Faculty Grant Writing Workshop featuring Elizabeth Otto
LOCATION CHANGE: 1032 Clemens Hall (originally 218 Clemens)
DRAFTS DUE DATE: Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, 12 p.m. (submitted via registration form or via email to huminst@buffalo.edu)
On Thursday, August 21, the Humanities Institute will host our annual faculty grant writing workshop in support of applications to external humanities based grants and fellowships. HI's Grant Writing Workshop is specifically designed to help faculty improve grant and fellowship applications to organizations outside of UB by exchanging drafts and ideas with other grant seekers, in addition to learning grant writing strategies from our guest presenter, Elizabeth Otto.
Workshop participants are welcome to circulate draft proposals at any stage, from preliminary sketches to finalized applications. Drafts should be submitted a few days before the event so workshop participants can take time to read and prepare peer advice. After the presentations and a brief Q&A session, lunch will be served. Subsequently, we will move on to the workshop portion of the event.**Faculty are welcome to attend only the presentation portion of the event with Elizabeth Otto.**
TIMELINE(S)
The Humanities Institute schedules the workshop at the outset of the semester so that participants will have time afterward to integrate workshop feedback prior to the September and early Fall deadlines for a number of prestigious humanities based grants and fellowships, such as Harvard's Radcliffe Fellowship applications (due Sept 11), Princeton's Hodder Fellowship (Sept 9), the ACLS Fellowship (Sept 25), the AAUW American Fellowship (Sept 30) and among many others. An excellent source list of fellowships and awards can be found at: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-staff-resources/research-information/find-funding-opportunities.html
**PLEASE NOTE: Faculty should coordinate with UB’s Sponsored Projects Services at least 2 weeks before submitting applications. Your proposal does NOT need to be finished at that time. However, your administrative file via the Click portal must be set up in advance of your application submission. Contact your SPS representative via this link: https://www.buffalo.edu/research/about-us/staff-directory/contact-grant-expert.html to begin the process as many more humanities grants are now part of the Click submission process.
**Please RSVP by August 15 at https://airtable.com/appGOqyHsKf291HBn/shriRz6K0NZscZidr
**August 18, 2025: Proposal drafts will be collected so they can be circulated to workshop participants for feedback in advance of the August 21 workshop.
If you have any questions, please contact Christina Milletti at milletti@buffalo.edu.
Our "guest" presenter this year will be HI Director (on leave for 2025-26) Elizabeth (Libby) Otto who will discuss basic tips on applying to grants and fellowships, as well as her recent successes earning a Radcliffe Fellowship, a Senior Fellowship from the Daedalus Foundation, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. While formally on fellowship leave, Libby has graciously agreed to present at this year's workshop.
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Elizabeth Otto
DirectorProfessor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Visual StudiesElizabeth Otto (Libby) is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Visual Studies and previously served as Executive Director of UB’s Humanities Institute (HI). At HI, she has focused particularly on supporting faculty and graduate research and publications, and she has sought to expand HI’s audience through public-humanities collaborations, particularly the annual Buffalo Humanities Festival, which she cofounded in 2014.
Libby’s research focuses on early twentieth-century visual and media culture. She is the author of numerous scholarly essays and the co-author of Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective (Bloomsbury, 2019) and of the exhibition catalogue Bauhausmädels/Bauhaus Gals (Erfurt, 2019). She has co-edited four books: Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism’s Legendary Art School (Bloomsbury, 2019), Art and Resistance in Germany (Bloomsbury, 2019), Passages of Exile (Edition Text + Kritik, 2017), and The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s (University of Michigan Press, 2011). In 2005, she authored Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt (Jovis Verlag, 2006) and curated the exhibition of the same name for the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the International Center of Photography in New York.
