The Dresher Center for the Humanities provides funding to faculty (tenure-track and non-tenure track) and advanced graduate students. All funding requests will be reviewed by the Dresher Center Director and Associate Director.
Teaching Professors and Part-Time Faculty Research Fund – This fund is intended to provide research-related support to teaching professors and adjunct faculty pursuing humanities-based research (such as archival work, fieldwork, or interviews) in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Part-time faculty must be teaching at UMBC at the time of application with the expectation that they will also teach at UMBC sometime in the following academic semester or year following funding. The maximum award to an individual is $2,000.
Scholarly Completion Fund – This fund is intended to support full-time faculty and Ph.D. students in the humanities in completing the final stages of a research project. Funds can be used to support research travel, a publication subvention, indexing, purchase of a computer or software, manuscript workshop, or other such research-related expenses. The maximum award to an individual is $4,000.
Scholarly Development Fund – This fund is intended to provide research-related support to full-time tenure-track faculty, as well as graduate (M.A. and Ph.D.) students pursuing humanities-based research (such as archival work, fieldwork, or interviews) in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. The maximum award to an individual is $2,000.