Faculty Resources
Summer Grants
The Humanities Institute Summer Grants are open to tenure-earning and tenured faculty whose research falls under the NEH definition of the humanities. Awards are up to $5,000. These funds may be used for travel for research, archival work, essential project-driven equipment, publishing support, research assistance, or summary salary.
Applications for the 2027 Summer Grant Awards will open in December 2026.
2026 SUMMER GRANT RECIPIENTS
Dana Ahern (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)
Transhumanitarian Crisis
Kristin Allukian (English)
Letters from Lowell: New Perspectives on the Literary and Epistolary Culture of America’s
First Female Industrial Class
Jonathan Bethard (Anthropology)
Crowned for Glory: Beaded Headbands and Child Burials in Medieval Hungary
Benedetta Luciana Sara Carnaghi (History)
Making Fun of the Fascists: Humor Against the Leader Cult in Italy, France, and Germany,
1922–1945
Heide Castañeda (Anthropology)
Indigeneous Diasporic Worlds: Amazigh Transnational Imagination in Western Europe
Tara F. Deubel (Anthropology)
Producing ‘Liquid Gold’: Moroccan Women’s Cooperatives in the Global Argan Industry
Ben Fried (English)
Migrant Editors: How Postwar Newcomers Remade Literary London, 1945-1995
Marty Gould (English)
Dickens and the Nineteenth-Century Stage
Meredith Johnson (English)
Sound as Techne: Noise Regulation and the Production of Publics
Nathan Johnson (English)
Where We Forget
Alejandro Marquez (Sociology & Interdisciplinary Social Sciences)
In Solidarity: Caring for Migrants on the US-Mexico Border
Diane Wallman (Anthropology)
Community-based Participatory Mapping in Dominica
Summer Grant Award Timeline
Call for Applications
December / January
Summer Grant Applications Open
Applications Due
February
Submit PDF document containing:
- Application cover sheet
- Description of project
- Budget
- Funding disclosure
- 2 page CV
Applicants Notified
March
After applications are reviewed and scored, applicants will be notified via email of the decision.
Fund Transfer
April
The Humanities Institute will work with department managers or URAs to transfer funds to faculty research chartfields.
Spend Grant Funds
May - August
Faculty spend their awarded grant funds.
A grant report will be sent out at the end of August to complete.
Summer Grant Reports Due
October
- Faculty submit Summer Grant Reports to Liz Kicak.
- Unspent funds will be returned to the Humanities Institute