Research

A keystone HI program, the Humanities Institute supports faculty research excellence through the Faculty Fellowship program. HI offers fellowships for University at Buffalo tenured and tenure-stream faculty engaged in humanistic research. These year-long residential fellowships provide the Fellow with one semester of course release, allowing the Fellow to focus primarily on a major research project and to participate actively in HI programs.

The Humanities Institute’s Research Workshops bring together UB faculty and graduate students from diverse disciplines to present research and to explore topics of common intellectual concern. HI provides funding for the workshops to sponsor guest lectures, works-in-progress seminars, and conferences. 

UB’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPRED), in partnership with the Humanities Institute, provides funding to support the research activities of tenure-eligible and tenured faculty working in the arts and humanities. The funds can be used for a variety of project-related expenses with the awards ranging from $5,000 up to $10,000. 

The UB Humanities Institute with the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPRED), provides publication support funding to tenure-eligible and tenured faculty publishing humanities-based work. This program was developed as a resource to assist our faculty in advancing their work through all stages of the publishing process, covering a broad variety of publication expenses, when other department- and college-based resources are unavailable.

Each year the Humanities Institute supports graduate research and public humanities projects through fellowships and grants. The fellows and grantees form a cohort of students pursuing advanced degrees that are brought together for interdisciplinary seminar sessions over the course of the year.

The University at Buffalo Humanities Institute supports faculty publications through each of the research programs offered. In 2018, HI working with SUNY Press launched the Humanities to the Rescue book series - our own publications drawn from our public events programming.