Faculty Grants

Please note the protocols and procedures for faculty grants:
Grant Procedures

Please check back in fall semester for updates on our grants program for 2020-2021.

Thanks to  generous private support, the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies is able to  offer a series of grants for faculty development. Faculty may apply to more  than one grant simultaneously.

There are two categories of grants: course development / course enhancement awards and research and travel grants.
Award amounts:  $1,000-2,000
Deadlines: October 21, 2019 and February 21, 2020 at 5:00pm

NEW for Spring 2020: Please make note that we have set up a new email account for our grants program. Be sure to submit your applications to this new account, otherwise the faculty review committee will not receive your materials. The new email account is: grants_jewishstudies@unc.edu

Course development / course enhancement funds (award amounts:  $1,000-2,000)
With these grants, the Carolina Center  for Jewish Studies supports faculty who are interested in developing new Jewish Studies courses in the College of Arts and Sciences. Courses should be open to enrollment by undergraduate students (though graduate students may also be included) and may be in any department. We are particularly interested in courses that will be  regularly taught. Course development awards may be used for travel and research; for purchasing or development of  print, electronic or audiovisual course materials; and for summer salary stipends. We will also accept proposals that seek to expand or enhance the level of Jewish Studies content in an established course. These funds can be used for one-time expenditures, including field trips, symposia featuring student research, guest speakers, and extracurricular activities that support a course with significant Jewish Studies content. Ideally, faculty applying for these grants should plan on using the grant well before the end of the current fiscal year.
Application Form: Faculty Course Development Spring 2020

Research  and travel grants (maximum award amount: $1,500)
With these grants, the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies supports faculty research and travel,  including travel to present papers at scholarly meetings. This grant can be used to reimburse travel  costs pertaining to research projects and/or costs for materials required for  research or publishing, as well as to reimburse costs for travel, room, board,  and registration costs at domestic or international conferences.
Application Form: Faculty Research and Travel Spring 2020

Eligibility: Applicants must  be Carolina faculty with full-time appointments in the College of Arts and Sciences. All faculty who receive grants from the  Carolina Center for Jewish Studies will be expected to complete a brief  follow-up report within six weeks of completion of the grant.

Application Procedures: Only completed applications will be  considered. Please review the specific materials required to apply for both of the Jewish Studies Faculty Grants. All grant applications require a Carolina Center for Jewish Studies  cover sheet or application form. Download and complete the appropriate form for the grant or grants for which you wish to apply, and email your completed application materials in a single PDF file to  grants_jewishstudies@unc.edu

For  further information, please email  grants_jewishstudies@unc.edu or call 962-1509.