Materials and Services Support

The Center for the Humanities provides support to offset the cost of materials and services directly related to faculty members’ research or creative activity in the humanities.

Such materials and services include, but are not limited to purchase or rental of photographs or photographic slides; the purchase or rental of microfilm, the rental of a microfilm reader; access to relevant proprietary electronic databases, web archives, or internet directories for a specified period of time; reproductions of rare documents, artifacts or monographs owned by museums or libraries; manuscript-indexing services; research assistance; and reproduction permissions. 

Deadline

The Board will meet in early September and early November to consider applications that will draw on the budget for fiscal year ’20. These funds must be used before July 1, 2020. To ensure that your request is given consideration at either of these meetings, please submit applications before

• August 30, 2019, for consideration at the September meeting, or
• November 1, 2019, for consideration at the November meeting.

Remaining fiscal year ‘20 funds will continue to be awarded in the spring, based on availability, and the Board will begin accepting applications for fiscal year ‘21. Spring deadlines will be updated after the September meeting.

Between May 1 and September 1, applicants may request up to $500 from the Director's discretionary budget. 

Criteria

The following criteria will guide the Board in its deliberations:

• The project for which support is being requested should engage significantly with humanistic topics, problems, or methods.
• Material for which the support is being requested should not be already available and reasonably accessible at Drake.
• Material and services for which support is requested should be necessary to the timely and successful completion of the project.
• Material and services for which support is requested should not be primarily the responsibility of another unit to provide: for example, digital equipment purchases, library book acquisitions, journal subscriptions, and the like. 
• The Center's support must be acknowledged in the published work and, when possible, in announcements, presentations, and publicity materials connected to it. Please see the acknowledgments page for examples of appropriate formulations of acknowledgment.

Additional Information

In addition to addressing the criteria above, proposals should include the applicant's current curriculum vitae and a detailed budget, including explicit statement of the amount of funding requested from the Center in the opening paragraph. The Board will not consider requests for "whatever support you can offer," or the like.

Those considering applying for this support are strongly encouraged to consult with the Director of the Center. Preliminary inquiries may be emailed to leah.kalmanson@drake.edu.

Complete proposals should be sent electronically, as attachments in standard document format to leah.kalmanson@drake.edu.