The Virginia HBCU Scholars Fellowship helps HBCU-affiliated writers, community scholars, faculty members, and doctoral candidates with their research process through funding, access to academic publishing outlets, public promotion of their work, and professional community/peer support. Projects of interest can range across the disciplines of traditional humanities, public, and digital humanities, and human-centered social sciences. Based on the applicant’s proposed budget, short-term fellowship awards range from $5,000 to $15,000 and long-term fellowship awards range from $20,000 to $45,000.