Public Stories Lab Scholarships: Application Now Closed
The Public Stories Lab (PSL) is a collaborative and innovative hub for faculty, students, and staff to co-construct knowledge and to bring relationships and stories to the center of research and pedagogy.
This application is intended for UMBC students (both undergraduate and graduate) to apply for funding to support storytelling research and praxis. The deadline to submit for the 2025-2026 academic year is Friday, October 10th.
The Public Stories Lab engages and supports a broad variety of public storytelling research and praxis. We encourage applications from students across UMBC colleges (COEIT, CNMS, CAHSS, Social Work, Erickson School) and campuses (UMBC Catonsville, Shady Grove). Projects might include digital storytelling, podcasting, story mapping, oral histories, immersive storytelling, public storytelling performances, oral storytelling traditions, visual storytelling (animation, comics, zines), data stories, and more!
Scholarship recipients will be expected to attend one mentoring session with PSL mentors and other scholarship recipients and share their storytelling project (finished or in progress) at the PSL Storytelling Mini-Fest at the end of the Spring 2026 semester.
If you have any questions before you submit, please email Charlotte Keniston ckenist1@umbc.edu, or Sarah Jewett sjewett@umbc.edu.