Faculty Funding

IMPORTANT: You must use the Competition Portal to apply for the Competitions listed below.

Competition Deadlines

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    Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award

    Deadline: Monday, May 5, 2025 11:59pm Apply Now

    These awards are given biennially to one individual in each of three categories, residing or employed in Kansas, who has authored an outstanding book published within the two calendar years preceding the application deadline. One $750 award for fiction, one $750 award for non-fiction, and one $750 award for poetry is given each competition cycle.

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  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Nomination

    Deadline: Monday, August 19, 2024 11:59pm

    National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends support full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive, uninterrupted months. Successful applicants receive a stipend of $8,000. The Hall Center for the Humanities is the nominating body for the University of Kansas. Each year, one application can be nominated for inclusion in the national competition.

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  • Faculty Research Travel Grant

    Deadline: Monday, October 14, 2024 11:59pm

    Faculty Research Travel Grants provide KU faculty members with financial support for humanities-oriented research (such as archival work, fieldwork, or interviews) that requires domestic or international travel. Funds can be used for transportation, lodging, meals reimbursement, and project-related expenses (e.g., photocopying, access fees). 

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  • Vice Chancellor for Research and Friends of the Hall Center Book Publication Awards

    Deadline: Monday, October 28, 2024 11:59pm

    These awards provide financial support to aid in the publication of a manuscript based on humanities research written by a KU faculty member and accepted by a refereed press. The authors of manuscripts selected for these awards receive up to $1,500 for use towards the publication of their books. The awards can be used to reimburse expenses such as illustration costs, the production of maps or charts, the preparation of online databases as supplements to physical books, and direct subventions required by presses. 

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  • Mid-Career Research Fellowship

    Deadline: Monday, November 11, 2024 11:59pm

    The Mid-Career Research Fellowship contributes to a mid-career faculty member's scholarly growth by providing a full academic year of release time from teaching and regular service obligations. This fellowship provides faculty members in the humanities at the Associate Professor level an opportunity to focus on a post-tenure research project of the kind required for promotion to Full Professor.

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  • Hall Center Resident Faculty Fellowship

    Deadline: Monday, November 11, 2024 11:59pm

    The Hall Center's Humanities Resident Fellowships provide one semester of release time from teaching and service, taken in the Fall or Spring semester, so that awardees can focus entirely on research or creative work and scholarly engagement. 

     

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  • Humanities Col(LAB)oratives

    Deadline: Monday, February 10, 2025 11:59pm

    Offers faculty in the humanities and humanities-oriented social sciences the opportunity to work collaboratively through a three-year long Humanities Col(LAB)orative organized around a central humanistic theme or topic. A LAB can receive up to $30,000 per year, for a maximum of $90,000 over a three-year period, contingent on successful annual reviews by Hall Center leadership. This competition will run once every three years.

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  • Scholars on Site

    Deadline: Monday, March 10, 2025 11:59pm

    The Scholars on Site program provides up to $15,000 in support for partnerships between KU Humanities Scholars and community organizations that bring humanities research to the public.

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