Publication Subvention Grants
Publication subventions provide support for certain production costs that publishers are generally unable to cover. Subventions are available to eligible faculty who have already secured a formal publication contract for a book or journal article.
Award funds are transferred from the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities to the appropriate department. It is up to awardees to work with their department to ensure that they are following the University’s policies regarding payments and reimbursements before any funds are expended.
Deadline
Ongoing until funds are depleted.
Eligibility
Regular faculty including tenure-track or tenured faculty at the assistant professor level or above, professional library staff members, and teaching track faculty with continuing appointments are eligible to apply.
- Priority will be given to tenure-track assistant professors
- Recipients are limited to one subvention grant per year
Award
The maximum award is $1,000.
Application Instructions
The materials described below must be collected into a single PDF file and submitted via email to hum.director@northwestern.edu.
1. A description of the book or article
Please provide a description of the book or article, not to exceed four double-spaced pages.
2. Proposed budget, itemized by categories of expense
Non-allowable expenses include:
- travel
- advertising and promotion
- dust jacket artwork
- indexing
- purchase of copies
3. A signed, current copy of the contract with the publisher. This contract should stipulate the subvention amount requested and details on how the funds will be used.
4. A curriculum vitae
5. Other research funding
List all current funding for the proposed project. Include source and amount, and if appropriate, grant number, project title, grant period, and direct costs for current and future years. If support is currently available to you from any other university or non-university source, explain why it may not be used for the costs of monograph production.
6. Previous support from the University Research Grant Committee (URGC).
Specify source, date, amount, and purpose of each instance of both faculty research grants and subvention awards.
Contact
For more information, please email hum.director@northwestern.edu.