• Co-Sponsored Programs Grant
  

  With this grant, the Humanities Center will help support humanities-related events and programs on campus. The Center will cover up to half of the total budget for the event or program. These funds can, for example, help to pay the costs of bringing a speaker to campus; partially cover the costs of a student publication; assist in covering the costs of a film discussion group or book club.

• Faculty-Student Enrichment Experiences Grant
  

  With this grant, the Center will help support Humanities faculty who wish to provide enrichment experiences for their students. The Humanities Center will provide grant money to support activities in which faculty and students are engaging together in humanities-related activities beyond the Otterbein campus.

• Humanities Travel Funds
  

  These funds help support faculty travel to humanities-related conferences. All part-time and full-time faculty members are eligible to apply.

• Humanities Faculty Project Grants
  

  These funds help support faculty research in the humanities. Though it is not the only way to use these funds, they have supported faculty travel to archives around the world, and other sorts of humanities projects which have required large cost.

• Summer Writing Awards
  

  The Humanities Center Summer Writing Awards recognize and reward faculty who are in the process of writing and disseminating scholarship.  The Center’s Summer Writing Awards recognize Otterbein faculty members who are committed to spending their summers engaged in the writing process.

• Award opportunities for a nominated student
  

  The James Martin Humanities Award: A professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Otterbein from 1991 to 2005, James Martin was a teacher and scholar deeply committed to the importance of the Humanities both in the classroom and on the campus at large.  In recognition of Dr. Martin’s commitment, the Humanities Center annually recognizes a student whose embrace of the interests and values of the Humanities honors Dr. Martin’s memory.

• Human Subjects Research Institutional Review Board (IRB) Guidelines
  See our Institutional Review Board (IRB) Guidelines for information of how to request approval for human-subjects research projects at Otterbein University.
• Expense Reimbursements
  Faculty who travel off campus may want to review our Travel & Entertainment Reimbursement Policies.

These grants support students undertaking undergraduate research projects in the fields/disciplines that belong to the Humanities at Otterbein. Applicants can seek funds for actual expenses (e.g., registration for conferences or symposia, travel to archives, purchase of books, costs associated with the production of posters or other media, etc.). Applicants can also seek funds to create the time to execute and produce their research artefact (i.e., to offset the wage-earning work they might otherwise have had to take on in lieu of working on their project).

These grants support students of junior or senior standing who are majoring in the fields/disciplines that belong to the Humanities at Otterbein and who are undertaking have earned unpaid internships. Applicants can seek funds for actual expenses related to the internship. Applicants can also seek funds to make it financially possible to do the internship (i.e., to offset the wage-earning work they might otherwise have had to take on in lieu of carrying out the internship).

• Speakers
  

  The committee hosts speakers who give lectures, visit classrooms, and meet with interested faculty.

• Partnerships
  

  The Humanities Center partners with other campus groups and committees to support programming related to the humanities. The Center partners with academic departments to help support humanities-related activities such as trips to humanities-related cultural events or off-campus lectures for faculty and students.

• Aegis Humanities Journal
  

  Aegis publishes scholarly student essays and book reviews that advance the presence and values of the humanities on campus and beyond.

The Definition of the Humanities by The National Endowment for the Humanities:

In the act that established the National Endowment for the Humanities, the term humanities includes, but is not limited to, study of the following disciplines: history; philosophy; languages; linguistics; literature; archeology; jurisprudence; the history, theory, and criticism of the arts; ethics; comparative religion; and those aspects of the social sciences that employ historical or philosophical approaches.

Work in the creative or performing arts – such as the writing of fiction or poetry, painting, sculpture, musical composition or performance, acting, directing, and dance – is not eligible for support by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Those interested in support in these areas should write or call the National Endowment for the Arts. Critical, historical, and theoretical studies of the arts, however, are eligible for NEH support.

Studies in the social sciences that are historical or philosophical in approach or that involve questions of interpretation or criticism traditionally in the humanities are also eligible for NEH support, as are studies that use the disciplines of the humanities to interpret, analyze, or assess science and technology.