Funding Snapshot
Each month, THI staff compiles the Funding Snapshot, a list of upcoming deadlines for extramural funding that supports research at the graduate, post-doctoral, and faculty levels. The following list is updated on a monthly basis and emailed to Humanities Division faculty and graduate students.
An archive of past months’ deadlines is available here.
12/1: Belfer Center Research Fellowships. – Variable Amounts
For scholars at all stages
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs offers research fellowships during the academic year to individuals who wish to devote their time to research and writing in the fields of science and international affairs. Fellows are selected by the Center’s major research teams and are expected to work collaboratively with other Center researchers, as well as on their own projects.
12/1: Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Fellowship. – Variable Amounts
For scholars at all stages
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: Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Awards. – $3,000-$4,000
For graduate students and undergraduate students
This program is aimed primarily at helping students, of whatever nationality, who wish to pursue international journalism, rather than returning to their countries of origin and becoming local reporters. Our program is also heavily oriented toward helping journalists launch their careers rather than assisting mid-career professionals.
12/1: NYPL Schomburg Center Scholars in Residence – Long-Term Fellowships. – $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. Long-term fellowships provide a $35,000 stipend to support postdoctoral scholars and independent researchers who work in residence at the Center for a continuous period of six months.
12/1: NYPL Schomburg Center Scholars in Residence – Short-Term Fellowships. – $3,000/month
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. Short-term fellowships are open to postdoctoral scholars, independent researchers, and creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets) who work in residence at the Center for a continuous period of one to three months.
12/1: The Teagle Foundation – Cornerstone: Learning for Living LOI. – $25,000-$300,000
For faculty
The Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative aims to reinvigorate the role of the humanities in general education, and in doing so, expose a broad array of students to the power of the humanities; help students of all backgrounds build a sense of belonging and community; strengthen the coherence and cohesiveness of general education; and increase teaching opportunities for humanities faculty.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
12/1: University of Utah – Tanner Humanities Center Fellowships. – $30,000
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
The Tanner Humanities Center will award two visiting fellowships for the academic year 2025-26. Faculty who are independent scholars, as well as those affiliated with colleges and universities, interested in humanistic issues are eligible to apply. Projects in any of the following fields are eligible for support: anthropology and archaeology, communication, history, philosophy, religious studies, ethnic/gender/cultural studies, jurisprudence, history/theory/criticism of the arts, languages, and linguistics, literature, creative writing, historical or philosophical issues in the social and natural sciences, or the professions.
12/1: University of Virginia – Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. – $30,600
For graduate students
The Carter G. Woodson Institute’s distinguished fellowship is a two-year residential fellowship for pre-doctoral students (ABD) whose work focuses on Africa and/or the African Diaspora, including but not limited to research pertaining to African American, Caribbean, Latin American, African, and/or Diasporic contexts. Scholars selected for the fellowship are required to relocate to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia to join a cohort of interdisciplinary scholars.
12/1: University of Virginia – Post-Doctoral Fellowship. – $50,000
For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
The Carter G. Woodson Institute’s distinguished fellowship is a two-year residential fellowship for post-doctoral students whose work focuses on Africa and/or the African Diaspora including but not limited to research pertaining to African American, Caribbean, Latin American, African, and Diasporic contexts. Scholars selected for the fellowship are required to relocate to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia to join a cohort of interdisciplinary scholars.
12/1: Wenner-Gren Conference and Workshop Grant. – $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 we support are public events directed at large audiences of anthropologists. We prioritize scholarly gatherings that bring together members of large, international anthropological organizations. Workshops that we support are closed meetings focused on pressing topics in anthropology.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
12/2: American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grants. – $6,500
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
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.
12/2: Bard Graduate Center – Fields of the Future Fellowships. – $3,500/month
For scholars at all stages
The fellowships are intended to fund collections-based research at Bard Graduate Center or elsewhere in New York City, as well as writing, reading, and creative projects for which being part of our dynamic research environment is intellectually valuable. Fellows will be paired with BGC faculty and research librarians to connect with human and material resources.
12/3: The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies Dissertation Fellowship. – $30,000
For 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.
12/3: The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Early Career Research Fellowships in Buddhist Studies. – $70,000
For faculty
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.
12/3: The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Translation Grants in Buddhist Studies. – $50,000
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
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.
12/3: ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grants. – $25,000
For faculty
ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grants fund projects that employ digital tools and methods to ethically engage with marginalized communities’ histories and interests, while exploring new research approaches and materials. These projects aim to cultivate openness to diverse knowledge sources and engage in capacity building through activities such as training students, developing infrastructure with community partners, and fostering collaboration across institutions.
12/3: ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants. – $100,000
For faculty
ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants support projects that engage with the histories and interests of marginalized communities, advancing beyond the initial concept phase to articulate further development plans. These grants aim to foster openness to new knowledge sources and support scholarly teams in pursuing long-term sustainability and impact for their projects.
12/4: NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations. – up to $300,000
For faculty
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.
12/5: COARC Multi-Country Research Fellowship. – $12,600
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
The Multi-Country Research Fellowship enables US scholars to carry out transational research in countries across the network of Overseas Research Centers as well as other countries.
12/11: NEH Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence. – $500,000
For faculty
The purpose of this program is to support the establishment of new collaborative humanities research centers focused on the legal, ethical, or societal implications of developing AI technologies. A Center is a sustained collaboration among multiple scholars focused on exploring the humanities implications of AI through two or more related scholarly activities.
12/15: Folger Shakespeare Library Long-Term Fellowships. – $70,000
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
Long-term Public Humanities Fellowships: For the 2025-26 year, the Folger Institute will offer one Long-term Public Humanities Fellowship at $70,000 for a standard period of 9 months (approximately $7,777 per month).
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: 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.
11/1: 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 Dissertation 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: 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: 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.
11/1: 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).
11/1: 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: 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.
11/4: 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.
11/13: 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).
11/14: 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.
11/15: 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: 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.
11/15: 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: 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: 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.
11/18: 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.
11/20: 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.
11/22: 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: 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: 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.
10/1: Getty Scholar Grants. – $65,000
For faculty
The Getty Scholars Program supports innovative research about art, conceived in the broadest terms, and its histories, by providing a locus for international scholars to forge collaborations across disciplines and professional practices, while also developing new audiences for their work. During their residency, the scholar cohort is immersed in a vibrant local community devoted to the advancement of knowledge and hosted at an institution committed to preserving, understanding, interpreting, and sharing its vast library and collections. Scholars may be in residence at the Getty Center or Getty Villa.
10/1: Major documentation project grants – Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP). – £300,000
For faculty
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme invites applications for its major documentation project grants. The key objectives of ELDP are: to support the documentation of as many endangered languages as possible; to encourage fieldwork on endangered languages; to create a repository of resources for language communities, linguistics, and social sciences; to make the documentary collections freely available.
10/1: Legacy material grants – Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP). – 10000 EUR
For faculty
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme invites applications for its legacy material grants. These support the digitisation and archiving of legacy materials that are a rich resource for the documentation of the world’s linguistic diversity and are in danger of being lost, such as recordings or endangered or moribund languages in analogue format that are not part of an existing repository.
10/1: Individual graduate scholarship – Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) – Variable Amounts
For graduate students
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme invites applications for its individual graduate scholarship. This supports graduate students in undertaking doctoral programmes in the field of endangered languages. Researchers seeking a PhD scholarship of any nationality in any part of the world may apply.
10/1: Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships. – $70,000+
For faculty
Fellowships sponsor research in the traditional and emergent disciplines of the humanities and the interpretive social sciences. Projects have drawn on every imaginable approach. Digital humanities applications are welcome. Projects likely to contribute to intellectual exchange among diverse scholars are especially appropriate.
10/1: Wilson Center Fellowship. – $90,000
For faculty
Offers 9-month residential fellowships through an international competition. Fellows conduct research and write in their areas of interest, while interacting with policymakers and other scholars. Accepts policy-relevant, non-advocacy fellowship proposals addressing key challenges confronting the United States and the world.
10/1: American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grants. – Variable Amount
For faculty
Designed to help meet costs of travel to libraries and archives, purchase of research materials, fieldwork expenses, or laboratory research expenses.
10/1: Getty Scholars Program. – Variable Amount
For faculty
For established scholars to be in residence at Getty Research Institute or Getty Villa. Scholars pursue their projects, use Getty collections, join weekly lectures, and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty.
10/1: Lighthouse Works. – $1,750+
For scholars at all stages
Offers six-week fellowships year-round, providing housing, food, workspace, and a $1,750 stipend. Fellows have private bedrooms with shared living spaces.
10/3: National Humanities Center Scholarly Programs Fellowships. – Variable Amount
For faculty
Provides scholars with an environment and resources to generate new knowledge in the humanities. Offers freedom to focus on work, share ideas with colleagues, and take advantage of exceptional support services.
10/4: Craft Research Fund. – $15,000
For faculty
The Craft Research Fund was created to enco urage, expand and support craft research in the United States. Research providing new insight into work by historical or contemporary craft in the U.SProjects presenting a new understanding of the relationship between handmade production and digital technologies;Providing a new contribution to the history of craft in the United States; Projects that place American craft in a global context; Or other topics that offer fresh perspectives within craft.
10/4: Indiana University Bloomington Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society Fellowship. – $51,500+
For faculty
Supports scholars studying race and ethnicity in social sciences and humanities. Designed to advance careers of new scholars by providing research, teaching, and mentoring opportunities.
10/6: Mellon-Sawyer Seminar – Internal Competition. – $300,000
For faculty
The Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars bring together faculty, foreign visitors, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from a variety of fields mainly, but not exclusively, in the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences, for intensive study of subjects chosen by the participants. The subject to be considered this year is academic freedom and democracy in the American university. Seminars should involve the study of major social and political challenges that directly impact the structures, policies, and practices of the American university. Mellon invites proposals that meaningfully engage faculty, other academic leaders, and visitors from a variety of fields in the study of academic freedom and democracy in the American university. Mellon seeks to support seminars that demonstrate through humanistic methods the ways in which a higher education system featuring a multiplicity of perspectives, thoughts, and voices is essential to a functional democracy.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
10/8: W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. – $30,000 USD
For faculty
The W. Eugene Smith Grant is designed to encourage and support visual storytellers whose photographic work renews the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s dedicated compassion as evidenced during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist. Special consideration will be given to work that promotes social change, that embraces new technologies and image distribution, and that seeks to integrate the tradition of photography and social change with contemporary practice. The judges will be looking for a photographer and project that seem most likely to use exemplary and compelling photojournalism and documentary photography (possibly supplemented by or incorporating multi-media) to address an issue of import and impact related to the human condition: social change, humanitarian concern, armed conflict, or other topics of interpersonal, psychological, cultural, social, environmental, scientific, medical and/or political significance, ideally expressing an underlying acknowledgement of our common humanity.
10/13: Leaders of Color Fellowship. – N/A
For scholars at all stages
The National Leaders of Color Fellowship program (LoCF) is a transformative leadership development experience curated by Creative West in order to establish multicultural leadership in the creative and cultural sector. During this no-cost eight-month fellowship, selected fellows receive access to specialists in the field, strategic learning objectives determined to deepen thought on anti-racist and culturally-oriented leadership practices, and national-level network and cohort building. Upon completion of this program, participants are granted alumni status and have opportunities to collaborate with the USRAO in their region as advisors, funding panelists, and/or other professional capacities.
10/14: Scholarships for students in the field of Fine Arts/Design/Film German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). – Variable Amounts
For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
This program offers you the opportunity to further your education in the field of “Fine Arts, Design, Film” during a longer study stay abroad or to obtain a degree there. Funded is a) a study stay without a degree at a university abroad. b) participation in a postgraduate course (e.g. Master’s) with a degree abroad. A stay can also take place at several host institutions in one country. If you are already in the first year of a 2-year Master’s or postgraduate course abroad at the time of application, you can apply for a scholarship for the second year of study.
10/14: Short-term study stays for graduates in the field of Fine Arts/Design/Film German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). – Variable Amounts
For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
The aim of the program is to support particularly qualified graduates in the field of “Fine Arts, Design, Film” to pursue further artistic training abroad.
10/14: 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.
10/15: Special Fellowships – The Clark Art Institute. – $30,000
For faculty
The Clark Art Institute invites applications for its special fellowships. These enable scholars engaged in the theory, history and interpretation of art and visual culture to spend time in residency at the institute.
10/15: Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program. – $62,000
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 students, and postdoctoral and senior researchers 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.
10/15: Smithsonian Postgraduate/Postdoctoral Fellowships in Conservation of Museum Collections. – $45,000 -$57,000
For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
The Smithsonian Postgraduate/Postdoctoral Fellowship in Conservation of Museum Collections offers opportunities to conduct research and gain further training in the conservation of museum collection objects. This opportunity is open to recent graduates of masters programs in art and archaeological conservation (or the equivalent) and materials scientists (including those at the postdoctoral level). These fellowships are offered through the Smithsonian’s Office of Academic Appointments and Internships. They are administered under the charter of the Institution, 20 U.S. Code section 41 et seq. Fellowship awards under this program are contingent upon the availability of funds.
10/15: Short-term collections-based fellowships – Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM). – $13,500
For scholars at all stages
Short-term fellows are in residence at Yale for a period of one to three months throughout the course of the academic year and summer months to research the aural, material, visual, ritual, and textual features of religious thought and practice. These fellowships are restricted to projects that intend to work in Yale’s non-circulating collections.
10/15: Schallek Fellowship – Medieval Academy of America. – $30,000
For graduate students
The Schallek Fellowship is funded by a gift to the Richard III Society-American Branch, from William B. and Maryloo Spooner Schallek. The fellowship supports an advanced graduate student who is writing a Ph.D. dissertation in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (ca. 1350-1500).
10/15: Art Omi: Writers Art Omi, Inc.. – Variable Amounts
For scholars at all stages
Art Omi: Writers hosts authors and translators from around the world for residencies throughout the spring and fall. The program’s strong international emphasis provides exposure for global literary voices and reflects the spirit of cultural exchange that is essential to Art Omi’s mission. Guests may select a residency of one week to two months; about ten writers at a time gather to live and work in a rural setting overlooking the Catskill Mountains.
10/15: Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies Fellowship. – $25,000+
For postdoctoral scholars
Offers residential postdoctoral fellowships in Hellenic Studies for up to eighteen weeks. Fellows are expected to be in residence and devote full time to their study projects.
10/15: Institute for Advanced Study. – $39,000-$78,000
For faculty
Supports scholarship in all fields of historical research, with emphasis on western, near eastern and Asian civilizations, art history, history of science, and more.
10/15: Clark Art Institute. – Variable Amount
For faculty
Awards fellowships to established and promising scholars in art history and visual culture. Seeks to elevate underrepresented constituencies, subjects, and methods in the discipline.
10/15: 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.
10/16: NIH R21 – Advancement and Innovation in Measurement of Language Development and Predictors. – $275,000 USD
For faculty
The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity is to encourage community-engaged research that broadens the conceptualization of qualities of the environment that can support language development in children and that focuses on the development of novel measures of children’s language development. The overall goal is to build the number of strengths-focused, culturally and linguistically responsive, and generalizable tools to further our understanding of children’s language development and/or impairment, and predictors thereof.
10/18: Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowships. – Variable Amount
For faculty
Invites scholars in humanities and social sciences for a year of research and writing about human values in public and private life. Open to all disciplines, with a designated research theme of Criminal Justice for 2024-25.
10/18: Metropolitan Museum of Art Interdisciplinary Fellowship. – $47,000-$57,000+
For faculty
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.
10/20: Career Enhancement Fellowship Institute for Citizens & Scholars. – $35,000
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
The Career Enhancement Fellows are exceptional scholars whose work broadens the range of perspectives and understandings offered on college campuses and creates opportunities for crucial new scholarly voices to be heard in disciplines and institutions. Fellows are outstanding junior faculty committed to campus diversity and innovative research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Through the program, Fellows build a diverse academic community and system of support as they pursue careers as university faculty and administrators.rong> Anthropology and Archaeology, Demography, Sociology, Geography and Population Studies
10/20: Research Development Fund Worldwide Universities Network. – £10,000
For scholars at all stages
Grants from the RDF are intended to help stimulate larger collaborative projects that will strengthen WUN and have impact, for example through giving rise to influential publications or making the collaborating partners competitive for major grants. The RDF supports research projects directed at problems that lie within the network’s principal research theme of sustainable development, and on which a diverse team of collaborating partners confers distinct advantage.
10/20: Center for Asian American Media Documentary Fund. – $50,000
For scholars at all stages
Provides production funding to independent producers creating films about the Asian American experience for national public television broadcast. Awards typically range from $10,000 to $50,000.
10/22: Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grants Competition. – $35,000-$50,000
For faculty
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.
10/25: UC Essential Needs Research and Evaluation Grant. – $100,000
For faculty
The UC Essential Needs Grant Program funds research related to UC students basic/essential and assessments of UC basic/essential needs programs. Awards for a maximum of $100,000 will be considered, with all research activities completed within 12 months.
10/27: Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art Getty Foundation. – $65,000
For postdoctoral scholars
The Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art support an academic year of research and/or writing by early-career scholars from around the world whose projects stand to make substantial and original contributions to the understanding of art and their histories. The program welcomes scholars from anywhere in the world who bring perspectives and backgrounds that are historically underrepresented in the field of art history.
10/29: Russell Sage Foundation Research Grants – LOI Deadline. – Variable Amounts
For faculty
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.
10/30: Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). – $42,000
For doctoral graduate students
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.
10/30: International Postdoctoral Grant – Danish Council for Independent Research. – 1,500,000 DKK
For postdoctoral scholars
DFF-International Postdoctoral Grant aims to strengthen the international mobility of younger talented researchers, and to develop the competencies of researchers in the beginning of their research career. The intention is to enable the grant recipient to consolidate their individual research profile by independently managing a concrete research project at a research institution outside of Denmark.
10/30: Berry Fund on Public Philosophy – American Philosophical Association (APA). – Variable Amounts
For faculty
The American Philosophical Association invites applications for the Berry fund. This supports the work of the APA committee on public philosophy, whose goal is to find and create opportunities to demonstrate the personal value and social usefulness of philosophy.
10/30: CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars – Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). – $100,000 CAD
For faculty
The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program provides: Interdisciplinary interactions Pursuing the most exciting and important research questions requires scholars who can move beyond their own research areas to take a fresh look at a problem. CIFAR helps early-career researchers think and work outside their silos by facilitating dialogue between diverse disciplines and immersing them in our research programs for a truly enriching experience.
10/30: Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art. – $42,000
For graduate students
Supports graduate students researching the history of art and visual culture of the United States, including Native American art, at any stage of PhD dissertation research or writing.
10/30: Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships. – $42,000+
For graduate students
Supports graduate students in humanities and social sciences showing promise of leading their fields in new directions. Aims to expand range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry for dissertations.
10/30: Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe. – Variable Amount
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
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.
10/31: The Japan Foundation Institutional Project Support Program – LOI Deadline. –
For faculty
This program is designed to encourage innovative and sustained growth of the Japanese Studies field in the United States. Grant coverage may include support for faculty, instructor, or staff salaries, travel expenses, honoraria for lectures, visiting scholar support, graduate and undergraduate support, acquisition of research and teaching materials, conference and seminar expenses, and acquisition of library and digital resources.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
10/31: Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. – $90,000
For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans program honors the contributions of immigrants and children of immigrants to the United States. Each year, we invest in the graduate education of 30 New Americans: immigrants and children of immigrants who are poised to make significant contributions to US society, culture, or their academic field.
10/31: Japan Foundation Institutional Project Support Program. – $25,000-$150,000
For faculty
This program is designed to encourage innovative and sustained growth of the Japanese Studies field in the United States. Grant coverage may include support for faculty, instructor, or staff salaries, travel expenses, honoraria for lectures, visiting scholar support, graduate and undergraduate support, acquisition of research and teaching materials, conference and seminar expenses, and acquisition of library and digital resources.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
9/1: History of Art, Conservation, or Digital Art History Grants Program – Samuel H. Kress Foundation. – Variable Amounts
For faculty
The History of Art Grants program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century. The Conservation Grants program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European works of art from antiquity to the early 19th century. The Digital Art History Grants program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning. Support may also be offered for the digitization of important visual resources (especially essential art history photographic archives) in the area of pre-modern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
9/1: Grant Program Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. – Variable Amounts
For faculty
The Foundation actively supports the advancement of the visual arts through an extensive artist-centered grantmaking program. Our aim is to encourage and facilitate the production of original work that expands and enhances the contemporary art field. Our grants serve the needs of artists by funding the arts organizations and cultural institutions that support them. The grants we provide cover the full spectrum of artistic activity, from grassroots happenings at alternative spaces to contemporary exhibitions at major museums, and every phase of the creative process, from conception and production, to presentation and documentation.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
9/1: Digital Art History Grants Samuel H. Kress Foundation. – Variable Amounts
For faculty
The Digital Art History Grants program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning. Support may also be offered for the digitization of important visual resources (especially essential art history photographic archives) in the area of pre-modern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
9/1: NIAS/Lorentz theme groups – Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS). – $47,500
For faculty
The Lorentz Center invites applications for its NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group. These enable researchers to form a theme group focusing on a research topic that bridges the humanities or social sciences with the natural or technology sciences. Theme groups should consists of three faculty who engage in an intensive interdisciplinary and international collaboration.
9/1: Long-term research grants – Henry Moore Foundation. – £20,000
For faculty
The Henry Moore Foundation invites applications for its long-term research grants. These grants support extended research projects requiring funding for more than one year, e.g. a permanent collection catalogue.
9/1: Furthermore Grants in Publishing – J.M. Kaplan Fund. – $15,000
For faculty
Furthermore grants assist nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture, and design; cultural history, the city, and related public issues; and conservation and preservation. We look for work that appeals to an informed general audience, gives evidence of high standards in editing, design, and production, and promises a reasonable shelf life. Funds apply to such specific publication components as writing, research, editing, indexing, design, illustration, photography, and printing and binding. Book projects to which a university press, nonprofit or trade publisher is already committed and for which there is a feasible distribution plan are usually preferred.
9/5: NEH Humanities Connections. – $50,000-$150,000
For faculty
Humanities Connections projects should plan or implement a curriculum connecting the humanities to one or more non-humanities fields, including but not limited to the physical and natural sciences; pre-service or professional programs, including law and business; or computer science, data science, and other technology-driven fields. Projects must incorporate the approaches and learning activities of both the humanities and the non-humanities disciplines involved.
9/5: Historic Preservation Fund- African American Civil Rights- History Grants. – $15,000-$750,000
For faculty
Funds projects to document, interpret, and preserve sites and stories of African American struggle for equal rights from the transatlantic slave trade forward.
9/11: NEH/NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages. – $60,000
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
DLI-DEL Fellowships support individuals who are junior or senior linguists, linguistic anthropologists, and sociolinguists to conduct research on one or more endangered or moribund languages. DLI-DEL Fellowships prioritize scholarly analysis and publication, including but not limited to lexicons, grammars, databases, peer-reviewed articles, and monographs. Awards also support fieldwork and other activities relevant to digital recording, documenting, and sustainable archiving of endangered languages.
9/11: Small Research Grants on Education – Spencer Foundation. – $50,000
For faculty
The Small Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, for projects ranging from one to five years.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
9/12: Harvard Radcliffe Fellowships. – $83,000
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
Harvard Radcliffe Fellows benefit from a uniquely interdisciplinary and creative community that each year spans the sciences, arts, humanities, and professions. This diversity of approaches and expertise sets our program apart from other fellowship opportunities. With access to Harvard’s unparalleled resources, Harvard Radcliffe Fellows can dive deeply into their projects while engaging with scholars, writers, and practitioners with whom they might not otherwise connect.
9/12: NEH Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities. – $150,000
For faculty
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.
9/12: William T. Grant Foundation – Institutional Challenge Grant. – $650,000
For organizations
The William T. Grant Foundation Institutional Challenge Grant supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. The grant requires that research institutions shift their policies and practices to value collaborative research. Institutions will also need to build the capacity of researchers to produce relevant work and the capacity of agency and nonprofit partners to use research.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
9/15: Phillip Lee Pillips Society Fellowships at The John W. Kluge Center – Library of Congress. – $11,500
For scholars at all stages
The John W. Kluge Center and the Philip Lee Phillips Society at the Library of Congress invite qualified scholars to conduct research at the Kluge Center using the Geography and Map Division’s collections and resources for a period of two months.
9/15: Free Inquiry Grant program – Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). – $50,000
For scholars at all stages
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) seeks research proposals related to freedom of expression and academic freedom. We currently have the capacity to evaluate grant applications related to freedom of expression and academic freedom in the following fields: economics, education, history, law, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology.
9/15: NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DLI-DDRI). – $15,000
For doctoral graduate students
This program supports doctoral research focusing on building dynamic language infrastructure (DLI). Developing language infrastructure includes the documentation and preservation of languages in ways that articulate or advance linguistic theory, as well as the use of digitization techniques and novel computational methods that support and advance the study of language. Special emphasis is given to languages that are endangered, i.e., understudied and at risk of falling out of use. The program supports the development of the next generation of researchers that contribute to language data management and archiving and to the analysis of these archives to advance language infrastructure. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples and databases.
9/15: David B. Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality John W. Kluge Center – Library of Congress (LOC). – $60,000
For postdoctoral scholars
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to apply for a post-doctoral fellowship in the field of health and spirituality. The fellowship is designed to continue Dr. Larson’s legacy of promoting meaningful, scholarly study of health and spirituality, two important and increasingly interrelated fields. It seeks to encourage the pursuit of scholarly excellence in the scientific study of the relation of religiousness and spirituality to physical, mental, and social health. The fellowship provides an opportunity for a period of six to twelve months of concentrated use of the collections of the Library of Congress, through full-time residency in the John W. Kluge Center.
9/15: Grants to Individuals – Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. – $20,000
For faculty
This program provides opportunities to create, develop, and communicate a project about architecture and the designed environment that will contribute to their creative, intellectual, and professional growth at crucial or potentially transformative stages in their careers. The Graham Foundation offers two types of grants to individuals: Production and Presentation Grants and Research and Development Grants.
9/16: NEH/NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages Senior Research Grants. – $450,000
For faculty
The Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) program is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of an estimated half of the 6,000-7,000 currently used languages, this effort aims also to exploit advances in information technology. Awards support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases.
9/16: University of Michigan Society of Fellows. – $63,000
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
The Society of Fellows is an interdisciplinary intellectual community in which the postdoctoral Fellows are joined by Senior Fellows to share their work in progress.
9/16: Senior Fellowship Dedalus Foundation. – $30,000
For faculty
The Dedalus Foundation’s Senior Fellowship program is intended to encourage and support critical and historical studies related to painting, sculpture and allied arts from the twentieth century.
9/17: NEH Dialogues on the Experience of War. – $100,000
For faculty
The Dialogues on the Experience of War program supports the development of humanities-focused discussion programs that enlarge the understanding of the meaning and experiences of military service and war. Through the training of facilitators for and the offering of these discussion programs, Dialogues projects enable veterans and nonveterans to explore together and in depth such topics as civic engagement, veteran identity, legacies of military service, the human costs of war, and homecoming. This engagement in reflective and recursive discussions fosters intellectual community and social connections among the participants in Dialogues projects. Project teams should include humanities scholars, military veterans, and individuals with relevant experience.
9/18: NEH Summer Stipends. – $8,000
For scholars at all stages
The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. Supporting projects at any stage of development, but especially early-stage research and late-stage writing in which small awards are most effective.
9/18: Bruce and Jane Walsh Grant – American Psychological Foundation (APF). – $19,000
For faculty
The Bruce and Jane Walsh Grant in Memory of John Holland supports scientific, scholarly, or applied research and/or educational activities investigating how personality, culture, and environment influence work behavior and health (mental and physical).
9/20: Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Scholars Program. – $80,000
For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
The Academy Scholars Program of The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies identifies and supports outstanding scholars at the start of their academic careers whose work combines excellence in a social science discipline with a command of the language and knowledge or expertise of countries or regions outside of the United States or Canada. Their scholarship should span traditional disciplinary divisions and elucidate comparative, transnational, or domestic issues, past or present.
9/21: Guggenheim Fellowships. – Variable Amounts
For faculty
Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for mid-career individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors.
9/25: ACLS Fellowships. – $30,000-$60,000
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
ACLS welcomes applications from scholars pursuing research on topics grounded in any time period, world region, or humanistic methodology. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant, which can take the form of a monograph, articles, publicly engaged humanities project, digital research project, critical edition, or other scholarly resources. The fellowships support projects at any stage of development – beginning, middle, or end. This program does not fund works of fiction (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation (without significant scholarly interpretation and apparatus), or projects that are primarily pedagogical in focus.
9/25: NEH Archeological and Ethnographic Field Research. – $150,000
For faculty
The Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research program makes awards to institutions and organizations conducting empirical field research to answer significant questions in the humanities. Archaeology and ethnography are important methodologies utilized by many disciplines across the humanities and social sciences that provide observational and experiential data on human history and culture.
9/27: NYPL Cullman Center Fellowship. – $85,000
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers is an international fellowship program open to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building—including academics, independent scholars, and creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets). Visual artists at work on a book project are also welcome to apply. The Center appoints 15 Fellows a year for a nine-month term at the Library, from September through May. In addition to working on their own projects, the Fellows engage in an ongoing exchange of ideas within the Center and in public forums throughout the Library.
9/30: NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine. – $10,000
For scholars at all stages
The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine provides individuals with up to $10,000 each to support research in the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Supported research can take place onsite at the NLM as well as remotely using NLM digital resources.
9/30: The Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. – $78,000+
For faculty
Brings together exceptional early-career scholars in humanities and humanistic social sciences. Offers teaching opportunities, research time, and participation in scholarly events, contributing to the intellectual life of the university.
8/1: Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars. – $15,000-$45,000
For scholars at all stages
The Foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and aligned disciplines that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that addresses urgent, present-day problems of violence‚ what produces it, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it.
8/1: Patsy Takemoto Mink Education Foundation for Low-Income Women and Children – Education Support Awards. – $5,000
For graduate students and undergraduate students
The Foundation will offer five Education Support Awards to assist low-income women with children who are pursuing education or training.
8/6: Princeton Society of Fellows – Fellowship. – Variable Amounts
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
The Princeton Society of Fellows, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences, calls for fellowship applications annually. Each year, the Society of Fellows offers three-year fellowships to three to five early-career scholars to pursue research and teach half-time in their academic host department, the Program in Humanistic Studies, or other university programs. The fellowships also carry with them an appointment as Lecturer in a fellow’s academic host department. Fellows receive a competitive salary and benefits, a $5,000 research account, access to certain university grants, a shared office, a computer and other resources. Fellows are expected to be on campus during the academic year in order to attend weekly seminars and participate fully in the intellectual life of the Society.
8/7: William T. Grant Foundation – Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence (LOI Deadline). – $100,000-$1,000,000
For faculty
Research grants on improving the use of research evidence fund research studies that advance theory and build empirical knowledge on ways to improve the use of research evidence by policymakers, agency leaders, organizational managers, intermediaries, and other decision-makers that shape youth-serving systems in the United States.
8/9: NEH Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions – optional draft deadline. – $565,000
For organizations
The Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI) program supports institutions that provide fellowships for advanced humanities research in the U.S. and abroad, foster communities of intellectual exchange among participating scholars, and provide access to resources that might otherwise not be available to the participating scholars.
8/14: Spencer Vision Grants – Intent to Apply .– $75,000
For faculty
The Vision Grants program funds the collaborative planning of innovative, methodologically diverse, interdisciplinary research on education that contributes to transforming education systems for equity. Vision Grants are research planning grants to bring together a team, for 6 to 12 months, to collaboratively develop ambitious, large-scale research projects focused on transforming educational systems toward greater equity.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
8/14: NEH Media Projects. – $75,000-$700,000
For faculty
The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical. Media Projects offers two levels of funding: Development and Production.
8/14: NEH Public Humanities Projects. – $60,000-$400,000
For faculty
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.
8/15: CITRIS UCSC Interdisciplinary Innovation Program (I2P). – $1,000-$40,000
For faculty
The 2024-25 program will fund innovative, multidisciplinary projects focused in three topic areas: 1) Responsible/Ethical Technology, 2) Educational Technology, and 3) Art and Technology. Proposals should focus on the innovative use of existing technology, the development of new technology, or examinations of the impacts of specific technologies and applications related to this year’s areas of research. Projects should address solutions to significant social challenges in their respective area. The program requires projects to include at least two PIs from different UC Santa Cruz campus divisions.
8/15: National Historical Publications & Records Commission – Archival Projects – Draft Deadline. – Variable Amounts
For organizations
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‚Äôs history, democracy, and culture from the founding era to the present day. The Commission encourages projects focused on collections of America‚Äôs 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.
8/16: NEH Humanities Connections. – Variable Amounts
For faculty
The John Templeton Foundation offers grants in support of research and public engagement in six major Funding Areas: Character Virtue Development; Individual Freedom & Free Markets; Life Sciences; Mathematical & Physical Sciences; Public Engagement; Religiion, Science, & Society. The Templeton Foundation welcomes Online Funding Inquiries (OFI) to support field-leading research and high impact public engagement programs.
8/16: John Templeton Foundation Grants – LOI Deadline. – Variable Amounts
For faculty
The Foundation offers grants in support of research and public engagement in our major Funding Areas. We invest in bold ideas from contrarian thinkers; ideas that cross disciplinary boundaries and challenge conventional assumptions. And we fund innovative programs that engage the public with these ideas, in an effort to open minds, deepen understanding, and inspire curiosity. Funding Areas: Philosophy & Theology; Life Sciences; Public Engagement; Character Virtue Development; Individual Freedom & Free Markets; Human Sciences; Mathematical & Physical Sciences; Culture & Global Perspectives
*Must work with Foundation Relations
8/20: Media Professionals Combating Mis/Disinformation, Promoting Media Literacy Project – United States Department of State (DOS). – $100,000
For faculty
The U.S. Embassy Kampala/ Bureau of African Affairs of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to implement a media literacy and countering mis- and dis-information targeting senior radio/investigative journalists. The project will have two elements: (1) Training of senior members of broadcast media (presenters, reporters, investigative journalists, and producers) on how to detect and counter misinformation and disinformation. (2) Research and analysis of information manipulation and propaganda across Uganda’s media landscape.
8/21: Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts College – Gettysburg College – Dissertation Fellowships. – Variable Amounts
For graduate students
The dissertation fellowship is intended for scholars who have completed all requirements for the terminal degree (PhD; MFA; JD; EdD; MBA; MD) except the dissertation. This fellowship is intended for scholars in the final stage of their dissertation and aims, above all, to help the fellow complete the final requirements for the degree during the year of residency. Dissertation fellows will receive compensation equivalent to the compensation of a starting one-year instructor at the host institution. Modest funds could be made available to finance proposed research and scholarship. Mentoring of teaching will be provided. Modest funds, if available, allocated for these activities will be subject to the usual institutional procedures. Dissertation fellows will be expected to teach the equivalent of one semester-long course during the academic year, participate in functions such as departmental seminars, and interact regularly with students.
8/21: Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts College – Gettysburg College – Postdoctoral Fellowships. – Variable Amounts
For postdoctoral scholars
The postdoctoral fellowship is intended for scholars who have been awarded the terminal degree (PhD; MFA; JD; EdD; MBA; MD) no later than the beginning of the fellowship year and no earlier than five years before the beginning of the fellowship year. Postdoctoral fellows will receive compensation commensurate with the salary of a full-time, one-year faculty member with comparable qualifications. Modest funds could be made available to finance proposed research, mentoring of teaching, and scholarship. The funds allocated for these activities will be subject to the usual institutional procedures. Postdoctoral fellowship recipients will be expected to teach up to 60% of a full-time faculty’s course load at a host institution, participate in departmental seminars, and interact regularly with students.
8/28: 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. Writers with or without an academic affiliation may apply, and no advanced degree is required.
8/29: Interfaith Leadership & Religious Literacy – Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. – $300,000
For faculty
The Interfaith Leadership and Religious Literacy Program Area seeks to support organizations that promote religious literacy and create opportunities for courageous multi-faith conversations and collaborations. As one of the most religiously diverse nations in human history, the United States faces the challenge of nurturing an increasingly religiously pluralistic society while also moderating religious tension. Achieving these twin goals requires Americans to embrace a deeper understanding and appreciation for religious traditions other than their own, and to cultivate opportunities for collaborations and friendships across religious divides. While the Foundations are open to any funding request aimed at advancing the goals outlined above, proposals are especially encouraged concerning the Areas of Focus described here: Religious Literacy through Digital Media; collaborations between Campus Student Groups; Religious Literacy through Religious Publications
*Must work with Foundation Relations
8/30: DAAD Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience. – Variable Amounts
For postdoctoral scholars
DAAD’s PRIME (Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience) supports international mobility in the postdoctoral phase through fixed-term positions at German universities. This includes a 12-month posting abroad and a six-month integration phase at a German university. Fellows gain an important qualification step with their independent research project and the stay abroad for their career in academia. The programme is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
8/30: Alianza MX – Latino Studies Projects. – $150,000
For faculty
Latino Studies Projects focus on U.S. Latino communities’ relationship(s) to Mexico and broader American society, including through creative projects and performances that are recognized as scholarship in the arts and literature.
8/30: Environmental Justice Data Fund. – $500,000
For faculty
The Environmental Justice Data Fund aims to help frontline communities historically underserved and disproportionately impacted by climate change and environmental injustice in the United States use data to address environmental hazards, with special attention to air and water quality. The Fund will support eligible organizations to unlock resources, increase their access to federal infrastructure funding, and advocate for new policies that empower communities to address past environmental harm and pave the way to a more sustainable, climate-resilient future.
8/31: H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). – $60,000
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
The Society of Architectural Historians prestigious H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship will allow a recent graduate or emerging scholar to study by travel for a continuous period of three, six or twelve months. The fellowship is not for the purpose of doing research for an advanced academic degree or publication. Instead, Professor Brooks intended the recipient to study by travel and contemplation while observing, reading, writing, photographing, or sketching. The goal of the fellowship is to provide an opportunity for a recent graduate with an advanced degree or an emerging scholar to: see and experience architecture and landscapes firsthand, think about their profession deeply, acquire knowledge useful for the recipient’s future work, contribution to their profession, and contribution to society.
8/31: International Parliamentary Scholarship. – Variable Amounts
For graduate students
The IPS program allows participants to gain first-hand knowledge of Germany’s parliamentary system and political decision-making process during a 3-month work placement with a Member of the German Parliament. Participants also take part in a rich educational program with the German political foundations and have the chance to enroll in university classes, spending a total of five months in the German capital (March 1 through July 31, 2025).
8/31: Takahashi Foundation Grants. – $25,000
For faculty
The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation supports projects and programs that promote Japanese American culture and history as well as Japanese culture, history, and the arts.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
7/1: Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Study. – Variable Amounts
For faculty
The prize is awarded each year to an author of an outstanding manuscript dealing with any aspect of the languages and literatures of Italy, including medieval Latin and comparative studies or intellectual history if the work’s main thrust is clearly related to the humanities.
7/1: Istanbul Research Institute – Research and Write-Up Grant for PhD Candidates, Travel Grants, and Conference Grants. – Variable Amounts
For graduate students
Istanbul Research Institute offers a variety of scholarship programs to researchers working on projects related to its departments of Byzantine, Ottoman, Atatürk and Republican-Era studies, and its “Istanbul and Music” Research Program.
7/5: Abraham Lincholn Brigade Archives – George Watt Prize. – Up to $1000
For graduate students
Students from anywhere in the world are invited to submit an essay or thesis chapter about any aspect of the Spanish Civil War, the global political or cultural struggles against fascism in 1920s and 1930s, or the lifetime histories and contributions of the international volunteers who fought in support of the Spanish Republic from 1936 to 1938.
7/7: University of Art and Design Linz International Research Center for Cultural Studies ‚: IFK Senior Fellowships. – ~$10,000
For faculty
For outstanding researchers who are advanced in their academic careers, and want to pursue their own research at the IFK while fostering intellectual cooperation with the IFK Fellows and other Austrian colleagues.
7/8: Fulbright Student Academic Exchange Program. – Variable Amounts
For graduate students
For over 75 years, the Fulbright Student Program has offered awards for college and university graduates to engage in degree study, to teach, and to conduct research abroad and in the United States.
7/10: Limited Submission: NEH Fellowships Open Book Program. – $72,900
For faculty
The Fellowships Open Book Program is a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books digitally available to a wide audience. Only open to faculty who have been funded by an NEH fellowship or award program in the last 7 years.
7/11: Limited Submission: NEA Grants for Arts Projects. – $10,000-$100,000
For organizations
Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides expansive funding opportunities to strengthen the nation’s arts and cultural ecosystem. Grants are available for arts projects in a wide variety of artistic disciplines.
7/15: California Humanities for All Project Grants – LOI Deadline. – $10,000-$25,000
For faculty
Humanities for All Project Grants support locally-initiated public humanities programming in communities across our state. Projects developed by grantees respond to the needs and interests of Californians, encourage public engagement with humanities programming, particularly among new and/or underserved audiences, and promote understanding and empathy that are essential to a thriving democracy.
7/15: The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize. – $1,000
For graduate students
The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize seeks to discover talented writers on contemporary art. The winner of the Prize receives £1,000, their review is published on Burlington Contemporary and they have the opportunity to publish a review of a future contemporary art exhibition in The Burlington Magazine.
7/15: Western Digital Community Grants in Environment, Hunger Relief, and STEM Education – LOI Deadline. – $7,500-$20,000
For faculty
Western Digital partners with nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) around the world to support programs in STEM education, hunger relief, and the environment. Through a competitive grant process, WD funds organizations aligned with their philanthropic focus areas serving the communities in which they operate.
7/16: NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources. – $50,000-$350,000
For faculty
HCRR advances scholarship, education, and public engagement in the humanities by helping libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country steward important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. The program strengthens efforts to make the content of such materials accessible through digitization and description. Awards also support the creation of reference resources that facilitate the use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation.
7/16: American Society for Theatre Research – Collaborative Research. – $1,750
For faculty
The award facilitates reciprocal visits by faculty between two U.S. institutions, or the hosting of a faculty member from abroad at a U.S. institution (or vice versa). All faculty named in the application should be involved in the application’s development.
6/1: Monterey Peninsula Foundation – Fall 2023 Grants (internal deadline). – $1,000 – $500,000
For faculty
Awards grants to nonprofit organizations in Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito counties that benefit the community in the focus areas of arts & culture, community & environment, education, health & human services, and youth.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
6/1: COR Faculty Allowance. – $2,000
For faculty
The Academic Senate Committee on Research provides $2,000 in research funds to faculty who apply for their annual allowance.
6/1: Artadia Awards – San Francisco Bay Area. – $15,000
For faculty
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.
6/1: Hosei International Fund Foreign Scholars Fellowship. – $18,000
For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
Invitations are extended to junior scholars who are, at the least, enrolled in a doctoral degree program to apply to the HIF Fellowship Program to carry out non-degree research programs at Hosei University under the direction of and/or in cooperation with Hosei faculty and researchers.
6/1: Monterey Peninsula Foundation – Proposal Deadline. – $60,000
For faculty
Monterey Peninsula Foundation places a priority on applications that offer creative responses to the community‚’s most pressing, unmet needs and show promise of building ongoing local support for needed services. Monterey Peninsula Foundation is interested in projects that serve youth and K-12 education. The Foundation is interested in supporting projects that might not be possible without their grant support.
6/3: Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program. – Variable Amounts
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
Through the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) Program, U.S. colleges and universities collaborate with scholars from other countries to assist in internationalizing U.S. campuses, curricula, and communities. Fulbright S-I-Rs teach courses or guest lecture on topics in their areas of expertise and provide a cross-cultural or international perspective to promote curricula and program development. Their activities enhance the institution’s international/global studies programs, assist in the development of interdisciplinary program offerings, and broaden international cooperation. In addition, Fulbright S-I-Rs are expected to engage in various activities across campus and in the local community.
6/3: THI Research Clusters 2024-2025. – $5,000
For faculty
THI Research Clusters are experimental initiatives that can serve as incubators for larger projects in the future. Our institute offers faculty and graduate students seed funding, for up to three years, to explore innovative ideas and collaborations that can grow into self-sustaining programs. In particular, our clusters encourage scholars to engage in interdisciplinary research that breaks down silos and creates dynamic connections across disciplines.
6/5: Arts Abroad – Translation Grant. – $20,000
For organizations
The Translation component of Arts Abroad funds the translation of Canadian literary works or dramatic works for international presentation or publication.
6/7: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan (Short-Term). – $35,400
For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) awards 30 postdoctoral fellowships for up to a year to US scholars who will research in Japan institutions.
6/10: Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Visual Arts & Curatorial Work. – $50,000
For scholars at all stages
The Vilcek Foundation will award three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant visual artists and three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant curators who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in their field.
6/12: NEH – Digital Projects for the Public. – $30,000-$400,000
For faculty
The Digital Projects for the Public program supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments.
6/12: NEH Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations. – $25,000
For faculty
Public Impact Projects grants seek to assist you in meeting your community’s needs by expanding the scope, reach, and excellence of your public programs. These awards support a variety of activities that focus on enriching interpretive strategies, strengthening interpretive skill sets or enhancing community engagement with public-facing programs. This program aims to meet small and mid-sized organizations where you are by supporting projects that are appropriate in scope and content to each organization’s resources and community needs.
6/12: NEH Digital Projects for the Public. – $30,000-$400,000
For faculty
The Digital Projects for the Public program supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments.
6/13: Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies – Proposal Deadline. – $150,000
For faculty
The grant competition aims to develop effective strategies for long-term change in China studies through collaborative working groups that will research and pilot solutions to challenges and opportunities in the field.
6/13: Istanbul Research Institute – Research and Write-Up Grant for PhD Candidates, Travel Grants, and Conference Grants. – $75,000-$350,000
For faculty
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.
6/15: University of Bergen — Holberg Prize (nominations due). Р$650,000
For faculty
The Holberg Prize was established by the Norwegian Parliament in 2003 and is awarded annually to a scholar who has made outstanding contributions to research in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology. The Prize may be awarded both for work within a particular academic discipline and for work of a cross-disciplinary nature. The recipient must have had a decisive influence on international research.
6/17: DAAD – German Academic Exchange Students Fellowship for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars. – Variable Amounts
For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
This program supports research stays abroad during a doctorate. The stays abroad can last between one and twelve months. The funding period can be divided in time and can also take place in different countries.
6/18: Spencer Foundation Large Research Grants – Proposal Deadline. – $125,000-$500,000
For faculty
The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
6/26: NEH Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions – optional draft deadline. – $565,000
For organizations
The Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI) program supports institutions that provide fellowships for advanced humanities research in the U.S. and abroad, foster communities of intellectual exchange among participating scholars, and provide access to resources that might otherwise not be available to the participating scholars.
6/27: Spencer Foundation Racial Equity Grants – Proposal Deadline. – $75,000
For faculty
The Racial Equity Research Grants program supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. We are interested in funding studies that aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of inequality in education, and which seek to (re)imagine and make new forms of equitable education.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
6/28: United-States Japan Foundation – LOI Deadline. – Variable Amounts
For faculty
The United States-Japan Foundation is committed to promoting stronger ties between Americans and Japanese by supporting projects that foster mutual knowledge and education, deepen understanding, create effective channels of communication, and address common concerns in an increasingly interdependent world.
*Must work with Foundation Relation
5/1: Wenner-Gren Foundation – Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. – $25,000
For doctoral 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.
5/1: Wenner-Gren Foundation – Post-PhD Research Grant. – $25,000
For postdoctoral scholars
funds individual research projects undertaken by doctorates in anthropology or a closely related field.
5/1: UCSC Library – Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) Fellowship. – $25,000
For graduate students
Fellows in the Center for Archival Research and Training are immersed in the work of the Special Collections & Archives department of the UCSC University Library, usually in service of making archival collections accessible to the public through arrangement, description, and the creation of collection guides
5/1: William T. Grant Foundation – Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence (LOI Deadline). – $100,000 to $1,000,000
For organizations
This program supports research on strategies focused on improving the use, usefulness, and impact of evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States.
5/1: William T. Grant Foundation – Research Grants on Reducing Inequality (LOI Deadline). – $100,000 – $600,000
For organizations
This program funds research studies that aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States, along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.
5/1: Cintas Foundation Fellowships. – $25,000
For scholars at all stages
Funding for creative writers of Cuban citizenship or direct lineage (having a Cuban parent or grandparent)
5/1: Foundation for Community Association Research – Byron Hanke Fellowship. – $3,000-$5,000
For graduate students
Funds graduate student research projects related to the development, management and governance of common interest communities and their community associations.
5/5: California Arts Council – Individual Artists Fellowship Program, Central California Region. – $5,000-$50,000
For scholars at all stages
The program is designed to recognize, uplift, and celebrate the excellence of California artists practicing any art form.
5/6: American Folklore Society – Leonard Norman Primiano Graduate Student Travel Award. – $500 – $1500
For graduate students
5/7: NEH – Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities. – $150,000
For organizations
Fubnding for Humanities Initiatives that can help strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at colleges and universities by supporting the development of new or enhancement of existing programs, educational resources, or courses that explore, interpret, and preserve the diversity of human cultures, ideas, and practices, past and present.
5/7: NEH – Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. – $150,000
For organizations
Humanities Initiatives funding intended to strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at Hispanic-Serving Institutions by supporting the development of new or enhancement of existing programs, educational resources, or courses that explore, interpret, and preserve the diversity of human cultures, ideas, and practices, past and present.
5/8: National Historical Publications and Records Commission – Archives Collaboratives. – $25,000
For Nonprofit organizations or institutions; Colleges, universities, and other academic institutions; State or local government agencies; Federally-acknowledged or state-recognized Native American tribes or groups
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks Archives Collaboratives of three or more repositories working together to make their collections more readily available for public discovery and use.
5/8: National Historical Publications and Records Commission – Major Collaborative Archival Initiatives. – $150,000 – $350,000
For Nonprofit organizations or institutions; Colleges, universities, and other academic institutions; State or local government agencies; Federally-acknowledged or state-recognized Native American tribes or groups
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks projects that will significantly improve public discovery and use of major historical records collections.
5/8: National Historical Publications and Records Commission – Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions. – Up to $125,000 per year
For Nonprofit organizations or institutions; Colleges, universities, and other academic institutions; State or local government agencies; Federally-acknowledged or state-recognized Native American tribes or groups
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals to publish online editions of historical records. Projects that center the voices and document the history of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color are especially welcome.
5/13: Berkeley Film Foundation General Grant. – $2,500 – $15,000
For scholars at all stages
The Berkeley FILM Foundation supports East-Bay based emerging and established independent filmmakers whose work combines intellectual clarity with creative use of the medium. Applicants must live or work in the cities of Emeryville, Berkeley, Albany, El Cerrito, Richmond, or Oakland.
5/13: The Strathmartine Trust – The Sandeman Awards. – £2,000
For scholars at all stages
For research in the field of early medieval Scottish history, either on documentary sources which relate to the history of Scotland before 1100 AD, or in cognate fields of historical research such as place-names and art and archaeology of the peoples of early Scotland (including Scots, Britons, Picts and Vikings).
5/13: The Strathmartine Trust – The Strathmartine Grants. – £5,000
For scholars at all stages
Grants awarded with the primary object of supporting research and education in Scottish History. The Trustees seek applications for grants to assist with the completion of existing projects and to aid publication.
5/13: The Strathmartine Trust – The Marinell Ash Fund Award. – £500
For scholars at all stages
For travel and study grants to a person studying any aspect of Scottish or a combination of Scottish and North American history, either as a postgraduate student at any University or College (whether in Scotland or elsewhere), or as an independent scholar.
5/14: Norman G. Pauling Research Fellowship for Early Career Scholars. – $20,000
For faculty
Projects should explore one or more of the following: 1) Connections between the liberal arts and sciences and a vibrant democracy; 2) Illustrations of how the liberal arts and sciences contribute to the public good; 3) Importance of integrating multiple perspectives to addressing intractable challenges; 4) Examination of the Society’s impact and its roles in U.S. history and culture
For faculty
Annual award for service and mentorship.
5/15: College of Charleston – Hines Prize. – $1,000
For graduate students and faculty
The Hines Prize is awarded to the best first book manuscript relating to any aspect of the Carolina Lowcountry and/or the Atlantic World.
5/15: The Coordinating Council for Women in History – CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship . – $1,000
For graduate students
To a graduate student completing a dissertation in a history department.
5/15: The Coordinating Council for Women in History – Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship . – $1,000
For graduate students
To a graduate student working on a historical dissertation that interrogates race and gender, not necessarily in a history department.
5/15: The Coordinating Council for Women in History – Carol Gold Article Award . – $1,000
For graduate students and faculty
To the best article published in a peer-reviewed journal in the year prior to the award year.
5/15: The Coordinating Council for Women in History – Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize . – $1,000
For graduate students and faculty
For the first article published in a referred journal by a CCWH member.
5/15: The Coordinating Council for Women in History – Catherine Prelinger Award . – $20,000
For scholars at all stages
To a scholar whose career has not followed a traditional path through secondary and higher education and whose work has contributed to women in the historical profession.
5/16: UC-Multicampus Research Projects and Initiatives – LOI. – $150,000
For faculty
MRPI funding supports innovative multicampus research collaborations that strengthen UC’s position as a leading public research university.
5/21: NEH – Cultural and Community Resilience Grant. – $150,000
For faculty
Supports community-based efforts to mitigate climate change and COVID-19 pandemic impacts, safeguard cultural resources, and foster cultural resilience through identifying, documenting, and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experience.
5/21: NEH – Preservation and Access Education and Training Grant. – $350,000
For faculty
Supports projects that develop and implement educational programs for professionals who preserve and provide access to humanities collections. Such materials include but are not limited to paper-based, photographic, archaeological, ethnographic, artistic, audiovisual, digitized, and born-digital collections.
5/21: NEH – Research and Development Grant. – $100,000-$350,000
For faculty
Supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage-from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence-and to develop advanced modes of organizing, searching, discovering, and using such materials.
5/22: Spencer Foundation Large Research Grants – Intent to Apply. – $125,000-$500,000
For faculty
The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years.
5/29: Gerda Henkel Stiftung —Funding Programme Democracy. – Variable Amounts
For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
The Gerda Henkel Foundation has established a new funding initiative for democracy, which is divided into two subsections with different perspectives: Democracy as a Utopia: Experience and Threats and Transformations of Democracy? Or: The Countours of a Future Democratic Society
5/29: Spencer Foundation Racial Equity Grants – Intent to Apply. – $75,000
For faculty
The Racial Equity Research Grants program supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. We are interested in funding studies that aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of inequality in education, and which seek to (re)imagine and make new forms of equitable education.
5/30: GrubStreet – Teaching Fellowship for Black Writers. – $25,000
For scholars at all stages
Provides financial and professional development support to two self-identified Black writers interested in teaching classes, participating in events, and working with our instructors and staff to deepen our curriculum.
5/31: The Dana Foundation – Pilot Projects in Neuroscience & Society. – $150,000
For faculty
The Dana Foundation is a nonprofit organization that advances its mission through grantmaking and field building. We’re ambitious in our goals and steadfast in our vision: to use brain science to build a better future. Through our work, we strive to foster collaboration between students, Neuroscience & Society scholars, funders, policymakers, professionals, and communities in pursuit of advancing knowledge and co-creating neuroscience-informed solutions to complex societal problems.
4/1: Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop. – (scholarships available)
For scholars at all stages
The LARB Publishing Workshop accepts fellows who expect to complete their undergraduate degree by July, current graduate students, and professionals of all ages who are interested in transitioning to a career in publishing or starting their own press, magazine, or literary organization.
4/1: Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum – Lindsay Jones Memorial Research Fund. – $2,000 – $5,000
For scholars at all stages
for research on the meaning and significance of the built environment
4/1: International Center for Jefferson Studies-Short-term Fellowships for the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery. – $2,500 per month
For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
For work focused on issues of slavery in the greater Chesapeake region and whose work would benefit from the use of the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
4/3: Spencer Foundation Small Research Grants. – $50,000
For faculty
The Small Research Grants on Education 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. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.
4/4: Creative Capital – Wild Futures Visual Arts / Film Open Call. – $50,000
For faculty
Creative Capital is committed to groundbreaking ideas that challenge what art can be. As Creative Capital Awardees have demonstrated, socially impactful ideas are embedded in a myriad of artistic forms and practices. We invite artists to propose experimental, original, bold projects in the visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms which push boundaries formally and/or thematically.
4/4: Creative Capital – Wild Futures Visual Arts / Film Open Call. – $50,000
For faculty
Creative Capital is committed to groundbreaking ideas that challenge what art can be. As Creative Capital Awardees have demonstrated, socially impactful ideas are embedded in a myriad of artistic forms and practices. We invite artists to propose experimental, original, bold projects in the visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms which push boundaries formally and/or thematically.
4/5: UCSC – STARS Re-entry Scholarship. – $2,000
For graduate students and undergraduate students
Services for Transfer and Re-entry Students (STARS) is sponsoring a scholarship for eligible matriculated re-entry students.
4/5: UC Essential Needs Research Grant. – $100,000
For faculty
This research initiative seeks to identify and advance promising practices to meet all students’ basic needs. CEJA’s UC Essential Needs Grant Program funds research that advances our understanding of UC students’ basic or essential needs and identifies effective strategies and programs for addressing them.
4/10: National Endowment for the Humanities – Awards for Faculty at HSIs. – $60,000
For faculty
Awards support individuals pursuing scholarly research that is of value to humanities scholars, students, and/or general audiences. The program welcomes proposals in all areas of the humanities, regardless of geographic or chronological focus.
4/10: National Endowment for the Humanities – Fellowships. – $60,000
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development.
4/10: American Psychological Association-Paul E. Henkin School Psychology Travel Grant. – $1,500
For graduate students and undergraduate students
To defer the costs of registration, lodging and travel for student members of APA Division 16 to attend the APA Annual Convention.
4/10: DOJ/NIJ-NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship. – Variable Amounts
For doctoral graduate students
For doctoral dissertation research that is relevant to preventing and controlling crime, advancing knowledge of victimization and effective victim services, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal or juvenile justice in the United States
4/12: DRL/DOS-DRL Fostering Civil Society’s Oversight Role in Morocco. – Variable Amounts
For organizations
for projects that expand civil society’s role in oversight and accountability around Morocco’s commitments to improve respect for freedom of expression and the protection of journalists
4/15: THI Summer Public Fellows Program. – $6,000
For graduate students
THI Public Fellows contribute to research, programming, communications, and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and gain valuable experience applying their skills and expertise outside of academia.
4/15: The Hammett Fellowship. – $10,000
For graduate students
The Environmental Studies Department at UCSC is pleased to offer a fellowship for students who conduct interdisciplinary research on climate change or on climate change and water issues.
4/16: New York Foundation for the Arts: Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants. – Up to $20,000
For scholars at all stages
The AWAW EAG will support environmental art projects that inspire thought, action, and ethical engagement. Projects should not only point at problems, but aim to engage an environmental issue at some scale. Proposals should illustrate thorough consideration of a project’s ecological and social ethics. Projects that explore interdependence, relationships, and systems through Indigenous and ancestral practices are encouraged to apply.
4/16: Russell Sage Foundation – Research Grants (letters of inquiry). – Variable Amounts
For faculty
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; Promoting Educational Attainment and Economic Mobility among Racially, Ethnically, and Economically Diverse Groups after the 2023 Supreme Court Decision to Ban Race-Conscious Admissions at Colleges and Universities; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. It will also accept LOIs relevant to its core programs that address the effects of social movements
4/17: Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies – LOI Deadline. – $150,000
For faculty
The grant competition aims to develop effective strategies for long-term change in China studies through collaborative working groups that will research and pilot solutions to challenges and opportunities in the field.
4/17: National Endowment for the Humanities – Fellowships for Digital Publication. – $60,000
For faculty and postdoctoral scholars
Fellowships for Digital Publication are competitive awards granted to individual scholars to support interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. the project must be conceived as digital because the research topics being addressed and methods applied demand presentation beyond traditional print or audio-video publication.
4/18: MIT Solve – Global Challenges Program and Fellowships. – Variable Amounts
For scholars at all stages
Solve’s Global Challenges seek exceptional innovators who are using technology to solve today’s most pressing problems.
4/22: Monterey Peninsula Foundation – Limited Submission Internal Deadline. – $60,000
For faculty
Monterey Peninsula Foundation places a priority on applications that offer creative responses to the community’s most pressing, unmet needs and show promise of building ongoing local support for needed services. Monterey Peninsula Foundation is interested in projects that serve youth and K-12 education. The Foundation is interested in supporting projects that might not be possible without their grant support.
4/24: National Endowment for the Humanities – Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan. – $60,000
For faculty
Awards support research and writing on modern Japanese society and political economy, Japan’s international relations, and U.S.-Japan relations. The program encourages innovative research that puts these subjects in wider regional and global contexts, is comparative and contemporary in nature, and contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the general public’s understanding.
4/30: American Philosophical Association – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize. – $1,000
For faculty
This prize, funded by the Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, was established in 2013 to recognize the scholarly work of adjunct professors. The prize is awarded for the two best published articles in philosophy written by adjunct professors.
4/30: Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara | Guadalajara International Book Fair – Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Award. – $10,000
For scholars at all stages
Podrán participar escritoras de cualquier nacionalidad, con una novela publicada originalmente en español, cuya primera edición haya sido impresa entre enero de 2023 y abril de 2024, con una extensión mínima de 120 páginas, y un tiraje mínimo comprobable de mil ejemplares.
3/1: Massachusetts Historical Society-Short-term Research Fellowships. – $3,000
For scholars at all stages
Provides a stipend for four weeks of research at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
3/1: Mississippi Department of Archives & History – Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Fellowship. – $5,000
For graduate students and faculty
This annual fellowship awards one graduate student or a faculty member within the first five years of their academic career to conduct research using the Evers Papers and other archival collections at MDAH for two weeks during the summer.
3/1: Louisville Institute-Doctoral Fellowship. – $6,000
For doctoral graduate students
For scholars studying Christian faith and life, the practice of ministry, religious trends and movements, Christian and other faith-based institutions, and religion and social issues. Fellows receive $3,000 each year for two years, and join with a peer cohort of other fellows for three formational gatherings each year as part of the Vocation of the Theological Educator Initiative (VTE).
3/1: Nanovic Institute for European Studies – Laura Shannon Prize. – $10,000
For faculty
One of the preeminent prizes in European studies, the Laura Shannon Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best book in European studies that transcends a focus on any one country, state, or people to stimulate new ways of thinking about contemporary Europe as a whole.
3/1: Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies-Dissertation Grants for Graduate Students. – Up to $4,000
For doctoral graduate students
Provides support doctoral dissertation research and write-up in any field of Baltic Studies. Funds may be used for travel to research site, equipment, duplication or other needs as specified.
3/1: Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement-Comparative Research Grants. – Up to €20,000
For faculty
For supporting studies that compare the regulatory, policy, and product choices surrounding pensions, aging, and retirement made in different countries.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
3/1: The Paideia Rome Fellowships. – Variable Amounts
For graduate students
Awarded to outstanding recent graduates and graduate students in Classics or related fields. Fellows are given the opportunity to live in Rome for a year in order to deepen their knowledge of the city and its culture, learn the Italian language, and gain teaching experience in Paideia’s programs.
3/1: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-Evidence for Action: Indigenous-Led Solutions to Advance Health Equity and Wellbeing. – Variable Amounts
For organizations
The purpose of this call for proposals (CFP) is to support Indigenous-led systematic inquiry to enhance the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Peoples and generate approaches to improve health equity. Preference will be given to applicant organizations that are Tribal entities (including those that are state-recognized, federally recognized, or have no formal recognition status) or Indigenous-Serving Organizations, including Urban Indian Organizations. Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories.
*Must work with Foundation Relations
3/1: Environmental Research & Education Foundation-EREF’s Scholarship Program. –
For graduate students
Scholarships are awarded by EREF to recognize excellence in master’s and doctoral waste management research and education. Scholarships provide a monthly stipend from the time of the award until the student graduates.
3/1: Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation-Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation Grant. –
For organizations
For work that will have a tangible impact on the field of mental health with a focus on Education, Criminal Justice, Reintegration, Clinical Research, or Social Support
*Must work with Foundation Relations
For organizations
for projects about the persecution of Jews by the Nazis and/or their collaborators, or its consequences
3/4: COR Large Grants Program. – $12,000
For faculty
Awards are intended to support faculty research and scholarly activities, broadly defined.
3/4: Kosciuszko Foundation Tuition Scholarships for Students of Polish Descent. – Up to $7,000
For graduate students and undergraduate students
Kosciuszko Foundation Tuition Scholarships support American students of Polish descent for undergraduate and graduate level studies at colleges and universities in the United States.
3/4: American Political Science Association (APSA) Diversity Fellowship Program. – Variable Amounts
For graduate students
Funding for individuals from underrepresented backgrounds applying to or in the early stages of doctoral programs in political science.
3/7: Spencer Foundation Vision Grants. – Up to $75,000
For faculty
The Spencer Vision Grants program funds the collaborative planning of innovative, methodologically diverse, interdisciplinary research on education that contributes to transforming education systems for equity. Vision Grants are research planning grants to bring together a team, for 6 to 12 months, to collaboratively develop ambitious, large-scale research projects focused on transforming educational systems toward greater equity. This program takes as core that visionary, interdisciplinary, and collaborative research projects require time, space, and thoughtfulness to incubate and plan.
3/11: University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment – Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. – Up to $68,500
For postdoctoral scholars
Fellowships for interdisciplinary, community-engaged scholars who thrive both as team leaders and collaborators. The Fellows are visionary leaders who conduct solutions-oriented research to support equitable and just sustainability transition decisions.
3/13: NEH Fellowships Open Book Program. – $66,000
For faculty
The Fellowships Open Book Program is a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books digitally available to a wide audience. This program is open to publishers who have published within the last seven years (or will publish during the period of performance) a book supported by another NEH program.
3/13: ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Competition. – $142,000 (for two years)
For postdoctoral scholars
The ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship program aims to demonstrate the potential of humanistic knowledge and methods to solve problems, build capacity, and advance social justice and equity. The fellowships support recent PhDs in the humanities and interpretive social sciences as they work with social justice organizations across the country.
3/15: Society for the History of Technology – Sally Hacker Prize. – $2,000
For faculty
Honor exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond the academy toward a broad audience. Any book published in the three years preceding the year of the award is eligible.
3/15: Virginina Military Institute: John A. Adams ’71 Center for Military History & Strategic Analysis Dissertation Grant. – $5,000
For graduate students
Awards a graduate student in history or related field working on a dissertation in the area of Cold War history. The award promotes innovative scholarship on Cold War topics. The Adams Center invites proposals in all subject areas-including international security affairs, military history, and strategic analysis. All periods of Cold War history are welcome.
3/15: Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships. – $30,000
For graduate students
The Foundation for Philosophical Orientation (FPO) primarily supports innovative dissertations in the wider field of philosophical scholarship, but also outstanding projects in any academic field (in the humanities, the social sciences, as well as the natural sciences, including biology, psychology, sociology, or astrophysics) if they make significant contributions to the philosophy of orientation. Projects may involve, but are not limited to, philosophical reorientations in history and today; the structures of human orientation in space and time; memory studies and brain research; the economic, political, communicative, religious, or ethical dimensions of decision-making; global reorientations connected with the Anthropocene and the digital transformations of the world.
For graduate students
Funding designed to meet some of the scholarly expenses of a student whose dissertation employs mathematics in an interesting, imaginative, or ingenious way to advance sociological knowledge. Nominators and nominees must be members of the Mathematical Sociology Section.
3/17: Japanese American National Museum – Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship. – $5,000
For scholars at all stages
the Democracy Center will award two emerging writers of color who write critically about theater, dance, and/or performance art
3/18: THI Summer Pathways Fellowship. – $5,000
For doctoral graduate students
Provides first and second year humanities students with financial support to conduct preliminary research, including that leading towards their qualifying exams and/or eventual dissertation proposals.
3/18: THI Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellowship. – $6,000
For doctoral graduate students
Funded by the Hayden V. White Endowment in Historical and Cultural Theory, this fellowship provides financial support for the research and writing of a dissertation on a topic that honors the memory and intellectual legacy of Hayden White, longtime Distinguished Professor of the History of Consciousness.
3/18: THI Summer Dissertation Fellowship. – $6,000
For doctoral graduate students
Summer Dissertation Fellowships provide students financial support to help complete their dissertation research and writing.
3/18: HHS/ACL-Field Initiated Projects Program: Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) – Development. – $195,000-$200,000
For Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) and federally recognized Native American tribal governments
Funding to generate new knowledge through research or to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies -to maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family/caregiver support, and economic and self-sufficiency of people with disabilities, especially people with the greatest support needs. Another purpose of this grant opportunity is to improve the capacity of minority serving institutions (MSI) to conduct high-quality disability and rehabilitation research and development.
3/18: THI Summer Research Fellowship. – $500-$2,500
For graduate students
Summer research fellowships can be used for research and research-related travel during Summer 2023.
3/18: ED-Fullbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program. – Variable Amounts
For Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), State education agencies (SEAs), private nonprofit educational organizations, and consortia of these entities
Funding support designed to generate new knowledge through research or to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies to maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family/caregiver support, and economic and self-sufficiency of people with disabilities, especially people with the greatest support needs.
3/20: Santa Cruz County Arts Council: Grants. – Variable Amounts
For
The Santa Cruz Arts Council funds arts projects, professional development, arts education, and general operating support. Opportunities are available for individual artists, organizations, teachers, and schools.
3/22: University of California Alianza MX Short-Term Research in Mexico for Graduate Students. – Variable Amounts
For graduate students
UC Alianza MX will provide funding to cover living expenses, travel, and other related expenses for up to three months to accomplish specific laboratory, library, or field research at partner institutions in Mexico.
3/25: NEA: Research Grants in the Arts. – Up to $100,000
For faculty
Research Grants in the Arts support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecosystem or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life.
3/25: National Humanities Center 2024 Graduate Student Summer Program
For graduate students
Application for the National Humanities Center 2024 Graduate Student Summer Program on “Becoming a Modern Scholar.” This five-day, in-person residency will model best practices for undergraduate teaching in the humanities classroom. Participants will learn grant writing skills, engage with public scholarship, and discuss humanities-focused careers inside and outside the academy.
3/27: William T. Grant Foundation-WT Grant Scholars Program. – $350,000
For faculty
supports career development for promising early-career researchers focused on improving the lives of young people ages 5-25 in the United States
Contact Caitlin for internal competition processes – ASAP
3/28: ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships. – $127,500+
For postdoctoral scholars
Leading Edge Fellowships place recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations committed to promoting social justice in their communities.
3/29: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Program. – ~$38,923
For doctoral graduate students
For doctoral students to engage in dissertation research abroad in other countries that focuses on one or more of the following geographic areas: Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere (excluding the United States and its territories), in modern foreign languages and area studies (study of the aspects of a society or societies, including the study of their geography, history, culture, economy, politics, international relations, and languages) for periods of six to 12 months. Projects focusing on Western Europe are not supported.
3/31: Chicana Latina Foundation Scholarships. – Variable Amounts
For graduate students and undergraduate students
Provides various funding opportunities for students who self-identify as Chicana and/or Latina.
3/31: National Federation of the Blind: Scholarship Program. – Variable Amounts
For graduate students and undergraduate students
All scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic excellence, community service, and leadership. The finalists are announced every spring. They then attend our national convention in July when the winners of each individual scholarship are selected. Scholarship winners have gone on to succeed in careers ranging from computer science and engineering to civil rights law and international diplomacy. All applicants must be legally blind in both eyes.
3/31: Urban Communication Foundation: James Carey Urban Communication Grant. – Variable Amounts
For graduate students and faculty
The Applied Urban Communication Research Grant is an annually funded prize given to foster and promote significant, interdisciplinary communication research contributions that extend the boundaries of “applied research” by investigating real-life communication phenomena affecting urban communities. The prize is to be awarded to fund the development of original research that meaningfully centralizes the concerns of everyday citizens and their struggle to define, identify with, and/or construct “spaces” for discourse and/or engagement within cities.
3/31: CA Coastal Conservancy – Coastal Stories. – Variable Amounts
For organizations, institutions, agencies, and native american groups
to fund storytelling installations or materials that authentically convey historically excluded communities’ perspectives and relationships to the outdoors and coast
3/31: Washington Office on Latin America-Sally Yudelman Internship Program. – $18/hr
For scholars at all stages
Provides unique mentoring opportunities through internships, encouraging the next generation of young people to get involved in advocating for human rights in Latin America
2/1: The Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures – $1,000 (DEADLINE EXTENDED)
For graduate students and undergraduate students
The Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future THI project announces its fifth 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.
2/1: New America Foundation: New America National Fellows Program – $15,000-$30,000
*Must work with Foundation Relations
For projects that generate big, bold ideas that have an impact and spark new conversations about the most pressing issues of our day.
2/1: UConn Humanities Institute Residential Fellowships – Variable Amounts
For doctoral graduate students and faculty
Conn Humanities Fellowships are opportunities for individuals to pursue advanced work in the humanities. Visiting Humanities Scholars, UConn Humanities Scholars, and UConn Graduate Humanities Fellowships are year-long and allow for time and space to research, write, and collaborate on work that extends and celebrates humanities scholarship.
2/1: Thurgood Marshall Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship – $42,000+ for 1st year, $60,000+ for 2nd year
Dartmouth College invites applications for the Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowship. We seek applicants working in any geographies and disciplines and interdisciplinary spaces across African Diaspora, African American, African, or Africana Studies. Particular attention will be given to candidates whose work augments and complements current faculty in the African and African American Studies (AAAS) Department. Applicants will be selected on the basis of their academic achievement, promise in both research and teaching, and their demonstrated commitment to educational diversity. Applications from candidates who are underrepresented in their fields are especially welcome.
2/1: Association for Asian Studies, Inc.-Short-term Research Travel outside North America – Up to $5,000
For scholars at all stages
Provides funding to cover travel expenses on trips to Korea or other sites outside North America for projects explicitly related to Korean studies that can be accomplished in a relatively short period.
2/1: Biographers International Organization-Frances “Frank” Rollin Fellowship – $5,000
Supports an author working on a biographical work about an African American figure or figures whose story provides a significant contribution to understanding of the Black experience.
2/1: Dartmouth College Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies — Charles Eastman Fellowship – Variable Amounts
Dartmouth College invites applications for the two-year Charles Eastman Fellowship, which supports scholars working in any area of Native American and Indigenous Studies. Applicants will be selected on the basis of their academic achievement, promise in both research and teaching, and their demonstrated commitment to educational diversity. Applications from candidates who are underrepresented in their fields are especially welcome.
2/5: UCOP HSI DDI Pre-Professoriate Fellowship – $37,000
For graduate students
The UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship (PPPF) supports PhD students (three per campus each year) who are California HSI alumni and have advanced to candidacy at UC. The fellowship aims to foster their interest and preparation for the professoriate. If you are interested, please read the eligibility criteria carefully.
2/5: NIH-(NOSI): Interventions to promote mental well-being in populations that experience health – disparities through social, cultural, and environmental connectedness – Varied Amounts
For faculty
The Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) and participating National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) are soliciting intervention projects to promote mental well-being and/or prevent mental health problems by fostering social, cultural, or environmental connectedness in one or more populations that experience health disparities. Mental health or mental wellness may be the primary outcome of the intervention and/or an intermediate factor to improve other health outcomes.
2/7: Kennan Institute/Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Title VIII-Supported Summer Research Scholarships – $7,000
For scholars at all stages
for research in the social sciences or humanities focusing on Russia and the other countries of Eurasia, and who demonstrate a particular need to utilize the library, archival, and other specialized resources of the Washington, D.C. area.
2/9: Intercollegiate Studies Institute-Graduate Fellowship Program: Richard M. Weaver Fellowship and Henry Salvatori Fellowship – Up to $15,000
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute is known for advocating intellectual conservatism among students by exploring the ideas and principles behind conservative philosophy, politics, and economics. ISI graduate fellowships can be used to fund graduate students pursuing advanced study in the humanities or social sciences who intend to teach at the college level.
2/9: NASDAQ OMX Educational Foundation, Inc.-Quarterly Grant Program – ~$75,000
For organizations, institutions, agencies, and businesses
For research that helped to enhance financial literacy among women and under-represented communities, Improving access to knowledge and tools among women and under-represented communities, Equipping women and diverse founders with mentoring and resources, Improving access to capital for women and diverse founders.
2/13: World Wood Day Foundation: Wood and Culture – $12,000
Provides funding to raise public awareness of wood as an eco-friendly material and its significant role in world history, inspires academic research and supports interdisciplinary and integral investigation for exploring how wood has played a prominent role in human life.
2/12 (Concept Paper deadline): Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Addressing the Harms of Financialization in Healthcare – up to $300,000
*Must work with Foundation Relations
Supports actionable research that augments data on the intersection of financialization and structural racism to help counter the harms of financialization in the healthcare system. We seek proposals for research projects that bolster advocacy campaigns and organizing efforts; build on opportunities afforded by the political and social landscape; and produce timely and useful information for use by advocates, community organizers, policymakers, and other decisionmakers.
2/14: Walter and Elise Haas Fund Creative Work Program Limited Submission – Up to $50,000
*Must work with Foundation Relations
The Creative Work Fund invites artists and nonprofit organizations to create new artworks through collaborations. Artists are encouraged to collaborate with organizations of all kinds, stretching boundaries and forging new partnerships.
2/14: NEH Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence – up to $750,000
For faculty
The Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence program aims to support a more holistic understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in the modern world by creating new humanities research centers on artificial intelligence at eligible institutions. Centers must focus their scholarly activities on exploring the ethical, legal, or societal implications of AI.
2/14: NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture for K-12 Educations – $190,000
For faculty
Landmarks of American History and Culture programs for K-12 educators situate the study of topics and themes in the humanities within sites, areas, or regions of historic and cultural significance to expand participants’ knowledge of and approaches to teaching diverse histories, cultures, and perspectives in the United States and its jurisdictions.
2/14: NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture for Higher Education – $190,000
For faculty
Landmarks of American History and Culture programs for higher education, advanced graduate students, and humanities professionals situate the study of topics and themes in the humanities within sites, areas, or regions of historic and cultural significance to expand participants’ knowledge of and approaches to teaching diverse histories, cultures, and perspectives in the United States and its jurisdictions.
2/14: NEH Institutes for Higher Education Faculty – $220,000
For faculty
NEH-funded institutes are professional development programs that convene higher education faculty from across the nation to deepen their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching.
2/14: NEH Institutes for K-12 Educators – $220,000
For faculty
NEH-funded institutes are professional development programs that convene K-12 educators from across the nation to deepen their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching.
2/14: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM)– $220,000
For faculty
The Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM) Program supports research that incorporates research on social and behavioral processes in mathematical epidemiological models. The program provides support for projects that involve balanced participation from the mathematical sciences and from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
2/15: Forge Project Fellowship – $25,000
For scholars at all stages
The Forge Project Fellowship is a cohort of six Indigenous individuals that represent a broad diversity of cultural practices, participatory research, organizing models, and geographical contexts that honor Indigenous pasts as well as build Native futures.
2/15 Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Scholarships – $10,000
For graduate students
Provides a collection of scholarships to support graduate students in various fields.
2/15: ACLS — Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs Collaborative Programming Grants – $45,000
For faculty
ACLS invites proposals for Collaborative Programming Grants offered by the Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs, made possible by the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation. The program aims to deepen public understanding of religion by advancing innovative scholarship on religion in international contexts, equipping individual scholars and institutions of higher education with the capacities to connect their work to journalism and the media, and engaging audiences beyond the academy.
2/15: American Historical Association — Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research in European, African, or Asian History – Up to $1,500
For scholars at all stages
The American Historical Association offers the Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grants to support research in the history of Europe, Africa, and Asia. These modest annual grants are intended to further research in progress and may be used for travel to a library or archive, for microfilms, photographs, or photocopying—a list of purposes that is meant to be merely illustrative, not exhaustive (other expenses, such as child care, can be included).
2/15: American Musicology Society — Subventions / Publication grants – Up to $2,500
For scholars at all stages
Through funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the generous contributions of many individual donors, the Publications Committee of the American Musicological Society makes available funds to help with expenses involved in the publication of works of musical scholarship, including books, essay collections, articles, chapters in essay collections, special issues of journals, and works in non-print media.
2/15: National Endowment for the Humanities – Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities – Up to $250,000
For faculty
The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through this program, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars and practitioners using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.
2/15: National Museum of African American History and Culture — Summer Internships – Variable Amounts
For scholars at all stages
Internships at the National Museum of African American History and Culture offer undergraduate and graduate students, recent graduates and career changers opportunities to work closely with professionals and scholars in the museum field. The museum provides a dynamic learning environment and access to supportive mentors that help interns reach their educational and professional goals. Interns can gain practical museum skills and program development experience in a variety of traditional and non-traditional museum careers.
2/15: NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure/NEH Documenting Endangered Languages – up to $450,000
For faculty
This funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning dynamic language infrastructure in the context of endangered human languages — languages that are both understudied and at risk of falling out of use. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documentation and analysis, and archiving of endangered language data, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases.
2/15 Alpha Delta Kappa, the International Honorary Sorority for Women Educators-Agnes Robertson Global Outreach (ARGO) Scholarship – $2,500
For professional growth through travel away from her home environment and/or studying another culture to promote World Understanding and to expand her knowledge and develop materials to be used in the classroom.
2/16: National Institutes for Health (NIH) – Summer Internship Program (SIP) – Variable Amounts
For graduate students
Funding for students interested in exploring careers in research and healthcare.
2/16: Center for Labor and Community Graduate Student Research Grants – Up to $7,500
For graduate students
Research funding for for UCSC graduate students working on innovative, original research projects focused on labor rights, labor subjectivities, labor markets, labor movements, and/or labor-community coalitions and organizing in either a domestic, international, or comparative context. Funds can be used for local, domestic, and international travel, research supplies, and services to facilitate distinct data collection techniques, including archival research, fieldwork, and surveying.
2/16: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Policies for Action: Policy Research to Advance the Inclusion of Immigrant Families and Children (LOI) – $30,000-$450,000
*Must work with Foundation Relations
For public or nonprofit organizations
Funds research on policies that can advance the full social, economic, and civic inclusion of immigrant children and families.
2/18: OpenAI-Superalignment Fast Grants – Variable Amounts
*Must work with Foundation Relations
For faculty, graduate students and nonprofit organizations
Provides funds to support technical research towards ensuring superhuman AI systems are aligned and safe.
2/19: Center for Jewish History Fellowship Program – Variable Amounts
*Must work with Foundation Relations
The fellowships will support original research using the collections of the Center’s five partners — American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Preference will be given to those candidates who draw on the archival and library resources of more than one partner institution.
2/19: Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship Program – $26,000
For graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars
The New York Public Library is pleased to offer the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship Program to support advanced research at the Library’s flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Fellowships are open to Ph.D. candidates, post-doctoral scholars, and independent researchers with projects that would significantly benefit from research conducted onsite at the Schwarzman Building.red.
2/20: Judy Yung Memorial Fellowship – $1,500
For graduate students and undergraduate students
CRES invites students from all levels (undergraduate and graduate) to apply for funding to support Asian-, Asian diasporic-, Pacific Islander-, and Pacific Islander diasporic-related research geared towards the preservation of oral histories and engagement of local community archives.
2/21: American Psychological Foundation-APF Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Grant – Variable Amounts
For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
Provides funding for innovative work focusing on the understanding, prevention and/or treatment of the consequences of exposure to traumatic events such as sexual assault, sexual harassment and/or rape.
2/22: Future Leaders for Food & Agriculture — FFAR Fellows Program – Variable Amounts
For graduate students
The FFAR Fellows Program offers leadership and professional development training to PhD students studying food and agriculture-related sciences in the U.S. and Canada. North Carolina State University leads the initiative, which provides Fellows with training, networking opportunities, and peer support.
2/23: Special Collections Research Center/University of Chicago Library: Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowships – $3,500+
*Must work with Foundation Relations – for scholars at all stages
The University of Chicago Library invites applications for short-term research fellowships for the summer of 2024. The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center is the principal repository of rare books, manuscripts, and archives in the Library.
2/25: Society for the History of Technology — Melvin Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship – $4,000
For PhD graduate students
The Melvin Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship is presented annually to a doctoral student engaged in the preparation of a dissertation on the history of technology, broadly defined.
2/28: Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award Series
For scholars at all levels
The AWP Award Series is an annual competition for the publication of excellent new book-length works. The prizes are supported by the AWP Award Series Endowments. The competition is open to all authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence and is available to published and unpublished authors alike.
2/28: British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding – £25,000
For faculty
Having recently celebrated its 11th year, British Academy Book Prize is awarded annually for a non-fiction book that has made an outstanding contribution to global cultural understanding for a wider public audience. The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for humanities and social sciences, and eligible books come from the subjects that fall within those disciplines, from archaeology, history and psychology to philosophy, languages and cultural studies.
2/28: UC Santa Cruz — Hellman Fellows Program – Up to $50,000
For faculty
Established at UCSC in 2011, the purpose of the Hellman Fellows Program is to support substantially the research of promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research. The Hellman Fellows Program has been established at thirteen institutions, nine of which are campuses in the UC system.
2/29: The 100K Strong North America Grant Competition to Expand Climate-Action, Inclusive Education Exchanges – Up to $25,000
*Must work with Foundation Relations
Fund intended to ensure a greener, more inclusive, prosperous, and climate-resilient Hemisphere through regional education cooperation, exchanges, and workforce development.
2/29: Duke University Travel Grants: Human Rights Archive/David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library – Up to $1,500
For scholars at all stages
To promote and foster scholarship that uses materials from the Human Rights Archive’s collections and includes a focus on human rights and social justice.
2/29: Duke University Travel Grants: Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture/David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library/Duke University-Mary Lily Research Grants – Up to $1,500
For scholars at all stages
For projects that present creative approaches, including historical research and documentation projects resulting in dissertations, publications, exhibitions, educational initiatives, documentary films, or other multimedia products and artistic works.
For scholars at all stages
For researchers whose work would benefit from in-person access to African, African American, and African Diaspora collections held at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
1/5: The Martha LA McCain Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies – $65,000
For postdoctoral scholars
The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship during the 2024-25 academic year, with the possibility of an additional one-year renewal, to support emerging scholars pursuing research in queer, trans, and LGBTQ2+ studies. Our search committee welcomes proposals that span disciplinary boundaries. Applicants from all fields of the humanities and the social sciences are encouraged to apply.
1/10: NEH Media Projects – $75,000-$700,000
For faculty
The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical.
1/10: Harvard University Center for the Environment-Environmental Fellows Program – $87,500+
For postdoctoral scholars
HUCE created the Environmental Fellows program to enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand Harvard’s extraordinary resources to tackle complex environmental issues. Fellows work for two years with Harvard faculty members in any school or department to form a community of researchers that strengthens connections across the University.
1/10 Research Grants on Reducing Inequality – $25,000-$600,000
For faculty
Research grants on reducing inequality fund research studies that aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States.
1/11: NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grants – $75,000-$350,000
For faculty
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.
1/11: NEH Public Humanities Projects – $75,000-$400,000
For faculty
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.
1/11: NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) – $50,000+
For faculty
The Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Program seeks proposals that center equity and belonging, and further the well-being of individuals and communities who have historically been and continue to be excluded, under-served, or underrepresented, due to gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity, geographic location, and economic status, among others, as well as their intersections. The current solicitation encourages proposals from institutions and organizations that serve public audiences, and specifically focus on public engagement with and understanding of STEM, including community STEM; public participation in scientific research (PPSR); science communication; intergenerational STEM engagement; and STEM media.
1/12: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan – Variable Amounts
For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
The program provides PhD students or PhD researchers in Europe and North America with opportunities to conduct collaborative research under the guidance of their hosts in universities and other Japanese institutions for a relatively short period of time. A person who has never engaged in research at universities etc. in Japan would be preferable.
1/12: University of California Office of the President Funding – Variable Amounts
In 2023-2024, UC Online will provide approximately $2M in project funding in four categories for online projects with a focus on digital inclusion. The four categories are: 1) courses; 2) professional development; 3) research; and 4) infrastructure. Based on project plans submitted from campuses, award amounts will vary.
1/12: UCSC Innovation Catalyst Grant – Up to $50,000
For faculty
Provides targeted gap funding, training, mentorship, and support to UC Santa Cruz researchers in order to help de-risk and/or validate the implementation and adoption potential of early-stage technology innovations.
1/13: Israel Institute Faculty Development Grants – $10,000
For faculty
For tenure-line faculty members who want to add Israel-focused courses to their teaching portfolios.
1/15: Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowships – $120,000+
For postdoctoral scholars
The Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowships support post-doctoral fellows pursuing policy-relevant causal research designed to innovate and evaluate cost-effective and scalable policy solutions that advance the efficacy and equity of criminal justice practices.
1/15: Humanities Without Walls Postdoctoral Fellowship – $62,500+
This is a one-year (48-week) term appointment with an excellent possibility of renewal. This is a residence appointment; it is therefore expected that the Postdoctoral Scholar will work onsite at Penn State’s University Park campus for the full appointment. They are expected to be available for interaction with Penn State faculty and grad students and will participate in the Institute’s colloquia and other events, as appropriate to their interests.
1/15: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences – Humanities Scholarships – Variable Amounts
For doctoral graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
Scholarships can be awarded to doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. In the latter category, applicants who received a Ph.D. in the past five years are prioritized. Scholarships above SEK 50,000 will only be granted in exceptional cases. In previous years, young researchers, travel to conferences or archives, and field trips have been prioritized.
1/15: Winterthur Museum Research Fellowships – Variable Amounts
For scholars at all stages
Fellows can utilize the 20,000 American and European imprints, 3,000 record groups of manuscripts, as well as trade catalogues, ephemera, photographs, and archives of the Winterthur Library, an independent, world-class research collection. They can also examine Winterthur Museum’s expansive object collections of more than 90,000 artifacts that help us broadly understand four centuries of everyday life in America in a global context. They can look at these collections with specialists and experts and consult with conservators and scientific staff to request testing to better understand objects and interpret them at a chemical level.
1/15: American School of Classical Studies at Athens Fellowships – Variable Amounts
For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
The ASCSA has over 25 fellowships available to Graduate students, as well as Post-Doctoral and established scholars. The School has funding available for short-term and academic year study, and stipends vary.
1/15: NSF Linguistics Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants – Variable Amounts
For doctoral graduate students
Supports doctoral research on human language — encompassing investigations of the properties of individual human languages and natural language in general — and the intersections of linguistics with cognition, society and other areas of science.
For graduate students and undergraduate students
Internships at the National Museum of African American History and Culture offer undergraduate and graduate students, recent graduates and career changers opportunities to work closely with professionals and scholars in the museum field. The museum provides a dynamic learning environment and access to supportive mentors that help interns reach their educational and professional goals. Interns can gain practical museum skills and program development experience in a variety of traditional and non-traditional museum careers.
1/16: California Humanities – Humanities for All Project Grants – up to $25,000
For nonprofit organizations and public agencies
Awarded to large scale public humanities projects of up to two-years duration from the award date. Formats include but are not limited to virtual and in-person interpretive exhibits, community dialogue and discussion series, workshops and participatory activities, presentations and lectures, conversations and forums, and interactive and experiential activities.
1/16: Cynthia H. Kuo Scholarship – $5,000
For Chinese students who are studying in the Bay Area and are actively involved in the Christian faith and/or youth group.
1/16: Brown University — John Carter Brown Library Fellowships – Variable Amounts
For scholars at all stages
The John Carter Brown Library supports scholarship centered on the history of the colonial Americas, North and South, including all aspects of African, European, and Native American engagements in both global and comparative contexts. Short-term fellowships are open to individuals who are engaged in pre- and post-doctoral, or independent research, regardless of nationality.
1/16: Department of Defense Minerva Research Initiative: University Research – Variable Amounts
For faculty
Designed to support innovative basic research projects that contribute to the advancement of social science and provides new methods and understandings on social and behavioral questions of security and defense-related interest; topics of interest
1/17: Princeton University Library Research Grant – Up to $4,800
For scholars at all stages
Friends of the Princeton University Library offers short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the Princeton University Library special collections. Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings in Special Collections, including Mudd Library; as well as rare books in Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, and in the East Asian Library (Gest Collection).
1/18: Harvard University Davis Center Postdoctoral Fellowships – $48,000
For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
Postdoctoral fellowships provide opportunities for early-career scholars to spend a dedicated period of time pursuing their research with access to Harvard’s world-renowned resources.
1/18: NEA Translation Projects – Up to $25,000
Through fellowships to published translators, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. The work to be translated should be of interest for its literary excellence and merit. We encourage translations of writers and of work that are not well represented in English, as well as work that has not previously been translated into English.
1/19: American Philosophical Society Long-Term Residential Research Fellowships – Variable Amounts
For doctoral graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
The APS’s Library & Museum invites applications for fellowships supporting research in the collections. APS’s longterm fellowships for subject-specific research including indigenous studies scholars, digital humanities projects, and more.
1/19: American Philosophical Society Research Fellowships – Variable Amounts
For doctoral graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
The APS’s Library & Museum invites scholars to apply for fellowships to do research in the collections. Fellowships are offered for short-term and long-term opportunities, for subject-specific research, and in digital humanities. Opportunities for Predoctoral fellowships include the David Center for the American Revolution Predoctoral Fellowship, Friends of the APS Predoctoral Fellowship and the John C. Slater Predoctoral Fellowship in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
1/19: Harvard University’s Houghton Library Visiting Fellowships – $4,500
For scholars at all stages
The Visiting Fellowship program offers scholars at all stages of their careers funding to pursue projects that require in-depth research on the library’s holdings, as well as opportunities to draw on staff expertise and participate in intellectual life at Harvard.
1/19: Intercollegiate Studies Institute — Graduate Fellowships – up to $15,000
For graduate students
The intercollegiate studies institute is known for advocating intellectual conservatism among students by exploring the ideas and principles behind conservative philosophy, politics, and economics. ISI graduate fellowships can be used to fund graduate students pursuing advanced study in the humanities or social sciences who intend to teach at the college level.
1/19: Global Engagement Call for Statements of Interest: Faculty Seminar Away – UK (England/N.Ireland)
For faculty
The Division of Global Engagement (GE) invites statements of interest from UCSC Senate faculty who are interested in participating in the pilot year of the Faculty Seminar Away which will provide a one-week fully funded trip to engage with two existing institutional partners in the United Kingdom (England and Northern Ireland).
1/20 – The American Trust for the British Library and the Houghton Library at Harvard University Transatlantic Fellowship – $5,000
For graduate students
This 2024-2025 Transatlantic Fellowship is designed to support at least four weeks of research between both the British Library and the Houghton Library at Harvard University, with at least one week of research time at each institution.
1/22: Kress Foundation — Conservation Fellowships – $37,000
For post MA scholars
Conservation Fellowships are awarded each year for post-graduate internships in advanced conservation at a museum or conservation facility.
1/22: Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund Dissertation Completion Awards – $33,500
For doctoral graduate students
The Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund provides awards directly to advanced doctoral candidates in the humanistic disciplines pursuing a PhD degree from one of the following institutions: UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, UC-Santa Cruz or Stanford University. These dissertation grants are awarded to bring about the completion of a scholarly dissertation project at the end of the grant period.
1/22: Palestinian American Research Center 2023-2024 Fellowships for US Scholars Conducting field-based research on Palestine – Up to $9,000
For doctoral graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
Research must contribute to Palestinian Studies. Any field of research will be considered, including the arts, humanities, social sciences, economics, law, public health, and applied sciences. Purely scientific research is not eligible for this competition. Research must take place in Palestine, Israel, Jordan, or Lebanon.
1/23: Baylor University Charlton Oral History Research Grant – Up to $3,000
For scholars at all stages
The Baylor University Institute for Oral History invites individual scholars with training and experience in oral history research who are conducting oral history interviews to apply for support of up to $3,000 for one year (June through May). With this grant, the Institute seeks to partner with one scholar who is using oral history to address new questions and offer fresh perspectives on a subject area in which the research method has not yet been extensively applied. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural research on local, national, or international subjects is welcome.
1/24: Spencer Foundation Large Research Grants on Education: LOI Deadline – $125,000-$500,000
*Must work with Foundation Relations
For faculty
The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location.
1/24: Data Fluencies Dissertation Grants – Up to $15,000
For predoctoral graduate students
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) invites proposals from PhD candidates across the social and behavioral sciences, humanities, data sciences, and related fields to apply to the Data Fluencies Dissertation Grant competition. The Data Fluencies Project works to counter the impacts of discriminatory technology and online mis- and disinformation and foster more just and equitable futures.
1/25: The Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures – $1,000
For graduate students and undergraduate students
The Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future THI project announces its fifth 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.
1/26: Baylor University — Charlton Oral History Research Grant – $3,000
For scholars at all stages
The Baylor University Institute for Oral History invites individual scholars with training and experience in oral history research who are conducting oral history interviews. With this grant, the Institute seeks to partner with one scholar who is using oral history to address new questions and offer fresh perspectives on a subject area in which the research method has not yet been extensively applied.
1/27: Chateaubriand Fellowship for Research in France – Variable Amounts
For doctoral graduate students
The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a grant offered by the Embassy of France in the United States. It supports outstanding PhD students from U.S. institutions who wish to conduct part of their doctoral research in France for a period ranging from 4 to 8/9 months.
1/29: Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies – Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Fellowship Program – $25,000
For doctoral graduate students
Provides both research and dissertation completion fellowships for doctoral graduate students with U.S. citizenship or permanent residency to conduct dissertation research in Russian Studies. The program is open to students in any discipline whose dissertation topics are within 19th-early 21st century Russian historical studies.
1/29: Washington Center for Equitable Growth-Research Grants for Early Career Scholars – Variable Amounts
For graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty
Funding for research agendas are policy relevant, related to how inequality affects economic growth, and who are interested in engaging with nonacademic audiences.
1/31: Finnish Foundation Post Doc Pool – Variable amounts
For postdoctoral scholars
The grants awarded from Säätiöiden post doc -pooli are intended for scholars, who have recently completed their doctoral degree and wish to conduct research abroad from Finland for at least six months.
1/31: Social Science Research Council’s Just Tech Fellowship – $100,000
Social Science Research Council seeks researchers and practitioners to identify and challenge injustices emerging from new technologies, and pursue solutions that advance social, political, and economic rights. Fellows receive two-year awards of $100,000 annually and seed funding to work on collaborative projects with other fellows.
1/31: Open Society Foundation’s Soros Equity Fellowship – $130,000
For postdoctoral scholars
The Soros Equality Fellowship seeks to support individual leaders influencing the racial justice field. A successful project should identify a challenge and propose a critical intervention that will meaningfully address the systems that reinforce inequities and discrimination in the United States. Applicants must be able to devote at least 35 hours per week to the project if awarded a Fellowship; and the project must be the applicant’s only full-time work during the course of the Fellowship.
1/31: UC Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation Funding Opportunities – Variable Amounts
For faculty
The Institute for Social Transformation’s competitive grant program is designed to spur new ways of thinking about old problems and to jump-start new initiatives that show promise in advancing theoretical concepts, socially relevant research, community engagement, and public scholarship. Funding is available for both faculty and graduate students.
1/31: Ford Foundation Senior Fellowships – $80,000+
*Must work with Foundation Relations
For faculty with PhD/Sc.D.
The Ford Foundation Senior Fellowship award is intended to support research that advances and contributes knowledge to areas that are consistent with the work of the Ford Foundation. Applicants will be required to describe how their proposed work will contribute to knowledge, or otherwise advance this mission. Only open to individuals who have previously held a Ford Foundation Predoctoral, Dissertation, or Postdoctoral Fellowship administered by the National Academies and currently hold a faculty appointment at an accredited U.S. academic institution.
1/31: Josephine De Karman Dissertation Fellowship – $25,000
For graduate students
The de Karman Fellowships are open to PhD students in any discipline, including international students, who are currently enrolled in one of the California universities listed (UCSC included). Only PhD candidates who will defend their dissertation in or about June 2025 are eligible for consideration for a 2024-2025 fellowship.
1/31: MLA Humanities Innovation Grants – $3,000
For faculty, lecturers, adjunct instructors, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars
The Modern Language Association awards $3,000 grants every year to support the development of courses and other educational programs in English, languages, and related disciplines that build enrollments and revitalize student interest in the humanities. The grants seek to recognize interdisciplinary and collaborative projects that engage with questions of global, regional, or local significance; that have the potential to offer transformative experiences for learners; that foster lasting connections between individuals and their communities; and that draw on innovative and effective pedagogical practices.
1/31 American Research Center in Egypt Research Fellowships – Variable Amounts
For scholars at all stages
ARCE offers funded fellowships and a research associate program for a wide range of scholars looking to conduct research in Egypt. Previous fellows have represented the fields of anthropology, archaeology, architecture, fine art, art history, Coptic studies, economics, Egyptology, history, humanistic social sciences, Islamic studies, literature, political science, religious studies and even music.
1/31: PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship – $1,500+
The Emerging Voices Fellowship provides a virtual five-month immersive mentorship program for early-career writers from communities that are traditionally underrepresented in the publishing world. The program is committed to cultivating the careers of Black writers, and serves writers who identify as Indigenous, persons of color, LGBTQ+, immigrants, writers with disabilities, and those living outside of urban centers.
1/31: UC Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation Funding Opportunities – Variable amounts
For graduate students and faculty
The Institute for Social Transformation serves as an incubator for new ideas and an accelerator for scholarship in the public interest. The institute supports boundary-crossing research, creative interactions, and rigorous policy-oriented scholarship. Our partners and audience include community organizers, elected officials, policy makers, philanthropists, prospective students, and the general public.
1/31: UCHRI Supplemental Multicampus Faculty Working Group Care & Repair Funding – Up to $5,000
For faculty
The UCHRI Supplemental Multicampus Faculty Working Group Care & Repair Funding grant provides financial resources to broaden and augment the support of Multicampus Faculty Working Groups engaging with the Institute’s new theme, Care & Repair. Faculty working on themes outside of the Care & Repair initiative are not eligible to apply for this supplement.
1/31: UCHRI Multicampus Faculty Working Groups Grants – Up to $15,000
For faculty
The Multicampus Faculty Working Group Grant supports UC faculty as they collaborate on innovative agendas in ways that contribute to the advancement of the specific working group topic and the humanities as a whole. Although we will consider all humanistic topics, UCHRI is particularly interested in working groups that approach humanistic problems broadly related to its new theme, Care & Repair.
1/31: UCHRI Jr. Faculty Manuscript Workshop – Up to $2,500
For faculty
The Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop Grant provides financial resources to a junior faculty member to convene an online workshop aimed at preparing their book manuscript for submission to a publisher. The purpose of this workshop is to provide junior UC faculty with quality feedback from experts in the field on a first full draft of a pre-tenure book manuscript in preparation for submission to a publisher for a contract or for publication (the draft must include versions of every chapter to be included in the final book).
1/31: UCHRI Faculty Summer Research Funding – Up to $5,000
For faculty
UCHRI is offering summer research awards for UC faculty to conduct research during Summer 2024. Priority will be given to projects related to one of the following thematic pillars, broadly conceived: Climate, Environment, and Technology; Social Heterogeneity; and Care & Repair, UCHRI’s new theme. Awards should support full-time work on a research project at any stage of development during the Summer 2024 quarter.
1/31: UCHRI Engaging Humanities Grant – Up to $5,000 for seed grants, $20,000 for project grants
For faculty
The Engaging Humanities Grant supports UC faculty in pursuing thoughtful engagement with diverse publics beyond the academy. California’s communities represent a rich resource for UC faculty interested in pursuing collaborative, public-facing projects that will impact people beyond their campuses. Recognizing that off-campus outreach can produce transformations in knowledge, this grant encourages scholars to develop innovative projects that weave together humanities research and/or pedagogy with community engagement, strengthening ties between UC campuses and California communities through partnerships with community organizations, museums, NGOs, or other public-facing groups.
1/31: UCHRI Conference Grant – Up to $5,000
For faculty
Conference Grants provide matching funds to support events that convene scholars (primarily UC faculty) to explore significant and innovative ideas around a particular research topic, being particularly responsive to those intellectual activities that cannot readily occur within existing departmental and programmatic structures. Although the conference model is one such means of engaging in these activities, UCHRI invites interested applicants to consider alternative forms of scholarly gatherings, especially those that result in conversations and projects that have scholarly outcomes beyond the event. This grant is not intended to support annual meetings of professional organizations and groups or ongoing scholarly gatherings.
1/31: UCHRI UC Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship – $1,500+
For faculty
The UC Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship Program is an intercampus faculty mentoring program serving the ten campuses of the University of California. Our fellowship program pairs junior and mid-career applicants from the humanities and qualitative social sciences with their desired senior mentors from other UC campuses.
1/31: UCHRI Supplemental Multicampus Faculty Working Group Graduate Student Funding – Up to $5,000
For faculty
The UCHRI Supplemental Multicampus Faculty Working Group Graduate Student Funding provides financial resources to create or augment support of research-driven, graduate student engagement in Multicampus Faculty Working Groups. Prospective PIs as well as successful applicants from last year who are applying for a renewal grant are eligible to apply for supplemental funding for a graduate student stipend that will allow the substantive inclusion of at least two graduate students in the project.
1/31: UCHRI Short-Term Collaborative Research Residency – Variable Amounts
For faculty
Short-term residencies are committed research groups that come to UCHRI to work together on a project already underway and with a designated outcome in sight. Residencies may run up to two weeks and are intended for between two and eight residents representing any discipline or field in the humanities and humanistic social sciences, or in conjunction with scholars, artists, scientists, and experts across various disciplines.
1/31: UCHRI Graduate Student Dissertation Support – Up to $1,000
For doctoral graduate students
The Graduate Student Dissertation Support grant offers funds to support dissertation work for UC PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Support may include travel expenses for dissertation research, supplies such as books or copies directly related to the dissertation topic, and fees for summer institutes likely to advance the dissertation (such as language or theory programs).
1/31: UCHRI Multicampus Graduate Student Working Groups – Up to $5,000
For doctoral graduate students
The Multicampus Graduate Student Working Group Grant supports UC PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences as they collaborate on innovative agendas in ways that contribute to the advancement of the specific working group topic and the humanities as a whole. This year, UCHRI is particularly interested in working groups that approach humanistic problems broadly related to its new theme, Care & Repair.
1/31: UCHRI Medicine & Humanities: The Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Graduate Student Scholarship – Up to $20,000
The Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Scholarship will be awarded to two regularly-enrolled, full-time UC graduate students working in appropriate fields. The award is intended to help students complete the writing of their dissertations by providing a monthly stipend that supports living expenses, research-related costs, and partial school fees, if necessary.
1/31: UCHRI Climate Action Training and Summer Dissertation Fellowship – Up to $7,000
WUICAN (Wildland-Urban Interface Climate Action Network) is a two-year, multicampus initiative that brings together scholars in STEM, social sciences, humanities, and law with community partners to co-create knowledge and climate solutions that ensure a resilient relationship between society and wild landscapes. This summer training and dissertation research opportunity is open to PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at the University of California. The program includes an eight-day intensive residential experience on the campus of UC Irvine (August 10-18, 2024) and a sequence of virtual workshops and research exchange opportunities (June-August, 2024).
1/31: UCSC Institute for Social Transformation’s Emerging Scholar Support – Up to $5,000
For faculty
Funding to provide emerging scholars with support to accelerate manuscript publication and facilitate the building of a productive research program.
1/31: UCSC Institute for Social Transformation’s Building Belonging Program
For faculty
Funding to enable and expand engagement between students and faculty: January 31, 2024
ROLLING: California Humanities Quick Grant. – $5,000
For faculty
Supports locally-initiated public humanities projects in California. Aims to encourage greater public participation, particularly by new or underserved audiences, and promote understanding and empathy among the state’s peoples to cultivate a thriving democracy.
Congressional Research Grants – The Dirksen Congressional Center
Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Travel, Printing, and Conference Subsidies)
Fulbright Specialist Program (Faculty)
Gerda Henkel Stiftung PhD Scholarships
Institute for Humane Studies — Humane Studies Fellowship
Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund (Institutional Grant for Visiting Scholar)