Funder: Ohio State University
Due Dates: December 14, 2026 (Concept paper) | April 1, 2027 (Full proposal, by invitation)
Funding Amounts: $5,000–$50,000 by grant category; collaborative projects may last one or two years
Summary: Supports Ohio State centers and institutes in cross-disciplinary research, teaching and community engagement using arts and humanities methods to address critical societal challenges.
Key Information: Applications begin with a two-page concept paper; each project may have no more than two leaders, including a center or institute director.
Description
Ohio State University’s Global Arts + Humanities (GAH) administers Centers + Institutes Grants to strengthen centers’ and institutes’ capacity for cross-disciplinary collaboration. The program foregrounds humanistic methods and practices in addressing critical societal challenges through research, teaching and outreach. It supports individual-center projects, collaborations across centers and institutes, and short-term summer initiatives.
Supported activities include student programs, lectures, conferences, working groups, consultations, experiential teaching and learning, and research or creative-project documentation. Priority goes to new and ongoing projects with sustainable programmatic or curricular alignment integrating cross-disciplinary education, outreach and research. Projects should meaningfully involve students, engage diverse perspectives and audiences, and build sustainable collaborations with campus units or community partners.
