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Grants

Course Development Grants

The Carolina Asia Center awards course development grants to selected faculty who are interested in adding Asia-related content to existing courses or developing new courses with Asia-related content. Any UNC-Chapel Hill faculty who teaches at least two courses is eligible to apply.

 

 

Conference Travel Grants

The Carolina Asia Center awards conference travel grants to selected UNC faculty. Up to $1,000 is provided to successful applicants to present a paper on an Asia-related research topic at a conference. The grant can be used to supplement conference/research travel grants from the College or School where the faculty member has her/his appointment. Faculty in all schools and departments across campus are eligible to apply. This grant is supported with the Title VI grant from the Department of Education.

 

 

Southeast Asia Grants from the project “Bringing Southeast Asia Home”

the Henry Luce Foundation Initiative on Southeast Asia. This project provides a number of funding opportunities for faculty (both from UNC-Chapel Hill and beyond).

 

 

 

Modern Indian Studies Faculty Research Award

The MIS Faculty Research Award is intended to further research on contemporary India, broadly conceived. The award is open to tenure track and fixed term faculty of any rank that have completed at least one year at UNC. Applicants may request up to $3,000 per award. MIS encourages applications on diverse topics and fields (from science to business to the social sciences, education, health and the humanities) and especially invites creative ideas and research projects. The funds can be used to support research travel and living expenses, to access images and rare library manuscripts, to support applied research, to conduct community engaged work, or to support publication subvention.

 

An audience listens to a speaker at the Jaipur Literature Festival in September 2024Support for Co-Curricular Events about Asia

UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members who want to propose co-curricular programs related to East, South and Southeast Asia can get support from the Carolina Asia Center.