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Sabbatical and Fellowship Funding Opportunities
Arts and Humanities
Abbey Awards and Fellowships (Rome) Nine- and three-month residencies for emerging
painters. $1,060 per month for one year. All living expenses are covered and stipends are paid.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Scholars Program $ 25,000 to two
established scholars, writers, and historians to research topics that may include cultural,
educational, historical, theoretical, or scientific aspects of theatrical motion pictures.
Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Books and
Manuscripts Up to $2,500/month for up to three months of study at UCLA’s Center for Medieval
and Renaissance Studies. (No housing or office space provided.)
American Academy in Berlin (Berlin) Fellowships and distinguished visitor awards in history,
economics, poetry, art history, journalism, law, anthropology, musicology, public policy, and
writing, among others, but not mathematics or the hard sciences.
American Academy in Rome (Rome) Six- to 11-month residencies to 30 emerging artists and
scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers in architecture, design, historic preservation
and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, musical composition, visual arts, ancient
studies, medieval studies, Renaissance and early modern studies, modern Italian studies.
American Antiquarian Society Fellowships (Worcester, MA) One- to 12-month fellowships for
research in American history, art and culture through 1876.
American Association of University Women American Fellowships $6,000 fellowships
supporting women finishing research for publication.
American Center of Oriental Research Fellowships (Amman, Jordan) Fellowships in all areas of
the humanities and the natural and social sciences which contribute to scholarship in Near
Eastern studies.
American Council of Learned Societies American Research in the Humanities in China Up to
$50,400 for four-twelve months of research in China for specialists in all fields of the humanities
and humanities-related social sciences.
American Council of Learned Societies Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for
Recently Tenured Scholars $75,000 supporting one academic year’s residence at one of 13
participating research centers to produce a major piece of scholarly work.
American Council of Learned Societies Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship $64,000 (plus
$2,500 for research and travel) supporting one academic year’s research for tenure-track scholars
toward completion of a major piece of scholarly work.
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American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Research Fellowships Up to $140,000 for
small teams of two or more scholars to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project.
American Council of Learned Societies Digital Innovation Fellowships Up to $60,000 stipends
(plus up to $25,000 for project costs) to foster digitally based research projects in the humanities
and social sciences. Projects should broaden understanding of digital humanistic scholarship and
exemplify the robust infrastructure necessary.
American Council of Learned Societies Early Career Postdoctoral Fellowships in East European
Studies Up to $25,000 support for research and writing on Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo/a, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia,
Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia, including comparative work.
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships $35,000 - $65,000 as salary replacement for
six to twelve consecutive months of full-time research toward production of a major piece of
scholarly work.
American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council and National
Endowment for the Humanities International and Area Studies Fellowships for research and
writing on societies and cultures of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the
Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.
American Council of Learned Societies and New York Public Library Fellowships $65,000
stipend for September to May residence at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B.
Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
American Historical Association (Washington, D.C.) One- to twelve-month fellowships in
American history, 17th & 18th century European history, and history of aerospace.
American Institute of Indian Studies (India) Research fellowships up to nine months in
anthropology, ethnomusicology, history, performing arts, political science, religious studies, and
urban planning of India.
American Philological Association (Munich) One fellowship in residence with the Thesaurus
Linguae Latinae Institute on Latin language and culture from the classical period through the
early Middle Ages. Requires reading knowledge of German and advanced competence in Greek.
American Philosophical Society Grants More than $825,000 in awards to over 170 scholars
across eight grant and fellowship programs, ranging from small ($1,000 – $6,000) to highly
selective ($40,000 - $60,000) across all areas of study.
American Research Institute in Turkey (Turkey) One- to 12-month fellowships for research in
ancient, medieval, or modern times, along with prehistory, history, art, archaeology, literature,
and linguistics and interdisciplinary aspects of cultural history.
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American-Scandinavian Foundation (Scandinavian countries) Up to $28,000 support for one
year of research or study relevant to Scandinavian countries in all fields. Command of host
country language expected.
American Schools of Oriental Research Mesopotamian Fellowship $9,000 support for field
research and presentation at the ASOR annual meeting on ancient Mesopotamian civilization.
Amy Clampitt Residency Program (Sheffield, MA) Six- to 12-month residency for one poet.
Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship $54,000 to support one year of travel abroad for
progressive American-born poets.
Arizona State University Institute for Humanities Research (Tempe, AZ) Visiting Fellows pursue
interdisciplinary research and writing in critical exploration of “home” over the spring semester.
$25,000 stipend, the use of an office, and support services.
Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Fellows (New York, Washington, D.C.) Highly competitive oneyear residency to direct an original project on Asia in international politics and the global
economy.
Asian Cultural Council Grants tailored to the needs and objectives of scholars in traditional and
contemporary arts, archaeology, architecture, art history, arts administration, arts criticism,
choreography, composition, conceptual art, conservation, crafts, dance, design (not commercial),
film, installation art, literature, museology, music, new media, painting, photography,
printmaking, sculpture, theater, video art, video conservation, and work that defies
categorization.
Association for Asian Studies Some small grants administered in China, inner Asian, Japan and
Korean studies, plus a comprehensive catalogue of other funding sources.
Aurora Foundation Japanese Language Scholarships $3,000 scholarship and roundtrip airfare to
Japan to enhance the capabilities of non-native/non-heritage speakers teaching Japanese.
Banff International Literary Translation Centre Awards (Banff, Alberta, Canada) Support for
professional, published, literary translators in any language to have three weeks of uninterrupted
work on a current project among an international community of colleagues. The award offsets
the full program fee, including meals and single room accommodation at the Centre.
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE) Three-month residency provides 36 artists
with uninterrupted, self-directed work time, live/work studio with private bath and 24-hour
access to wood shop, installation spaces and a large sculpture fabrication facility, with
$750/month stipend.
Blakemore Foundation Language Grants (East or Southeast Asia)
1. Blakemore Freeman Fellowships provide one year of advanced language study in Burmese,
Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Khmer, Thai, or Vietnamese.
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2. Blakemore Refresher Grants provide mid-career professors teaching in an Asian field to
refresh their language skills with a full-time language program for a summer or semester in
Burmese, Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Khmer, Thai, or Vietnamese.
Bogliasco Foundation Fellowships (Genoa, Italy) Half-semester lodging and board to pursue
creative and scholarly work in archaeology, architecture, classics, dance, film/video, history,
landscape architecture, literature, music, philosophy, theatre, or visual arts.
Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences (Stanford) Residential fellowships for
scholars in anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology as well as
scholars from a wide range of humanistic disciplines, education, linguistics and the biological
sciences.
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)
Senior and visiting fellows programs support research in the history, theory, and criticism of the
visual arts.
Center for Chinese Studies Research Grant for Foreign Scholars (Taiwan) Three-month to oneyear fellowships to pursue Chinese studies. Subsidies include travel, research expenses, research
materials service, liaison with universities and research institutions, and use of CCS facilities
Center for Creative Photography Ansel Adams Research Fellowship (Tucson, AZ) Up to $5,000
for research in the center’s photo, archive, and library collections.
Center for Jewish History Fellowship Programs Up to $75,000 for research using primary source
materials in New York or Israel.
Center for Khmer Studies (Cambodia) Support for four to eleven months of study focused on
Southeast Asia in all disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.
Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation (Taiwan) Support for scholars from the American region for
research, sabbatical funding, matching funds for conferences, and subsidies for publications on
Chinese Studies in the humanities and social sciences. Preference for collaborative projects with
counterparts in Taiwan.
Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts $10,000 fellowship for visual artists living outside
of Cuba who are Cuban citizens or the child or grandchild of a Cuban citizen. Visual arts may
include painting, sculpture, installation art, photography, film, and the media arts. Media arts
encompasses narrative, non-narrative, documentary, animation, or experimental time-based
works using audio, digital, film and/or video media; also included is computer art in which the
computer is an essential element of the work's creation, presentation or understanding.
Clark Fellowships (Williamstown, MA) Up to $60,000 for one- to ten-month residencies at the
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute for study related to the visual arts, especially efforts to
deepen, transform, or challenge methods currently practiced within art history and the role of
images in other humanities disciplines.
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Colgate University Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing (Hamilton, NY)
Residential and stipend support for one academic year for writers completing their first books.
Cornell University Society for the Humanities Fellowships (Ithaca, NY) Support for
interdisciplinary research projects that reflect on philosophical, aesthetic, political, ecological,
religious, psychoanalytical, and cultural understandings of sensation as a concept and experience
that lies at the heart of the humanities and the arts.
Council of American Overseas Research Centers Fellowships for comparative or cross-regional
research in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences, Mediterranean regional
research in the humanities and related social sciences, or research in Portugal or Lusophone
Africa in the arts, humanities, or social sciences.
Davidson Family Fellowship at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX)
Four-month fellowship in American art history within the museum's collections.
Earhart Foundation Fellowship to support social sciences and humanities, including economics,
international affairs, government/politics, and philosophy.
European Insitutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowships 10-month residential fellowships
at one of 16 participating institutes in Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Budapest, Cambridge,
Delmenhorst, Freiburg, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna,
Wassenaar, and Zurich. Fellowships are offered in the fields of the humanities and social
sciences but may also be granted to scholars in life and exact sciences, provided that their
proposed research project does not require laboratory facilities and that it interfaces with
humanities and social sciences.
Joseph H. Fichter Research Grant Grants to scholars involved in sociological research on women
in religion or on the intersection between religion and gender or religion and sexualities.
Applicants must be members of the Association for the Sociology of Religion.
Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, D.C.) One- to nine-month fellowships for studies
related to the library’s collection.
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies Fellowships (Ann Arbor, MI) $45,000 - $60,000 for research
on the theme of secularization/sacralization.
Fromm Music Foundation Commissioned composition.
Fulbright Scholars 800 awards for research worldwide.
Getty Residential Grants and Fellowships (Los Angeles) Three-, six-, or nine-month
interdisciplinary residency at the Getty, to pursue studies in the arts, humanities, or social
sciences.
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William T. Grant Distinguished Fellows Six-month to two-year fellowships for research to
understand and improve the everyday settings of American youth.
Henry Frank Guggenheim Foundation $15-40,000 for individual research to increase
understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression, particularly
understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern
world.
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Six- to twelve-month fellowships for mid-career faculty
across the arts and sciences, though not for artists who interpret other people’s work (yes for
composers or choreographers, no for performers or directors of compositions or choreography).
Howard Foundation $30,000 support for early mid-career scholars in rotating fields: 2015-16 in
creative writing, fiction, and poetry; 2016-17 in creative non-fiction, literary translation into
English; 2017-18 in photography; 2018-19 in painting and sculpture; 2019-2020 in music and
playwriting.
Huntington Library Fellowships (San Marino, CA) More than 150 fellowships for resident
research in British and American history, literature, art history, and the history of science and
medicine.
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) One term to multi-year visiting member fellowships in
history of arts and sciences (combining humanistic disciplines, from socioeconomic
developments, political theory, and modern international relations, to the history of art, science,
philosophy, music, and literature), math, and natural and social sciences.
International Residence at Couvent des Recollets (Paris) Three-month residency for a Parisspecific project open to writers and artists in visual or performing arts.
Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (Beijing) Fellowships and financial aid
are available to defer costs of Chinese language instruction for intermediate and advanced
speakers.
Italian Academy at Columbia University Resident Fellowships (New York) One- and twosemester resident fellowships to pursue studies in cultural memory in global society, including
scientific and technological connections and the neuroscience of cultural memory.
Japan Foundation New York Japanese Studies Fellowship Program Two- to 12-month
fellowships for scholars researching topics related to Japan, and for specialists in cultural and
academic fields who need to learn Japanese for their academic pursuits.
Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies Up to $20,000 for research on the Holocaust,
including political, economic, legal, religious or socio-political aspects of the immediate
historical context, ethical and moral implications, as well as contemporary anti-Semitism.
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Kluge Center at the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) Resident distinguished chairs and
fellowships for up to one year for research in all areas of the arts and sciences. Topic-specific
funds include astrobiology, political economy, foreign policy and international relations, health
and spirituality, American studies, ethics and American history, and folklife studies.
Kress Foundation Grants and Fellowships Support for studies of history, conservation, and
digital resources in European art and architecture studies.
Lady Davis Fellowship Trust (Israel) Fellowships at Hebrew University and Visiting
Professorships at Technion in Haifa.
Leo Baeck Institute New research on German-Jewish culture and history.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowships (New York, NY) Studies of the collection, curatorial
training, conservation science, and museum education and public practice.
Millay Colony for the Arts (Austerlitz, NY) Month-long artistic residencies for 52 visual artists,
composers, and writers.
Murphy Institute/Center for Ethics and Public Affairs (New Orleans, LA) $60,000 for year-long
fellowships at Tulane for research on ethics, political philosophy, political theory, and morality
in business, government, law, economics, and medicine.
Naropa University/Frederick P. Lenz Residential Fellowship in Buddhism and American Culture
and Values (Boulder, CO) Stipend support for one-semester residence to develop artistic, social
action, curriculum development, or other research on Buddhism’s contributions to American
education and society.
National Air and Space Museum Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History (Washington,
D.C.) is a twelve-month fellowship for to scholars with distinguished records of publication who
are working on, or anticipate working on, books in aerospace history.
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and grants for creative writing, translation of
works from other languages into English, and artwork for United States Mint coins and medals.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends $6,000 summer stipend for two
months of full-time work on research of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.
National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, NC) Year-long resident fellowships for
study in the humanities.
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowships
(Wassenaar, Nethlerlands) Year-long residential fellowships.
New York Historical Society Fellowships (New York, NY) Fellowships using the collection of
primary and secondary sources relating to the history of New York and the nation.
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Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion Fellowships (Notre Dame, IN) $2,000 - $60,000
for work on the philosophy of religion and the development and exploration of Christian and
theistic philosophy.
Georgia O'Keefe Museum Research Center Fellowship (Santa Fe, NM) Three- to twelve-month
residency in American Modernism, awarded to historians in the fields of art, architecture and
design, literature, music, and photography.
Princeton University Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowships (Princeton, NJ) One-year
residence at Princeton to write about ethics and human values.
Princeton University Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioethics (Princeton,
NJ) One- to three-year residence at Princeton conducting research on the ethical issues arising
from developments in medicine and the biological sciences.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Cambridge, MA) One-year residential fellowships for
research in the humanities and social sciences, creative arts, and natural sciences and
mathematics. Opportunities for group applications and cluster studies.
Ransom Center Research Fellowships (Austin, TX) One- to three-month residential fellowships
using the resources of the University of Texas humanities research library and museum.
Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Visiting Scholar Program (Provo, UT) Two- to fourmonth residencies to work on a significant article or book-length study.
Rice University Lynette S. Autrey Visiting Scholars (Houston, TX) Up to $60,000 for
residencies and research at Rice’s Humanities Research Center.
Rockefeller Foundation Residencies (Bellagio, Italy) Month-long residencies for 12 scholars
from all academic disciplines to explore topics relevant to improving life for the poor worldwide
OR one to three month residencies and fellowships for fine and literary artists whose work is
inspired by global or social issues.
Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing (Lewisburg, PA) $4,000 for up to four months for a
writer working on a first or second book. In alternate years, the residency is awarded to poets and
writers of fiction or creative nonfiction.
Royal Anthropological Institute and Anthropologists' Fund for Urgent Anthropological Research
Sponsored enthnographic research on currently threatened indigenous peoples, cultures, and
languages.
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (Norwich, England) Up to oneyear residence to study Japanese art history, cultural heritage, archaeology or architecture, or
research with a strong visual component.
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Saint Louis University Fellowships (St. Louis, MO) Fellowships offered through the Vatican
Film Library and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies on topics of history,
philosophy, theology, literature, art, and other subjects.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Scholars in Residence Program (New York,
NY) Six-month residency for research and writing on the peoples of the African Diaspora, which
may include social and hard sciences if the work contributes to the humanities.
School of American Research (Santa Fe, NM) Residencies for scholars whose work is broad,
synthetic, and interdisciplinary and promises to yield significant advances in understanding
human culture, behavior, evolution, or critical contemporary issues. Projects that are narrowly
focused geographically and theoretically or that are primarily methodological seldom receive
strong consideration. Each year the program supports a mix of scholars with scientific and
humanistic orientations.
Smithsonian Institute (Washington, D.C.) Fellowships and research opportunities sorted by field.
Stanford Humanities Center (Stanford, CA) One academic year residential fellowship as external
faculty in the humanities but not the creative arts. (A single, separate fellowship in creative arts
for practitioners, critics, and scholars.)
Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah Humanities Visiting Research Fellowships
(Salt Lake City, UT) Research in the humanities, particularly Middle East Studies and women
writers.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellowships (Washington, D.C.) Three- to ninemonth fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust.
University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Fellowships (Storrs, CT) $40,000 for nine- to
twelve-month residencies to pursue advanced work in the humanities.
Vanderbilt University Visiting Faculty Fellowship (Nashville, TN) Year-long seminar examining
gains and losses when humanities scholarship becomes more accessible to a broad general
audience.
Vermont Studio Center Fellowships (Johnson, VT) Up to $4,000 for four- to twelve-week
independent studio residencies.
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Residential Fellowships (Charlottesville, VA) One- and
two-semester residencies in any area of the humanities.
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellowships Up to $50,000 to support
travel, archival research, convening of colleagues, interviews, and time to write about
contemporary art.
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