2025-2026
Grant Writing Workshop Series
September 24 ‒ November 3, 2025 (6-7:30PM)
Keene-Flint 0013
In the 2025 Fall semester, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere offered a Grant Writing Workshop Series to UF PhD students in the humanities and humanistic sciences. Based on Raphael B. Folsom’s book How to Get Grant Money in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Grant Writing Workshop Series provided graduate students the basics of the grant-writing process, including finding a mentor, conceptualizing the project, and tailoring an application for a specific submission.
Students explored different grant funding bodies, detailed instruction on preparing a proposal (including all sections i.e., budget preparation, facilities, environment, approach, biosketches), and the application and review process. In addition to developing a competitive grant proposal, workshop applicants received a timeline and guidance for requesting recommendation letters. At the end of the program, the students’ proposal was reviewed by an internal panel evaluation.
Cosponsored by the UF Office of Research
Humanities Happy Hour
October 27, 2025 (6:00-7:00PM)
Grand Scheme Brewing
The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (CHPS) held a Graduate Student Reading Group to read with author Lance Richardson to discuss his new book True Nature: The Pilgramage of Peter Matthiessen.
Cosponsored by the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities
Career Diversity Panel
February 19 (3:30-4:30PM)
Keene-Flint 0011 and Zoom
Come network and explore non-diverse career paths! Together with The Humanities Research Center at Rice University, CHPS is hosting four panelists to discuss leveraging your skills as a humanities graduate student to pave diverse careers beyond academic.
The panelists are:
- Bren Ram – Communications at Island Conservation
- Edward Valentin – Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
- Aaron Fai – Associate Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media
- Simran Bhalla – Curatorial Assistant at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Join us at Keene-Flint 0011 or via Zoom. Register for this event.