OFRGC Research Development Grants

OFRGC Research Development Grants

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Organization for Feminist Research on Gender and Communication
Amount: Up to US $2,500
Last Updated: March 25, 2026

Summary

The OFRGC Research Development Grants support feminist scholars in their research and creative projects, with a maximum award of $2,500. These grants encourage submissions that explore the complexities of women's lives through various lenses of intersectionality, including gender, race, and class. Eligible applicants include M.A. and PhD students as well as faculty members. The funding aims to amplify women's voices and address the unique challenges faced by individuals with intersecting identities.

Overview

About Us The Organization for Feminist Research on Gender and Communication (OFRGC) promotes dialogue, discussion, research, and scholarship concerned with women, feminism, gender, oppression, and social change. OFRGC seeks to advance understandings of the intersections of gender and race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, sexuality, and class, including transgender politics, masculinity, dis/ability, labor, transnationalism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory. OFRGC Research Development Grants The Organization for Feminist Research on Gender and Communication invites submissions for our Research Development Grants. Each grant offers a maximum of $2,500.00. Grants are designed to assist feminist scholars completing research or creative projects that privilege and advance understandings about the intersectionality and complexity defining women’s lives. Broadly speaking, submitted projects are those that: chart new ground in disciplinary knowledge about women and genderoffer insights about intersections of gender and race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, sexuality, and class, including transgender politics, masculinity, dis/ability, labor, transnationalism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory.favor the voices, experiences, discourses, performances and lives of women, feminism, gender, oppression at the intersections of difference, and social change in and beyond the discipline of communication.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Members are eligible to apply for one of three grants that support scholars at different levels of their career: M.A. students, PhD students, and instructors or tenure/track faculty.Please note that grants are awarded to individual scholars, not institutions, and thus do not pay indirect costs.