Funding for the 2024 - 2025 Academic Year
The Global Studies Center offers numerous types of faculty support to our Center Affiliates. If you are not a current faculty affiliate, you may apply for affiliated status if your research and teaching have at least 25 percent global or transnational content.
TO APPLY: Please complete the online UCIS faculty survey and send your current CV to Veronica Dristas. The survey must be submitted, and a letter of acceptance received, prior to your submission of any application for GSC funding. (Current GSC-affiliated faculty, please note that your UCIS faculty survey must be up-to-date to be eligible for funding.)
Call for Applications: Global Across the Curriculum, Spring 2025
2025 - 2026 Global Studies Faculty Fellowship
Each year, the Global Studies Center selects an outstanding University of Pittsburgh faculty member whose scholarship supports the Center’s mission. This award is designed to advance and showcase faculty research whose research aligns with the GSC's research initiatives in Global Health, Migrations, Contested Cities, and Critical World Ecologies. Further details can be found here.
The GSC Faculty Fellow will deliver one public lecture in the course of the award year (August 2025 through June 2026). In addition, the Fellow will participate in several (3-4) major Center events pertaining to her or his research throughout the year (to be arranged in consultation with the Director).
ELIGIBILITY: The Faculty Fellow competition is open to full-time tenure- and appointment-stream faculty affiliates. As the Fellowship is intended in part to enhance the visibility or impact of ongoing research and to facilitate outreach, applicants must be in residence in Pittsburgh and not on leave during the award year. Preference will be given to applicants who demonstrate that they have already made significant progress in planning or executing a project that promises to have a significant impact in their field.
AMOUNT OF FUNDING: The fellowship includes up to $15,000 to organize a scholarly event (e.g., workshop, conference, exhibition, performance, seminar, research collaboration); and an additional $5,000 for travel, research, and curricular development. Faculty from all disciplines are encouraged to apply (our fellows have come from Art History, Sociology, Policy and Gender Studies, History, Classics, Urban Studies, English, and Africana Studies).
TO APPLY: Please review the grant guidelines, complete the Faculty Fellow application form, and submit your proposal here. Please email Veronica Dristas at dristas@pitt.edu upon submission.
DEADLINE: January 9, 2025.
2025 - 2026 Global Academic Partnership (GAP)
The Global Academic Partnership (GAP) aims to strengthen interdisciplinary research and curriculum development on global themes, enhance international scholarly ties, and raising the international profile at the University of Pittsburgh. GAP awards support interdisciplinary research collaborations, curriculum development, student exchanges, and other scholarly endeavors that include the creation or development of meaningful and sustainable institutional partnerships with international universities, foreign governments, international organizations, NGO's, and think tanks. Preference is given to projects that align with the Center’s research initiatives in Global Health, Migrations, Contested Cities, and Critical World Ecologies.
ELIGIBILITY: The GAP competition is open to full-time tenure- and appointment-stream faculty affiliates in the Provost’s area.
AMOUNT OF FUNDING: One grant in the amount of $40,000 will be awarded annually to support ongoing campus programming in a variety of innovative formats that enriches the intellectual environment at Pitt over the course of two years, with $10,000 allocated in the first year and $30,000 in the second.
TO APPLY: Review the grant guidelines, complete the GSC GAP application form, and submit your application online here. Please email Veronica Dristas at dristas@pitt.edu upon submission.
DEADLINE: March 1, 2025
Research Grants
GSC Interdisciplinary Cluster Grants
PURPOSE: To facilitate interdisciplinary faculty groups ("clusters") in exploring and developing new collaborations that will become self sustaining through internal or external support. These "starter" grants are easy to apply for and are intended to encourage global and transnational research -- conferences, workshops, edited volumes, journals, websites or other digital resources, NEH summer seminars, or other projects -- that aligns with the Center's mission and its current research initiatives.
ELIGIBILITY: Clusters of faculty and graduate students representing at least three distinct disciplines may apply. The PI must be a full-time or part-time tenure- or appointment-stream faculty member. The PI must also be a Center affiliate, but not all group members need to be affiliated at the time of application.
AMOUNT OF FUNDING: Up to $3,000 per cluster, with the possibility of a renewal for a second year. Grants include basic administrative and logistical support (such as setting up meetings, reserving rooms, booking travel, paying honoraria, etc.).
DEADLINE: Rolling, while funds last.
TO APPLY: Review the grant guidelines, complete the Interdisciplinary Cluster Grant application form, and submit your application online here. Please email Veronica Dristas at dristas@pitt.edu upon submission.
GSC Individual Faculty Research Grants
PURPOSE: To support faculty working on research projects that align with the Center's mission and its current research initiatives.
ELIGIBILITY: Full-time and part-time tenure- and appointment-stream faculty affiliates may apply.
AMOUNT OF FUNDING: A maximum of $1,000 per grant.
TO APPLY: Review the grant guidelines, complete the GSC Faculty Grant Application Form, and submit your application materials online here. Please email Veronica Dristas at dristas@pitt.edu upon submission.
DEADLINE: Rolling, while funds last.
GSC Engaged Learning Grants
PURPOSE: GSC will award global learning grants to faculty members to support innovative projects for engaged student learning. Projects should involve students in innovative learning experiences outside the classroom (whether as part of a course or through independent programs, internships, etc.)
ELIGIBILITY: Full-time and part-time tenure- and appointment-stream faculty affiliates may apply.
AMOUNT OF FUNDING: A maximum of $1,500 per grant.
TO APPLY: Review the grant guidelines, complete the GSC Faculty Grant Application Form, and submit your application materials online here. Please email Veronica Dristas at dristas@pitt.edu upon submission.
DEADLINE: Rolling, while funds last.
Travel Grants
GSC Domestic and International Travel Grants
PURPOSE: To provide funding for faculty to attend conferences or professional meetings within the United States for the purpose of increasing expertise that supports the mission of the Global Studies Center, or to develop courses or programs that support global thinking and learning.
ELIGIBILITY: Full-time and part-time tenure- and appointment-stream faculty affiliates may apply.
AMOUNT OF FUNDING: A maximum of $500 per domestic grant/ $1000 per international grant.
TO APPLY: Review the grant guidelines, complete the GSC Faculty Grant Application Form, and submit your application materials here. Please email Veronica Dristas at dristas@pitt.edu upon submission.
DEADLINE: Rolling, while funds last.
External Funding
CERIS Curriculum Development Grants
The CERIS grant program is designed to enable faculty to pursue curricular development and enhancement projects related to Islamic Studies. Applications are accepted year-round, and awards are made twice yearly (fall and spring). Learn more >
Other external funding:
- American Councils for International Education
- The Fulbright Scholar Program
- The International Research and Exchange Board
- Social Science Research Council
- Institute of Current World Affairs
- Institute for New Economic Thinking Research Grants
- The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Grants.gov