The center currently offers support for campus programming and faculty and staff research. Please consider us as you plan your next program or embark on your next project.
Our definition of humanistic work is broad and inclusive. It includes any approach to understanding human ideas, practices, and experiences that focuses on how they shape and are shaped by culture, social structures, and our environment.
Small Grants for Project Completion
Sometimes we all just need a small push to help us complete a project. Our Small Grants for Project Completion program can help staff and faculty make that final push. Whether providing funding for a few extra research assistant hours or to help pay for a service you require to complete your project, the Center for the Humanities is committed to supporting your humanistic research.
Please consider applying today. The Center director will entertain proposals for funding up to $250.
The only “outcome” we expect is for you to share with us whatever comes of the work.
Small Grants for Domestic Collaboration
Our Small Grants for Collaboration program provides funding to make Grinnell a destination for collaborative research. For 2024–25, we will offer four grants of up to $1,000 each for U.S.-based collaborations. Funds can go toward collaborator travel to Grinnell and meals and lodging while they are in Grinnell. Grants come with no expectation of public talk or other engagements during the visit, but we do request a public presentation by the applicant upon completion of the project. We will consider proposals for projects at all stages, from beginnings to final steps. The grants are open to faculty and staff.
Small Grants for Collaboration Request Form
Humanities Center Writing Retreat
The Center for the Humanities Writing Retreat program is designed to help you connect, or reconnect, with work that nourishes you. Our goal in creating this program is to support you in carving out time and space to think, to plan, to read, to write, to share, and to be in community around your research.
The writing process includes many stages and kinds of work. At whatever point you find yourself in a project—beginning, middle, or end—this opportunity is for you!
Writing Retreat funding is available to all faculty and staff seeking to connect with scholarly or affinity-based professional communities through research. Visit Writing Retreat Proposal Guidelines for more details, including proposal guidance and submission information.