Funding Snapshot

11/1: UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. – $64,480

For postdoctoral scholars

Offers postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity at UC.

11/1: ARIT Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Turkey. – Variable Amounts

For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars

Grants offered to scholars and advanced graduate students engaged in research on ancient, medieval, or modern times in Turkey, in any field of the humanities or social sciences.

11/1: The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation. – $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. Fields this year include: “Object Based Arts and Installation Based Arts” and “Art History, Architecture, and Visual Culture.”

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

For scholars at all stages

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: 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: The Newberry Long-Term Research Fellowships. – Variable Amount

For faculty

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: The Newberry Short-Term Research Fellowships. – Variable Amount

For graduate students and faculty

Short-term fellowships are open to faculty members and postdoctoral scholars; PhD candidates with “All But Dissertation” (ABD) status; and scholars with terminal degrees in areas that do not offer a PhD, such as an MFA, MLIS, MSW, or JD.

11/1: Wenner-Gren Post-PhD Research Grant. – $25,000

For faculty and postdoctoral scholars

This grant program funds individual research projects undertaken by doctorates in anthropology or a closely related field. Our goal is to support vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of what it means to be human. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, topic, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that integrate two or more subfields and pioneer new approaches and ideas.

*Must work with Foundation Relations

11/1: Wenner-Gren Disseration Fieldwork Grant. – $25,000

For graduate students

This grant program funds doctoral or thesis research that advances anthropological knowledge. Our goal is to support vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of what it means to be human. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, topic, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that integrate two or more subfields and pioneer new approaches and ideas.

11/1: The Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Grants. – $20,000

For faculty

Former I Tatti Appointees can apply for three different grants from the Lila Wallace to support interdisciplinary projects in the Italian Renaissance.

11/1: American Psychological Association – Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Research Grant. – $10,000

For faculty

STP is pleased to announce a program of small grants to provide support for research projects on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).

11/4: Coha Gunderson Prize in Speculative Fiction. – $1,000

For graduate students and undergraduate students

The Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future THI project announces its sixth campus-wide competition, open to undergraduate and graduate students, for a creative piece of (social or scientific) speculative fiction, which can be in any medium or genre but must be available for review and assessment by selection committee members and ultimately shared with the public, whether through an exhibition, a performance, a proposed course, or future publication. Submissions may be individual or collaborative. It is preferred that submissions be based in actually existing worldly conditions, discernible in the submission itself.

11/4: UCSC Huerta Center CART Fellowships. – $1,750

For graduate students

The two Huerta Center Graduate Scholars will work with professional archivists in 2025 to help make the Dolores Huerta Papers and Dolores Huerta Foundation Records available for scholarly research and public use. Working with the CART Archivist and other staff at the University Library Special Collections & Archives, the Huerta Scholars will be trained in archival theory and practice during Winter Quarter 2025. Then, during Spring Break, the Scholars will travel to Bakersfield and work with the Dolores Huerta Archivist to assist in organizing, describing, and preserving the collections of Huerta’s personal papers and Foundation records.

11/1: American Academy in Rome Prize. – $16,000-$30,000

For scholars at all stages

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.

11/1: American Scandinavian Foundation Fellowships for Americans in the Nordic Countries. – $5,000-$23,000

For graduate students and faculty

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.

11/3: University of Pennsylvania Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. – $69,000+

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.

11/4: Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship. – $2,000-$10,500

For graduate students and faculty

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.

11/4: UCSC IBE Hub Innovation Catalyst Grant. – $50,000

For faculty

The Innovation Catalyst Grant helps to fill the longstanding gap in the innovation capital landscape between basic research funding and early-stage investment, while also providing university researchers with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate the pathway to innovation implementation and adoption.

11/4: VIA Art Fund Grant – LOI Deadline. – $25,000-$100,000

For faculty

VIA Art invites applications for the spring 2025 award cycle of its Artistic Production grant program, which awards funding to individual artists, nonprofit organizations, and institutions to support new artistic commissions that take place outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in nontraditional exhibition environments. Individual artists or producing organizations seeking production funding must have a confirmed exhibition venue or presenting partner.

11/4: Wenner-Gren Fellowship in Anthropology and Black Experiences. – $50,000

For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars

The School for Advanced Research (SAR), in Santa Fe, New Mexico, administers this award in collaboration with the Wenner-Gren Foundation. SAR is eager to support individuals whose research draws on Black studies, critical race studies, diasporic Africana studies, the vernacular insights of communities of color, and other sources of inspiration growing out of global Black experiences, to advance new lines of scholarship in any of anthropology’s subfields. SAR hopes to attract applicants working in diverse areas, including but not limited to Black communities.

11/4: 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: NHPRC Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions/NARA. – $125,000

For faculty

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.

11/7: NHPRC Archival Projects. – $150,000

For faculty

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.

11/14: Luce/ACLS Travel Grants in China Studies. – $5,000

For 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.

11/13: NEH Fellowships Open Book Program. – $6,600

For faculty

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.

11/14: California Documentary Project. – $50,000

For scholars at all stages

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.

11/14: Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies – Long Term. – $20,000-$45,000

For faculty

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.

11/14: Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies – Flexible. – $15,000

For faculty

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).

11/15: Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation and Post-MFA Fellowships. – $57,000

For scholars at all stages

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. – Not specified

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 – Dissertation Fellowship. – $8,000-$50,000

For graduate students and faculty

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: Carter Manny Award. – $15,000-$20,000

For 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: Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research. – $5,000

For graduate students and faculty

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: Newberry Library Long-Term Fellowships. – $5,000/month

For faculty and postdoctoral scholars

Long-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars for continuous residence at the Newberry for periods of 4 to 9 months; the stipend is $5,000 per month. Applicants must hold a PhD by the application deadline in order to be eligible. Long-Term Fellowships are intended to support individual scholarly research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the fellowship program. 

11/18: 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.

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

For faculty

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: Huntington Library Fellowships. – up to $50,000

For scholars at all stages

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: Society of American Archivists Strategic Growth Grant. – $5,000

For faculty

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.

11/15: Forschungsstipendien für Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden. – Variable Amounts

For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars

Gefördert werden Forschungsvorhaben im Ausland im Rahmen einer Promotion in Deutschland.

11/20: NEH Collaborative Research. – $250,000

For faculty

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.

11/30: 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.

11/1: Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships. – $31,000

For graduate students

This Fellowship supports doctoral candidates in their final year of writing who are working in areas of religion ethics values or morals.

11/22: UC-HSI Doctoral Diversity Initiative. – $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.

11/22: 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.

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

For postdoctoral scholars

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

11/27: University of South Carolina – Society of Fellows in the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship. – $142,000

For postdoctoral scholars

Each year the Society admits five postdoctoral fellows who are appointed for two-year terms. The fellows pursue research and teach three courses over four semesters with one semester for full-time research.

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

For graduate students and faculty

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: Asian Cultural Council – Fellowships & Grants. – $50,000

For faculty and postdoctoral scholars

The Asian Cultural Council is committed to advancing international dialogue mutual understanding and respect through supporting cultural exchange projects by individuals and organizations between Asia and the US and between Asian countries.