The Public Engagement Programs is on hiatus. Please check back in summer 2025 for more information.

As a nominating body for the Whiting Foundation's Public Engagement Programs in the humanities, the ICMA calls for proposals in public-facing scholarship to submit for the 2024–25 competition cycle (for funding in 2025–26). The foundation describes these funding opportunities as "designed to celebrate and empower humanities faculty who embrace public engagement" at an early-career stage, "to infuse the depth, historical richness, and nuance of the humanities into public life."

We may nominate one or two proposals by full-time faculty at accredited US institutions of higher learning. To be eligible for the grants, faculty must be tenure-track, tenured in the last five years, or full-time adjunct at a comparable early-career status. The Foundation welcomes proposals including collaborations between faculty and graduate students. Nominees may apply to either of the Whiting's funding programs, depending on the stage of development of their project: 

• A Fellowship of $50,000 for projects far enough into development or execution to present specific, compelling evidence that they will successfully engage the intended public.

• A Seed Grant of up to $10,000 for projects at a somewhat earlier stage of development, where more modest resources are needed to test or pilot a project or to collaborate with partners to finalize the planning for a larger project and begin work.

Detailed guidelines and recommendations for the full proposals required by the Foundation are available online HERE, including the link to the application portal for nominees (see esp. Appendix 2 for proposal components).

The full application for nominees is due DATE TBD.

For consideration as an ICMA nominee, please submit a CV, a 2-page summary proposal of your project, and a working budget, to Ryan Frisinger by DATE TBD. Applicants will be notified by May 1. Comments will include recommendations for preparing the full grant proposal. Click here to submit.

Please contact awards@medievalart.org with any questions.