As part of the Pitt Momentum Funds, the Arts & Humanities Microgrants support existing projects, works-in-progress, or test the feasibility of a larger grant idea for faculty in the Arts and Humanities. In these cases, a smaller grant with an expedited review time can be transformative. Funds support a wide range of individual and team projects, including conferences, symposia, workshops, and more. Awards are made for $3,000 for one year.
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Note:
- Expression of Intent is not required for Arts & Humanities Microgrants.
- Awards are made twice per year (Fall and Spring). The period of performance is one year from the date of award.
Eligibility
- Awardees from the immediate previous funding cycle may not apply to the same award-type they were awarded funds for (e.g., Microgrant Awardees from FY24 cannot apply for a Microgrant Award in FY25).
- Applicants must be full-time faculty members at the University of Pittsburgh. Eligible appointment stream faculty must have research as their core responsibility.
- Listed co-investigators may not be undergraduate, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, research associates, or visiting (non-permanent) faculty members. These individuals may participate in funded PMF projects.
- Faculty from outside the University of Pittsburgh are not eligible to participate in Microgrant Awards.
2024-25 Microgrant Awards Timeline
Below is a table that outlines the timeline for the 2024-25 Pitt Momentum Funds Arts & Humanities Microgrants. All items are to be submitted by 12 p.m. Eastern Time by the dates below.
| August 2024 | PMF 2025 Fall Awards Announced |
| September 3 & 4, 2024 | Virtual Information Sessions with Pitt’s OSVCR and Office of the Provost |
| October 21, 2024 | Deadline to submit applications for Arts & Humanities Fall Microgrants |
| November 2024 | PMF Arts & Humanities Fall Microgrants awardees announced |
| March 28, 2025 | Deadline to submit applications for Arts & Humanities Spring Microgrants |
| April 2025 | PMF Arts & Humanities Spring Microgrant Awardees announced |
Spring 2024 Cohort
- Zachary Horton, Department of English
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Player Computer: Gameplay, AI, and the Birth of Computational Media
Zachary Horton, Department of English
- Michael Meyer, Department of English
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The Beautiful Island Beyond the Seas
Michael Meyer, Department of English
- Sarah Moore, Department of Film and Media Studies
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Greenways
Sarah Moore, Department of Film and Media Studies
Received additional funding through the Mascaro Sustainability collaboration.
- Elizabeth Monasterios, Department of Hispanic Languages & Literatures
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El Alto: An Aymara City Where Literature and Architecture Meet at 13,313 Feet Above Sea Level
Elizabeth Monasterios, Department of Hispanic Languages & Literatures
- Alex Taylor, Department of History of Art & Architecture
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Beyond the Rust Belt: Reinterpreting Labor and Land in the UAG Collection
Alex Taylor, Department of History of Art & Architecture
Sylvia Rhor, Department of History of Art & Architecture
Received additional funding through the Mascaro Sustainability collaboration.
- Drew Armstrong, Department of History of Art & Architecture
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The Cathedral of Learning: A New Vision for the American University
Drew Armstrong, Department of History of Art & Architecture
- Omid Shekari, Department of Studio Arts
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Beyond the Institution
Omid Shekari, Department of Studio Arts
- Aaron Henderson, Department of Studio Arts
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Future Studio - Regional Environmental Justice Interventions
Aaron Henderson, Department of Studio Arts
- Michelle Granshaw, Department of Theatre Arts
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The Fight for Desegregation: Race, Freedom, and the Theatre After the Civil War
Michelle Granshaw, Department of Theatre Arts
- Peng Hai, Department of History
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“Greater Japan Muslim League” and the Making of the Modern “Muslim World
Peng Hai, Department of History
Fall 2023 Cohort
- David Tenorio Gonzalez, Department Hispanic Languages and Literatures
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The Queer Underground
David Tenorio Gonzalez, Department Hispanic Languages and Literatures
- Michael Sawyer, Department of English
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Reclaiming: 5 x (00:08:46 of Ju Ju)
Michael Sawyer, Department of English
- Kaline Ung, Department of French & Italian Languages & Literatures
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Authoring Autism in France
Kaline Ung, Department of French & Italian Languages & Literatures
- Dela Kuma, Department of Anthropology
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Africanizing Tastes and Consumer Power in 19th – 20th Century Southeastern Ghana
Dela Kuma, Department of Anthropology
- Rachel Love, Department of French & Italian Languages & Literatures
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Black Power and the Italian Radical Left
Rachel Love, Department of French & Italian Languages & Literatures
- Lidong Xiang, Department of English
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Cruel Girlhood: Violent Practices in Imagining Chinese Schoolgirls
Lidong Xiang, Department of English
- Elfriede Fursich, Department of Communications
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The Business of Media Diversity
Elfriede Fursich, Department of Communications
- Calum Matheson, Department of Communications
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Snakes and Psychology in the Archives
Calum Matheson, Department of Communications
- Joy Priest, Department of English
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YODD: A Black Surrealism
Joy Priest, Department of English
This is a Year of Discourse and Dialogue project.
- Sean DiLeonardi, Department of English Literature
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The International Bestsellers Data Project
Sean DiLeonardi, Department of English Literature
- John Teacher, Department of Marketing
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UPJ Theatre Combat Education Initiative
John Teacher, Department of Marketing