Research Travel Fund

WIHR invites proposals from UW faculty doing humanities-related work to help support their research travel. These awards are intended to cover the costs of travel—airfare, accommodations, access fees—aimed at conducting research (i.e. data collection, interviews, archival work). You may include materials required to facilitate research travel (data recorder, external hard drive, camera, etc.) as a budget line in a broader proposal, but we will not exclusively fund materials requests.

Although preference will be given to funding research travel, we will also consider funding conference travel in this category. In order to receive conference funding, applicants must be presenting research at the conference. Also, they must demonstrate that they do not receive funding for one conference per year from their home department, or that the funding they do receive does not fully cover one conference per year.

Projects are funded through a semesterly competitions; a call for applications will be made at the start of each semester.

Applications should include a clear project plan, a description of outcomes/deliverables, and a detailed budget. They will be evaluated on the following criteria: sophistication of research, feasibility of proposed project/timeline, and relevance to the important issues in the humanities.

Maximum award: $2000