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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, […]

Tedder & Rothman Doctoral Fellowships

In 2012, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, with the support of the Tedder Family Endowed Research Award in the Humanities, began a program to award summer fellowships to doctoral candidates working on humanities topics who have passed their qualifying exams by the application deadline. The Tedder Family and Rothman Doctoral Fellowships […]

Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowships

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 […]

Publication Subvention

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 […]

Public Humanities Programs

In 2013, the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (CHPS) launched its grants for Programs in the Public Humanities. The Public Humanities grant opportunity, supported by the CHPS Rothman Endowment, encourages and enhances collaboration between the University of Florida and individuals, groups, and organizations in the community by offering grants up to […]

Library Enhancement Program

Beginning in 2009, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere has used funds from the Rothman Endowment to sponsor a grant competition among University of Florida faculty and graduate students to expand the existing University of Florida library collections in areas in and related to the humanities that are currently underserved. Resources may […]