AHSS: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Grants for Faculty
Grants in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences:
Funding for Faculty in CFA, COH and SBS
Focus for the Fall 2010 round of the AHSS Grants program will be posted on this website in October 2010.
With funding provided by the Office of Provost Meredith Hay, the Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to announce the initiative to support an internal grants program to fund original and innovative scholarly and artistic research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Arizona. The program will make awards to faculty in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) in the Colleges of Fine Arts (CFA), Humanities (COH), and Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS), and to faculty members in these fields from relevant Interdisciplinary Programs (e.g., American Indian Studies). A total of $300,000 of support is available for scholarship and research in all areas represented in CFA, COH and SBS, as well as work in the creative, visual, and performing arts.
Building on UA’s reputation for high-quality interdisciplinary and collaborative activity, grants in the first cycle of funding will support multi-investigator, cross-disciplinary and cross-college collaboration. The goal is to encourage the kinds of conversations, partnerships, and collaborations that are continually stimulating original and fresh research, scholarship and creative activity at UA.
Amount of awards: $10,000 to $30,000
Total amount of awards: $300,000
Through this initiative the University intends to increase the impact and visibility of its research, scholarship and creative activity across and beyond the fine arts, humanities, and social sciences, help faculty apply for a broader range of external funding sources in both the private and government sectors, and nourish the synergistic environment that brings faculty together from different disciplines to develop innovative research, scholarship and creative activity.
Awards will be given to those proposals that are highly original and innovative, will be significant for the careers of the project participants and have a broad impact on research and creative activity both at the UA and nationwide, have high potential for future external grant funding, and will enhance the national and international reputation of the UA. They will also support the core strengths of the university and address the following grand challenges in which the UA has significant cross-disciplinary strength:
- Human Identity as a Complex System: Exploring human conceptions of self, including ways that decision making is affected by the complex interaction of multiple factors--ecological, biological, economic, political, social, historical, linguistic, cultural, and philosophical;
- Transnational and Intercultural Dynamics: Addressing the challenges faced by individuals, communities, and governments at the intersections of places (real and virtual), societies, cultures, languages, identities and ideas;
- Creativity and Society: Giving expression to the heart and spirit of the human experience through disciplined individual creative endeavors. Promoting artistic collaboration and interaction, thereby enriching understanding across cultures, creeds, nations, and races.
Projects may result in a variety of different outcomes, such as publications or other scholarly or creative activity including those in a more traditional format (e.g., books, journal articles) and those of the less traditional digital/web based formats (e.g., e-publications and other web-based materials); major external grant proposals; films, art works, CDs, performances, festivals; and conferences and workshops.
During the grant period or shortly thereafter, all awardees are required to do a public presentation consistent with the type of project, for the UA community.
AHSS Grants Advisory Committee
Maribel Alvarez, Anne Betteridge, Paul Beudert, Javier Duran, Paula Fan (Co-Chair), Terry Horgan, Fenton Johnson, Steve Johnstone, Tsianina Lomawaima, John Olsen, and Linda Waugh (Co-Chair).
AHSS Review Panel members for each round of the AHSS program will be selected from the membership of the AHSS Grants Advisory Committee, augmented by experts in fields not covered by the Committee. The Panel will review the proposals and forward its recommendations to the Vice President for Research, who will make the final decisions about the awards. Members of the AHSS Advisory Committee who submit an AHSS grant proposal will not serve on the AHSS Review Panel for the round in which his or her grant proposal is submitted.
Request for Proposals
The official request for proposals as well as further information about the awards is available here.