Faculty Workshops on Grants & Humanities Proposal-Writing

ACLS Grants and Fellowship Programs Workshop 

The Commons, Room 329

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

ACLS supports scholars in the humanities and social sciences at all career stages through a range of fellowship and grant programs. In this session, ACLS program officer Rachel Bernard will share information about ACLS's programs and offer tips for strong applications. The workshop will also include a mock peer-review panel with ample opportunity for discussion.

Humanities Proposal-Writing Session 

Dresher Center Conference Room, PAHB 216 

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

UMBC faculty are invited to participate in a hands-on proposal-writing session with expert facilitator, Carole Sargent. Faculty will learn strategies for developing effective humanities grant and book proposals and workshop a draft proposal for their own research projects. Participants should prepare a 300-word draft project description to work on during the session.

Rachel Bernard is a Program Officer at ACLS in the Office of Fellowship and Public Programs. She completed her Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2012.

Carole Sargent is the founding Director of the Office of Scholarly Publications at Georgetown University and of Academic Authors, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting faculty in scholarly publishing and grant submission. She has broad experience creating workshops in consultation with national funding organizations. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and has published widely in 18th-century literary history.