Schwab Academic Excellence Award - INSTITUTE for the ARTS & HUMANITIES

The Schwab Academic Excellence Award is an endowed fund at the IAH that supports outstanding faculty work and acts as an early intervention retention tool for department chairs in these departments to use at their discretion.

Chairs in 21 departments in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences designate a faculty member to receive this $3,000 award to support the person’s scholarship and creative activity.

Awards

Faculty members, as chosen by their department chairs, receive a $3,000 award. Awards are given out in December of each year and are publicly announced in the spring semester.

Previous recipients

Read the news announcements for the previous winners awarded each year:

Application Process

There is no application process for faculty. Recipients are nominated by department chairs.

Eligibility

Chairs of eligible departments (see below) nominate one tenure-track, tenured, or fixed-term faculty member for the award. Chairs are asked to prioritize faculty who are not currently well funded through retention offers, do not already have considerable research budgets, and have not received a Schwab Academic Excellence Award in the past two years.

African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
American Studies
Anthropology
Art and Art History
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
City and Regional Planning
Classics
Communication
Dramatic Art
English and Comparative Literature
Geography
Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
History
Linguistics
Music
Philosophy
Political Science
Religious Studies
Romance Studies
Sociology
Women’s and Gender Studies

Funding Guidelines

Appropriate use of funding

Research-related travel, conferences or other professional development activities, work equipment, grad/student/research assistants; research materials/books, food for research-related seminars and workshops; and contributions to campus departments (e.g., research collaborations).

Inappropriate use of funding

Personal use, regular or base salary, summer salary, or any related administrative supplements.

Funds expire

Funds are awarded each January and expire in 1.5 years (June 30 of the following year).

Reporting Requirement

Faculty will be asked to provide information to the Arts and Sciences Foundation about the impact of the Schwab Academic Excellence Award and how it will support their scholarship, research and/or teaching.

Questions

For more information, contact:

Tommie Watson
919-843-2657
tommie@unc.edu

Last updated: 12/19/23