Humanities Seed Grants

Stanford Public Humanities seeks proposals for its newest round of Humanities Seed Grants. These awards 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 and dissemination beyond the traditional scholarly monograph, such as filmed lectures, podcasts, documentaries, and exhibitions. 

You can read more about previous grant recipients on our site.

Changes for the 2025-2026 funding cycle: In the 2026 cycle we will be making a few modifications to the funding tiers of the Humanities Seed Grants program. We are offering several grants of $25,000, with the option for applicants to request up to $50,000 for projects that require additional support. You will be asked to specify your requested funding level in the application. This year, for the first time, we are also inviting proposals from faculty who are further along in their research and ready to focus on public dissemination of their findings