Event Date
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Fri, April 8, 2022 @ 5:00pm
The UC Davis Humanities Institute is accepting applications for two funding opportunities for faculty members in the humanities, arts, and qualitative social sciences. The awards address key areas of expressed need and will support collaborations with colleagues outside the UC (DHI Network-Collaboration Fellowships); and community-engaged work (DHI Public Engagement Fellowships). Successful applicants will receive the awards as research funds to be transferred to their home departments. Faculty members are able to apply for both funding opportunities.
DHI Network-Collaboration Fellowships
Aimed at supporting faculty who wish to collaborate with colleagues outside the UC, the Network Collaboration award would support travel for a UC Davis faculty member to visit a collaborator and/or to bring 1-2 external collaborators to UC Davis. Cross-college collaborations are welcome. The program represents a high-impact investment that fosters research or creative networks, raises the profile of our faculty, and seeds future grant proposals (see criteria below). Fellowships awarded will receive up to $5,000 each. NOTE: Please include the names and contact information of prospective collaborators in your proposal.
DHI Public Engagement Fellowships
The DHI presents this fellowship opportunity in an effort to support faculty who wish to pursue a community-engaged research or creative project that has a substantive community tie-in (see criteria below). Cross-college collaborations are welcome. Fellowships awarded will receive funding up to $5,000. NOTE: Please include the names and contact information of community organization or partner in your proposal.
Eligibility
Ladder-rank faculty in the humanities, arts, and qualitative social sciences are eligible, and may apply for both funding opportunities.
Application Guidelines
- Proposal narrative of 2-3 pages (750-word maximum).
- C.V.: A two-page curriculum vitae, optimally tailored to the prospective project.
- Proposed budget.
- Optional image/audio files: Proposals for creative activity may upload an image or audio file to support their proposal, although such supplementary material is not required.
Evaluation Criteria
The DHI advisory board will review the applications based on a set of established criteria for each award category. See below.
DHI Network-Collaboration Fellowships: the intellectual and/or creative significance of the proposed project and its value to the humanities and/or arts; the qualifications, expertise, and levels of commitment of the faculty director and collaborators, and the scale and value of the collaboration; the quality of the proposal itself, including the research questions being posed, or, for creative projects, the conception, organization, and description of the project itself; the feasibility of the work plan; and the project’s contribution to the university’s commitment to diversity, using examples from these categories: service, research, and/or perspective.*
DHI Public Engagement Fellowships: the intellectual and/or creative significance of the proposed project and its value to the humanities and/or arts; the impact, scale, and value of the project for the community organization or partner; the applicant’s experience and potential for community-engaged work, including how they pertain to the specific community partner; the feasibility and appropriateness of the work plan; and the project’s contribution to the university’s commitment to diversity, using examples from these categories: service, research, and/or perspective.*
*This may include: public service towards increasing equitable access in fields where women and minorities are underrepresented; research focusing on underserved populations or understanding inequalities related to race, gender, disability or LGBTQIA issues; and applicants who offer perspectives of groups historically underrepresented in higher education.
Submission
To submit your proposal online, please go to http://dhi.ucdavis.edu/funding/ and complete the online application form. Proposals are due by 5 p.m. on Friday, April 1, 2022.
Late submissions will not be considered.