The Center for the Humanities at Tufts is piloting a program to offer small grants to Tufts PhD and MFA students in the humanities, the humanistic social sciences, and fine arts who require supplemental funding for research projects.
Purpose
CHAT grants are intended to support research expenses such as traveling to archives, recruiting subjects, traveling to present work at academic conferences, and organizing public exhibitions or performances. CHAT grants should be used in conjunction with funding from a student’s home department and other sources.
Eligibility
Students enrolled in a terminal graduate program (PhD or MFA) in any humanities-related program in the School of Arts & Sciences at Tufts are welcome to apply. This includes the humanistic social sciences, the arts, or cross-disciplinary programs within the humanities, and graduate students in SMFA programs. Due to our limited budget, students should not expect to receive funding more than once in a given academic year. Graduate students in STEM fields who are not part of a cross-disciplinary program with a humanities field are not eligible for this funding. Students of the Fletcher School, Medical or Dental programs are also not eligible.
Deadlines
CHAT is accepting requests on a rolling basis, until the end of the spring semester 2025, or until total funding pool is exhausted. Individual grants will typically not exceed $500. Requests for greater amounts will be considered for special projects or collaborative projects in the humanities.
Individual grants take roughly 4 weeks to process, so we encourage you to apply early.
The form will ask for the amount contributed by the home department and any amounts solicited from or contributed by other campus units.
