Funding Resources

A wide variety of funding opportunities exist to support faculty through programs of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC-Chapel Hill and external sources. The Institute provides a working list below and welcomes you to share other funding opportunities you know about with your colleagues through the Submit a Resource form. You may also wish to visit our Grants Mentoring page.

Below, you will find guidelines for applying for grants and fellowships, in addition to funding resources:

• at the IAH
• at UNC
• through external sources

Before you apply for a grant or fellowship...

• Make sure that you allow time (one week) for internal processing of your application. All applications for external (to campus) fellowships and grants--even individual research grants--should be routed through UNC's Office of Sponsored Research (OSR). You can complete the internal processing form online at  https://cfx4.research.unc.edu/ramses/. The form routes each proposal to the author's department chair and then to OSR. If you have questions about the form or the process, contact Hamilton Brown, director of proposal management, at 843-0874 or hlbrown@email.unc.edu, or Cathy Rogers, the grants and contract specialist who handles proposals from humanities and arts faculty, at 962-4098 or cbrogers@email.unc.edu.
• Consider applying for more than one fellowship. Many grantors require similar applications and, with minor tweaking, you can often parlay one proposal into two or three grant or fellowship applications.
• Check the required format for your application. If you need to convert a Word document to a pdf, you can download http://www.dopdf.com/ or go to http://online.primopdf.com/ for free conversion over the Internet. The "primopdf" site will send you the pdf version of your document by email. The advantage of the "dopdf" download is that it remains on your computer for future use and requires few steps: simply navigate in Word to File/Print, and then select "dopdf" as your printer. The program then "prints" your document as a pdf file on screen, which you then save.

IAH Resources

• Academic Leadership Programs – for faculty leadership development. Nominations accepted after September 1, 2008; applications due by November 1, 2008.
• Faculty Fellowships – semester leaves on campus for faculty to work on research for publication, exhibition, composition and performance, and to develop new courses, programs and initiatives. Deadline: September 24, 2008.
• Faculty Arts Fellowships – for creative work or research that directly incorporates the arts in a tangible way. Deadline: September 24, 2008.
• Chapman Family Faculty Fellowships – for outstanding teachers who regularly teach undergraduate students. Deadline: October 22, 2008.
•  Opportunity Grants – grants of up to $5,000 to support sustainable ongoing faculty projects and provide start-up funds for new projects. Deadline: None; applications accepted anytime during the academic year.

UNC-Chapel Hill Resources

• Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative Innovations Fund Grants – seed funding for faculty to develop sustainable programs that expand entrepreneurship education at UNC-Chapel Hill.
• Carolina Internal Funding Database
• Funding Alerts Assistance – help for setting up customized funding alerts in COS and other databases. 
• GrantSource library – extensive information on funding opportunities, including links to government and private funding sources, funding databases, proposal writing tips and other resources.
• Office of Research Development – supports multidisciplinary initiatives, helping faculty find collaborators on campus and prepare competitive grant proposals.
• Office of Sponsored Research – administers large grants.
• Research Support – Carolina's monthly online newsletter of information about funding and sponsored research.
• Research Support at Carolina – posts current grant and fellowship opportunities.
• UNC Research Funds via the Odum Institute
• The Writing Center – UNC's Writing Center offers one avenue for getting feedback on a grant proposal draft from a trained graduate student reader, either in person (50-minute sessions) or virtually (online submission).

External Sources of Funding

• American Council of Learned Societies Grants and Fellowships – Deadline: October 3.
• Guggenheim Fellowships – Deadline: September 15.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Grants – Deadlines: for Fellowships, May 1; for Summer Seminars and Institutes, beginning of March.

• National Humanities Center Fellowships – Deadline: October 15. 

• University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Residential Fellowship – Deadline: January 15.
• Rutgers University Center for Cultural Analysis Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowships – Deadline: January 15.
• University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Fellowship – Deadline: December 1.
• Stanford Humanities Center – for interdisciplinary work in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Deadline: October 15.