Research Support

Hamilton Annual Research and Travel (HART) Funds

Beginning in 2023-24, the College will provide faculty members with Hamilton Annual Research and Travel (HART) funds to support their professional travel and scholarly/creative work. Funds may be used to directly support pedagogical and scholarly or creative activities that promote a faculty member’s intellectual enrichment and allow you to grow as a teacher-scholar. Learn more ... 

Requests for research support should be submitted using the online form.

Priority for funding is given for the support of sabbatical leave projects and for projects by pre-tenured faculty whose start-up funding has elapsed. Next in priority are faculty not on leave, in the following order: associate professors, full professors without endowed chairs, professors with endowed chairs who have exhausted their allocated funds, visiting assistant professors, instructors, lecturers.

For further information please refer to the Spending Guidelines.

Faculty Development Awards

The Dean of Faculty Office sponsors a number of programs to support faculty as teacher-scholars during the summer months and during periodic leaves. Learn more...

Dean of Faculty Grant Activities Fund

Hamilton College supports the ongoing engagement of its faculty members as researchers in their disciplines because we believe that our students are well served by the insights these faculty members can bring to their classrooms and by the awareness of contemporary developments in the field that these faculty members can share with their students. The Grant Activity Fund (GAF) provides support for individual faculty grant proposals to external agencies. The purpose of the fund is to encourage proposal development, strengthen submissions and to demonstrate institutional support for proposed activities. These funds may also be used to supplement salary for full-year periodic leaves.  Learn more ... 

Faculty-Student Research

Hamilton provides a number of opportunities for members of the faculty to collaborate with students at the undergraduate level.  Learn more ...

External Grant Support

The Office of Sponsored Programs in the Dean of Faculty’s Office and the Office of Corporate & Foundation Relations in the Advancement Office cultivate and maintain relationships with sources of external support for projects consistent with the College's mission and priorities. An essential activity of these offices is supporting faculty members who wish to find external funding for their research projects.  Learn more ...