• GRANTS FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES
• DE BARY WRITING GROUPS
• DISSERTATION WRITING GROUPS
• GRADUATE TRAVEL GRANTS

• CURRENT RESEARCH GRANTS
• CURRENT TRAVEL GRANTS
• CURRENT WRITING GROUPS

• RESEARCH GRANT ARCHIVE
• TRAVEL GRANT ARCHIVE
• WRITING GROUP ARCHIVE

Grants of up to $10,000 per year will be made available to groups of 5-7 participants, working in at least two different humanities departments, who can demonstrate that their research interests productively converge.  Applications should present a schedule of meetings to be held in the course of the academic year, which would necessarily include presentation to the group of a work-in-progress by each member. Such sessions should offer substantive response and discussion, by the group, of each individual paper. Groups may schedule other, optional activities, as desired.

Each group application should include a budget. For a group of seven, funds of up to $3,000 may be used to provide dinner and/or refreshments on the occasions of paper presentations, as well as to provide up to $1,000 of research support for each group member.  Alternatively, funds could be pooled to bring a visiting scholar to Cornell for a workshop or retreat focused on participants writing projects, or to support manuscript preparation or other costs associated with publication of participants work.
 
Brett De Bary Interdisciplinary Mellon Writing Groups Application Guidelines 
Applications for Mellon Interdisciplinary Writing Groups should be submitted by two faculty co-organizers representing different departments or fields within the humanities. Each writing group should consist of 5-7 seven members, including faculty and graduate students. Applications should be submitted to Mary Ahl (mea4@cornell.edu) at the Society for the Humanities by April 1, 2009. 
 
Applicants should submit the following materials:

 1. A statement of no more than 1,000 words describing a rationale for linking the work of participants from different disciplines. The statement should show how each participants perspective would contribute to elaborating and enriching a common context for research.  Priority will be given to groups who demonstrate how their activities might benefit from the presence of visiting scholars at the Society for the Humanities during the year of the grant.  The Society's focal theme for 2009-10 is "Networks/Mobilities".
 
2. A one-paragraph description of a writing project from each participant, including plans (imminent or long-term) for publication.
 
3. A CV for each member of the group.
 
4. A schedule of meetings and activities for the coming year. (A series of meetings organized around the circulation, presentation, and discussion of a work in progress by each member is the basic requirement. Other activities are optional.)
 
5. A brief budget. Funds may be used for the following four categories: a.) dinner and refreshments at the time of paper presentations,  b.) up to $1,000 in research funds per member of the group,  c.) bringing a visiting scholar to Cornell to conduct a workshop or retreat for the group, d.) supporting manuscript preparation costs for a collaboratively produced volume.

We invite humanities faculty and graduate students at Cornell to apply for these grants. Applications by groups involving faculty and graduate students should be authored by two co-organizers representing different departments or disciplines.  Co-organizers will be responsible for administering funds transferred to their departmental accounts.