Funding Opportunities

The Humanities Institute grants allow Humanities faculty and students to excel by providing time to focus on all aspects of scholarly research from generating new ideas to visiting the archive and working through the writing process. We directly support the work of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates through a range of fellowship opportunities.

Explore current opportunities for Faculty Research Funding, Graduate Fellowships, and Undergraduate Opportunities below. See our Current and Past THI Fellows.

Faculty Funding

THI Faculty Research Fellowship: Deadline November 20, 2019

Research Clusters: Deadline April 15, 2019

CITL/THI Pedagogy Fellowship: Deadline May 15, 2019

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Graduate Student Funding

C.L. Barber Fellowship with Santa Cruz Shakespeare Summer 2020: Deadline Jan 10, 2020
UCSC SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program: Deadline February 3, 2020
THI Dissertation Completion: NEW Deadline February 23, 2020
THI Summer Dissertation: NEW Deadline February 23, 2020
THI Summer Research: NEW Deadline February 23, 2020
NEW Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures: NEW Deadline March 8, 2020
THI Public Fellows Summer 2020: NEW Deadline April 1, 2020
THI Public Fellows 2020-21 (3 Quarter Opportunity): NEW Deadline April 1, 2020

Public Humanities Graduate Student Instructors: Deadline April 10, 2019

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Undergraduate Student Funding

NEW PROGRAM: Undergraduate Public Fellows: Deadline October 23, 2019
THI Undergraduate Research Fellowships: Deadline November 20, 2019
NEW Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures: NEW Deadline March 8, 2020

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