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RESEARCH GRANT AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES IN THE ARTS AND
HUMANITIES
To learn more about these and other opportunities, please contact Kathy Zimmerman
(kaz309@lehigh.edu, 8-5481), Research Liaison, Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations.
American Association of University Women
http://www.aauw.org/learn/fellowships_grants/american.cfm
American Fellowship Program
Award Amount: Research Leave Fellowship ($30,000); Summer Research Publication Grant ($6,000)
Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships offer one-year of support for women in tenure-track faculty
positions in support of their earning tenure and further promotions. Postdoctoral fellowships are
available in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grants fund women university faculty and independent
researchers to prepare research for publication. The grants are intended for tenure-track, part-time, or
temporary faculty or new or established scholars and researchers at universities. Time must be available
for eight consecutive weeks of final writing, editing, and responding to issues raised in critical reviews.
Funds cannot be used for undertaking research. Scholars with strong publishing records should seek
other funding.
Eligibility: Application is limited to women. Applicants must be American citizens or permanent
residents of the United States.
The Numbers: 68 grants were funded through the American Fellowship Program in 2010-11. A list of
past recipients is available on the program website.
American Council of Learned Societies
http://www.acls.org
ACLS Fellowships (and others)
Award Amount: $35,000-$60,000
ACLS supports academic research in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. Fellowships
are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time
research and writing. The ultimate goal of the fellowship project should be a major piece of scholarly
work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels, films, performance, or musical
composition), textbooks, work that deals purely with translation, or pedagogical projects.
Eligibility: Candidates must hold U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status and a Ph.D. degree
conferred at least two years before the application deadline.
The Numbers: 56 ACLS Fellowships were awarded in 2010. A list of current awardees can be accessed
via the program website.
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American Philosophical Society
http://amphilsoc.org/
Franklin Research Grants
Award Amount: $1,000-$6,000
This is a program of small grants to scholars intended to support the cost of research leading to
publication in all areas of knowledge. The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the cost
of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies or
equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.
Eligibility: Applicants are expected to have a doctorate or to have published work of doctoral character
and quality. Ph.D. candidates are not eligible, but the Society is especially interested in supporting the
work of young scholars who have recently received the doctorate.
The Numbers: In 2009-2010 the Franklin Research Grants program awarded over $360,000 to 73
scholars. A list of past recipients and their projects is available on the program website.
The Anthony Marchionne Foundation
http://www.wsu.edu/~socpsych/anthony_marchionne_foundation.htm
Small Grants Program
Award Amount: approximately $25,000
The Anthony Marchionne Foundation supports research on issues of well-being. The Foundation
currently emphasizes two specific research areas: work on the dynamics of the never-married and
research at the interface of health, medicine, and behavior.
Eligibility: Applications are considered from researchers in any discipline. The Foundation is particularly
interested in helping establish the careers of promising young scientists, and so at least one award in
each year will be targeted toward an applicant who has held the Ph.D. for no more than five years.
The Numbers: 4 proposals were funded in 2009; 3 in 2008; and 6 in 2007. Abstracts of funded proposals
are available on foundation website.
George A. and Elizabeth Stewart Gardner Howard Foundation
http://www.brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/Howard_Foundation/
Howard Fellowships
Award Amount: $25,000
The Howard Foundation awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in
selected fields of arts and humanities. Applications for the 2011 deadline must be focused on
scholarship in archeology, anthropology, or photography. In 2012, focus areas will include sculpture,
painting, and the history of art and architecture.
Eligibility: The Foundation targets its support specifically to early mid-career individuals. Applicants
should have already achieved recognition for at least one major project.
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The Numbers: The Foundation awards approximately 10 fellowships each year. A list of current and past
awardees can be accessed via the foundation’s website.
Graham Foundation
http://www.grahamfoundation.org
Award Amount: approximately $10,000
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals
and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and
challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. Overall the foundation
is most interested in opportunities to provide critical support at key points in the development of a
project or career.
Eligibility: Collaborative projects by individuals are eligible for funding. Individuals may only apply for
one grant per year/ Individuals working on independent projects who are required by their
organizations to apply for and receive funding under the aegis of the organization (e.g., a faculty
member of an academic institution) may use a fiscal sponsor.
The Numbers: The review is a very competitive process as we receive many more applications than we
are able to fund. In 2010 over $500,000 was granted to 64 individuals whose work engages a wide range
of issues in architecture and related spatial practices. An overview of funded projects is provided on the
foundation’s website.
Henry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
http://hfg.org/index.html
Award Amount: $15,000-$80,000
The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that
promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and
aggression. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of
urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world.
Eligibility: Applicants may be citizens of any country.
The Numbers: Over the past five years, approximately 60 grants have been awarded.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
http://www.gf.org/
Guggenheim Fellowships
Award Amount: Variable
Often characterized as "midcareer" awards, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for men and women
who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative
ability in the arts.
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Eligibility: Awards are made to advanced professionals. Writers, scholars, or scientists who have a
significant record of publication, or as artists, playwrights, filmmakers, photographers, composers, or
the like, have a significant record of exhibition or performance of their work.
The Numbers: The Foundation receives between 3,500 and 4,000 applications each year. Although no
one who applies is guaranteed success in the competition, there is no prescreening: all applications are
reviewed. Approximately 220 Fellowships are awarded each year.
Wenner-Gren Foundation
http://www.wennergren.org/
Post-Ph.D. Research Grants
Award Amount: $20,000
The Foundation's overall mission is to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the
discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of
humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation.
Eligibility: Post-Ph.D. Research Grants are awarded to individuals holding a Ph.D. or equivalent degree to
support individual research projects.
The Numbers: 25 grants were awarded through this program in 2010. A list of current and past awardees
can be accessed via the foundation’s website.
Wenner-Gren Foundation
http://www.wennergren.org/
International Collaborative Research Grants
Award Amount: $30,000
The Foundation's overall mission is to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the
discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of
humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The International Collaborative
Research Grant (ICRG) program supports international research collaborations between two or more
qualified scholars, where the principal investigators bring different and complementary perspectives,
knowledge, and/or skills to the project.
Eligibility: Proposals must involve collaboration between two or more researchers of different
nationalities who are working in different countries. Each researcher must hold a doctorate or
equivalent qualification in anthropology or a related discipline. Scholars are eligible without regard to
institutional or departmental affiliation. Priority is given to those projects involving at least one principal
investigator who is a citizen of, and is working and residing in a country where anthropology is
underrepresented and where there are limited resources to develop the discipline although other
applications will be given serious consideration.
The Numbers: 6 International Collaborative Research Grants were awarded in 2009 and 3 grants were
awarded in 2010.