Arts Division Funding Opportunities: September-November 2015 Important information regarding internal deadlines: If the grant requires that you submit under the auspices of a 501(c)(3) organization (including fiscal sponsorship), UCSC now requires that you comply with internal deadlines that I note on this list. Contact your Research Grant Coordinator (scmoore@ucsc.edu) and the Office of Sponsored Project (kwisuri@ucsc.edu and sziegler@ucsc.edu) prior to the listed internal deadline to ensure compliance. Art The Clark Hulings Fund for Visual Artist: Business Accelerator Grant: Due September 30, 2015. The fund offers targeted financial assistance and business support to professional visual artists to help them boost their careers and succeed as managers of their art businesses. Applicants must detail exactly how the grant would help them undertake, improve, or expand a specific project. Applicants must be professional painters, artists working on paper, and/or sculptors who employ traditional media (not including photography, film, or video). Amount: $5,000. Aftermath Project Photography Grant: Due November 2, 2015. The Aftermath Project’s mission is to support photographic projects that tell the other half of the story of conflict — the story of what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for peace. Grant proposals should reflect an understanding of this mission. Proposals may relate to the aftermath of numerous kinds of conflict, not just international wars. Amount: $20,000. HAVC Kress Foundation Art History, Preservation, and Digital Resources Grants: Internal deadline has passed. Contact me ASAP if you are interested! Through its Grant Programs, the Kress Foundation supports scholarly projects that promote the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of European art from antiquity to the early 19th century. The Digital Resources program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning. Support will also be offered for the digitization of important visual resources (especially art history photographic archives) in the area of premodern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history. These competitive grants are awarded to institutions only. External deadline: October 1, 2015 (receipt via postal delivery). Amount: Variable. Getty Scholar Grants: Due October 1, 2015. Getty Scholar Grants are for established scholars, or writers who have attained distinction in their fields. Recipients are in residence at the Getty Research Institute or Getty Villa, where they pursue their own projects free from academic obligations, make use of Getty collections, join their colleagues in a weekly meeting devoted to an annual research theme, and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty. Applications are welcome from researchers of all nationalities who are working in the arts, humanities, or social sciences. Amount: $65,000 for one year, although may be in residence a minimum of three months. The Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design: Due October 9, 2015. Exhibition Research and Project Grants will be awarded to support research projects relating to the goals of the Craft Research Fund. (To support innovative research on critical issues in craft theory and history; To explore the inter-relationship among craft, art, design and contemporary culture; To foster new cross-disciplinary approaches to scholarship in the craft field in the United States; To advance investigation of neglected questions on craft history and criticism in the United States.) Grant funds may be used for research related expenses such as travel, honoraria for contributors, salary for independent researchers, and/or support documentation such as images or rights to use images or text, as part of the research yet to be completed. The grant awards are not for the printing or dissemination of already completed research. (Travel Awards, $1000, applications due October 30, 2015). Amount: $15,000. Getty Foundation Library Research Fellowships: Due October 15, 2015. Getty Library Research Grants provide partial, short-term support for costs relating to travel and living expenses for scholars whose research requires use of specific collections housed in the Getty Research Institute. Amount: $500 to $2,500. Dumbarton Oaks Fellowships: Due November 1, 2015. Dumbarton Oaks offers residential fellowships in three areas of study: Byzantine Studies (including related aspects of late Roman, early Christian, Western medieval, Slavic, and Near Eastern studies), Pre-Columbian Studies (of Mexico, Central America, and Andean South America), and Garden and Landscape Studies. Fellowships are for scholars who hold a doctorate or appropriate final degree or have established themselves in their field and wish to pursue their own research. Amount: $35,000 for a full academic year. Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowship: Due November 6, 2015. Multiple fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum are an opportunity for a community of scholars from around the world to use the Museum as a place for exchange, research, and professional advancement. PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and senior scholars are eligible to apply. Amount: $42,000 to 52,000. Film & Digital Media California Documentary Project Production and Research and Development Grants: Internal deadline has passed. Contact me ASAP if you are interested! CDP is a competitive grants program that supports documentary film, radio, and new media productions that enhance our understanding of California and its cultures, peoples, and histories. Projects must use the humanities to provide context, depth, and perspective and be suitable for California and national audiences through broadcast and/or distribution. Since 2003, we have awarded approximately $4 million to projects that document the California experience and explore issues of significance to Californians. CDP grants support projects at the research and development, production, and public engagement stages. External deadline: October 15, 2015 (5 p.m.). Amount: $10,000 - $50,000. Center for Asian American Media Grants: Draft budget due to OSP by October 1, 2015. With support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), CAAM provides production funding to independent producers for national public television. CAAM ia dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible. External deadline: October 15, 2015. Amount: $50,000. Bertha BRITDOC Connect Fund: Due October 5, 2015. The Connect Fund, a joint initiative between Bertha Foundation and BRITDOC, is the first European-based outreach and engagement fund, and is open to filmmakers from around the world. The fund is looking to support strategic outreach campaigns for completed or almost completed documentary feature films with a social issue at their core; films which have the ability to achieve real change on a local, regional or global level. Maximum Funding: $74,000. ITVS Diversity Development Fund: Draft budget due to OSP by October 9, 2015. Provides research and development funding to producers of color to develop single documentary programs for public television. Producers must be U.S. citizens or legal residents. External deadline: November 6, 2015. Amount: $15,000. [Awaiting more detailed guidelines when application period opens on October 5.] Fledgling Fund: Rolling application period open; Draft budget due (internal) to OSP 10 days prior to application. Grants support outreach and engagement for social issue documentary film and other storytelling projects that have the potential to inspire positive social change around issues that affect the most vulnerable. Fledgling has an open rolling grant application process. Amount: $25,000. Tribeca Film Institute: Due November 4, 2015. Tribeca All Access (Scripted and Documentary) seeks feature-length narrative and documentary submissions in development from established and emerging filmmakers whose team includes a director, producer, screenwriter or developer from a community that is statistically underrepresented in the film industry. Projects may be in any stage of development, from treatment/screenplay to post-production. Projects of any genre and or budget range are welcome to apply. Plus eligibility for our on-going alumni grants. Amount: Variable. Music GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program: Letter of Inquiry Due October 1, 2015. The Research Program awards grants to organizations and individuals to support research on the impact of music on the human condition. Examples might include the study of the effects of music on mood, cognition and healing, as well as the medical and occupational well-being of music professionals and the creative process underlying music. Priority is given to projects with strong methodological design as well those addressing an important research question. The Archiving and Preservation Program awards grants to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas. Amount: Up to $20,000. Please note that if you are interested in applying through UCSC, contact the Research Grants Coordinator at least 20 working days in advance of the deadline. Chamber Music Association Presenter Consortium for Jazz: Draft budget due to OSP by October 1, 2015. Presenter Consortium for Jazz provides support to consortiums of three U. S. presenters that collectively engage up to three professional U.S. jazz ensembles (consisting of 2-10 musicians each) to perform at each presenter’s venue. Incentives are offered to encourage presentations of CMA’s New Jazz Works commissions. Amount: $30,000. Grant will provide up to 75% of the budget. External deadline: October 30, 2015. Kurt Weill Foundation, multiple grants: Draft Budget to OSP by October 2, 2015. Musical and theater productions, outreach, engagement, reasearch, travel and publication topics must be related to Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, and/or Marc Blitzstein. External deadline: November 1, 2015. Amount: Variable. Chamber Music Association Residency Partnership Grant: Draft budget due to OSP by October 9, 2015. The Residency Partnership Program supports ensembles and presenters in building audiences for classical/contemporary, jazz, and world chamber music through residency projects. Funding is intended for activities that take place in community settings and that are not part of a regular concert series. Activities may include, but are not limited to, interactive or audience engagement programs in classrooms (preschool through high school), libraries, hospitals, senior centers, or other community venues. The program does not support music activities intended for college- or conservatory-level music students. Projects must take place in the U.S. or its territories. External deadline: November 6, 2015. Amount: $12,000. Institute for Advanced Study (IAS, Princeton) Fellowships: Due November 1, 2015. The IAS is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community of scholars focused on intellectual inquiry, free from teaching and other university obligations. Chosen scholars are offered a membership for a semester or full academic year. Members receive access to the extensive resources of the Institute, including offices, access to libraries, subsidized restaurant and housing facilities, and some secretarial services. THE SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES supports scholarship in all fields of historical research, but is concerned principally with the history of western, near eastern and Asian civilizations, with particular emphasis upon Greek and Roman civilization, the history of Europe (medieval, early modern, and modern), the Islamic world, East Asian studies, art history, the history of science and philosophy, and modern international relations. The School also offers the Edward T. Cone Membership in Music Studies and the Mellon Fellowship for scholars at the rank of Assistant Professor. Amount: $75,000 for one academic year. Yale Institute of Sacred Music Fellowships: Due November 1, 2015. ISM Senior Fellows / Postdoctoral Fellows are scholars, religious leaders, and artists at all career stages whose work is in or is moving to the fields of sacred music, liturgical/ritual studies, or religion and the arts. Amount: $52,000 for one academic year. Theater Arts Japan Foundation Performing Arts Grant: Draft budget due to OSP by September 21, 2015. This program is designed to provide financial assistance for non-profit organizations in the US and Canada that aim to introduce Japanese performing arts to local audiences. PAJ Touring Grants help present Japanese performing arts at multiple locations in the United States and Canada, with an emphasis on locations outside major metropolitan areas. PAJ Collaboration Grants help Japanese and American/Canadian artists develop a new work, which will further an appreciation of Japanese culture when presented to American/Canadian audiences. The grants are made to nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada only. External deadline (regular mail): October 20, 2015. Amount: Variable (cost share required). Zellerbach Foundation Community Arts Program: Due September 25, 2015. This program supports Bay Area artists who are creating new and innovative work that is representative of the diverse cultures and communities of the Bay Area. Grants will be awarded for projects in the areas of dance, theater, visual arts, music, festivals, poetry, literature, and publications. Film, craft, painting, and photography projects not eligible. Priority will be given to performance-oriented, contemporary projects. Only nonprofit arts-serving organizations and fiscal sponsors located in and doing their work in San Francisco, Contra Costa, and Alameda counties (west of the Caldecott Tunnels) are eligible to apply. UCSC cannot be the applicant organization. Amount: $7,500. MAP Fund: Letter of Inquiry due September 28, 2015. The MAP Fund is founded on the principle that exploration drives human progress, no less in art than in science or medicine. MAP supports live performance projects that embody a spirit of deep inquiry. MAP is particularly interested in supporting artists that question, disrupt, complicate, and challenge inherited notions of social and cultural hierarchy across the current American landscape. Amount: $10,000 to 45,000. Kurt Weill Foundation, multiple grants: Draft Budget to OSP by October 2, 2015. Musical and theater productions, outreach, engagement, reasearch, travel and publication topics must be related to Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, and/or Marc Blitzstein. External deadline: November 1, 2015. Amount: Variable. National Dance Project Touring Awards: Due October 13, 2015. NDP Touring Awards support U.S. tours of dance works by national and international artists. Eligibility: Be choreographers or companies applying for a project with a planned U.S. tour during the NDP touring period of: see website. Demonstrate that at least three U.S. nonprofit organizations (presenters) from at least two states will present the work on tour. Amount: $35,000. Association of Performing Arts Presenters Cultural Exchange Fund: Due October 30, 2015. APAP awards U.S. based presenting organizations, agents, managers, producers, individual artists, and groups of presenting professionals traveling outside of the U.S. to see the work of artists and companies or to develop and advance projects with foreign artists and their collaborators. APAP strongly encourages but does not limit travel to the following: Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Must be APAP member. Amount: Variable. Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship: Due November 1, 2015. Each year, the Folger Institute awards nine-month residential fellowships. We welcome applications from scholars holding the PhD, as well as inquiries and applications from creative artists. A funded fellowship will provide sustained time in the Folger collections to read, write, and share ideas in our vibrant intellectual community. Amount: $50,000. Digital Arts and New Media Kress Foundation Art History, Preservation, and Digital Resources Grants: Internal Deadline has passed. Contact me immediately if you’re interested! Through its Grant Programs, the Kress Foundation supports scholarly projects that promote the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of European art from antiquity to the early 19th century. The Digital Resources program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning. Support will also be offered for the digitization of important visual resources (especially art history photographic archives) in the area of pre-modern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history. These competitive grants are awarded to institutions only. External deadline: October 1, 2015 (receipt via postal delivery). Amount: Variable. National Science Foundation, Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research (IBSS): Draft budget due to OSP by October 28, 2015. This competition promotes the conduct of interdisciplinary research by teams of investigators in the social and behavioral sciences. Emphasis is placed on support for research that involves researchers from multiple Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) disciplinary fields and that integrates scientific theoretical approaches and methodologies from multiple SBE disciplinary fields. Emphasis also is placed on the significance of expected intellectual contributions that are likely to yield generalizable insights and information that will enhance theoretical perspectives and advance basic knowledge and capabilities across multiple SBE disciplinary fields. Although the IBSS competition will consider any proposal that addresses a topic for which the proposal makes a compelling case that the research will enhance broader theoretical understanding across multiple social and behavioral science fields, social and behavioral science researchers are especially encouraged to submit proposals for research on one of the following three broadly defined topics: Population Change; Sources and Consequences of Disparities; and Technology, New Media, and Social Networks. External Deadline: December 1, 2015. Estimated $10,500,000 to support 12-16 awards. Multiple Departments (Grants) John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship: Applications due September 18, 2015 (note revised deadline). "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. The Foundation understands advanced professionals to be those who as writers, scholars, or scientists 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. Open to citizens and permanent residents of the U.S. and Canada. Award amount: Variable. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellowships (short-term): Applications due September 21, 2015. Fellowships are intended to support research in the history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, prints and drawings, film, photography, decorative arts, industrial design, and other arts) of any geographical area and of any period. Visiting senior fellowships are intended for those who have held the PhD for five years or more at the time of application, or who possess an equivalent record of professional accomplishment. Stipends for two-month fellowships range from $6,000 to $8,000, depending on relocation requirements, in addition to housing, as available. See below for full-year fellowships. American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships: Applications due September 23, 2015. ACLS is a leading private institution supporting scholars in the humanities and related social sciences. All postdoctoral fellowships require Ph.D. or equivalent experience. The ACLS Fellowship program invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. Also open: ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship and Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for recently tenured scholars. Amount: Variable. The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program: Applications due September 24, 2015. This program is a scholarly community where individuals pursue advanced work across a wide range of academic disciplines, professions, and creative arts. Radcliffe Institute fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts. In recognition of Radcliffe's historic contributions to the education of women and to the study of issues related to women, the Radcliffe Institute sustains a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society. Applicants' projects need not focus on gender, however. Amount: $75,000. Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure: Application due September 24, 2015. Provides monetary awards to foster the development and presentation of artist-led projects and programs that are direct, accessible, and open to the public. Funded activities may include a new exhibition or exhibition series, the ongoing work of an arts venue or collective, a public art project, a one-time event or performance, publications directly related to the visual arts, an online project, an artist residency, a series of film screenings, and more. Must live in San Francisco or Alameda County. Amount: Up to $5000. National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works Research Awards: Draft Budget due to OSP by September 21, 2015. Awards to support research that investigates the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. Matching grants range from $10,000 to $30,000. External deadline: October 20, 2015. Japan Foundation Performing Arts Grant: Draft budget due to OSP by September 21, 2015. This program is designed to provide financial assistance for non-profit organizations in the US and Canada that aim to introduce Japanese performing arts to local audiences. PAJ Touring Grants help present Japanese performing arts at multiple locations in the United States and Canada, with an emphasis on locations outside major metropolitan areas. PAJ Collaboration Grants help Japanese and American/Canadian artists develop a new work, which will further an appreciation of Japanese culture when presented to American/Canadian audiences. The grants are made to nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada only. External deadline (regular mail): October 20, 2015. Amount: Variable (cost share required). Zellerbach Foundation Community Arts Program: Due September 25, 2015. This program supports Bay Area artists who are creating new and innovative work that is representative of the diverse cultures and communities of the Bay Area. Grants will be awarded for projects in the areas of dance, theater, visual arts, music, festivals, poetry, literature, and publications. Film, craft, painting, and photography projects not eligible. Priority will be given to performance-oriented, contemporary projects. Only nonprofit arts-serving organizations and fiscal sponsors located in and doing their work in San Francisco, Contra Costa, and Alameda counties (west of the Caldecott Tunnels) are eligible to apply. UCSC cannot be the applicant organization. Amount: $7,500. National Art Education Association (NAEA) Research Grants: Due October 1, 2015 (by regular mail). Offers major grants supporting research that advances knowledge in the field of art education and that promulgates the goals outlined in Creating a Visual Arts Research Agenda Toward the 21st Century. Will be awarded to selected art educators whose proposals specifically focus on issues relating to one of the recommendations identified by NAEA’s Commission on Research. Additional smaller grants available. Must be a member of the NAEA. Amount: Up to $10,000. Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowships: Due October 1, 2015. These fellowships are intended primarily for individuals currently teaching in or affiliated with an academic institution, but independent scholars may apply. Faculty fellowships are awarded across the spectrum of academic ranks (assistant, associate, and full professor) and a goal of the selection process is to create a diverse community of scholars. Applicants who are members of traditionally underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. There are no citizenship requirements for these fellowships; non-U.S. nationals are welcome to apply. Amount: $70,000 + expenses. Cornell University Society For the Humanities Fellowship: Due October 1, 2015. The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University seeks interdisciplinary research projects that reflect on philosophical, aesthetic, political, ecological, religious, psychoanalytical, and cultural understandings of skin. Thinking skin calls upon cultural horizons, religious traditions, flesh, haptics, signs, texts, images, biopolitics, screens, sounds, and surfaces. From the earliest writings on medicine and religion to more recent theories of race, sexuality, gender, class, and ethnicity, how might thinking or making skin inform the global cultural experience from North to South, East to West, South to South? We invite research projects across historical periods, disciplinary boundaries, geographic territories, and social contexts. Amount: $50,000. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection One-Month Research Stipends: Due October 1, 2015. For scholars holding the PhD or other relevant terminal degree and working on research projects in Byzantine studies, PreColumbian studies, or Garden and Landscape studies. Amount: $3,000. Lawrence Foundation Grants: Draft Budget to OSP by October 2, 2015. The Lawrence Foundation is focused on making grants to support environmental (including education), human services and other causes although our interests are fairly diverse and may lead us into other areas on an occasional basis. External deadline: November 1, 2015. Average grant: $5,000. National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts: Senior Fellowships: Due October 15, 2015. Residential fellowships include: The Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce - history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, prints and drawings, film, photography, decorative arts, industrial design, and other arts); The Samuel H. Kress - research on European art before the early 19th century; The William C. Seitz Senior Fellowship- research on modern and contemporary art. Senior fellowship applications are also solicited from scholars in other disciplines whose work examines artifacts or has implications for the analysis and criticism of form. An A.W. Mellon two-year postdoctoral fellowship is also offered for research on the history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts of any time period or culture. Amount: $50,000. National Humanities Center Fellowship: Due October 15, 2015. The Center (Research Triangle Park, NC) welcomes up to forty scholars from all fields of the humanities. Individually, the Fellows pursue their own research and writing. Together, they create a stimulating community of intellectual discourse. Fellowship applicants must have a PhD or equivalent scholarly credentials along with a strong record of peer-reviewed work. Emerging scholars as well as senior scholars are encouraged to apply. In addition to researchers from all fields of the humanities, the Center invites scholars from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects to apply. Amount: Variable (but at least half-salary and travel). The Clark Art Institute Fellowships: Due October 15, 2015. Scholars may propose topics that relate to the visual arts, their history, practice, theory, or interpretation. Any proposal that contributes to understanding the nature of artistic activity and the intellectual, social, and cultural worlds with which it is connected is welcome. Located in Williamstown, MA. Amount: $60,000 for one academic year. Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Junior and Senior Scholar Grants: Due October 15, 2015. The Foundation's grants provide support for research on Chinese Studies in the humanities and social sciences. Grants are for time off for research and writing. Applications should be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from the chairman of the department, from the dean of the college or the provost of the university. Amount: $30,000, $35,000, or $40,000. Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST): Draft budget due to OSP by October 15, 2015. ITEST is a program that promotes PreK12 student interests and capacities to participate in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communications technology (ICT) workforce of the future. To achieve this objective, ITEST supports the development, implementation, and selective spread of innovative strategies for engaging students in experiences that: (1) increase student awareness of STEM and ICT careers; (2) motivate students to pursue the education necessary to participate in those careers; and/or (3) provide students with technology-rich experiences that develop their knowledge of related content and skills (including critical thinking skills) needed for entering the STEM workforce. ITEST projects may adopt an interdisciplinary focus on multiple STEM domains, focus on a single domain, or focus on one or more sub-disciplines within a domain. ITEST projects must involve students, and may also include teachers. The ITEST program is especially interested in broadening participation of students from traditionally underrepresented groups in STEM fields and related education and workforce domains. Projects that actively engage business and industry partners to better ensure that PreK-12 experiences foster the knowledge and skill-sets needed for emerging STEM-related occupations are strongly encouraged. ITEST supports two project types: Strategies projects and SPrEaD (Successful Project Expansion and Dissemination) projects. Strategies projects support the design, implementation, and testing of innovative educational experiences that support the objectives of the ITEST program. SPrEaD projects support the wider and broader testing and dissemination of promising strategies to generate evidence and greater understanding of contextual factors that operate to enhance, moderate, or constrain anticipated project impacts. All ITEST projects may include activities designed to inform judgments regarding the feasibility of implementing strategies in typical learning environments associated with formal classrooms, out-of-school settings, or combinations of such environments. The ITEST program also invites proposals for an ITEST Resource Center to provide technical assistance to projects and provide assistance with the outreach activities of the ITEST program. External deadline is November 13. Amount: Up to $1.2 million for 3 years and $2 million for 5 years. Soros Justice Fellowships: Advocacy and Media: Due October 21, 2015. The Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals to undertake projects that advance reform, spur debate, and catalyze change on a range of issues facing the U.S. criminal justice system. The Fellowships Program is part of a larger effort within the Open Society Foundations’ Justice Fund to reduce the destructive impact of current criminal justice policies on the lives of individuals, families, and communities in the United States by challenging the overreliance on incarceration and extreme punishment, and ensuring a fair and accountable system of justice. Amount: Up to $110,250. Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar Program (Cambridge, MA): Due October 23, 2015. The Academy’s Visiting Scholars Program provides residential fellowships in for junior faculty members and postdoctoral scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The Academy seeks proposals in the humanities and social sciences relating to American history, culture, and public policy from the founding period to the present. The fellowship program offers scholars a year for research and writing free from teaching and administrative duties, a collaborative work environment, and the opportunity to interact with Academy members. It also creates a national network for these scholars, assisting them in their research and professional development. Preference will be given to untenured faculty. Amount: Up to $65,000. Institute for Advanced Study (IAS, Princeton) Fellowships: Due November 1, 2015. The IAS is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community of scholars focused on intellectual inquiry, free from teaching and other university obligations. Chosen scholars are offered a membership for a semester or full academic year. Members receive access to the extensive resources of the Institute, including offices, access to libraries, subsidized restaurant and housing facilities, and some secretarial services. THE SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES supports scholarship in all fields of historical research, but is concerned principally with the history of western, near eastern and Asian civilizations, with particular emphasis upon Greek and Roman civilization, the history of Europe (medieval, early modern, and modern), the Islamic world, East Asian studies, art history, the history of science and philosophy, and modern international relations. The School also offers the Edward T. Cone Membership in Music Studies and the Mellon Fellowship for scholars at the rank of Assistant Professor. Amount: $75,000 for one academic year. Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship: Due November 1, 2015. Each year, the Folger Institute awards nine-month residential fellowships. We welcome applications from scholars holding the PhD, as well as inquiries and applications from creative artists. A funded fellowship will provide sustained time in the Folger collections to read, write, and share ideas in our vibrant intellectual community. Amount: $50,000. Asian Arts Council Grants: Due November 2, 2015. The Asian Cultural Council supports transformative cultural exchange by awarding grants to artists, scholars, and arts and humanities professionals, as well as organizations and educational institutions from the United States and Asia for research, study, and creative work in the United States and Asia and within the countries of Asia. To apply, you must be an artist, an arts or humanities professional, a scholar, or a graduate/post-graduate student in a related field. Your country of permanent residence must be within Asia or the United States, and your proposed project must take place outside of your home country, also in either the United States or Asia. If you choose to apply as an organization rather than as an individual, you must contact OSP at least 10 working days prior to the deadline. Amount: $10,000. Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship: Due November 4, 2015. For scholars who are preparing or augmenting their PhD dissertation research for publication, or who are embarking on new research projects. Amount: $50,000. See above link for additional Chinese Studies grants, such as the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants.