Grant Opportunities

Call for Proposals

The Digital Humanities Lab is accepting project proposals to be funded through the DHL during the 2025-26 fiscal year. Proposals will be submitted online, approved by the appropriate academic leadership, and reviewed by three members of the DHL Faculty Advisory Committee. For more information, read the FAQs.

Proposals are due by March 10, 2025. Decisions are expected by early April.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How can grant funds be used?

Grant funds can be used for

  • Student worker pay
  • Equipment
    • The Digital Humanities Lab will be the home for equipment that is not portable.
    • Portable equipment may be used outside the Digital Humanities Lab for short periods. Portable equipment may be stored outside the lab, but generally should be made available to researchers and student users, upon request. The library equipment reserve system will be the default home for such portable equipment.
    • People working on the grant project will have equipment use priority.
  • Software
    • The software purchased must be installed on Digital Humanities Lab computers.
  • Supplies used in the process of completing research, assuming the supplies are used in the Digital Humanities Lab to complete research.

This grant cannot be used for

  • Faculty compensation
  • Travel
  • Professional development

What are preferred grant characteristics?

  • Student participation
  • Community engagement (public-facing)
  • Participation/representation from multiple disciplines
  • Research outputs will be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)

What is the timeline for project approval?

See the Digital Humanities Lab will announce calls for proposals each academic year.

What are the required project outputs?

  • The document, data set, and/or other scholarly work that is produced by this grant will be made available in an open access repository.
    • Examples: BearWorks, Archiv.org, ISPCR, Zenodo, OSF.io, GitHub, or one of many other general or disciplinary repositories.
      (Contact Professor Joshua Lambert from the library for recommendations.)
  • Successful recipients are expected to provide a brief report to be shared with the Digital Humanities Lab Faculty Advisory Committee, publicly through this Digital Humanities website, and at various faculty development and/or recognition opportunities. Recipients are required to provide evidence of some form of sharing with others. 

What is the review process?

  • For the spring of 2025, the grant proposals will be evaluated by three members of the Digital Humanities Lab Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC), using the proposal evaluation form. Thereafter, the FAC will deliberate to identify the successful proposals.
  • Because of their role as reviewers, members of the FAC are not allowed to submit a proposal or be a Co-PI of a proposal while serving on the committee.