Building on the Arts and Humanistic Inquiry initiative launched in 2023, the Office of the Provost designed AMPLIFY to expand and catalyze ambitious research and creative practice, build intellectual community, and increase Emory’s national leadership in publicly engaged scholarship.
The AMPLIFY program will:
- Fund impactful artistic, humanistic, and social science research
- Enhance competitiveness for external funding
- Expand opportunities for community engagement and public scholarship
- Strengthen cross-unit collaboration and mentorship
- Invest in the next generation of student researchers
- Support faculty from initial ideas to pilot data to publications, performances, exhibitions, or digital scholarship
AMPLIFY Grant Details
The FY27 Request for Applications is now open. Funding up to $40,000 per grant is available across three formats:
AMPLIFY Impact Grants
Designed for newly tenured faculty, AMPLIFY Impact Grants support ambitious field-shaping, publicly engaged projects in the social sciences, humanities, and creative disciplines, including interdisciplinary work, that are primed for public impact. Awardees are encouraged to engage students and consider pursuing external funding to advance the project.
AMPLIFY Events Grants
AMPLIFY Events Grants support conferences, symposia, exhibitions, and other scholarly, artistic, and/or community-engaged events that elevate the social sciences, humanities, and creative disciplines, including interdisciplinary work. Priority is given to events engaging scholars, residents, and visitors of Georgia and/or those of national prominence. Awardees are encouraged to engage students and consider pursuing external funding to advance the project.
AMPLIFY Humanities Seminar Fellows
AMPLIFY Humanities Seminar Fellows will catalyze ambitious, field-shaping projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences while building community among scholars at Emory. Fellows pursue exploratory and foundational research and gather as a cohort five times during the academic year.
Following an August 2026 introductory session, fellows will participate in seminars in October, December, February, and April, presenting work-in-progress and receiving feedback from the cohort.
Questions
Please contact Melissa Daly with questions.