The Furman Humanities Center offers a variety of programs to support innovative faculty scholarship.
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FHC Book Development Grant
Furman Humanities Center (FHC) Book Development Grants support the publication of scholarly books that present original research or book-length creative content. This grant is available for edited collections, co-authored works, and monographs. Funding will be based on merit and need. Examples of eligible expenses include costs associated with indexing, obtaining digital images, compensating qualified readers, securing copyright permissions, and modest subventions requested by publishers. Furman Humanities Center Book Development Grants are not designated for textbooks. Furman Humanities Center Book Development grants do not typically cover research costs, travel, book conferences, or publicity expenses.
Support from Furman Humanities Center Book Development Grant funds are limited to a maximum of $2,000 per faculty member during any 3-year period. Applications may be made at any time and are funded on a rolling basis.
Apply for a Book Development Grant.
FHC Lecture-Series Grant
The Furman Humanities Center Lecture-Series Grant provides sustained event funding to emergent or established research communities anchored in humanities and arts disciplines across campus. By offering long-term financial support, the Furman Humanities Center Lecture-Series Grant brings greater visibility to existing and growing research areas on campus while allowing recipients the year-to-year agency and flexibility needed for planning a prominent lecture series given that top-flight scholars and experts often require advance booking. This funding opportunity enables awardees to invite speakers from their respective research fields, be they from the United States or abroad, with the primary goal being to advance research areas of special interest to groups of Furman faculty, staff, and students. Ancillary goals include attracting prospective students interested in research programs that are well supported by an invested group of faculty and/or staff and to advance the research and teaching of a community of committed researchers working on shared areas of interest and specialization. A minimum of two-three faculty or staff is required. Because planning a speaker series does involve a substantial time commitment, an endorsement email from relevant department chairs are also required.
Recipients offer progress reports to humanities@furman.edu at the start, middle, and close of each semester in line with the following timeline: 1) not later than the first Friday of the first week of classes; 2) not later than the Friday after midterm 3. not later than the last day of classes).
Apply for a Lecture-Series Grant.
FHC Conference & Events Grant
The Furman Humanities Center (FHC) at Furman University sponsors student-centered events that innovate (e.g, Digital Humanities workshop), that fill gaps in our campus knowledge base (e.g., bring a scholar in a sub-field Furman does not employ), and that raises the profile of the Humanities at Furman (e.g., an internationally significant film festival, celebrity speaker, or first-of-its-kind conference).
Apply for a Conference & Events Grant.
FHC Collaborative Fellowship
The Furman Collaborative Fellowship promotes collegiality, collaboration, and multi-disciplinary scholarship, research, and creative activity on the most pressing societal issues and larger humanistic questions that foster an understanding of the human condition. Each year the Furman Humanities Center will support the formation of one or two multi-disciplinary cohorts of up to four Furman faculty members from three different academic disciplines to examine issues of pressing concern in the humanities and fine arts.
Apply for a Collaborative Fellowship.
FHC Faculty and Student Research Fellowships
Furman Humanities Center (FHC) Faculty and Student Research Fellowships fund faculty, student, and collaborative faculty-student research projects and creative activities in the humanities and the arts, including but not limited to the following: (co-)authoring essays, conducting archival research, (co-) translating primary texts for publication, hosting public colloquia or seminars, and (collaborating on) public and mediated humanities and arts projects. Fellowships typically support problem-focused research in the humanities and original creative projects in the arts that are likely to have broad impacts in their fields and beyond. Awards will be granted to projects led by individual arts and humanities faculty or majors or interdisciplinary faculty teams that include at least one faculty member from an arts or humanities discipline.
Apply for a Faculty and Student Research Fellowship.
FHC Manuscript Review Workshop Grant
The Furman Humanities Center (FHC) accepts applications for Manuscript Review Workshops according to two fixed deadlines each year: April 15 and September 15. Please see below for details.
Manuscript Review Workshops at the Furman Humanities Center (FHC) provide timely feedback to faculty members preparing monographs or other academic manuscripts of similar scope for submission for publication. The program is open to Furman faculty in the humanities whose monograph is near completion and developed to a point wherein it can benefit substantially from review. A three-hour seminar forms the heart of the program. In consultation with the author, two external reviewers and several Furman faculty members from different disciplines are invited to read the work in advance. For the author and reviewers, The Furman Humanities Center (FHC) organizes an afternoon of discussion followed by an informal dinner. Readers provide collegial, constructive criticism to assist the author in developing strategies to strengthen the work and place it for publication. The Furman Humanities Center (FHC) covers all the costs for the program, including copying and distributing the manuscript, travel accommodations and honoraria for the two external reviewers, and the dinner following the meeting.
Apply for a Manuscript Review Workshop Grant.
FHC Research Cluster Grant
The Furman Humanities Center (FHC) invites proposals for transdisciplinary/interdisciplinary research working groups from all departments and programs of Furman University.
Each proposal’s research theme shall be determined by a team consisting of at least one Furman Humanities Faculty member. Each research cluster team consists of a core group of Faculty and Student Fellows (with a four person minimum consisting of at least two Faculty/Staff and two Students) who will meet in the Furman Humanities Center to pursue collaborations focused on the central theme. One Faculty member for each team shall be designated as the Faculty Coordinator for the Research Cluster. Each team commits to the following: Plan and organize at least three working group events per semester and invite speakers from inside and outside the Furman University community to discuss relevant current research and present two CLP events (minimum).
Apply for a Research Cluster Grant.
FHC Mini-Grant
This smaller funding pool can be used to enhance existing courses, such as adding community engagement, a new set of readings previously unfamiliar to the instructor, or technology in the classroom. It may also be used to fund student-centered interdisciplinary humanities reading or research groups.
Colloquiums
Colloquiums, by definition, are open conversations which welcome participants and observers. They consist of facilitated conversation based on readings, screenings, etc. that are open to convergences, divergences, tangents, formulaic responses, queries, and daydreams. The Furman Humanities Center currently has two colloquia opportunities for you to join: Space + Place and Translations. If you are interested in starting and leading a colloquium, please complete the form to begin the process. If you’re interested in joining a colloquium contact humanities@furman.edu.
If you would like to apply to run a colloquium, complete this form.
Recent Faculty Research in the Humanities
Sarah Archino is part of The And Or Project, a research group and digital exhibition space, reimagining the relationship between art, interpretation, exhibition, and theory.
Patricia Puckett Sasser led a collaborative project between the Music Department, undergraduate research, and the Libraries that traces amateur music-making in late 19th century Norway.
Chris Blackwell is developing the CITE architecture, defining a framework for scholarly reference to the unique cultural phenomena that humanists study. Christopher Blackwell and Neel Smith originally developed the CITE architecture to meet the needs of the Homer Multitext project.
Lane Harris compiled Translations of the Peking Gazette Online, a comprehensive database of approximately 8,500 pages of English-language renderings of official edicts and memorials from the Qing dynasty that cover China’s long nineteenth century from the Macartney Mission in 1793 to the abdication of the last emperor in 1912.
Sofia Kearns has gathered oral histories of Greenville residents of Colombian origin who worked in local textile mills.