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 and the George A. Smathers Libraries Funding Opportunities website
- 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.
Alert: Sign up to receive notices of funding opportunities:
- Regular emails about new programs and initiatives from private foundations from Candid
- Customized alerts from the Pivot database through a UF subscription
- Customized alerts from the Grant Forward grants database.
- H-Net listservs in one’s research area(s).
- And signing up for your favorite funding body email alerts
Locating Collaborators
- View our list of Multidisciplinary Working Groups and Programs at UF on the Public Humanities page.
- You can create searchable records in the UF Research Expertise Database.
- For grants with a UF Libraries’ or digital component, schedule an Academic Research Consult. 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).
- The UF Office of Research maintains a listing of Broader Impacts Resources 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.