Faculty Summer Research Funding, 2025

UCHRI is pleased to offer $5,000 summer research awards for UC faculty to conduct research during Summer 2025. Priority will be given to early-career scholars and to projects related to UCHRI’s new theme, Entanglement. Awards should support work on a research project that requires travel, fieldwork, the consultation of archives, and related needs during the Summer 2025 quarter.
Faculty Summer Research Funding aims to stimulate new research and publication in the humanities by:

• providing funding to individuals pursuing innovative research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.
• supporting active research projects, but especially early-stage research requiring travel.

UCHRI will convene selected fellows in Spring 2025 for a virtual research development workshop and will organize an informal online research symposium in which the fellows will share their summer research with one another in Fall 2025.

Eligible Applicants: UC Ladder Rank Faculty in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences
Maximum Award: Faculty will be awarded up to $5,000 for summer research; research funds should be spent by September 30, 2025.
Application Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025
Award Announced (Expected): April 2025
Funding Source: UCHRI/UCOP

Final awards for all of our grants are contingent upon available funding. Funding must be spent in accordance with all applicable UC rules and regulations.

Applications must be submitted online via Submittable by 11:59 PM (Pacific time) on the deadline date.

Application Details

Faculty organizers must be UC ladder rank faculty members.

Prospective faculty organizers must apply online via Submittable. Required documents include:

• Project Title and Abstract (200 words max)
• Project Description (1,000 words max, see details below)
• Proposed Budget (see details below)
• Curriculum Vitae of the Faculty Organizer(s) (2 pages max)

Project Description

The project description should be a maximum of 1,000 words and include the following:

• Problem Statement should describe the intellectual project that will be supported by this research award, and the short- and long-term significance of this research to the faculty member’s current project. The narrative should also clearly describe the work plan and projected outcome of the summer’s research.

Proposed Budget

The proposed budget is made up of two elements:

• The Applicant PROPOSED Budget Template
• A Budget Narrative (500 words max) that explains how estimates were determined

Proposed budgets (up to $5,000) should provide reasonable cost estimates for such expenses as travel, lodging, and per diem for research trips, reproduction fees, and the purchase of books, limited equipment, and other research materials demonstrably relevant to the project. Hiring a GSR is not an allowable expense on this grant. 

For program related questions, please contact grants@hri.uci.edu. Please include the name of the grant for which you need assistance.

For technical assistance, please contact Submittable at support@submittable.com.