Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Call for Proposals

Every academic year the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere announces its call for proposals for fellowships and grants, event co-sponsorships, and publication subventions. These programs are supported by the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities, Tedder Family Endowed Research Award in the Humanities, David Yulee Endowment, Humanities Endowment, and Jerome A. Yavitz Fund. Additional support is provided by the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and UF College of the Arts. CHPS encourages proposal submissions from faculty, graduate students, and staff at the University of Florida and community partners working in the humanities.

The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere created a checklist for faculty, staff, and graduate students who are organizing events at UF.

Please send any queries about these initiatives to Rothman Chair and Director Jaime Ahlberg at jlahlberg@ufl.edu. You may apply for the Co-Sponsorship for Humanities Events and the Publication Subvention in the Humanities at any time.

2025-2026 FUNDING CYCLE

Rolling Deadline

• Co-Sponsorship for Humanities Events

  Rolling Deadline The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (CHPS) co-sponsors events that engage the humanities in the form of conferences, speakers, classroom visits, and workshops, organized by faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students, and community members.
  Guidelines and To Apply

• Publication Subvention in the Humanities

  Rolling Deadline (September 2024 – April 2025) The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (CHPS)—with the support of the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), and the College of the Arts (COTA)—offers publication subventions to UF faculty in the humanities for books published by scholarly presses. For CLAS faculty, the CLAS Dean's Office and CHPS will each fund half of the subvention. COTA faculty are directed to apply for a COTA Scholarship Enhancement Fund (SEF) award or a COTA Research Incentive Award, overseen by the COTA SEF and Research Committees, respectively, after which their applications will be forwarded to CHPS for supplementary funding. Faculty in other colleges will be able to apply for half of the amounts listed below from CHPS.
  Guidelines and To Apply

Fall Semester Deadlines

• Library Enhancement Program in the Humanities

  Deadline: Friday, October 11, 2024 The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (CHPS), with the support of the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities, offers a Library Enhancement Grant to faculty members and graduate students at the University of Florida (UF). The Grant provides up to $4,000 for the acquisition of library resources—including print, digital, and audio-visual media—in a field of study in or related to the humanities, which is currently not well-served by UF's collections. These resources are intended to enhance scholarly research and teaching in the humanities and allied fields. Priority will be given to requests that serve broad constituencies.
  Guidelines and To Apply

Spring Semester Deadlines

• Speaker Series and Workshops in the Humanities Grant

  Deadline: Friday, January 24, 2025 The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (CHPS) will sponsor workshops and speaker series during 2024-25 with support from the Margaret and Robert Rothman Endowment and the Yulee Fund. CHPS solicits proposals from faculty, curators, and graduate students who wish to organize one or multiple events, especially collaborative ones, in an academic year. The events must be accessible to an audience coming from a variety of disciplines and members of the public. CHPS expects to fund awards of up to $5,000 each. Partial funding of proposals may be awarded to support more initiatives.
  Guidelines and To Apply

• Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowships

  Deadline: Friday, February 7, 2025 In 2010, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, with the support of the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities, began a program to award summer fellowships to faculty in the humanities disciplines. The objective of these fellowships is to allow recipients to make significant progress on existing creative/research projects during the summer months.
  Guidelines and To Apply

• Public Humanities Programs

  Deadline: Friday, February 7, 2025 The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (CHPS), with the support of the Margaret and Robert Rothman Endowment for the Humanities, is awarding teams of UF and Community partners grants up to $4,000 to support public programs in the humanities. This grant encourages on- and offcampus individuals, groups, or organizations to collaborate in creating and implementing humanities programming beyond the UF campus.
  Guidelines and To Apply

• Tedder & Rothman Doctoral Fellowships

  Deadline: Friday, March 7, 2025 The Tedder Family and Rothman Doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities will be awarded to the awardee's degree-granting department as a lump-sum payment of $3,000 to be used in Summer or Fall 2025 or Spring 2026 in the form of reimbursement for travel, research expenses. Taxes and fringe will be deducted in cases where the funds are awarded as salary, and CHPS will coordinate with the awardee's home department. Additional awards may be granted with funds from the Rothman endowment. The most recent recipients are below.
  Guidelines and To Apply

Past Opportunities

• National Humanities Center Doctoral Institutes and Residencies

  Beginning in 2019, The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere — with the support of the Director Barbara Mennel’s Waldo W. Neikirk Professorship — supports Ph.D. students in UF’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for intensive one-week themed residencies and institutes at the National Humanities Center that focus on practical teaching, research, and professionalization skills.
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• NHC Faculty Summer Institutes and Residencies

  Beginning in 2018, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, with the support of the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has supported UF faculty participation in summer programs at the National Humanities Center (NHC) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. These include: a one-month faculty residency at the NHC, and participation in virtual themed institutes that focus on practical teaching, research, and professionalization skills.
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