Humanities Fellowships and Grants Deadlines
| Deadline | Title | Description of Fellowship / Grant |
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05/27/12 |
Redmond Barry Fellowship, University of Melbourne and State Library of Victoria |
The fellowship shall be awarded to scholars and writers to facilitate research and the production of works of literature that utilise the collections of the State Library of Victoria and the University of Melbourne. Up to $20,000 shall be awarded to assist with travel, living and research expenses for three to six months. Fellows will be based at the State Library of Victoria. During the fellowship period, fellows will be expected to pursue their own project, present a lecture or short seminar series open to the public, library and university communities, and submit a brief report at the conclusion of their fellowship.
The fellow’s project may be in any discipline or area in which the library and the university have strong collections. University of Melbourne’s collections include: - East Asian - Engineering – Architecture – Planning and Cartography - Health Sciences - History – Law – Australiana - Music - Sciences - Visual Arts and Archaeology |
01/15/13 |
NEH, American Research Center in Egypt |
ARCE administers research fellowships for students enrolled in doctoral programs at North American universities, and for postdoctoral scholars and professionals affiliated with North American universities and research institutions. Eligible fields of study are Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Economics, Egyptology, History, Humanistic Social Sciences, Islamic Studies, Literature, Political Science, Religious Studies, Anthropology, Coptic Studies. The award amount varies. ARCE fellows receive a monthly per diem commensurate with academic status and number of accompanying dependents, plus round-trip air transportation for fellowship recipient only. Fellowships must last between four and twelve months. One or two fellowships are available. All fellowships must take place between October 1, 2012 and September 30, 2013. |
01/15/13 |
American Antiquarian Society |
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds these long-term visiting academic research fellowships at the AAS. Fellowships are designed to enable fellows to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library on their projects and discussing their work with others. AAS-NEH fellows are expected to be in regular and continuous residence at the society. They must devote full time to their study and may not accept teaching assignments or undertake any other major activities during the tenure of their award. AAS Fellows are selected on the basis of the applicant’s scholarly qualifications, the scholarly significance or importance of the project, and the appropriateness of the proposed study to the society’s collections.
Fellowships are for periods extending from 4 to 12 months. The stipend is $4,200 per month. Fellows may hold other major fellowships or grants during fellowship tenure, in addition to sabbaticals and supplemental grants from their own institutions. Other NEH-funded grants may be held serially, but not concurrently. |
01/15/13 |
Smithsonian Institution |
The Smithsonian Institution offers fellowships to provide opportunities for postdoctoral investigators to conduct research in association with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff, and to utilize the resources of the Institution. Fellowships are available in fields that are actively pursued by the museums and research organizations of the institution. These fellowships support research in residence at all Smithsonian facilities except the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The Smithsonian facilities, other than the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, include the following: African American History and Culture Museum; African Art Museum; Air and Space Museum; Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center; American Art Museum; American History Museum; American Indian Museum; American Indian Museum Heye Center; Anacostia Community Museum; Archives of American Art; Arts and Industries Building; Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI); Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; Environmental Research Center (SERC); Freer Gallery of Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Marine Station at Fort Pierce; Museum Conservation Institute (MCI); National Zoo; Natural History Museum; Portrait Gallery; Postal Museum; Renwick Gallery; Sackler Gallery; Smithsonian Institution Archives; Smithsonian Institution Building, The Castle; Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL); and Tropical Research Institute (STRI).These fellowships are offered to scholars who have held the doctoral degree or equivalent for less than seven years. Applicants who have or will have received the Ph.D. or equivalent after January 15, 2005, are eligible to apply for postdoctoral fellowships. The degree must be completed by the time the fellowship begins. |
01/15/12 |
American Culture Studies Program, Washington University in St. Louis |
The Program in American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in American cultural history, to begin July 1, 2012. The Program in American Culture Studies is an interdepartmental research and teaching program that aims at understanding American culture and society through humanities and social science approaches. Fellows will have the opportunity to work closely with core faculty, graduate students, and a continuing postdoctoral fellow in American Culture Studies, as well as with faculty across the University. For the 2012-13 Fellowship, the Program’s interest centers on U.S. political culture broadly defined to include such concerns as communication, constructions of race and gender, constructions of nation and nation-state, immigration, popular culture, regional and transnational cultures, and religion, from any period of the 19th or 20th century. The Program has recently nurtured methodological strengths that include digital humanities, ethnography, geographic information systems, oral history, and visual and material culture, and would be pleased to find a postdoctoral fellow whose work engages with any of these models. The main goal in this postdoctoral program is the intellectual development of the Fellows and the Program through productive academic interaction. Fellows are expected to be in residence during the fellowship period, apart from research-related travel; and to participate in the intellectual life of American Culture Studies and other units relevant to the Fellow’s research and teaching interests. Teaching responsibilities include two courses per academic year, supervising directed study for a small number of undergraduate students, and appropriate advising activities with graduate and undergraduate students. $43,000 per year, plus benefits; and a $3,000 annual research/travel stipend.
contactPostdoctoral Search Committee |
03/01/12 |
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) |
NIAS Fellows are selected from prominent researchers and senior scholars in the humanities and social sciences who have already made a contribution to their field. At least 3 years of post-Ph.D. degree academic experience is a prerequisite for eligibility.Scholarly achievements, obtained grants and awards, and reputation and quality of publications are aspects considered in the evaluation process. Moreover, the added value of the proposed project for the Dutch scientific community is an important criterion for selection. Preference is given to:
In the year 2013/14 NIAS specially welcomes projects that are related to the following topics:
A NIAS Fellow from outside the Netherlands is entitled to a stipend. Scholars with over 10 years of research experience after their Ph.D. degree will be awarded a Senior Fellowship carrying a stipend or replacement subsidy of €3,800 per month. Scholars with up to 10 years of research experience after their Ph.D. degree will be awarded a Junior Fellowship carrying a stipend or replacement subsidy of €2,600 per month. Free accommodation in a studio apartment (or equivalent housing) is offered to unaccompanied Fellows from outside the Netherlands. Housing at subsidised rate is offered to NIAS Fellows from outside the Netherlands who bring their partners or families. Accommodation is offered in apartments on NIAS grounds and family homes in Wassenaar. |
01/15/13 |
University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Residential Fellowship |
UCHI offers up to eight residential fellowships each academic year. Up to six of these are allocated to junior (tenure-track) and senior faculty at the University, and up to two are awarded to visiting scholars. Faculty Residential Fellowships are opportunities for individuals to pursue advanced work in the humanities. Projects may contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public’s understanding of the humanities. Recipients might eventually produce scholarly articles, a monograph on a specialized subject, a book on a broad topic, an archaeological site report, a translation, an edition, or other scholarly tools. Faculty Residential Fellowships support projects that can be completed during the tenure of an award or those that are part of a long-term endeavor. Amount of fellowship: $40,000. |
01/31/12 |
Visiting Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the School of Advanced Study, University of London FOR AY 2012/13 |
Applications for 2012/13 are now invited from professorial staff and early to mid-career academics (applicants must have been awarded their PhD between eight and fifteen years before applying for a fellowship) who wish to pursue research in London in any of the areas covered by the Schooland to engage in an active relationship with the multidisciplinary scholarly community across the School. The Fellowship is tenable for up to six consecutive months between September 2012 and June 2013.
The Fellowship offers an allowance towards travel, accommodation and research costs up to a determined maximum. contactE: peter.niven@sas.ac.uk |
02/13/12 |
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research: Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections (Pilot Program) |
This is a pilot postdoctoral fellowship program that aims to promote excellence in transregional research and interrogate boundaries that have long divided world geographies and academic communities. Fellowships will be given for projects that reconceptualize research on Asia as an interlinked historical and geographic formation stretching from the Middle East (including Turkey) through Eurasia, Central Asia, and South Asia to Southeast Asia and East Asia. Through “Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections” the SSRC and the Mellon Foundation seek to move discussions beyond the territorial fixities of area-studies research without discounting the importance of contextually grounded, place-based knowledge. “Inter-Asia” as a theme not only helps examine connections and continuums that transcend traditional area studies divides but also reexamines topics such as urban transformations, knowledge networks and migration as forms of “Asia-making.” More broadly, the projects supported by the fellowship program will further the understanding of how globalization operates through various types of territorial and extraterritorial processes.
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, these fellowships will help junior scholars complete first books and/or undertake second projects. In addition to funding research, the program will create networks and shared resources that will support Fellows well beyond the grant period. Fellowships will be awarded for up to $45,000. |
02/15/12 |
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research |
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) invites proposals for its National Research Competition. This competition provides funds for both collaborative and individual research projects in the humanities and social sciences in or on any country of Eurasia or East-Central Europe. Research Grants support research projects conducted by individual U.S. citizens. The following countries are eligible for research: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. Research Grants provide a maximum award of $40,000. While regular salary support will be considered, summer salary support will be considered as the lowest priority for funding.
contactNational Council for Eurasian and East European Research |
03/18/12 |
New York Public Library Short-term Research Fellowships |
These short-term fellowships are intended to support visiting scholars conducting research in the Library’s unique research and special collections. Fellowships will support research in the humanities including but not limited to art history, cultural studies, history, literature, performing arts, and photography. Fellowships will be held in the following areas of the NYPL: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle; Dorot Jewish Division and Slavic, Baltic, and Eastern European Collections; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Manuscripts and Archives Division; the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs; New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Fellows are expected to be in continuous residence for the duration of the fellowship award period as specified in the proposal.
contactNew York Public Library |
05/01/12 |
Academic Writing Residency, Bellagio Study and Conference Center |
The Bellagio Center is especially interested in applicants whose work contributes to the well-being of humanity or in some way connects with the Rockefeller Foundation’s issue areas:
1. Basic Survival Safeguards: Secure food, water, housing and infrastructure 2. Global Health: Accessible, affordable and equitable health services and systems 3. Climate & Environment: Sustainable growth and resilience to climate change 4. Urbanization: Solutions for fast-growing cities 5. Social & Economic Security: Stronger safety nets, reinvigorated citizenship, re-imagined policy frameworks
Writing residencies typically last four weeks. Residency may be between February 11, 2013 to August 8, 2013. Residents are housed in two main buildings and each resident is given a private room with a bath and a study/studio, either adjoining the bedroom or on the grounds. High-speed Internet access is available free of charge in all bedrooms and most studies. A small library includes basic reference books and online research tools; the works of many former residents and those resulting from Bellagio meetings are also available. Spouses/life partners may accompany residents. Accommodations are not available for children, other family members, friends or pets. Room and board are provided to all residents and their spouses/partners, but they are responsible for their airfare and local transportation to and from Bellagio. |
05/01/12 |
National Endowment for the Humanities: Fellowships |
Fellowships — Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of six to twelve months. Fellowships cover periods lasting from six to twelve months at a stipend of $4,200 per month in outright funds. The maximum stipend is $50,400.
contactNational Endowment for the Humanities |
05/15/12 |
Research Stays for University Academics and
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German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) – The grants aim to provide foreign academics and scientists working in higher education or at research institutes with an opportunity to carry out a research project at a state (public) or state-recognised higher education institution or non-university research institute in Germany. |
07/15/12 |
Kluge Library (Library of Congress) |
The Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to conduct research in the John W. Kluge Center using the Library of Congress collections and resources for a period of up to eleven months. The Kluge Center furnishes attractive work and discussion space for Kluge Chair holders, for distinguished visiting scholars, and for post-doctoral Fellows supported by other private foundation gifts. The Kluge Center especially encourages humanistic and social science research that makes use of the Library’s large and varied collections. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, or multi-lingual research is particularly welcome. Among the collections available to researchers are the world’s largest law library and outstanding multi-lingual collections of books and periodicals. Deep special collections of manuscripts, maps, music, films, recorded sound, prints and photographs are also available. Stipend amount $4200 per month for six to eleven residential months. |
08/05/11 |
National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer
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NB: REQUIRES NOMINATION BY BU, INTERNAL DEADLINE 8/5/11. This program supports individuals pursuing advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public’s understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Summer Stipends support full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months. The Summer Stipends program welcomes projects that respond to NEH’s new Bridging Cultures initiative. Such projects could focus on cultures internationally or within the United States. Summer Stipends provide $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing. |
08/01/12 |
Fulbright/CIES |
Fulbright Scholar Program – The Fulbright program offers faculty, professionals and independent scholars the opportunity to lecture and conduct research in countries around the globe. The program serves two primary purposes: (1) it enables Americans to learn firsthand about other countries and cultures, and enables the people of other countries to learn more about the United States and its citizens; and (2) it promotes academic and professional development. The traditional Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad to 140 countries each year for two months to an academic year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
contactCouncil for the International Exchange of Scholars To search the entire 2013/2014 catalog of Fulbright opportunities: http://catalog.cies.org/ |
08/01/12 |
Fulbright: Humanities/ Digital Humanities (Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland) |
This award is for lecturing and research. The grantee will teach one undergraduate seminar to a maximum of fifteen students in digital humanities in the fall semester, for two hours per week for eleven weeks; advise fifteen to twenty graduate students and liaise and cooperate with faculty in related fields for a maximum of 15 hours; and collaborate with the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies and its key academic staff on the following key research activities: (1) Texts, Contexts, Cultures; (2) TEXTE: Transfer of Expertise in Technologies of Editing; (3) Thomas Moore Hypermedia Archive. |
09/11/11 |
American Council of Learned Societies |
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars – This program supports long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences. Appropriate fields of specialization include but are not limited to: anthropology, archaeology, art history, economics, film, geography, history, languages and literatures, law, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, rhetoric and communication, and sociology. Awards range from $35,000 for an Assistant Professor to $60,000 for a full Professor.
contactCynthia Mueller, Manager |
09/11/11 |
American Council of Learned Societies |
Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships – This program provides funding for advanced assistant professors and untenured associate professors in the humanities and related social sciences whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields and who have well-designed and carefully developed plans for new research. The fellowships are intended to provide time and resources to enable these faculty members to conduct their research under optimal conditions. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $64,000, plus $2,500 for research and travel and the possibility of an additional Fellowship Deadlines.
contactCynthia Mueller, Manager |
09/11/11 |
American Council of Learned Societies |
Fellowship Program – This program welcomes applications from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. Proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies are welcome, as are proposals focused on any geographic region or on any cultural or linguistic group. Awards range from $35,000 for an Assistant Professor to $60,000 for a full Professor.
contactCynthia Mueller, Manager |
09/11/11 |
Guggenheim |
John Simon Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation – The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge. The amounts of the grants are adjusted according to the needs of the fellows and the purpose and scope of their plans. Appointments are ordinarily made for one year, and are never less than six consecutive months.
contactJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |
09/11/11 |
NY Public Library |
Fellowships at the Cullman Center – The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers is an international fellowship program open to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library – including academics, independent scholars, journalists, novelists, other creative writers, and scientists and lawyers engaged with the humanities.
contactCenter for Scholars and Writers |
10/11/11 |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
Visiting Scholars Program (VSP) – This program’s purpose is to stimulate and support research by promising scholars and practitioners in the early stages of their careers and to foster new ties between an emerging generation of scholars and academy members with shared interests. Fellowships will be awarded to individuals who can demonstrate that their work will make a substantial contribution in one or more of the academy’s four major research areas: science and global security, social policy and American institutions, humanities and culture, and education. The academy would also welcome proposals that explore the impact of scientific and technological advances over the past two centuries on American institutions, humanities and culture in America, American foreign policy, and global security. Faculty can receive up to $60,000.
contactAmerican Academy of Arts & Sciences |
10/11/11 |
Belgian American Education Foundation
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Belgian American Education Foundation Fellowships for Study or Research in Belgium – The BAEF encourages applications for fellowships for advanced study or research during the academic year 2012-2013 at a Belgian university or institution of higher learning. BAEF Fellows must reside in Belgium during the tenure of their fellowship. |
10/11/11 |
CRASSH Early Career Fellowships (Cambridge
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The Early Career Fellowship scheme at CRASSH, jointly funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and the Schools of Arts & Humanities and Humanities & Social Sciences, allows Cambridge University Teaching Officers and College Teaching Officers to apply for an additional term of research leave in order to develop a new research project. Up to four fellows per term are appointed each year. The scheme is also open to UTOs and CTOs working in the department of Geography (supported by the School of Physical Sciences). This is a residential fellowship and successful applicants are expected to spend their period of research leave in Cambridge. |
10/11/11 |
CRASSH Visiting Fellowships (Cambridge
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Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge – The fellowships are designed to support the Centre’s thematic activities. Visiting Fellowships can be awarded for periods of ten weeks in any one Cambridge term (term dates are available here), during which Fellows are expected to be in residence in Cambridge. Visiting Fellows take regular part in and contribute to the Centre’s programme of events, which consists of weekly work-in-progress seminars and a reading group. The current competition is for fellowships to be taken up during academic year 2012-13 when the theme will be Cultures and Politics of the Transregional. |
10/11/11 |
Humboldt Scholar Award Programs (Germany) |
The foundation awards fellowships to prospective US leaders from any profession or field of study who show outstanding potential for future leadership. Selected scholars represent the private, public, not-for-profit, cultural, and academic sectors. Successful candidates have come from social and policy sciences, government, law, journalism, communications, management, finance, economics, architecture, graphic and performing arts, humanities, public service, and environmental affairs. The program provides for a stay of one year in Germany for professional development, study, or research. Through their experiences as German Chancellor Scholars, individuals are exposed to the political, economic, social, and cultural life of Germany. Applicants design individual projects tailored to their professional development and goals and decide at which institutions to pursue them. Individuals may also arrange internships, junior staff positions, or training or performance programs. Before submitting an application, applicants are expected to have established contact with a mentor in Germany who agrees to provide professional or scholarly assistance throughout the program.
contactAmerican Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
10/11/11 |
National Humanities Center Fellowships |
This program provides 40 academic-year residential fellowships for advanced study. Most of the Center’s fellowships are unrestricted; however, several are designated for particular areas of research. These include one fellowship for a young woman in philosophy and fellowships for environmental studies; English literature; art history; Asian Studies; and theology. Fellowships up to $60,000 are individually determined. in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina, near Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh, the Center provides an environment for individual research and the exchange of ideas. Its building includes private studies for Fellows, conference rooms, a central commons for dining, lounges, reading areas, a reference library, and a Fellows’ workroom. The Center’s noted library service delivers books and research materials to Fellows, and support for information technology and editorial assistance are also provided. The Center locates housing for Fellows in the neighboring communities.
contactFellowship Program |
10/11/11 |
Rice University |
The Humanities Research Center at Rice University hosts visiting professors for one semester each academic year. Fellows teach one course affiliated with a humanities department and must be in residence at the Center during their appointments. The fellows participate in the intellectual life of the Center by sharing research activities through a brown bag series with other HRC fellows and possibly through participation in a symposium or conference sponsored by the HRC. Applicants should describe how their research project would contribute to the intellectual community at Rice, including faculty research activity in the School of Humanities, through participation in one or more of the HRC faculty workshops or interdisciplinary humanities initiatives such as the Americas Colloquium or Cultures of Energy. Fellowships are awarded to support research projects in the humanities. Proposals employing humanistic approaches are welcome from anthropology and other social sciences, natural sciences, music, architecture, and engineering. |
10/11/11 |
Society of Fellows, Cornell University |
The Society for the Humanities was established at Cornell University in 1966 to support research and teaching in the humanities. It is intended to be at once a research institute, a stimulus to educational innovation, and a continuing society of scholars. The Society and its Fellows have fostered path-breaking interdisciplinary dialogue and theoretical reflection on the humanities at large. Fellows include scholars from other universities and members of the Cornell faculty released from regular duties. Fellows spend their time in research and writing, participate in the weekly Fellows Seminar, and offer one seminar related to their research. The seminars are generally informal, related to the Fellow’s research, and open to graduate students, suitably qualified undergraduates, and faculty members. Fellows are encouraged to explore topics they would not normally teach and, in general, to experiment freely with both the content and the method of their courses. The focal theme for 2012-2013 is “RISK @ Humanities.” |
10/11/11 |
Stanford Humanities Center |
Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowships – The fellowship program is primarily designed to offer research opportunities both to members of humanities departments as traditionally defined and to other scholars seriously interested in humanistic issues. Fellows will be expected to remain in residence from September to June, to live in the immediate area of the university, and to participate in center activities. External fellows come from all ranks of the professoriate and from the full spectrum of colleges and universities.
contactFellowship Program Manager |
10/11/11 |
United States Institute of Peace |
Annual Grant Competition, United States Institute of Peace – Funds projects focused on preventing, managing, and resolving violent conflict and promoting post-conflict peace building outside the borders of the U.S. Grants are offered across a broad range of relevant disciplines, skills, and approaches. Topic areas of interest to the institute include, but are not restricted to: conflict analysis and prevention; mediation and conflict resolution; post-conflict peace and stability operations; Religion and peacemaking; rule of law and transitional justice; international organizations and collective security; Economies and conflict; social, psychological, and physical impacts of war and conflict; media and conflict. The institute sets no disciplinary restrictions. It welcomes proposals of an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary nature. Most unsolicited grants are one to two years in duration and fall in the range of $50,000 to $120,000, although larger grants are also awarded. contactUnited States Institute of Peace |
10/15/11 |
Research Stays for University Academics and
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German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) – The grants aim to provide foreign academics and scientists working in higher education or at research institutes with an opportunity to carry out a research project at a state (public) or state-recognised higher education institution or non-university research institute in Germany. |
11/11/11 |
American Academy in Rome, Rome Prize: Arts |
Prize recipients are invited to Rome to immerse themselves in the Academy community where they will enjoy an opportunity to expand their own professional, artistic, or scholarly pursuits, drawing on their colleagues’ erudition and experience and on the resources that Italy, Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Academy have to offer. These awards are intended for a broad range of individuals who work in the arts and humanities, from the conservation of works of art, to architectural design, to public policy in the management of cities. Applicants are encouraged to submit materials that best express the quality of what they do and how they think. Candidates are expected to be seasoned professionals, actively engaged in their fields, with enough experience and maturity to give them direction once they arrive in Rome. |
11/11/11 |
Clark Fellowships, Clark Art Institute,
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The Clark offers between fifteen and twenty Clark Fellowships each year, ranging in duration from six weeks to ten months. National and international scholars, critics, and museum professionals are welcome to propose projects that extend and enhance the understanding of the visual arts and their role in culture. Stipends are dependent on salary and sabbatical replacement needs. Housing in the Institute’s Scholars’ Residence, located across the street from the Clark, is also provided. |
11/11/11 |
Ernest Hemingway Research Grants (JFK
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The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation provides funds for the award of a number of research grants for scholars and students to help defray living, travel, and related costs incurred while doing research in the Ernest Hemingway Collection. Grant applications are evaluated on the basis of expected utilization of the Hemingway Collection, the degree to which they address research needs in Hemingway and related studies, and the qualifications of applicants.
contactAdditional Contact: Susan Wrynn, Ernest |
11/11/11 |
Gladstone’s Library, Wales |
Residential scholarships are available for research at Gladstone’s Library, a residential library and meeting place dedicated to dialogue, debate, and learning for open-minded individuals and groups who are looking to explore pressing questions and to pursue study and research in an age of distraction and easy solutions. The General Scholarship Fund supports research in the Arts and Humanities. |
11/11/11 |
Hodder Fellowships (Princeton) |
Council of the Humanities, Princeton University – The Hodder Fellowship was created for artists in the early stages of their careers. In keeping with the bequest of Mary MacKall Gwinn Hodder, it is awarded to individuals during that crucial period when they have demonstrated exceptional promise but have not yet received widespread recognition. Given the strengths of the applicant pool, most successful fellows have published a first book and are undertaking significant new work that might not be possible without the “studious leisure” afforded by this fellowship. Hodder Fellows spend an academic year at Princeton pursuing independent projects. |
11/11/11 |
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies |
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies Fellowships – This program is designed to support scholars, scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts. Stipends are funded up to $65,000 for one year with additional funds for project expenses.
contactFellowship Program |
11/11/11 |
The American Scandanavia Foundation |
Awards for Study in Scandinavia – the ASF offers fellowships and grants to individuals to pursue research or study in one or more Scandinavian country for up to one year. Awards are made in all fields. |
11/11/11 |
The George A. and Eliza Howard Foundation |
Fellowships – The foundation awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in fields selected on a rotational basis. The foundation follows a five-year rotation of fields for its annual fellowship competition. Please see the website for details on which program is currently offered. Stipends for one year are $25,000 and do not include a residency requirement. Support is intended to augment paid sabbatical leaves, making it financially possible for grantees to have time in which to pursue their projects, free of any other professional responsibilities.
contactProfessor William C. Crossgrove, |
11/15/11 |
Blaise Pascal Research Chairs |
The State and the Ile-de-France Region are establishing new International Research Chairs to accommodate highly qualified, internationally acclaimed, foreign research scientists in all scientific fields: exact sciences, life sciences, humanities and social sciences, applied sciences and new technologies.Each Chair allows the foreign scientist to be hosted in one or more well-known Higher Learning or Research Institutions in Paris/Ile de-France that are focused on a particular scientific project and are able to provide the suitable environment, equipment and means required.The candidates are required to give about ten lectures (pedagogical program to be joined), will have to deliver an activity report and to organize a public seminar at the end of the period. The applications by female candidates are highly encouraged. Each Chair allows the foreign scientist to be hosted for 12 full months, possibly spread over two years. The global financial amount attributed to each project can go up to €200,000, which includes among other things, salaries, social charges, taxes, accompanying expenses. |
12/08/11 |
National Endowment for the Humanities:
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Collaborative Research Grants support interpretive research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars, for full-time or part-time activities for periods of a minimum of one year up to a maximum of three years. Support is available for various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-related travel; field work; applications of information technology; and technical support and services. All grantees are expected to communicate the results of their work to the appropriate scholarly and public audiences. Eligible projects include research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding in the humanities; conferences on topics of major importance in the humanities that will benefit scholarly research; archaeological projects that include the interpretation and communication of results (projects may encompass excavation, materials analysis, laboratory work, field reports, and preparation of interpretive monographs); and research that uses the knowledge and perspectives of the humanities and historical or philosophical methods to enhance understanding of science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences. |
12/08/11 |
National Endowment for the Humanities:
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Scholarly Editions and Translations grants support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts and documents that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. These grants support full-time or part-time activities for periods of a minimum of one year up to a maximum of three years. Projects must be undertaken by a team of at least one editor or translator and one other staff member. Grants typically support editions and translations of significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials, but other types of work, such as musical notation, are also eligible. |
12/11/11 |
American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies |
AISLS fellowships support two to nine months of research in Sri Lanka by U.S. citizens who already hold a Ph.D. or the equivalent at the time they begin their fellowship tenure. Projects in all fields in the social sciences and humanities are eligible. Proposals in other areas that contribute to the understanding of Sri Lankan history, culture, or society are also invited. Proposals will be judged on their quality, on the extent to which they fall into one of the targeted categories listed below, and on their potential to strengthen U.S. scholarship on Sri Lanka and develop links between U.S. and Sri Lankan scholars. All proposals should fall into one of the following categories: 1. Proposals by scholars with an established interest in Sri Lanka, who can show that their research will contribute to the understanding of historical or contemporary connections with other parts of the world. Such connections may take the form of substantive links, or they make take the form of relating processes or events in Sri Lanka to analogous processes and events elsewhere. 2. Proposals by scholars whose primary interest is not in Sri Lanka, but who wish to include consideration of Sri Lanka as part of a wider project. 3. Proposals by scholars whose primary interest has not been in Sri Lanka, but who wish to undertake, or examine the feasibility of undertaking, a major research project there. |
12/11/11 |
Huntington Library travel fellowships |
The Huntington offers several travel grants in any of the fields in which the Huntington collections are strong and where the research will be carried out in Great Britain. The Huntington also offers exchange fellowships with Linacre College and Lincoln College, Oxford. |
12/11/11 |
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and
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Research and Writing Fellowships – The VFH Fellowship Program offers time, space, and resources to scholars bringing the humanities to visibility – applying the tools of history, philosophy, ethics, cultural studies, and literary criticism to matters of public concern. Each fellowship session includes affiliated and independent scholars and professionals, including librarians, museum curators, writers, reporters, and others. The mixture of subjects and personalities at the center gives it a lively, challenging atmosphere, and opens us all to new ways of thinking about the humanities. The maximum fellowship stipend is $15,000 per semester. Fellowships are awarded for one semester or a full academic year.
contactVirginia Foundation for the Humanities |
01/05/12 |
National Endowment for the Arts, Translation
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Through fellowships to exceptionally talented, published translators, the Arts Endowment supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. Grants are for $12,500 or $25,000, depending upon the artistic excellence and merit of the project.
contactNational Endowment for the Arts |
01/15/12 |
Mind & Life Contemplative Studies
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The Mind & Life Institute, with funding from The John Templeton Foundation, invites grant applications that propose to bring fresh perspectives from the humanities into contemplative neuroscience and contemplative clinical science, including but not limited to research on Buddhist contemplative practice. Applicants are required to show how their research strategy and subject matter engage with neuroscientific or clinical studies of contemplative experience. |
01/15/12 |
Smithsonian Office of Fellowships |
(Postdoctoral Fellowships and) Senior Fellowships – Fellowships provide students and scholars with opportunities to pursue independent research projects in association with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff. Applicants to the fellowship programs must propose research in a field pursued at the Smithsonian. The stipend for Predoctoral Fellows is $30,000 per year. The stipend for Postdoctoral and Senior Fellows is $45,000 per year.
contactSmithsonian Institution |
01/16/12 |
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
The Center will host a year-long interdisciplinary Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on the theme “The Age of Emancipation: Black Freedom in the Atlantic World” during the 2012/2013 academic year. The project will coincide with the sesquicentennial of the U.S. Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863).
The Center invites applications for the fellowship from scholars (PhD earned 2006-2011) in all disciplines whose lively presence will help to focus the work and stimulate discussions. The seminar meets weekly and will allow the Fellow ample time to pursue a major research project. The combined interests of the Fellow and the Vanderbilt faculty fellows will determine the exact form and content of seminar discussions. The Fellow is provided with a spacious office within the Center’s own building. The fellowship pays a stipend of $50,000 and provides a research fund of $3000 for the academic year in residence. The fellowship also provides up to $1,500 in moving expenses. contactTeresa Goddu Jane Landers Mona Frederick, Executive Director |
01/31/12 |
Gerda Henkel Prize |
The Gerda Henkel Prize was set up in 2006 and is awarded every two years to excellent and internationally acclaimed researchers who have demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement in the disciplines and funding areas supported by the Foundation. The Gerda Henkel Prize is worth 100,000 euros. The prize money may be used at the winner’s discretion.The Foundation supports national and international academic projects in the following subjects: Archaeology, History, Historical Islamic Studies, Art History, History of Law, and Pre- and Protohistory. The Foundation is active both inside and outside Germany. Awards by nomination only. |
01/31/12 |
National Endowment for the Humanities: Media
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Grants for America’s Media Makers support projects in a range of formats, including interactive digital media and radio and television programs that engage the public in the humanities and explore stories, ideas, and beliefs in order to deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. Projects should encourage dialogue, discussion, and civic engagement, and they should foster learning among people of all ages. To that end, the Division of Public Programs urges applicants to consider more than one format for presenting humanities ideas to the public. NEH offers two categories of grants for media projects: development grants and production grants. Development grants enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop humanities content and format and to prepare programs for production. Production grants support the production and distribution of digital media projects, radio and television programs, and related programs that promise to engage the public. |
02/01/12 |
John Dana Archbold Fellowships |
The John Dana Archbold Fellowship program was established for the purpose of supporting educational exchange between the United States and Norway. It is administered by the Nansen Fund, Inc. in Houston, Texas, in cooperation with the Norway-America Association. The primary purpose of the program is to increase understanding between scholars from the two countries. Americans may apply to come to Norway in even-numbered years (2012, 2014, 2016 etc.) and Norwegians may apply to come to America in odd-numbered years (2013, 2015, 2017 etc.).
contactAnne-Brith Berge, President |
02/01/12 |
National Science Foundation |
Science, Technology, and Society Program (STS) This program supports projects examining questions that arise in the interactions of engineering, science, technology, and society. There are four components: Ethics and Values in Science, Engineering and Technology (EVS); History and Philosophy of Science, Engineering and Technology (HPS); Social Studies of Science, Engineering and Technology (SSS); and Studies of Policy, Science, Engineering and Technology (SPS). The components overlap, but are distinguished by the different scientific and scholarly orientations they take to the subject matter, as well as by different focuses within the subject area.
contactFrederick Kronz, Program Director |
02/15/12 |
The Swedish Institute Guest Scholarship Program |
The Guest Scholarship Program is aimed at those wishing to come to Sweden as guest students for a specific period of time. The programme is not aimed at individuals intending to settle permanently in Sweden.The program provides PhD students and researchers with an excellent opportunity to conduct a study or research visit to a Swedish university within all fields of study. As a Guest Scholarship Program candidate you can choose to apply for a study/research visit to Sweden according to the following models: 1. Postdoctoral research: a long-term postdoctoral research visit of 12 or 18 months. 2. Ph.D. studies: a long-term Ph.D. research visit of 6 or 12 months. contactSwedish Institute |
03/11/12 |
National Endowment for the Arts, Literature
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Fellowships for Creative Writers – Fellowships in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) or poetry are available to published creative writers of exceptional talent. This program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose and poetry available in alternating years. Fellowships for Creative Writers are for $25,000. contactCreative Writing Fellowships |
04/11/12 |
European Research Council Advanced
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ERC Advanced Grants provide an opportunity to established scientists and scholars to pursue frontier research of their choice. Being highly competitive and awarded on the sole criterion of excellence without restriction to particular areas of research, these grants will support the very best of research to be conducted in Europe, adding value to research investments at the national level. Applicants for the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant are expected to be active researchers and to have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years which must be presented in the application. There is little prospect of an application succeeding in the absence of such a record, which identifies investigators as exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions. The ERC actions are open to researchers of any nationality who intend to establish and conduct their research activity in any Member State or Associated Country. The ERC Advanced Grant Principal Investigator (and Co-Investigator) can be of any age and nationality and he/she can reside in any country in the world at the time of the application. |
08/01/12 |
National Science Foundation |
Science, Technology, and Society Program (STS) This program supports projects examining questions that arise in the interactions of engineering, science, technology, and society. There are four components: Ethics and Values in Science, Engineering and Technology (EVS); History and Philosophy of Science, Engineering and Technology (HPS); Social Studies of Science, Engineering and Technology (SSS); and Studies of Policy, Science, Engineering and Technology (SPS). The components overlap, but are distinguished by the different scientific and scholarly orientations they take to the subject matter, as well as by different focuses within the subject area.
contactFrederick Kronz, Program Director |
11/01/12 |
School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM |
School of American Research – Resident Scholar Fellowships – Fellowships provide support to scholars who have completed their research and analysis and who need time to think and write about topics important to the understanding of humankind. Resident scholars may approach their research from the perspective of anthropology or from anthropologically informed perspectives. SAR provides Resident Scholars with low-cost housing and office space on campus, a stipend up to $40,000, library assistance, and other benefits during a nine-month tenure.
contactResident Scholar Program |
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Earhart Foundation |
Fellowship Research Grants – The Earhart Foundation concentrates on educational matters, with emphasis on such disciplines from the social sciences and humanities as economics, philosophy, international affairs, and government. Experimental proposals in related areas are occasionally approved. Proposals should be submitted no less than 120 days prior to the beginning of the projected work period.
contactEarhart Foundation |
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Earhart Foundation |
Fellowship Research Grants – The Earhart Foundation concentrates on educational matters, with emphasis on such disciplines from the social sciences and humanities as economics, philosophy, international affairs, and government. Experimental proposals in related areas are occasionally approved. Proposals should be submitted no less than 120 days prior to the beginning of the projected work period.
contactEarhart Foundation |
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The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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The foundation grants research awards to young, top-flight scientists and scholars from abroad who are already recognized as outstanding researchers in their fields. The research award is given in recognition of the recipients’ research achievements to date. The award winners are also invited to work on research projects of their own choice in cooperation with colleagues in Germany for a period of 6 to 12 months.
Candidates must be nominated by by distinguished scientists/ scholars employed by any university or research institution in Germany. Direct applications are not accepted. Scientists and scholars of all disciplines or research areas, regardless of their nationality, may be nominated for a Humboldt Research Award, provided they have received their doctoral degree within the past 18 years. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation particularly encourages nomination of female scholars.
Scientists and scholars who are nominated for the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award must have attained international prominence through research in their chosen field; they must also show promise that their continuing research will remain on the cutting edge and have ramifications beyond their area of specialization. contactAlexander von Humboldt Foundation |
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Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced
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A Humboldt Research Fellowship for experienced researchers allows recipients to carry out a long-term research project (6-18 months) they have selected themselves in cooperation with an academic host they have selected themselves at a research institution in Germany. The fellowship is flexible and can be divided up into as many as three stays within three years. |
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National University of Singapore |
Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship (IMMF) – The Fellowships are intended to provide opportunities for academics specializing in any area of humanities/arts and social sciences to visit and spend time at the Faculty, conducting research and giving lectures and seminars. Fellows are expected to engage in collaborative research with faculty members. Fellowships may be related to the Department of Chinese Studies, the Department of Communications and New Media, the Department of Economics, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Geography, the Department of History, the Department of Japanese Studies, the Department of Malay Studies, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Psychology, the Department of Social Work, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, the South Asian Studies Programme, and the Centre for Language Studies (CLS). |
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Visiting Fellowship, University of Durham |
A number of the colleges of the University of Durham offer Visiting Fellowships. The fellowships are open to candidates from all subject areas, but the university has a policy of recommending only candidates in subjects taught at the university. This excludes medicine, pharmacy, history of arts, agriculture, and a number of other subjects. Visiting Fellows have no teaching obligations. They are expected to concentrate on their research and to have some good links with a university department. Free board and lodging only. |
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Wellcome Trust, Medical History and
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These travel grants fund short-term visits by scholars based outside the UK or the Republic of Ireland to one of these countries. Visits under this scheme may be to consult libraries or archives and to exchange views or work with colleagues who have similar research interests. Study or lecture tours, meetings of a professional or vocational nature, workshops, symposia and international congresses are normally excluded. The new Medical History and Humanities funding scheme encourages bold and intellectually rigorous research applications that address the important questions at the interface of science, medicine and the wider humanities (including the social sciences and the arts). |
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