Deadline: September 25, 2026
The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University is pleased to announce its seventh annual grant cycle to support public-facing history projects. In celebration of the Center’s tenth anniversary, we will be funding projects that speak to a question at the heart of our founding mission: what is history in the public interest?
The Center will fund grants of up to $7500 for up to 8 projects that creatively engage with questions, research, and outcomes that reflect on definitions of history in the public interest. Successful projects will make questions related to this theme central to their work; a “public” outcome of a historical study is not enough. Projects might consider:
– The use of history to define public(s)
– The relationship of history to social welfare
– Creative readings of “public interest” where history is a form of popular curiosity or attention
– Collective claims to and contests over historic documents, sites, or narratives
– Forms of historical inquiry and communication created to respond to public needs or collective welfare
– The social, political, cultural, or economic stakes of doing history in various times and places
– How historians have contributed to law and government.
For grant, eligibility and application details, visit our website.