Funding Announcements

With the generous support from the Endowed Fund for the Study of Religious Tolerance, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion invites proposals from UC Berkeley graduate students and faculty on the topic of religious tolerance and intolerance. We hope to promote...Read more about Call for Proposals: BCSR Research Grants for the Study of Religious Tolerance (2026)

Berkeley Discovery fosters equitable access to the core of the university’s mission: research toward the creation and stewardship...Read more about Call for Graduate Discovery Fellows

In an age of aggressive partisanship and escalating political hostility, the concept of empathy has re-emerged as both a locus of political hope and an object of critical interrogation with regard to its political utility. This conference invites graduate students and early-career...Read more about LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities Call for Papers: Revisiting Empathy: Political Affects in Times of Cruelty October 3-4, 2025, UC Berkeley

The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry offers summer research grants of up to $5,000 for interdisciplinary, interdivisional, creative and/or collaborative projects on urgent contemporary issues such as climate change, authoritarianism, race, borders and migration. Students working...Read more about Announcing the 2024 CICI Summer Research Grants