Faculty Resources

Summer Grants

The Humanities Institute Summer Grants are open to tenure-earning and tenured faculty whose research falls under the NEH definition of the humanities. Awards are up to $5,000. These funds may be used for travel for research, archival work, essential project-driven equipment, publishing support, research assistance, or summary salary.

Next application cycle will open in Spring 2025. See timeline for more details.


2024 SUMMER GRANT RECIPIENTS

Heide Castaneda (Anthropology)
Living Indigeneity through Language: Tamazight (Re)Vitalization in Morocco

Peter Funke (SIGS)
The Epoch of Crisis: Capitalism and Wave of Struggle From 1990 to Today

Kiran Jayaram (Anthropology)
Creating a Digital Archive of Haitian Creole Proverbs

Rebecca Johns (School of Geosciences)
Discourses of Interconnectivity at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles: Transformative, Affective and Place-based Narratives of the Human-Nature Relationship

Elena Lesley (Anthropology)
Telepresence as Relational Tool: Remaking Healthcare and the (Virtual) Therapeutic Encounter in Post-Conflict Cambodia

Ratna Okhai (School of Public Affairs)
Lived Experience Perceptions of the 2023 Maui Wildfires

Heather O’Leary (Anthropology)
Transnational Frameworks for Gender Equality in Water and Sanitation

David Ponton III (SIGS)
Hatred and Self-Hatred in the Black Male Vulnerability Thesis

Xizhen Qin (World Languages)
Pathways to Advanced Chinese Learners in the US

Diane Wallman (Anthropology)
Analysis and Interpretation of Jaguar and Puma Teeth Pendants from the La Soye Archaeological Site, Dominica, West Indies

Katherine Yaw (World Languages)
Foreign Language Students’ Perception of Spoken Language Varieties


Summer Grant Award Timeline

  • Call for Applications

    December / January

    Summer Grant Applications Open

  • Applications Due

    February

    Submit PDF document containing:

    • Application cover sheet
    • Description of project
    • Budget
    • Funding disclosure
    • 2 page CV

  • Applicants Notified

    March

    After applications are reviewed and scored, applicants will be notified via email of the decision.

  • Fund Transfer

    April

    The Humanities Institute will work with department managers or URAs to transfer funds to faculty research chartfields. 

  • Spend Grant Funds

    May - August

    Faculty spend their awarded grant funds. 

    A grant report will be sent out at the end of August to complete.

  • Summer Grant Reports Due

    October

    • Faculty submit Summer Grant Reports to Liz Kicak. 
    • Unspent funds will be returned to the Humanities Institute

  • View Previous Faculty Summer Grant Awards 2005-2024