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.

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.

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.

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.