of receiving the award. A letter of support from the chair or associate chair (as appropriate by college) of the applicant’s department is required. If you are an awardee, you are granting us permission to count you as an affiliated faculty member, and should you choose to you may list said affiliation on your CV. Maximum budget: $5,000.
Components:
- Project Narrative: Attach up to a two page narrative as a PDF (single-spaced, Times New Roman or comparable font, 11-point or larger). The narrative should explain the project, its relationship to the humanities, how it addresses interdisciplinary (if applicable), and its planned outcomes (including public outcomes). Discuss how your project supports innovative teaching practices, including team-teaching an interdisciplinary course, course development, and specific pedagogy-focused professional development. Include when you plan to teach the course; courses attached to the grant should realistically be scheduled within two years of receiving the award. Reviewers will assess the merit and the outcomes of the proposal.
- CV: Attach your two-page CV as a PDF.
- Budget: Attach a budget for your project as a PDF.
- Letter of Support from Chair/Associate Chair: For a Pedagogy Innovation Grant attach a letter of support from your department chair or associate chair (as required by your college) as a PDF.
- Letter(s) of Collaboration: only required if the application is for a co-teaching proposal, attach letter(s) of collaboration as a single PDF.
Apply for Pedagogy Innovation Grant
Research Support Grants (Formerly Research Travel Grants)
The Center will provide funds for either research travel, for archival materials, interpreted broadly, to be sent or to support book workshops to support proposals to academic presses. Funds must be used for travel expenses required to perform essential research activities, for archival materials to be sent to the researcher to perform essential research activities, or for expenses relating to the book workshop (travel, fees, etc.); summer salary will not be funded. Note: faculty who receive a WVU RSA grant will be ineligible for a Research Travel Grant for the same or a directly related project. Maximum budget: $2,500.
Components:
- Project Narrative: Attach up to a two-page narrative as a PDF (single-spaced, Times New Roman or comparable font, 11-point or larger). The narrative should explain the project, its relationship to the humanities, how it addresses interdisciplinary (if applicable), and its planned outcomes (including public outcomes). Reviewers will assess the merit and the outcomes of the proposal.
- CV: Attach your two-page CV as a PDF.
- Budget: Attach a budget for your project as a PDF.