HUMANITIES FUNDING: LIST OF SOURCES
Compiled by Lucy Fischer: lfischer@pitt.edu/
1/31/ 2012
TOP FOUNDATIONS FUNDING THE HUMANITIES
OTHER FOUNDATIONS
SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS AND CENTERS
OTHER
GRANT-GIVING ORGANIZATIONS
RESIDENTIAL/TRAVEL
FELLOWSHIPS
OTHER
USEFUL WEBSITES
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN THE HUMANITIES
TOP FOUNDATIONS FUNDING THE HUMANITIES (as of
2004):
The Foundation generally
awards grants in the following programmatic areas: Arts, Culture &
Humanities; Animal Welfare; Civic & Community; Environment; Education;
Human Health & Wellness; Military Veterans
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Bradley foundation focuses on
US democratic institutions and on free enterprise.
The Ford Foundation is a
private foundation which makes grants for projects that focused on
strengthening democratic values, community and economic development, education,
media, arts and culture, and human rights.
J. Paul Getty Trust (Internships and non-residential fellowships)
The Getty offers graduate
internships as well as multicultural undergraduate internships at the
Kresge Foundation seek to
build strong, vibrant communities – enlivened by the presence of healthy
cultural organizations and well-resourced artists, and enriched by
well-integrated arts, cultural and community-building activities. Other areas:
Community Development, Education, Environment, Health and Human Services
The Kress Foundation
supports the work of individuals and institutions engaged with the
appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study
and teaching of the history of European art and architecture from antiquity
to the dawn of the modern era. The foundation makes grants in defined program
areas and offers professional development fellowships for historians of art and
architecture, among others.
The
Endowment considers proposals in three program areas: community development,
education and religion and are also interested in initiatives that benefit
youth and that promote the causes of philanthropy and volunteerism.
Henry Luce Foundation
The Henry Luce Foundation seeks to bring important ideas to the center of
American life, strengthen international understanding, and foster innovation
and leadership in academic, policy, religious and art communities.
John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The MacArthur
Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to
building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the
MacArthur Fellows, the Foundation works to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and
understand how technology
is affecting children and society.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
is a private foundation with five core areas of interest: Higher education,
including the humanities, libraries, and scholarly communication; museums and
art conservation; performing arts; conservation and the environment; and
information technology.
Pew
has three overarching areas of interest:
1) Improving public policy.
We study and promote nonpartisan policy solutions for pressing and emerging
problems affecting the American public and the global community. 2) Informing the public. The
Specific
Areas: Arts & Culture, Children and
Youth, Computers & the Internet, Corrections & Public Safety,
Education, Elections, Environment, Family Financial Security, Government
Performance, Health, Hispanics in America, Media and Journalism, National Civil
Initiative, Philadelphia Region, Public Opinion, Religion and Public Life,
Science, State Policy and Performance
The Rockefeller Foundation
is a philanthropic private foundation that sponsors a wide variety of projects.
Their current areas of interest include basic survival safeguards, global
health, climate and the environment, urbanization,
and social and economic security.
OTHER FOUNDATIONS
The Watson-Brown Foundation
awards grants to qualifying organizations that have an abiding interest in the history and culture of the South. Grants
take many forms, including book subventions, museum and archive support,
preservation awards, educational programming, and research support.
Gladys
Krieble Delmas Foundation
This Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation promotes the advancement of humanistic
inquiry and artistic creativity by supporting the humanities, research
libraries, the performing arts and grants for organizations in support of Venetian
scholarship and culture.
John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation
The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards Guggenheim Fellowships to
professionals who have demonstrated exceptional ability by publishing a significant body of work in the fields of natural
sciences, social sciences, humanities,
and the creative arts.
Howard Foundation
The Howard Foundation awards a limited number of fellowships each year for
independent projects in selected fields, targeting specifically early mid-career individuals. Upcoming subjects of interest include
painting, sculpture history of art and architecture, playwriting, music theatre
studies, musicology, and history.
Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic non-profit organization with
interests in the areas of science and technology,
standard of living, economic performance, and education and careers in science and technology.
Character
Development:
The Foundation supports a broad range of programs, publications, and studies
focused on the universal truths of character development, from childhood
through young adulthood and beyond. The qualities of character emphasized by
Sir John in the Foundation’s charter include awe, creativity, curiosity,
diligence, entrepreneurialism, forgiveness, future-mindedness, generosity,
gratitude, honesty, humility, joy, love, purpose, reliability, and thrift.
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is funded by the
government of Germany to promote international
co-operation between German institutes of higher education and leading
academics from around the world. The foundation sponsors a number of
competitive fellowships, ranging from postdoctoral to senior visiting
professors.
Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation is a private non-profit that administers programs
supporting leadership development and build organizational capacity and quality
in education. (Fellowships in women
and gender and religion and ethics).
SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS AND CENTERS Note: Your individual
disciplinary fields may have scholarly associations or organizations that
have research funding or travel grants.
American Association of
University Professors/ Scholar Rescue
Fund
The
Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund provides fellowships
for scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. These
fellowships permit scholars to find temporary refuge at universities and
colleges anywhere in the world, enabling them to pursue their academic work and
to continue to share their knowledge with students, colleagues, and the
community at large. When conditions improve, these scholars will return home to
help rebuild universities and societies ravaged by fear, conflict and
repression.
American Association of
University Women
AAUW advances educational and professional opportunities for women in the
United States and around the globe. Fellowship and grant recipients perform research in a wide range of disciplines and
work to improve their schools and communities.
American
Council of Learned Societies
ACLS, a private, nonprofit federation of 71 national scholarly
organizations, offers peer-reviewed
fellowships, convenes and supports scholarly conferences, sponsors
reference works and innovations in scholarly communication, strengthens
relations among learned societies, encourages the establishment of new
societies, and representing humanistic scholarship in the U.S. and
internationally.
US GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS
National Endowment for the Arts
The NEA offers grant programs in a variety of artistic disciplines.
Subscribe to NEA’s RSS Feed: http://www.arts.
gov/about/NEAFeed. html
National Endowment for the
Humanities
Various grants and fellowships available in the humanities and humanistic
social sciences. Specific programs of
interest: Fellowships
for University Professors; Summer Stipends;
NEH Digital Humanities
Grants
Subscribe to NEH’s RSS Feed: http://www.neh.gov/ whoweare/rss.html
The mission of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
(PCA) is to foster the excellence, diversity and vitality of the arts in
Pennsylvania and to broaden the availability and appreciation of those arts
throughout the state.
Besides
history and literature, humanities fields include philosophy, the history and
criticism of the arts, comparative religion, the study of languages and
linguistics, cultural anthropology and archaeology, jurisprudence, and studies
within the social sciences concerned with humankind's search for meaning and
value
U.S. Department of
Education: Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program
This program is designed to
contribute to the development and improvement of modern foreign language and
area studies in the U.S. by providing opportunities for scholars to conduct
research abroad.
OTHER
GRANT-GIVING ORGANIZATIONS
American Philological
Association
Various awards, prizes, and fellowships for the study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and
civilizations.
American Philosophical Society
Multiple research grants and the APS/British Academy Fellowship for Research in
London offered, including the Franklin Research Grant Program, designed to help
meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes, the
purchase of research materials, fieldwork costs, or laboratory expenses
($6,000).
Archeological Institute of
America
AIA offers six fellowships for travel and study of archeology or classical
studies.
Association for Asian
Studies - China and Inner Asia Council
Small grants ($2,000).
Center for Hellenic
Studies
The Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University offers fellowships to
scholars working on the ancient Greek
world in all its varieties. The most
eligible fields of research include archaeology, art history, epigraphy,
history, literary criticism, philology, philosophy, pedagogical applications,
reception, and interdisciplinary studies.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International
Scholarly Exchange
Fellowships, grants for research and workshop, publication subsidies. Priority
is given to collaborative projects with counterparts in Taiwan.
(DAAD)
- German Academic Exchange Service
Various funding opportunities for faculty members to build ties with
institutions in Germany and/or to complete
your own research.
Loeb Classical Library Foundation
Grants to support research, publication, and other projects in the area of classical studies.
RESIDENTIAL/TRAVEL
FELLOWSHIPS
American Academy in Berlin
The Academy welcomes emerging as well as established scholars, writers, and
professionals who wish to engage in independent
study in Berlin. Fellowships are typically awarded for an academic semester
or, in some cases, for an entire academic year.
American Academy in
Rome
Six or eleven month fellowships in Rome are offered. Humanities includes projects in Ancient Studies (through the sixth century),
Medieval Studies (sixth through 14th centuries), Renaissance and Early Modern
Studies (14th through 18th centuries), Modern Italian Studies (18th century to
the present).
American Antiquarian
Society
The
American Antiquarian Society is a national
research library of American history, literature, and culture through 1876. AAS
offers three broad categories of visiting research fellowships, with tenures
ranging from one to twelve months. All of the fellowships are designed to
enable scholars, advanced graduate students, and others to spend an
uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library on their projects
and discussing their work with others.
The American School of
Classical Studies in Athens
Various fellowships and grants for scholars to conduct research in Greece.
Arizona State University, The Institute for
Humanities Research (IHR)
The
Visiting Fellows program, is for scholars from other institutions of higher
education in the US and abroad to come to ASU for the spring
semester-in-residence. The combined Fellows Programs bring together groups of
scholars to pursue research and writing in an environment designed to be
stimulating and supportive. Fellows will be asked to contribute to the general
enrichment of humanities scholarship by giving seminars and public lectures on
their research topics.
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University
Short-term fellowships to support visiting scholars pursuing research in its
collections. The Library is Yale’s principal repository for literary papers and
for early manuscripts and rare books in the fields of literature, theology,
history, and the natural sciences. Deadline mid-December.
The Bogliasco Fellowship Program
Located on the Italian Riviera in the
village of Bogliasco, the Liguria Study Center provides residential fellowships
for qualified persons working on advanced creative or scholarly projects in the
arts and humanities. The Study Center is one of the few residential
institutions in the world dedicated exclusively to the humanistic disciplines: Archaeology,
Architecture/Landscape Architecture, Classics, Dance, Film/Video, History,
Literature, Music, Philosophy, Theater, and the Visual Arts.
Camargo Foundation
Residential Fellowship, Cassis, France
The
Camargo Foundation, located in Cassis, France, is an interdisciplinary and multicultural residential center for scholars
pursuing studies in the humanities and social sciences related to French and
francophone cultures as well as for composers, writers, and visual artists
(painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, video artists, and new media
artists) pursuing creative projects. The Foundation's campus includes
thirteen furnished apartments, a reference library, a music/conference room, an
artist's studio with darkroom, a composer's studio, and a studio for either an
artist or a composer. Residencies are one semester (either early-September to
mid-December or mid-January to the end of May) and accompanied by a stipend.
Center for Advanced Study, Stanford University
Residential
Fellows: The cornerstone of the Center is our Residential Fellows program which
awards academic year residential fellowships for about 45 scholars who form a
cohesive and diverse intellectual community. Fellows enjoy time and freedom to
pursue their priority research, and more importantly, to expand their horizons
in active engagement with their Center colleagues.
The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social
Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
A range of fellowship programs bring together scholars from Cambridge, U.K. and beyond for a period
of leave from their normal institutional commitments.
Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Research fellowship for scholars addressing broad
questions of multi-country
significance in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and related
natural sciences.
The
Society for the Humanities was established at Cornell University in 1966 to
support research and encourage imaginative teaching in the humanities. It
is intended to be at once a research institute, a stimulus to educational
innovation, and a continuing society of scholars. In addition to promoting
research on central concepts, methods or problems in the humanities, the
Society for the Humanities seeks to encourage serious and sustained discussion
between teachers and learners at all levels of maturity.
Folger Library – Research Fellowships
The Folger Shakespeare Library offers
research fellowships to encourage access to its exceptional collections and to
encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars of the early
modern period. Each year, scholars may
compete for a limited number of long-term (six to nine months) and short-term
(one to three months) fellowships.
Fulbright
Scholar Program( Council for the
International Exchange of Scholars)
The Fulbright Program is an international educational exchange program
sponsored by the U.S. government that currently operates in over 155 countries
worldwide. It provides participants with the opportunity to study, teach and
conduct research, exchange ideas, and contribute to finding solutions to
shared international concerns. This core program sends 800 U.S. faculty and
professionals abroad each year; grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide
variety of academic and professional fields.
The
Getty Foundation - Research Grants for Getty Scholars and Visiting Scholars
Getty
Scholar Grants are for established scholars, artists, or writers who have attained
distinction in their fields. Projects connect to the Getty Research Institute's
annual theme.
The Getty Foundation is part of the J. Paul Getty Trust and awards grants
for "advancing the understanding and
preservation of the visual arts locally and throughout the world."
Hagley Museum and Library
Henry Belin du Pont Fellowships support access to, and use of, Hagley’s
research collections. Hagley’s collections document the interaction between business and the cultural, social, and political
dimensions of our society from the late 18th century to the present.
Humanities
Research Center, University of Windsor
Fellowships are available for visiting researchers.
The Huntington Library
The Huntington is an independent research center with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, and the history of science and medicine. Short-term
and long-term fellowships are available.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the
Humanities, at the University of Edinburgh
Visiting Research
Fellowships
(no stipend, but housing is provided)
Applications are invited for Visiting Research Fellowships of between two and
six months. No limitation is placed on the area of research within the Humanities and Social Sciences but
priority will be given to those whose work falls within the scope of one of the
Institute's current Research.
La Trobe Institute for Advanced Study, Victoria,
Australia
The
Institute for Advanced Study aims to bring together outstanding scholars --
individuals at the cutting edge of research and leaders in their discipline.
Fostering research activities that otherwise might not take place is a high
priority. Fellowships are open to senior
researchers of exceptional distinction and junior postdoctoral researchers
of high promise in disciplines represented at La Trobe University. Fellowships
will be by invitation, nomination or applications.
Library Company of
Philadelphia
One-month residential fellowships to support research in a variety of fields
and disciplines relating to the history
of America and the Atlantic world from the 17th through the 19th centuries, as
well as Mid-Atlantic regional history to the present.
Library of Congress, The
John W. Kluge Center
Various fellowship programs for post-doctoral scholars pursuing resident
research for periods of six to 12 months. Kluge Fellowship (deadline July 15)
supports research in the humanities and
social sciences, especially interdisciplinary, cross-cultural or multilingual.
National Humanities Center - Fellowships
The National Humanities Center is the only major independent American institute
for advanced study in all fields of the
humanities. Privately incorporated and governed by a distinguished board of
trustees from academic, professional, and public life, the Center was planned
under the auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and began
operation in 1978. It provides a national focus for the best work in the
liberal arts, drawing attention to the enduring value of ancient and modern
history, language and literature, ethical and moral reflection, artistic and
cultural traditions, and critical thought in every area of humanistic
investigation. By encouraging excellence in scholarship, the Center seeks to
insure the continuing strength of the liberal arts and to affirm the importance
of the humanities in American life.
New York Public Library
The
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, Fellowships
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 Humanities and Social Sciences
Library – including academics, independent scholars, and creative writers
(novelists, playwrights, poets). 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.
The Newberry Library
Short-term (one to two months) and long-term fellowships (six to eleven months)
in the humanities for scholars to use Newberry Collections, including books,
manuscripts, maps, and other printed materials related to the history and culture of Western Europe and
the Americas.
The Newberry Library,
Fellowships in the Humanities
Fellowships at the Newberry Library are of two types: short-term fellowships
with terms of one week to two months and long-term fellowships of six to eleven
months. Short-term fellowships are generally restricted to individuals from
outside the metropolitan Chicago area and are primarily intended to assist researchers with a need to examine
specific items in the Library's collection. Long-term fellowships are
generally available without regard to an applicant's place of residence and are
intended to support significant works of scholarship that draw on the Library's
strengths.
Penn Humanities Forum,
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
The Penn Humanities Forum awards five one-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellowships each academic year to junior scholars in the humanities who are not
yet tenured (may not be tenured during the fellowship year).
Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study, Fellowship Program
Radcliffe Institute fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists,
artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments
who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative
arts.
Harry Ransom Center at the
University of Texas at Austin
Fellowships support scholarly research
projects in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography,
film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history.
A Bellagio residency provides time for
critical thinking, disciplined work, individual reflection, and collegial
engagement, uninterrupted by the usual professional and personal demands. Scholarly Residencies: The Center
typically offers one-month residencies for no more than 12 scholars and
scientists at a time. Individuals in any discipline – and from any part of the
world – are welcome to apply. Space is reserved for both academic projects, as
well as projects that align with the Foundation’s mission to expand
opportunities for poor or vulnerable people and to help ensure that
globalization’s benefits are shared more widely. (Details on the Foundation’s
mission and philosophy can be found in the About Us section.) Alignment can
reflect policy analysis, applied work, and/or basic scholarship, or any
combination thereof. Creative Arts
Residencies: Bellagio creative arts residencies – for composers, novelists,
playwrights, poets, video/filmmakers and visual artists – provide time for
disciplined work, individual reflection, and collegial engagement,
uninterrupted by the usual professional and personal demands. The Center
typically offers one-month stays for no more than 3-5 creative artists at a
time. Artists of significant achievement, from any country, are welcome to
apply.
Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
RCHA
provides a setting to discuss issues of
broad contemporary relevance in historical perspective. Organizing its
annual activities around major research projects, the Center each year welcomes
several visiting senior and postdoctoral fellows chosen through an open,
international competition, along with about ten faculty and graduate fellows
from within Rutgers University.
Edmond J. Safra
Foundation Center for Ethics
The Edmond
J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics encourages teaching and research about
ethical issues in public life and the professions; helps meet the growing need
for teachers and scholars who address questions of moral choice in practical
ethics and in areas such as architecture, business, education, government, journalism,
law, medicine, public health, and public policy; brings together those with
competence in philosophical thought and those with experience in professional
education; and promotes a perspective on ethics informed by both theory and
practice.
School for Advanced Research
(Santa Fe, NM)
The School for Advanced Research currently offers two residential fellowship
programs for scholars in the social sciences, humanities, and Native arts: a six to nine month residential
fellowship and a two month summer fellowship.
School of Advanced
Study, University of London - Visiting Professorial Fellowships
S. T.
Lee Professorial Fellowship - A generous endowment by Dr S.T. Lee, of
Singapore, has made possible the creation of this Fellowship, open to
applicants of professorial or equivalent status for the purpose of supporting research in London in any field relevant to the
work of one or more of the School's Institutes. A second Visiting
Professorial Fellowship is offered by the School on the same terms as the
S.T. Lee Fellowship.
The School of Historical Studies at The
Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, NJ
The
School of Historical Studies supports scholarship in all fields of historical research, but is concerned principally
with the history of western, near eastern
and Asian civilizations, with particular emphasis upon Greek and Roman
civilization, the history of Europe (medieval, early modern, and modern), the
Islamic world, East Asian studies, the history of art, the history of science,
philosophy, and modern international relations. The School also
offers the Edward T. Cone Membership in Music Studies. Each year the
School welcomes approximately forty Members. Most are working on topics
in the above mentioned fields, but each year the School also selects some
scholars working in other areas of historical research. Members in the
School are appointed for either one term or for two terms, amounting to a full
academic year.
Smithsonian Opportunity for Research and Study
(SORS)
Postdoctoral and Senior Fellowships - Postdoctoral Fellowships of three to
twelve months are available for scholars who have held the doctoral degree or
equivalent for fewer than seven years as of the application deadline. Senior
Fellowships of three to twelve months are available for scholars who have held
the doctoral degree or equivalent for more than seven years as of the
application deadline.
Stanford Humanities
Center, External Faculty Fellows
Since its
inception in 1980, the Humanities Center has offered external fellowships to
more than 550 faculty from nearly 100 universities in the United States and
other countries. External fellows come from all ranks of the professoriate and
from a wide variety of disciplinary fields, colleges and universities. The
Center typically offers six to eight external fellowships each year.
Tanner Humanities Center at the University of
Utah
The Tanner Humanities Center offers residential fellowships to selected
scholars to conduct research that provides a significant contributions to humanistic knowledge.
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
at Vanderbilt University
William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellowship; The Robert Penn Warren Center for the
Humanities promotes interdisciplinary
research and study in the humanities and social sciences and, when
appropriate, the natural sciences.
Woodrow Wilson Center
Residential fellowships are awarded to individuals with outstanding project
proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues.
OTHER
USEFUL WEBSITES
Consortium of Humanities
Centers and Institutes
CHCI and
the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) have launched an expanded
program designed to provide opportunities for certain ACLS fellowship
recipients to spend all or part of their fellowship terms in residence at CHCI
member organizations. By connecting ACLS fellows with CHCI member
organizations, the program aims to provide fellows with a supportive working
environment that facilitates access to unique resources, materials, and people,
while at the same time enabling CHCI member organizations to diversify and
further invigorate the intellectual climates of their organizations.
Humanities and Social
Sciences on Line
National Humanities Alliance - Clearing house for information re: the
Humanities in the US
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN THE
HUMANITIES
American Academy in
Rome - Rome Prize Fellowships
Awarded
each year to 30 artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their
careers, chosen from the following disciplines: Architecture Design, Historic
Preservation and Conservation, Landscape Architecture, Literature, Musical
Composition, Visual Arts, Ancient Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance and
Early Modern Studies, Modern Italian Studies. Applicants, except those applying
for the NEH postdoctoral fellowship, must be U.S. citizens at the time of
application. U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who have lived in the U.S. for
the three years preceding the application deadline may apply for the NEH
postdoctoral fellowships.
American Antiquarian Society - Short-Term Fellowships Long-Term Fellowships
Offers short-term fellowships (1-3 months) and long-term
fellowships (4-12 months) to support residential research on the life of
America's people from the colonial era through the Civil War and
Reconstruction.
American Association of University Women - Fellowships and Grants
American Fellowships support women scholars completing
doctoral dissertations, conducting postdoctoral research, or finishing research
for publication; recipients must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
International Fellowships support graduate or postgraduate study or research by
women who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
American Councils for
International Education - Research Fellowships
Administers several major grants for independent, overseas
research in the humanities and social sciences. In recent years, American
Councils scholars have conducted independent research in Albania, Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo,
Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine.
American Council of Learned Societies - Fellowships and Grants
ACLS offers fellowships and grants in more than a dozen
programs for research in the humanities and related social sciences at the
doctoral and postdoctoral levels.
American Historical Association - J. Franklin Jameson
Fellowship in American History - Fellowship in Aerospace History
Jameson Fellows spend 2-3 months at the Library of Congress
for American history research. Aerospace Fellows undertake a 6-12 month
research project in aerospace history.
American Research Center in Egypt - Fellowships
Several fellowships available for postdoctoral travel and
study in Cairo and Egypt.
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Fellowships – Foundation offers
fellowships and travel grants for in-residence research in the history and
sociology of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries.
Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Multi-Country Research
Fellowship
- Supports advanced regional or trans-regional research in the humanities,
social sciences, or allied natural sciences for U.S. master's students,
doctoral candidates, and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. Scholars
must carry out research in two or more countries outside the U.S., at least one
of which hosts a participating American overseas research center.
Dartmouth College Leslie Center for the Humanities
Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellowships
- Two-year postdoctoral fellowships for research and teaching at Dartmouth University.
Fellows are expected to teach two courses each year.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Research Fellowships – Research fellowships
provides access to the Library's collections. Short-term (1-3 months) and
long-term (6-9 months) fellowships are available.
Getty Research Institute
Residential Grants and
Fellowships - Institute offers several
postdoctoral fellowships for scholars in residence at the Getty Research
Institute in Los Angeles.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Scholarly Fellowships - Awards short-term
research fellowships to scholars working in American history at every level
from doctoral candidates to senior faculty, including independent scholars. The
fellowships support research within American history archives in New York City.
Harvard University Center for Italian
Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti - Fellowships
Center fellowships for research on the Italian Renaissance
are offered.
Haverford College John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center
Mellon Post-Doctoral
Fellows
- Two-year
fellowships in the humanities at Haverford College in Pennsylvania.
Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation
Programmes for
postdoctoral researchers - Several fellowships fund research stays in Germany.
Huntington Library
Fellowships - Short-term and
long-term in-residence fellowships. The Huntington is an independent research
center with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history,
and the history of science and medicine.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers History Center
IEEE Fellowship in
Electrical History
- Supports either one year of full-time graduate work in the history of
electrical science and technology at a college or university of recognized
standing, or up to one year of post-doctoral research for a scholar in this
field who has received their Ph.D. within the past three years.
Library of Congress, John W. Kluge Center
Fellowships, Distinguished Chairs &
Endowments - Offers
several postdoctoral fellowships for research at the Library of Congress.
National Academies
Ford Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowships - Seeks to increase the diversity of the nation's
college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial
diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase
the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for
enriching the education of all students. Only U.S. citizens or nationals are
eligible to apply.
National Maritime Museum (UK)
Caird Senior Research
Fellowships
- Up to £20,000 for one year for research on the Museum's collections or in any
field of British naval and maritime history.
National Science Foundation
Science, Technology, and
Society (STS)
- STS considers proposals that examine historical, philosophical, and
sociological questions that arise in connection with science, engineering, and
technology, and their respective interactions with society.
Newberry Library
Fellowships in the
Humanities
- Fellowships provide assistance to researchers to use the collections in
Chicago. Short-term fellowships for one week to two months and long-term
fellowships for six to eleven months are available.
Oxford University
Junior Research
Fellowships
- The Governing Bodies of three Colleges (Christ Church, Merton College and St
John's College) elect in co-operation Junior Research Fellows in Arts and
Science. The Fellowships are normally awarded to those who are approaching the
end of their doctoral research or who have begun postdoctoral study.
Princeton University Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Postdoctoral Fellowship - The Princeton Society
of Fellows, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities, social
sciences, and selected natural sciences, invites applications for in-residence
postdoctoral fellowships.
Smithsonian Institution
Fellowship Programs - Fellowships,
internships, and other programs are available for scholars interested in
working with the Smithsonian.
Society for the
History of Technology
Hindle Fellowship - The Brooke Hindle
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology offers $10,000 for
research or writing in the history of technology for a period of at least four
months.
Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies
Postdoctoral Fellowships
in Chinese Studies
- Offers up to two postdoctoral fellowships in Chinese Studies each year. These
awards are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences studying any
historical period.
Tufts University Center for the Humanities
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows - Two-year postdoctoral
fellowships for research and teaching at Tufts University. Fellows are expected
to teach two courses each year. Fellows will teach one course in the spring
semester of their first year and two in the second year of their residency
through their home department or program.
UC Humanities Research Institute
Residential Research Fellows - UC faculty, postdocs,
graduate students and non-UC faculty are invited to apply for residential
fellowships in the residential group.
UC MEXUS
UC MEXUS-CONACYT Postdoctoral
Research Fellowships
- Supports postdoctoral researchers participating in a research project or
training program at the University of California or at Mexican institutions of
higher education or research.
UCLA William Andrews
Clark Memorial Library
Fellowships - The Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies oversees a number of
fellowships at the Clark Library. Fellowships are offered from the
undergraduate to the postdoctoral levels, for both long and short terms.
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - Encourages
outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at
the University of California. Open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
The current program offers fellowships to scholars in all fields whose
research, teaching, and service will contribute to diversity and equal
opportunity at the University of California.
University of Cambridge Cambridge University Centre for Research in
the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Mellon/Newton
Interdisciplinary Post-doctoral Research Fellowships
Applications are invited for two 2-year interdisciplinary
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships aimed at researchers working in any field of
the arts, social sciences or humanities. The fellowships will enable
post-doctoral fellows to consolidate their research and publication record
while developing a related project or initiative at CRASSH during their
two-year fellowship. Applicants must have completed the PhD and should normally
have been awarded it not more than three years prior to taking up their
fellowship.
University of Cambridge - Churchill College,
Fitzwilliam College, and Trinity Hall: Junior Research Fellowships
Funds three-year fellowships for recent postdocs in various
subjects
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of African American
Studies
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship
Program
- One postdoctoral fellowship is available with the Department for scholars who
study African Americans and transnational Black populations in the U.S. An
applicant must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
University of Michigan Society of Fellows
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Each year the Society
selects four outstanding applicants for appointment to three-year fellowships
in the social, physical, and life sciences, and in the professional schools;
and four Mellon Fellows in the humanities.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Carolina Postdoc Program
for Faculty Diversity
- The purpose is to develop scholars from underrepresented groups for possible
tenure track appointments at the UNC-Chapel Hill. Appointments are for two
years. Preference will be given to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for the Study of the
American South
Postdoctoral Fellowship - The fellowships will
support outstanding junior scholars as they revise book-length manuscripts on
topics related to the South, and intended for publication by the University of
North Carolina Press.
University of Pennsylvania
PHF Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellowship in the Humanities
McNeil Center for Early
American Studies Fellowships Barra Postdoctoral Fellowship - The Penn Humanities
Forum awards five one-year in-residence Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellowships each academic year to junior scholars in the humanities who are not
yet tenured. The McNeil Center will appoint a recent recipient of the PhD
Fellow for a two-year term in residence at the Center.
Vatican Film Library, Saint Louis University
Mellon Fellowship
NEH Research Fellowship - Supports research by
scholars using the VFL's collections. Mellon Fellowships are for two to eight
weeks duration. The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies annually awards
six five-week NEH Fellowships to scholars to use the Vatican Film Library and
Pius XII Library and other resources.
Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities
Andrew W. Mellon
Fellowship Program
- Postdoctoral fellow will conduct research in any field of the humanities or
humanistic social sciences and teach a one-semester undergraduate course.