Funding Archive

The following archive includes a list of past deadlines for extramural funding. Many of these grants and fellowships below are offered annually, though it’s best to confirm future deadlines with respective grant agencies or foundations directly.

A list of upcoming funding opportunities is available here.

12/1: CalSPEC Equity Framework Advancement Award – $15,000

For graduate students

UC Center Sacramento’s Equity Framework Advancement Award will be awarded on a competitive basis to a graduate student and faculty mentor who are interested in developing a White Paper on incorporating the concept of equity into Bill Analysis. The resulting work product will be delivered to the Assembly Speakers Office by UC Center Sacramento.

12/1: American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grants – Variable Amount

The Franklin program is designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.

12/1: Berlin Program for Advanced German & European Studies Fellowships – Variable Amount

For faculty and doctoral graduate students

The program provides up to one year of research support at the Freie Universität Berlin— one of Germany’s leading research universities. It is open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians working on German and European history since the mid-18th century.

12/1: New York Public Library – Scholars-in-Residence Program – $35,000

For faculty and postdoctoral scholars

The Scholars-in-Residence Program offers both long-term and short-term fellowships designed to support and encourage top-quality research and writing on the history, politics, literature, and culture of the peoples of Africa and the African diaspora, as well as to promote and facilitate interdisciplinary exchange among scholars and writers in residence at the Schomburg Center.

12/1: University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center – $60,000

For faculty

The Tanner Humanities Center’s mission is to promote humanistic research and education at the University of Utah, in the state, and in the nation. The Center sponsors an annual competitive fellowship program to promote research by visiting faculty and independent scholars, and faculty and graduate students from the University of Utah.

12/1: Teagle Foundation Cornerstone: Learning for Living – up to $300,000

*Must work with Foundation Relations

For institutions

Participating institutions are expected to embed transformative texts in a gateway course (or courses) aimed at incoming undergraduate students that engage them in enduring human questions and cultivate their written and oral communication skills. Such gateway courses should build intellectual community among students of all backgrounds through a shared academic experience.

12/1: University of Virginia The Carter G. Woodson Institute Predoctoral Fellowship – $30,000+

For graduate students

The Carter G. Woodson Institute’s distinguished fellowship is a two-year residential fellowship for pre-doctoral graduate students whose work focuses on Africa and/or the African Diaspora. Scholars selected for the fellowship will relocate to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia to join a cohort of interdisciplinary scholars.

12/1: Overseas Press Club Foundation – $4,000

For graduate students and undergraduate students

Graduate and undergraduate students at North American colleges and universities or American students studying abroad are invited to apply for Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Awards. An applicant must be a college junior, senior or graduate student enrolled in a degree program at the application deadline and have demonstrated an interest in international journalism.

12/1: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research – Conference and Workshop Grants Program – $20,000

For faculty

This grant program supports meetings and events that promote the development of inclusive communities of anthropologists and advance significant and innovative research. Conferences that they support are public events directed at large audiences of anthropologists.

12/1: National Park Service — Mellon Humanities Fellowship Program – $67,600+

For postdoctoral scholars

The NPS Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program places recent humanities PhDs with NPS sites and programs across the agency. In collaboration with NPS staff and partners, the incoming cohort of sixteen (16) Fellows will complete original research projects, and develop new interpretive and educational programming, helping the agency connect more people to places that matter by incorporating new sources and perspectives into its storytelling.

12/4: UCSC Graduate Dean’s Research Travel Grant – Up to $500

For graduate students

The Graduate Dean’s Research Travel Grant is designed to assist members of the graduate student community with travel to: perform thesis-related research; present original work at conferences; and attend workshops, professional development or programs pertinent to their graduate projects. Applicants are advised to use the grant as a reimbursement as opposed to using it to pay for travel costs upfront because the adjudication and subsequent processing time for the awards may take up to 2-3 months in total.

12/6: COARC Multi-Country Research Fellowships – $12,600

For faculty and doctoral graduate students

The Multi-Country Research Fellowship enables US scholars to carry out trans-regional and comparative research in countries across the network of Overseas Research Centers as well as other countries.

12/6: Spencer Foundation Small Research Grants on Education – $50,000

*Must work with Foundation Relations

The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years.

12/8: Fellowship – Stanford University Zahedi Family Fellowship – $15,000+

For faculty

The Zahedi Family Fellowship is a twelve-week residential fellowship focusing on the Zahedi Archive (which includes both diplomatic correspondence and collected photos) at Stanford University’s Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies.

12/12: Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships – $28,000

For doctoral graduate students

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships provide one year of support for individuals working to complete a research-based, dissertation-required Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) or Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree that will prepare them for the pursuit of a career in academic teaching or research. Practice-oriented degree programs are not eligible for support. The fellowship is intended to support the final year of writing and defense of the dissertation.

12/15: ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grants – $50,000

*Must work with Foundation Relations

This program addresses inequities in access to tools and support for digital work among scholars across various fields, those working with under-utilized or understudied source materials, and those in institutions with less support for digital projects. It promotes inclusion and sustainability by extending the opportunity to participate in the digital transformation of humanistic inquiry to a greater number of humanities scholars and projects at the beginning stages of development.

12/15: ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants – $100,000

*Must work with Foundation Relations

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to invite applications for Digital Justice Development Grants, which are made possible by The Mellon Foundation. Through both their content and methods, projects funded by ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants pursue the following activities: 1) Engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities; people with disabilities; and queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people. 2) Advance beyond the prototyping or proof-of-concept phase and articulate the next financial, technological, and intellectual phases of project development. 3) Cultivate greater openness to new sources of knowledge and strategic approaches to content building and knowledge dissemination. 4) Engage in capacity building efforts, including but not limited to: pedagogical projects that train students in digital humanities methods as a key feature of the project’s content building practice; publicly engaged projects that develop new technological infrastructure with community partners; trans-institutional projects that connect scholars across academic and cultural heritage institutions.

12/15: AVDF/ACLS Fellowships for Research on the Liberal Arts – $45,000

For faculty

The American Council of Learned Societies invites applications for the inaugural AVDF/ACLS Fellowships for Research on the Liberal Arts, made possible by a generous grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. This highly competitive, peer-reviewed program provides funding and data training for up to five scholarly projects that draw upon the newly available College and Beyond II (CBII) database.

12/15: Folger Institute Long-Term Fellowships – $70,000+

For faculty

The Folger Institute offers five, long-term fellowships at $70,000 for the 2024-2025 academic year (approximately $7,777 per month, for a standard period of 9 months). These fellowships are designed to support full-time scholarly work on significant research projects that draw on the strengths of the Folger’s collections and programs.

12/15: The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Venetian Research Program – $20,000

For faculty and doctoral graduate students

Funds may be used for travel to and residence in Venice and the former Venetian empire; transportation within the Veneto; and specific research expenses.

12/15: The Newberry Short-Term Residential Fellowships for Individual Research – $3,000/month

For faculty and doctoral graduate students

Supporting scholars who demonstrate a specific need for the Newberry collection. Scholars working in any field. Graduate student applicants must be ABD by the application deadline.

12/15: Harvard University Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellowships in Japanese Studies – $67,000+

For postdoctoral scholars

The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RIJS) at Harvard University will offer several Postdoctoral Fellowships in Japanese Studies to recent PhD graduates of exceptional promise, to provide the opportunity for postdoctoral fellows to turn their dissertations into publishable manuscripts and to continue their research in Japanese studies.

12/15: UCSC Center for Coastal Climate Resilence Postdoctoral Fellows – $65,000-$78,000

For postdoctoral scholars

The UCSC Center for Coastal Climate Resilience (CCCR) at the University of California, Santa Cruz is holding an open competition for three (3) Postdoctoral Fellowships. CCCR Postdoctoral Fellows will work with faculty mentors from two (or more) disciplines across the UCSC campus to forward the Center’s vision: To advance innovative solutions for building coastal resilience that engage partners, foster leaders and address the challenges from climate change in California and beyond. The strongest proposals will identify mentors in two different academic divisions at UCSC (Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Physical & Biological Sciences, and Baskin School of Engineering). However, applicants with mentors from different departments within a single academic division are welcome. One of the scholar’s mentors will serve as the primary mentor for the purposes of hiring and annual reviews.

12/16: Center for Engaged Scholarship Dissertation Fellowship – $25,000

For doctoral graduate students

We are accepting applications from Ph.D. students in the social sciences who have already completed all departmental and institutional requirements for the Ph.D. degree, including approval of the dissertation proposal. The only requirement not completed must be the writing and where required, the defense, of the dissertation. Applicants should be on track to finish the majority of their research or data collection by June of the current academic year, so that they are writing their chapters by the time the fellowship begins in September 2024.

12/31: Poetry Society of America Awards and Fellowships – Variable Amounts

The Poetry Society of America presents a number of awards and award programs each year. See link for details.

12/31: Phi Beta Kappa Society — Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship in Greek Studies – $20,000

For doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars

This fellowship was designed to reward women pursuing graduate work in one of two fields of study, French or Greek, with the experience of researching and living abroad.

12/31: Phi Beta Kappa Society — Walter J. Jensen Fellowship in French Studies – $17,000

For scholars at all stages

The purpose of the Fellowship is to enrich, promote and improve education in the standard French language in the United States, through an award to educators and researchers to be used for education and study of French language, literature and culture.

11/01: American Academy in Rome Prize – $16,000-$30,000

For faculty and predoctoral graduate students

American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Each year, the Rome Prize is awarded to about thirty artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence. Winners of half- and full-term fellowships receive stipends of $16,000 and $30,000, respectively. Additionally, AAR is pleased to offer the Tsao Family Rome Prize, to be awarded to a humanities scholar whose project explores the relationship between Chinese and Mediterranean philosophical traditions.

11/01: American Scandinavian Foundation Fellowships for Americans in the Nordic Countries – $5,000-$23,000

For faculty and graduate students

The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) offers year-long fellowships of up to $23,000 and short term (1-3 months) fellowships of up to $5,000 to graduate students (preferably conducting dissertation research) and academic professionals interested in pursuing research or creative-arts projects in the Nordic region (Denmark, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sámpi, and Sweden). Priority is given to candidates at the graduate level for dissertation-related research. The number of awards varies each year according to total funds available. Awards are made in all fields.

11/1: Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellowship – $40,000+

For emerging and distinguished writers who have published at least one book with a trade or literary press. While there are no formal teaching requirements, this is a “working fellowship” located in Las Vegas. BMI’s visiting fellows will maintain office hours (10 per week), and will offer regular service to the community. In addition to the primary goal of furthering one’s own writing during their term in Las Vegas, visiting fellows are expected to engage in a substantial way with BMI’s community, in ways that connect to their interests and skills. Upon acceptance into the program, each fellow will craft a plan in partnership with BMI. This is equally weighted against the writing sample and proposed literary project for the residency.

11/1: Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program – $10,000-$57,000

For scholars at all stages

The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program offers opportunities for independent research or study related to Smithsonian collections, facilities, and/or research interests of the Institution and its staff. Fellowships are offered to graduate students, predoctoral graduate students, and postdoctoral and senior investigators to conduct independent research and to utilize the resources of the Institution with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff serving as advisors and hosts.

11/1: Howard Foundation Fellowships – $40,000

For faculty

The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation is an independent foundation administered at Brown University. It awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in selected fields, targeting its support specifically to early mid-career individuals, who have completed at least one major project and demonstrate potential to be future leaders in their fields.

11/1: California Documentary Project – $50,000

The California Documentary Project (CDP) is a competitive grant program that supports the research and development and production stages of humanities-based documentary media projects that explore, reveal, and illuminate California subjects and issues. We seek compelling projects of any length that bring new and previously unheard perspectives to light and help reveal the breadth and range of California’s cultures, peoples, and histories. Projects should use the humanities to provide context, depth, and perspective and be suitable for California and national audiences through public and educational screenings and presentations, broadcast, distribution, and/or online.

11/1: Dumbarton Oaks Project Grants – $3,000-$10,000

For faculty

Dumbarton Oaks makes a limited number of grants to assist with scholarly projects in Byzantine Studies, Pre-Columbian Studies, and Garden and Landscape Studies. Support is generally for archeological investigation, as well as for the recovery, recording, and analysis of materials that would otherwise be lost.

11/1: Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship – $2,000-$10,500

For faculty and doctoral graduate students

The Ransom Center is thrilled to be awarding up to 60 research fellowships for its 2024-2025 program, including 10 dissertation fellowships. The fellowship projects must require substantial on-site use of the Center’s collections, which support exploration of all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history.

11/1: Humanities Without Walls – $4,000

For doctoral graduate students

Humanities Without Walls (HWW) seeks applications from doctoral graduate students pursuing degrees in the humanities and humanistic social sciences for the HWW Predoctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshop, to be held from July 17, 2023 to July 28, 2023, in Minneapolis, MN. Students must be in residence in Minneapolis for the duration of the workshop and are expected to attend all workshop activities. Lodging and some meals will be provided; fellowship awards are intended to cover transportation costs to/from and around Minneapolis, meals, and other expenses.

11/1: Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grants Competition – $35,000-$50,000

*Must work with Foundation Relations

The Pipeline Grants Competition seeks to advance innovative research on economic mobility and access to opportunity in the United States. The Russell Sage Foundation is interested in research focused on structural barriers to economic mobility and how individuals, communities and state entities understand, navigate and challenge systemic inequalities. Funding supports early-career scholars (Assistant Professors, Lecturers and Adjunct Assistant Professors) and promotes diversity by prioritizing applications from scholars who are underrepresented in the social sciences. This includes racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity.

11/1: The Library Company of Philadelphia – $50,000-$60,000

For postdoctoral scholars

Each year the Library Company awards long-term postdoctoral fellowships that support advanced research in residence in the collections of the Library Company and our Fellowships Program partner, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Scholars at any stage of their career are welcome to apply.

11/1: The Newberry Research Fellowships – Variable Amount

For faculty and doctoral graduate students

Researchers with long-term fellowships spend four to nine months immersed in the Newberry collection and in our community of learning. While pursuing significant works of scholarship, they make discoveries, present works in progress, and take their projects to the next level.

11/1: University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program – $64,480+

For faculty

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is pleased to announce the 2023-24 President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship awards. These fellows provide an outstanding pool of potential new faculty members in a wide range of disciplines.

11/1: University of Pennsylvania Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities – $65,000+

For postdoctoral scholars

The Wolf Humanities Center awards five (5) one-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships each academic year to scholars in the humanities who are no more than five years out of their doctorate. Preference will be given to candidates not yet in tenure track positions whose proposals are interdisciplinary, who have not previously enjoyed use of the resources of the University of Pennsylvania, and who would particularly benefit from and contribute to Penn’s intellectual life.

11/2: Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions/NARA – $125,000

For organizations, institutions, agencies, and Native American groups

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals to publish online editions of historical records. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio. Projects may focus on broad historical movements in U.S. history, including any aspect of African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American history, such as law (including the social and cultural history of the law), politics, social reform, business, military, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience.

11/2: NHPRC Archival Projects – $150,000

For organizations, institutions, agencies, and Native American groups

The NHPRC seeks archival projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections. We welcome projects that engage the public, expand civic education, and promote understanding of the nation’s history, democracy, and culture from the founding era to the present day. The Commission encourages projects focused on collections of America’s early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation’s legal history. Collections that center the voices and document the history of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color are especially welcome.

11/2: Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe – Variable Amount

For faculty

The Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE) is a two-week residential workshop, that provides scholars of Eastern Europe time and space to dedicate to their own research and writing in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting. ACLS in partnership with the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS) will convene leading scholars from Eastern Europe and North America for a two-week residency in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria from June 13, 2024 to June 29, 2024.

11/3: Metropolitan Museum of Art Interdisciplinary Fellowship – $47,000-$57,000+

This one-year fellowship is part of the Museum’s History of Art and Visual Culture Fellowship program and is intended as an independent research project. The fellowship encourages cross-departmental projects that explore connections between various cultures and collections in the Museum and that go beyond traditional boundaries, bridging the visual arts and other disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, performing arts, and fine arts. Fellows may explore connections between public practice, education, and the humanities, relating but not limited to curriculum development, gallery teaching, and interpretation. The project should relate to and make use of the Museum’s resources, including its collections, libraries, archives, and programs.

11/6: School for Advanced Research – Resident Scholars – Variable Amount

For scholars at all stages

Resident scholar fellowships are awarded annually by the School for Advanced Research (SAR) to up to six scholars who have completed their research and who need time to prepare manuscripts or dissertations on topics important to the understanding of humankind. Resident scholars may approach their research from the perspective of anthropology or from related fields such as history and sociology. Scholars from the humanities and social sciences are encouraged to apply.

11/7: Asian Cultural Council Fellowships & Grants – Variable Amounts

ACC funds may be used for costs associated with travel and research only. Research is broadly defined as any activities in pursuit of creative, scholarly, or professional inquiry and may take many different forms.

11/7 (LOI Deadline): Russell Sage Foundation Research Grants (Core Programs and Special Initiatives) – Variable Amounts

*Must work with Foundation Relations

RSF will accept letters of inquiry (LOIs) under all of its core programs and special initiatives: : Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. It will also accept LOIs relevant to its core programs that address the effects (a) of social movements, such as drives for unionization and mass social protests, and the effects of racial/ethnic/gender bias and discrimination on a range of outcomes related to social and living conditions in the U.S. and (b) of the 2023 Supreme Court decision on race-conscious affirmative action and the relative merits of different models to promote diversity and the educational attainment and economic mobility of underrepresented and lower-income students.

11/13: NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grants – up to $350,000

The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (DHAG) supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.

11/14: Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation and Post-MFA Fellowships – $57,000

The Bolin Fellowships are awarded to applicants from groups underrepresented in academia and/or in a particular field of scholarship, who show exceptional promise as scholars, who have an interest in and capacity for teaching students from groups that have been underrepresented in higher education, and who are pursuing a career in higher education in the United States.

11/15: ARI Arts Practice and Research – Planning Grant – $500-$3,000

For faculty

Applicants may request funds to complete initial research or preparation for a project; support the costs of meeting(s) for a core group of participants including potential outside advisors to the project; travel to relevant sites/resource areas for research or to learn from other similar projects and consult with advisors there, and/or to identify collaborating partners/organizations for subsequent stages of the project. Applicants must have applied for COR funding.

11/15: ARI Arts Practice and Research – Implementation Grant – $5,000-$20,000

For faculty

Implementation grants are offered to artists, scholars, collaborative teams, and centers to move their ideas from planning into practice. Implementation grants support the final preparation or research that will enable the public presentation or engagement component of the work. Applicants for implementation grants should have already finished most of the planning for their projects, including the identification of the key themes, relevant scholarship, partner artists/organizations, advisors, and program/presentation formats.

11/15: ARI Collaborative Research Grant – $500-$5,000

For faculty

These awards are intended to encourage collaboration beyond the confines of particular departments and disciplines, both within the arts and between the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The award supports collaborative work whose interdisciplinarity is essential to the project’s conceptualization and that draws upon techniques, methodologies, and media from multiple disciplines for its execution. Visiting Artists and scholars may also be proposed in this category.

11/15: ARI Individual Research Assistance – $500-$1,500

For faculty

Eligible expenses include graduate or undergraduate student research assistance, or other staffing assistance, and the purchase of research-related equipment.

11/15: ARI Faculty Release Time Fellowship

For faculty

ARI Research Fellowships provide faculty in the Arts Division with one course replacement in order to pursue their research. Award recipients will be designated ARI Fellows and are required to deliver a public lecture or hold a seminar on a topic related to their research during their tenure as fellows.

11/15: ARI Equity and Innovation Grant – $500-$5,000

For scholars at all stages

ARI Equity and Innovation Grants are available to students, faculty, and staff, and are meant to encourage new and sustainable ways to promote equity, inclusion, and diversity within the Arts Division.

11/15: American Association of University Women – $8,000-$50,000

For faculty and doctoral graduate students

AAUW American Fellowships support women scholars who are pursuing full-time study to complete dissertations, conducting postdoctoral research full time, or preparing research for publication for eight consecutive weeks. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Candidates are evaluated based on scholarly excellence; quality and originality of project design; and active commitment to helping women and girls through service in their communities, professions, or fields of research.

11/15: Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research – $5,000

For faculty and graduate students

The Lewis and Clark Fund encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation. Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archaeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, paleontology, and population genetics, but grants will not be restricted to these fields.

11/15: NEH Fellowships Open Book Program – $5,500

The Fellowships Open Book Program is a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books digitally available to a wide audience. By taking advantage of low-cost e-book technology, the program will allow teachers, students, scholars, and the public to read humanities books that can be downloaded or redistributed for no charge. This program is open to those who have published within the last seven years (or will publish during the period of performance) a book supported previously by one certain NEH programs.

11/15: Spencer Foundation Research Practice Partnerships – Variable Amount

*Must work with Foundation Relations

The Research-Practice Partnership (RPP) Grants Program is intended to support education research projects that engage in collaborative and participatory partnerships with project budgets up to $400,000 and durations of up to three years. We accept Intent to Apply before October 17th. We view partnerships as an important approach to knowledge generation and the improvement of education, broadly construed. Over the long term, we anticipate that research conducted by RPPs will result in new insights into the processes, practices, and policies that improve education for learners, educators, families, communities, and institutions where learning and teaching happen (e.g., schools, universities, community centers, parks, museums, other workplaces).

11/15: Carter Manny Award – $15,000-$20,000

For doctoral graduate students

Established in 1996 by the Graham Foundation, the Carter Manny Award supports the completion of outstanding doctoral dissertations on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

11/15: Institute for Citizens & Scholars Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship – $31,000

For doctoral graduate students

Religious commitments and ethical ideals can be found in every time and place. Newcombe Fellows are late-stage Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences whose research in some way attends to those commitments and ideals and seeks to understand the communities, social practices, and political arrangements that embody them.

11/15: Huntington Library Fellowships – up to $50,000

For scholars at all stages (depending on fellowship)

The Huntington is a collections-based research institute, which promotes humanities scholarship on the basis of its library holdings and art collections. The Art Collections feature European and American art spanning more than 500 years, with diverse strengths ranging from Renaissance Italian bronzes to British grand manner portrait paintings to early American folk art to 20th-century drawings, prints, and photography. The Library holds more than 11 million items that span the 11th to the 21st century. Its diverse materials center on 14 intersecting collection strengths.

11/15: National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program – $70,000

For postdoctoral scholars

The National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship supports early-career scholars working in critical areas of education research. This nonresidential postdoctoral fellowship funds proposals that make significant scholarly contributions to the field of education. The program also develops the careers of its recipients through professional development activities.

11/15: Society of American Archivists Strategic Growth Grant: Letter of Inquiry – $5,000

The SAA Foundation Board awards grants that meet the mission and goals of the Foundation and/or the strategic planning priorities of the Society of American Archivists. Applicants must make direct and substantive reference to the way(s) in which an award of funds will advance one or more of the strategic goals of the SAA Foundation and/or the Society of American Archivists. To set reasonable expectations for applicants, the Board endeavors to publicize special concerns within the SAA Foundation funding priorities and invite applications in those areas.

11/16: Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies – Long Term – $20,000-$45,000

*Must work with Foundation Relations

Early Career fellowships support scholarly research in all disciplines of the humanities and the interpretive social sciences. Research may be conducted on any topic related to cultures, histories, and societies in China, and their influence and impact on communities, countries, and cultures around the world, as required by the research plan. Research on Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang is eligible. The study of non-traditional sites (e.g., sites in Africa or Latin America) is also permitted, so long as there is a clearly articulated rationale for the relationship to Chinese or Chinese-language communities and cultures. There are no restrictions regarding time period or methodological approach.

11/16: Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies – Flexible – $15,000

*Must work with Foundation Relations

Flexible research fellowships will enable recent PhDs (without tenure and within eight years of the PhD) with heavy teaching and service responsibilities to carry out research and writing towards a significant scholarly product. Early Career fellowships support scholarly research in all disciplines of the humanities and the interpretive social sciences. Research may be conducted on any topic related to the cultures, histories, and societies in China, and their influence and impact on communities, countries, and cultures around the world, as required by the research plan. Research on Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang is eligible. The study of non-traditional sites (e.g., sites in Africa or Latin America) is also permitted, so long as there is a clearly articulated rationale for the relationship to China or Chinese-language communities and cultures. There are no restrictions regarding time period or methodological approach. A working knowledge of Chinese is required, or knowledge of another language used in China studies (e.g., Tibetan, Uyghur).

11/16: Luce/ACLS Travel Grants in China Studies – $5,000

For faculty and doctoral graduate students

ACLS is offering a new travel grant competition for graduate students in a PhD program and non-tenure track faculty at any career stage. The grant supports travel for conducting basic research in China or conducting China studies-related research in databases, collections, and archives anywhere in the world.

Scholars may use these funds to travel to archives and field sites, to establish contact with scholars in Chinese-language communities, and to secure necessary permissions for fieldwork or archival research.

11/17: UC-HSI Doctoral Diversity Initiative – Small/Large Awards – $50,000/$350,000

For faculty

Competitive grant awards to UC faculty/faculty administrators that will support short-term and long-term programs/projects to enhance and expand pathways to the professoriate for underrepresented minorities, with a goal to increase faculty diversity and inclusion at UC.

11/17: Harvard University Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowship – $70,000+

For postdoctoral scholars

The Mahindra Humanities Center invites applications for six one-year postdoctoral fellowships on the topic of the environmental humanities, drawn from any humanistic discipline. We interpret the environmental humanities in the broadest terms, to include all parts of the world and historical eras. Topics may include (but are not limited to) humanistic approaches to climate change, biodiversity, social justice, environmental justice, food justice, regenerative practices, gardening, landscape, urban foraging, health, and animal studies.

11/17: Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Fellowships – $25,000+

For graduate students

The Leifur Eiríksson Foundation funds scholars who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents from U.S. universities for graduate research or study at universities in Iceland, and scholars who are Icelandic citizens or permanent residents from universities in Iceland to conduct graduate research or study at universities in the United States.

11/19: Mellon Foundation – Call for Concepts: Exploring Democracy, Environmental Justice, and Social Justice – $250,000 – $500,000

For faculty

Through its Higher Learning grantmaking area, Mellon invites humanities-grounded ideas for research and curricular projects focused on any of three topics: Cultures of US Democracy, Environmental Justice Studies, and Social Justice and Disciplinary Knowledge.

11/22: Gerda Henkel Stiftung General Research Grants: Scholarships – $3,100 EU/month

For faculty

Scholarship must be on Archeology, History of Art, Historical Islamic Studies, History, History of Science, History of Law, Prehistory and Early History.

11/27 2024 National Humanities Center Winter Podcasting Institute for Graduate Students

For doctoral graduate students

We are accepting applications for the National Humanities Center Winter program, “Podcasting for Humanities Graduate Students: Storytelling for a Modern Audience.” The five-day virtual institute (January 8–12, 2024) will provide hands-on, immersive training for PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to translate research, commentary, and community-engaged narratives into podcast episodes.

11/27: THI Faculty Research Fellowships

For faculty

THI Research Fellowships provide faculty in the Humanities Division with one course replacement in order to pursue their research. Each fellowship recipient is also awarded $1000 to be used for research expenses, which can include the hiring of a GSR, travel, and the purchase of research related equipment. Proposals must be for research performed during the 2024-2025 academic year and the faculty member must be a senate faculty in the Humanities Division at UCSC. Preference will be given to junior faculty when possible.

11/27: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellowships

For faculty

The Dean of the Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute are pleased to announce this call for applications for Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellowships, providing faculty in the Humanities Division with one course replacement and $1000 in research funds (allowable expenses include the hiring of a research assistant, travel, and the purchase of research-related equipment) for scholarly activity performed during the 2024-2025 academic year. This fellowship supports public-facing scholarly activity that brings academic work to audiences beyond the university and/or collaborates with public partners. Examples include, but are not limited to, the development of a digital and/or public humanities project (for example, digital archives, databases, websites, podcasts, films, digital-born publications, and exhibitions) or building community-engaged projects.

11/29: NEH Public Humanities Projects – up to $400,000

The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Awards support projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in the United States. Projects should engage with ideas that are accessible to the general public and employ appealing interpretive formats. Public Humanities Projects supports projects in three categories (Exhibitions, Historic Places, and Humanities Discussions), and at two funding levels (Planning and Implementation). Proposed projects may include complementary components: for example, a museum exhibition might be accompanied by a website or mobile app.

11/29: NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations – up to $300,000

The Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations program provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to scholarship but are currently inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations. Typically, the texts are significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials, but works in other humanities fields may also be the subject of an edition.

11/29: NEH Collaborative Research – $250,000

The Collaborative Research program aims to advance humanistic knowledge by supporting teams of scholars working on a joint endeavor. NEH encourages projects that incorporate multiple points of view, pursue new avenues of inquiry in the humanities, and lead to manuscripts for print publication or to scholarly digital projects. Collaborators may come from one or more institutions. They may propose research in a single field of study or interdisciplinary work.

11/29: NEH Public Scholars – up to $60,000

For scholars at all stages

The Public Scholars program offers grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel, and other activities leading to the creation and publication of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public.

11/29: Microsoft Research AI & Society Fellows – $45,000

For faculty and graduate students

The Microsoft Research AI & Society Fellows program supports interdisciplinary AI research in the context of societal impact. The program offers opportunities for fellows from fields beyond core computer sciences to join and support interdisciplinary research conversations with Microsoft Researchers. By facilitating these new collaborations, Microsoft aims to scale the impact of collective research efforts at the intersection of AI & Society.

11/30: Center for Khmer Studies US Research Fellowships – Variable Amounts

For faculty and doctoral graduate students

The Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) provides research fellowships to US scholars in all disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities who seek to pursue further research focusing on Cambodia alone or on Cambodia within a regional context. Scholars can conduct research in other countries in mainland Southeast Asia (including Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, and southern China) provided that some portion of their research is undertaken in Cambodia.

11/30: Japan Foundation Grants – Variable Amounts

For scholars at all stages (depending on grant)

The Japan Foundation is Japan’s only Institution dedicated to carrying out comprehensive international cultural exchange programs worldwide. Through “Culture”, “Language” and “Dialogue,” they create opportunities to foster friendship, trust, and mutual understanding.

11/30: Luce-AAR Advancing Public Scholarship Grant Program – $5,000

For scholars at all stages

With funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Luce-AAR Advancing Public Scholarship Grant program offers grants to support scholars of religion who are working to engage publics in innovative ways, through projects designed for presentation in public spaces and outreach through publicly accessible sites.

11/30: Peter Kong-ming New Award – $3,000

For graduate students and undergraduate students

The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) announces an annual student research competition in the applied social and behavioral sciences. The first place winner of the Competition will receive a cash prize of $3,000 as well as $350 to partially offset the cost of transportation and two nights lodging at the annual meeting of the Society. In addition, the winner receives an engraved crystal trophy. Cash prizes of $1,500 to second place and $750 to third place will also be awarded, as well as a $350 travel stipend and two nights lodging.

11/30: The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies Dissertation Fellowship – $30,000

For doctoral graduate students

The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowships in Buddhist Studies provide stipends to PhD candidates for full time preparation of dissertations. The ten-month fellowship period may be used for fieldwork, archival research, analysis of findings, or for writing after research is complete. There are two types of support: research fellowships for fieldwork or archival investigations and writing fellowships for use after research is complete to write the dissertation.

11/30: The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Early Career Research Fellowships in Buddhist Studies – $70,000

For faculty *Please work with Foundation Relations

Early Career Research Fellowships offer support for research and writing in Buddhist Studies for pre-tenure scholars holding a PhD degree, with priority given to those teaching full-time. These fellowships provide scholars time free from teaching and other responsibilities to concentrate on research and writing for the project proposed.

11/30: The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Translation Grants in Buddhist Studies – $50,000

*Please work with Foundation Relations

These grants support translations of important Buddhist texts for the benefit of contemporary audiences (e.g., communities of scholarship and Buddhist practice) who currently do not have access to them in their own languages. Applicants may propose the translation of works from any genre of Buddhist literature from any period and region. Priority will be given to the translation of works that have not been translated into a modern language. There are no restrictions as to the language of the final product prepared for publication.

10/1: Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships – $70,000+

Fellowships sponsor research in the traditional and emergent disciplines of the humanities and the interpretive social sciences. (Creative arts projects are not eligible.) The projects of our fellows have drawn on every imaginable approach, from conventional methods to those critical of the disciplines themselves. In partnership with the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, we welcome applications in the digital humanities. Especially appropriate are projects that are likely to contribute to intellectual exchange among a diverse group of scholars.

10/1: Wilson Center Fellowship – $90,000

Through an international competition, the Center offers 9-month residential fellowships. The Wilson Center invites scholars, practitioners, journalists and public intellectuals to take part in its flagship international Fellowship Program. Fellows conduct research and write in their areas of interest, while interacting with policymakers in Washington and Wilson Center staff and other scholars in residence. The Center accepts policy-relevant, non-advocacy fellowship proposals that address key challenges confronting the United States and the world.

10/2: California Humanities Quick Grant – $5,000

Humanities for All is a grant program that supports locally-initiated public humanities projects. This program responds to the needs and interests of Californians, encourages greater public participation in humanities programming, particularly by new and/or underserved audiences. It aims to promote understanding and empathy among all our state’s peoples in order to cultivate a thriving democracy.

10/2: The Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University – $78,000+

The Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University brings together exceptional early-career scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to be part of a vibrant cross-disciplinary community. In addition to teaching opportunities in affiliated departments and time for research, Fellows participate in and often organize lecture series, workshops, and other scholarly events that contribute to the intellectual life of the SOF/Heyman and the university more broadly.

10/2: American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grants – Variable Amount

The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.

10/2: Getty Scholars Program – Variable Amount

Getty Scholar Grants are for established scholars, or individuals who have attained distinction in their fields. Recipients may be in residence at the Getty Research Institute or Getty Villa, where they pursue their own projects free from work-related obligations, make use of Getty collections, join their colleagues in a weekly lecture devoted to an annual research theme, and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty.

10/5: Indiana University Bloomington Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society Fellowship – $51,500+

These fellowships provide support to scholars studying race and ethnicity from a broad range of fields in the social sciences and humanities, especially in the areas of education, public and environmental affairs, art and design, business, law, and media. CRRES fellowships are designed to advance the careers of new scholars by providing opportunities to research, teach, and connect with mentors and other faculty in host departments or schools across campus.

10/5: National Humanities Center Scholarly Programs Fellowships – Variable Amount

Conceived with the needs of humanists in mind, the National Humanities Center provides scholars with an environment and resources conducive to generating new knowledge and furthering understanding of the human experience. Here, they enjoy the freedom to focus on their work in the beautiful Archie K. Davis building, take breaks to wander paths through the surrounding pine forest, and share ideas with colleagues working on a fascinating array of projects from across humanities disciplines. Scholars also take advantage of the Center’s exceptional support services, including the Center’s outstanding librarians and attentive dining staff.

10/10: Historic Preservation Fund- African American Civil Rights- History Grants – $15,000-$750,000

The National Park Service’s (NPS) African American Civil Rights Grant Program (AACR) will document, interpret, and preserve the sites and stories of the full history of the African American struggle to gain equal rights from transatlantic slave trade forward. The program funds history and preservation projects using the NPS report, Civil Rights in America, A Framework for Identifying Significant Sites, as a guide in determining the appropriateness of proposed projects and properties.

10/11: NEH Dangers and Opportunities of Technology – $150,000

The Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (DOT) program supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities presented by technology. NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine the role of technology in shaping current social and cultural issues.

10/15: Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies Fellowship – $25,000+

The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) offers residential postdoctoral fellowships in Hellenic Studies for the 2024-25 academic year. Fellows are appointed for a term of up to eighteen weeks in the fall (September 4, 2024 to January 8, 2025) or the spring (January 22, 2025 to May 28, 2025). Applicants should indicate their preference for fall or spring on the application form. During this time, recipients are expected to be in residence at the CHS and to devote full time to their study projects without undertaking any other major activities.

10/15: Institute for Advanced Study – $39,000-$78,000

The School of Historical Studies supports scholarship in all fields of historical research, but is concerned principally with the history of western, near eastern and Asian civilizations, with particular emphasis upon the Greek and Roman world, the history of Europe (medieval, early modern, and modern), the Islamic world, East Asian studies, art history, history of science, and late modern history. The School also offers the Edward T. Cone Membership in Music Studies.

10/15: Clark Art Institute – Variable Amount

Fellowships are awarded every year to established and promising scholars with the aim of fostering a critical commitment to inquiry in the theory, history, and interpretation of art and visual culture. As part of our commitment to cultivating diverse engagements with the visual arts, RAP seeks to elevate constituencies, subjects, and methods that have historically been underrepresented in the discipline. Furthermore, we are particularly committed to supporting scholarship that reveals the systemic inequalities of art history as a discipline and challenges us to address these inequalities as we move forward differently. All fellowships are intended to nurture a variety of disciplinary approaches and support new voices in art history.

10/16: American Academy of Religion International Dissertation Research Grants – $5,000

The International Dissertation Research Grants program is designed to support AAR student members whose dissertation research requires them to travel outside of the country in which their school or university is located. Grants are intended to help candidates complete their doctoral degrees by offsetting costs of travel, lodging, and other dissertation research-related expenses.

10/19: Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowships – Variable Amount

The University Center for Human Values invites applications for Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowships for academic year 2024-25. Fellows devote an academic year in residence to research and writing about topics involving human values in public and private life. This full-time visiting program is open to scholars in all disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. For 2024-25, the Center’s designated research theme is Criminal Justice, but scholars need not work on Criminal Justice to apply.

10/23: Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art – $42,000

ACLS invites applications for Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art, which support graduate students pursuing research on the history of art and visual culture of the United States, including all aspects of Native American art, and who are at any stage of PhD dissertation research or writing. ACLS believes that humanistic scholarship benefits from inclusivity of voices, perspectives, narratives, and subjects that have historically been underrepresented in academe.

10/25: Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art – $38,000+

10/25: Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships – $40,000+

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships support graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development, before research and writing are advanced. The program seeks to expand the range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry traditionally considered suitable for the dissertation, with a particular focus on supporting scholars who can build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy.

10/26: The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans – $90,000

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (PD Soros) supports thirty New Americans— immigrants or the children of immigrants—who are pursuing graduate or professional school in the United States.

10/27: James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship – $15,000

(historic preservation) Research grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to one or more mid-career professionals who have an academic background, professional experience and an established identity in one or more of the following fields: historic preservation, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, architectural history and the decorative arts. The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation will consider proposals for the research and/or the execution of the preservation-related projects in any of these fields.

10/29: Center for Asian American Media Documentary Fund – $50,000

With support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CAAM provides production funding to independent producers creating films that illuminate the Asian American experience for a national audience. Documentaries are eligible for production or post-production funding and must be intended for public television broadcast. Awards typically range between $10,000 to $50,000.

10/30: CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars – $100,000 CAD

CIFAR invites exceptional early-career researchers from across the natural, biomedical and social sciences and the humanities to join one of our interdisciplinary research programs that address some of the most important questions facing science and humanity. The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program accelerates the development of the next generation of research leaders and positions them to heighten their impact in academia and beyond.

10/31: Lighthouse Works – $1,750+

Fellowships are six weeks long, are offered year-round, and provide fellows with housing, food, a studio or workspace, and a $1,750 stipend. Each fellow has a private bedroom with a shared bathroom, kitchen, and living space.

Princeton University— Society of Fellows Fellowships

Library of Congress — Of the People: Widening the Path: Connecting Communities Digital Initiative – Artist or Scholar in Residence

NEH — Media Projects

NEH — Public Humanities Projects

Coalition for Western Women’s History — Irene Ledesma Prize

National Historical Publications & Records Commission — Archival Projects Grants (draft deadline)

National Historical Publications & Records Commission — Public Engagement with Historical Records Grants (draft deadline)

Spencer Foundation — Vision Grants (intent to apply deadline)

John Templeton Foundation — Online Funding Inquiry

US Bureau of Indian Affairs & Department of the Interior — Living Languages Grant Program

Templeton World Charity Foundation — Science of Religious and Spiritual Exercises RFP (letter of interest due)

Istanbul Research Institute — Research and Write-Up Grant for PhD Candidates, Travel Grants, and Conference Grants