Past Grant Awardees
2021-22
Cory Crawford , Department of Classics and Religious Studies, Athens campus, project title: “Remote Sensing at Payne’s Crossing Cemetery and Farmsteads”
Spring 2023 Application Process
The Central Region Humanities Center (CRHC) invites applications from Ohio University faculty and graduate students for grants of up to $750to support acquisition of research materials or research-related travel in Calendar Year 2023.
Eligibility:Research projects must relate in some fashion to Ohio and/or one of the larger geographic regions of which it is a part: e.g. the Ohio River Valley, the Great Lakes Region, the Old Northwest Territory, the Midwest. Any Ohio University faculty member or graduate student in a humanities or humanities-related discipline is eligible to apply.*
Application Procedure: All applicantsmust submit the following materials: 1. A 500-600-word abstract that explains the research project, its significance to the humanities, and the role a CRHC grant would play in launching, advancing, or completing the project in the calendar year. 2. A proposed budget for use of CRHC funds in the project. Graduate student applicantsshould also include a statement by their advisor endorsing their application. All components of the application should be submitted as a single documentvia email attachment to jellison@ohio.edu by March 15, 2023. The CRHC Executive Committee will begin evaluating applications immediately following that deadline with the goal of informing recipients no later than March 31, 2023.
Persons wishing more information should contact Katherine Jellison, CRHC Director, at jellison@ohio.edu or 740-593-0438.
*According to the National Endowment for the Humanities, “The term ‘humanities’ includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology [and anthropology]; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.