The Changing Human Experience seeks proposals for its 2022 Humanities Seed Grants (formerly known as the Cultivating Humanities and Social Sciences grants). These awards of up $50K support innovative and public-oriented faculty research in the humanities—including work by scholars in allied fields like the qualitative social sciences, education, and law.
We are especially interested in projects that do one or more of the following:
Collaborate to build new intellectual networks, answer new questions, or reach across existing fields to bring humanistic skills to bear on pressing social and environmental questions;
Engage with students and the wider community, including local, national, and international publics;
Magnify impact within and beyond particular scholarly fields through either the scale and scope of questions posed or the research design and methodology;
Offer new outcomes of research beyond the traditional scholarly monograph, including webinars, podcasts, or documentaries.
Projects that relate to areas of contemporary public concern (please note that we are not seeking policy-oriented proposals)
Projects that an attain visibility and engage an audience beyond the academy
Projects that include undergraduate outreach opportunities, such as research assistance
Projects that are collaborative, either with faculty at Stanford or beyond
Projects that show a reasonable plan of action for the research and its dissemination, and specify a budget that clearly shows how the funding will be used
Eligibility:
The Principle Investigator(s) must be Stanford Academic Council faculty (of any rank) or Senior Lecturers. The projects must have a humanistic orientation, but we will consider proposals from faculty in a vareity of allied disciplines, including the qualitative social sciences, law, education, and the arts, as well as collaborations between humanists and faculty in other fields, such as the natural sciences. A special note about the arts: these grants are not intended to support work in the creative arts; arts projects should be analytical and interpretive.
Requirements:
Recipients must submit a brief interim progress each year, along with a final report of 1-2 pages, describing what they accomplished, including public outreach and publications. We may also request assistance publicizing these projects to audiences beyond the university.
Maximum funding amount:
$50000
How can the funds be used?
Organizing symposia, workshops, conferences, or other collaborations
Bringing scholars and public intellectuals to Stanford
Summer travel support
Technological support: website development, archival collections, etc.