Breaking Out of the Classroom

• Purpose: To support activities that bring undergraduate students into the community to connect classroom knowledge with how it is applied or experienced.
• Eligibility: Senate and Non-Senate Faculty in the arts, humanities and social sciences who teach undergraduate courses.
• Award Amount: Up to $1,000
• More Information: Examples of Breaking out of the Classroom 
• Application: Breaking Out of the Classroom Application (PDF)
• Deadline: June 1 and December 1

Early-career Faculty Manuscript Support

• Purpose: To support UC San Diego faculty nearing completion of first or second book manuscripts that will feature in promotion to associate or full professor.
• Eligibility: UC San Diego ladder rank faculty working in arts, humanities, and social sciences. Applicants should not have yet submitted their manuscript for review with a publisher.
• Award Amount: $1,000
• Application: Manuscript Forum Call for Applications (PDF)
• Deadline: October 15

Innovating the Classroom

• Purpose: To provide financial support to faculty who teach undergraduate courses that use innovative tools in the classroom.
• Eligibility: UC San Diego Senate and Non-Senate Faculty in the Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences who will teach an undergraduate course in the upcoming academic year.
• Award Amount: Up to $1,000
• Application: Innovating the Classroom Application (PDF)
• Deadline: On hold due to budget cuts.

Interdisciplinary Research Groups

• Purpose: To support research groups that bring together faculty and graduate students participating in interdisciplinary conversations and research agendas on arts and humanities-related topics that cannot be covered in an existing department or program.
• Eligibility: Have two or more conveners from different departments, one or more of which is based in the arts and humanities.
• Award Amounts: $500 and $1,500
• More Information: Current and Past Interdisciplinary Research Groups
• Application: Interdisciplinary Research Groups Call for Proposals (PDF)
• Deadline: On hold due to budget cuts.

Additional Funding Opportunities

• UC Funding Opportunities for Faculty 2020-21 (PDF)
• External Funding Opportunities for Faculty 2020-21 (PDF)

Dissertation Writing Workshop

• Purpose: To support writing dissertations through interdisciplinary feedback from other workshop participants and a faculty advisor.
• Eligibility: PhD candidates engaged in writing dissertations in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
• Award Amount: $800
• Application: Dissertation Writing Workshop (PDF)
• Deadline: September 15, 2020

Graduate Summer Fellowships

• Purpose: To support completion of dissertations that relate to one of the following four themes: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Global Arts and Humanities, Public Arts and Humanities, and Digital Arts and Humanities.
• Eligibility: UC San Diego graduate students in Arts and Humanities who have advanced to candidacy.
• Award Amount: $1000
• Application: Graduate Summer Fellowship (PDF)
• Deadline: May 1

Interdisciplinary Research Groups

• Purpose: To support research groups that bring together faculty and graduate students participating in interdisciplinary conversations and research agendas on arts and humanities-related topics that cannot be covered in an existing department or program.
• Eligibility: Have two or more conveners from different departments, one or more of which is based in the arts and humanities.
• Award Amounts: $500 and $1,500
• More Information: Current and Past Interdisciplinary Research Groups
• Application: Interdisciplinary Research Groups Call for Proposals (PDF)
• Deadline: On hold due to budget cuts.

Additional Funding Opportunities

• UC Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students 2020-21 (PDF)
• External Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students 2020-21 (PDF)

Undergraduate Research Fellowship

• Purpose: To provide undergraduate students with funds to carry out research.
• Eligibility: Undergraduate students with a declared major or minor in Arts & Humanities. 
• Award Amount: Up to $500
• Application: Undergraduate Research Fellowship Call for Proposals (PDF)
• Deadline: Rolling

Undergraduate Scholarship for Academic Internship Program (AIP) Participants

• Purpose: To support undergraduate students participating in an unpaid academic internship.
• Eligibility: Undergraduate students with majors or minors in the Arts & Humanities who have secured an unpaid academic internship through the UC San Diego Academic Internship Program.
• Award Amount: Up to $1,000
• Application: Academic Internship (PDF)
• Deadline: Rolling