FRANKE FACULTY GRANTS
Also see: Franke Book Manuscript Workshop Grants
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The Franke Institute for the Humanities is pleased to announce a significant expansion of its Faculty Grant Program. The changes affect both the scale of the grants and the timing of the application process.
As to scale, awards will now be made in the range of $5,000-$90,000—a three-fold increase over the previous maximum. Awards can be dispensed over a period of one to three years as needed so long as the total value does not exceed $90,000.
As to timing, Faculty Grants will now be made once per year, at the end of Fall quarter, for projects to start in the following academic year. The quarterly application process for other Franke projects (event grants, faculty fellowships, book manuscript workshops, etc.) will remain unchanged.
Description
The Franke Faculty Grant Program prioritizes basic research in the Division of Arts & Humanities. With its commitment to disciplinary innovation, the Franke particularly welcomes applications that represent multiple departments and/or pursue intra-disciplinary transformation. Public-facing components and/or cross-divisional collaboration are welcome but not required. In the event of collaboration with other research universities, however, it is expected that partners will provide substantial support as well. Successful proposals in the past have included a project that develops and makes publicly accessible an archive of early Black cinema in collaboration with the Chicago Film Archive; a collaborative project to monitor archaeological sites in Afghanistan after the US withdrawal; a project on global cosmopolitanism involving multiple universities and research nodes; subvention of a research team to study architecture at sites in India; and a multi-year collaboration between literary scholars and the UC Medical Center.
Eligibility
Any academic appointee (tenure-track faculty or other academic appointee) in the Division of Arts & Humanities whose role includes scholarly or creative output is eligible to apply—including junior faculty.
Please note that in some cases eligibility is restricted by a collective bargaining agreement. If you have questions please contact James McCormick, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, at 773.834.8395 or jmccorm@uchicago.edu.
Please note that freestanding or one-off events (such as conferences) are more appropriately addressed through the Franke’s longstanding program of event funding. The Call for Event Proposals is circulated at the beginning of each quarter; details can also be found here on the Franke website. If you are unsure which rubric is best for your project, please do not hesitate to ask!
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