Open grant applications are now closed.
From 2017-2024, the University of North Carolina Press offered small grants through their Thomas W. Ross Fund to help publish scholarly content generated in the University of North Carolina System. One-time matching grants were made available to help with the costs of publishing being supported by UNC Press’s Office of Scholarly Publishing Services (OSPS). $120,000 in grant funding supported 42 projects across 13 UNC System institutions.
Applications were reviewed by a team comprised of David English, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of the UNC System; Mark Simpson-Vos, Senior Executive Editor at UNC Press; John McLeod, Chief Operating Officer & Director of Intellectual Property; John Sherer, Spangler Family Director of UNC Press; and Lucy Holman, University Librarian at UNC Wilmington.
Grants Awarded
- Appalachian State University, to support the publication of Night Swimming, a poetry chapbook published by the Cold Mountain Review
- East Carolina University, to support special promotional efforts for the North Carolina Literary Review
- East Carolina University Sports and Community Lab, to publish Community Via Sport: A Better Together Society by Stacy Warner
- East Carolina University Institute for Rural Education, to support a new open access journal Theory & Practice in Rural Education
- East Carolina University Joyner Library, to fund the publication an open access textbook about Medieval music
- East Carolina University Joyner Library, to fund the publication of Project Management for Archivists: Befriending Your Backlog, a handbook for professional librarians and archivists
- East Carolina University Joyner Library, to fund the publication of Freedom of Expression Across the Borders: Communication, Culture, and Language edited by Sachivio Shearman and Mary Tucker-McLaughlin
- East Carolina University Joyner Library, to support the publication of the open textbook Early Music in the West: Antiquity and the Medieval Era by Kevin Moll
- North Carolina A&T State University’s Bluford Library, to reissue and digitize four out of print works about the history of the university
- North Carolina Central University, to support a new journal of undergraduate research
- North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, to help fund revisions of the textbook Contemporary Precalculus through Applications
- NCSU and the Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts, to publish a critical edition of Piers Plowman: The B-Version Archetype (Bx)
- NCSU Department of English and the MFA Program in Creative Writing, to publish a collaborative novella written by a team of MFA candidates and Cadwell Turnbull
- NCSU Department of Foreign Languages, to help expand the reach and impact of its Editorial A Contracorriente imprint which publishes Latin American studies monographs
- UNC Asheville, to support the publication of the Global Humanities Reader, Volumes 1-3
- UNC Chapel Hill Department of Dramatic Art, to fund PlayMakers Repertory Company: A History edited by Bobbi Owen and Adam Versényi
- UNC Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies, to reissue out-of-print titles in the North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures series
- UNC Chapel Hill Institute for the Study of the Americas, to support open access digital and affordable access print publications in the Studies in Latin America series
- UNC Chapel Hill Writing for the Screen and Stage Program, to publish Twenty-Five Short Plays: Selected Works from the University of North Carolina Long Story Shorts Festival, 2011–2015
- UNC Chapel Hill Writing for the Screen and Stage Program, to support the textbook, Sixteen Weeks to Fade Out: A Practical Guide to Screenwriting by Michael Acosta
- UNC Charlotte Center for the Study of the New South, to publish Why Does No One In My Books Look Like Me?: Tobe and Ongoing Questions about Race, Representation, and Identity edited by Ashli Quesinberry Stokes
- UNC Charlotte Department of History, to support promotional efforts and onboarding costs for The Latin Americanist
- UNC Charlotte Gerontology Program, to publish The Delany Sisters Reach High by Amy Hill Hearth
- UNC Charlotte J. Murrey Atkins Library, to publish Faculty Experiences in Active Learning: A Collection of Strategies for Implementing Active Learning Across Disciplines
- UNC Charlotte J. Murrey Atkins Library, to fund the publication of Jewel in the Crown: Bonnie Cone and the Founding of UNC Charlotte by William Thomas Jeffers and Jessica Injejikian
- UNC Charlotte J. Murrey Atkins Library, to publish Odyssey for Democracy: Embracing a Vision of Hope and Change in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Clark Curtis
- UNC Charlotte J. Murrey Atkins Library, to publish Miss Bonnie’s Nurses: The First Fifty Years of Nursing at UNC Charlotte by Ann Mabe Newman and Dona Haney
- UNC Charlotte J. Murrey Atkins Library, to support the publication of the open textbook Shaping S-Curves: Choreography in Odissi by Kaus Sarkar
- UNC Charlotte J. Murrey Atkins Library, to support Race and Social Justice: Building an Inclusive Experience through Awareness, Advocacy, and Action, a publication by a team of faculty from UNCC
- UNC Charlotte J. Murrey Atkins Library, to help publish Subcritical: Third Culture Field Notes by Missy Eppes and Marek Ranis
- UNC Greensboro Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, for the relaunch of the International Poetry Review
- UNC Greensboro Libraries, to support the publication of the X-Culture Handbook of Collaboration and Problem Solving in Global Virtual Teams textbook developed in the Bryan School of Business and Economics
- UNC Greensboro MFA in Creative Writing Program, to cover costs associated with transitioning the Greensboro Review into a partnership with UNC Press
- UNC Wilmington Department of Film Studies, to support the journal Analog Cookbook
- UNC Wilmington Randall Library, to support the publication of the open textbook Differential Geometry in Physics by Gabriel Lugo
- UNC Wilmington Randall Library, to support the publication of Mind the Gap: Navigating Transitions in Life with Mindfulness by Beverley Foulks McGuire, an open access textbook for First Year Seminars
- Western Carolina University Hunter Library, to reissue Mountain Days: A Journal of Camping Experiences in the Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, 1914-1938 by Paul M. Fink
- Western Carolina University Hunter Library, to reissue Twenty Years Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains by Samuel J. Hunnicutt
- Western Carolina University Hunter Library, to reissue Just Over the Hill: Black Appalachians in Jackson County, Western North Carolina by Victoria A. Casey McDonald
- Western Carolina University Hunter Library, to reissue Cataloochee: Lost Settlement of the Smokies
- Winston-Salem State University School of Health Sciences, to transition and sustain its Journal of Best Practices in Health Professions Diversity: Research, Education, and Policy