Grant Opportunities

VU Center for the Americas Faculty Funding Opportunities
Vanderbilt’s Center for the Americas is offering seed-funding opportunities for faculty in the humanities and social sciences who specialize in the Americas. The funding is available to Vanderbilt faculty for individual research projects or research collaborations. Faculty may apply for the awards in the following ways:

• Propose a CFA campus research incubator. Funding: $1,000 for meeting expenses;
• Propose a CFA U.S. or international research incubator. Funding: $10,000 for travel and related expenses;
• Apply for a CFA work group. Funding: up to $150,000;
• Propose a topic for a CFA faculty seminar. Funding: up to $56,000, depending on the size of the seminar. Deadline is April 16;
• Propose a topic for a CFA publication colloquium. Funding: up to $50,000. Deadlines are April 30, Sept. 3 and Nov. 30.

The Vanderbilt International Office (VIO) Grants Program

The Vanderbilt International Office (VIO) Grants Program has two objectives:

1)  to enhance the research and teaching programs at Vanderbilt by providing seed funding to establish selective international research collaborations and exchanges;

2)  to promote the academic reputation of Vanderbilt outside the U.S. and to enhance recruitment of international faculty and students.

All full-time faculty, staff, and graduate/professional students are eligible to participate in exchanges, but the Vanderbilt project director and submitter of the proposal must be a tenured or tenure-track faculty member (or the equivalent at Blair School of Music). 

To learn more about the Vanderbilt International Office, click here.