Experimental Humanities offers grants for interdisciplinary projects that integrate the humanities and STEM research through applied technologies. The focus of our grant program is to provide support to collaborative, team-driven interdisciplinary projects that use humanistic principles and inquiry to engage, develop, and explore new and emergent technologies. Outcomes must include (a) the advancement of one or more significant scholarly and/or creative products (e.g., a research project, a publication or performance, a software application, a model or database, or a new academic initiative that advances the experimental humanities), and (b) an application for external funding. Both outcomes must be specified clearly in the application.
Available funding
- Approximate number of large awards (EH1-L): up to 3 (Budget Range: $25,000–$50,000 per award)
- Approximate number of small awards (EH1-S): up to 5 (Budget Range: $5,000–$15,000 per award)
Examples of eligible project expenses
Faculty may seek funding support to cover a wide range of expenses associated with their proposed research, scholarship or creative endeavors. Summer salary and support to cover course releases are not eligible expenses for faculty in this funding cycle (due to budget limitations).
Examples of eligible project expenses are listed below, although there are many more possibilities that vary by disciplinary and interdisciplinary considerations:
- Student salaries (undergraduate and/or graduate)
- Travel to conduct research (if approved)
- Digitization costs
- Software or electronic hardware that is required for scholarly advancement
- Lab reagents, supplies, and biologicals to generate preliminary data for a grant proposal.
- Core facility instrument time
- High performance computer cluster time
- Costs associated with the development of a major artistic performance
- Translation of scholarly works
- Survey costs
- Human subjects’ compensation
- Small equipment costs
Student engagement
Significant undergraduate student involvement in the scholarly project is required. Faculty applicants are strongly encouraged to collaborate with their students in every stage of the project, including designing the project and writing the proposal. Students (including undergraduate and graduate students) are also encouraged to take initiative, bringing their own project ideas to faculty in order to collaborate on a proposal.
Eligibility requirements
The principal investigator (PI) or one of the co-principal investigators (Co-PIs) must be a full-time regular faculty member in the humanities or humanities-related social sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences. Co-PIs and co-investigators may include faculty, staff and students from other fields within or outside the college. Involvement of collaborators outside CWRU is also encouraged.
Applications are to be submitted through the Grants and Opportunities Management System (Infoready).
For more information about the Expanding Horizons Initiative, examples of past awards, additional grant opportunities and the Experimental Humanities grants, please visit the Expanding Horizons Initiative.