• Home
• The Center
  • About the Center
  • About the Humanities
  • Staff / Board / Contact
• Grants and Fellowships
  • Past Awards
  • Faculty Research
  • Faculty Sabbatical
  • Graduate Research
  • Junior Faculty
  • Subvention
  • Visiting Scholars
• Events
• Mailing List
• Endowments
• Links
  • URI
  • Arts & Sciences
  • Honors Program
  • Council for Research
  • RI Council for the Humanities
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • American Council of Learned Societies

Grants for Visiting Scholars

The URI Center for the Humanities announces the availability of funds for bringing scholarly speakers in the humanities to the URI campus. The Center limits its funding to events that are free and open to the public, and preference for funding is given to those events involving students in one or more classes. Funding from the Center for each event is limited to $600 unless students in more than one class are required to attend. Sponsors of events involving students in two or more classes may request up to $1,000 for the event. The decision to fund a particular scholar’s visit is based upon the following criteria: the value of the event for enhancing the humanities at URI and its surrounding community, the number of students/courses involved with the event, the importance of the visiting scholar to course content (if applicable), the availability of funding, and the clarity of the proposal. Additionally, the Center looks for some funding sponsorship from the home department and related departments and programs.

Individuals or groups requesting Center funds are encouraged to consult with the Business Office in the College of Arts & Sciences about their spending plan prior to submission of their proposal. Great care must be taken to insure that expenditures are made consistent with University policies & procedures.

TO APPLY:

Please submit an electronic copy of your application to the Center’s Director: Galen A. Johnson, urihumanities@uri.edu. Applications should consist of the following:

• The name and means of contact for the person submitting the proposal;
• The name and credentials of the proposed speaker (including a brief curriculum vitae no longer than 3 pages), as well as a title for the presentation;
• The targeted audience, including the number of students involved (students required to attend and students encouraged to attend) as well as the course names and numbers;
• A statement about the value of the programming to the course content and to the larger humanities community;
• A budget, including the amount requested from the Center for the Humanities, the amount requested from other sources (please list them), and the total amount budgeted for the event. (You must identify the specific purpose to which Center funds will be dedicated, i.e., transportation, lodging, reception, honorarium.)

Additionally, please mail or hand-deliver (Fridays only, 9am-4pm) a hard copy of your application to:

Dr. Galen A. Johnson
University of Rhode Island, Center for the Humanities
Davis Hall, 104
Kingston, RI 02881

IMPORTANT DATES:

The Center accepts requests for funding throughout the academic year (September 1 through May 1), but those applications submitted early in the year are more likely to be funded. (Applications submitted May through August will be reviewed by the Executive Committee the following September.) Plan to submit your proposal at least six weeks before the event.

For more information, you may call the Director at 401 874-4790 or Meredith Rathbun, Administrative Assistant, on Fridays at 874-5700.