Please note: There are now three deadlines for the Teaching and Part-time Faculty Research Fund. The Dresher Center cannot fund expenses retroactively. Only apply when you will be expending the funds in next three to four months, otherwise wait for the next deadline.
September 15, December 15, and April 15
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, whether employed full- or part-time. 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.
All funding requests will be reviewed by the Dresher Center Director and Associate Director. This fund is intended only for scholars who have already exhausted other UMBC funding (DRIF, department, or CAHSS). The maximum award to an individual is $2000.
The following list offers examples of potentially fundable expenses. Course releases can no longer be funded. All expenditures must be connected to humanities-related activities:
- Research travel to archives or to speak at symposia or conferences (where not funded through other sources); registration or membership fees related to such symposia or conferences;
- Services of a research or editorial assistant;
- Transcription or other technical assistance;
- Purchase of research-related materials (books, documents, copies, images, maps, etc.);
- Research travel necessary to complete a manuscript or other major research project or to revise in response to comments from peer-reviewers;
- A subsidy to purchase the right to publish text, photographs, or other images;
- A subvention in aid of publication required by the press;
- Technical assistance necessary to produce a web resource or other digital project;
- Indexing or other editorial assistance necessary to bring a publication to completion.