The Arts and Humanities Publication Support Grant supports arts, humanities, and interpretive social science publication and performance by UNC-Chapel Hill faculty. The grant is funded by a partnership between the Office of Research Development and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. The goal is to provide funding to increase the quality, contribution, or reach of books, recordings, and other academic or scholarly works. Examples include open access publication subvention, illustrations, indexing, cover art, and similar.
The funds are not intended to cover the total cost of completing the research project, but to complement other financial support. Funds are awarded on a competitive basis and are not guaranteed. All eligible works must be complete at the time of application, e.g., accepted manuscript, mixed and edited master recording, etc. Requests for open access publication subvention and any other publisher subvention must be accompanied by an invoice from the publisher stating the amount required.
Awards: The usual maximum award to support the publication of a book/monograph or musical/performance recording is $2,500. Up to $5,000 is available for open access publication subvention. Requests above this amount will be considered in the case of exceptional need or opportunity. Awards are to be used by one full year from date of award.
Reporting: Recipients are requested to provide a copy of the book or other publication to the IAH upon completion to become part of the IAH’s faculty publications collection.
Applicants must be full-time members of the UNC-CH faculty holding any faculty rank. If on a teaching contract, the contract should not expire less than 12 months after applying. Priority will be given to applicants who have not received funding from this program in the past 3 years.
Applications for the Arts and Humanities Publication Support Grant must include the following:
The Arts and Humanities Publication Support Grant applications are accepted on a rolling basis. The IAH tries to respond to applicants within a month.
Contact the IAH team at iah@unc.edu with any questions or concerns.
