Updated July 2014
EXTERNAL FELLOWSHIP AND SELECTED INSTITUTIONAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
OPEN TO FACULTY IN
THE HUMANITIES
and
HUMANITIES-ORIENTED SOCIAL SCIENCES
It is our hope that this list of fellowship opportunities and selected institutional grant possibilities will help you
to determine which external agencies that might fund your current 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.
Humanities Grant Development Office
Kathy Porsch, Grant Development Officer
kporsch@ku.edu • 785/864-7834
John Biersack, Research Development Specialist or
Scott Knowles, Research Development Specialist
hgdo@ku.edu • 785/864-7887
http://www.hallcenter.ku.edu/humanities-grant-development-office
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PORTABLE FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS ................................................................................................................... 1
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION (AAR) ........................................................................................................... 1
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (AAUW) ................................................................................ 1
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION (ACTR/ACCELS) ........................................................ 1
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES (ACLS) .......................................................................................... 1
ACLS Fellowships ........................................................................................................................................................... 1
ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships ............................................................................................................................ 2
ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships (note that this requires residency) ........................................................... 2
Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship ..................................................................................................................... 2
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars ................................................................ 2
American Research in the Humanities in China ............................................................................................................. 3
ACLS Area Studies Fellowships...................................................................................................................................... 3
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in Buddhist Studies ........................................... 3
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation/ACLS Collaboration Research Grant in Buddhist Studies ................................... 3
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation/ACLS Visiting Professorships in Buddhist Studies .............................................. 4
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ................................................................................................................... 4
AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY (AOS) ................................................................................................................... 4
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY (APS) .......................................................................................................... 5
The Franklin Research Grants........................................................................................................................................ 5
Phillips Fund Grants for Native American Research ..................................................................................................... 5
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR 18TH CENTURY STUDIES (ASECS) ................................................................................ 5
AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (ASA) ................................................................................................... 5
Congressional Fellowship .............................................................................................................................................. 5
Community Action Research Initiative Grant ................................................................................................................. 5
The Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD) ................................................................................................ 6
Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants........................................................................................................... 6
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA .............................................................................................................. 6
Short Term Fellowships .................................................................................................................................................. 6
The Senior Katharine Pantzer Fellowship ...................................................................................................................... 7
GEORGE A. AND ELIZA GARDNER HOWARD FOUNDATION .................................................................................... 7
JAPAN FOUNDATION, NEW YORK ........................................................................................................................... 7
JOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ........................................................................................... 7
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR EURASIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN RESEARCH (NCEEER) ............................................. 7
Title VIII National Research Competition ...................................................................................................................... 7
Title VIII Short-Term Travel Grants for Research in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Balkans ............................. 8
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS (NEA) ..................................................................................................... 8
Literature Fellowships: Translations Projects ............................................................................................................... 8
Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing Fellowship .................................................................................................... 8
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES (NEH) ......................................................................................... 8
NEH Fellowship .............................................................................................................................................................. 8
Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC) – Fellowship Program for Advanced Social Science Research
on Japan
...................................................................................................................................................................... 8
NEH and National Science Foundation Fellowships Program for Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) ..... 9
NEH Summer Stipend Program ...................................................................................................................................... 9
Collaborative Research Grants ...................................................................................................................................... 9
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants ............................................................................................................................... 9
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (NRC)................................................................................................................ 10
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF) ............................................................................................................. 10
Cultural Anthropology Program................................................................................................................................... 10
Decision, Risk and Management Sciences program ..................................................................................................... 10
Documenting Endangered Languages .......................................................................................................................... 10
Geography and Spatial Sciences .................................................................................................................................. 11
Law and Social Science Program ................................................................................................................................. 11
Table of Contents – 1
Linguistics Program ..................................................................................................................................................... 11
Political Science Program ............................................................................................................................................ 12
Sociology Program ....................................................................................................................................................... 12
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program ..................................................................................... 12
SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) ......................................................................................................... 13
RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA ................................................................................................................... 13
RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION ................................................................................................................................ 13
Project Awards ............................................................................................................................................................. 13
Visiting Scholars Program............................................................................................................................................ 13
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (SSRC) .................................................................................................... 13
THE HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION (HFG) ..................................................................................... 13
UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE................................................................................................................... 14
Grants Program ............................................................................................................................................................ 14
IN-RESIDENCE FELLOWSHIPS ..................................................................................................................................... 14
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN.......................................................................................................................... 14
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ............................................................................................................................ 14
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES .................................................................................................... 15
AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY...................................................................................................................... 15
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES (ACLS) FREDERICK BURKHARDT RESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIPS
FOR RECENTLY TENURED SCHOLARS (ALSO LISTED UNDER ACLS ABOVE) ........................................................ 15
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (ALSO LISTED UNDER AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ABOVE) .. 15
AMERICAN INSTITUTION FOR CONTEMPORARY GERMAN STUDIES (AICGS) DAAD/AICGS RESEARCH
FELLOWSHIP .......................................................................................................................................................... 15
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION (APSA) ....................................................................................... 15
The Congressional Fellowship Program ...................................................................................................................... 15
The Centennial Center Visiting Scholars Program ...................................................................................................... 16
AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES IN ATHENS ..................................................................................... 16
AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (ASA) ................................................................................................. 16
ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL .................................................................................................................................. 16
BANTING POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ............................................................................................................. 16
CALGARY INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES (THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY).................................................... 17
Visiting Research Fellowships. ..................................................................................................................................... 17
CENTER FOR CULTURAL ANALYSIS (CCA) (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY) ................................................................... 17
CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES (OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY) ............................................................................ 17
CORNELL SOCIETY FOR THE HUMANITIES (CORNELL UNIVERSITY) .................................................................... 17
Society for the Humanities Fellowship. ........................................................................................................................ 17
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships. ................................................................................................................................ 17
EDMOND J. SAFRA FOUNDATION CENTER FOR ETHICS (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) ............................................... 18
Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellowships and Projects ........................................................................................................... 18
Network Fellowships (Non-residential) ........................................................................................................................ 18
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE (EUI) ............................................................................................................ 18
Max Weber Fellowships................................................................................................................................................ 18
Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowships ........................................................................................................................ 18
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowships ........................................................................................................................... 19
EUROPEAN INSTITUTES FOR ADVANCED STUDY (EURIAS)................................................................................. 19
FORD FOUNDATION DIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPS ..................................................................................................... 19
FULBRIGHT-HAYS GRANTS FOR FACULTY RESEARCH, OFFERED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION .... 20
FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM, OFFERED BY THE COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE OF SCHOLARS 20
GERMAN ACADEMIC EXCHANGE SERVICE (DAAD) ............................................................................................ 20
GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES (GMF)................................................................................ 20
Transatlantic Academy Fellowships ............................................................................................................................. 20
Transatlantic Fellows Program .................................................................................................................................... 21
Grantmaking programs................................................................................................................................................. 21
GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF ART AND THE HUMANITIES ................................................ 21
Table of Contents – 2
Getty Scholar Grants .................................................................................................................................................... 21
Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships .................................................................................................................................... 21
GRI-NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship .............................................................................................................................. 22
Library Research Grants .............................................................................................................................................. 22
GLADYS KRIEBLE DELMAS FOUNDATION ............................................................................................................ 22
HARRY RANSOM HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER (THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN) ........................... 22
HODDER FELLOWSHIP (LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) .............................................. 22
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY (PRINCETON, NJ; NOTE: THIS IS NOT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) .................... 23
Membership Program. .................................................................................................................................................. 23
Mellon Fellowship. ....................................................................................................................................................... 23
INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL STUDIES (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN) ........................................................ 23
INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON) .................................. 23
UW-Madison Kingdon Fellowships .............................................................................................................................. 23
Solmsen Fellowships ..................................................................................................................................................... 24
The A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Program ..................................................................................................................... 24
David Woodward Cartography Fellowships ................................................................................................................ 24
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND EXCHANGES BOARD (IREX) ........................................................................... 24
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) .................................................................................................. 24
Regional Policy Symposium Program .......................................................................................................................... 24
Short-term Travel Grants.............................................................................................................................................. 25
The US Embassy Policy Specialist Program ................................................................................................................ 25
ITALIAN ACADEMY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN AMERICA (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY) ....................................... 25
Alexander Bodini Research Fellowship ........................................................................................................................ 25
Art and Neuroscience Fellowship ................................................................................................................................. 25
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON INSTITUTE (EMORY UNIVERSITY) .............................................................................. 26
JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS (TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY) ............................................. 26
KELLOGG INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY) ............................................. 26
MCNEIL CENTER OF EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA) .......................................... 26
Barra Postdoctoral Fellowship..................................................................................................................................... 26
Barra Sabbatical Fellowship ........................................................................................................................................ 27
NOTRE DAME INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY (NDIAS) (UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME) ............................ 27
RACHEL CARSON CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY ............................................................................. 27
SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION TWO-YEAR FELLOWSHIPS ............................................................................... 27
History of Art Institutional Fellowships........................................................................................................................ 27
Conservation Fellowships............................................................................................................................................. 28
Interpretive Fellowships at Art Museums ..................................................................................................................... 28
LEON LEVY CENTER FOR BIOGRAPHY FELLOWSHIP (CUNY) .............................................................................. 28
LAURO DE BOSIS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) ......................................................... 28
LESLIE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES (DARTMOUTH COLLEGE) ........................................................................ 28
LEVERHULME TRUST............................................................................................................................................. 29
MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF FELLOWS (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR, MI) .............................................. 29
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART (WASHINGTON, D.C.) ............................................................................................ 29
NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER (RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC) .................................................................. 30
NEWHOUSE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES (WELLESLEY COLLEGE, MA) .......................................................... 30
OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE (COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY) .... 30
PENN HUMANITIES FORUM (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA) ............................................................................ 30
PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE OF MEDIAEVAL STUDIES (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO) .................................................... 30
ROBERT PENN WARREN CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES (VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY) ........................................ 31
ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ............................................................................................................... 31
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION’S BELLAGIO CENTER .............................................................................................. 31
SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH (SAR) ......................................................................................................... 31
Resident Scholars.......................................................................................................................................................... 31
Summer Scholars .......................................................................................................................................................... 31
SHELBY CULLOM DAVIS CENTER FOR HISTORICAL STUDIES (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) .................................... 32
STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER (STANFORD UNIVERSITY) ............................................................................... 32
Table of Contents – 3
TANNER HUMANITIES CENTER (UNIVERSITY OF UTAH) ...................................................................................... 32
THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR ITALIAN RENAISSANCE STUDIES ........................................................ 32
I Tatti Fellowship .......................................................................................................................................................... 32
THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY SOCIETY OF FELLOWS ............................................................................................. 32
Junior Fellowships........................................................................................................................................................ 32
THE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR HUMAN VALUES (UCHV) (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) ........................................ 33
UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE, JENNINGS RANDOLPH SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS.......................................... 33
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, DEPARTMENT OF AFROAMERICAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES..................................... 33
VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES (VFH), CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. ................................................ 33
WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS ........................................................................... 33
RESEARCH LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS .................................................................................................................... 34
AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY...................................................................................................................... 34
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY ................................................................................................... 34
BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY (YALE UNIVERSITY) .......................................................... 34
BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY (THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN) ..................................................................... 34
CARL ALBERT CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH AND STUDY CENTER (UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA) ...................... 34
DEWITT STETTEN MUSEUM OF MEDICAL RESEARCH (NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH) .............................. 35
DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, RARE BOOK, MANUSCRIPT, AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY................... 35
DUMBARTON OAKS RESEARCH LIBRARY AND COLLECTION ............................................................................... 35
Fellowships ................................................................................................................................................................... 35
Summer Fellowships ..................................................................................................................................................... 35
FRED W. SMITH NATIONAL LIBRARY FOR THE STUDY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON (MOUNT VERNON) ............... 36
FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY .......................................................................................................................... 36
HAGLEY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY–CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY ...... 36
HOUGHTON LIBRARY (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) ................................................................................................... 36
HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, ART COLLECTIONS, AND BOTANICAL GARDENS ........................................................... 36
JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY (BROWN UNIVERSITY) ...................................................................................... 37
MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER ......................................................................................... 37
NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL FELLOWSHIP CONSORTIUM ....................................................................................... 37
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ....................................................................................................................... 37
THE ROCKEFELLER ARCHIVE CENTER (SLEEPY HOLLOW, NEW YORK) .............................................................. 38
RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) ........................................................... 38
Radcliffe Institute Fellowships ...................................................................................................................................... 38
The Schlesinger Library (at the Radcliffe Institute) ...................................................................................................... 38
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION .................................................................................................................................. 38
THE GETTY LIBRARY (GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF ART AND THE HUMANITIES) .......... 38
THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY FELLOWSHIPS IN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION ........... 39
THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA ......................................................................................................... 39
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ................................................................................................................................. 39
Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies .................................................................................................................. 39
David B. Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality ............................................................................................... 39
Kislak Fellowship for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas .................................................... 39
Kislak Short-Term Fellowships..................................................................................................................................... 40
Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations ................................................................................... 40
Kluge Fellowships ........................................................................................................................................................ 40
THE LILLY LIBRARY (UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA–BLOOMINGTON) ....................................................................... 40
THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ....................................................................................................... 40
THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ..................................................................................................................................... 41
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ........................................................................................................................ 41
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowships ............................................................ 41
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Scholars-in-Residence Program.................................................... 41
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY (UCLA) CENTER FOR 17TH- AND 18TH- CENTURY STUDIES... 41
The Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship ............................................................................................................ 41
Clark Short-Term Fellowships ...................................................................................................................................... 41
Table of Contents – 4
ASECS/Clark Fellowships ............................................................................................................................................ 42
The Kanner Fellowship in British Studies .................................................................................................................... 42
The Clark-Huntington Joint Bibliographical Fellowship ............................................................................................. 42
WINTERTHUR LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND GARDEN ................................................................................................ 42
PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES ........................................................................................................................................... 42
GERALD R. FORD LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ........................................................................................................... 42
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ............................................................................................ 42
JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM .......................................................................................................... 42
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LIBRARY ..................................................................................................................... 43
TRUMAN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM................................................................................................. 43
Research Grants ........................................................................................................................................................... 43
Scholar’s Award ........................................................................................................................................................... 43
Truman-Kauffman Research Program.......................................................................................................................... 43
AREA STUDIES CENTERS ............................................................................................................................................... 44
CARTER G. WOODSON INSTITUTE FOR AFRO-AMERICAN & AFRICAN STUDIES (UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA) ..... 44
HERBERT D. KATZ CENTER FOR ADVANCED JUDAIC STUDIES (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA)...................... 44
CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES (SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY) ...................................... 44
COUNCIL OF AMERICAN OVERSEAS RESEARCH CENTERS (CAORC) .................................................................. 44
FREDERICK DOUGLASS INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES (UNIVERSITY OF
ROCHESTER) .......................................................................................................................................................... 45
HARVARD ACADEMY FOR INTERNATIONAL AND AREA STUDIES (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) ................................ 45
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs .............................................................................................................. 45
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN CULTURES (UCLA)...................................................................................................... 45
INSTITUTE OF TURKISH STUDIES (PRIVATE FOUNDATION LOCATED IN GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY’S
INTERCULTURAL CENTER) .................................................................................................................................... 45
Sabbatical Research Grant ........................................................................................................................................... 45
Post-Doctoral Summer Travel-Research Grant............................................................................................................ 45
Grants for the Publication of Scholarly Books or Journals .......................................................................................... 46
PROGRAM IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (PLAS) (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) ..................................................... 46
W. E. B. DU BOIS INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) .... 46
WEST AFRICAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (BOSTON UNIVERSITY) ...................................................................... 46
WOLFSONIAN-FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM ................................................. 46
BOOK AWARDS ................................................................................................................................................................. 47
FUND FOR CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN BOOK PROJECTS
........................................................................... 47
MEDIEVAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA BOOK SUBVENTION PROGRAM
................................................................. 47
Table of Contents – 5
PORTABLE FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
American Academy of Religion (AAR)
The AAR each year awards grants ranging from $500 to $5,000 to support collaborative or individual
projects proposed by AAR members. These provide support for travel to archives and libraries, research
assistance, fieldwork, and released time. Funds are not provided for dissertation research, publication
expenses, or travel to attend the AAR Annual Meeting. To be eligible, applicants must have been
members in good standing with the AAR for the last three years.
URL: http://www.aarweb.org/programs-services/grants-awards
Deadline: August 1
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
The AAUW Educational Foundation supports women at early stages of their careers through its American
Fellowships, which provide an academic year fellowship and publication funding. Grants range from
$6,000 to $30,000. Candidates must be US citizens or permanent residents. The AAUW requires an
application fee to be paid with the electronic application.
URL: http://www.aauw.org/what-we-do/educational-funding-and-awards/american-
fellowships/american-fellowship-application/
Deadline: November 15
American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS)
ACTR/ACCELS is an international non-profit organization working to advance education, research, and
mutual understanding across the US, Canada, and the nations of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as well
as Central Asia. With funds from the U.S. Department of State (Title VIII) and U.S. Department of
Education (Fulbright Hays), American Councils administers several major grants for independent,
overseas research in the humanities and social sciences as well as language training.
URL: http://americancouncils.org/programs
Deadline: Various, check the website
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Note: The New York Public Library and Burkhardt Fellowships require residency and the
international programs require travel abroad. Programs are listed together to show the spectrum of
what this important agency has to offer.
ACLS Fellowships
The ACLS invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and humanitiesrelated social sciences. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks,
straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects. The ACLS Fellowships are intended as
salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research
and writing. ACLS Fellowships are portable and are tenable at the fellow's home institution,
abroad, or at another appropriate site for research. The Fellowship stipend is set at three levels
based on academic rank: up to $35,000 for Assistant Professor and career equivalent; up to
$45,000 for Associate Professor and career equivalent; and up to $65,000 for full Professor and
career equivalent.
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=380&linkidentifier=id&itemid=380
Deadline: September 26
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 1
ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
This program supports digitally based research in the humanities and humanities-related social
sciences. Fellowships support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project
that takes a digital form. Projects may involve development of new digital tools that further
humanistic research (such as digital research archives or innovative databases) or research that
depends on or is greatly enhanced by the use of such tools. Successful applicants will submit
projects with the promise to help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening the
understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating
further such works. To be eligible, an individual must have had the PhD conferred prior to the
application deadline in addition to being a US citizen or having permanent resident status. This
award has a stipend of up to $60,000 and provides up to $25,000 toward additional project costs.
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=508&linkidentifier=id&itemid=508
Deadline: September 26
ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships (note that this requires residency)
ACLS and The New York Public Library offers a collaborative program to support residential
fellowships per year at the Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and
Writers. The Center for Scholars and Writers provides opportunities for up to 15 Fellows to
explore the rich, diverse collections in the NYPL's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (formerly
the Humanities and Social Sciences Library). The Center also serves as a forum for the exchange
of ideas among Fellows, invited guests, the wider academic and cultural communities, and the
interested public. It provides individual office space and common areas in the Library building.
Because this is a joint fellowship, applicants for the ACLS/NYPL residential fellowships must
also apply to the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the NYPL.
The award provides a stipend of $70,000.
URL: ACLS: http://www.acls.org/programs/acls/
NYPL: http://www.nypl.org/csw
Deadlines: ACLS-September 26, NYPL- September 26
Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship
These fellowships support advanced assistant professors and untenured associate professors in the
humanities and related social sciences whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields and
who have well-designed and carefully developed plans for new research. These scholars must have
passed their mid-tenure review before the submission deadline, and must not complete their tenure
review before February 1 of the following year. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major
piece of scholarly work by the applicant, which is generally the scholar’s second major project after
the dissertation. Amount: a stipend of $64,000, a fund of $2,500 for research and travel, and an
additional 2/9 of the stipend ($14,222) for one summer's support, if justified. Previous supported
research leaves do not affect eligibility.
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=408&linkidentifier=id&itemid=408
Deadline: September 26
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars
This fellowship supports an academic year of residence at any one of the national residential research
centers participating in the program (see website for a list). These fellowships support long-term,
unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences. The ultimate goal of the
project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. Open to recently tenured
humanists—scholars. Amount: $75,000.
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=480&linkidentifier=id&itemid=480
Deadline: September 26
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 2
ACLS Public Fellows
The program places recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in TWOYEAR staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Fellows will
participate in the substantive work of these organizations and receive professional mentoring. ACLS
seeks applications from Ph.D.s who have received their degrees in the last three years and who aspire
to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance.
Amount: $65,000 per year, as well as individual health insurance.
URL: http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows/
Deadline: March 19 (last known)
American Research in the Humanities in China
Applicants must submit a carefully formulated research proposal that reflects an understanding of the
present Chinese academic and research environment. Those submitting a joint proposal must apply
individually. Support is offered to specialists in all fields of the humanities and humanities-related
social sciences, and is not limited to China scholars. Stipends for four to five months of research
cannot exceed $25,200. The maximum award is $50,400 for one year.
URL: http://www.acls.org/programs/arhc/
Deadline: October 2 (last known)
ACLS Area Studies Fellowships
Scholars pursuing research and writing on the societies and cultures of Asia, Africa, the Middle East,
Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union will be eligible for
these fellowships. Amount: up to $35,000 for Assistant Professor and career equivalent; up to
$45,000 for Associate Professor and career equivalent; and up to $65,000 for full Professor and career
equivalent.
URL: http://www.acls.org/programs/acls/
Deadline: September 26
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in Buddhist Studies
This postdoctoral fellowship will provide two years of funding ($55,000 annually + $5,000 relocation
cost reimbursement) to recent Ph.D. recipients for residence at a university. The funds should be used
either for revision of the dissertation into a publishable manuscript or beginning the first new project
after completion of the Ph.D. Degree. In addition, teaching one course annually is encouraged.
Priority will be given to residence at universities providing a collegial atmosphere and working
conditions that enable a postdoctoral fellow's entry into an academic career in
Buddhist studies. Applicants must have the Ph.D. conferred no earlier than January 1, 2011.
URL: http://www.acls.org/programs/buddhist-studies/#postdoc
Deadline: October 8
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation/ACLS Collaboration Research Grant in Buddhist Studies
This fellowship looks to support interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary work in Buddhist Studies.
Applications must propose a clear plan for the collaboration with a jointly-authored, research-based
scholarly product. While scholars collaborate in many ways, such as reviewing each other’s work or
sharing ideas at conferences, these grants will support only projects in which all principals dedicate a
significant amount of effort to the joint work. Each team member must be released from teaching and
other obligations for at least three months for each academic year of the grant period. Requests to
fund conferences or workshops will be considered only as part of a broader, research-based project.
Conferences or meetings in themselves do not fulfill the requirement for jointly authored, researchbased scholarly products.
URL: http://www.acls.org/programs/buddhist-studies/#collab
Deadline: October 8
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 3
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation/ACLS Visiting Professorships in Buddhist Studies
This grant will provide up to $200,000 to allow universities and colleges to host accomplished
scholar-teachers in Buddhist studies as visiting professors for one semester or one academic year.
Institutions with existing Buddhist studies programs may strengthen their curricula and research
capacity. Institutions without such programs may accept a visiting professor as a means of exploring
the contribution this field could make to the institution's portfolio. Universities and colleges seeking
to host visiting professors will apply to ACLS, specifying the scholar to be invited. Applications
should include a statement from the designated professor proposing courses to be taught. Teaching
must be concluded by June 30, 2017.
URL: http://www.acls.org/programs/buddhist-studies/#vp
Deadline: January 15
American Historical Association
Only AHA members are eligible to apply and preference is given to non-tenured faculty, advanced
doctoral students, and unaffiliated scholars. Funding may be used for travel to a library or archive,
microfilming, photography, or photocopying, borrowing or access fees, and similar research expenses.
URL: http://www.historians.org/prizes/index.cfm
The Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the Western Hemisphere is available to support
research in the history of the Western hemisphere. Individual grants to not exceed $1,000.
URL: http://www.historians.org/prizes/BeveridgeGrantInfo.htm
Deadline: February 15
The Michael Kraus Research Grant in Colonial American History, with particular reference to the
intercultural aspects of American and European relations, offers awards of up to $800.
URL: http://www.historians.org/prizes/KrausGrantInfo.htm
Deadline: February 15
The Littleton-Griswold Grant offers support of up to $1,000 for research in US legal history and the
field of law and society.
URL: http://www.historians.org/prizes/Littleton-GriswaldGrantInfo.htm
Deadline: February 15
The Bernadotte Schmitt Grants support research in the history of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Individual
grants will not exceed $1,000.
URL: http://www.historians.org/prizes/SchmittGrantInfo.htm
Deadline: February 15
The Fellowship in Aerospace History, supported by NASA, annually funds one or more research
projects for six to nine months. Proposals of advanced research in history related to all aspects of
aerospace, from the earliest human interest in flight to the present, are eligible, including cultural and
intellectual history, economic history, history of law and public policy, and history of science,
engineering, and management are welcome. Amount: $20,000.
URL: http://www.historians.org/prizes/NASA.htm
Deadline: April 1
American Oriental Society (AOS)
The Louise Wallace Hackney Fellowship for the Study of Chinese Art covers a period of 12 months from
July 1 of the award year until June 30 of the following year. This $8,000 award is open to recent PhDs. Its
focus is the study of Chinese art, particularly painting, and its reflection of Chinese culture, in addition to
the translation of works into English on Chinese painting to promote better understanding of this subject
in the US. The fellowship is directed to scholars who show an aptitude for promise in the field rather than
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 4
established senior scholars. Applicants must be US citizens and must already have three years study of the
Chinese language or its equivalent. Application must be submitted through the mail.
URL: http://www.umich.edu/%7Eaos/hackney.htm
Deadline: March 1
American Philosophical Society (APS)
The Franklin Research Grants
These grants help defray the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research; the purchase of
microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; and costs associated with fieldwork or
laboratory research. The Society is especially interested in supporting the work of scholars who have
recently received the PhD. Amount: $6,000.
URL: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/franklin
Deadlines: October 1 and December 1
Phillips Fund Grants for Native American Research
These grants fund Native American linguistics, ethnohistory studies, and the history of studies of
Native Americans, in the continental US and Canada. Will help cover the costs of travel, tapes, films,
and consultants’ fees. Recent PhDs and graduate students working on their master’s thesis or
doctoral dissertations are eligible . The average award is $2,500 with maximum awards of $3,500.
URL: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/phillips
Deadline: March 3
American Society for 18th Century Studies (ASECS)
ASECS offers travel grants, library fellowships, prizes, and awards for scholarship in all aspects of the
period from the late 17th through the early 19th century.
URL: http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/prizesawardsfellowships.htm
Deadlines: Various. See website for details.
American Sociological Association (ASA)
The American Sociological Association provides research and travel funding opportunities for
sociologists and sociology faculty members.
URL: http://www.asanet.org/funding/index.cfm
Congressional Fellowship
The Fellowship brings a PhD-level sociologist to Washington, DC, to work as a staff member on a
congressional committee or in a congressional office. This intensive twelve month (September to
September) experience reveals the intricacies of the policy making process to the sociological fellow,
and shows the usefulness of sociological data and concepts to policy issues. Amount: $66,000.
URL: http://www.asanet.org/funding/cf.cfm
Deadline: February 1
Community Action Research Initiative Grant
Grant applications are encouraged from sociologists seeking to work with community organizations,
local public interest groups, or community action projects. Appointments will run for the duration of
the project, whether the activity is to be undertaken during the year, in the summer, or for other timespans. Awards range from $1,000 - $3,000 to cover project direct costs; cannot be used for salary
(including course release). Approximately four to eight awards are made each year.
URL: http://www.asanet.org/funding/cari.cfm
Deadline: February 1
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 5
The Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD)
Co-sponsored through a matching grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), FAD awards
provide scholars with grants ($7,000 maximum) for innovative research that has the potential to
challenge the discipline, stimulate new lines of research, and create new networks of scientific
collaboration. The award is intended to provide leverage for acquisition of additional research funds.
URL: http://www.asanet.org/funding/fad.cfm
Deadline: June 15 and December 15
Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants
Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants can support an individual, a program, a department, or a
committee of a state or regional association. ASA will award up to two grants, each up to $2,000.
Principal criteria for the award are: the project advances the teaching and learning of sociology,
serves as a seed project that will continue to have an impact over time, and will be systemic in its
impact. The criteria are intentionally flexible in order to accommodate innovative proposals.
URL: http://www.asanet.org/funding/tef.cfm
Deadline: February 1
Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
The Association offers the Research Grants for Emerging Scholars. Applications in any field of Baltic
Studies are accepted. Grants are for travel, duplication, materials, equipment, or other needs as specified.
Amount: up to $4,000.
URL: http://depts.washington.edu/aabs/grants.html
Deadline: December 20 (last known)
Bibliographical Society of America
The BSA offers several fellowships, which are listed below. The Society’s programs are open to
applicants of any nationality, with or without current academic affiliation.
Short Term Fellowships
These include: The BSA-ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century
($3,000); The BSA Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography ($3000); The BSA-Mercantile Library
Fellowship in North American Bibliography ($2,000); The Folter Fellowship in the History of
Bibliography ($2,000); The Katharine Pantzer Fellowship in the British Book Trades ($2,000); The
McCorison Fellowship for the History and Bibliography of Printing in Canada and the United States:
the Gift of Donald Oresman ($2,000); The Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the
History of the Book in the Americas ($2,000); BSA General Fellowships ($2,000). Fellowships may
be held for one or two months. Fellows are paid a stipend of up to $2,000 per month (for up to two
months) to support travel, living, and research expenses. These fellowships support bibliographical
inquiry and research into the history of the book trades and publishing history. Topics may
concentrate on books and documents in any field, but must focus on the physical object (book or
manuscript) as historical evidence. Enumerative listings do not fall within the scope of this program.
Individuals who have not held a BSA fellowship in the last five years are given preference.
URL: http://bibsocamer.org/awards/fellowships/
Deadline: December 15
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 6
The Senior Katharine Pantzer Fellowship
This $6,000 fellowship supports sustained research in topics relating to book production and
distribution in Britain during the hand-press period as well as studies of authorship, reading, and
collecting based on the examination of British books published in that period. It may be held for two
to three months and complements the short-term Pantzer Fellowship (above).
URL: http://bibsocamer.org/awards/fellowships/
Deadline: December 15
George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation
The foundation offers $33,000 fellowships on a six-year rotation of fields in the Liberal and Fine Arts.
The focus is on Creative Writing (Fiction), Creative Writing (Poetry), and Philosophy for the Fall 2014
competition (fellowship 2015-16). The fellowship is targeted at early mid-career individuals. Applicants
should have received their PhDs within the past five to fifteen years and have successfully completed at
least one major project beyond degree requirements sufficient for the awarding of tenure at a research
institution. Assistant and full professors are not normally eligible for a Howard Fellowship. Applicants
must be professionally based in the US by affiliation or residence.
URL: http://www.brown.edu/initiatives/howard-foundation/home
Deadline: November 1
Japan Foundation, New York
The Japan Foundation’s Japanese Studies Fellowship Program provides support to outstanding scholars in
the field by offering the opportunity to conduct research in Japan. It supports scholars and researchers in
the humanities and social sciences with long-term (2-12 month) and short-term (21-59 days) fellowships.
Fellowships are also available for doctoral candidates.
URL: http://www.jfny.org/japanese_studies/fellowship.html
Deadline: November 1
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social
sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. The fellowships are awarded to men and
women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional
creative ability in the arts. The Foundation consults with distinguished scholars and artists regarding the
accomplishments and promise of the applicants and presents this evidence to the Committee of Selection.
Appointments are ordinarily made for one year, and in no instance for a period shorter than six
consecutive months. The amounts of grants vary.
URL: http://www.gf.org/applicants/the-united-states-canadian-competition/
Deadline: September 19
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER)
Title VIII National Research Competition
The National Research Competition (NRC) provides funding for research in or on the country of
Eurasia or East-Central Europe and supports both collaborative and individual research projects in the
humanities and social sciences. Research contracts support collaborative projects involving multiple
post-doctoral scholars, or individuals with comparable research skills who do not hold PhDs,
including at least one US- citizen scholar or researcher, with a maximum award of $70,000. Research
grants support projects conducted by individual U.S.-based scholars or researchers, with a maximum
award of $40,000. The primary scholar on an individual or collaborative project must be a US citizen
and hold a PhD.
URL: http://www.nceeer.org/programs/61-title-viii-national-research-competition.html
Deadline: February 15 (last known deadline-funding suspended for FY 2013)
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 7
Title VIII Short-Term Travel Grants for Research in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Balkans
The Short-Term Travel Grant program for research that relates to United States policy toward Central
Asia, the Caucasus, and the Balkans provides a maximum award of $3,000 for up to two months of
research. To qualify, applicants must be U.S. citizens holding a Ph.D., or individuals with comparable
research experience in any discipline of the humanities and social sciences or other professional
terminal graduate degree.
URL: http://www.nceeer.org/programs/64-title-viii-short-term-travel-grants-for-research-in-centralasia-the-caucasus-and-the-balkans.html
Deadline: December 14 and April 15 (last known deadline-funding suspended for FY 2013)
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Although the NEA is aimed at the arts and artists, there is a program that scholars among our humanities
and social sciences faculty find of interest: Literature Fellowships, which include a translation fellowship
and creative writing fellowships aimed at poets and novelists.
Literature Fellowships: Translations Projects
Through fellowships to published translators, the NEA supports projects for the translation of specific
works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. Grants are for $12,500 or
$25,000, depending on the artistic excellence and merit of the project.
URL: http://nea.gov/grants/apply/LitTranslation/index.html
Deadline: December 9
Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing Fellowship
The NEA Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 fellowships in prose (fiction and creative
nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers for writing, research, travel, and general career
advancement. The program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose and poetry
available in alternating years. Fellowships in poetry are available for 2015.
URL: http://arts.gov/grants-individuals/creative-writing-fellowships
Deadline: March 12
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Fellowships offered under the NEH’s Fellowship Program cover periods lasting from six to twelve
months at a stipend of $4,200 per month, up to $50,400 for a twelve-month tenure period. Faculty
members compete in junior and senior divisions.
NEH Fellowship
The regular NEH Fellowship is offered to junior and senior faculty in all disciplines of the humanities
and many social sciences disciplines. Fellowships are for six to twelve months. The Fellowships
program welcomes projects that respond to the NEH’s Bridging Cultures initiative. Projects in this
area could focus on cultures internationally or within the US.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fellowships.html
Deadline: April 30
Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC) – Fellowship Program for Advanced Social
Science Research on Japan
Subjects may include modern Japanese society and political economy, international relations, and
United States-Japan relations. The program encourages innovative research that puts these ideas into
broader context regionally and globally and is comparative and contemporary in nature. Projects may
be done in Japan, the US, or both.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fellowships-japan.html
Deadline: April 30
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 8
NEH and National Science Foundation Fellowships Program for Documenting Endangered
Languages (DEL)
Projects on endangered languages are eligible for support. Awards support fieldwork and other
activities related to recording, lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Funding is available
in the form of one to three year grants and fellowships are for six to twelve months. At least half of
the awards will be given for projects involving fieldwork. Application guidelines are located on the
National Science Foundation website: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12816.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/del.html (NEH)
Deadline: September 15
NEH Summer Stipend Program
This program offers $6,000 to support full-time work on a humanities project for two consecutive
months of full-time research and writing. Applications responding to the NEH’s Bridging Cultures
initiative are welcome. These projects can focus on cultures internationally or within the US. Faculty
members compete in junior and senior scholar divisions and must be nominated by their institutions.
At KU this is handled through the Hall Center for the Humanities.
URL (Hall Center): http://hallcenter.ku.edu/~hallcenter/grants/faculty_support/index.shtml
URL (NEH): http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html
Deadlines: Hall Center, September 2, 5 p.m.; NEH, September 30
Collaborative Research Grants
These are not fellowships, but rather major institutional grants to support original research undertaken
by teams of two or more scholars. 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 fulltime or part-time activities for one to three years and support combinations of scholars, consultants,
and research assistants; project-related travel; fieldwork; applications of information technology; and
technical support and services. 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: December 9
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. The NEH encourage library and museum
officials, scholars, scientists, educational institutions, and other non-profit organizations to apply and
to collaborate when appropriate. All applicants must propose an innovative approach, method, tool, or
idea that has not been used before in the humanities. Proposals must take some risks in the pursuit of
innovation and excellence. Proposals should be for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives
in any area of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants should result in plans, prototypes,
or proofs of concept for long-term digital humanities projects prior to implementation.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html
DEADLINE: September 11
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 9
National Research Council (NRC)
NRC offers fellowships to support junior scholars and diversity across the broad community of science
and technology. Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education and the Policy and Global
Affairs Division will be most suited for scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
URL: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/fellowships/
Deadline: Various, check the website
Ford Foundation Fellowship Program Postdoctoral Program
The postdoctoral program is intended to increase diversity of faculty in colleges and universities.
Candidates must demonstrate superior academic record, commitment to a career in teaching and
research at the college and university level, show promise of future achievement as educators and
scholars, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource in their teaching. Applicants must not
have received their PhD earlier than November 30, 2004 and no later than November 8., 2011.
Stipend is $40,000 for one year.
URL: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/PGA_047960
Deadline: November 14
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Scholars in the humanities and social sciences are encouraged to check the Division of Social and
Economic Sciences or the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (see the agency’s Directorate
for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)) to see if the NSF is a good match for their research
proposals. Note that only US citizens are eligible to apply for the NSF funding.
Guidelines for all Programs URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=SBE
Deadline: Varies by program, see following.
Cultural Anthropology Program
The Cultural Anthropology Program promotes basic scientific research on the causes, consequences,
and complexities of human social and cultural variability. The program solicits research proposals of
theoretical importance in all substantive and theoretical subfields within the discipline of cultural
anthropology.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5388&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
Deadline: January 15 and August 15
Decision, Risk and Management Sciences program
This program supports scientific research directed at increasing the understanding and effectiveness
of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society. Disciplinary and
interdisciplinary research, doctoral dissertation research, and workshops are funded in the areas of
judgment and decision making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception, and
communication; societal and public policy decision making; management science and organizational
design.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5423&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
Deadline: August 18 and January 18
Documenting Endangered Languages
This funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge
concerning endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of roughly half of the
approximately 7000 currently used languages, this effort aims to exploit advances in information
technology to build computational infrastructure for endangered language research. The program
supports projects that contribute to data management and archiving, and to the development of the
next generation of researchers. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 10
digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of
lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases.
URL:http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12816&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=f
und
Deadline: September 15
Geography and Spatial Sciences
The Geography and Spatial Sciences Program sponsors research on the geographic distributions and
interactions of human, physical, and biotic systems on the Earth's surface. Investigations are
encouraged to propose plans for research about the nature, causes, and consequences of human
activity and natural environmental processes across a range of scales. Projects on a variety of topics
(both domestic and international) qualify for support if they offer promise of contributing to
scholarship by enhancing geographical knowledge, concepts, theories, methods, and their application
to societal problems and concerns. GSS encourages projects that explicitly integrate undergraduate
and graduate education into the overall research agenda.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505034
Deadline: September 4
Law and Social Science Program
This program supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions,
processes, and behaviors. These can include, but are not limited to, research designed to enhance the
scientific understanding of the impact of law; human behavior and interactions as these relate to law;
the dynamics of legal decision making; and the nature, sources, and consequences of variations and
changes in legal institutions. Projects can take a global perspective. Research must show promise of
advancing a scientific understanding of law and legal process. The program has an "open window"
for diverse theoretical perspectives, methods and contexts for study. In addition to standard proposals
the program welcomes planning grant proposals, travel support requests to lay the foundation for
research, and proposals for improving doctoral dissertation research.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504727&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&fro
m=fun
Deadline: January 15 and August 1
Linguistics Program
This program supports scientific research of all types that focus on human language as an object of
investigation. The program supports research on the syntactic, semantic, phonetic, and phonological
properties of individual languages and of language in general; the psychological processes involved in
the use of language; the development of linguistic capacities in children; social and cultural factors in
language use, variation, and change; the acoustics of speech and the physiological and psychological
processes involved in the production and perception of speech; and the biological bases of language
in the brain.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5408&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from
=fund
Deadline: January 15 and July 15
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics Program
The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in
the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical
and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are
methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple fields within
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 11
the social and behavioral sciences. As part of its larger portfolio, the MMS Program partners with a
consortium of federal statistical agencies to support research proposals that further the development
of new and innovative approaches to surveys and to the analysis of survey data.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5421&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
Deadline: September 2 and January 20
Political Science Program
The aim of this program prior to suspension was to support research that advances knowledge and
understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research is expected to be theoretically
motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive
areas include, but are not limited to, American government and politics, comparative government and
politics, international relations, political behavior, political economy, and political institutions. Recent
awards have supported projects on bargaining processes; campaigns and elections, electoral choice,
and electoral systems; citizen support in emerging and established democracies; democratization,
political change, and regime transitions; domestic and international conflict; international political
economy; party activism; political psychology, and political tolerance.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5418&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
Deadline: January 15 and August 15
Sociology Program
This program supports basic research on human social organization – societies, institutions, groups,
and demography – and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages
theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental
social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population
dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility,
family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology. The
Program supports both original data collections and secondary data analysis that use the full range of
quantitative and qualitative methodological tools. Theoretically grounded projects that offer
methodological innovations and improvements for data collection and analysis are also welcomed.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5369&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
Deadline: January 15 and August 15
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
The CAREER Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the NSF's most prestigious awards in
support of junior faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding
research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the context of the
mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of
leadership in integrating education and research. NSF especially encourages submission of CAREER
proposals from junior faculty members who are women, members of underrepresented minority
groups, and persons with disabilities.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503214&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
Deadline
Deadline: July 22,23,24 (varies by discipline)
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 12
SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF)
The Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) offers Postdoctoral Research
Fellowships in two tracks: (i) Broadening Participation (SPRF-BP), and (ii) Interdisciplinary
Research in Behavioral and Social Sciences (SPRF-IBSS). The broadening perspectives track
replaces the SBE Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MPRF).
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504810
Deadline: October 27
Renaissance Society of America
The Society offers six types of grants for a total of twenty-four grants for various topics related to the
Renaissance. Two grants are specific to art history and two other grants are for one-month residencies.
Grants are available to nondoctoral, younger scholars, and senior scholars. Applicants must be members
of the society; doctoral applicants must be members for at least one year prior to application, for all other
applicants must be members for at least three years prior to application. Please see website for more
details.
URL: http://www.rsa.org/?page=ResearchGrants
Deadline: December 16 (last known deadline)
Russell Sage Foundation
Project Awards
The foundation supports basic social science research in its announced programs, which include the
future of work; immigration; cultural contact; and social inequality. The foundation largely funds data
analysis and writing up results, but occasionally considers larger awards for data acquisition projects
that are highly relevant to its program goals. Amount: between $35,000 and $150,000. To apply,
applicants must submit a brief letter of inquiry well before the deadline; this is then reviewed within
2-4 weeks, and full proposals are then invited for submission by the deadline.
URL: http://www.russellsage.org/how-to-apply#awards
Deadline: August 1, November 14, March 16 (deadlines for submission of full proposals if
invited)
Visiting Scholars Program
This program is for social science projects that typically relate to the Foundation’s current programs,
but projects may also fall outside this. The Foundation particularly welcomes groups of scholars who
want to collaborate on a project during their residency at the Foundation. Awards are for ten months
and salary support for the academic year up to $110,000 when unavailable from other sources.
URL: http://www.russellsage.org/how-to-apply#scholars
Deadline: September 15
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
SSRC supports innovators, especially new PhDs whose work and ideas have the potential to make a longterm impact on society and scholarship. Although most programs target the social sciences, some are
open to applicants from the humanities.
URL: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/all/
Deadline: Various, see website for details.
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG)
This foundation’s priority is the study of urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world
and related research projects in the social sciences, history, criminology, and the humanities that
illuminate modern human problems. Grants have been made to study aspects of violence related to youth,
family, media, and crime; to intergroup conflict related to religion, ethnicity, and nationalism; and
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 13
political violence deployed in war and sub-state terrorism; as well as processes of peace and the control of
aggression. Awards range from $15,000 to $40,000 per year for periods of one or two years. Applications
for larger amounts and longer durations must be very strongly justified in order to be successful.
URL: http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm
Deadline: August 1
United States Institute of Peace
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) funds research into related topics of peace and conflict. These
grants are portable, but the institute also offers an in-residence fellowship (see the next section for
details).
Grants Program
The USIP looks for innovative peace building projects to support institutions that test and advance
models of peacebuilding practice, and build the capacity of partners in conflict countries to implement
and assess the effectiveness of creative peacebuilding strategies. USIP uses grantmaking to test new
ideas and pioneering approaches to peacebuilding efforts through education, training, research, and
the media. Currently, USIP is accepting projects in the regions of South and Central Asia and the
Middle East and North Africa. Grant awards vary by project.
URL: http://www.usip.org/grants-fellowships/grants/grant-making-usip
Deadline: Open
IN-RESIDENCE FELLOWSHIPS
American Academy in Berlin
The American Academy in Berlin is a private, non-profit center for German-American cultural exchange
that funds scholars working on a wide variety of academic, cultural, and political affairs. The scholar’s
research need not require stay in Germany to be eligible for the fellowship. Fellowships are typically
awarded for an academic semester or, in some cases, for an entire academic year. The Bosch Fellowships
in Public Policy may be for shorter stays of six to eight weeks. Fellowship benefits include round-trip
airfare, housing at the Academy, partial board, and a stipend of $5,000 per month. The Academy’s
furnished apartments at the Hans Arnhold Center are suitable for individuals and couples;
accommodations are available for families with children at the Hans Arnhold Center or at nearby
apartments. Fellows are expected to reside at the Hans Arnhold Center during the entire term of the
award. Fellowships are restricted to candidates who are based permanently in the US (US citizenship is
not required and American expatriates are not eligible). Candidates in academic disciplines must have
completed a doctorate at the time of application.
URL: http://www.americanacademy.de/home/fellows/applications
Deadline: September 29 (begins accepting applications in June each year)
American Academy in Rome
The Academy’s Rome Prize Fellowships are designed for emerging artists and for scholars in the early or
middle stages of their careers. Preference is given to applicants for whom research time in Italy, and
especially in the city of Rome, is essential, and who have not had extensive prior experience there. The
Rome Prize is awarded to 30 scholars working in disciplines such as Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and
early Modern, or Modern Italian Studies, Literature, Musical Composition, and Visual Arts. Fellowships
are six or eleven months long, with stipends of $16,000 and $28,000, respectively.
URL: http://www.aarome.org/apply/rome-prize/procedure-requirements
Deadline: November 1 (late applications, November 2 – 15, accepted for an additional fee)
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 14
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
This Visiting Scholars Program (VSP) offers opportunities for scholars to carry out their individual
research and collaborate on shared scholarly or policy-related interests. It is intended to create a national
network for scholars in the early stages of their career, assisting them in their research and professional
development, and promoting intensive scholarship by individuals from diverse disciplinary, institutional,
and geographic backgrounds. Amount: Faculty-up to $65,000; Postdocs-up to $45,000.
URL: https://www.amacad.org/content/about/about.aspx?d=363&t=4&s=0
Deadline: October 22
American Antiquarian Society
The American Antiquarian Society offers the Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship to scholars who are no
more than three years beyond receipt of the doctorate. It supports a year in residence at the center so that
fellows can develop and/or revise their dissertation for publication. Any topic relevant to the Society’s
library collections and programmatic scope—American history and culture through 1876—is eligible.
The twelve-month stipend is $35,000.
URL: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/hench.htm
Deadline: October 15
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for
Recently Tenured Scholars (also listed under ACLS above)
These fellowships support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social
sciences. Burkhardt Fellowships are intended to support an academic year (normally nine months) of
residence at any one of the national residential research centers participating in the program. Amount:
$75,000 and requires institutional support in the form of summer salary or additional time free of teaching
and service duties. They are available to recently tenured humanities scholars.
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=480&linkidentifier=id&itemid=480
Deadline: September 26
American Historical Association (also listed under American Historical Association above)
The J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History supports significant research in the collections
of the Library of Congress by history scholars at an early stage in their careers. Applicants must have
received the PhD within the last seven years, and cannot have published or had accepted for publication a
book-length historical work. The stipend is $5,000 for 2–3 months of full-time residence at the Library of
Congress. AHA members are eligible to apply.
URL: http://www.historians.org/prizes/Jameson_fellowship.htm
Deadline: April 1
American Institution for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) DAAD/AICGS Research
Fellowship
This is an in-residence research fellowship designed to bring scholars and specialists working on
Germany, Europe, and/or transatlantic relations to AICGS in Washington, DC. It is a two-month
fellowship with a monthly stipend of up to $4,725. Project proposals should address a topic closely
related to one or more of the institute’s three research and programming areas: business and economics;
foreign and domestic policy; or society, culture, and politics.
URL: http://www.aicgs.org/employment/daad-aicgs-research-fellowship/
Deadline: August 31 (for spring session, Jan.-Jun.); March 15 (for fall session, Jul.-Dec.)
American Political Science Association (APSA)
The Congressional Fellowship Program
This program is for early- to mid-career political scientists and provides direct participation in
Congress and the legislative process. Selected political science faculty members serve nine months on
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 15
congressional staffs. The goal is to enhance participants’ understanding of policy-making and
improve the quality of scholarship, teaching, and reporting on US politics. Applicants must be within
fifteen years of completing their dissertation. Amount: $38,000.
URL: http://www.apsanet.org/content_3540.cfm
Deadline: December 1
The Centennial Center Visiting Scholars Program
This program assists scholars whose research and teaching would benefit from access to the resources
in Washington, D.C. APSA encourages research and writing in all fields of political science,
facilitates collaboration among scholars working within the discipline and across the social and
behavioral sciences and humanities, and promotes communication between scholars and
policymakers. Must be an APSA member. Can apply for supplemental Center funding.
URL: http://www.apsanet.org/section_224.cfm
Supplemental Grant Support URL: http://www.apsanet.org/content_3471.cfm
Deadline: Rolling
American School of Classical Studies in Athens
The School offers funding for study of all aspects of Greek culture, from antiquity to the present day. It
also contributes considerably to the dissemination of information about Greek history and archaeology to
the Greek public, as well as to the international and Greek scholarly communities. Amounts vary.
URL: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/admission-membership/grants/
Deadlines: Various. See website for details.
American Sociological Association (ASA)
The ASA Congressional Fellowship, part of the Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social
Policy, brings a PhD-level sociologist to Washington DC to work as a staff member on a congressional
committee, in a congressional office, or as a member of a congressional agency for four-to-six-months to
study the policy-making process and consider the usefulness of sociological data and concepts to policy
issues. Applicants should have a commitment to the policy process. Amount: $66,000 for 12 months.
URL: http://www.asanet.org/funding/cf.cfm
Deadline: February 1
Asian Cultural Council
Fellowships to visual and performing artists from Asia for research, study, received specialized training,
undertake observation tours, or pursue creative projects in the US constitute the core of the ACC's grant
program. Some awards are also made to US scholars and artists pursuing similar activities in Asia and to
educational and cultural institutions engaged in projects of special significance to Asian-American
exchange or regional exchange activities within Asia.
URL: http://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/apply/
Deadline: November 1
Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships
These fellowships support two years of research at a host institution in Canada in any field. The stipend is
$70,000 (CAD) per year (taxable) for two years (non-renewable). Interested applicants must solicit
support from a program at a Canadian university. To be eligible, scholars must have completed their PhD
within three years of the application date (between September 24, 2011 and August 15, 2015 for the
coming application cycle), although up to additional years may be added for those who have had major
career interruptions for the purpose of childrearing, illness, or health-related family responsibilities.
URL: http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/app-dem/elig-adm-eng.html
Deadline: September 24
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 16
Calgary Institute for the Humanities (The University of Calgary)
Visiting Research Fellowships.
Residencies last between four months to one year. Preference is given to candidates whose work is of
value to more than one academic or disciplinary area. Applications are invited from scholars of
established reputation and from younger scholars holding a doctorate or equivalent at least two years
prior to the fellowship’s tenure. Fellowships are primarily aimed at scholars on sabbatical or releasetime leaves. No stipend.
URL: http://arts.ucalgary.ca/cih/node/35
Deadline: September 1
Center for Cultural Analysis (CCA) (Rutgers University)
CCA awards residential fellowships to scholars from all disciplinary perspectives. Since the fellowship is
theme driven check the website for current theme. Applicants must have completed their PhDs before
June 30, 2014. Preference is given to recent PhDs -- scholars in the first ten years of their academic
careers -- but more advanced scholars may apply. Awards are $45,000. Fellows will have access to the
Center’s resources during tenure and will be expected to participate in and to present their work at the
Center’s seminars, which meet regularly throughout the academic year.
URL: http://cca.rutgers.edu/ (Application URL: https://secure.interfolio.com/apply/21933)
Deadline: January 7 (last known deadline)
Center for the Humanities (Oregon State University)
Visiting Fellowships
These Visiting Research Fellowships allow members of humanities departments and other scholars
interested in humanistic issues to pursue research and writing protected from the daily demands of
academic life. Fellows are expected to share their research in lectures or seminars.
URL: http://oregonstate.edu/dept/humanities/fellowship-program
Deadline: January 16
Cornell Society for the Humanities (Cornell University)
Society for the Humanities Fellowship.
The theme of for this program changes each year (“Time” for the 2014 application deadline).
Applicants must be working on topics related to the theme and their approach to the humanities
should be broad enough to appeal across humanistic disciplines. Junior and senior faculty are eligible.
Applicants must have at least one year of teaching experience, which may include teaching as a
graduate student. Applicants must have received the PhD before January 1, 2014. Fellowships are
$45,000.
URL: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/society_fellowships.html
Deadline: October 1
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships.
This Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-supported program offers two-year stipends of $45,000 per year
to scholars with recent PhDs in the humanities. While in residence, fellows hold department
affiliations, have limited teaching duties, and do scholarly work. Check the website for current area of
specialization.
URL: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/mellon_post-d_fellowships.html
Deadline: Various; check website for dates of each area of specialization
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 17
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics (Harvard University)
Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellowships and Projects
The focus of the fellowships and projects is on institutional corruption, including conflicts of interest,
public trust of institutions, and institutional discrimination. This is part of a five-year research project
launched in 2010 to study the causes and consequences of institutional corruption. The Center is
looking for research and practice-oriented fellows. Applications in the past have been made for one or
two years. The Center typically accepts full-time residential fellows and part-time non-residential
fellows.
URL: http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/opportunities
Deadline: January 1
Network Fellowships (Non-residential)
This is a newly established program connecting cross-disciplinary scholars and practitioners who are
working independently on issues of institutional corruption as academic research projects or applied
within their organizations. Non-residential fellows will be invited to visit the Center twice during the
academic year to meet other Network Fellows, to share their work with other fellows, and to
brainstorm new ideas. Fellows will be connected to one another via various online channels. In most
cases, these fellowships are not funded by the Center, though a small amount of funding could be
made available to help execute a specific project related to institutional corruption.
URL: http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/opportunities
Deadline: January 1
European University Institute (EUI)
One of the worlds largest doctoral and postdoctoral programs in the social sciences focused on the study
of Europe. It has several fellowships open to scholars engaged in the humanistic and social scientific
study of Europe.
Max Weber Fellowships
The Max Weber Program offers 1-2-year fellowships in Florence (two-year fellowships involved
additional activities, such as limited graduate teaching) for early career scholars. It is funded by the
European Commission (DG Education and Culture) and hosted by the European University Institute
in Florence. Fellows receive €2000 a month, which may be reduced based on the amount of
supplementary income. There is also a family allowance for dependents (€300 per month for partners,
and €200 euros per month for each dependent child). Candidates are eligible during the five-year
period following the successful completion of their PhD. There is no citizenship requirement.
URL:
http://www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/AcademicService/Fellowships/MaxWeberFellowships/Index.a
spx
Deadline: October 25
Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowships offers one and two year fellowships to post-docs in the
early stage of their academic career. The main criteria of selection are the CV of the applicant, the
overall scientific quality of the proposal, and the fit of the proposal with the Centre’s research
programme. Priority is given to proposals that fit well with one or more of the Centre’s core research
themes: European Institutions, Governance, and Democracy; Migration; Economic and Monetary
Policy; Competition Policy and Market Regulation; Energy Policy and Climate Policy; Global
Governance; and International and Transnational Relations of the EU. Of these fellowships, up to 10
are offered as Global Governance Fellowships and affiliated to the Robert Schuman Centre for
Advanced Studies’ Global Governance Programme. Two of the fellowships are awarded to candidates
working on European Comparative Politics or European Comparative History as “Vincent Write
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 18
Fellowships” in memory of the distinguished political scientist, Vincent Wright. Fellows are required
to live in Florence and receive a basic grant of €2000 a month, which may be reduced based on the
amount of supplementary income. There is also a family allowance for dependents (€300 per month
for partners, and €200 per month for each dependent child). Candidates are eligible during the sevenyear period following the successful completion of their PhD. There is no citizenship requirement.
URL:
http://www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/AcademicService/Fellowships/JeanMonnetFellowships/Index.
aspx
Deadline: October 25
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowships
The Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowships support established academics with international
reputations. The Fellowship lasts 3-10 months and fellows receive a monthly stipend of 3,000 euros.
Fellows must live in Florence for the duration of the fellowship. There are two deadlines and different
programs accept applications at different times: The Department of Law and the Department of
History and Civilization consider applications only for the March 30 deadline; The Department of
Political and Social Sciences considers applications only for the September 30 deadline; and the
Department of Economics considers applications for both deadlines. There is no citizenship
requirement.
URL:
http://www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/AcademicService/Fellowships/FernandBraudelSeniorFellowsh
ips/Index.aspx
Deadlines: September 30 and March 30, depending on field
European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS)
EURIAS Fellowships are offered mainly in the fields of the humanities and social sciences for individual
work only. This international researcher mobility program offers 10-month residential fellowships at 16
participating institutes in Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Budapest, Cambridge, Delmenhorst, Freiburg,
Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar, Zürich. The intent is to promote
concentrated, self-directed work within a stimulating environment of multidisciplinary and international
fellows. Residencies are open to both junior and senior scholars and begin in September or October. So
long as the residency is 10 months in duration, individual institutes may allow negotiation of the starting
date.
Amount: €26,000 for a junior fellow, and € 38,000 for a senior fellow.
URL: http://www.2014-2015.eurias-fp.eu/call-applications
Deadline: July 10 (last known deadline)
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
The Ford Foundation’s Postdoctoral Fellowships are administered by the National Research Council
(NRC). To be competitive, applicants must demonstrate superior academic achievement, be committed to
a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement,
and as scholars and teachers be prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all
students. Applicants must be US citizens by the deadline and belong to one (or more) of the following
groups: Alaska Natives (Eskimo/Aleut), Black/African Americans, Mexican American/Chicanas/
Chicanos, Native American Indians, Native Pacific Islanders (Polynesian/Micronesian), or Puerto Ricans.
The fellowship stipend is $40,000; the employing institution receives a $1,500 allowance at the end of the
fellowship tenure which it is supposed to match and use to assist the Fellow with continuing research
expenses after his or her return to the home institution.
URL: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/fordfellowships/
Deadlines: Applications — November 14 (last known deadline)
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 19
Note about the Fulbright programs: The Fulbright-Hays programs, administered by the US
Department of Education (ED), are distinct from the Fulbright programs, administered by the US
Department of State. The Fulbright programs focus on exchange for mutual understanding by bringing
overseas scholars and professionals to the US and sending US citizens abroad. Fulbright-Hays programs
support the internationalization of the nation's educational infrastructure by strengthening area and
foreign language expertise among US educators. Although the Fulbright Scholar program focuses more
on teaching than research and the Fulbright-Hays offers more funding per fellowship, both offer
excellent opportunities for faculty members to gain experience abroad.
Fulbright-Hays Grants for Faculty Research, offered by the U.S. Department of Education
Note: Applications must be submitted through Office of International Programs
Sue Lorenz, director of Fulbright Programs and International Agreements for KU (785/864-6161,
slorenz@ku.edu), coordinates the application process for the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad
Program. These training grants offer stipends and travel expenses to cover three to twelve months of
research abroad. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents, possess adequate skills in the
language(s) necessary to carry out their proposed research, and have engaged in teaching relevant to their
foreign language or area studies specialization for two years immediately preceding the award. Projects
focusing on Western Europe are not eligible.
URL for KU: http://www.international.ku.edu/fulbright-hays-faculty-research-abroad-fellowshipprograms
URL for Dept. of Education Fulbright-Hays program: http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsfra/index.html
Deadline: TBD
Fulbright Scholar Program, offered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars
This application does not have to be submitted through the KU Office of International Programs. This
Fulbright program sends US faculty abroad for various periods, usually three to six months, to lecture and
conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
URL: http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards/
Deadline: August 1
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
DAAD offers funding opportunities to highly qualified PhD candidates and post-doctoral researchers for
research or a course of study and training in Germany. Funding includes research grants, fellowships, and
intensive language courses. Opportunities are also available to help build ties with institutions in
Germany and for collaborative research.
URL: https://www.daad.org/46363
Deadline: Various, see website for details.
German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)
This program offers fellowships and grants to bring Americans and Europeans together to increase
understanding and build transatlantic networks among the political, media, business, and nonprofit
communities. It is aimed at generating new policy approaches to transatlantic issues. GMF works with
partner organizations to sponsor a range of fellowship and exchange programs designed to provide both
broad cultural exposure and more targeted opportunities for learning about specialized policy areas.
Transatlantic Academy Fellowships
Fellowships are for senior scholars in a variety of disciplines and proposals must relate to the preselected annual theme. The Academy is made up of six scholars- four fellows and two junior fellows.
Fellows are in residence at the GMF’s office in DC for up to ten months and will participate in a
collaborative environment and share and discuss their work with the other fellows and Academy
guests.
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 20
URL: http://www.transatlanticacademy.org/press-release/%5Bfield_press_date-date%5D/callfellowship-applications-2014-2015-religion-and-liberal-or
Deadline: Rolling application review beginning in September 2013 and with offers made no
later than October 2013 (last known deadline)
Transatlantic Fellows Program
This program is a critical part of GMF’s efforts in shaping important policy debates between the US
and Europe. A small number of senior academics, policy-practitioners, businesspeople, and
journalists are invited to develop a range of programs and initiatives as well as build networks of
policymakers and analysts in the Euroatlantic community. Fellows work on topics such as
international security, immigration, trade and economic development, and foreign policy.
URL: http://www.gmfus.org/cs/taf
Deadline: Unknown; see website for contact information
Grantmaking programs
GMF has a variety of grant opportunities for individuals and institutions in addition to the above
fellowship programs. Please the website below for more information on these grants.
URL: http://www.gmfus.org/grants-fellowships/grantmaking-programs/
Deadline: Varies, see website
Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
The institute offers grants for scholars to be in residence at the Getty Research Institute and Getty
Conservation Institute. These include library research grants, guest scholar fellowships, and pre- and
postdoctoral fellowships. Several are thematic. Check the website for the current theme.
URL: http://www.getty.edu/foundation/funding/residential/
Getty Scholar Grants
Getty Scholar grants are for established scholars, artists, or writers who have attained distinction in
their fields. Recipients are in residence at the Getty Research Institute, 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 theme, and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty. Getty
Scholars may be in residence for one of three periods ranging from three to nine months: September
to December 2014; January to June 2015; or September 2015 to June 2016. A stipend of up to
$65,000 per year will be awarded based on length of stay, need, and salary. The grant also includes an
office at the Getty Research Institute or the Getty Villa, research assistance, an apartment in the Getty
scholar housing complex, and airfare to and from Los Angeles.
URL: http://www.getty.edu/foundation/funding/residential/getty_scholars.html
Deadline: November 1 (last known deadline)
Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships
Getty Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships are intended for emerging scholars to complete work
on projects related to the Getty Research Institute's annual theme. Postdoctoral Fellowship applicants
must not have received their degree earlier than 2008. Fellows are in residence for nine months from
mid-September to mid-June and receive a stipend of $30,000. The fellowship also provides a
workspace at the Getty Research Institute or the Getty Villa, an apartment in the Getty scholar
housing complex, and airfare to and from Los Angeles. Getty Postdoctoral Fellows are open to
scholars of any nationality.
URL: http://www.getty.edu/foundation/funding/residential/getty_pre_postdoctoral_fellowships.html
Deadline: November 1 (last known deadline)
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 21
GRI-NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Getty Research Institute offers two residential Postdoctoral Fellowships, made possible through a
grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). These fellowships are funded by the
NEH and are part of the Getty's annual scholar and fellow program. GRI-NEH Fellows are in
residence for ten months, from September to June of the following year. The fellowship carries a
stipend of $30,000 and provides workspace, housing, and transportation comparable to other Getty
fellowship programs. While you may not apply for both Getty and GRI-NEH fellowships at the same
time, GRI-NEH applicants who are not selected may be considered for a Getty Postdoctoral
Fellowship. GRI-NEH applicants must be US citizens or foreign nationals who can document that
they have lived in the US for the three years immediately preceding the fellowship application
deadline.
URL: http://www.getty.edu/foundation/funding/residential/getty_pre_postdoctoral_fellowships.html
Deadline: November 1
Library Research Grants
Getty Library Research Grants provide partial, short-term support for costs relating to travel and
living expenses to scholars whose research requires use of specific collections housed in the Getty
Research Institute. Library Research Grants are intended for scholars of all nationalities and at any
level who demonstrate a compelling need to use materials housed in the Research Library, and whose
place of residence is more than eighty miles from the Getty Center. Projects must relate to specific
items in the library collection. Library Research Grants are intended to provide partial support for
costs relating to travel and living expenses. Grants range from $500 to $2,500, depending on the
distance traveled. The research period may range from several days to a maximum of three months,
but must take place between February 15, 2014, and January 15, 2015.
URL: http://www.getty.edu/foundation/funding/residential/library_research_grants.html
Deadline: October 15
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Venetian Research Program. The Foundation awards pre-doctoral and post-doctoral grants for travel to
and residence in Venice and the Veneto. Grants are for historical research specifically on Venice and the
former Venetian empire, and for study of contemporary Venetian society and culture. Disciplines of the
humanities and social sciences are eligible areas of study, including (but not limited to) archaeology,
architecture, art, bibliography, economics, history, history of science, law, literature, music, political
science, religion, and theater. Award amount: up to a maximum of $19,900 for a full academic year.
URL: http://delmas.org/?page_id=97
Deadline: December 15 (last known deadline)
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (The University of Texas at Austin)
The Center offers one to three-month residential fellowships with stipends of $3,000 per month annually
to support scholarly research projects in all areas of the humanities including literature, music, art, and
film. Fifty fellowships are granted each year and priority is given to proposals that require substantial onsite use of the Center's collections. Travel stipends in the amount of $1,200 to $1,700 may be awarded to
scholars with projects that require less than one month's research at the Center. These may not be
combined with other Ransom Center Fellowships.
URL: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fellowships/
Deadline: February 1 (last known deadline)
Hodder Fellowship (Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University)
This fellowship was created specifically for artists in the early stages of their careers when they have
demonstrated exceptional promise but have not yet received widespread recognition. Typically, Hodder
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 22
Fellows have published one highly acclaimed book and are undertaking significant new work that might
not be possible without this fellowship. Typical fellows include poets, playwrights, novelists, creative
nonfiction writers, and translators. Hodder Fellows spend an academic year in Princeton pursuing
independent projects. Preference is given to individuals outside of academia. Stipend is $68,000.
URL: http://www.princeton.edu/arts/lewis_center/society_of_fellows/
Deadline: September 15
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ; Note: This is NOT Princeton University)
Membership Program.
The Institute annually selects scholars for residence at the Schools of Historical Studies and Social
Science. Junior scholars who demonstrate outstanding promise and whose research is likely to result
in work of significance and originality are welcome to apply, as are senior scholars.
URL: http://www.ias.edu/about/how-to-apply
Deadline: November 1—but Oct. 15 is recommended (School of Historical Studies)
November 1 (School of Social Sciences)
Mellon Fellowship.
The Institute offers a Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors through the School of Historical
Studies. One-year residencies include Institute membership. Applicants must be working on projects
in the School of Historical Studies, and should be beyond revising their dissertation. To be eligible,
scholars must have held the title "Assistant Professor" at an institution of higher learning in the US or
Canada for at least two and not more than four years by the proposed time of arrival at the Institute.
URL: http://www.hs.ias.edu/mellon
Deadline: November 1
Institute for Historical Studies (University of Texas at Austin)
The Institute offers tenure-track and tenured faculty fellowships and post-doctoral fellowships.
Fellowships are not restricted to historians, but projects must have significant historical content. Fellows
must be resident in Austin during the term of their appointment and are expected to participate actively
and regularly in the Institute's programming. Each fellow will present a pre-circulated paper at the
institute's workshops and may also be invited to participate in other programming at The University of
Texas at Austin. Amount: up to $50,000; $42,000 for postdocs.
URL: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/historicalstudies/fellowships/resident-fellows.php
Deadline: January 15
Institute for Research in the Humanities (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin offers several fellowships for
scholars at different stages in their career and with various specialties.
UW-Madison Kingdon Fellowships
The Kingdon Fellowship supports one or two fellows from outside UW-Madison research in
historical, literary, and philosophical studies of the Judeo-Christian religious tradition and its role in
society from antiquity to the present. Projects may focus on any period, on any part of the world, and
in any field (or fields) of the humanities. Fellows must be in residence throughout the academic year
and may extend their residency through the following summer on a non-stipendiary basis. Applicants
must have the doctorate in hand at the time of application. The award provides a stipend of $51,000,
office space, support services, and access to all university facilities.
URL: http://irh.wisc.edu/fellowships.php?menu=4
Deadline: November 1
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 23
Solmsen Fellowships
The Solmsen Fellowships support four or five scholars from outside UW-Madison working on
literary and historical studies of the European Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance periods up to
about 1700. Fellows must be in residence throughout the academic year and may extend their
residency through the following summer on a non-stipendiary basis. Applicants must have the
doctorate in hand at the time of application. The award provides a stipend of $51,000, office space,
support services, and access to all university facilities.
URL: http://irh.wisc.edu/fellowships.php?menu=5
Deadline: November 1
The A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Program
This two-year fellowship is an interdisciplinary program providing postdoctoral fellowships in the
humanities and humanistic social sciences. The program, established in 2010, builds upon
interdisciplinary initiatives on campus exploring the broad question, “What is human?” These
initiatives have been examining the transnational circulations of culture and power on a global
landscape, questions of biocultures and biopolitics, ad new ways of thinking about media in the
context of the digital revolution. Fellows teach one course each semester. Applicants must receive (or
have received) their PhD between August 2010 and August 2015. Fellows receive a stipend, which
was $55,157 for 2012-2013, with a $2,000 per year research allowance, $3,000 per year travel
allowance, and a one-time $2,500 computer allowance. Fellows are also eligible for health insurance.
URL: http://irh.wisc.edu/fellowships.php?menu=6
Deadline: November 1 (last known)
David Woodward Cartography Fellowships
The annual two-month residential fellowship gives scholars an opportunity to research and write on a
subject related to the history of cartography. Preference is given to proposals that complement one o f
the forthcoming volumes of The History of Cartography, but choice of subject matter is otherwise
open. Fellows are provided with a stipend of $7,000, office space (when available) and access to all
UW-Madison libraries and campus facilities.
URL: http://irh.wisc.edu/fellowships.php?menu=13
Deadline: December 7 (last known)
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)
IREX sponsors fellowships for pre-doctoral and postdoctoral research, for senior scholars, professionals,
and policymakers. Its programs are intended to attract, select, and support in-depth field research by US
scholars and experts in policy-relevant subject areas related to Southeast Europe and Eurasia, as well as to
disseminate knowledge about these regions to a wide network of constituents in the US and abroad.
Eligible countries of research (two-to-nine months) include: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Macedonia,
Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)
This postdoctoral program provides supports in-country research on contemporary political,
economic, historical, or cultural developments relevant to US foreign policy. Applicants may propose
research in up to three countries for up to nine months. Fellows will act as consultants or experts to
schools, local NGOs, or the US Embassy in the host country during the fellowship period.
URL: http://www.irex.org/application/individual-advanced-research-opportunities-iaro
Deadline: December 9 (last known deadline-funding suspended for 2014 competition)
Regional Policy Symposium Program
This program in collaboration with Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars provides junior and senior scholars and policy-makers with a forum to examine and discuss
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 24
current policy research on the countries of Eurasia and Central and East Europe from multidisciplinary and multi-regional approaches. The symposium is held in DC each year. See website for
symposium topic.
URL: http://www.irex.org/project/regional-policy-symposium
Deadline: December 9 (last known deadline-funding suspended for 2014 competition)
Short-term Travel Grants
These grants support up to eight weeks of independent or collaborative research in up to two East
European and Eurasian countries. Applicants must show that their research will make a substantive
contribution to knowledge of the contemporary political, economic, historical, or cultural
developments in the region and how such knowledge is relevant to US foreign policy. Of particular
interest are research topics that strengthen the fields of Eurasian and East European studies, and
address US foreign policy interests in the region broadly defined.
URL: http://www.irex.org/application/short-term-travel-grants-stg-application
Deadline: February 6 (last known deadline-funding suspended for 2014 competition)
The US Embassy Policy Specialist Program
This program offers scholars and other specialists the opportunity to serve in-residence for one-to-two
months in embassies and consulates overseas. While serving at the embassy or consulate, fellows also
conduct their own research. EPS fellows have served missions in Baku, Azerbaijan; Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan; Dushanbe, Tajikistan; Ekaterinburg, Russia; and Vladivostok, Russia. Grant length and
dates are determined in consultation with the specific embassy or consulate. Examples of embassy
service can include conducting field research, writing policy papers, consulting embassy staff, and
assisting with grant panels.
URL: http://www.irex.org/application/us-embassy-policy-specialist-program-eps-application
Deadline: July 15 (last known deadline-funding suspended for 2014 competition)
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America (Columbia University)
Alexander Bodini Research Fellowship
This program offers three fellowships annually in the fields of developmental and adolescent
psychiatry, culture and religion, and global development and finance. The Alexander Bodini
Fellowship in culture and religion is those who investigate the relationship between culture and
religion in both modern and historical societies. Bodini Fellows spend one or two academic semesters
in residence at the Italian Academy, which provides office space and support, aid in finding
convenient housing, and opportunities for the organization of public lectures, seminars, conferences,
and publication. The Bodini Fellows are expected to participate in the life of the Academy, including
the weekly luncheon seminars with the other Fellows. Independent research, however, is foremost,
and Bodini Fellows are encouraged to make use of all of Columbia's facilities.
URL: http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/fellowships_bodini.html
Deadline: December 3 (last known deadline)
Art and Neuroscience Fellowship
The Art and Neuroscience Project is interested in understanding the possibilities offered by cognitive
neuroses, broadly defined, in understanding the arts and letters. Fellows are given opportunities to
develop joint projects, seminars, and conferences that may be necessary to further the development of
relations between the neurosciences and the arts. The fellowship is for humanities scholars interested
in neuroscience or neurophilosophy and for neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists. The same
requirements of residency and benefits apply to this fellowship as they do for the above fellowships.
URL: http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/fellowships_artandneuro.html
Deadline: December 3 (last known deadline)
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 25
James Weldon Johnson Institute (Emory University)
The Visiting Scholars Program provides up to five fellowships for both junior and senior scholars each
academic year. Applications from humanities, humanistic social sciences, and law are encouraged . The
Institute is particularly interested in projects that examine the origins, evolution, impact, and legacy of the
modern civil rights movement from 1905, or the rise of the Niagara Movement, to the present. They also
support research projects that examine the civil rights movement and its points of intersection with other
social justice movements such as the Women’s Movement, the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgendered
Movement, and the Human Rights Movement. Scholars will also teach one course in the spring semester.
Amount: $60,000 (full professor); $40,000 (associate professor); $30,000 (assistant professor).
URL: http://www.jamesweldonjohnson.emory.edu/sub-visiting.htm
Deadline: March 1 (last known deadline)
Junior Research Fellowships (Trinity College, Cambridge University)
These fellowships support up to four years of research at Trinity College on any topic. Fellows receive a
stipend of £24,416 per year, along with a residential set of rooms in the College for free (if single), or a
£6,000 annual housing allowance. This should be the applicant’s first substantial paid academic or
research appointment, excluding any scholarship or other assistance toward a degree, and excluding up to
nine months of post-doctoral work.
URL: https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=626
Deadline: August 29
Kellogg Institute for International Studies (Notre Dame University)
The Visiting Fellowships provide scholars the opportunity to pursue research related to Kellogg Institute
themes of democracy and human development, share your research with the Notre Dame scholarly
community, and have the opportunity to publish in Kellogg’s peer-reviewed Working Paper Series.
Senior and junior scholars may apply. A two-year postdoc is available also. Fellowships offer a stipend
and conference travel support.
URL: http://kellogg.nd.edu/vfellowships/fellowships.shtml#proc
Deadline: November 1
McNeil Center of Early American Studies (University of Pennsylvania)
Barra Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Barra Postdoctoral Fellowship funds the work that focuses on any aspect of the histories and
cultures of North America in the Atlantic world before 1850. Proposals reliant on research in
Philadelphia-area archives libraries, and museums are especially welcome. This fellowship is a
twenty-four month post-doc with a starting annual stipend of $43,000, health insurance, and modest
funds for travel and research. The appointment requires teaching two courses in the appropriate
department. While the fellowship is particularly appropriate for projects designed to turn a
dissertation into a book, any proposal falling within the Center’s area of interest will be considered.
Applicants must submit six copies of the application to the Center in hard-copy, and the packet must
be postmarked by the deadline.
URL: http://www.mceas.org/postdoctoralfellowships.shtml
Deadline: November 1
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 26
Barra Sabbatical Fellowship
This award supports a nine-month residence beginning September 1 for a scholar who earned the PhD
no later than four years before the fellowship begins and who will be on leave from a tenured or
tenure-track faculty position for the year. The fellow will have no teaching responsibilities and will
receive a grant of $46,000 with no other salary or benefits on the assumption that additional support
will be provided by his or her home institution.
URL: http://www.mceas.org/postdoctoralfellowships.shtml
Deadline: November 1
Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) (University of Notre Dame)
NDIAS offers Residential Fellowships to encourage scholars to include questions of values in their
analyses, to integrate diverse disciplines, and to ask how their findings advance civilization. The
fellowships support research for periods ranging from three weeks to a full academic year. Stipends for
the full academic year are up to $60,000, and fellows who do not reside in the greater Michiana area are
provided with subsidized visiting faculty housing located adjacent to the University during the fellowship.
URL: http://ndias.nd.edu/fellowships/residential/
Deadline: October 15
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
The Carson Center functions primarily as a research think tank that contributes to public discussions
about environmental issues and policies. It offers residential fellowships to both senior and postdoctoral
scholars working on international, historical, and comparative environmental studies whose projects fall
under one of the Center’s research themes. The length of fellowships is flexible. Fellowships are usually
granted for six, nine or twelve months, but can also be granted for three months or broken up into
individual three-month periods. Residencies are staggered for greater flexibility.
URL: http://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/index.html
Deadline: May 31 (2014 only, may return to January 31 for 2015, check the website)
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Two-Year Fellowships
History of Art Institutional Fellowships
The Kress Foundation offers six international residential pre-doctoral Institutional Fellowships to
support dissertation research focused on European art from antiquity to the early 19th century.
Candidates in the history of art and related disciplines (such as archaeology, architecture, or classics)
must be nominated by their institutions’ Art History Departments. As of October 2011 the Kress
Institutional Fellowships are being administered by the host institutions, which are: Institute for Art
History in Florence, the Art Historical Institute at Rijksuniversiteit in Leiden, the Courtlauld Institue of
Art & Warburg Institute of Art in London (jointly administered), the Central Institute for Art History
in Munich, the National Institute for the History of Art in Paris, and the Bibliotheca Hertziana in
Rome. Please consult carefully the Application Guidelines for complete details. Amount:
$30,000/year.
URL: http://www.kressfoundation.org/fellowships/institutional/
Deadline: November 30
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 27
Conservation Fellowships
One-year post-graduate internships in advanced conservation in European art at a museum or
conservation research facility offer a $27,000 fellowship stipend, and $5,000 toward host institution
administrative costs, Fellow benefits, and other direct costs of hosting the Fellowship. Fellowships
begin in late summer or early fall for a 9- to 12-month term. The museum or conservation facility at
which the internship will be based must submit the application. Fellows should have completed (or
will complete prior to the Fellowship) a Master’s in conservation prior to beginning the Fellowship.
URL: http://www.kressfoundation.org/fellowships/conservation/
Deadline: Received by January 22
Interpretive Fellowships at Art Museums
Application for this 9-12 month residency must be made by the art museum proposing to host a Kress
Interpretive Fellow. These fellowships are intended as an opportunity for individuals who have
completed a degree (B.A., M.A., or Ph.D.) in art history, art education, studio art, or museum studies
and are pursuing or contemplating graduate study or professional placement in these or related fields.
The Fellowship award is $30,000, with a minimum of $25,000 reserved for the Fellow’s stipend and
up to $5,000 available to support health, travel and other benefits for the Fellow and/or to defray the
direct costs of hosting the Fellow.
URL: http://www.kressfoundation.org/fellowships/interpretive/
Deadline: Received by April 1
Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship (CUNY)
The Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York offers four yearlong residential
fellowships. Awards offer writing space, full access to research facilities, and a $60,000 stipend. They
engage in discussions on the craft of biography, both within and without the academy. Established and
emerging biographers, writers moving to biography from other genres, and artists working on biography
in film or other media are welcome. Fellows are expected to attend monthly seminars and the conferences
and lectures held by the Leon Levy Center, in addition to their own work on their projects.
URL: http://www.leonlevycenterforbiography.com/fellows_program.html
Deadline: December 1
Lauro De Bosis Postdoctoral Fellowship (Harvard University)
The Committee for the Lauro De Bosis Lectureship in the History of Italian Civilization at Harvard
University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in any aspect of Italian culture, history, and
society, to be held during the academic year. Candidates must hold a completed Ph.D. or equivalent
degree obtained within the past ten years at the time of application. The fellowship may be one or two
semesters in length, depending on the proposed research project; it carries a stipend of $25,000 for one
semester and $50,000 for two semesters. The recipient of the fellowship will be expected to be in
residence in Cambridge for the entire period of her or his appointment, and to use the resources of the
University to pursue a project with a substantial Italian component. He or she will have the opportunity
to teach a course or organize a workshop at Harvard as well, and will be expected in any case to make a
seminar presentation of his or her work.
URL: http://rll.fas.harvard.edu/pages/lauro-de-bosis-postdoctoral-fellowship (This website appears to be
undergoing construction)
Deadline: February 14
Leslie Center for the Humanities (Dartmouth College)
Note: Before preparing an application, KU junior faculty interested in this fellowship should talk
with their departmental chair and contact the dean to learn whether they would be allowed to accept
it. Permission to accept fellowships requiring significant teaching and more than one year of leave is
considered on a case-by-case basis by individual departments and the College.
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 28
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation offers leading junior scholars in the vanguard of current research a
two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the humanities and related social sciences at Dartmouth College.
Each fellow is located in a particular department or interdisciplinary program, and linked with one or
more Dartmouth faculty mentors. Fellows are expected to teach two courses in their home department(s)
or program(s) in each year of their residency. At least one of the four courses should contribute something
new to the Dartmouth curriculum; at least one should be an introductory lecture course. Amount: $53,000.
*Currently NOT accepting applications for Anthropology, Philosophy, Religion, Russian, and Theater.
URL: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/fellowships/mellonfellowships.html
Deadline: October 1
Leverhulme Trust
This large British trust offers residencies, some unpaid, to support research in all subject areas based on
the originality of the project, the significance of the proposed work, the ability to judge and take
appropriate risk in the project, and the removal of barriers between traditional disciplines. Program
categories: research project grants, research leadership awards, research program grants, study abroad
studentships, early career fellowships, research fellowships, study abroad fellowships, major research
fellowships, emeritus fellowships, international networks, visiting professorships, artists in residence, arts
initiatives, arts bursaries, and Philip Leverhulme Prizes. Applicants should submit proposals in the
category that most closely fits their projects and goals, and if they require financial support, ensure that
the category in which they submit offers funding rather than an unfunded residency.
URL: http://leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/funding.cfm
Deadlines: Various, check website and type of grant for current deadlines
Michigan Society of Fellows (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
Note: Before preparing an application KU junior faculty interested in this fellowship should talk with
their departmental chair and contact dean to learn whether they would be allowed to accept it.
Permission to accept fellowships requiring significant teaching and more than one year of leave is
considered on a case-by-case basis by individual departments and the College.
Each year the Society awards three-year postdoctoral fellowships to junior scholars in the humanities and
social sciences. Fellows are appointed as Assistant Professors in appropriate departments at the University
of Michigan and as Postdoctoral Scholars in the Michigan Society of Fellows. They must be in residence
during the academic years of the fellowship, teach for the equivalent of one academic year, participate in
the informal intellectual life of the Society, and devote time to their independent research. The annual
stipend is $55,000 and fellows can request up to $1,500 for research or travel support.
URL: http://societyoffellows.umich.edu/the-fellowship/
Deadline: October 1, 1 p.m. EST (last known deadline)
National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)
The National Gallery of Arts Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts offers the Paul Mellon and
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellowship for scholars who have held the PhD for five or more
years. Fellows must reside in Washington D.C., conduct research full-time, and participate in the Center’s
activities. Projects will focus on the history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts (painting, sculpture,
architecture, prints and drawings, film, photography, decorative arts, industrial design, and other arts) of
any geographical area and of any period. Scholars in other disciplines whose work examines artifacts or
has implications for the analysis and criticism of visual form also may apply. These are short-term (up to
60 days) fellowships, with two-month stays carrying a stipend between $6,000-8,000, depending on
relocation requirements.
URL: http://www.nga.gov/casva/casvavissen.shtm
Deadlines: September 21 (for residencies between March 1-August 15 of the following year) and March
21 (for residencies between September 1-February 28)
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 29
National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, NC)
Forty residential fellowships are offered for advanced study in the humanities and social sciences during
the academic year, September-May. Applicants must hold doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials.
Young scholars as well as senior scholars who have a record of peer-reviewed publications are
encouraged to apply. The Center does not support the revision of doctoral dissertations.
URL: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellowships/appltoc.htm
Deadline: October 15
Newhouse Center for the Humanities (Wellesley College, MA)
Each year the Newhouse Center accepts three to six external faculty fellows at the junior and senior level.
Residencies are ordinarily for the full academic year, but one-semester residencies are possible. Resident
fellows devote themselves primarily to their own research, but also participate in the intellectual life of
the institution including developing programming, meeting at weekly luncheons and salons, and sharing
their work in progress. Faculty members in all humanities departments are eligible, as well as other
faculty members whose current research is humanistic in character. Faculty Fellowships carry a stipend of
up to $50,000 for two semesters plus research funds.
URL: http://www.newhouse-center.org/apply.php
Deadline: December 1 (last known deadline)
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (College of William and Mary)
The Institute offers two-year post-doctoral fellowships to support the dissertations-to-book projects in the
history and cultures of North America’s indigenous and immigrant peoples during the US colonial,
Revolutionary, and early national periods and the related histories of Canada, the Caribbean, Latin
America, the British Isles, Europe, and Africa, from the sixteenth century to 1820. Applicants may
already have begun their careers, but may not have previously published or have a scholarly monograph
under contract and must have met all requirements for the doctorate before the fellowship begins. Fellows
hold concurrent appointment as visiting assistant professors in the appropriate College of William and
Mary department of and teach a total of six semester hours during the two-year term. They also may
spend a summer at the Huntington Library on a full grant within five years of their residency.
URL: http://oieahc.wm.edu/fellowship/submission/index.cfm
Deadline: October 30
Penn Humanities Forum (University of Pennsylvania)
This one-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship is open to junior scholars in the humanities
and related fields who will not yet be tenured during the fellowship year. The award is $46,500 plus
health insurance and a $2,500 research fund. Research must relate to the Forum's topic of study for the
year in residence at the University of Pennsylvania. Fellows must teach a freshman seminar each term,
participate in the weekly Mellon Research Seminar, and present their research at one of those seminars.
Preference is given to interdisciplinary proposals and to candidates who have not previously used
resources at University of Pennsylvania.
URL: http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/mellon_description.shtml
Deadline: October 15
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (University of Toronto)
The institute provides residential fellowships for research in a medieval field of study. The Post-doctoral
Mellon Fellowships are intended for medievalists of exceptional promise at approximately the Assistant
Professor level who have completed their doctoral work within the previous five years and successfully
defended their thesis before the application deadline. Mellon Fellows are required to participate in the
interdisciplinary Research Seminar.
URL: http://www.pims.ca/academics/mellons.html
Deadline: February 1
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 30
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities (Vanderbilt University)
The Center invites applications from scholars in all disciplines to participate in a faculty seminar as a
visiting fellow during the academic year. The theme changes each year. The seminar meets weekly and
allows the visiting fellow ample time to pursue a major research project. The combined interests of the
visiting fellow and the Vanderbilt faculty fellows determine the form and content of seminar discussions.
The fellowship includes a stipend of $50,000 and $1,500 for moving expenses.
URL: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center/visitingfellowship.php
Deadline: January 14
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Health Policy Fellows program provides a comprehensive experience at the nexus of health science,
policy, and politics in Washington, DC. Up to six mid-career health professionals and behavioral and
social scientists interested in health and health care will be selected for the program annually. Fellowships
include a one-year residency in Washington, D.C. and fellows may continue their health policy activities
for up to two years after the Washington placement period using any remaining funds.
URL: http://www.healthpolicyfellows.org/fellowship.php
Deadline: November 13 (last known)
Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center
The Bellagio Study and Conference Center (adjacent to Lake Como, two hours north of Milan) offers
scholarly, creative arts, and public affairs residencies as well as conference and team programs.
Residencies are typically four-weeks, but shorter periods may be available. These are intended to provide
time for critical thinking, disciplined work, individual reflection, and collegial engagement, uninterrupted
by the usual professional and personal demands. The Center typically offers one-month residencies for no
more than 12 scholars and scientists at a time while creative artist residencies have three to five fellows at
a time each for one month. Individuals in any discipline – and from any part of the world – are welcome
to apply. Creative Arts Fellows are for three months. Meals and informal presentations of work provide
an opportunity for residents to engage with each other. During special dinners, residents also have the
chance to interact with the participants of international conferences.
URL: http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/bellagio-center
Deadlines: May 1 for all residencies (last known); Rolling for conference programs
School for Advanced Research (SAR)
The School for Advanced Research located in Santa Fe, NM provides two residential fellowship
opportunities: Resident Scholars and Summer Scholars. SAR is a dynamic environment for the advanced
study and communication of knowledge about human culture, evolution, history, and creative expression.
Resident Scholars
SAR awards six Resident Scholar Fellowships each year to scholars who have completed their
research and analysis and need time to think and write about topics important to the understanding of
humankind. Both humanities- and science- oriented scholars are encouraged to apply. Tenure is for
nine months with a stipend of $40,000.
URL: http://sarweb.org/index.php?resident_scholars
Deadline: November 1
Summer Scholars
Five to six fellowships are awarded in anthropology and related fields to pursue research and writing
projects on human behavior, culture, society, and history of anthropology. Humanities scholars and
science-oriented scholars are eligible to apply. Fellowships are for seven weeks or shorter.
URL: http://sarweb.org/index.php?summer_scholars
Deadline: December 15
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 31
Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies (Princeton University)
The Center offers fellowships each year to scholars whose research falls under its chosen theme (check
the website). Applicants must have their PhDs at the time of application, and typically the selected
fellows hold positions at universities. Research fellowships are for one or two semesters, running from
September to January and from February to June. Funds are limited, the Center is usually only able to
fund one semester, and candidates are strongly urged to apply to other grant-giving institutions as well.
URL: http://www.princeton.edu/dav/program/fellowship_information/
Deadline: December 1
Stanford Humanities Center (Stanford University)
This Center provides a forum for advanced research that expands scholarly inquiry, challenges the way
our community understands our world, and shapes the way students learn in the classroom. Fellowships
are open to junior (no less than three years out from receiving PhD and no more than ten years) and senior
faculty including digital humanities and international studies fellowships. Fellowships are for one
academic year.
URL: http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/non-stanford-faculty
Deadline: October 1 (last known deadline)
Tanner Humanities Center (University of Utah)
Fellows spend one year or one semester conducting research full-time and present Work-in-Progress talks
throughout the year. Applicants must have earned their doctorate two years prior to August of the year in
which they are applying. Projects may be in anthropology and archaeology, communication, history,
philosophy, religious studies, ethnic/gender/cultural studies, jurisprudence, history/theory/criticism of the
arts, languages and linguistics, literature, creative writing, historical or philosophical issues in the social
and natural sciences, or the professions. The Center encourages interdisciplinary projects. Stipend
amount: $45,000.
URL: http://thc.utah.edu/fellowships/index.php
Deadline: December 2 (last known deadline)
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
I Tatti Fellowship
I Tatti Residential Fellowships, each for twelve months, are available for post doctorate research in
any aspect of the Italian Renaissance. Fellows must be conversant in either English or Italian and able
to understand both languages. They should be in the early stages of their career, having received a
PhD between 2002-2011 and should be specialists of the Italian Renaissance. Amount: $50,000.
URL: http://itatti.harvard.edu/research/fellowships/i-tatti-fellowship
Deadline: October 15
The Harvard University Society of Fellows
Junior Fellowships
Junior Fellowships are for those who are completing or have just completed their PhD in any field.
Junior Fellows hold three-year appointments and are completely free from any requirements that
might interfere with the development of their work. They may develop a research project or become
familiar with a new field to prepare for interdisciplinary work. Please note that nominees must be
nominated by a faculty member—nominees are barred from applying directly on their own behalf—
and the nomination must be sent through the mail in hard copy. Nominees should be either about to
complete their PhD or have completed it within the previous year. Amount: $70,000 per year.
URL: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Esocfell/about.html
Deadline: August 15
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 32
The University Center for Human Values (UCHV) (Princeton University)
The UCHV offers the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship, which allows fellows to devote an
academic year in residence at Princeton to do research and writing about topics involving human values in
public and private life. The program is open to scholars in all disciplines provided their research plans
qualify. Applicants should be faculty at other institutions who have held the PhD for at least two years.
Fellows usually receive stipends of up to one-half their academic-year salaries, with the expectation that
they will receive supplemental salary funding from their home institution.
URL: http://uchv.princeton.edu/fellowships_awards/lsr_visiting_fellowships.php
Deadline: November 4 (last known)
United States Institute of Peace, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowships
*USIP has suspended the senior fellowship program for 2014-2015
Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowships are usually ten months of reflecting and writing on pressing
international peace and security issues while in residency at the Institute. Shorter fellowships are
available. Applicants should propose a project with clear policy relevance. Historical topics are
appropriate if they shed light on contemporary issues. Area studies and single-case projects are acceptable
if they focus on conflict and its resolution.
URL: http://www.usip.org/fellows/index.html
Deadline: September 6 (last known)
University of Michigan, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) offers the Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellowship for scholars working on Africa or the African diaspora. It is a residential fellowship
for the academic year, and fellows are expected to conduct a DAAS work-in-progress seminar on their
research during one of the semesters in residence. Applicants must have a PhD in hand from an institution
other than Michigan and be no more than five years beyond the completion of their degree at the time the
fellowship would begin. The Fellowship package is worth $45,000 and includes health insurance.
URL:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/daas/resources/grantsfellowships/duboismandelarodneypostdoctoralfellowship
Deadline: December 1 (last known)
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), Charlottesville, VA.
The VFH Fellowship program offers time, space, and resources to scholars applying the tools of history,
philosophy, ethics, cultural studies, and literary criticism to matters of public concern. Each fellowship
session includes affiliated and independent scholars and professionals, including librarians, museum
curators, writers, journalists, and others. Postdoctoral applicants are encouraged to apply only for projects
beyond dissertation revisions. Although there is no restriction, topics of particular interest are the South
Atlantic region including the Caribbean South, history, and literary studies. Awards are based on merit
and relevance to VFH goals. Fellows receive a stipend up to $15,000 per semester in residence, with
fellowships lasting either one semester or one academic year.
URL: http://www.virginiafoundation.org/research/fellowships/
Deadline: December 1
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
The Center awards 20-25 nine-month residential fellowships on national and/or international issues
annually in the social sciences and humanities. Woodrow Wilson International Fellows conduct research
and write in their areas of interest, while interacting with policymakers in Washington D.C. and Center
staff. The Center also hosts public policy scholars and senior scholars in a variety of disciplines. Primary
themes are: 1) governance, including issues such as the development of democratic institutions,
democratic society, civil society, and citizen participation; 2) the US role in the world and issues of
partnership and leadership; and 3) key long-term future challenges confronting the US and the world.
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 33
Several of the center’s programs have their own competitions for short- and long-term fellowships
(Africa, Asia, Canada, East Europe, Southeast Europe, Russia)
URL: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/fellowships-grants
Deadline: October 1 (Woodrow Wilson International Fellowships)
Other program deadlines vary, see website for details.
RESEARCH LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS
American Antiquarian Society
AAS offers both short- and long-term visiting academic research fellowships as well as a fellowship for
creative writers whose goals are to produce imaginative, non-formulaic works dealing with pre-20thcentury American history. The visiting research fellowships are designed to enable scholars to spend an
uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library and discussing their work.
URL: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/fellowships.htm
Deadline: Various, see website for details
American Philosophical Society Library
APS Library Resident Research Fellowships support research in the Society's collections. Applicants in
any field of scholarship relevant to the collections who can demonstrate a need to work in the collections
for one to three months may apply. The stipend is $2,500 per month for a minimum term of one month
and a maximum of three, taken between June 1 and May 31. Fellowships are usually of one month in
duration, and seldom exceed two months. Fellows are required to be in residence at the Library for four to
twelve consecutive weeks, depending on the length of their award.
URL: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/resident
Deadline: March 3 (last known deadline)
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale University)
Note: The Library does offer long-term research fellowships; however, those programs are not accepting
applications as of this update. Please check back for details. In the meantime, they are still accepting
applications for short-term fellowships. This repository for literary papers, rare books, and early
manuscripts offers short-term fellowships for research in its collections. The collections afford
opportunities for interdisciplinary research in medieval, Renaissance, and 18th-century studies, art
history, photography, American studies, the history of printing, music, and modernism in art and
literature. Fellowships are usually for one month and must be taken between September 1 and April 30.
Award amount includes travel expenses and $4,000 per month living allowance.
URL: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brbleduc/brblfellow.html
Deadline: December 6 (last known deadline)
Bentley Historical Library (The University of Michigan)
The Library offers travel and research grants to post-doctoral researchers whose topics require significant
use of the holdings of the Bentley Library. Fellowships provide up to $1,500 to facilitate travel to the
library and underwrite research expenses. The Library houses the Michigan Historical Collections, which
document the history of the state of Michigan, from the territorial era to the present; and the University of
Michigan Archives, which document the history of the institution from 1817 to the present. Topics do not
need to specific to Michigan history, but do need to require significant use of the holdings of the Library.
URL: http://bentley.umich.edu/academic/travel/index.php
Deadline: October 15 and March 15
Carl Albert Congressional Research and Study Center (University of Oklahoma)
This visiting scholars program provides financial support for research in the on-campus Congressional
Archives. Scholars of history and political science pursuing postdoctoral research are especially
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 34
encouraged to apply. Primary emphasis is placed on projects focused on the US Congress and its
members, but other topics also will be considered. The maximum award per applicant is $1,000 to help
defray research costs, including travel, lodging, and photocopies.
URL: http://www.ou.edu/special/albertctr/archives/visit.htm
Deadline: Continuous
DeWitt Stetten Museum of Medical Research (National Institutes of Health)
*Please note funding for Stetten Fellowships and travel grants are currently suspended.
The museum offers opportunities for postdoctoral fellows and senior scholars, including one-year
residential fellowships on historical research and writing related to biomedical sciences and technology
and travel grants for research on intramural National Institutes of Health history.
URL: http://www.history.nih.gov/research/fellowships.html
Deadlines: December 31 (last known deadline) for Stetten postdoctoral fellowship
Continuous for travel grants
Duke University Libraries, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
This library offers grants for researchers whose work would benefit from access to the archival and rare
printed collections offered by its research centers: The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and
Culture; The John Hope Franklin Collection of African and African-American Documentation; and The
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History. Researchers may apply for grants
from more than one center. The maximum award per applicant is $1,000. The library also has three new
grants for scholars interested in using the German Studies and Judaica collections, each valued at $1,500.
URL: http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/research/grants-and-fellowships
Deadline: January 31 (last known deadline)
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Dumbarton Oaks offers several different 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
Fellowships are awarded for the academic year (September-May), although awards may also be made
for a single term. Fellowship support includes a stipend of $28,000, housing (a housing allowance
may be offered instead of housing if Dumbarton Oaks is unable to provide accommodations;
successful applicants from the greater Washington metropolitan area will not be offered housing);
$2,100 (if needed) in dependent support; a research expense allowance of $1,000 for the year; and up
to a maximum of $1,100 toward domestic airfare.
URL: http://www.doaks.org/research/fellowships-and-grants/fellowship-terms
Deadline: November 1
Summer Fellowships
Summer Fellowships are awarded for seven to nine weeks. Fellows may choose from ne of three predetermined terms, all of which generally run from June to August. Awards provide a maintenance
allowance of $250 per week; housing in a Dumbarton Oaks apartment; lunch on weekdays; a health
insurance contribution; and travel expense reimbursement (up to $1,100 for domestic travel). There
are no housing allowances or dependents’ allowances for families available in the summer.
URL: http://www.doaks.org/research/fellowships-and-grants/fellowship-terms
Deadline: November 1
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 35
Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington (Mount Vernon)
This library offers fellowships to support research focused on the life, leadership and legacy of George
Washington and his place in the development of American civic life and culture. It offers short-term
fellowships of up to three months (worth $10,000) and long-term fellowships of up to six months (worth
$20,000). These fellowships fund advanced graduate students as well as junior faculty. There is no
nationality requirement.
URL: http://www.mountvernon.org/educational-resources/library/fellowships
Deadline: November 15 (last known)
Folger Shakespeare Library
This library offers long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (one to three months) residential
research fellowships to promote access to its collections and encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary
dialogue among scholars of the early modern period. Five long-term fellowships are awarded of up to
$50,400 (for nine months, prorated for shorter periods). NEH Fellowships are restricted to US citizens or
to foreign nationals who have been living in the US for at least three years. Mellon Postdoctoral Research
Fellowships are open to scholars from any country. Short-term fellowships carry a stipend of $2,500 per
month; 35-40 fellowships are awarded in each funding cycle. Some of the short-term fellowships support
scholars working on specific topics or regions while others are unrestricted.
URL: http://www.folger.edu/Content/Folger-Institute/Fellowships/Research-Fellowships.cfm
Deadline: November 1 (long-term fellowships)
March 1 (short-term fellowships)
Hagley Museum and Library–Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
The residential Henry Belin du Pont Memorial Fund supports access to, and use of, Hagley's research
collections, including the library, archival, and artifact collections, for two-to-six-months at up to $1,600
per month. Grants-in-aid are also available to support short-term visits to the Hagley for scholarly
research in its imprint, manuscript, pictorial, and artifact collections. Short-term visits can range from a
minimum of two weeks to a maximum of two months with funding up to $1,600 per month.
URL: http://www.hagley.org/library/center/grants.html
Deadline: March 31; June 30; October 31
Houghton Library (Harvard University)
This library offers short- and long-term fellowships to conduct research in its collections. The principal
rare book and manuscript library of Harvard College, the library's holdings are particularly strong in
European, English, American, and South American literature, including the country's pre-eminent
collection of American literary manuscripts; philosophy; religion; history of science; music; printing and
graphic arts; dance; and theatre. Fellows also have access to collections in Widener Library and other
libraries at Harvard. Fellowships typically carry a stipend of $3,000. Fellows are expected to be in
residence at the Library for at least four weeks, though these do not have to be consecutive weeks.
URL: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/public_programs/visiting_fellowships.cfm
Deadline: January 16
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
This independent research center has holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, and
the history of science and medicine. The collections range chronologically from the eleventh century to
the present and include a half-million rare books, nearly six million manuscripts, 800,000 photographs,
and a large ephemera collection, supported by a half-million reference works. There are many areas of
special strength, including Middle Ages, Renaissance, 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-Century Literature, History of
Science, British Drama, Colonial America, American Civil War, Western America, and California. The
Art Collection contains notable British and American paintings, fine prints, photographs, and an art
reference library. The library of the Botanical Gardens has a broad collection of reference works in
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 36
botany, horticulture, and gardening. The Burndy Library holds 67,000 rare books and reference volumes
in the history of science and technology, in addition to housing an important collection of scientific
instruments. Short-term fellowships of one to five months carry a stipend of $2,500 per month to $4,000;
long-term fellowships of four to twelve months have stipends of up to $50,000.
URL: http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/content.aspx?id=566
Deadline: November 15 (for all fellowships)
John Carter Brown Library (Brown University)
This fellowship program welcomes scholars from the US and abroad and gives them access to a
distinguished collection of primary sources. Forty fellowships are awarded each year for periods ranging
from two to ten months. The main criteria for appointment are the merit and significance of the
candidate’s proposal, the qualifications of the candidate, and the relevance of the project to the holdings
of the library. The fellowship selection committee looks closely at the potential shown by the candidate
for creative use of the library’s resources.
URL: http://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/fellowships
Deadline: December 15
Montana Historical Society Research Center
The Society offers up to two four-week James H. Bradley summer residential fellowships at the Montana
Historical Society Research Center in Helena, MT, to graduate students, faculty members, and
independent scholars pursuing research on Montana History. Preference is given to projects requiring the
use of the Society's archival, library, or museum collections that will make a significant contribution to
the study of the history of Montana. The fellowship stipend is $2,500 and fellows must be in residence for
an equivalent of four weeks.
URL: http://mhs.mt.gov/research/about/fellowships/bradley.aspx
Deadline: March 1
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium
The Consortium, a collaboration of 18 major cultural agencies, offers stipends of $5,000 for eight weeks
of research at participating institutions. Applications are welcome from anyone with a serious need to use
the collections and facilities of the organizations. The Consortium's grants are designed to encourage
projects that draw on the resources of several agencies. Each award will be for research at three or more
different institutions. Fellows must work at each of these three organizations for at least two weeks. Visit
the website for special areas of emphasis. Participating agencies are: Baker Library, Boston Athenæum,
Bostonian Society, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Connecticut Historical Society, Francis A.
Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Law School, Special Collections, Historic Deerfield, Houghton
Library, Harvard University, Maine Historical Society, Massachusetts Historical Society, Mystic Seaport,
New England Historic Genealogical Society, New Hampshire Historical Society, Rhode Island Historical
Society, Schlesinger Library, and New England Women’s Club.
URL: http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/nerfc/apply.php
Deadline: February 1
Princeton University Library
Short-term Library Research Grants promote scholarly use of the collections. The Program in Hellenic
Studies offers grants in Hellenic studies. The Cotsen Children’s Library supports research in its
collection. The Maxwell Fund supports research on Portuguese-speaking cultures. The Sid Lapidus ’59
Research Fund is for research of the Age of Revolution and Enlightenment in the Atlantic World. Awards
are made up to $3,500 and are normally for up to one month.
URL: http://www.princeton.edu/rbsc/fellowships/f_ships.html
Deadline: January 15 (last known deadline)
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 37
The Rockefeller Archive Center (Sleepy Hollow, New York)
Small grants-in-aid support research in the collections, which date from the second half of the 19th
century to the 1990s and include agriculture, the arts, African-American history, education, international
relations, economic development, labor, medicine, politics, population, religion, science, the social
sciences, and women's history, as well as records of the Rockefeller family, the Rockefeller University,
and the Rockefeller Foundation. Reimbursement of up to $4,000 is provided upon submission of original
expense receipts after the visit. Grants of up to $2,500 in reimbursements are available specifically for
research in the Ehrlich Collection, which contains materials documenting the life and scientific-medical
research of Nobel Laureate Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915). Potential grant applicants must contact the Archive
Center's staff well in advance of the application deadline with a description of their research project.
URL: http://www.rockarch.org/grants/
Deadline: November 1
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University)
Radcliffe Institute Fellowships
Scholars, artists, writers, and scientists of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments
who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts are welcome to
apply. A special emphasis is placed on the study of women, gender, and society. Stipends are up to
$75,000 for one year with additional funds for project expenses and support for relocation expenses.
If so directed, Radcliffe will pay the stipend to the fellow's home institution. Fellows receive office or
studio space and access to libraries and other resources of Harvard University during the fellowship
year (September 1- May 31). Fellows are expected to devote themselves full-time to the work
outlined in their proposal, reside in the Boston area, have their primary office at the Institute, and
participate fully in the life of the community during that period.
URL: http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowship_program.aspx
Deadline: October 1
The Schlesinger Library (at the Radcliffe Institute)
This is a non-circulating library with holdings focused on the history of women from the 19th and
20th centuries in America and abroad. The library offers research support grants and oral history
grants for independent scholars needing to use the library's holdings. The Oral History Grant is only
for scholars conducting oral history interviews. Research and Oral History grants provide up to
$3,000 each to cover travel and living expenses and incidental research expenses while at the library.
URL: http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/grants
Deadline: March 21
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institute offers several fellowships, some that are tied to particular units of the Institute,
others that are more general. The stipend, duration, and deadlines for these fellowships all vary, so see the
website for details.
URL: http://www.smithsonianofi.com/fellowship-opportunities/
Deadline: Various, see website for details
The Getty Library (Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities)
Getty Library Research Grants provide partial, short-term support for costs relating to travel and living
expenses to scholars whose research requires use of specific collections housed in the Getty Research
Institute. Library Research Grants are intended for scholars of all nationalities and at any level who
demonstrate a compelling need to use materials housed in the Research Library, and whose place of
residence is more than eighty miles from the Getty Center. Projects must relate to specific items in the
library collection. Library Research Grants are intended to provide partial support for costs relating to
travel and living expenses. Grants range from $500 to $2,500, depending on the distance traveled. The
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 38
research period may range from several days to a maximum of three months, but must take place between
February 15, 2014, and January 15, 2015.
URL: http://www.getty.edu/foundation/funding/residential/library_research_grants.html
Deadline: October 15
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowships in American Civilization
The Institute offers short-term fellowships of up to $3,000 for work in four historical archives in New
York City, including the New York Public Library’s Humanities and Social Sciences Library; the Gilder
Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New York Historical Society; the Library of the New York
Historical Society; the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript library; and the Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture. Postdoctoral scholars and faculty at any rank are eligible.
URL: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historians/scholar4.html
Deadlines: May 1
The Library Company of Philadelphia
The Library Company of Philadelphia and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania jointly award onemonth fellowships for research in residence in either or both collections as well as long-term postdoctoral
fellowships. These independent research libraries, adjacent to each other in Center City Philadelphia, have
complementary collections capable of supporting research relating to the history of America and the
Atlantic world from the 17th - 19th centuries and Mid-Atlantic regional history to the present. The Library
Company of Philadelphia offers two types of postdoctoral fellowships (see website for more information).
URL: http://www.librarycompany.org/fellowships/american.htm
Deadlines: Various, see website for details
The Library of Congress
Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies
The program offers a post-doctoral fellowship for research based on the Alan Lomax Collection in the
disciplines of anthropology, ethnomusicology, ethnography, ethno-history, dance, folklore and
folklife, history, literature, linguistics, and movement analysis, with particular emphasis on the
traditional music, dance, and narrative of the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Spain,
and the Caribbean, as well as methodologies for their documentation and analysis. Interdisciplinary
projects that combine disciplines in novel and productive ways are encouraged. The stipend is $4,200
per month for up to eight months. There is no nationality requirement.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/lomax.html
Deadline: March 31
David B. Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality
The Larson post-doctoral fellowship supports scientific study on the relation of religiousness and
spirituality to physical, mental, and social health. The stipend is $4,200 per month for up to eight
months. There is no nationality requirement.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/larson.html
Deadline: April 17
Kislak Fellowship for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas
These Kislak Fellowships support scholars conducting research based on the Kislak collection. The
program supports research projects in the disciplines of archaeology, history, cartography, epigraphy,
linguistics, ethno-history, ethnography, bibliography and sociology, with particular emphasis on
Florida, the circum-Caribbean region and Mesoamerica. The fellowship supports up to eight months
of research with a monthly stipend of $4,200 per month. There is no nationality requirement.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/kislak.html
Deadline: October 15
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 39
Kislak Short-Term Fellowships
The Kislak Short-Term Fellowships support scholars conducting research based on the Kislak
collection. The program supports research projects in the disciplines of archaeology, history,
cartography, epigraphy, linguistics, ethno-history, ethnography, bibliography and sociology, with
particular emphasis on Florida, the circum-Caribbean region and Mesoamerica. There is no degree
requirement for this fellowship. It supports up to four months of research with a monthly stipend of
$4,200 per month.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/kislakshort.html
Deadline: March 1 (last known)
Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations
The holder of the Kissinger Chair is a distinguished senior researcher who will remain in residence at
the library for up to ten months with a stipend of $13,500 per month during the appointment. There is
no nationality requirement.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/kissinger.html
Deadline: November 1
Kluge Fellowships
The Library of Congress invites scholars to conduct research in the John W. Kluge Center for up to
one year. The Kluge Center especially encourages humanistic and social science research that makes
use of the library's large and varied collections. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, or multi-lingual
research is particularly welcome. Fellows receive a monthly stipend for residential research at the
Library. Fellowships are tenable for periods from six to twelve months. Scholars who have received a
terminal advanced degree within the past seven years in the humanities, social sciences, or in a
professional field such as architecture or law are eligible to apply. The stipend is $4,200 per month
for up to twelve months.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/
Deadline: July 15
The Lilly Library (University of Indiana–Bloomington)
The Lilly Library’s holdings support research in British, French, and American literature and history; the
literature of voyages and exploration, specifically the European expansion in the Americas; early printing;
the Church; children's literature; music; film; radio and television; medicine; science; architecture; and
food and drink. Short-term Everett Helm Visiting Fellowships offer $1,500 to be used within one year of
the award date. Mendel Fellowships are available to scholars doing research in the history of the Spanish
Colonial Empire; Latin American independence movements; European expansion in the Americas;
voyages, travels, and exploration; geography, navigation and cartography; German literature and history;
or music, including sheet music. Stipends are based on length of stay, from one week to an academic year.
Fellowship stipends are up to $40,000.
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/fellowships.shtml
Deadlines: September 30
The Massachusetts Historical Society
The Society offers many types of assistance to researchers who need to use the collections. In addition to
approximately twenty short-term fellowships, the society provides at least eleven New England Regional
Fellowship Consortium grants for projects that draw on the resources of participating institutions, and at
least two long-term MHS-NEH fellowship for study at the MHS.
URL: http://www.masshist.org/research/fellowships
Deadlines: Various, see website for details
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 40
The Newberry Library
The Newberry Library offers short-term fellowships of one week to two months and long-term
fellowships of six to eleven months. Short-term fellowships are restricted to individuals from outside the
metropolitan Chicago area and are primarily intended to assist researchers with a need to examine specific
items in the library's collection. Long-term fellowships are available without regard to place of residence
and are intended to support significant works of scholarship that draw on the library's strengths.
URL: http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html
Deadline: Various, see website for details
The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library offers an array of residential short and long-term fellowships. The two for
which our constituent faculty have most frequently applied are listed; for details on all NYPL
opportunities please visit the website.
URL: http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/fellowships-institutes
Deadline: Various
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowships
This nine-month residential fellowship program is open to scholars whose work will benefit from
direct access to the collections including academics, independent scholars, and creative writers. In
addition to working on their own projects, the Fellows exchange ideas within the Center and in public
forums. The Center houses collections on history, geography, art, culture, languages and literature,
anthropology, philosophy, religion, politics, sports, popular culture, and sociology. The Center also
may give up to five fellowships in conjunction with American Council of Learned Societies.
URL: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/scholars/
Deadline: September 26
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Scholars-in-Residence Program
Fellows whose work will benefit from direct access to the collections at the Schomburg Center and
other centers of the New York Public Library spend six to twelve months in residence. The program
encourages research and writing on black history and culture, including African, Afro-American, and
Afro-Caribbean history and culture. Fellowships are open to scholars studying the history, literature,
and culture of peoples of African descent from a humanistic perspective and to professionals in fields
related to the Schomburg Center's collections and program activities. Amount: $30,000 for six
months; $60,000 for twelve months.
URL: http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/64/node/131
Deadline: November 1
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA) Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies
URL: http://www.c1718cs.ucla.edu/
Deadline: February 1 (for all fellowships)
The Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship
This is a theme-based one-year residential fellowship. Applicants must have received a PhD in the
last six years and be engaged in research pertaining to the theme. Fellows must make a substantive
contribution to the Center's workshops and seminars. Residency is for three consecutive quarters.
Amount: $39,264.
Clark Short-Term Fellowships
These fellowships support scholars with research projects that require work in any area of the Clark’s
collections. Applicants must hold a PhD degree or have equivalent academic experience. Awards are
for periods of one to three months in residence. Amount: $2,500 per month.
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 41
ASECS/Clark Fellowships
These are available to postdoctoral scholars and to ABD graduate students with projects in the
Restoration or the eighteenth century. Fellowship holders must be members in good standing of
ASECS. Awards are for one month of residency: $2,500.
The Kanner Fellowship in British Studies
This fellowship supports research at the Clark Library in any area pertaining to British history and
culture. The fellowship is open to both postdoctoral and predoctoral scholars and is for three months.
Amount: $7,500.
The Clark-Huntington Joint Bibliographical Fellowship
This fellowship is jointly funded by the Clark and the Huntington Libraries. Funds are for a twomonth residency for bibliographical research in early modern British literature and history as well as
other areas where the two libraries have common strengths. Eligible applicants hold a PhD degree or
have appropriate research experience. Amount: $5,500 for 2 months residency.
Deadline: February 1
Winterthur Library, Museum, and Garden
Winterthur offers short-term residential research fellowships and NEH Fellowships for one or two
semesters for scholars pursuing independent work in its collections. Library holdings include materials
from the 17th through the mid-20th centuries; museum collections contain domestic artifacts and works of
art made or used in America before 1860. Scholars pursing research in American art, history, material
culture, and design, or related topics in British, Continental, or Asian decorative arts and design are
encouraged to apply.
URL: http://www.winterthur.org/research/fellowship.asp
Deadline: January 15
PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES
Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum
Grants of up to $2,000 defray travel, living, and photocopy expenses for research at the library.
Collections focus on Federal policies, US foreign relations, and national politics in the 1960s and 1970s;
there are earlier and later materials depending on the topic. Contact the library for details.
URL: http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/hpgrants.asp
Deadline: March 15 (for the fall term) and September 15 (for the spring term)
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
Grants-in-aid of research are awarded twice a year for the sole purpose of helping to defray living, travel,
and related expenses incurred while conducting research at the Library. Moody Research Grants normally
range in size from $600 to $3,000. Prior to submitting a proposal, applicants must contact the Library for
information concerning materials available on their research topic. The Harry Middleton Fellowship is
also available, which is awarded for ONE semester with a $5,000 stipend.
URL: http://www.lbjlibrary.org/page/foundation/initiatives/moody-research-grant (Moody Research
Grant)
http://www.lbjlibrary.org/page/foundation/initiatives/harry-middleton-fellowship-in-presidentialstudies (Harry Middleton Fellowship)
Deadline: March 15 (for the fall term) and September 15 (for the spring term)
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
Scholars and students can apply for research support and use of the archival, manuscript, and audiovisual
holdings of the library. Only one grant or fellowship application per person is accepted in a given year.
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 42
Six named fellowships are available. Awards range from $2,500 to $5,000. Ernest Hemmingway
Research Grants for work on the Hemingway Collection is also available, with an awards range of $200
to $1,000.
URL: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Grants-and-Fellowships.aspx
Deadline: August 15 (November 1 for Hemmingway Grants)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
A program of small grants-in-aid, not to exceed $2,500, supports research on “the Roosevelt years” or
clearly related subjects to younger scholars. Funds help to defray living, travel, and related expenses
incurred while conducting research at the Roosevelt Library.
URL: http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/projects/research-support
Deadline: November 15
Truman Presidential Library and Museum
The Harry S. Truman Library Institute for International Affairs is dedicated to the preservation,
advancement and outreach activities of the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, one of our nation’s 13
presidential libraries overseen by the National Archives and Records Administration. It offers several
awards for research in these collections.
URL: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/grants/index.html
Research Grants
Grants of up to $2,500 enable researchers to use the library for one to three weeks. Post-doctoral
scholars are particularly encouraged, but applications from scholars engaged in advanced research are
considered. Scholars may receive no more than two Research Grants in a five-year period. Preference
is given to projects that have application to enduring public policy and foreign policy issues.
URL: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/institute/Research%20Grant%20Application.pdf
Deadline: April 1 and October 1
Scholar’s Award
Grants of $30,000 are made to post-doctoral scholars working on some aspect of the life and career of
Harry S. Truman or of the public and foreign policy issues, which were prominent during the Truman
years. The award is intended to free a scholar form teaching or other employment for a substantial
period of time. The applicant’s research project should be a book-length project based in part on
extensive research at the Truman Library.
URL: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/institute/ScholarsAwardApplication.pdf
Deadline: December 15 (of odd-numbered years)
Truman-Kauffman Research Program
The Truman Library Institute will award a total of six Truman-Kauffman Research Fellowships over
a three-year period to senior scholars in support of ambitious archival-based research projects.
Participating scholars will receive initial research/travel stipends of $2,500 to conduct research in the
collections of the Truman Presidential Library. The initial grant will be followed by a major nonresidential fellowship award of $35,000 allowing scholars to make significant progress on their
research and the resulting publication(s). Awardees will also be asked to present their findings
through the project’s public component, which will include a combination of academic conferences
and public lectures, generally in the Kansas City, Missouri area. Each scholar will also be expected to
produce a major book on his or her research, which will be published, contingent upon the standard
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 43
peer-review process, by Cambridge University Press. Eligibility is limited to senior scholars with
tenure at a degree-granting academic institution in the United States.
URL: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/institute/TrumanKauffman%20Scholars%20Fellowship%20Guidelines.pdf (Guidelines)
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/institute/TrumanKauffman%20Scholars%20Fellowship%20Application.pdf (Application form)
Deadline: December 1
AREA STUDIES CENTERS
Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American & African Studies (University of Virginia)
Two-year Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellowships are offered to scholars working on Africa
and/or the African Diaspora. This two-year residential fellowship offers a stipend of $45,000 and requires
teaching one course per year in the African-American and African Studies program. There are no
citizenship restrictions. Fields of interest are African-American, African, and Afro-Caribbean Studies.
The Institute is especially interested in trans-continental experiences and discourses related to social,
historical, and cultural construction of people of African descent.
URL: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/woodson/fellowship/postdoc.html
Deadline: December 1
Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (University of Pennsylvania)
The fellowship program invites roughly twenty scholars of any rank in the humanities and social sciences
to conduct thematic research within Judaic studies. During the fellowship year, fellows work on their
projects and meet at weekly seminars to discuss their work. At the end of the year, the results of their
research are presented at a colloquium and the University of Pennsylvania Press publishes their papers.
Themes change each year; check the website. Amount: up to $50,000.
URL: https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/fellowship-program
Deadline: November 9
Clements Center for Southwest Studies (Southern Methodist University)
Senor or junior scholars in any humanities or social science field doing research on The US Southwest,
the US-Mexico borderlands, or Texas history are eligible for fellowships. Fellows must spend an
academic year or semester at SMU and participate in Clements Center activities. Full-year stipends are
$42,500 with a $3,000 research and travel allowance and a publication subvention. One-semester
fellowships carry a $20,000 stipend with a $1,500 research allowance and a publication subvention. Fullyear fellows may teach one course for an additional stipend. The Center offers four types of travel grants
to conduct research at the DeGolyer Library. Please see website for more information.
URL: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/InstitutesCenters/swcenter/Fellowships (research
fellowships)
http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/InstitutesCenters/swcenter/Grants/ClementsResearchTrav
elGrants (research travel grants)
Deadline: January 24 (research fellowships); November 15 and May 15 (research travel grants)
Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers foster international scholarly exchange, primarily
through sponsorship of fellowship programs that allow predoctoral, postdoctoral and senior scholars to
pursue independent research to the increase of knowledge and to our understanding of foreign cultures.
The Council offers fellowships as does each center. See each center’s website for additional information.
URL: http://caorc.org/fellowships/ (CAORC fellowship program)
http://caorc.org/centers/ (CAORC homepage with center links)
Deadline: Various, check the website
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 44
Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies (University of Rochester)
The Institute offers postdoctoral fellowships to humanities and social science scholars who hold a PhD in
a field related to the African and African-American experience. The stipend is $40,000 for one academic
year to support the completion of a research project with a $3,000 research and travel fund. The
fellowship begins in September and the Fellow will teach one course.
URL: http://www.rochester.edu/college/aas/grad_programs/fellowships.html
Deadline: December 31 (last known deadline)
Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (Harvard University)
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Focused primarily on training social scientists in area studies, the Academy Scholars Program
supports scholars at the start of their careers (PhD earned within last 3 years) whose work
combines disciplinary excellence in the social sciences (including history and law) with an in-depth
grounding in non-Western countries or regions, including domestic, comparative, or transnational
issues. Two years in residence. Amount: $65,000.
URL: http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/academy/academy_scholars_program.html
Deadline: October 1
Institute of American Cultures (UCLA)
Visiting Scholar and Visiting Researcher Program in Ethnic Studies
The IAC, in cooperation with UCLA’s four Ethnic Studies Research Centers (American Indian Studies,
Asian American Studies, Bunche Center for African American Studies, Chicano Studies Research Center)
offers residential fellowships in Ethnic Studies for research on African-American, American-Indian,
Asian-American, and Chicano/a communities. The Research Grant Program also accepts proposals on
interethnic relations that will increase collaboration among the Centers and/or other campus units.
Amount: $32,000 - $35,000; $4,000 in research expenses, and $1,000 for relocation expenses.
URL: http://www.iac.ucla.edu/fellowships_visitingscholar.html
Deadline: February 5
Institute of Turkish Studies (Private foundation located in Georgetown University’s Intercultural Center)
US Citizenship or permanent resident status is required to be eligible for the various grants offered by
the Institute. These grants range form individual grants (see below) to seed-money for new positions
in Turkish Studies for institutions, conference and workshop grants and grants for the publication of
scholarly books and journals in the field of Turkish Studies to be published in the US.
URL: http://turkishstudies.org/grants/index.shtml
Deadlines: March 7
Sabbatical Research Grant
These $25,000 grants are for faculty who will be on sabbatical to conduct research in Turkish Studies.
The grants are for the academic year and only US citizens or permanent residents are eligible.
URL: http://turkishstudies.org/grants/grants_competition.shtml
Deadline: March 7
Post-Doctoral Summer Travel-Research Grant
The maximum amount of summer travel research awards is reimbursement of the cost of round-trip
airfare to Turkey. Applicants must have their PhD in the humanities or social sciences and must be
US citizens or permanent residents. Recipients are expected to spend at minimum of four weeks in
Turkey.
URL: http://turkishstudies.org/grants/grants_competition.shtml
Deadline: March 7
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 45
Grants for the Publication of Scholarly Books or Journals
These grants are aimed at covering part of the publication costs of scholarly books and journals in the
field of Turkish Studies to be published in the US, or manuscripts already accepted for publication,
and of texts, documents, and translations of works directly related to Turkish Studies. Maximum
award is for 25% of the publication costs.
URL: http://turkishstudies.org/grants/grants_competition.shtml
Deadline: March 7
Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) (Princeton University)
PLAS offers research fellowships to outstanding Latin Americanists interested in devoting a semester or
academic year in residence at Princeton University. Fellowships are open to scholars in all disciplines. A
PhD is required. Fellows pursue independent research at Princeton, teach one course per semester, and
participate in PLAS-related events on campus. Fellows have full access to Firestone Library and to a wide
range of activities at the University. Fellowships are open to humanities and social science scholars as
well as established writers, artists, filmmakers, or architects with projects relating to Latin America.
URL: http://www.princeton.edu/plas/visitors/application/
Deadline: October 15 (last known deadline)
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research (Harvard University)
The Institute annually appoints scholars who conduct individual research in African and AfricanAmerican Studies for one to two semesters. While in residence, scholars pursue their research while
interacting with other visiting scholars and participate in activities designed to further their research, the
most important of which are the weekly colloquia. Fellows may also teach a course while in residency.
Does not necessarily carry a stipend but can request support.
URL: http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/fellows-program
Deadline: December 8
West African Research Association (Boston University)
WARA awards two- to three-month postdoctoral fellowships to conduct research during the summer in
West Africa. The fellowship is open to US citizens who are presently affiliated with an academic
institution or work in another related domain, e.g. museums or public health. Applicants must have been
affiliated with an institution of higher education or research within the last three years. It is advised that
applicants be conversant in an African language spoken where they will conduct research. Each
fellowship awards round-trip airfare to a West African country ($2,500) and a stipend of $3,500.
URL: http://www.bu.edu/wara/fellowship/
Deadline: February 1
Wolfsonian-Florida International University Fellowship Program
This fellowship supports 3-4 weeks of full-time research at the Wolfsonian Library at FIU with a stipend,
accommodations, and round-trip travel. The Wolfsonian’s collection is on North American and European
decorative arts, propaganda, architecture, and industrial and graphic design from 1885-1945. The US,
Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands are the countries most extensively represented. In
edition to established scholars, the fellowship program also supports graduate student research.
URL: http://www.wolfsonian.org/research-library/fellowships
Deadline: December 31
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 46
BOOK AWARDS
Fund for Central and East European Book Projects
This subvention funds translation, publication, and dissemination of seminal critical works in Balkan
history and literature [Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia (FYROM),
Slovenia, Romania, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]. Target group: Central and East European publishers
of quality books, whose publishing profile answers the aims of the program, to support books for
members of the educated public, university lecturers and students, and secondary schools teachers. The
publisher must submit grant applications after the copyright contract and the contract with the
translator(s) is concluded. Funding is to translate books into the languages of Central and East Europe.
Amount: €1,000 to €3,000.
URL: http://www.ceebp.org
Deadline: February 15 and August 15
Medieval Academy of America Book Subvention Program
The Academy provides subventions of up to $2,500 to university and other non-profit scholarly presses to
support the publication of first books by Medieval Academy members. Applications are accepted only
from publishers. The author of the book must be an untenured Medieval Academy member who holds a
PhD and the author must certify that his/her employing institution will not provide the full subvention
required by the publisher. The book must be the author's first, focus substantially on the Middle Ages, be
of high scholarly and intellectual merit, and must have been accepted for publication.
URL: http://www.medievalacademy.org/?page=MAA_Book_Subvention
Deadline: May 1
Humanities and Humanities Oriented Social Sciences Opportunities List - 47