The Center supports faculty publications and accepts applications for publication subventions throughout the year on a rolling basis.
Faculty may apply for funds to support production costs after a peer-reviewed publication with direct relevance to the humanities has been accepted for publication. Application available via InfoReady Review.
If you receive an award, please be prepared to send a digital photograph of your book jacket and a link to your publisher’s website where your book is advertised. We will use these materials on our website or in our annual report and to help with publicity.
Eligibility Guidelines
Faculty must apply for funds to support production costs before the publication has gone to press.
The Center is unable to reimburse expenses that have already been paid out.
You must apply well in advance of your book’s publication, so that the Center can be mentioned as a sponsor in your book’s acknowledgments.
Awards to excellent applications from full-time tenured and tenure-track BU faculty in the humanities will be given priority. We welcome applications with humanistic content from all full-time and tenure-track BU faculty as well as professors of the practice, lecturers, and administrators who hold a PhD.
Please note that single-author monographs are strongly preferred to edited volumes.
Allowable Expenses
Allowable expenses include indexing, subventions, permissions, and images.
Proofreading and copy editing are not allowable expenses.
Again, please apply to BUCH before making any payments for which you are requesting BUCH funding. We are unable to reimburse expenses for which you have already paid.
Application Components
We ask that all documents be submitted via the InfoReady Review portal. You can save your application and return to it at any point before submitting. There are no deadlines for this award. This application includes:
- Publication title
- Publication abstract, including timeframe for publication
- A budget for funds requested
- A letter from the press stating that your manuscript has been accepted for publication
- A letter of support from your department chair
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Application available via InfoReady Review.
