Faculty Research Support

External fellowships and grants provide resources and opportunities for faculty to pursue research, writing, and other academic projects beyond what they are able to do with typical resources. Humanities faculty have received Guggenheim, Getty Scholars, Mellon New Directions, ACLS, NEH, and other nationally prestigious fellowships. Our faculty have also received grant awards to support collaborative research, new faculty hires, graduate student training, and K-12 outreach.

Research Development encompasses a set of strategic, catalytic, and capacity-building activities that advance research, including in the humanities. Research development is a core component of the Humanities Center’s mission to spark new knowledge, launch vibrant intellectual communities and inspire conversations that matter. Working with individual faculty members, research clusters, centers and departments, the Humanities Center provides resources and training, assists with proposal development and establishing partnerships, and advises on planning major scholarly and public projects.

Where to Start

Humanities faculty can schedule a meeting here to

Explore funding opportunities and plan application timelines.
Facilitate project planning sessions to prepare major grant proposals.
Request workshops on grant-writing and planning research trajectories for departments, centers or research clusters.
Receive individual consultations on draft proposals, budget development and preparing support materials.

What's Required

Faculty who would like salary supplementation as part of a fellowship award must make a preliminary request to the dean when submitting the fellowship application.

Faculty who would like course buyout funding to be included in a grant proposal must make a preliminary request to the department chair and dean when submitted a fellowship application.

The Humanities Center requires that you consult with our staff prior to submitting a grant proposal that would be administered by the Humanities Center or by a center or program administered by our staff team.

All proposals for external funding should be reviewed in advance, and most require advanced approval by UCI Sponsored Project.

Contact the Humanities Center at least four weeks prior to submitting an individual fellowship application.

Contact the Humanities Center at least six weeks prior to submitting an application that requests funding for more than an individual faculty member's salary and benefits.

Faculty Research Support

Campus Research Resources

Where to Start

What's Required

Selected Opportunities

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