Funding Overview & Calendar

UCHRI offers funding for the following categories:

Individual Research: Fellowships or travel funding to support individual research projects by UC faculty or graduate students.
Collaborative Research
: Funding for collaborative research projects such as working groups, seminars, and long- and short-term residential research groups.
Events & Outreach
: Support for events held on UC campuses that are free and open to the public, or projects that promote partnerships between UC humanities initiatives and community organizations.

Click on the menu options to the left for descriptions of funding opportunities, or view the complete calls in the sortable calendar below. The asterisk in the “Eligibility” category indicates that graduate students and/or post-docs are eligible to participate as members, but not as the PI. Please refer to the specific call for details, and view the Frequently Asked Questions for general guidelines.

Program Name Type Eligibility Deadline Amount
Short-Term Collaborative Research Residencies
[formerly Collaborative Compositions]
Collaborative Research Faculty* November See CFP
Conferences Events & Outreach Ladder Rank Faculty November $5K – $10K
Seminars Collaborative Research Ladder Rank Faculty November $1500 – $4000
UCHRI Public Humanities Grants
[formerly Extramural Explorations]
Events & Outreach Ladder Rank Faculty November Up to $20K
RRG Topic Proposal Collaborative Research Faculty December See CFP
Graduate Working Group: “The Humanities and Work: The Next Generation”
(UCHRI)
Collaborative Research Graduate Students December See CFP
Faculty RRG-Working Group: The Work of the Humanities/The Humanities as Work
(UC Humanities Network)
Collaborative Research Faculty and Lecturers December See CFP
RRG Fellowships Collaborative Research Faculty* December See CFP
Religions in Diaspora & Global Affairs Studio Jam Letter of Intent
(rigada.uchri.org)
 Collaborative Research UC Faculty and Graduate Students, journalists, others January  See CFP
UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship in the Humanities
(UC Humanities Network)
Individual Research Faculty January See CFP
Andrew & Florence White Dissertation Scholarship Individual Research Graduate Students February Up to $20K
Humanities & Changing Conceptions of Work Faculty Summer Research Award
(UC Humanities Network)
Individual Research Faculty February Up to $7K
UC Multicampus Research Groups in the Humanities
(UC Humanities Network)
Individual Research Faculty March Up to $35K for two years
Graduate-Sponsored Events and Workshops Events & Outreach Graduate Students March $500 – $1000
UCCSC Working Groups in California Studies
(californiastudies.org)
Collaborative Research Faculty* April Up to $10K
UCCSC Public Humanities Project Grants
(californiastudies.org)
Events & Outreach Faculty* April Up to $20K
UCCSC Graduate Research Travel Grant
(californiastudies.org)
Individual Research Graduate Students April Up to $500
UCHRI Working Groups Collaborative Research Faculty April Up to $10K
Religions in Diaspora & Global Affairs
2013-15 Humanities Studio
(rigada.uchri.org)
Collaborative Research UC Faculty April Up to $80k for two years