Internal Funding Programs

COVID-19 Policy Impact Fund for Faculty Research

Funding:  Up to $25,000 

Deadline:  Rolling

The COVID-19 Policy Impact Fund provides grants to tenure-track and tenured faculty for research-related expenses such as SU faculty course release, summer salary, or graduate student salary (but not tuition); costs associated with data collection and analysis; and costs associated with disseminating findings (e.g., open-access journal fees, conference travel expenses). Call for Proposals

Tenth Decade Fund for Faculty Research

Funding:  Up to $25,000 

Deadline:  Rolling

The Tenth Decade Fund provides grants to tenure-track and tenured faculty for research projects on themes identified in the strategic plan: (1) democracy, citizenship and governance in a changing world; (2) health, environment and a sustainable future; and (3) policy, governance, and law in emerging technologies. Requests can include but are not limited to: SU faculty course release, summer salary, or graduate student hourly salary (but not tuition); costs associated with data collection and analysis; and costs associated with disseminating findings (e.g., open-access journal fees, conference travel expenses). Call for Proposals

A&S/Maxwell Humanities Book Manuscript Workshop Program

Funding:  Up to $3,200 

Deadline:  December 

The College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, with support from the Syracuse University Humanities Center, invite proposals for Humanities Book Manuscript Workshop grants. This program enables pre-tenure assistant professors or tenured associate professors in the humanities division of the College of Arts & Sciences and Maxwell School who are close to completing a book-length manuscript to benefit from a virtual discussion of their project by three senior, external scholars in their field. Call for Proposals

Appleby-Mosher Fund for Faculty Research

Funding:  Up to $5,000 

Deadline:  December 

The Appleby-Mosher Fund provides grants to tenure-track and tenured faculty for research-related expenses such as project initiation (particularly acquisition of materials including data sets) and travel to perform research. Call for Proposals

KUPE Multidisciplinary Discovery Fund for Faculty Research

Funding:  Up to $10,000 

Deadline:  Spring

The KUPE Multidisciplinary Discovery Fund provides grants to tenure-track and tenured faculty collaborating with KUPE in the areas of democracy, citizenship, governance, population health, the environment and human thriving, policy and law of emerging technologies. Requests may include but are not limited to: SU faculty summer salary, graduate student hourly salary (but not tuition); costs associated with data collection and analysis; project specific equipment costs; research travel costs and costs associated with disseminating findings (e.g., open-access journal fees, conference travel expenses). Call for Proposals

Summer Project Assistantship Program

Funding: $2,000

Deadline: April 

Each spring, the Dean’s Office solicits applications from Maxwell faPostdoctoral Scholars Program

This program is under revision. A new RFP is expected in fall 2023. 

Opportunities for Open Access Publishing without Author Fees

Syracuse University Libraries has negotiated agreements with a growing list of publishers to cover the costs of open access publishing (often called APCs) for SU-affiliated scholars. To take advantage of these agreements and to make your work open access and without charge to you as an author, please see the Libraries' detailed list of transformative agreements.

Andrew Berlin Family National Security Research Fund

Funding: Up to $5,000

Deadline: Rolling

The Institute for Security Policy and Law (SPL)—a collaboration between Maxwell and the SU College of Law—awards grants through the Berlin Fund to faculty and student teams that promote research on salient topics in security studies, including national security, homeland security, and human security. Funds can be used to cover the costs of conducting and disseminating research. Applications consisting of a project description, a timeline for the activities covered, and a simple budget are accepted on a rolling basis. Contact Keli Perrin (kaperrin@law.syr.edu) with questions or to submit an application. 

Center for Policy Research Small Grants Program

Funding: Up to $3,000

Deadline:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs 

Funding: Varies by program

Deadline: Varies by program 

Funding opportunities for faculty include Conference Travel Grants, Global Education Faculty Fellowships, South Asia Curriculum Enhancement Grants, and Teaching Recognition Awards. 

PARCC Mini-Grant Research Program 

Funding: $500 to $3,000

Deadline: April

The mission of the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) is to advance research on conflict and collaboration, including theory, practice, and education. The PARCC Mini-Grant Program supports research activities in PARCC's areas of focus: International and Interstate Conflicts, Environmental Collaboration, Collaborative Governance, and Advocacy and Activism. The awards selection is based on potential contribution to scholarship, possibility of future funding, consistency with the goals of PARCC, and cost-effectiveness.  Funds are used for such activities as data acquisition, survey design, the hosting of research conferences at Maxwell, and research assistance. Faculty who are awarded a mini-grant then present their research at one of PARCC's weekly Conversations in Conflict Studies speaker series.

PARCC John Burdick Mini-Grant Award for Research on Social Movements and Social Change

Funding: $500 to $2,500

Deadline: April

Honoring the life and legacy of Professor John Burdick (1959-2020), this grant program supports faculty and graduate students conducting research projects on social movements and social change. This program will also consider projects that employ community-based research methods (e.g. ethnography, intensive fieldwork, action research) in partnership with social movement organizations. Researchers may use these awards for research activities such as but not limited to data acquisition, fieldwork, survey design, or research assistance. The selection committee will choose project proposals based on their consistency with program goals, potential contribution to scholarship and activism, possibility of future funding, and cost-effectiveness. 

Humanities Center Maxwell Faculty Fellowship

Funding: $2,500

Deadline: October 17, 2025 

The Humanities Center Maxwell Faculty Fellowship carries a one-semester, single course reduction to complete a research or creative project. Fellows must be in residence during the spring semester and contribute to Humanities Center programming that engages faculty and graduate students from across the Humanities. Maxwell full-time tenure-track or tenured faculty from the following units are eligible to apply: Anthropology, Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, PAIA, Sociology, and Social Sciences. Faculty who have held this fellowship in prior years may not reapply.   

The Lender Center for Social Justice’s Faculty Fellowship

Funding: $5,000 to cover work during the summer between year one and year two of the project, $5,000 to cover research expenses for each year of the project, and the possibility of additional funds up to $5,000 for the Lender Symposium at the culmination of their project.

Deadline: April 

The Lender Faculty Fellowship supports Syracuse University full-time faculty, either tenure or non-tenure track, as they complete a two-year research or engagement project. Working with a team of student fellows, the faculty fellow will work to critically and creatively explore contemporary issues and develop and implement innovative initiatives to address these problems. The faculty fellow will receive research support for both years of the project, a summer stipend, additional research and financial support to support the development and execution of their project, and opportunities to publicize the project’s results.