Grants

Please note: This year’s call for grant applications is launching later than usual because of delays in the confirmation of budget allocations for AY 2026-27. We are grateful for your patience as the Georgetown Humanities Initiative worked to determine available funding levels and prepare next year’s programs.

Given more limited resources for AY 2026-27, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative will seek to allocate support in ways that benefit as many applicants as possible, but expects to fund a smaller proportion of projects than in previous years.

The Georgetown Humanities Initiative invites Georgetown faculty to apply for the following grants for AY 2026-27:

Application deadline: June 30, 2026

Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop Grants for Assistant and Associate Professors in the Humanities

Book manuscript workshops are intended to provide faculty participants with meaningful feedback prior to the submission of a book manuscript to a scholarly press for peer review in view of their promotion to the next academic rank.

Applicants may request funding for in-person or Zoom workshops. Grants of up to $2,000 for in-person workshops will support travel and other expenses to bring two experts to Georgetown to review and offer guidance on monographs in progress that are close to completion. Grants of up to $1,000 will provide honoraria for Zoom-based workshops with two experts.

Applicants are encouraged to use other sources, such as their research funds or departmental support, to offset some of the cost of an on-campus, in-person workshop or to apply for less if they prefer to conduct the workshop over Zoom.

Eligibility

• Humanities tenured Associate Professors and Assistant Professors who started working at Georgetown before AY 2025-26 are eligible to be considered for this one-time funding opportunity.
• Faculty conducting qualitative scholarship in the social sciences, adopting humanistic approaches and methods, will also be considered.
• Applicants should show evidence of substantial progress toward manuscript completion at the time of application.
• Only monographs will qualify for funding.
• Workshops, expenses, and reimbursements must take place within AY 2026-27. Extensions are not allowed.

Application Material

Workshop proposals must include the following components:

• Faculty C.V. including contact information (name, title, department, email address, telephone number, and campus address).
• A one-page, single-spaced description of the monograph in progress; a table of contents; accurate schedule for completion; a brief statement specifying whether or not the work is under contract with a publisher, a list of publishers who have expressed interest, or that the applicant feels would be ideal for the project but who have not yet been contacted.
• The most recent and comprehensive version of the manuscript as evidence of its current status, with one chapter clearly designated for evaluation.
• A one-page, single-spaced narrative describing the workshop objectives; the reasons for holding the workshop in person (if applicable); how the workshop will contribute to the completion of the monograph; the anticipated book publication timeline; the approximate date, format, and location of the workshop during AY 2026–27; and the applicant’s timeline for promotion to Associate or Full Professor.
• A proposed list of scholars, with affiliations and areas of specializations. Applicants should not make advance commitments to any listed scholar but may check scholars’ general interest in participating.
• A budget for the proposed workshop, including funding from other sources.

Workshop Budget

Permissible expenses include: 

1. Travel expenses associated with in-person manuscript workshops (e.g., airfare, ground transportation, lodging);
2. External members’ honoraria;
3. Workshop expenses (e.g., space charges, copying services, meals);
4. Costs associated with Zoom-based manuscript workshops.

The grants will be awarded as reimbursement for incurred expenses upon submission of receipts. Expenses must be consistent with Georgetown University’s reimbursement rules, including class of travel restrictions and meal/hotel caps.

Application materials should be submitted by email as a single PDF attachment to humanitiesgu@georgetown.edu by June 30, 2026.

Grant awardees will be asked to submit a report (500 words) to Georgetown Humanities upon completion of their workshop and to credit Georgetown Humanities Initiative support in their research outputs.

Georgetown Humanities Collaboratory (GHC) Grants

The Georgetown Humanities Initiative seeks innovative, experimental proposals that foster collaborative inquiry in the humanities in creative ways and generate a shared community around a set of well-defined humanities research questions or issues. The aim of the GHC grants is to connect Georgetown humanities scholars across academic units, world regions, historical eras, and disciplines and to imagine a more expansive presence for the humanities at our university.

Georgetown Humanities plans to sponsor collaboratory grants up to $8,000 each for AY 2026-27. Applicants are encouraged to supplement this amount with other sources of funding as needed.

Proposals should address the following:

• Who will lead the collaboration? If more than one director, what role will each co-director fulfill?
• Which research questions or issues will this collaboration address?
• What will collaboration allow the group to do that could not be accomplished separately?
• What groups will the project engage, as participants and/or audiences? Please identify Georgetown-affiliated groups, those from other academic institutions, and non-academics.  
• What events or activities will the collaboration organize to bring people together? How does the proposed project facilitate modes of interaction, engagement, and scholarly dissemination that did not exist before?
• With what defined output will the collaboration contribute to humanities research and inquiry—for instance (but not exclusively), public-facing work; a major grant proposal, publication, or conference; websites or other digital projects; performances or visual productions; impactful curricular offerings?

All full-time faculty members holding appointments in Georgetown’s humanities departments are eligible to apply.

Preference may be given to faculty members who have not received funding from GHI or other Georgetown University sources during the past three years.

Application Materials

Please submit the following as a single PDF file to humanitiesgu@georgetown.edu by June 30, 2026:

• A 1500-word proposal that addresses the questions above.
• A detailed budget for the proposed project, including funding from other sources.
• Director or co-director’s CVs (5 pages maximum), including: name and contact information; title and departmental affiliation; education and positions held; relevant publications and presentations; honors and awards; information about GHI and other Georgetown grants received in the last three years (specifying the projects they were used for).

Grants will be awarded as reimbursement for incurred expenses upon submission of receipts. Purchase of computers or other tech equipment is not an eligible expense. Expenses must be consistent with Georgetown University’s reimbursement rules.

Project activities, expenses, and reimbursements must take place in AY 2026-27. Grants cannot be postponed.

The Georgetown Humanities Initiative reserves the right not to make awards if applications appear not to warrant them.

Project directors or co-directors awarded a Georgetown Humanities Collaboratory (GHC) grant are expected to send a written report (500 words) of grant activities and outcomes to the Georgetown Humanities Initiative at the end of the award coverage period, including a summary of expenditures.

GHC grant recipients are asked to credit Georgetown Humanities Initiative support in their research outputs and events publicity. The Georgetown Humanities Initiative provides support to publicize events; please email GHI with event details at least two weeks prior to the event date.

Georgetown Humanities Individual Research Grants

The Georgetown Humanities Initiative also plans to award individual research grants up to $2,000 on a competitive basis for individual faculty research or creative projects in the humanities. These grants are designed to augment other sources of funding, including but not limited to annual research funds and startup funds, in order to advance or bring projects to completion.

Grants can support a variety of activities, including travel and other expenses for for research, support for creating a new journal; the development of digital or public-facing projects; translation for one’s own work; research assistantships; manuscript editing or indexing; copyright permissions; organization of research seminars, round-tables, or conferences benefiting the Georgetown community of humanities scholars and students.

All full-time faculty members holding appointments in Georgetown humanities departments are eligible to apply.

Preference may be given to faculty members who have not received funding from GHI or Georgetown University sources during the past three years.

Application Materials

Please submit the following as a single PDF file to humanitiesgu@georgetown.edu by June 30, 2026:

• A 700-word proposal that describes the project, addresses clearly both its significance and feasibility, and explains how the applicant’s work will be advanced by a grant.
• A detailed budget for the proposed project, including other funding sources. A 3-page CV, including applicant’s name and contact information, title and departmental affiliation, education and positions held, relevant publications and presentations, honors and awards, and information about GHI and other Georgetown grants received in the last three years (specifying the projects they were used for).

Grants will be awarded as reimbursement for incurred expenses upon submission of receipts. Conference travel and purchase of computers or other tech equipment are not eligible expenses. Expenses must be consistent with Georgetown University’s reimbursement rules.

Project activities, expenses, and reimbursements must take place in AY 2026-27. Grants cannot be postponed.

The Georgetown Humanities Initiative reserves the right not to make awards if applications appear not to warrant them.

Grant recipients are expected to send a written report (500 words) of grant activities and outcomes to the Georgetown Humanities Initiative at the end of the award coverage period, including a summary of expenditures.

They are also asked to credit Georgetown Humanities Initiative support in their research outputs and events publicity. The Georgetown Humanities Initiative provides support to publicize events; please email GHI with event details at least two weeks prior to the event date.