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.
2025 Summer Grant Award Applications are now closed. Applicants will be notified by mid-March.
Deadline to apply: February 14, 2025, 5:00 PM
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