Updated August 2011
COLLABORATIVE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES OPEN TO FACULTY
IN THE HUMANITIES
and
HUMANITIES-ORIENTED SOCIAL SCIENCES
It is our hope that this list of collaborative grant and fellowship opportunities and will help you to determine
which external agencies might fund your collaborative project.
To navigate, keep the document in layout view, scroll to the table of contents, then click on the page number for
the program you wish to review. This will take you directly to that entry. If you then wish to learn more, click
on the agency’s website address (URL), which you will find near the bottom of the entry. If clicking doesn’t
work, copy the URL, paste it into the address line of your web browser, and type return.
Before starting any application, check the agency website. Humanities and area studies centers sometimes have
shifting themes and agency programs; application requirements, deadlines, and focus areas are subject to
change. Verify deadlines and other critical information by visiting the sponsoring institution’s website or
contacting the agency via e-mail or telephone prior to beginning an application. This is especially true for
agencies that had not posted new deadlines when we updated this list (we’ve noted such cases on the list).
Most agencies have deadlines only once each year and take from three to six months to announce results.
Therefore, think long-term when planning your grant/fellowship application strategies. Preparing a viable
proposal takes effort, organization, and effective time management, so please do give yourself the time you will
need to develop a competitive proposal. For fellowships, that means starting the process at least eight weeks
before the deadline, preferably longer; for institutional proposals it is at least six months before the deadline.
Please also keep in mind that the internal deadline is one workweek (five working days) prior to the agency’s
deadline.
Although this opportunities list is extensive, it is not exhaustive. If you know of sources we have not included,
which you believe will appeal to a broad spectrum of humanities and social sciences faculty members, please let
us know. We’re always seeking to add viable new funding sources to this list.
Please contact us to discuss the funding possibilities that seem to meet your needs. We will be happy to work
with you to develop a personal grant development plan and application timeline. We look forward to helping
you to develop your external fellowship and grant applications.
Kathy Porsch and Sally Utech, Grant Development Officers
Humanities Grant Development Office
900 Sunnyside Ave.
kporsch@ku.edu • sutech@ku.edu
785/864-7834 or 785/864-7833
http://www.hallcenter.ku.edu/grants/development/index.shtml
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNAL COLLABORATIVE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES (KU) ........................................................ 1
THE COMMONS INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH INITIATIVE IN NATURE AND CULTURE SEED GRANT ............. 1
HALL CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH SEED GRANT............................................. 1
EXTERNAL COLLABORATIVE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES: INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS,
CONTRACTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS ............................................................................................................... 1
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES (ACLS) ...................................................................................... 1
Collaborative Research Awards...................................................................................................................... 1
THE BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION................................................................................................... 2
FORD FOUNDATION ............................................................................................................................................. 2
THE JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ................................................................................................................. 2
KANSAS HUMANITIES COUNCIL .......................................................................................................................... 2
THE LUMINA FOUNDATION ................................................................................................................................. 2
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR EURASIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN RESEARCH (NCEEER), TITLE VIII NATIONAL
RESEARCH CONTRACT COMPETITION ................................................................................................................. 3
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS ........................................................ 3
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ................................................................................................. 3
Bridging Cultures: Planning and Implementation Grants for Academic Forums and Program Development
Workshops ....................................................................................................................................................... 3
Collaborative Research Grants ....................................................................................................................... 4
DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Enriching Digital Collections........................................ 5
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants ............................................................................................................... 5
Enduring Questions ......................................................................................................................................... 5
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources .......................................................................................... 5
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities .............................................................................. 6
National Digital Newspaper Program ............................................................................................................ 6
Preservation and Access: Education and Training and Research and Development ..................................... 6
Scholarly Editions and Translations ............................................................................................................... 7
Summer Seminars and Institutes ..................................................................................................................... 7
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION ...................................................................................................................... 7
International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops ....................................................... 7
International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP) ..................................................................................... 7
Research Coordination Networks (RCN) ........................................................................................................ 8
Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships ........................................................................... 8
RIKSBANKENS JUBILEUMSFOND EUROPE AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES .............................................................. 8
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION .................................................. 9
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SCIENCE OF VIRTUES................................................................................................. 9
EXTERNAL COLLABORATIVE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES: INDIVIDUAL GRANTS AND
FELLOWSHIPS.................................................................................................................................................... 9
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION TRANSCOOP PROGRAM ............................................................... 9
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS .................................................... 10
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: ACTR/ACCELS AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR
EURASIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN RESEARCH (NCEEER) AND THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE
HUMANITIES (NEH) COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP ...................................................................... 10
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES (ACLS) .................................................................................... 10
Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society ......................................................................... 10
Digital Innovation Fellowships ..................................................................................................................... 10
CEC ARTSLINK PROJECTS ................................................................................................................................ 11
FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM/FULBRIGHT NEW CENTURY SCHOLARS PROGRAM ..................................... 11
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA QUADRANT FELLOWSHIPS ............. 11
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NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR EURASIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN RESEARCH (NCEEER), TITLE VIII NATIONAL
RESEARCH GRANT COMPETITION ..................................................................................................................... 12
PROGRAM FOR CULTURAL COOPERATION BETWEEN SPAIN’S MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND UNITED STATES’
UNIVERSITIES .................................................................................................................................................... 12
RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION ............................................................................................................................ 12
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (SSRC) ................................................................................................ 12
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS .......................................................................................................... 13
THE WENNER-GREN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS .......................... 13
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Internal Collaborative Funding Opportunities (KU)
The Commons Interdisciplinary Research Initiative in Nature and Culture Seed Grant
The Commons at the University of Kansas explores nature and culture and their reciprocal impacts across
the sciences, arts and humanities. In so doing, the Commons intends to be a catalyst for bold innovation,
unconventional thinking and unexpected discoveries. The Commons Interdisciplinary Research Initiative
in Nature and Culture is a KU-wide, competitive seed-grant program to nurture and develop
interdisciplinary, collaborative research ideas and extramural grant proposals. The Commons seed grant
program targets concepts and their interdisciplinary synthesis, not the generation of preliminary data.
Seed grant activities may include exploratory research workshops, studios, colloquia, symposia, scholarly
travel and visits, and other activities that advance interdisciplinary research ideas, collaborations and
extramural proposals. Proposals that create and integrate ideas across the arts, sciences and humanities
will be most competitive. Research partnerships across KU units and between KU and other universities
and institutions are strongly encouraged. The outcome of a seed grant should be the development and
submission of a substantive research grant proposal to an external funding entity.
URL: www.thecommons.ku.edu
DEADLINE: September 12
Hall Center for the Humanities Collaborative Research Seed Grant
The CRSG program is part of a Hall Center initiative to promote and facilitate collaborative research in
the humanities and humanities-oriented social sciences. The goal is to encourage KU faculty members
conducting humanities-oriented research to stretch beyond the traditional single investigator model and
fully engage with at least one partner in a collaborative research endeavor. Teams should propose original
research projects designed to produce results neither investigator could easily accomplish alone. The
immediate aim of this program is to fund the early stages of collaborative research projects and enhance
their competitiveness for extramural grants. Successful collaborative research projects will illustrate the
potential that collaboration holds for humanities scholarship. The Hall Center will provide up to $15,000
to support intensive collaboration on a substantive original humanities research project. Applicants may
request the full $15,000 but may be awarded a smaller amount.
URL: http://www.hallcenter.ku.edu
DEADLINE: March 14 (last known deadline)
External Collaborative Funding Opportunities: Institutional Grants, Contracts, and Fellowships
Note: These applications must be submitted through the University of Kansas Center for Research (KUCR). The
Humanities Grant Development Office will serve as your liaison with KUCR throughout the process.
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
The following are ACLS fellowships and awards that focus on collaboration and digital projects.
Collaborative Research Awards
These awards support collaborative research in the humanities and related social sciences.
Collaborations need not be interdisciplinary or inter-institutional, but must involve at least two
scholars; applicants at the same institution must demonstrate why local funding is insufficient to
support the project. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help demonstrate the range
and value of both collaborative research and inquiry into the humanities, and model how such
collaboration may be carried out successfully. Collaborations that involve the participation of
assistant and associate faculty members, or that of scholars of different kinds of institutions, are
particularly encouraged. The award is for a total period of up to 24 months. The award includes
stipends to allow up to an academic year’s leave from teaching for participants, as well as up to
$20,000 in collaboration costs to facilitate face-to-face virtual interactions. Awards amounts will
range from $60,000 to $140,000 in total, depending on the nature and duration of the collaboration,
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the kinds of expenses projected to carry out the research, and the number of participants. Salaryreplacement stipends are based on academic rank: up to $35,000 for Assistant professor and career
equivalent; up to $40,000 for Associate Professor and career equivalent; and up to $60,000 for full
Professor and career equivalent.
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=3154&linkidentifier=id&itemid=3154
DEADLINE: September 28
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation offers grants in three major program areas: Global Development,
Global Health, and the United States. Each program area lists the current funding priorities; please check
website for details. The Foundation encourages large-scale, sustainable, collaborative projects.
URL: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx
DEADLINE: Varies, please see website
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation offers grants to institutions in the following areas of interest: Democratic and
Accountable Government, Human Rights, Social Justice and Philanthropy, Economic Fairness,
Metropolitan Opportunity, Sustainable Development, Educational Opportunity and Scholarship, Freedom
of Expression, and Sexuality and Reproductive Health Rights. Interested applicants are asked to submit an
online grant inquiry. Large-scale, sustainable, collaborative projects are encouraged by the foundation.
URL: http://www.fordfoundation.org/
DEADLINE: Rolling
The John Templeton Foundation
The Templeton Foundation offers grants in the core area of “Science and the Big Questions,” including
Human Sciences (anthropology, sociology, political science and psychology) and Philosophy and
Theology.
URL: http://www.templeton.org/
DEADLINE: October 14 and April 15 (Letters of Inquiry)
Kansas Humanities Council
The Kansas Humanities Council is looking for partners across the state who have creative ideas for
sharing the humanities with their own community. This could be projects like a short film, museum
exhibition, a plan to preserve a collection of historic photographs or quilts, a series of podcasts, or even an
oral history project to capture the voices from your community's past.
URL:
http://kansashumanities.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=123&Itemid=160
DEADLINE: October 7
The Lumina Foundation
Lumina Foundation supports efforts to increase awareness of the benefits of higher education, improve
student access to and preparedness for college, improve student success in college and increase
productivity across the higher education system. Such efforts include: Work that stimulates broad-based
and systemic change, helping the Foundation to accelerate progress on Goal 2025; Work that focuses on
promoting educational access and success for underserved populations, especially low-income students,
students of color, first-generation college students and adult learners; Work to create a more informed
environment that is willing to adopt more effective practices and policy reform around issues of access
and success; Programs that demonstrate capacity for long-term growth and sustainability; Research and/or
evaluation that results in new knowledge and evidence to strengthen opportunities for postsecondary
access and success; Work that addresses increasing efficiency, effectiveness and productivity to more
cost-effectively educate a significantly larger share of the U.S. population; Collaborative work among
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established organizations with broad, large-scale, interstate or national reach. Grants vary in size by their
scope. The median size of a grant is approximately $250,000. The usual duration for a grant is one to
three years.
URL: http://www.luminafoundation.org/grants/information_for_grant_seekers/what_we_fund.html
DEADLINE: Through September (Letters of Inquiry)
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), Title VIII National
Research Contract Competition
Research Contracts support collaborative projects involving multiple post-doctoral scholars, or
individuals with comparable research skills who do not hold PhDs. To be eligible, projects must include
at least one U.S.-based scholar or researcher in the humanities and social sciences and one or more
scholars or individuals with comparable skills in any country of Eurasia or East-Central Europe. The
maximum award is $70,000. Contracts provide funding to scholars or researchers via institutional awards
and involve different application forms and guidelines than are required for the individual fellowship
competition described in the individual grants and fellowships section below. Research contracts may
begin as early as October 1 and NCEEER retains right of first refusal for publication of the research
resulting from the agency’s support in the journal Problems of Post-Communism.
URL: http://www.nceeer.org/Programs/NRC/nrc.php or
http://www.nceeer.org/Programs/NRC/nrc.php - application.
DEADLINE: February 15 (last known deadline)
National Endowment for the Arts International Partnerships
USArtists International, U.S./ Japan Creative Artists' Program, ArtsLink Residencies, Open World
Cultural Leaders Program, NEA International Literary Exchanges, The Big Read International, and
Presentation of Foreign Artists in the U.S.
Through cooperative initiatives with other funders, the National Endowment for the Arts brings the
benefit of international exchange to arts organizations, artists, and audiences nationwide. NEA's
international activities increase recognition of the excellence of U.S. arts around the world and broaden
the scope of experience of American artists, thereby enriching the art they create. Through partnerships
with other government agencies and the private sector, the NEA fosters international creative
collaboration by strengthening residency programs of foreign artists in communities across the country.
Local citizens as well as the arts community benefit from the lasting international ties that result.
URL: http://www.arts.gov/partner/international/index.html
DEADLINE: Various, see website for individual program deadlines
National Endowment for the Humanities
The following are NEH programs that require, encourage, or accept collaborative proposals.
Bridging Cultures: Planning and Implementation Grants for Academic Forums and Program
Development Workshops
As part of its Bridging Cultures initiative, NEH welcomes proposals to plan and implement a
program consisting of a forum and a workshop on one of two humanities themes: “Civility and
Democracy” or “The Muslim World and the Humanities.” Project proposals for “Civility and
Democracy” or “The Muslim World and the Humanities” should consist of two elements: a forum
that engages scholars and humanities practitioners in discussion among themselves and with a public
audience about one of the two themes; and a workshop at which humanities practitioners, scholars,
and teachers collaborate to devise content, formats, training strategies, and education and
dissemination methods for a nationwide or regional program that engages people in communities
across the country in reflection on, and discussion of, the forum theme. The forum and workshop
should be integrated intellectually and programmatically.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/BridgingCultures.html
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DEADLINE: June 1 (last known deadline)
Collaborative Research Grants
These institutional grants support original research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars or
research coordinated by an individual scholar that, because of its scope or complexity, requires
additional staff and resources beyond the individual's salary. 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 ongoing 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); translations into
English of works that provide insight into the history, literature, philosophy, and artistic achievements
of other cultures; and research that uses the knowledge, methods, and perspectives of the humanities
to enhance understanding of science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences. These grants
support full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. Support is available for
various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-related travel;
fieldwork; 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.
URL: http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/collaborative.html
DEADLINE: October 28 (last known deadline)
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DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Enriching Digital Collections
These grants offer support for digitization projects in the humanities. These grants provide funding
for up to three years of development in any of the following areas: new digitization projects and pilot
projects; the addition of important materials to existing digitization projects; and the development of
tools and infrastructure to enhance the use of digitized resources and support international digitization
work. Collaboration between U.S. and German partners is a key requirement for this grant category.
Each application must be sponsored by at least one eligible German individual or institution, and at
least one U.S. institution, and there must be a project director from each country.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/DFG_EDC.html
DEADLINE: November 16 (last known deadline)
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
These institutional grants are intended to foster new collaborations and advance the role of cultural
repositories in online teaching, learning, and research, this program is co-sponsored by the Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS). NEH and IMLS encourage library and museum officials as
well as scholars, scientists, educational institutions, and other non-profit organizations to apply for
these grants and to collaborate when appropriate. Innovation is a hallmark of this grant category. All
applicants must propose an innovative approach, method, tool, or idea that has not been used before
in the humanities. These grants are modeled, in part, on the “high risk/high reward ” paradigm often
used by funding agencies in the sciences. NEH is requesting proposals for projects that take some
risks in the pursuit of innovation and excellence. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants should result in
plans, prototypes, or proofs of concept for long-term digital humanities projects prior to
implementation. Two levels of awards are made in this program. Level I awards are small grants
designed to fund brainstorming sessions, workshops, early alpha-level prototypes, and initial
planning. Level II awards are larger grants that can be used for more fully-formed projects that are
ready to start the first stage of implementation or the creation of working prototypes.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html
DEADLINES: September 27
Enduring Questions
The NEH Enduring Questions grant program supports the development of a new course that will
foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. This course will encourage
undergraduates and teachers to grapple with a fundamental question addressed by the humanities, and
to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers
over the centuries and into the present day. Enduring questions are questions to which no discipline,
field, or professions can lay an exclusive claim. In many cases they predate the formation of the
academic disciplines themselves. Enduring questions can be tackled by reflective individuals
regardless of their chosen vocations, areas of expertise, or personal backgrounds. They are questions
that have more than one plausible or compelling answer. They have long held interest for young
people, and they allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations. The Enduring Questions
grant program will help promote such dialogue in today’s undergraduate environment. The course is
to be developed by one or more (up to four) faculty members, but not team taught. Enduring
Questions courses must be taught from a common syllabus and must be offered during the grant
period at least twice by each faculty member involved in developing the course. The grant supports
the work of a faculty member in designing, preparing, and assessing the course.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html
DEADLINE: September 15
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program supports projects that provide an
essential foundation for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities.
Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain
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important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images,
archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from
this program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content
widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various
reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information
quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/HCRR.html
DEADLINE: July 20 (last known deadline)
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
These institutional grants support national or regional (multi-state) training programs on approaches
in humanities computing. NEH strongly encourages applicants to develop proposals for
multidisciplinary teams of co-applicants, partners, and collaborators that will offer the necessary
range of intellectual, technical, and practical expertise. This program is designed to bring together
humanities scholars, advanced graduate students, computer scientists, and others to learn new tools
and technologies and to foster relationships for future collaborations in the humanities. Partners and
collaborators may be drawn from the private and public sectors and include appropriate specialists
from within and outside the US. The purpose is to increase the number of humanities scholars using
digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology
applications relevant to the humanities. The objectives are to: bring together humanities scholars and
digital technology specialists from different disciplines to share ideas and methods that advance
humanities research through the use of digital technologies, reflect on, interpret, and analyze new
digital media, multimedia, and text-based computing technologies and integrate these into humanities
research, prepare current and future generations of humanities scholars to design, develop, and use
cyber-based tools and environments for research, and devise new and creative uses for technology
that offer valuable models that can be applied specifically to research in the humanities.The projects
may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences, although the duration of
a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/IATDH.html
DEADLINE: February 16 (last known deadline)
National Digital Newspaper Program
NDNP is creating a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between
1836 and 1922, from all the states and U.S. territories. This searchable database will be permanently
maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be freely accessible via the Internet. NEH intends to
support projects in all states and U.S. territories, provided that sufficient funds allocated for this
purpose are available. One organization within each U.S. state or territory will receive an award
to collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort. Previously funded projects will be eligible
for continued support, but the program will give priority to new projects. Applications that involve
collaboration between previously funded and new projects are welcome. Such collaborations might
involve, for example, arranging with current awardees to manage the creation and delivery of digital
files; offering regular and ongoing consultation on managing aspects of the project; or providing
formal training for project staff at an onsite institute or workshop.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html
DEADLINE: January 13 (last known deadline)
Preservation and Access: Education and Training and Research and Development
These grants help staff members of cultural institutions obtain the knowledge and skills needed to
serve as effective stewards of humanities collections and educational programs that prepare the next
generation of conservators and preservation professionals, as well as projects that introduce the staff
of cultural institutions to new information and advances in preservation and access practices.
Research and Development grants support projects that address major challenges in preserving or
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providing access to humanities collections and resources, including the need to find better ways to
preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage–from fragile artifacts and
manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence–and to
develop advanced modes of searching, discovering, and using such materials.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pet.html (Education and Training)
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/PARD.html (Research and Development)
DEADLINE: June 30 for Ed. & Training; May 19 for R&D (last known deadline for both)
Scholarly Editions and Translations
These grants support the preparation of editions of pre-existing texts and documents that are currently
inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. Projects teams must include at least one editor and
one other staff member. Grants typically support editions of significant literary, philosophical, and
historical materials. Collaborations can involve faculty members from the same or multiple campuses.
Applicants must demonstrate familiarity with the best practices recommended by the Association for
Documentary Editing or the Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions.
Editions must contain scholarly and critical apparatus appropriate to the subject matter and format of
the edition, typically introductions and annotations that provide essential information about the form,
transmission, and historical and intellectual context of the texts and documents involved. Proposals
for editions of foreign language materials in the original language are eligible for funding. Proposals
for editions of translated materials should be submitted to the Collaborative Research program.
URL: http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/editions.html
DEADLINE: October 28 (last known deadline)
Summer Seminars and Institutes
These grants support faculty development programs in the humanities for K-12 school teachers and
college and university teachers. NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes may be as short as two weeks
or as long as six weeks. The duration of a program should allow for a rigorous treatment of its topic.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html
DEADLINE: March 1 (last known deadline)
National Science Foundation
The following competitions within NSF offer collaborative opportunities within its SBE (Social,
Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) directorate.
International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops
These awards support the early phases of developing and coordinating a research and education
activity with a foreign partner(s). This program provides educational opportunities for Undergraduate
Students, Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows. This program provides indirect funding for
students at this level or focuses on educational developments for this group such as curricula
development, training or retention.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12815&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39
DEADLINE: Planning Visits, Rolling; Workshops, September 1
International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP)
The objective of the International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP) is to introduce scientists and
engineers in the early stages of their careers to international collaborative research opportunities,
thereby furthering their research capacity and global perspective and forging long-term relationships
with scientists, technologists and engineers abroad. These awards are available in any field of science
and engineering research and education supported by NSF.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5179&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
DEADLINE: September 13 (second Tuesday in September, Annually thereafter)
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Research Coordination Networks (RCN)
The goal of this program is to advance a field or create new directions in research or education.
Innovative ideas for implementing novel networking strategies are especially encouraged. Groups of
investigators will be supported to communicate and coordinate their research, training and
educational activities across disciplinary, organizational, geographic and international boundaries.
Proposed networking activities directed to the general RCN program should focus on a theme to give
coherence to the collaboration, such as a broad research question or particular technologies or
approaches. The general RCN program will provide review for proposals to participating core
programs and directorates listed in the solicitation, excepting Mathematical & Physical Sciences.
Proposals involving mathematical and physical scientists will be accepted under the targeted
physical/life science interface track described below. Additional targeted tracks within the RCN
programs are intended to foster linkages across selected directorates.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11691&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
DEADLINE: Various, please see website for details
Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships
The Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships program supports innovative,
potentially transformative, complex research and education projects that require large-scale, longterm awards. STCs conduct world-class research through partnerships among academic institutions,
national laboratories, industrial organizations, and/or other public/private entities, and via
international collaborations, as appropriate. They provide a means to undertake important
investigations at the interfaces of disciplines and/or fresh approaches within disciplines. STC
investments support the NSF vision of advancing discovery, innovation and education beyond the
frontiers of current knowledge, and empowering future generations in science and engineering.
Centers provide a rich environment for encouraging future scientists, engineers, and educators to take
risks in pursuing discoveries and new knowledge. STCs foster excellence in education by integrating
education and research, and by creating bonds between learning and inquiry so that discovery and
creativity fully support the learning process. NSF expects STCs to demonstrate leadership in the
involvement of groups traditionally underrepresented in science and engineering at all levels within
the Center. To achieve their diversity objectives, STCs are expected to involve individuals from
underrepresented groups as members of the Center faculty, and as students actively engaged in Center
activities. STCs are strongly encouraged to form meaningful, substantive and long-term partnerships
with minority-serving institutions, women's colleges and institutions that primarily serve students
with disabilities, thereby providing formal connections with institutions that serve large populations
of underrepresented students interested in STEM. Centers undertake activities that will facilitate
knowledge transfer, i.e., the mutual exchange of scientific and technical information among the
Center partners and others with the objective of disseminating and utilizing knowledge broadly in
multiple sectors.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5541&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
DEADLINE: February 3
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Europe and Global Challenges
Today, problems ranging from regional conflicts, migration, and terrorism to pandemics and financial
instabilities are perceived as "global challenges." Europeans share these problems with the rest of the
world, but do they also share a knowledge base to address them through collective action? In order to
explore concrete answers to this question the European foundations Compagnia di San Paolo in Turin,
Italy, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond in Stockholm, Sweden, and VolkswagenStiftung in Hanover, Germany,
have joined together to offer research funding and networking support in scope and scale to encourage
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transnational and transdisciplinary research groups. The focus of the research groups should be on policy
issues of special concern for the European Union (EU) and for its partners in the neighbourhood as well
as in other regions of the world. Procedural and organisational aspects of addressing policy issues might
be covered along with the research issues themselves. Disciplines concerned with "global governance"
will obviously contribute to the new programme. Inputs from other areas of knowledge, e.g., science and
medicine, might be needed to address some of the issues under examination, but the disciplinary focus
within each research group should be on the social sciences and the humanities. The issues studied should
be relevant for the EU as a global actor. Preference will be given to proposals that relate to contributions
from various disciplines, that are innovative and cover new ground.
URL: http://www.rj.se/6/1087/var/newsID/261
DEADLINE: April 30
U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) Programs
FIPSE offers both the Comprehensive Program and several International Programs. The Comprehensive
Program supports and disseminates innovative reform projects that promise to be models for improving
the quality of postsecondary education and increasing student access. International Program areas include:
U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program, European Union-United States Atlantis Program,
Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education, and the United States-Russia Program.
URL: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/fipse/index.html
DEADLINE: Various, please see website for specific Program information
University of Chicago Science of Virtues
The Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce a new $3 million research
program on a New Science of Virtues, which funds research that addresses the question of "in what ways
might the humanities and the sciences cooperate to develop richer understandings of virtue for modern
societies?" This is a multidisciplinary research initiative that seeks contributions from individuals and
from teams of investigators working within the humanities and the sciences. We support highly original,
scholarly projects that demonstrate promise of a distinctive contribution to virtue research and have the
potential to begin a new field of interdisciplinary study. In 2010, about twenty (20), two-year research
grants will be awarded ranging from $50,000 to $300,000. Scholars and scientists from around the world
are invited to submit Letters of Intent (LOI) as entry into a research grant competition.
URL: http://arete.uchicago.edu/projects/scienceofvirtues.shtml
DEADLINE: March 2 (letters of intent); October 1 (full proposals) (last known deadlines for both)
External Collaborative Funding Opportunities: Individual Grants and Fellowships
Note: These grants an be submitted directly to the agency through the Humanities Grant Development Office
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation TransCoop Program
NOTE: It is not possible anymore to apply for this programme. As new programme offer the Anneliese
Maier Research Award was established.
The Program supports transatlantic research cooperation between German, American and/or Canadian
scholars in the humanities, social sciences, economics, and law. Joint research initiatives can receive up to
55,000 EUR over a three-year period. Prerequisite is that the American and/or Canadian partners raise
matching funds equalling at least the amount granted by TransCoop. Funds can be used to finance shortterm research visits lasting up to three months, to organise conferences and workshops, for material and
equipment and printing costs, as well as for a limited amount of research assistance. Up to 15 p.c. of the
TransCoop funds granted can be earmarked for the German partner institution and used as an
administrative lump-sum.
URL: http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/transcoop-en.html
DEADLINE: April 30 (last known deadline)
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American Academy of Religion Collaborative Research Grants
The AAR each year grants awards ranging from $500 to $5000 to support projects proposed by AAR
members and selected by the AAR Research Grants Review Committee. These projects can be either
collaborative or individual. Collaborative grants are intended to stimulate cooperative research among
scholars in different institutions, with a focus on a clearly identified research project. They may also be
used for interdisciplinary work with scholars outside the field of religion, especially when such work
shows promise of continuing beyond the year funded. Collaborative project proposals are expected to
describe plans for having the results of the research published.
URL: http://www.aarweb.org/Programs/Grants/Research/collaborative.asp
DEADLINE: August 1
American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS and the National Council for
Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) and the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Fellowship
The Collaborative Research Fellowship supports a wide range of humanities topics including, but not
limited to, linguistics, literature, history, philosophy, archaeology, comparative religion, ethics and the
history criticism, and theory of the arts. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or other terminal degree and have a
working knowledge of one or more of the languages of East-Central Europe or Eurasia, or be able to
demonstrate that such language proficiency is not critical for the successful completion of their particular
projects. Additionally, all projects must involve at least one collaborator from the region. Program
organizers will make every effort to support the work of U.S. humanists from fields under-represented in
scholarship on East-Central Europe and Eurasia in the past, for example, American studies, art history,
comparative literature, cultural anthropology, musicology, and philosophy.
URL: http://www.americancouncils.org/researchFellowships.php
DEADLINE: various; please see website for details
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
The following are ACLS fellowships and awards that focus on collaboration and digital projects.
Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society
ACLS invites applications for grants to support collaborative work in China studies. In this cycle
of competitions we are soliciting proposals in the humanities and related social sciences that
adopt
an explicitly cross-cultural or comparative perspective. We invite submission of projects
that, for example, compare aspects of Chinese history and culture with those of other nations and
civilizations, explore the interaction of these nations and civilizations, or engage in cross-cultural
research on the relations among the
diverse and shifting populations of China. Proposals are
expected to be empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and methodologically explicit. The
program will support collaborative work of three types: Planning Meetings: Grants up to $6,000
will be offered for one-day meetings to plan conferences or workshops, or for less structured
explorations, e.g., brainstorming sessions; Workshops: Grants up to $15,000 will be offered for
workshops designed to facilitate ongoing research on newly available or inadequately researched
data or texts. Workshops are understood to last three to four days and provide an opportunity for
participants to discuss and analyze new approaches and/or new sources in a seminar-like setting;
Conferences: Grants up to $25,000 will be offered for formal research conferences intended to
produce significant new research that will be published in a conference volume.
URL: http://www.acls.org/programs/chinese-culture/
DEADLINE: September 29 (last known deadline)
Digital Innovation Fellowships
This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and
humanities-related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance
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digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust
infrastructure necessary for creating further such works. ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships are
intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a
digital form. ACLS will award up to six digital innovation Fellowships in the competition year,
including projects on which two scholars are collaborating. Collaborating scholars should apply
separately and indicate that their project is collaborative. Each fellowship carries a stipend of up to
$60,000 towards an academic year’s leave and provides for project costs of up to $25,000. ACLS
Digital Innovation Fellowships are intended as salary replacement and may be held concurrently with
other fellowships and grants and any sabbatical pay up to an amount equal to the candidates’ current
academic year salary.
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=508&linkidentifier=id&itemid=508
DEADLINE: September 28
CEC ArtsLink Projects
ArtsLink Projects provides support to US artists, curators, presenters and arts organizations undertaking
projects in Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. Applicants must be
working with an artist or organization in that region and projects should be designed to benefit
participants and audiences in both the US and the host country. Support is provided to create new work
that draws inspiration from interaction with artists and the community in the US; to establish mutually
beneficial exchange of ideas and expertise between artists, arts organizations and the local community
and to pursue artistic cooperation that will enrich creative or professional development or has potential to
expand the community's access to the art of other cultures. ArtsLink has a cycle of alternate year
deadlines according to discipline.
URL: http://www.cecartslink.org/grants/artslink_projects/
DEADLINE: January 15 (for AY 13-14)
Fulbright Scholar Program/Fulbright New Century Scholars Program
The Fulbright New Century Scholars Program (NCS) is a global program that annually brings together
25-30 research scholars and professionals from the US and participating countries around the world.
Through a series of three plenary seminar meetings and a Fulbright exchange visit, scholars engage in
collaborative thinking and multi-disciplinary research on a theme of global significance. NCS scholars
engage in multi-disciplinary collaboration under the leadership of a Distinguished Scholar Facilitator and
work together to seek solutions to issues and concerns that affect all humankind and deserve the attention
of researchers, policy makers, and practitioners.
URL: http://www.cies.org/NCS/#overview
DEADLINE: November 15 (last known deadline; please see website for updated information)
Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota Quadrant Fellowships
Scholars pursuing interdisciplinary work are invited to apply for a semester-long Quadrant Fellowship at
the University of Minnesota to be held in academic year 2010-2011. Quadrant is a joint initiative of the
University of Minnesota Press, a leader in interdisciplinary scholarly publishing, and the Institute for
Advanced Study. Fellows will receive a stipend of up to $30,000, depending on rank and experience;
fellowships include medical and dental coverage. At the IAS, fellows will participate in weekly lunches,
coffees, and public lectures with a lively interdisciplinary community that includes University of
Minnesota fellows and other Quadrant fellows. They will also be involved in at least one of Quadrant's
research and publishing collaboratives: Design, Architecture, and Culture; Environment, Culture, and
Sustainability; Global Cultures; and Health and Society. Fellows will give a public lecture and will
present a work-in-progress in a workshop setting with their Quadrant collaborative group or groups. In
addition, they will work directly with an editor from the University of Minnesota Press to develop their
manuscripts for submission. Manuscripts submitted to the University of Minnesota Press will undergo
standard peer review and Press board approval process.
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URL: http://www.ias.umn.edu/quadrantapply.php
DEADLINE: November 19 (last known deadline)
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), Title VIII National
Research Grant Competition
Research Grants support collaborative projects involving multiple post-doctoral scholars, or individuals
with comparable research skills who do not hold PhDs. To be eligible, projects must include at least one
U.S.-based scholar or researcher in the humanities and social sciences and one or more scholars or
individuals with comparable skills in any country of Eurasia or East-Central Europe. The maximum
award is $40,000. Grants provide funding directly to scholars or researchers and involve different
application forms and guidelines than are required for the institutional contracts competition described in
the institutional grants, contracts, and fellowships section above. Research grants may begin as early as
October 1 and NCEEER retains right of first refusal for publication of the research resulting from the
agency’s support in the journal Problems of Post-Communism.
URL: http://www.nceeer.org/Programs/NRC/nrc.php
DEADLINE: February 15 (last known deadline)
Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’
Universities
Symposia and Seminars. The program is designed to promote closer ties between scholarly Hispanicism
in the US in the areas of humanities, social sciences, and the cultural and academic developments of
Spain. Projects oriented toward the dissemination of Spanish culture throughout the academic systems of
the US are reviewed for subsidy. Priority is given to those proposals of high scholarly quality which will
have an important impact upon the field of Hispanicism, both regionally and nationwide. Priority will be
given to those proposals of an interdisciplinary nature involving collaborative research with individuals,
Spanish scholars, and academic institutions.
URL: http://www.umabroad.umn.edu/pcc/
DEADLINE: April 1
Russell Sage Foundation
The Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars program invites scholars to its New York headquarters to
investigate topics in social and behavioral sciences. The Foundation particularly welcomes groups of
scholars who wish to collaborate on a specific project during their residence at Russell Sage. While the
Visiting Scholars typically work on projects related to the Foundation’s current programs, a number of
scholars whose research falls outside the Foundations’ active programs also participate. Each scholar is
provided with an office at the Foundation, research assistance, computer and library facilities, salary
support of up to $110,000 for the academic year, and a subsidized apartment nearby the Foundation
offices.
URL: http://www.russellsage.org/scholars/
DEADLINE: September 30
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
ESRC/SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellowships
NOTE: Not currently accepting applications
The Economic Social Research Council and the Social Science Research Council announce a fellowship
for scholars from the Americas to visit and engage in collaborative activities with ESRC-supported
projects in Britain, or for British scholars at ERSC-supported projects to visit collaborators in the
Americas. This is a scheme designed to encourage communication and cooperation between social
scientists in the United Kingdom and the Americas and to explore and develop possibilities for future
joint research. Candidates from the Americas must be endorsed by the holder of a major ERSC award
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with whom they are interested in collaborating. The amount of each visiting fellowship award will vary
according to project needs up tot a maximum of $9,500.
URL: http://fellowships.ssrc.org/esrc/
DEADLINE: March 2 (last known deadline)
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis announces its Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral
Fellowship Program designed to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the
humanities and social sciences. The program brings to Washington University new and recent PhDs who
wish to strengthen their own advanced training and participate in the university’s ongoing
interdisciplinary programs and seminars. The Postdoctoral Fellows receive two-year appointments with
stipends. Fellows will outline a plan for their own continuing research to be pursued with a senior faculty
mentor from Washington University. Over the course of their two-year appointment, fellows will teach
three undergraduate courses and collaborate during a spring term in leading a seminar in the theory and
methods of interdisciplinary research.
URL: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~szwicker/mellonpostdoc/
DEADLINE: December 1
The Wenner-Gren Foundation International Collaborative Research Grants
The International Collaborative Research Grant (ICRG) supports international research collaborations
between two or more qualified scholars, where the principle investigators bring different and
complementary perspectives, knowledge, and/or skills to the project. Supplemental funds are also
available to provide essential training for academic research participants in ICRG-funding projects. By
providing training funds, the grant helps build capacity in countries where anthropology may be underresourced. Proposals must involve collaboration between two or more researchers of different
nationalities who are working in different countries. Priority is given to those projects involving at least
one principle investigator who is a citizen of, and is working and residing in a country where
anthropology is underrepresented (country list available). The grants are for a maximum of $30,000.
Under special circumstances grants can be renewed to support longer-term research projects.
URL: http://www.wennergren.org/programs/international-collaborative-research-grants
DEADLINE: June 1 and December 1
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