The Humanities Council offers a wide array of funding opportunities for innovative teaching, research, and collaboration. This year, the Council will continue its close collaboration with the Princeton Humanities Initiative, including on the Visiting Fellows Program.
Important dates and deadlines are listed here and are subject to change. For detailed information and eligibility, please visit our funding page or email us at humanities@princeton.edu. The Council will also host a funding information session on Monday, November 9 at 12 pm in 16 Joseph Henry House.
Visiting Faculty and Fellows
Long-Term Visiting Fellows
Chair nominations
Each year distinguished writers, artists, and scholars spend a semester visiting Princeton, teaching one course and participating in conversations, convenings, and other events designed to advance the humanities at Princeton. Nominations are invited from chairs of humanities departments and may be made jointly with humanities-based interdisciplinary programs.
Deadline: October 12, 2026
Short-Term Visiting Fellows
Chair and Director nominations
During intensive three- to five-day visits, Short-Term Fellows lecture and participate in classes, colloquia and informal discussions. Chairs of departments and directors of interdisciplinary programs may propose visitors for the following opportunities:
- A call for visitors responding to specially designated themes for 2027-28: “Contending with Cultural Heritage” and “Media & Meaning.” Humanities departments and programs may propose a visiting fellow who can contribute to ongoing conversations and programming related to one of these themes.
- An open-theme call for proposals. Humanities departments and programs may propose a visitor working in any field of the humanities or humanistic social sciences who can contribute to active scholarly conversations at Princeton.
Deadline: November 11, 2026
Innovation and Collaboration
Magic Grants for Innovation
Do you have an “outside-the-box” idea for a new project or course in the humanities? The David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project provides grants ranging from $5,000 – $50,000 to support ideas that have the potential to change how the humanities are conceived or taught.
Deadline: January 25, 2027
Humanities Project Grants
Formerly Collaborative and Special Grants
Humanities Project Grants offer funding of $5,000 to $20,000 to support special projects that require the primary sponsorship of the Council. These grants support pairs or groups of faculty in collaborations that advance research in emerging or underrepresented fields in the humanities as well as projects that extend research in new directions, demonstrate broad significance across humanistic disciplines, or cultivate meaningful public engagement.
Deadline: January 25, 2027
Event and Conference Co-Sponsorships
Conference and Event Funding
For faculty and graduate students
The Council provides funding support for humanities-related programs, including conferences, workshops, colloquia, lectures, readings/performances, interdisciplinary courses, and reading groups.
Deadline for faculty: Rolling basis
Deadline for graduate students: September 30, 2026 for for Fall 2026 conferences; January 29, 2027 for Spring 2027 conferences
Eberhard L. Faber IV Memorial Lectures
The gift of Eberhard L. Faber IV supports department chairs and program directors seeking to host lectures, colloquia, workshops, and discussions in the field of literature, especially proposals for innovative formats and interdisciplinary events that might not readily be accommodated as regular departmental lectures.
Deadline: Rolling basis
Team Teaching Grants
Course Development
Through the David A. Gardner Magic Project, pairs or groups of Princeton faculty members are invited to apply for summer stipends of $7,500 to develop team-taught undergraduate courses that have teaching faculty whose primary appointments are in more than one single department/unit and are explicitly interdisciplinary in their conception.
Deadline: December 1, 2026 for Fall 2027 and Spring 2028 courses
Professorships for Princeton Faculty
Old Dominion Research Professorships
This program is designed to provide additional research time for Princeton faculty members and to enhance the humanities community more broadly through mentorship, presentations of work in progress, and participation in Humanities Council (and future Humanities Institute) programming and events.
Deadline: March 1, 2027
