Funding
UAHC Publishing, Subvention, Presentation and Distribution Grants
(Applications due by end of day, November 1, 2025)
The UAHC will provide five grants of up to $1000 for publishing subventions for humanities faculty.
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(Applications due by end of day, November 1, 2025)
The UAHC will provide two summer research fellowships of up to $5000 for humanities faculty.
Learn MoreUAHC Fellows
(Applications due by end of day, November 1, 2025)
The UAHC will provide teaching release for two UARK humanities faculty per academic year to serve as UAHC Fellows.
Learn MoreUAHC Outreach Incentive Funds
(Applications due by end of day, November 1, 2024)
The UAHC seeks applications for larger, humanities-focused, community-based events (University and regional) for grants of up to $2500.
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(rolling deadline)
When available, the University of Arkansas Humanities Center will pledge matching funds of up to $5000 for external grants or conference sponsorships.
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(rolling deadline)
The University of Arkansas Humanities Center has a budget of $3000 per semester to offers co-sponsorships for workshops, talks, and events.
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Awardees 2020 - present
9 applications for 2 fellows ($10,000 + fringe teaching buy-out). 14 applications for 2 summer research fellowships ($5000/each). 5 applicants for 5 subventions of $1000/each. 5 applicants for 2 outreach grants of $2500/each.
Fellows
Kelly Hammond – HIST
Book Project: Wearing Many Hats: Chinese Muslim General Bai Chongxi (1893-1966)
Jennifer Hoyer - WLLC
Book Project: German Lyrical Mathematics: How the Neurodiversity Paradigm Can Help Us Think Differently
Summer Research Fellows
Mary Beth Long – ENGL
Book Project: A Trewe Reporte of the Life and Marterdome of Mrs Mararete Clitherowe
Daniela D’Eugenio - WLLC
Book Project: Early Modern Calligraphic Communities: Circulation and Exchange in Italy and the Early Modern World
Subventions
Janet Allured – HIST
Book Project: Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice: Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century
Todd Cleveland - HIST
Book Project: Accessible Africa: Teaching and Learning about an Unfamiliar Past
Lisa Corrigan - COMM
Book Project: Intimacy Regimes: Race, Sex, and Surveillance at Midcentury
Terrell Dionne – COMM
Article:“In the Spirit of ?Atatiće?: Telling Decolonial Allotment Stories amid Pending
Litigation”
Kelly Hammond - HIST
Article: "Wearing Many Hats: Chinese Muslim General Bai Chongxi (1893-1966)"
Outreach
Laurence Hare - HIST
Public Program: “The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory.”
Joshua Smith - ENGL
Keynote addresses for the 2025 Annual Conference of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, which will take place at the University of Arkansas April 3-5.
5 faculty were awarded publishing subvention grants ($1000/each) and four received consultant grants ($1000/each). Two outreach grants of $2500 each were awarded.
Subventions
Thomas Adams, PLSC INST
Book Project: Philanthropy, Civil Society, and the State in German History, 1815-1989
Todd Cleveland HIST
Book Project: Africa and the Olympic Games
Ryan Calabretta Sajder WLLC
Book Project: Beyond the Margin or Within the Canon: The Novels of Amara Lakhous
Ruby Ray Daly HIST
Book Project: “Voluptuous Cruelty”: Sex and Violence in Modern Britain
Brian McGowan HIST
Book Project: “Man’s Greatest Threat to Man”: Grambling State University and White Supremacy
Consultant Funds
Ryan Calabretta Sajder WLLC
Book Project: Beyond the Margin or Within the Canon: The Novels of Amara Lakhous
Todd Cleveland HIST
Book Project: The Airport that Transformed a Nation: Tourism, Decolonization, and the Cold War in the Seychelles, 1958-1981
Justin Gage HIST
Book Project: Writing to Resist: Native Activism through Correspondence, 1870-1900
Jared Phillips HIST
Book Project: Mountain Waters: Agriculture, Environmentalism, and the Future of Community in the Ozarks
Outreach Funds
Ryan Calabretta Sajder WLLC
Keynote Address: “Italian American Studies Association Conference Meets the Italians of Arkansas”
Leigh Pryor Sparks ENGL
Public Program: “Visit to Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas by Keri Blakinger”
Awarded 4 summer research awards (2 awards of $5000 were split by 4) and 3 subventions of $1000 each were awarded.
Research
Professor Shawn Austin, HIST
Book Project: Guarani Means War
Professor Freddy Dominguez, HIST
Book project: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza
Professor Lynda Jones, WLLC
French National Archives for Book project
Professor Jared Phillips, INST
Book Project: Five Rivers
Professor Brett Sterling, WLLC
Book Project: German comic books project
Subventions
Professor Erika M. Almenara-Avalos, WLLC
Book event for Language of In-between
Professor Laurence Hare – HIST, INST
Podcast: Points of Departure
Professor Valandra – AAST, SCWK
Article: Washington country remembrance project
4 subventions and 3 consultant grants of $1000/each were awarded along with 2 $2500 outreach grants.
Subventions
Professor Todd Cleveland HIST
Book Project: Mobilities: African Labor, Social ascension, and Tourism in Colonial Mozambique, c. 1890-1975
Professor Yajaira M. Padilla, ENGL
Book Project: From Threatening Guerillas to Forever Illegals: U.S. Central Americans and the Politics of Non-belonging
Professor Fernando Riva, WLLC
Book Project: The Development of Magic in the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages
Professor Richard Sonn, HIST
Book Project: Modernist Diaspora: Immigrant Jewish Artists in Paris, 1900-1945
Consultant Funds
Professor Erika M. Almenara-Avalos, WLLC
Book project: The Language of the In-Between: Travestis, Post-hegemony, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru.
Professor Rachel ten Haaf, WLLC
Book project: The Architecture of Cinematic Dissent: Critical realism and film on the Iberian Peninsula
Professors Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Kathleen Condray and Linda Jones, WLLC
Grant Application: "Mapping Unheard Migrant Voices in Arkansas"
Outreach
Professor Bryan Hurt, ENGL
Public Program: 2 live-reading events
Professor Valandra, SCWK AAST
Public Program: Launch of Washington County Community Remembrance Project.
17 applications for nine grants in the “Confronting Our Past/ Interrogating Our Present” competition. The expanded competition had 7 applicants and awarded 4 grants. Subventions had 1 applicant.
Faculty Recipients
Professors T. Jake Dionne and Joe Hatfield COMM
Article: “#BlackatUARK: Public Memories of Anti-Black Racism on Campus.”
Professor Brittany N. Hearne SCWK and AAST
Article: "Social distancing practices in the region on feelings of community and their effects for mental health during the COVID-19 crisis."
Assistant Professor Manuel Olmedo Gobante WLLC
Book Project: Translation and critical edition of a seventeenth century play by Andrés de Claramonte (c. 1580-1626) -- The Valiant Black Man in Flanders.
Professor Valandra SCWK and AAST
Article: “Structural Racism and Black Place Making: An Arkansas Story Rooted in a Legacy of Transgenerational Family Resilience.”
Professors Valandra and Caree Banton, AAST, SCWK, HIST
Research project: Washington County Community Remembrance Project
Graduate Student Research Grant Recipients
Neba Evans – MA Student JOUR
Article: “A Song of the Bluff” – Pine Bluff AR
Guillermo Pupo Pernet COMP LIT
Article: “Whiteness in the early 18c Louisiana and Orinoco,” 1670-1770
Graduate Student Awardees
Michael Anthony, PhD Student HIST,
Article: "The Catcher Race Riot of 1923"
Whitney King, MA JOUR,
Article: “Groundbreakers and Path Makers”
Undergraduate Awardees
Erica Tempesta COHEP
Research Project: "Ethics education among nursing students and racial disparities in health care provision."
Daniel Webster SOCI, PSYCH, CRIM
Research Project: "How race and gender shape how students view and interact with the college environment."
Research and Curriculum Grants Awardees
Professors Colleen Thurston JOUR, ARTED
Research Project: “Advancing Intersectional Racial Justice at a Predominantly White Institution through Interdisciplinary Dialogues and the Formation of Learning Communities”
Professor John Walch THEATR
Public Program: “Hip-Hop Theater: History, Critique, Practice, and Performance.”