Sabbatical Funding and Fellowships
Domestic and International Opportunities
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The Visiting Scholars Program is designed to stimulate and support research conducted by younger public policy analysts, humanists, and social scientists who show promise of becoming leaders in their field, especially those who work on multidisciplinary topics. The Program offers opportunities for them to carry out their individual research as well as to collaborate with Academy Fellows on shared scholarly or policy-related interests.
American Antiquarian Society
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.
American Council of Learned Societies
Fellowships and Grants Overview
ACLS continues to be the leading private institution supporting scholars in the humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels.
American Council of Learned Societies
Collaborative Research Fellowships
not offered in 2018-19
These awards support collaborative research in the humanities and related social sciences. The aim of this fellowship program is to offer small teams of two or more scholars the opportunity to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project. The fellowship supports projects that aim to produce a tangible research product (such as joint print or web publications) for which two or more collaborators will take credit.
American Council of Learned Societies
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars
These fellowships support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences.
Burkhardt Fellowships are intended to support an academic year (normally nine months) of residence at any one of the national residential research centers participating in the program or at a location of choice. Such an environment, beyond providing free time, encourages exchanges across disciplinary lines that can be especially helpful to deepening and expanding the significance of projects in the humanities and related social sciences. Candidates must also commit themselves to relocating as needed in order to be in residence for the tenure of the fellowship. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant.
American Philosophical Society
This is a program of small grants to scholars intended to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge.
Library Digital Humanities Fellowship
This two-month fellowship is open to scholars who are comfortable creating tools and visualizations, as well as those interested in working collaboratively with the APS technology team.
Arizona State University Institute for Humanities Research
The ASU IHR, located in Tempe, AZ, invites applications for two one-semester visiting fellowships (January through May) for research in the humanities. The 2015-2016 theme is: Monsters and Monstrosity and 2016/17 is Money. The fellowships include a stipend of $25,000 as well as office space and support services.
Association for Asian Studies
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia and the study of Asia.
Association of Theological Schools
Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology
Designed to encourage high-quality research that promises both to contribute to theological inquiry and to provide leadership in theological scholarship. Since its inception in 1994, the program has funded intellectually rigorous research projects that emphasize the interdisciplinary character of theological scholarship and education, and address the needs of the academy, communities of faith, and the wider society.. A fellowship of $75,000 will be awarded for a twelve-month period.
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
Members of CASVA’s resident community of scholars include the Samuel H. Kress Professor, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor, the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, the A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, and approximately 20 fellows at any one time, including senior fellows, visiting senior fellows, research associates, postdoctoral fellows, and predoctoral fellows. Fellows and professors who relocate to Washington are provided with housing in apartments near the National Gallery of Art, subject to availability. They are also provided with studies in the East Building of the Gallery. Lectures, colloquia, shoptalks, and other scholarly gatherings complement the fellowship program.
The Center for Creative Photography
Awards up to $5,000 to promote new knowledge about photography and the history of photography, particularly in relation to how the research will be advanced by study of the Center’s archives and print collection.
Photographic Arts Council/Los Angeles (PAC/LA) Research Fellowship
Awards up to $2,500 to support research at the Center for Creative Photography in the history of photography particularly in relation to how the research will be advanced by study of the Center’s archives and print collection.
The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
The Foundation’s grants provide support for research on Chinese Studies in the humanities and social sciences.
Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes
The Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes serves as a site for the discussion of issues germane to the fostering of cross-disciplinary activity and as a network for the circulation of information and the sharing of resources within the humanities and interpretive social sciences. CHCI has a membership of over 150 centers and institutes that are remarkably diverse in size and scope and are located in the United States, Australia, Canada, China, Korea, Finland, Taiwan, Ireland, United Kingdom, and other countries.
Cornell University
Society for the Humanities Fellowships
Six to eight Fellows will be appointed. Each year has a theme. In 2016-17 it seeks interdisciplinary research projects that reflect on philosophical, aesthetic, political, ecological, religious, psychoanalytical, and cultural understandings of skin.
Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grants
The sponsor provides research fellowships to individuals in the social sciences and humanities disciplines, including economics, philosophy, history, international affairs and government/politics. The supported research should lead to the advancement of knowledge through teaching, lecturing, and publication.
Contact the foundation directly for the RFP:
Program Officer
Earhart Foundation
2200 Green Road, Suite H
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Telephone: (319) 761-8592
Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Library
Deadline: Nov 1
Rose Library offers short-term fellowships to support scholarly use of the Library’s research collections in: Englishlanguage literature; The Raymond Danowski Poetry Library; African American history and culture; Southern history and culture; Modern politics
East-West Center
POSCO Visiting Fellowship Program
Deadline: 12/31
The East-West Center proposes to invite four to six visiting fellows who will spend one or two months each carrying out policy-related research on issues regarding Northeast Asia that are of common concern — such as globalization, economic regionalism, economic restructuring, political change, and the changing East Asian security environment, including the Korean Peninsula. The POSCO Fellowship Program is intended to generate constructive and informative research on four important issues: (1) issues concerning the two Koreas and Northeast Asia; (2) security issues for Korea and Northeast Asia; economic and social aspects of Korea-related issues; (4) political aspects of Korea-related issues. POSCO visiting fellows are in residence at the East-West Center and are provided with a stipend and round trip economy airfare to Honolulu. They are required to give one seminar, prepare a high quality paper to be submitted for publication, and join in East-West Center activities. The Fellow may also be asked to participate in local outreach and public diplomacy activities.
Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
FAIC/Samuel H. Kress Conservation Publication Fellowship
Deadline: 1/22
The sponsor provides support to current Professional Associate or Fellow members of AIC in support of the goal of improving the quality and quantity of publications in the field of conservation by encouraging Conservation professionals to prepare publishable manuscripts.
Fox (Bill and Carol) Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University
Junior and Post-Doctoral Fellows Program
The sponsor awards up to three annual Junior and Post-Doctoral Fellowships for an academic year of study, teaching, and residence in the Center. The purpose of the program is to stimulate and support humanistic research by providing scholars in early stages of their careers with the necessary time, space, and other resources. In addition, the Program was created to allow the Emory community access to a range of humanistic work by visiting scholars from other institutions. There are also short-term summer research fellowships to support use of the library.
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation
The Howard Foundation awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in selected fields. The Foundation targets its support specifically to early mid-career individuals, those who have achieved recognition for at least one major project.
2018-2019 Sculpture, History of Art and Architecture
2019-2020 Painting, Literary Studies
2020-2021 Fiction, Poetry, and Playwriting, Theatre Studies
2021-2022 Creative Non-Fiction, History
2022-2023 Photography, Film Studies
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
Deadline: 11/15
The Ransom Center annually awards 50 fellowships to support scholarly research projects in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history. Applicants must demonstrate the necessity of substantial on-site use of the Center’s collections.
Harvard College Library
The Library’s holdings are particularly strong in the following areas: European, English, American, and South
American literature, including the country’s pre-eminent collection of American literary manuscripts; philosophy; religion; history of science; music; printing and graphic arts; dance; and theatre. Fellows will also have access to collections in Widener Library as well as to other libraries at the University. Preference is given to scholars whose research is closely based on materials in Houghton collections, especially when those materials are unique.
Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography
This fellowship is available to assist scholarly research in descriptive bibliography at Houghton Library and carries a stipend of $3,600 per month, up to twelve months (maximum $43,200). Fellows are expected to be in residence at Houghton Library for the duration of the fellowship.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation
Intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Fellowships are awarded through annual competition: to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada. The Foundation makes awards to advanced professionals – writers, scholars, or scientists who have a significant record of publication; or artists, playwrights, filmmakers, photographers, composers, or the like, who have a significant record of exhibition or performance of their work.
Loeb Classical Library Foundation
Deadline: 11/1 annually
Loeb Classical Library Foundation grants range from $1,000 – $35,000 and provide support for research, publication, and other projects in the area of classical studies. Grants may be used for a wide variety of purposes, including publication of research, enhancement of sabbaticals, travel to libraries or collections, dramatic productions, excavation expenses, or cost of research materials.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Deadline: first Friday in November
Fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum are an opportunity for a community of scholars from around the world to use the Museum as a place for exchange, research, and professional advancement. The fellows are fully integrated into the community of art history and conservation fellows and, through weekly gatherings and workshops, take part in research sharing and workshops that explore the inner workings of the Met. Fellows are given a workspace and access to libraries, collections, research facilities, labs, and, perhaps most importantly, the time and space to think.
Conservation and Scientific Research Fellowships
Deadline: first Friday in December
Provide training, hands-on treatment of works of art, and research opportunities for junior conservators and scientists in the field. The fellowships also support senior scholars carrying out independent research projects related to the Museum’s collections.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.
Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of six to twelve months.
National Endowment for the Humanities
The Digital Humanities Implementation Grants program awards substantial grants to support the implementation of experimental projects that have successfully completed a start-up phase and demonstrated their value to the humanities. Such projects might enhance our understanding of central problems in the humanities, raise new questions in the humanities, or develop new digital applications and approaches for use in the humanities. The program can support innovative digital humanities projects that address multiple audiences, including scholars, teachers, librarians, and the public. Applications from recipients of NEH’s Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants are welcome.
The Public Scholar Program supports well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership. Although humanities scholarship can be specialized, the humanities also strive to engage broad audiences in exploring subjects of general interest. They seek to deepen our understanding of the human condition as well as current conditions and contemporary problems. The Public Scholar Program aims to encourage scholarship that will be of broad interest and have lasting impact. Such scholarship might present a narrative history, tell the stories of important individuals, analyze significant texts, provide a synthesis of ideas, revive interest in a neglected subject, or examine the latest thinking on a topic.
National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
Visiting Senior Fellowship Program
Fellowships are for full-time research, and scholars are expected to reside in Washington and to participate in the activities of the Center throughout the fellowship period. Lectures, colloquia, and informal discussions complement the fellowship program. Applications will be considered for study in the history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, prints and drawings, film, photography, decorative arts, industrial design, and other arts) of any geographical area and of any period. Applications are also solicited from scholars in other disciplines whose work examines artifacts or has implications for the analysis and criticism of visual form.
National Humanities Center
The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year. Young scholars as well as senior scholars are encouraged to apply, but they must have a record of publication. In addition to scholars from all fields of the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects. The Center is also international and gladly accepts applications from scholars outside the United States. Most of the Center‘s fellowships are unrestricted. Several, however, are designated for particular areas of research. These include one fellowship for a young woman in philosophy and fellowships for environmental studies; English literature; art history; Asian Studies; and theology.
New York Mills Regional Cultural Center
Deadline: 4/1
Artists from all performance or visual media will be considered for a retreat. The selection committee awards retreats to artists based on merit and plan of work during the retreat period. The retreat program provides stays of two to six weeks for artists at no cost for room. Each artist provides her or his own transportation and board. There is no stipend.
New York Public Library
Fellowships at the Cullman Center
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers offers fellowships to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the research collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street (formerly the Humanities and Social Sciences Library). Renowned for the extraordinary comprehensiveness of its collections, the Library is one of the world’s preeminent resources for study in anthropology, art, geography, history, languages and literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, and sports.
Princeton University
The Hodder Fellowship was created for artists in the early stages of their careers. It is awarded to individuals during that crucial period when they have demonstrated exceptional promise but have not yet received widespread recognition. Hodder Fellows may be poets, playwrights, novelists, creative nonfiction writers, translators, or other artists and humanists who have “much more than ordinarily intellectual and literary gifts” and who are selected “for promise rather than performance.”
The School for Advanced Research (SAR)
Deadline: 11/1
Awards approximately six Resident Scholar Fellowships each year to scholars who have completed their research and analysis and who need time to think and write about topics important to the understanding of humankind. Resident scholars may approach their research from anthropology or from related fields such as history, sociology, art, and philosophy. Both humanistically and scientifically oriented scholars are encouraged to apply. There are targeted fellowships for a Native scholar, a female scholar writing a book and in Latino studies.
Smithsonian Institution
Deadline: varies by fellowship
Fields of research include: American History, American Material and Folk Culture, and the History of Music and
Musical Instruments; History of Science and Technology; History of Art, Design, Crafts, and the Decorative Arts; Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnic Studies; Evolutionary, Systematic, Behavioral, Environmental, and Conservation Biology; Earth, Mineral, and Planetary Science; and Materials Characterization and Conservation.
Stanford University
Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowships
Deadline: 10/1
Faculty fellowships are awarded across the spectrum of academic ranks and a goal of the selection process is to create a diverse community of scholars. Applicants who are members of traditionally under-represented groups are encouraged to apply. The humanities include, but are not limited to, the following fields: history, philosophy, languages, literature, linguistics, archeology, jurisprudence, history and criticism of the arts, ethics, comparative religion, and those aspects of the social sciences employing historical or philosophical approaches. This last category includes social and cultural anthropology, sociology, political theory, international relations, and other subjects concerned with questions of value.”
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
One of a small number of institutions in the United States that combines a public art museum with a complex of research and academic programs, including a major art history library. National and international scholars, critics, and museum professionals are welcome to propose projects that extend and enhance the understanding of the visual arts and their role in culture.
THE CLARK / OAKLEY HUMANITIES FELLOWSHIP
In conjunction with the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Williams College, the Clark offers a fellowship for a scholar in the humanities whose work takes an interdisciplinary approach to some aspect of the visual.
KRESS FELLOWSHIP IN THE LITERATURE OF ART
Funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, this fellowship is particularly directed to scholars whose work engages critically with the literature of art “before the era of art history” (i.e., before the formation of a discipline of art history in the mid-nineteenth century). The Clark seeks applicants whose focus might be theoretical or aesthetic treatises, anecdotes, histories, translations of texts, artists’ writings, or other material that might broadly be described as part of the literature of art or the pre-history of art history.
University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Faculty Residential Fellowships
Seeks to enhance research and creativity in the humanities, broadly defined. In particular, UCHI promotes the development and productivity of University of Connecticut faculty through its fellowship, seminar, and workshop programs, by bringing outside scholars and authors to Connecticut, and by its support for scholarly conferences and journals. By exploring the full range of humanistic inquiry and methodologies the UCHI calls attention to the many ways that scholarly advances in the humanities enrich general understanding of the human condition.
University of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
Deadline: 10/15
The Penn Humanities Forum awards five (5) one-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships each academic year to junior scholars in the humanities who are no more than eight years out of their doctorate and who are not yet tenured (may not be tenured during the fellowship year). Scholars are required to spend the year (September– May) in residence at Penn. – For the 2016–2017 academic year, we have set Translation as the topic – Humanists and those in related fields (e.g., anthropology, history of science) are eligible to apply. Exclusions are proposals in social science disciplines, educational curriculum building, and work by performing artists (scholars of performance are eligible).
Vanderbilt University
Robert Penn Warren Center for The Humanities – William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellowship
No fellowship 2019-20
Engaged research has a long history in the social and biomedical sciences. With great respect for these methods, we seek to cultivate and enjoy a community of humanities colleagues who would like to further, develop, and interpret what engaged humanities scholarship requires. The Warren Center will cultivate a space of collegiate exploration and scholarly production that addresses a timely and vital ethical, political, and academic challenge. We invite applications for the William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellowship from scholars in all disciplines whose lively presence will help to focus our work and stimulate discussions. We anticipate that the successful applicant will have completed the terminal degree in her/his field at the time of application and will have a record of scholarly publications. The Visiting Fellow is provided with a spacious office within the Warren Center’s own building. The fellowship pays a stipend of up to $50,000 and provides $2000 in moving expenses.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Deadline: 10/1
The Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues of contemporary importance.
Yaddo
The sponsor’s residency program supports visits by creative artists, enabling them to work without interruption in a supportive environment. Residencies vary in length from two weeks to eight weeks; the average stay is five weeks. Financial assistance is available to artists in need. Artists may be of any nationality.
American Antiquarian Society
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.
American Institute for Yemeni Studies
The American Institute for Yemeni Studies annually holds two competitions for fellowship programs supporting research on Yemen
Archaeological Institute of America
The AIA Publication Subvention Program Deadline: Mar 1, Nov 1
This program offers subventions from the AIA’s von Bothmer Publication Fund in support of new book-length publications in the field of Classical Archaeology (defined as Greek, Roman, and Etruscan archaeology and art history). Particularly welcome are projects that publish the work of first-time authors or represent the publication of final reports of primary data from sites already excavated or surveyed, but are still unpublished. All manuscripts submitted for consideration must conform to AIA’s policies regarding the initial publication of undocumented antiquities.
Archaeological Institute of America
The AIA is pleased to offer fellowships for travel and study to deserving scholars and a number of scholarships and grants for students, publications, and AIA Societies. AIA scholarships, fellowships, and grants are open to members of the Archaeological Institute of America.
Association of Theological Schools
Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology
Designed to encourage high-quality research that promises both to contribute to theological inquiry and to provide leadership in theological scholarship. Since its inception in 1994, the program has funded intellectually rigorous research projects that emphasize the interdisciplinary character of theological scholarship and education, and address the needs of the academy, communities of faith, and the wider society.. A fellowship of $75,000 will be awarded for a twelve-month period.
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) Residency Fellowship Program
Assists scholars and professionals whose research on the LGBTQ experience can benefit from access to CLAGS’s resources and its location in midtown Manhattan at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. The Scholarsin-Residence Program is designed to (1) encourage research and writing on the history, literature and culture of the of the LGBTQ community or other dynamic projects relating to the LGBTQ experience, broadly conceived; (2) to promote and facilitate interaction among the participants including fellows funded by other sources; (3) to facilitate the dissemination of the researcher’s findings through lectures via CLAGS’s ongoing Events Series. The Fellowship Program is open to all disciplines with projects that are related to LGBTQ studies. Creative writing (works of poetry and fiction) and projects that result in a performance are not eligible.
Council on Foreign Relations
International Affairs Fellowships
Seeks to bridge the gap between analysis and action in foreign policy by inviting individuals from the academic, business, government, media, and religious communities to engage in a variety of policy studies and actively participate in policymaking. The distinctive character of the program lies in the contrasting experiences it provides at the juncture of policy research and policy formulation. Academic and other professionals from the private sector spend fellowship tenures in public service or in a policymaking setting, while government officials have the opportunity to study foreign policy issues in a scholarly atmosphere free from operational pressure.
Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation
Deadline: Apr/Sept
Conservation of natural resources in eastern North America and the Caribbean Basin, with an emphasis on the United States.
Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Library
Deadline: Nov 1
Rose Library offers short-term fellowships to support scholarly use of the Library’s research collections in: Englishlanguage literature; The Raymond Danowski Poetry Library; African American history and culture; Southern history and culture; Modern politics
The Frick Collection/Center for the History of Collecting in America
The sponsor offers short-term senior fellowships (8–10 weeks) and long-term (4–5 months) Leon Levy Fellowships for post-doctoral and senior scholars. In all cases preference will be given to researchers whose projects are particularly appropriate to the resources available at the Frick Art Reference Library. Fellowship proposals may address wide-ranging aspects of the history of collecting in the United States, from Colonial times to the present, and may focus on individual collectors, dealers, developments or trends in the art market. Interdisciplinary research subjects are especially encouraged.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Supports work in these five archives, as well as any other NYC research archives that may not be listed below: *The Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New York Historical Society–The Gilder Lehrman Collection consists of letters and diaries, maps, pamphlets, sketchbooks, printed books, photographs, and other materials. The collection’s holdings range from Columbus to recent times, but concentrate in the period from 1760 to 1876.
*The Library of the New York Historical Society–One of the oldest research libraries in the United States, with vast manuscript and printed book collections covering four centuries, and one of the world’s largest collections of pre1820 newspapers.
*The Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Collection–This archive of Columbia University is particularly strong in English and American literature and history, the classics, the history of publishing, New York City politics, and journalism.
*The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library–The library’s research holdings are strong in every period of American history, in both manuscripts and books. Among many highlights are materials on the founding fathers and the Civil War, records of renowned authors and publishing houses, religious collections, and papers of diverse political figures.
*The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL)–One of the premier archives of African- American history, art, and culture, the Center’s archives contain extensive materials on the history of slavery and abolition, the African diaspora, religion, African- American culture, and the Civil Rights Movement.
Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Each year, the Davis Center provides financial support for scholars to conduct research at Harvard University.
Successful candidates combine disciplinary excellence in the humanities or social sciences, or significant work experience, with an area focus in Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and/or the Caucasus. The theme in 2015– 2016: Mobility, Boundaries, and the Production of Power in Eurasia
Harvard University Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Dumbarton Oaks offers residential fellowships in three areas of study: Byzantine Studies (including related aspects of late Roman, early Christian, Western medieval, Slavic, and Near Eastern studies), Pre-Columbian Studies (of Mexico, Central America, and Andean South America), and Garden and Landscape Studies.
Mellon Fellowships in Urban Landscape Studies
Dumbarton Oaks is one of the few institutions in the world with a program devoted to garden and landscape studies that is targeted at both humanities scholars and landscape practitioners. The Mellon Fellowships are intended to expand significantly the opportunities offered by the institution to both of these groups, building constructive dialogue between them about the history and future of urban landscapes, and encouraging them to bridge the gap between their professional modes of thinking. To foster this interchange, Dumbarton Oaks seeks candidates with a demonstrated capacity for cross-disciplinary work, and encourages collaborative applications from teams of designers and historians working on similar topics or the same city.
Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (University Of Pennsylvania)
Each year, this residential fellowship program invites roughly 20 scholars in the humanities and social sciences at all levels to conduct research on a specific theme within the various fields of Judaic studies. This year‘s theme seeks to expand the study of Jewish political thought.
Indiana University Lilly Library
The Lilly Library, the principal rare book and manuscript library of Indiana University, invites applications for visiting fellowships for research in residence in its collections. Its holdings support research in British, French, and American literature and history; the literature of voyages and exploration, specifically the European expansion in the Americas; early printing, and the Church, children’s literature, music; film, radio and television; medicine, science, and architecture; and food and drink.
Institute for Human Sciences
Deadlines: vary by fellowship
Each year approximately seventy Visiting Fellows, Junior Visiting Fellows and Guests – mainly from Eastern and Western Europe as well as from North America – are awarded fellowships to pursue their individual research projects while working in residence at the IWM as members of an international and multidisciplinary academic community. The IWM strives to provide conditions that allow the fellows to make significant progress in their research and to profit from the intellectual stimulation of the Institute’s seminars.
The John Carter Brown Library
Offers short-term and long-term fellowships. Sponsorship of research at the John Carter Brown Library is reserved exclusively for scholars whose work is centered on the colonial history of the Americas,
North and South, including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American involvement.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Fellowship
Schlesinger Fellowships carry a stipend of up to $5,000, which may be awarded to a single individual or divided between two recipients. They are intended to support scholars in the production of substantial works on the foreign policy of the Kennedy years, especially with regard to the western hemisphere, or on Kennedy domestic policy, especially with regard to racial justice and to the conservation of natural resources.
Marjorie Kovler Research Fellowship
Stipend of up to $2,500. Preference is given to research on foreign intelligence & the presidency, or a related topic. Abba P. Schwartz Research Fellowship
Stipend of up to $3,100. Preference is given to research on immigration, naturalization, or refugee policy. Theodore C. Sorensen Research Fellowship
Stipend of up to $3,600. Preference is given to research on domestic policy, political journalism, polling, or press relations. Deadline: 11/ 2
Ernest Hemingway Research Grants
Grant of $200 to $1,000 per person. Preference is given to dissertation research in newly-opened or under-utilized portions of the Hemingway Collection.
Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Visiting Residential Fellowships
The sponsor offers residential Visiting Fellowships which are designed to provide applicants with the time and space to work on research, while interacting with leading scholars. The sponsor offers numerous opportunities to explore the work of noted scholars through seminars, conferences, and roundtable discussions. The sponsor focuses on the following research themes: democratization and the quality of democracy; growth and development in the global economy; religion, society and its influence on political, social, and cultural change; public policies for social justice; and social movements and organized civil society.
The Library of Congress/The John W. Kluge Center
The Kluge Center accommodates up to two dozen post-doctoral Fellows pursuing resident research, usually for periods from six to twelve months. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural topics of a kind normally not encouraged in specialized departmental settings are welcome. Selection of a diverse group of Fellows is by various competitions. Post-doctoral Fellows have an opportunity to discuss their research with the Kluge Scholars and to explore possibilities for intellectual collaboration with other Fellows. Leo Baeck Institute
The LBI, located in New York, NY, offers short-term fellowship programs to assist doctoral students, recent PhDs, and established academics in research on social, communal, and intellectual history of German-speaking Jewry. Academics working on topics related to the German-Jewish community in a variety of disciplines are encouraged to apply.
McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Deadline: 11/1
The McNeil Center facilitates scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America in the Atlantic world before 1850, with a particular but by no means exclusive emphasis on the mid-Atlantic region. This award is for a nine-month term beginning 1 September 2016. This fellowship is designed for a scholar in any relevant discipline who earned the Ph.D. no later than 2010 and who will be on leave from a tenured or tenure-track faculty position for the 2016–2017 academic year. Proposals will be entertained for book-length projects falling with in the Center’s area of interest at any stage of research or writing
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
International Fellowships in Jewish Studies
The purpose of the Foundation’s Fellowship program is to assist well-qualified individuals in carrying out an independent scholarly, literary or art project, in a field of Jewish specialization, which makes a significant contribution to the understanding, preservation, enhancement or transmission of Jewish culture.
National Humanities Center
The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year. Young scholars as well as senior scholars are encouraged to apply, but they must have a record of publication. In addition to scholars from all fields of the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects. The Center is also international and gladly accepts applications from scholars outside the United States. Most of the Center‘s fellowships are unrestricted. Several, however, are designated for particular areas of research. These include one fellowship for a young woman in philosophy and fellowships for environmental studies; English literature; art history; Asian Studies; and theology.
Omohundro Institute
Georgian Papers Programme—one-month-long fellowships for research on transatlantic and early American topics in the Georgian Papers collection at Windsor Castle; Scholars’ Workshop—a two-week workshop for six untenured scholars to work both as a group and individually with Institute editors and staff on either a manuscript chapter or a journal article in progress. Short-Term Visiting Fellowship–for scholars, from advanced graduate students to senior scholars, to come to Williamsburg, Virginia, for periods of 1–2 months to use Williamsburg and other regional scholarly resources.
Property and Environment Research Center (PERC)
The Julian Simon Fellowship is one of the nation’s most prestigious opportunities for scholars to develop policy-oriented research on natural resource and environmental conservation. The in-residence fellowship is intended to continue the legacy of the late Julian Simon, whose research led to a massive re-evaluation by scholars and policy makers of their views on the interplay between population, natural resources, and the environment.
A unique opportunity for scholars, journalists, policy-makers, and environmentalists to advance our understanding of the role of markets and property rights in protecting and enhancing environmental resources. Lone Mountain Fellows are resident at PERC in Bozeman, Montana, for periods ranging from a week to a year, depending on the nature of their projects .Including:: Completion of a book or other large-scale research project while on sabbatical; Initial development of a dataset or other source materials to be used for subsequent research; writing a policy study, magazine article, or newspaper series; Initiation or completion of a scholarly paper for a major academic journal.
Schomburg Center
The Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program assists those scholars and professionals whose research in the black experience can benefit from extended access to the Center’s resources. Fellowships funded by the Center will allow recipients to spend six months or a year in residence with access to resources at the Schomburg Center and other centers of The New York Public Library. The program encourages research and writing on black history and culture, facilitates interaction among participating scholars, and provides widespread dissemination of findings through lectures, publications, and colloquia and seminars. It encompasses projects in African, Afro-American, and Afro- Caribbean history and culture.
Smithsonian Institution
Deadline: varies by fellowship
Fields of research include: American History, American Material and Folk Culture, and the History of Music and
Musical Instruments; History of Science and Technology; History of Art, Design, Crafts, and the Decorative Arts; Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnic Studies; Evolutionary, Systematic, Behavioral, Environmental, and Conservation Biology; Earth, Mineral, and Planetary Science; and Materials Characterization and Conservation.
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Includes Abe Fellowship, supporting U.S. and Japan-based researchers focusing on contemporary issues, the Abe Fellowship Program encourages international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern.
Society for Research in Child Development
There are currently two types of Fellowships: Congressional and Executive Branch. Both Fellowships provide exciting opportunities for researchers to come to Washington, DC and use developmental science outside of the academic setting to inform public policy. These Fellowships are open to doctoral scientists from any discipline relevant to child development, and both early and mid-career professionals are encouraged to apply. The goals of the Fellowships are: (1) to contribute to the effective use of scientific knowledge about child development in the formation of public policy ; (2) to educate the scientific community about the development of public policy; and (3) to establish a more effective liaison between developmental scientists and the Federal policy-making mechanisms.
Spencer Foundation
The Lyle Spencer Research Awards:
Advancing Understanding of Education Practice and Its Improvement. With this program, we aim to reinforce our commitment to intellectually ambitious research, oriented ultimately to improving the practice of education, and independent of any particular reform agendas or methodological strictures.
The Small Research Grants Program
To support education research projects with budgets of $50,000 or less. This program aims to fund academic work that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. Historically, the work we have funded through these grants has spanned, a range of topics and disciplines, including education, psychology, sociology, economics, history, and anthropology, and they employ a wide range of research methods.
To enrich the work of academic midcareer scholars who are seven to twenty years post doctorate. This targeted program provides support for those who are interested in advancing their understanding of a compelling problem of education by acquiring new skills, substantive knowledge, theoretical perspectives or methodological tools.
Stanford University
Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowships
Faculty fellowships are awarded across the spectrum of academic ranks and a goal of the selection process is to create a diverse community of scholars. Applicants who are members of traditionally under-represented groups are encouraged to apply. The humanities include, but are not limited to, the following fields: history, philosophy, languages, literature, linguistics, archeology, jurisprudence, history and criticism of the arts, ethics, comparative religion, and those aspects of the social sciences employing historical or philosophical approaches. This last category includes social and cultural anthropology, sociology, political theory, international relations, and other subjects concerned with questions of value.”
Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellowship on Contemporary Southeast Asia
Interested individuals with backgrounds or positions in the social sciences or humanities are encouraged to apply. Candidates may be of any nationality or seniority. A successful candidate will spend two or three months at NUS and two or three months at Stanford, writing and conducting research on, or related to, contemporary Southeast Asia. Fellows will also have opportunities to speak and take part in seminars and workshops organized by relevant campus units. In determining the overall length of the fellowship and the sequencing of the stays at each campus, the preferences of the fellow concerned will be taken into account.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Proposals from applicants conducting research outside the discipline of history or on Mandel Center strategic priorities are especially encouraged, including literature and the Holocaust; projects utilizing the ITS collection; Jewish and especially Sephardic experiences of persecution; the Holocaust as it occurred in the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust as it occurred in North Africa.
University of Colorado
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science
Deadline:1/11
CIRES offers Visiting Fellowships at the University of Colorado Boulder for unique opportunities to conduct challenging research in collaboration with recognized leaders in Earth system science. CIRES fellowships are intended to stimulate interdisciplinary research within the Institute through engagement with researchers on campus and in Boulder’s NOAA Laboratories. Visiting Fellows collaborate with CIRES Fellows in research areas such as atmosphere and ocean processes, cryospheric processes, ecosystem studies, regional and global environmental variability and change, global and regional water cycles, advanced observing systems, geophysics, geochemistry, geomorphology, environmental health, science and technology policy research, energy and environment, and space weather.
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Support the writing-up of already completed research. The fellowship is awarded to scholars in the earlier stages of their careers, when they frequently lack the time and resources to develop their research for publication. Scholars with a Ph.D. in hand for no more than ten years are eligible to apply. The Foundation aims to enable a new generation of scholars to publish significant works that will impact the development of anthropology. The program contributes to the Foundation’s overall mission to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity’s cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas.
Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowships in Ethnographic Film
Supports the completion of ethnographic film/s based on anthropological research already accomplished by the applicant. Fellowships are awarded to scholars in the earlier stages of their careers, when they frequently lack the time and resources to develop their research in the form of ethnographic film. Broadly speaking, we seek to support projects that will have an impact on the field of anthropology — as well as outreach beyond the academy — through the support of exciting new and innovative work in the field of ethnographic film.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Deadline: 10/1
The Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues of contemporary importance.
Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Center Fellows typically spend one semester at the Young Center pursuing research related to the faith, history, and culture of Anabaptist and/or Pietist movements. The Center provides office space, various support services, access to library holdings, and a modest stipend toward housing and travel expenses. Fellows typically teach a seminar, present a public lecture, or organize an interpretive event during the period of residency.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in chemistry, computational or evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences, physics, or a related field. Tenure track faculty positions at the candidate’s institution must include a yearly teaching requirement. Also other research grants available in STEM, Economics, Energy &the Environment, Public Understanding of Science, Technology, & Economics and Digital Information Technology.
American Institute of Physics
State Department Science Fellowship Program
Deadline: Nov 1
The sponsor provides a one-year Fellowship which enables one scientist annually to work at the State Department’s
Washington, DC headquarters. The aim of the Fellowship is to provide an opportunity for a scientist to contribute scientific and technical expertise to the Department and raise awareness of the value of scientific input. In turn, scientists broaden their experience by interacting with policymakers in the federal government and learning about the foreign policy process.
American Statistical Association Research Fellowships and Grants
The general objective of the program is to foster collaborative and interdisciplinary research efforts that will continue to stimulate the development and advancement of methodology and social science research relevant to issues on which federal statistical agencies seek to provide information. The program accomplishes this by bringing academic researchers to work with statisticians and social scientists in the three federal agencies for up to one year.
Argonne National Laboratory
Faculty Research Leave (Sabbatical Leave)
The sponsor provides the opportunity for faculty members to spend their sabbatical leave at the Laboratory to conduct research. Appointments are normally for nine to twelve months.
Association for Institutional Research (AIR)
Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions
The goals of this program are to provide professional development opportunities to doctoral students, institutional researchers, educators, and administrators, and to foster the use of federal databases for institutional research in postsecondary education.
Association for Women in Mathematics
Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize
Deadline: 11/1
The sponsor’s prize is awarded annually to a woman recently promoted to Associate Professor or an equivalent position in the mathematical sciences. The prize provides a fellowship for the awardee to spend a semester in the Mathematics Department of Cornell University without teaching obligations.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s grantmaking strategies support biomedical scientists at the beginning of their careers and areas of science that are poised for significant advancement but are currently undervalued and underfunded.
Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation
Conservation of natural resources in eastern North America and the Caribbean Basin, with an emphasis on the United States.
G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation
The foundation provides support in the Earth sciences for institutions of excellence.
Each year, the Institute for Advanced Study selects approximately 190 Members from an average of more than
1,500 applicants. Members are selected by the Faculty of each School, and come to the Institute for periods as short as one term or as long as several years. Young scholars and applicants from non-traditional backgrounds who have outstanding promise are considered, as are senior scholars whose reputations are already well established. The major consideration in the appointment process is the expectation that each Member‘s period of residence at the Institute will result in work of significance and originality. Many Members pursue research related to the special interests of one or more of the Faculty. In other instances, the research of Members is in areas not currently represented by a member of the Faculty. School of Historical Studies; School of Mathematics ; School of Natural Sciences; School of Social Science; Program for Women and Mathematics; Institute for Advanced Study/Park City Mathematics Institute; and Prospects in Theoretical Physics
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Acknowledged as the premier center for collaborative mathematical research, MSRI organizes and hosts semesterlength (or two-semester duration) programs that become the leading edge in that field of study. Mathematicians worldwide come to the Institute to engage in the research of classical fundamental mathematics, modern applied mathematics, statistics, computer science, and other mathematical sciences.
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL)
Limited funds are available for fellowship support of visiting scientists, scientists who come to the MDI Biological Laboratory to collaborate with our faculty, and our scientific staff who need to travel to conduct research with collaborators.
Monell Chemical Senses Center
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The sponsor offers postdoctoral positions with a research focus on understanding how the chemical senses function and their importance in everyday life. Positions are currently available for interdisciplinary training and research in the areas of Sensation and Perception, Genetics, Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Appetite, Health and Well-Being, and Chemical Ecology and Communication.
Approaches include clinical medicine, chemistry, organismal and molecular biology, animal and human psychophysics, organ- and neurophysiology, including single cell, whole nerve and in situ brain recordings, neuroanatomy, experimental psychology, environmental sampling and human exposure assessment.
National Research Council
Research Associateship Programs
The mission of the NRC Research Associateship Programs (RAP) is to promote excellence in scientific and technological research conducted by the U. S. government through the administration of programs offering graduate, postdoctoral, and senior level research opportunities at sponsoring federal laboratories and affiliated institutions.
National Security Agency
Mathematical Sciences Program Sabbaticals
The sabbaticals primarily involve cryptanalysis, a discipline highly dependent on superior math ability. Other sabbatical work involves algebra, probability, statistics, number theory, and discrete mathematics. Prof and family must be USA citizens.
NSF
Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacherscholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from junior faculty members’ at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
ORISE sponsors research positions for university faculty at national laboratories and federal research facilities nationwide. The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) provides short- and long-term collaborations for faculty or faculty-student teams with ORISE’s world-class science and engineering partners.
PhRMA Foundation
Deadlines: 2/1
Health Outcomes research spans a broad spectrum of issues related to health-care delivery, from studies evaluating effectiveness of a pharmaceutical intervention, to the impact of reimbursement policies on outcomes of care. It also ranges from the development and use of tools to perform patient-based assessments to analyses of ways in which results of outcomes research are disseminated to providers or consumers to encourage behavior change. Outcomes research incorporates a variety of methods from different disciplines. The application of outcomes research principles in evaluating the design, delivery, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals includes but isn’t limited to the following general areas:
Deadlines: 9/1
The goal of the Informatics program is to promote development and use of informatics in an integrative approach toward understanding normal processes of human biology and disease processes. Informatics awards support career development of scientists engaged in research that significantly integrates state-of-the-art information technology developed with advanced biological, chemical, and pharmacological sciences in the following areas:
Deadlines: 9/1
Pharmaceutics strongly emphasizes quantitative understanding and use of the principles underlying drug delivery and drug transport, whether a drug is a small organic molecule, a higher molecular weight peptide, a protein derived through biotechnology, or an oligonucleotide-like molecule for gene therapy. It is also concerned with the impact of formulation composition and manufacturing/engineering factors on the quality of a dosage form and its physical and chemical stability
Pharmacology/toxicology Sabbatical
Deadlines: 9/1
Pharmacology/toxicology awards support career development activities of scientists embarking on research that integrates information on molecular or cellular mechanisms of action with information on the effects of an agent observed in an intact organism, in experimental animal or clinical studies or both. Highest priority will be given to applicants whose research will attempt to integrate information on a drug or chemical’s mechanism of action at the molecular or cellular level with a drug’s effect in a human or laboratory animal. Applicants should describe the significance of a hypothesis being tested in the context of potential influences of biochemical, physiological, behavioral, or social systems.
Simons Foundation
Fellowship for Mathematicians and Theoretical Physicists
Deadline: 9/30
Enables research leaves by providing time away from classroom teaching and academic administration. The Simons Fellows program is intended to make leaves more productive by enabling the extension of sabbatical leaves from one academic term to a full academic year. Awards will be based on the applicant’s scientific accomplishments in the fiveyear period preceding the application and on the potential scientific impact of the work to be done during the leave period. Other funding options are available.
Smithsonian Institution
Deadline: varies by fellowship
Fields of research include: American History, American Material and Folk Culture, and the History of Music and
Musical Instruments; History of Science and Technology; History of Art, Design, Crafts, and the Decorative Arts; Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnic Studies; Evolutionary, Systematic, Behavioral, Environmental, and Conservation Biology; Earth, Mineral, and Planetary Science; and Materials Characterization and Conservation.
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Deadline: 10/16
The Visiting Scholars Program is designed to stimulate and support research conducted by younger public policy analysts, humanists, and social scientists who show promise of becoming leaders in their field, especially those who work on multidisciplinary topics. The Program offers opportunities for them to carry out their individual research as well as to collaborate with Academy Fellows on shared scholarly or policy-related interests.
American Antiquarian Society
Deadline: January & October
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.
American Council of Learned Societies
Collaborative Research Fellowships
Deadline: 9/23
These awards support collaborative research in the humanities and related social sciences. The aim of this fellowship program is to offer small teams of two or more scholars the opportunity to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project. The fellowship supports projects that aim to produce a tangible research product (such as joint print or web publications) for which two or more collaborators will take credit.
American Council of Learned Societies
Digital Innovation Fellowships
February 2016
Deadline: 9/23
Supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences.
Fellowship tenure may be one continuous year, or two semesters taken over two years, but candidates must commit themselves firmly to their preferred timeframe on their completed applications.
Deadline: announced in summer
Invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. The
Fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing. An ACLS Fellowship may be held concurrently with other fellowships and grants and any sabbatical pay, up to an amount equal to the candidate’s current academic year salary. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars
Deadline: announced in summer
These fellowships support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences.
Burkhardt Fellowships are intended to support an academic year (normally nine months) of residence at any one of the national residential research centers participating in the program or at a location of choice. Such an environment, beyond providing free time, encourages exchanges across disciplinary lines that can be especially helpful to deepening and expanding the significance of projects in the humanities and related social sciences. Candidates must also commit themselves to relocating as needed in order to be in residence for the tenure of the fellowship. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant.
American Political Science Association
Grants, Fellowships, and Other Funding Deadline: 2/1
Second Century Fund: Supports general professional opportunity grants, including research and teaching affiliated with the Centennial Center. Edward Artinian Fund for Publishing: The Artinian Fund supports programs that encourage and assist early career scholars in publishing their research. Marguerite Ross Barnett Fund: Supports research on diversity, cultural nationalism, African-American voting behavior, education policy, or urban and minority policy and politics. James Bryce Fund for Political Science: Supports the global study of political life and the internationalization of the political science discipline. Fund for Latino Scholarship: This fund supports Latino/a graduate study as well as Latino/a scholarship, research, and activities that advance our knowledge of Latino/a politics. Additionally, the fund is used to support Latino/a junior faculty. Huang Hsing Chuntu Hsueh Fellowship Fund: The Chun-tu Hsueh Fund supports international scholarship, especially from Asia. Warren E. Miller Fund in Electoral Politics: The Miller Fund supports research in national and comparative electoral politics. Alma Ostrom and Leah Hopkins Awan Civic Education Fund: The Ostrom Fund supports the critical role of citizens in a democratic polity. Presidency Research Fund: Supports scholars conducting work on the presidency, and whose work brings them to Washington, D.C. to examine executive politics. Rita Mae Kelly Fund: Supports research on the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, and political power. William A. Steiger Fund for Legislative Studies: The Steiger Fund enables Congressional Fellowship Program alumni to extend their stays in Washington for research. It also supports scholarly research in any aspect of domestic or international legislative politics. Paul A. Volcker Fund: Promotes and supports excellence in research and theory on public administration issues affecting governance in the United States and abroad. Women & Politics Fund: Supports scholarship in the field of women and politics.
American Psychology Association
Congressional Fellowship Program
Deadline: 1/7
Provide psychologists with an invaluable public policy learning experience, to contribute to the more effective use of psychological knowledge in government and to broaden awareness about the value of
psychology-government interaction among psychologists and within the federal government. Fellows
spend one year working on the staff of a member of Congress or congressional committee. Activities may involve drafting legislation, conducting oversight work, assisting with congressional hearings and events, and preparing briefs and speeches. Fellows also attend a two week orientation program on congressional and executive branch operations, which includes guidance in the congressional placement process, and participate in a year-long seminar series on science and public policy issues. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) administers these aspects of the program for the APA Fellows and for fellows sponsored by over two dozen other professional societies.
American Statistical Association Research Fellowships and Grants
The general objective of the program is to foster collaborative and interdisciplinary research efforts that will continue to stimulate the development and advancement of methodology and social science research relevant to issues on which federal statistical agencies seek to provide information. The program accomplishes this by bringing academic researchers to work with statisticians and social scientists in the three federal agencies for up to one year.
Archaeological Institute of America
The AIA Publication Subvention Program Deadline: Mar 1, Nov 1
This program offers subventions from the AIA’s von Bothmer Publication Fund in support of new book-length publications in the field of Classical Archaeology (defined as Greek, Roman, and Etruscan archaeology and art history). Particularly welcome are projects that publish the work of first-time authors or represent the publication of final reports of primary data from sites already excavated or surveyed, but are still unpublished. All manuscripts submitted for consideration must conform to AIA’s policies regarding the initial publication of undocumented antiquities.
Archaeological Institute of America Fellowships Deadline: various
The AIA is pleased to offer fellowships for travel and study to deserving scholars and a number of scholarships and grants for students, publications, and AIA Societies. AIA scholarships, fellowships, and grants are open to members of the Archaeological Institute of America.
The Bibliographical Society of America
Deadline: 12/1
Supports sustained research in topics relating to book production and distribution in Britain during the hand-press period as well as studies of authorship, reading and collecting based on the examination of British books published in that period.
Also annual short-term fellowships, all of which support bibliographical inquiry and research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history. Eligible topics may concentrate on books and documents in any field, but should focus on the book or manuscript (the physical object) as historical evidence. Such topics may include establishing a text or studying the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading.
Congressional Budget Office/United States Congress
Visiting scholars have a unique opportunity to address complex budgetary and economic issues. The agency is especially interested in collaborating with scholars who specialize in macroeconomics, health economics, financial economics, and public economics, though it welcomes applications from analysts in all areas. Visiting scholars conduct policy-related research, use the agency’s data and facilities, and collaborate daily with CBO’s staff members to contribute to the agency’s analysis. Visiting scholars also have access to professional development opportunities and are well-placed to draw on the resources and expertise found in the broader public policy community.
Council on Foreign Relations
International Affairs Fellowships
Seeks to bridge the gap between analysis and action in foreign policy by inviting individuals from the academic, business, government, media, and religious communities to engage in a variety of policy studies and actively participate in policymaking. The distinctive character of the program lies in the contrasting experiences it provides at the juncture of policy research and policy formulation. Academic and other professionals from the private sector spend fellowship tenures in public service or in a policymaking setting, while government officials have the opportunity to study foreign policy issues in a scholarly atmosphere free from operational pressure.
Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grants
Deadline: open
The sponsor provides research fellowships to individuals in the social sciences and humanities disciplines, including economics, philosophy, history, international affairs and government/politics. The supported research should lead to the advancement of knowledge through teaching, lecturing, and publication. Contact the foundation directly for the RFP: Program Officer / Earhart Foundation / 2200 Green Road, Suite H / Ann Arbor, MI 48105 / Telephone: (319) 761-8592.
Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Library
Deadline: Nov 1
Rose Library offers short-term fellowships to support scholarly use of the Library’s research collections in: Englishlanguage literature; The Raymond Danowski Poetry Library; African American history and culture; Southern history and culture; Modern politics
Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works FAIC/Samuel H. Kress Conservation Publication Fellowship Deadline: 1/22
The sponsor provides support to current Professional Associate or Fellow members of AIC in support of the goal of improving the quality and quantity of publications in the field of conservation by encouraging Conservation professionals to prepare publishable manuscripts.
The Frick Collection/Center for the History of Collecting in America: Scholars’ Program Fellowships Deadline: 2/15
The sponsor offers short-term senior fellowships (8–10 weeks) and long-term (4–5 months) Leon Levy Fellowships for post-doctoral and senior scholars. In all cases preference will be given to researchers whose projects are particularly appropriate to the resources available at the Frick Art Reference Library. Fellowship proposals may address wide-ranging aspects of the history of collecting in the United States, from Colonial times to the present, and may focus on individual collectors, dealers, developments or trends in the art market. Interdisciplinary research subjects are especially encouraged.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Scholarly Fellowships Deadline: 5/30
Supports work in these five archives, as well as any other NYC research archives that may not be listed below: *The Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New York Historical Society–The Gilder Lehrman Collection consists of letters and diaries, maps, pamphlets, sketchbooks, printed books, photographs, and other materials. The collection’s holdings range from Columbus to recent times, but concentrate in the period from 1760 to 1876.
*The Library of the New York Historical Society–One of the oldest research libraries in the United States, with vast manuscript and printed book collections covering four centuries, and one of the world’s largest collections of pre1820 newspapers.
*The Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Collection–This archive of Columbia University is particularly strong in English and American literature and history, the classics, the history of publishing, New York City politics, and journalism.
*The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library–The library’s research holdings are strong in every period of American history, in both manuscripts and books. Among many highlights are materials on the founding fathers and the Civil War, records of renowned authors and publishing houses, religious collections, and papers of diverse political figures.
*The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL)–One of the premier archives of African- American history, art, and culture, the Center’s archives contain extensive materials on the history of slavery and abolition, the African diaspora, religion, African- American culture, and the Civil Rights Movement.
Harvard College Library
Deadline: 1/15
The Library’s holdings are particularly strong in the following areas: European, English, American, and South
American literature, including the country’s pre-eminent collection of American literary manuscripts; philosophy; religion; history of science; music; printing and graphic arts; dance; and theatre. Fellows will also have access to collections in Widener Library as well as to other libraries at the University. Preference is given to scholars whose research is closely based on materials in Houghton collections, especially when those materials are unique.
Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography
This fellowship is available to assist scholarly research in descriptive bibliography at Houghton Library and carries a stipend of $3,600 per month, up to twelve months (maximum $43,200). Fellows are expected to be in residence at Houghton Library for the duration of the fellowship.
Historic New Orleans Collection
Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities Deadline: 11/1
The annual fellowship supports scholarly research on the history and culture of Louisiana and the Gulf South.
The Huntington
Deadline: 11/15
The Huntington is an independent research center with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, and the history of science and medicine. The Huntington will award to scholars over 150 fellowships for the academic year 2016-2017. These fellowships derive from a variety of funding sources and have different terms. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to be in continuous residence at the Huntington and to participate in and make a contribution to its intellectual life.
Indiana University Lilly Library
Visiting Fellowships Deadline: 9/30
The Lilly Library, the principal rare book and manuscript library of Indiana University, invites applications for visiting fellowships for research in residence in its collections. Its holdings support research in British, French, and American literature and history; the literature of voyages and exploration, specifically the European expansion in the Americas; early printing, and the Church, children’s literature, music; film, radio and television; medicine, science, and architecture; and food and drink.
Institute for Advanced Study Deadlines: varies
Each year, the Institute for Advanced Study selects approximately 190 Members from an average of more than
1,500 applicants. Members are selected by the Faculty of each School, and come to the Institute for periods as short as one term or as long as several years. Young scholars and applicants from non-traditional backgrounds who have outstanding promise are considered, as are senior scholars whose reputations are already well established. The major consideration in the appointment process is the expectation that each Member‘s period of residence at the Institute will result in work of significance and originality. Many Members pursue research related to the special interests of one or more of the Faculty. In other instances, the research of Members is in areas not currently represented by a member of the Faculty. School of Historical Studies; School of Mathematics ; School of Natural Sciences; School of Social Science; Program for Women and Mathematics; Institute for Advanced Study/Park City Mathematics Institute; and Prospects in Theoretical Physics
Institute for Research on Poverty
Deadline: 5/15
The sponsor invites applications from U.S.-based social science scholars from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups to visit IRP, interact with its faculty in residence, and become acquainted with the staff and resources of the Institute.The second fellowship is targeted at food assistance and food insecurity researchers and includes support from IRP and the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture; and is open to visitors working on poverty-related research who have their own funding, for limited or longer-term stays.
International Center for Jefferson Studies
Deadline: 11/1
The Center offers short-term fellowships that allow researchers and teachers to consult with Monticello scholars and librarians and to utilize the resources of The Center offers short-term fellowships that allow researchers and teachers to consult with Monticello scholars and librarians and to utilize the resources of the Jefferson Library and the University of Virginia libraries. Residential accommodation may be available on a limited basis. Jeffersonrelated projects using the Digital Archeological Archive of Comparative Slavery or Getting Word are encouraged.
The James McKeen Cattell Fund
Deadline: 1/15
For over half a century, the James McKeen Cattell Fund has provided support for the science and the application of psychology. The Fund offers a program of supplementary sabbatical awards (“James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowships”). These awards supplement the regular sabbatical allowance provided by the recipients’ home institutions, to allow an extension of leave-time from one to two semesters.
The John Carter Brown Library
Deadline: 12/1
Offers short-term and long-term fellowships. Sponsorship of research at the John Carter Brown Library is reserved exclusively for scholars whose work is centered on the colonial history of the Americas,
North and South, including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American involvement.
Kellogg Institute for International Studies Visiting Residential Fellowships
The sponsor offers residential Visiting Fellowships which are designed to provide applicants with the time and space to work on research, while interacting with leading scholars. The sponsor offers numerous opportunities to explore the work of noted scholars through seminars, conferences, and roundtable discussions. The sponsor focuses on the following research themes: democratization and the quality of democracy; growth and development in the global economy; religion, society and its influence on political, social, and cultural change; public policies for social justice; and social movements and organized civil society.
The Massachusetts Historical Society
Deadline: varies by fellowship
The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) is a major research library and manuscript repository. Its holdings encompass millions of rare and unique documents and artifacts vital to the study of American history, many of them irreplaceable national treasures. In addition to approximately 20 short-term fellowships, the Society will help to provide at least 11 New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grants for projects that draw on the resources of several participating institutions, and at least two long- term MHS-NEH fellowships for study at the MHS.
National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Fellowships Deadline: 11/1
Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows maintain full-time residence at the International Forum for Democratic Studies,
NED‘s research arm located in Washington, D.C. The Forum hosts 16 to 20 Reagan-Fascell Fellows per year for periods ranging from five to ten months. NED‘s International Forum for Democratic Studies also hosts a small number of Visiting Fellows each year. Visiting Fellows are scholars and practitioners who wish to conduct research and writing at the Forum for a limited period of time but do not need any financial assistance.
New York Public Library
Fellowships at the Cullman Center
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers offers fellowships to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the research collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street (formerly the Humanities and Social Sciences Library). Renowned for the extraordinary comprehensiveness of its collections, the Library is one of the world’s preeminent resources for study in anthropology, art, geography, history, languages and literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, and sports.
Omohundro Institute
Fellowships Deadlines: 4/15
Georgian Papers Programme—one-month-long fellowships for research on transatlantic and early American topics in the Georgian Papers collection at Windsor Castle; Scholars’ Workshop—a two-week workshop for six untenured scholars to work both as a group and individually with Institute editors and staff on either a manuscript chapter or a journal article in progress. Short-Term Visiting Fellowship–for scholars, from advanced graduate students to senior scholars, to come to Williamsburg, Virginia, for periods of 1–2 months to use Williamsburg and other regional scholarly resources.
Princeton University
Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) Fellows Program
Deadline: 11/16
The sponsor invites outstanding faculty, independent scholars, lawyers and judges to apply for appointments as fellows for the academic year 2010-2011. Successful candidates will devote an academic year in residence at Princeton to research, discussions and scholarly collaboration on topics broadly related to law and public affairs.
Under exceptional circumstances, applications for only one semester in residence may be considered. The sponsor plans to name four general LAPA Fellows plus one Microsoft/LAPA Fellow who specializes in intellectual property or the economic organization of society, and one Mellon/LAPA Fellow in Law and the Humanities. Applicants to the program will be considered for all of these fellowships.
Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Research Fellowships
The sponsor provides fellowships for scholars to pursue in-residence research and attend a seminar on the academic year’s current theme (2017-18 is Risk and Fortune).
The School for Advanced Research (SAR)
Deadline: 11/1
Awards approximately six Resident Scholar Fellowships each year to scholars who have completed their research and analysis and who need time to think and write about topics important to the understanding of humankind. Resident scholars may approach their research from anthropology or from related fields such as history, sociology, art, and philosophy. Both humanistically and scientifically oriented scholars are encouraged to apply. There are targeted fellowships for a Native scholar, a female scholar writing a book and in Latino studies.
Smithsonian Institution
Deadline: varies by fellowship
Fields of research include: American History, American Material and Folk Culture, and the History of Music and
Musical Instruments; History of Science and Technology; History of Art, Design, Crafts, and the Decorative Arts; Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnic Studies; Evolutionary, Systematic, Behavioral, Environmental, and Conservation Biology; Earth, Mineral, and Planetary Science; and Materials Characterization and Conservation.
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Includes Abe Fellowship, supporting U.S. and Japan-based researchers focusing on contemporary issues, the Abe Fellowship Program encourages international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern.
Stanford University
Center for International Security and Cooperation International Security Fellowship Program
Deadline: 1/15
Offers pre and postdoctoral students and professionals in the social sciences opportunities for concentrated study in a multidisciplinary environment. Fellows are expected to produce a research product (e.g., dissertation chapters, draft articles, a book manuscript) by the end of their fellowship year. The Center considers applicants working within a broad range of topics related to peace and international security. Suitable topics may include, but are not limited to: transnational processes, including illicit flows of people, money, and arms; rising powers and global governance; causes, prevention and settlement of conflicts; determinants of post-war settlements; the interaction of science, politics and policy; nuclear energy and nuclear nonproliferation; climate change and human security.
Center for International Security and Cooperation Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship Deadline: 1/16
Program aims to stimulate the development of the next generation of thought leaders in nuclear security by supporting research that will advance policy-relevant understanding of the issues. This fellowship offers engineers, scientists, and social scientists an opportunity to conduct science- or social science-based research on issues related to nuclear security. Fellows are expected to produce a research product (e.g., dissertation chapters, draft articles, a book manuscript) by the end of their fellowship year. Suitable topics may include, but are not limited to: Nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation; Nuclear weapons, doctrine and policy planning; Nuclear energy and its consequences; Nuclear terrorism.
Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences Residential Fellowship Program
The Center offers a residential fellowship program for scholars working in a diverse range of disciplines that contribute to advancing research and thinking in social science. Fellows represent the core social and behavioral sciences (anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, and sociology) but also the humanities, education, linguistics, communications, and the biological, natural, health, and computer sciences. We are pleased to partner with several entities to provide funding for some residential fellowships whose research projects focus on certain topics.
Tulane University/The Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs
Deadline 12/2
Fellowships are available to support outstanding faculty whose teaching and research focus on ethics, political philosophy, political theory, or questions of moral choice in areas such as, but not restricted to, business, government, law, economics, and medicine. While fellows will participate in conferences and seminars organized by the Center, they will be expected to devote most of their time to conducting their own research.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Deadline 11/30
Proposals from applicants conducting research outside the discipline of history or on Mandel Center strategic priorities are especially encouraged, including literature and the Holocaust; projects utilizing the ITS collection; Jewish and especially Sephardic experiences of persecution; the Holocaust as it occurred in the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust as it occurred in North Africa.
The University Of California, Berkeley
S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowships in Natural Resource Economics & Political Economy
For the purposes of this fellowship, natural resources are defined broadly to include environmental resources. The fellowship encourages, but is not limited to, policy-oriented research. Applications are open to scholars from any social science discipline, and related professional fields such as law and planning, who will make significant contributions to research on natural resource economics broadly defined. Preference will be given to proposals whose orientation is broadly institutional and/or historical, and which are conceptually and theoretically innovative. Proposals whose primary emphasis is on advancing statistical or econometric theory are not eligible for consideration.
University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Faculty Residential Fellowships
Deadline: 1/15
Seeks to enhance research and creativity in the humanities, broadly defined. In particular, UCHI promotes the development and productivity of University of Connecticut faculty through its fellowship, seminar, and workshop programs, by bringing outside scholars and authors to Connecticut, and by its support for scholarly conferences and journals. By exploring the full range of humanistic inquiry and methodologies the UCHI calls attention to the many ways that scholarly advances in the humanities enrich general understanding of the human condition.
University of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
Deadline: 10/15
The Penn Humanities Forum awards five (5) one-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships each academic year to junior scholars in the humanities who are no more than eight years out of their doctorate and who are not yet tenured (may not be tenured during the fellowship year). Scholars are required to spend the year (September– May) in residence at Penn. – For the 2016–2017 academic year, we have set Translation as the topic – Humanists and those in related fields (e.g., anthropology, history of science) are eligible to apply. Exclusions are proposals in social science disciplines, educational curriculum building, and work by performing artists (scholars of performance are eligible).
W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research
Fellowships are open to students and scholars in Near Eastern studies from prehistory through the early Islamic period, including the fields of archaeology, anthropology, art history, Bible, epigraphy, historical geography, history, language, literature, philology and religion and related disciplines.
William T. Grant Foundation
We are interested in inequality on the basis of race, ethnicity, economic standing, and/or immigrant origin status. Investigators at all nonprofit institutions, both in the United States and abroad, are eligible. Applicants must be within seven years of receiving their doctoral degrees or completion of their first medical residencies. Applicants must be nominated by their institutions.
This grants program supports theory-building and empirical research projects on reducing inequality or understanding the use of research evidence.
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Support the writing-up of already completed research. The fellowship is awarded to scholars in the earlier stages of their careers, when they frequently lack the time and resources to develop their research for publication. Scholars with a Ph.D. in hand for no more than ten years are eligible to apply. The Foundation aims to enable a new generation of scholars to publish significant works that will impact the development of anthropology. The program contributes to the Foundation’s overall mission to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity’s cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas.
Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowships in Ethnographic Film
Supports the completion of ethnographic film/s based on anthropological research already accomplished by the applicant. Fellowships are awarded to scholars in the earlier stages of their careers, when they frequently lack the time and resources to develop their research in the form of ethnographic film. Broadly speaking, we seek to support projects that will have an impact on the field of anthropology — as well as outreach beyond the academy — through the support of exciting new and innovative work in the field of ethnographic film.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Deadline: 10/1
The Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues of contemporary importance.
The American Academy in Berlin
Berlin Prize Residency Program
Deadline: 9/30
The Academy welcomes emerging as well as established scholars, writers, and professionals who wish to engage in independent study in Berlin. Around two dozen Berlin Prizes are conferred annually. Past Berlin Prize recipients have included historians, economists, poets, art historians, journalists, legal scholars, anthropologists, musicologists, public policy experts, and writers, among others.
American Academy in Rome
Deadline: 11/1
Rome Prize Eleven-Month Fellowships
The Rome Prize is awarded to emerging artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers who represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities.
The American Center of Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan
Fields of research include: modern and classical languages, linguistics, literature, history, jurisprudence, philosophy, archaeology, comparative religion, ethics, and the history, criticism, and theory of the arts. Social and political scientists are encouraged to apply
American Councils for International Education
Title VIII Research Scholar Program
Deadline: 10/1
Major grants for independent, overseas policy relevant research in the humanities and social sciences as well as language training. In recent years, American Councils scholars have conducted independent research in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine. The American Councils Research Scholar Program provides full support for graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars seeking to conduct in-country, independent research for three to nine consecutive months.
American Institute of Indian Studies
Fellowship Competition Deadline: 7/1
AIIS welcomes applicants from a wide variety of disciplines. Research projects can range from anthropology, ethnomusicology, history, political science, religious studies, and urban planning. Applications to conduct research in India may be made in the following categories:
- Senior Research Fellowships: Senior Fellowships are designed to enable scholars in all disciplines who specialize in South Asia to pursue further research in India. Senior Fellows establish formal affiliation with an Indian institution. Short-term awards are available for up to four months. Long-term awards are available for six to nine months.
- Senior Scholarly/Professional Development Fellowships: Available to established scholars who have not previously specialized in Indian studies and to established professionals who have not previously worked or studied in India. Senior Scholarly/Professional Development Fellows are formally affiliated with an Indian institution. Awards may be granted for periods of six to nine months.
- Senior Performing and Creative Arts Fellowships: Available to accomplished practitioners of the performing
American Association of University Women AAUW Fellowships and Grants Deadline: Aug-Nov
American Fellowships support women scholars who are completing dissertations, planning research leave from accredited institutions, or preparing research for publication. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Candidates are evaluated on the basis of 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. Short term leave (8 weeks and American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships for pre-tenure.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Deadline: 11/1/ (for long-term fellowships) and 3/1 (for short-term 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.
The Getty
Residential Grants and Fellowships
Deadline: 10/1
Getty Scholar Grants are for established scholars, or writers who have attained distinction in their fields. Recipients are in residence at the Getty Research Institute or Getty Villa, where they pursue their own projects free from academic obligations, make use of Getty collections, join their colleagues in a weekly meeting devoted to an annual research theme, and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty.
Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program is a scholarly community where individuals pursue advanced work across a wide range of academic disciplines, professions, and creative arts. Radcliffe Institute fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts. In recognition of Radcliffe‘s historic contributions to the education of women and to the study of issues related to women, the Radcliffe Institute sustains a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society. Applicants’ projects need not focus on gender, however. Women and men from across the United States and throughout the world, including developing countries, are encouraged to apply. The Institute seeks to build a community of fellows that is diverse in every way.
Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library
Deadline: 11/1
The sponsor offers the Visiting Scholars Program for those wishing to utilize the Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf
College. Scholars are invited to visit the Kierkegaard Library for the purpose of pursuing their own research at any time during the year provided the Library is open. Stipends are awarded for 9 month fellow. Summer fellowships are also offered for two to eight weeks in duration, usually in June and July. Acceptance includes free housing on campus as well as access to the libraries and other facilities of St. Olaf College.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadline: 2/17
The Digital Humanities Implementation Grants program awards substantial grants to support the implementation of experimental projects that have successfully completed a start-up phase and demonstrated their value to the humanities. Such projects might enhance our understanding of central problems in the humanities, raise new questions in the humanities, or develop new digital applications and approaches for use in the humanities. The program can support innovative digital humanities projects that address multiple audiences, including scholars, teachers, librarians, and the public. Applications from recipients of NEH’s Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants are welcome.
Deadline: 2/2
The Public Scholar Program supports well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership. Although humanities scholarship can be specialized, the humanities also strive to engage broad audiences in exploring subjects of general interest. They seek to deepen our understanding of the human condition as well as current conditions and contemporary problems. The Public Scholar Program aims to encourage scholarship that will be of broad interest and have lasting impact. Such scholarship might present a narrative history, tell the stories of important individuals, analyze significant texts, provide a synthesis of ideas, revive interest in a neglected subject, or examine the latest thinking on a topic.
The Newberry Library
Deadline: 11/15
Offers a variety of long-term fellowships (see link for list) to post-doctoral scholars for periods of six to eleven months. Applicants for post-doctoral awards must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application. These grants support individual research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the Library’s scholarly activities, including a biweekly fellows’ seminar. The stipends for these fellowships range from $25,200 to $50,400. Applicants may combine these fellowship awards with sabbatical or other stipendiary support. Short-Term Fellowships
Deadline: 12/15
Offers a variety of short-term fellowships (see link for list) which are generally restricted to post-doctoral scholars,
Ph.D. candidates, or holders of other terminal degrees from outside of the Chicago area who have a specific need for Newberry collections. Tenure of short-term fellowships varies from one to two months, unless otherwise noted under the award description. Unless otherwise noted, the amount of the award is $1600 per month.
Office of Naval Research
Deadlines: 12/14
The sponsor provides an opportunity for U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents who hold teaching or research appointments at U.S. colleges and universities. These programs provide an opportunity for faculty members to participate in research of mutual interest to the faculty member and professional peers at U.S. Navy Laboratories.
Princeton University
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowships
Deadline: 11/2
The sponsor provides support to scholars and teachers to devote a year in residence at Princeton to write about ethics and human values, while participating in various activities of the University Center. The activities include faculty-graduate seminars, colloquia, and public lectures. Fellows will have access to Firestone Library and to a wide range of activities throughout the University.
Rice University Humanities Research Center
Lynette S. Autrey Visiting Scholars
Deadline: 1/4
To promote humanistic research, broadly understood they bring together a select group of Rice faculty members, visiting scholars, and Rice graduate students to study a common theme from several disciplinary perspectives. The most visible goal of the seminars is a scholarly publication to which all participants will contribute. Equally important but less visible is the creation of international and interdisciplinary scholarly communities that will outlive the seminars themselves. The topic of the Rice Seminars changes each year. For 2016-17, Chronotopic Imaginaries: The City in Signs, Signals, and Scripts.
Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars Program Deadline: 6/30
The Russell Sage Foundation’s Visiting Scholars Program provides a unique opportunity for select scholars in the social, economic and behavioral sciences to pursue their research and writing while in residence at the Foundation’s New York headquarters. Research carried out by Visiting Scholars constitutes an important part of the Foundation’s ongoing effort to analyze and understand the complex and shifting nature of social and economic life in the United States. The Foundation annually awards up to 17 residential fellowships to select scholars in the social sciences who are at least several years beyond the Ph.D.
The Foundation encourages methodological variety and inter-disciplinary collaboration, but all proposals must have well-developed conceptual frameworks and research designs. Analytical models must be well-specified and research questions and hypotheses (where applicable) must be clearly stated. Awards are available for research assistance, data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time for conducting research and writing up results. We are especially interested in novel uses of existing data to answer emerging or long-standing questions of interest in the Foundation’s program areas, as well as analyses of new or under-utilized data. Proposals to conduct laboratory or field experiments, in-depth qualitative interviews, and ethnographies are also encouraged. Smaller projects might consist of exploratory fieldwork, a pilot study, or the analysis of existing data.
Truman Library Institute Research Grants Program
Deadline 4/1 and 10/1
Grants of up to $2,500 are awarded biannually and are intended to enable graduate students, post-doctoral scholars and other researchers to come to the Harry S. Truman Library for one to three weeks to use its collections. Awards are to offset expenses incurred for this purpose only.
Deadline: 12/15 of odd years
Grants of up to $30,000 are made to post-doctoral scholars engaged in work on some aspect of the life and career of Harry S. Truman or of the public and foreign policy issues which were prominent during the Truman years. The award is intended to free a scholar from teaching or other employment for a substantial period of time and allow the scholar to make significant progress on or complete the writing of a major book.
UCLA Library
James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Research Fellowships
Deadline: 12/1
Provide support for research in any collections administered by UCLA Library Special Collections. Stipends range from $500 to $2,500 and vary yearly; grants in 2014 averaged $1,530 and in 2015 averaged $1,300. Barbara Rootenberg Library Research Fellowship in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences
Deadline: 12/1
Rootenberg fellowships promotes the use of materials in History & Special Collections for the Sciences in UCLA Library Special Collections. One annual fellowship is awarded in the amount of $1,000
Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Books
Deadline: 3/1
Ahmanson Fellowships support the use of medieval and Renaissance monographic and manuscript holdings in UCLA Library Special Collections: the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of the Aldine Press; the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of Early Italian Printing; the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana; the Orsini Family Papers; the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection; the Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Early Printed Books; and the Medieval and Renaissance Arabic and Persian Medical Manuscripts. The fellowships provide $2,500 per month for up to three months.
University of Michigan
William L. Clements Library Fellowships
The potential for rewarding research at the Clements—on military history, gender and ethnicity, religion, the American Revolution, culinary history, Native Americans, politics and government, slavery and antislavery, the Civil War, travel and exploration—is remarkably strong.
Jacob M. Price Visiting Research Fellowships: support for short-term research at the Clements Library by graduate students and junior faculty on any topic of American history that is supported by the collections. Grants are for $1,000 and require a minimum visit of one week.
Howard H. Peckham Fellowship on Revolutionary America – supports research on American history between 1764 and 1783. The fellowship provides $10,000 for a project involving a residence of two months or more at the
Library
Reese Fellowship in the Print Culture of the Americas – research in the history of the book and other print formats, bibliography, and other aspects of print culture in America, including publishing and marketing, from the sixteenth century to 1900. Projects may investigate any printed genre (e.g. books, prints, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, published photographs, broadsides, maps, etc.). $5,000 to support one month of in-residence study.
Visiting Social Activist at the Center for the Education of Women
The Visiting Social Activist program defines social justice and equity programs broadly to include activism in such areas as housing, employment, income support, food security, education, violence, child care, health care, and employer benefits like paid sick leave and retirement income. The program supports activists whose work addresses gender equity issues that affect the lives of women and/or girls. Interested activists must develop a product proposal relevant to their work. Product examples include a report, plan of action, communication strategy, training tool or other item. The product will later be published on CEW’s website. Nominees must outline a plan for working on the product during their four-week stay and describe how insights gained from the visit will be integrated into the activist’s future work.
Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Fellowship Program
Deadline: 10/9
The sponsor offers fellowships for scholars to take part in its Institute. The major goal of the Frankel Institute is to provide an intellectually stimulating environment, promote an atmosphere of openness and encourage constructive criticism. It seeks to advance Jewish Studies globally. In addition, the Frankel Institute considers diversity and pluralism as fundamental characteristics of a public university and emphasizes such principles in all endeavors. •2017-18 Theme: “Jews and the Material in Antiquity”; •2018-19 Theme: “Sephardic Identities, Medieval and Modern”; •2019-20 Theme: “Yiddish Matters”.
University of Notre Dame Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Deadline: 12/5
Each year, the Kroc Institute’s Visiting Research Fellows Program brings outstanding scholars in any discipline focused on peace research to the University of Notre Dame for a semester or a full academic year. The Institute particularly seeks scholars who will actively integrate their research with ongoing Kroc research initiatives
U.S. Institute of Peace
Fellows are generally mid- to senior-career level experts in fields related to peace and conflict. Fellowships vary by opportunity but generally last from 6-10 months, as specified in a given fellowship opportunity. Fellowships are somewhat flexible and may be adjusted to suit the needs of those designated as fellows. Fellowships are generally in residence at USIP but may include periods of research in the field or time spent with USIP staff on projects in the field.
The Wolfsonian–FIU
Deadline: 12/31
The Wolfsonian offers fellowships for research on its collection for periods of three to five weeks. The focus of the Wolfsonian collection is on North American and European decorative arts, propaganda, architecture, and industrial and graphic design from the period 1885–1945. The United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands are the countries most extensively represented. There are also smaller but significant collections of materials from a number of other countries, including Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Japan, the former Soviet Union, and Hungary.
Yale
Institute of Sacred Music Fellows Program Deadline: 11/1
The sponsor seeks a group of Fellows from around the world to join its community of scholars and practitioners for one year. Scholars, religious leaders, or artists whose work is in or is turning toward the fields of sacred music, liturgical/ritual studies, or religion and the arts are invited to apply. Scholars in the humanities or in the social or natural sciences whose work is directly related to these areas are also encouraged to apply.
Agrarian Studies Program Fellowships Deadline: 1/4
The Agrarian Studies Program appoints fellows annually who are in residence for the year, present a paper, and attend the colloquia. This year the Program has four Fellows whose diversity reflects the breadth of the program, and a Research Affiliate who has already made an important contribution to agrarian studies. Applications are encouraged from knowledgeable “activists” and “public intellectuals” whose work on rural life transcends the academy. The broad theme for the colloquium series of the Program in Agrarian Studies, will be “Hinterlands, Frontiers, Cities, and States: Transactions and Identities.‖ Younger scholars as well as established scholars are encouraged to apply. Fellows are expected to be in residence in New Haven to take an active part in the intellectual exchange with other members of the Program.
Beinecke Visiting Scholar Fellowships Deadline: 12/6
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library offers short-term fellowships to support visiting scholars pursuing post-doctoral or equivalent research in its collections. Students enrolled in degree programs are ineligible. The fellowships pay for travel to and from New Haven and a living allowance of $4,000 per month, and are designed to provide access to the library for scholars who live outside the greater New Haven area.