Faculty Grants

The Benson Center funds research and educational initiatives that contribute to critical reflection on the development of Western civilization. Although funding is open to any faculty at CU 麻豆影院, special consideration is given to faculty fellows, and those who have a demonstrated interest in the study of Western Civ through participation at Center events. Faculty interested in applying for grants should consider applying as faculty fellows, which is a year-long appointment to participate in Center programming and includes a $4,000 stipend

Faculty grants are awarded three times throughout the academic year. The deadlines to apply are September 1, December 1, and March 1. Faculty with off-cycle requests should email BensonCenter@colorado.edu. Recipients of funding are asked to acknowledge the Center in event advertising and submit a brief online report no later than 1 month after the conclusion of the activity. The reports help the Center attract donor funding for future faculty grants. 

Faculty Grant Application

We are particularly interested in funding initiatives of the following kinds:

  • Scholarly Lecturers
  • Public Lectures
  • Conferences
  • Educational Initiatives
  • Outreach visits to local schools, retirement communities, etc.
  • Funding for students you鈥檙e working with
  • Research funds or course buyouts

Other sorts of initiatives may also be eligible, but we do not fund faculty travel to other places. 

Applications should consist of the following materials:

  1. The mandatory application form (available here);
  2. A narrative explaining the proposal;
  3. A concise budget;
  4. Information (a short CV, for instance) about visiting speakers (if any), including preliminary visit dates

All of this information should be submitted via email to BensonCenter@colorado.edu.  We prefer, if possible, that you submit all of the elements of the application as a single .pdf document, with the pages ordered according to the above list. 

There are three rounds of grants each year, with the following deadlines:

  • September 1 
  • December 1
  • March 1

 If there is an urgent need for a funding decision prior to a deadline, please request off-cycle consideration in the application.

Would-be applicants should feel free to consult with the Center director in advance about the feasibility of their proposal. 

Faculty grants require a brief report upon the conclusion of the activity. Reports should also include any marketing and hopefully a good photo or two from the event. Please click here to  

 

During the 2023鈥24 academic year, the Benson Center has awarded 5 faculty grants totaling $8,173.

2023-24 GranteeHome DepartmentAmount AwardedIn Support ofDate of event
Peter HuntClassics$973Dr. Hunt's research as an Athenian social historianOctober 16, 2023
Brian CatlosReligious Studies$1,000Support for the CU Mediterranean Studies GroupOngoing support
Zachary HerzClassics$4,000Book workshop for manuscript of "The God and the Bureaucrat: A Story of Roman Law."Ongoing support
Carole NewlandsClassics$1,000Lecture by Prof. V. Panoussi on the CU 麻豆影院 campus

March 3, 2024

Jackie ElliottClassics$1,200Prof. H. Gardner lecture: "Art will get us through it: plague and poetry from Vergil's bees to Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven."January 19, 2024
2022-23 GranteeHome DepartmentAmount AwardedIn Support ofDate of event
Michaele FergusonPolitical Science$1,378.58Prof. Frost lecture on the CU 麻豆影院 campusOctober 14, 2022
Brian CatlosReligious Studies$5,000Support for the "Mediterranean Origins of the West"October 21 & 22, 2022
David BooninPhilosophy$1,500Colorado Ethics BowlJanuary 28, 2023
Celine DauverdHistory$2,000Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS) conference

May 19 - 21, 2023

Mitzi LeePhilosophy$868Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference

April 16-18, 2023

2021-22 GranteeHome DepartmentAmount AwardedIn Support ofDate of event
Benjamin HalePhilosophy and Environmental Studies$2,750Rocky Mountain Ethics CongressAugust 12-15, 2021
Brian CatlosReligious Studies$5,000Support for the CU Mediterranean Studies GroupOngoing support
David BooninPhilosophy$750Colorado Ethics BowlFebruary 15, 2022
Philosophy DepartmentPhilosophy$1,000Editorial assistance by Dawn Jacob to help complete the last volume of Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy

March 8, 2022

2020-21 GranteeHome DepartmentAmount AwardedIn Support ofDate of event
Benjamin HalePhilosophy and Environmental Studies$2,750Rocky Mountain Ethics CongressAugust 12-15, 2021
David BooninPhilosophy$791.84Colorado Ethics Bowl 
2019-20 GranteeHome DepartmentAmount AwardedIn Support ofDate of event
Carole NewlandsClassics$697Support for Michael Roberts' lecture and related eventsOctober 15-18, 2019
Jackie ElliottClassics$760Support for David Levene's campus lecture and related eventsSeptember 16, 2019
Janice HoEnglish$1,500Support for Prof. Walter Cohen's campus lecture and related eventsApril 20, 2020
Jillian PorterGermanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures$573Support for Dr. Deborah Martinsen's campus lecture and related eventsNovember 1, 2019
Kathryn GoldfarbAnthropology$1,500Support for a spring 2020 pedagogy workshop at CU 麻豆影院March 1-April 1, 2020
Lauren StoneGermanic & Slavic Languages & Cultures$500Support for Critical Theory Speaker EventOctober 9-12, 2020
Lauri Reitzammer Classics$750Support for Prof. Jessica Lamont's campus lecture and related eventsApril 9, 2020
Nabil EchchaibiMedia Studies$2,000Support for Dr. Ann Laura Stoler's campus lectureJanuary 8-11, 2020
Peter HuntClassics$550Support for Prof. Jessica Lamont's campus lecture and related eventsDecember 11-14, 2019
Ramesh MallipeddiEnglish$1,000

Support for George Bouluokos' campus lecture and related events

November 12, 2019
Robert RupertPhilosophy$1,000Support for Jennifer Matey's extended visit while she is on sabbaticalNovember 19-31, 2019
Ross TaylorJournalism and College of Media, Communication and Information$1,090Support film festival entries for "The Hardest Day" canine euthanasia documentaryN/A
Sarah JamesClassics$750Support for Dr. Sarah Levin-Richardson's campus lecture and related eventsJanuary 31- February 1, 2020
Fernando LoffredoArt History$750Support for Prof. Enrico Parlato's lecture: 鈥淰enice between East and West: Shaping Pietro Aretino's Controversial Persona鈥December 5-10, 2019
Michaele FergusonPolitical Science$1,025

 Support for Sarah Rushing's lecture: Bodies and Politics: How Vulnerability Informs Citizen Subjectivity"

November 13-15, 2019
Center for Medieval and Early Modern StudiesCenter for Medieval and Early Modern Studies$4,500Annual EventsOngoing Support
Zachary HerzClassics$700Support for Carlos Nore帽a public lecture on statecraft in classical Rome and Han ChinaFebruary 16-18, 2020
Arne HoeckerGermanic & Slavic$3,000Symposium on "the return of the real" in contemporary European fictionMay 14-17, 2020
Scott PowellAquinas Institute for Catholic Thought$2,000Annual Aquinas Institute for Catholic Thought 鈥淕reat Debate鈥, this year asking the question, 鈥淲hat is 鈥楶ersonhood鈥 in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?鈥January 31, 2020
Penelope KelseyEnglish$2,243Bringing Native American filmmaker Terry Jones to CU to screen his filmFebruary-March 2020
Robert RupertPhilosophy$400Support campus visit by Eric SchwitzgebelMarch 12-14, 2020
Carole NewlandsClassics$700Support lecture by Celia Schultz ""Fulvia and the Perugian War"March 4-6, 2020
Celine DauverdHistory$1,686Support to bring Professor Alejandra Osorio on campus for lectureJanuary 14-15, 2020
Fernando LoffredoArt History$975

Support for author and Professor Katharina Piechoki and related events

March 16, 2020
Graham OddiePhilosophy$1,000

A two-day workshop/ conference on the value of reason, both theoretical reason and practical reason

March 14-15, 2020
Suzanne MagnaniniFrench and Italian$1,526

Support for Professor Guido Ruggiero from the University of Chicago to present and meet with students

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2018-19 GranteeHome DepartmentAmount AwardedIn Support ofDate of event
N煤ria Silleras-Fern谩ndezSpanish and Portuguese$1,000Support for Prof Sol Miguel-Prendes' lecture and related eventsOctober 17, 2018
Atreyee BhattacharyaEnvironmental Studies$1,000Support for GEA SymposiumN/A
Jerry K. JackaAnthropology$1,500Support for Dr. Sarah Vaughn's campus lecture and related eventsSeptember 28, 2018
David ShneerReligious Studies$800Support for Dr. Kecia Ali's campus lecture and related eventsSeptember 13, 2018
Jackie ElliottClassics$1,000Support for campus visit of John MarincolaSpring 2019
Sue ZemkaEnglish$1,000Support for the visit of Colin DayanOctober 12, 2018
Hope Clark SaskaCU Art Museum$1,000Support for William Fox's campus lecture and related eventsFebruary 8, 2019
N/AMediterranean Studies $5,000Support for annual department EventN/A
David ShneerReligious Studies$3,000Archive Transformed Collaborative Residency (AT)May 1, 2019
Mark LeidermanGermanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures$900

Support for Stanislav Lvovsky lecture on contemporary Russian poetry

February 17-20, 2019
Scott PowellAquinas Institute$1,000Annual Great Debate EventFebruary 8, 2019
Carole NewlandsN/A$750Support for visit of Emily GowersFebruary 25, 2019
Cheryl HigashidaEnglish$3,000Support for lecture: "Development and Underdevelopment in the Global South: Histories, Forms, Alternatives."April 5, 2019
Lauren StoneGermanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures$400Support for Critical Theory EventFebruary 20-22, 2019
Isabel KosterClassics$700

 Support for Andrew Riggsby lecture "The Gender of Roman Banking"

April 1, 2019
Tamara MeneghiniTheatre & Dance$2,500Support for Galt MacDermot Celebration, "Let the Sunshine In" April 19-20, 2019
Celine DauverdHistory$1,500Support for Pierre Savy's Visit April 29, 2019
David BooninPhilosophy $9502019-20 Ethics BowlN/A
Taylor JaworskiEconomics$1,000VSCTP EventN/A
Mi-Kyoung LeePhilosophy$400Support for a Visit from Rachel BarneyN/A

Archive of Benson Center faculty grants