Funding Resources | University of Chicago Global

We offer seed funding for collaborative international research and academic activities in key regions.

UChicago Global Funding

Provost's Global Faculty Awards

The Provost's Global Faculty Awards support international faculty activities with a collaborative element in key regions where the University of Chicago has strong engagement, currently including mainland China, Hong Kong and East Asia, South Asia, Europe, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Aerial View of the Yuen Campus in Hong Kong

UChicago-CNRS Collaboration Funds

This call is open to all disciplines and academic research areas and will support joint research teams between UChicago and CNRS-affiliated labs by pairing PIs at both institutions with PhD students, funding PhD fellowships, and supporting mobility expenses.

More Internal Funding Opportunities

Unit	Description
Unit Center for East Asian Studies	Description Supports CEAS faculty research, UChicago student grants and fellowships, library travel grants for scholars and advanced graduate students from outside institutions with no or few resources in EA languages, subventions for publishers of Japanese works in translation, as well as funding or co-sponsorship of proposals for programming, all of which are related to East Asian studies.
Unit Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies	Description Compiles notices of fellowships and funding opportunities related to the region.
Unit Center for International Social Science Research	Description Supports internationally-focused faculty and graduate research projects in the social sciences at any stage of development through faculty book workshops and monograph enhancement awards, faculty research fellowships, dissertation completion grants, and field research awards.
Unit Center for Latin American Studies	Description CLAS awards research and travel fellowships for graduate students, as well as teaching assistantships in selected Latin American content courses.
Unit Committee on Southern Asian Studies	Description Supports fellowships, travel grants, small research grants, and special projects for UChicago graduate students.
Unit Development Economics Center	Description Funds exploratory travel, pilot programs, and research in low and middle-income countries for PhD students and faculty.
Unit France and Chicago Collaborating in the Sciences (FACCTS)	Description Provides seed funding for new and potentially fruitful project-based collaborations with French research institutions for faculty in PSD, BSD, and PME. Through a partnership with Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab, researchers at these two national laboratories are also eligible for FACCTS support.
Unit France Chicago Center	Description Supports faculty intellectual and research initiatives related to or collaborating with France, as well as fellowships for UChicago students studying in France.
Unit Institute on the Formation of Knowledge	Description Offers two-year research grants and one-year seed grants for faculty in any division or school.
Unit International House	Description Offers graduate fellowships for engagement in the International House community, Global Impact Internships for graduate students, and Davis Projects for Peace funding for undergraduate students.
Unit International Institute of Research in Paris	Description Provides up to $50,000 for three-year projects, up to $30,000 for two-year projects, and up to USD $10,000 for single-year projects with a strong collaborative element in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Individual research grants of up to $5,000 are also available.
Unit Kiphart Center for Global Health and Social Development	Description Offers rolling project development grants up to $10,000 and annual project implementation grants up to $50,000 to support the development and implementation of specific interventions and responses to global health and social development challenges around the world.
Unit Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society	Description Supports research on complex questions that require collaboration, inspire an interdisciplinary approach, and are informed by a humanistic perspective.
Unit Nicholson Center for British Studies	Description Offers grants for graduate and undergraduate students pursuing topics in the British Studies.
Unit Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflict	Description Supports innovative, data-driven research that seeks to understand and reduce global conflict and demonstrates public policy impact.

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