Subvention Grants

Subvention Grants can provide partial support toward expenses incurred in the publication of single-authored scholarly books and monographs, the recording of musical performances, and the installation of art exhibits. Other activities associated with the visual and performing arts may be eligible for subvention. 

Eligibility

All HFA tenured and tenure-track faculty members may apply. Priority will be given to proposals from junior faculty members who are approaching their tenure decision year. HFA Subvention Grants are not available to non-tenure track faculty.  However, NTT faculty may apply to the HFA Research Grant for subvention funding.

Faculty members who apply for HFA subvention must first submit a proposal to the University’s subvention program (deadline: January 30, 2024 at 1:00pm).

The College of Humanities and Fine Arts follows university practice and will not fund expenses for translation and routine author activities such as indexing, proofreading, copy editing, purchasing copies, etc.

Application Process

For instructions to apply for the HFA Subvention Grant, please see the Quick Reference Guide to HFA Faculty Awards and Grants.  

The HFA application consists of the following: 

  1.  A description of the work for which you request funding, its role in your larger research agenda or creative plan, and why subvention is needed. (maximum of 750 characters)
  2. A PDF with external materials that document your arrangements with the entity to which subvention would be paid.  For example, a contract, letters requiring a subvention payment, an invitation to exhibit, etc.
  3. Upload a detailed budget that includes all subvention expenses. 
    • Present your budget as a spreadsheet, chart, table, or list. Include all sources of support or in-kind contributions (e.g. from your department or the exhibit host, use of MSP funds, outside support, etc.) and all expense categories (on what items or how the funds would be spent, e.g. copyright permission, image rights, publisher subvention, CD production and distribution, artwork shipping and crating, etc.) and the amounts associated with each.
    • For each expense category, provide the actual cost of the item or enter an estimate of  the cost.

Criteria for Evaluation

Proposals will be evaluated according to the following ranked criteria and will be awarded on a competitive basis:

  • the importance of the material to the applicant’s professional development and research agenda/creative plan;
  • the likelihood that the scholarly or creative work will be disseminated or occur during calendar year 2023.

Priority will be given to proposals from junior faculty members who are approaching their tenure decision year.

For more information

For instructions to apply for the HFA Subvention Grant, please see the Quick Reference Guide to HFA Faculty Awards and Grants.  

Contact afleig [at] umass [dot] edu (Amy Fleig).