These resources support humanities scholars in the process of locating and preparing fellowship and grant proposals at UF.
Locating Funding Opportunities
Search: There are several indexes of funding opportunities:
- UF subscribes to a variety of searchable funding databases that can be accessed via the UF Office of Research website (opens in new tab)and the George A. Smathers Libraries Funding Opportunities website (opens in new tab)
- The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere maintains lists of internal and external humanities grants and fellowships available to faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students on its Humanities Funding site (opens in new tab).
Alert: Sign up to receive notices of funding opportunities:
- Weekly funding opportunity announcements (opens in new tab)from the Office of Research. [Login with your Gatorlink credentials using the top-right “Login” button, click on “Subscription,” and fill in your information.]
- Regular emails about new programs and initiatives from private foundations from Candid (opens in new tab)
- Customized alerts from the Pivot database (opens in new tab) through a UF subscription
- Customized alerts from the Grant Forward (opens in new tab)grants database.
- H-Net listservs in one’s research area(s).
- And signing up for your favorite funding body (opens in new tab) email alerts
Assist: Various entities at UF will conduct funding searches upon request, including:
- The Office of Research via an online request (opens in new tab).
- The Center for the Humanities and Public Sphere, by appointment (opens in new tab).
Locating Collaborators
- View our list of Multidisciplinary Working Groups and Programs at UF (opens in new tab)on the Public Humanities page.
- You can create searchable records in the UF Research Expertise Database (opens in new tab) and UF VIVO Community (opens in new tab), and use these databases to search for possible collaborators.
- For grants with a UF Libraries’ or digital component, schedule an Academic Research Consult (opens in new tab). Such components may include digitization, user-interface design, GIS, dissemination, preservation (both physical and digital), learning object design, or web production (e.g., web-based tutorials).
- For grants that include a program assessment or evaluation component, you can consult with staff at BEBR (Bureau of Economic and Business Research) (opens in new tab) and CAPES (Collaborative Assessment and Program Evaluation Services) (opens in new tab).
- The UF Office of Research maintains a listing of Broader Impacts Resources (opens in new tab) across the university, which can provide support for everything from building museum exhibits, to working with minority or K-12 populations, to locating off-campus constituencies.
- Staff at the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere can help faculty members to network with colleagues and resources at UF.