Grants & Fellowships
The Director of Grants and Fellowships works closely with faculty members to ensure a smooth application process for a variety of funding opportunities including sabbaticals, research projects, and other scholarly endeavors.
For direct access to a summary of many funding opportunities available to faculty, please visit the Grants and Fellowship blog maintained by the Director. This resource provides links to sponsoring organizations' websites, which feature detailed information about applying for a specific grant or fellowship.
Fellowships
Fellowships exist to afford scholars and artists the time, funds, access, and space that they need to undertake projects. Fellowships may be classified foremost as residential or non-residential.
Some residential fellowships offer scholars and artists an opportunity to work on a project in an ideal, inspirational setting that is far removed the everyday hustle & bustle, e.g., The Bogliasco Fellowship Program at the Luguria Study Center in Genoa, Italy, and The Camargo Foundation Fellowship Program in the South of France. Other residential fellowships provide access to special collections, such as the Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellowship Program and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art's Senior Fellowship Program. Still others afford scholars an opportunity to live and work in residence at some of the world's most acclaimed institutions of higher learning. Some residential fellowships are thematic, and they bring together like-minded fellows to network and share their ideas with one another. Non-residential fellowships provide funds to enable a scholar's or artist's home University recover the costs incurred by his or her sabbatical.
Some organizations provide fellowships in support of a broad spectrum of projects pertaining to humanistic inquiry; others support projects that pursue a specific line of inquiry or enable a fellow to undertake a specific activity.
The Director of Grants and Fellowships will help guide faculty members through the entire fellowship strategy and application process, which begins approximately a year and a half before the academic year in which a sabbatical or research project will take place.
Grants
Grant support from foundations, corporations, and government agencies is available for a variety of projects. A grant-issuing organization's application review process typically takes between three to six months. The Director of Grants and Fellowships helps faculty members determine an appropriate strategy.
Daniel Parisi, the Director of Grants and Fellowships, may be contacted at 4-4675 or via e-mail at parisid@uchicago.edu. Daniel can be found in Walker 211, just outside the Dean's Suite.