Cristanne Miller

Cris Miller is this year’s Featured Speaker at HI’s External Grant Writing Workshop
Photograph: Douglas Levere

In order to support and promote a culture of grant writing in the humanities, in 2013 HI began holding an annual External Grant Writing Workshop that takes place each September. The Workshop consists of a featured speaker who talks about best practices and common pitfalls and fields questions from a highly engaged audience. Past speakers have been Tamara Thornton and Hal Langfur, both of the History Department. Attendees are humanities and arts faculty members who range from our newest faculty to some of our most seasoned. The latter portion of the event consists of discussion of draft grant applications that have been pre-circulated within small groups for peer critique. The response to this opportunity for this combination of general guidance and specific feedback has been extremely positive, and several participants have subsequently been awarded major fellowships from such institutions as the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This year’s Workshop will take place during the first week of classes, on Friday, September 2^nd from 12pm to 3pm and will feature a discussion by Cris Miller, Professor and Chair of English, who has extensive experience garnering grants and evaluating those of others.

Lunch will be served (please RSVP)

Schedule:

12:00: Presentation and Q&A on applying for external grants and fellowships with Cris Miller (English)

1:00: Catered Lunch (for those who RSVP)

1:20-2:30: Small-Group Peer Discussion of Pre-Circulated Draft Applications
(Participants in this portion of the event must submit their materials by the RSVP date, Monday, August 29th)

2:30-3:00: Wrap Up Discussion

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Questions may be directed to HI Executive Director Libby Otto (eotto@buffalo.edu)

Please RSVP to Maki Tanigaki (huminst@buffalo.edu) by Monday, August 29th and indicate if you would like lunch.

Send your draft application essay to Maki by that same date (Aug. 29th) for pre-circulation if you are participating in that part of the workshop.