Now Open for Applications: Striving for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Asian Studies Grants (Association for Asian Studies)

The Association for Asian Studies has received a $1 million grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This grant is awarded through the NEH’s Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) program, which supports humanities organizations, programs, and professionals at the local level, advancing economic recovery within a cultural sector devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our project, “Striving for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Asian Studies: Humanities Grants for Asian Studies Scholars,” will enable the AAS to make approximately 30 individual awards to provide relief from the coronavirus pandemic to Asian Studies professionals to conduct humanities research, teaching development, and multimedia projects. These constituents include Black scholars of Asia, contingent/adjunct faculty in academic institutions, first-generation scholars, junior scholars in the field, independent scholars, and Asia specialists working outside the professoriate. 

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There are 5 different fellowships available to applicants. Each Fellowship is funded for a one year term, with $60,000 paid out in montly stipends during the grant period. Fellows are expected to work on their projects full-time. LEARN MORE
These grants are designed to provide support to contingent faculty at 2 and 4-year institutions of higher learning and underemployed, unemployed, or independent scholars who are Asia specialists. LEARN MORE
This grant provides support for contingent faculty, unemployed scholars, and independent scholars who are Asia specialists to publish a full-length book based on their research in the humanities. LEARN MORE