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McFadden Grants

Each fall and spring, the McFadden Fund Committee invites applications from faculty in the Humanities Division seeking funding for a range of projects that support your scholarly work. Broadly defined, the McFadden Grants are meant to provide key support for those looking to complete projects related to their research, scholarship, and creative activities. Though these grants do not cover travel expenses, they may provide additional resources that are not recognized by other funding sources. All faculty, including visiting assistant professors, are encouraged to apply, with the understanding that priority is given to tenure-track and non-tenure track continuing faculty members (as defined in the Faculty Handbook). Follow this link to the application form, updated every fall and spring on the Center for the Arts and Humanities website.

  • Tiffany Cregan Miller
    $3,000.00
    Kemtzij: Weaving Reciprocal Indigenous Ontologies in Kaqchikel Maya Arts
  • Gary Green
    $3,000.00
    Almost Home
  • Sam Plasencia
    $800.00
    Reassembling Scattered Traces:  Re-membering Rev. Greensbury Washington Offley
  • AB Brown
    $3,000.00
    Ceremony 332
  • José Martinez
    $3,000.00
    Voces Olvidadas / Forgotten Voices
  • Jim Thurston
    $3,000.00
    Ghost Horse (or grAI Percheron – working titles): Land-Based Living and Community in a
    Computational World
  • Tanya Sheehan
    $2,500.00
    Looking After: On Art and Healing
  • Matthew Cumbie
    $3,000.00
    ReWritten
  • Dean Allbritton
    $1,500.00
    Indexing for monograph Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain (Liverpool University Press, May 2023)
  • Michael Burke
    $225.00
    Developmental dramaturg editing on new play, a full-length work on climate change
  • Bess Welden
    $3,000.00
    Videographer and ASL interpreters for performance of the play “Death Wings”
  • Gianluca Rizzo
    $3,000.00
    Professional Italian translation of monograph Poetry on Stage: The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde (Toronto UP, 2020)
  • Nicolás Ramos Flores
    $765.00
    Indexing for co-edited volume Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigency of Accountability (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
  • Danila Canamela
    $2,000.00
    Developmental and line Editing Services for in-process monograph A Pastoral Cookbook
  • Audrey Brunetaux
    $2,000.00
    Copyediting and formatting of special issue “Podcasting Disruptive Voice: New Narratives of Race, Gender & Sexuality” in Contemporary French Civilization: Intersections
  • Tanya Sheehan
    $2,500.00
    Image reproductions and permissions for co-edited volume Modernism, Art, Therapy (Yale UP)
  • Debra Spark
    $3,000.00
    Transcriptions of oral interviews for collection of essays (additional funds requested)
  • Debra Spark
    $3,000.00
    Transcriptions of oral interviews for collection of essays
  • Danila Canimila
    $3,000.00
    Cover image for the volume Italian Trans Geographies
  • Chris Walker
    $3,000.00
    Hiring a developmental editor for monograph project “Narratives of Decay: Environmental Change and Speculative Form in Twentieth-Century Literature and Science”