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Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities
The Harry M. Philpott Endowment for the Humanities Grant Program

The Harry M. Philpott Endowment for the Humanities Grant Program is administered by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities for the enhancement of the quality of classroom teaching in the humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University.  The endowment is named in honor of Dr. Harry M. Philpott, Auburn University’s eleventh president, who served from 1965 to 1980.    

Eligibility:

Faculty members who are tenure-track, tenured, or lecturers and have completed at least one year of full-time employment at Auburn University are encouraged to apply. Recipients will be eligible to apply every three years. The review committee encourages applications that incorporate the use of digital technology in classroom teaching and learning.

 

What are the humanities?

The award committee uses the following statement from the National Endowment of the Humanities to guide its selection of funded proposals:

"The term 'humanities' includes, but is not limited to, the study and interpretation of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of the social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life." --National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, 1965, as amended

2023 Recipients

2022 Recipients

 

2021 Recipients

 

2020 Recipients