Grants, Scholarships and other Opportunities
Call for abstracts for the International Graduate Student Conference 2026
Deadline: September 30th, 2025
Conference date: February 12-15, 2026
East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
The East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference (IGSC) is accepting abstracts from current graduate students around the world for the annual IGSC on the Asia-Pacific region. Launched in 2002, this student-run and organized conference provides an opportunity for scholars to share interdisciplinary perspectives formally, through presenting research papers and attending other panel presentations, and informally in the multi-cultural environment of the East-West Center in Hawai‘i. IGSC welcomes abstracts from any discipline related to the US and Asia-Pacific region.
This year’s conference theme is Legacies Through Time: Rethinking the Past, Confronting the Present, Shaping the Future. IGSC offers a collaborative and supportive space for graduate students to share their work, receive thoughtful feedback, and build conversations across fields and regions. We welcome proposals for presentations in diverse formats including academic papers, creative works, performance, and film. Participants may choose to present in person at the East-West Center or virtually via an online platform, enhancing accessibility for international and remote attendees. Presentations should clearly connect to the conference theme, both in the abstract and delivery. We welcome proposals for presentations in diverse formats including academic papers, creative works, performance, and film. Undergraduates are also welcome to submit proposals that meaningfully engage with the conference theme.
Abstract Submissions
Abstract submissions must be made through the secure Submittable online platform. The abstract submission deadline is September 30th, 2025, 23:59 Hawai‘i Standard Time (HST).
Roosevelt Institute Graduate Humanities Internship
The Roosevelt Institute is pleased to announce the first annual Roosevelt Institute Graduate Humanities Internship. This paid, remote, two-semester internship offers current graduate students in the humanities hands-on experience in key areas such as policy research, grant writing, and communications to create clear professional pathways for humanities students to launch meaningful future careers in public service.
This program, supported by the Mellon Foundation, is for students from a wide variety of humanities backgrounds who are eager to learn how to connect their diverse research skills to the world of public policy. Whatever you currently study—medieval art history, modern ethical theory, literary studies, etc.—if you have a sincere interest in pursuing public service work after graduate studies, we can help you identify and highlight the methodological research and writing skills that are an asset in this sector.
For more information, please go to this website.
National Humanities Center
Fellowships (Faculty)
Purpose: To host fellows from across the humanities at the Center in NC for an academic year. Fellows are given the freedom to work on their projects while benefiting from the services of the Center. Applications are also accepted from individuals in the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects.
Eligibility: Successful candidates typically earned a PhD in a humanities discipline, or equivalent (including MFA) from an accredited university at least 5 years prior to applying for a fellowship. Fellowships are awarded to established scholars, meaning that successful candidates usually have published at least one single-author book or a significant body of peer-reviewed scholarship.
Funding: Half-salary over 9 months and travel expenses, no IDC
Note: the program plans to host 40 fellows.
Key Dates: October 2, 2025 (applications due)
Details: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/become-a-fellow/
The Infosys Prize endeavors to elevate the prestige of science and research in India and inspire young Indians to choose a vocation in research.
The award is given annually to honor outstanding achievements of contemporary researchers and scientists across six Prize Categories – Economics, Engineering & Computer Science, Humanities & Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, and Physical Sciences.
Each prize carries a prize of a gold medal, a citation and a purse of USD 100,000 (or its equivalent in Rupees). The prize purse is tax free in the hands of winners in India.
For more information, please visit the website or email Serene Kasim at serene_kasim@infosys.com.
Fellowships & Grants [includes PhD students]
Purpose: To support cultural exchanges between artists, scholars, and arts professionals, with activities aimed at advancing international dialogue for better mutual understanding and respect between Asia and the U.S. ACC focuses on transformative cultural enrichment opportunities rather than production-based activities.
Organization Grants offer an opportunity for arts and culture organizations in Asia and the United States to pursue travel and activities that enable a deep cultural exchange experience for the organization, their staff, and other individuals and communities with whom they connect. Grants support a range of activities that advance international dialogue, the sharing of practices and ideas, and the building of relationships across borders.
The New York Fellowship is a 6-month program that offers artists, scholars, and arts professionals from Asia a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the rich and varied cultural life of New York City.
The Individual Fellowship program offers an opportunity for artists, scholars, and arts professionals in Asia and the United States to pursue research and a self-directed cultural exchange experience in another country, territory, or region. Individual Fellows are meant explore focused research questions and activities that enable and promote cultural immersion, dialogue, relationship-building, collaboration, and the exchange of knowledge and ideas among peers.
Graduate Fellowships to support the travel and living expenses of graduate students from Asia who choose to study in the United States
Eligibility:
Eligible destinations for Individual Fellowships and Organizations grants: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China (Mainland), East Timor, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macau SAR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan ROC, Thailand, United States, and Vietnam.
Applicants must demonstrate 5+ years of experience in one of the eligible disciplines: Architecture, Archaeology, Art History, Arts Administration, Conservation, Dance, Film/Video/Photography, Literature, Museum Studies, Music, Theater, Visual Art, etc.
New York and Graduate Fellowships must take place in the U.S.
Graduate Fellowship applicants must be enrolled in full-time, in-residence degree programs within the US OR able to provide proof of admission and acceptance to an accredited university by April 1, 2026. US citizens, including dual-nationals, and U.S. permanent residents are not eligible to apply for a Graduate Fellowship.
Funding:
Organization Grant: Up to $50,000.
New York Fellowship: $35,000 for 6 months.
Individual Fellowship: Grants up to $35,000.
Graduate Fellowship: $15,000 per academic year, renewable for another year.
Key Date:
November 19, 2025 (application deadline)
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Watch the video below from the Boston University event on April 22, filmed inside the Boston University Riverside Room, for a sense of the tour.
Afro-Asian Diaspora and the Eaton Sisters at the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library
Who Are the Eaton Sisters?
Edith and Winnifred Eaton—or the “Eaton Sisters”—were born in the late nineteenth century to Chinese and English parents. In their writing, which transcended genres including poetry, short stories, journalistic articles, and travel nonfiction, the Eaton Sisters faced marginalization due to their mixed ethnic identities. Today, however, they are widely known as foundational figures in Asian American Studies, and their papers and writings are held made publicly available through institutions like the New York Public Library and the Winnifred Eaton Archive.
Though the Eaton sisters worked primarily in Western Chinatowns and Japan, their writing traverses and crosses into various spaces. In particular, their time in Jamaica and exposure to Blackness while there informed how they understood and performed their own ethnic identities—an understanding that is reflected in their later works. This essay provides a glimpse into their diasporic travel, publishing works, and textual networks in Jamaica, which have not been given much focus to date.
(From the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. Please see their website for the rest of the web publication.)