Office for Faculty Research and Resources
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Funding Opportunities in the Humanities
- Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves Family - Graves Award in the Humanities
- Oregon Humanities - FY 2010 Public Program Grants
- Council for International Exchange of Scholars - Traditional Fulbright Scholar Program
- Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture - Hiett Prize in the Humanities
- Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation - Humanities Program
- Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center - 2010-2011 Research Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Humanities - Collaborative Research Grants
- National Endowment for the Humanities - Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants
- National Endowment for the Humanities - Fellowships
- National Endowment for the Humanities - Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers
- National Endowment for the Humanities - Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions
- National Endowment for the Humanities - Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants
- National Endowment for the Humanities - Summer Stipend
- National Endowment for the Humanities - Teaching Development Fellowships
- National Humanities Center - National Humanities Center Fellowships 2010-2011
- Newberry Library - Long-Term Fellowships in the Humanities
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study - Fellowship Program
- Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities - William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellowship
- Stanford Humanities Center - External Faculty Fellowships (Residential)
- Yale University - Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Visiting Scholars Fellowship
Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves Family - Graves Award in the Humanities
The Graves Award is administered by Pomona College under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. These awards are intended to encourage and to reward "outstanding accomplishment in actual teaching in the humanities by younger faculty members." In this context, the humanities are broadly conceived as being less about a particular subject area and more about the process by which life is interpreted and given meaning. The humanities function, in this conception, to "produce men and women of understanding as contrasted with those trained to be technically proficient."
Graves Awards are made "to those for whom there can be submitted evidence of unusual skill and enthusiasm as teachers and who can show that their projects will enhance their ability in the classroom.” Each institution may make only one nomination. The nominee should be under 42 at the time of nomination or within his/her first decade of teaching, and should have taught at the institution for at least two years. Stipends will vary depending on the recipient's needs, but recent awards have averaged about $10,000. The period of any particular award varies depending on the scope of the project, and may last a summer, a semester, or, in special cases, a year. The grants are especially appropriate for summer study or sabbatical leaves.
Award Amount: $10000
Disciplines: Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences
Deadline: October 9, 2009 - 5 p.m. for Internal Deadline (Return one page project summary to CLA Dean's Office in Smullin 108.) Please contact Pat Alley for more information. (CLOSED)
For More Information: Not applicable
Oregon Humanities - FY 2010 Public Program Grants
Oregon Humanities awards grants to nonprofit organizations and groups organized for nonprofit purposes in Oregon to support public programs that encourage critical thinking and public engagement with the humanities, and that promote the role of thought and ideas in our lives. Public Program Grant requests between $1,000 and $5,000 are awarded once a year through a competitive grant process. Grant decisions are made by our statewide volunteer board of directors.
Oregon Humanities grants fund projects that explore timeless ideas as well as programs that respond to timely local, national, or international issues or events. Oregon Humanities funds activities as varied as lectures, reading and discussion groups, community dialogues, public conferences, consultation with humanities scholars, discussions before or after performances or literary readings, and public programs related to film and radio projects.
Award Amount: $5000
Discipline: Humanities
Deadline: October 31, 2009 - Letters of inquiry to apply for Public Program Grants must be postmarked by October 31, 2009. Full proposals, if invited, will be due by December 15, 2009. (CLOSED)
For More Information: http://www.oregonhumanities.org/programs/section/grants/#id22
Council for International Exchange of Scholars - Traditional Fulbright Scholar Program
The traditional Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
Disciplines: Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Education
Deadline: February 1, 2010 - Online system available for applications for 2011-2012 academic year
For More Information: http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards/
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture - Hiett Prize in the Humanities
The Hiett Prize in the Humanities is an annual award presented to a person whose work in the humanities shows extraordinary promise and has a significant public component related to contemporary culture. Its purpose is to encourage future leaders in the humanities by 1) recognizing their achievement and their potential and 2) assisting their work through a cash award of $50,000. Candidates should be within the early stages of a career track in which the primary work in in a field centered in or directly related to one or more of the humanities
Award Amount: $50000
Discipline: Humanities
Deadline: October 15, 2009 - For more information about applying for the Hiett Prize, please visit www.dallasinstitute.org, or call 214-871-2440 (CLOSED)
For More Information: http://www.dallasinstitute.org/programs_hiett_prize.html
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation - Humanities Program
The Foundation intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized.
Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.
Award Amount: $25000
Discipline: Humanities
Deadline: Letter of Inquiry followed by full proposal
For More Information: http://www.delmas.org/programs/humanities_d.html
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center - 2010-2011 Research Fellowship
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.
Award Amount: $10000
Discipline: Humanities
Deadline: February 1, 2010 - Receipt deadline
For More Information: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fellowships/
National Endowment for the Humanities - Collaborative Research Grants
Collaborative Research Grants support original research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars or research coordinated by an individual scholar that, because of its scope or complexity, requires additional staff and resources beyond the individual’s salary.
Eligible projects include: (1) research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding in the humanities; (2)conferences on topics of major importance in the humanities that will benefit ongoing research; (3) archaeological projects that include the interpretation and communication of results (projects may encompass excavation, materials analysis, laboratory work, field reports, and preparation of interpretive monographs); and (4) research that uses the knowledge, methods, and perspectives of the humanities to enhance understanding of science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences. Awards are made for one to three years and normally range from $25,000 to $100,000 per year.
Award Amount: $100000
Disciplines: Humanities, Social Sciences
Deadline: October 29, 2009 - for grants beginning as early as July 1, 2010 (CLOSED)
For More Information: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/Collaborative.html
National Endowment for the Humanities - Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants
The Enduring Questions grant program supports a faculty member’s development of a new course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. This course will encourage undergraduate students and a teacher to grapple with a fundamental question addressed by the humanities, and to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day.
Award Amount: $25000
Discipline: Humanities
Deadline: September 16, 2009 - for projects beginning June 1, 2010 (CLOSED)
For More Information: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html
National Endowment for the Humanities - Fellowships
Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, and other scholarly tools. Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of six to twelve months with a stipend of $4,200 per month ($50,400 max. for 12 mos.).
Award Amount: $50400
Discipline: Humanities
Deadline: May 3, 2010 -
For More Information: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fellowships.html
National Endowment for the Humanities - Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers
NEH Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers (FDHC) support collaboration between digital centers and individual scholars. An award provides funding for both a stipend for the fellow while in residence at the center and a portion of the center's costs for hosting a fellow. Awards are for periods of six to twelve months. The intellectual cooperation between the visiting scholar and the center may take many different forms and may involve humanities scholars of any level of digital expertise. Fellows may work exclusively on their own projects in consultation with center staff, collaborate on projects with other scholars affiliated with the center, function as “apprentices” on existing digital center projects, or any combination of these. The results of the collaboration may range from “proof of concept” to finished product.
Discipline: Humanities
Deadline: September 15, 2009 - for projects beginning as early as June 1, 2010 (CLOSED)
For More Information: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fdhc.html
National Endowment for the Humanities - Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions
Grants for Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI) support fellowships at institutions devoted to advanced study and research in the humanities. NEH fellowships provide scholars with research time and access to resources that might not be available at their home institutions.
Award Amount: $50400
Discipline: Humanities
Deadline: August 20, 2010 - Receipt deadlines for projects beginning in May 2011
For More Information: http://www.neh.gov/projects/fpiri.html
National Endowment for the Humanities - Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants
Scholarly Editions and Translations grants support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts and documents that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. Projects must be undertaken by a team of at least one editor or translator and one other staff member. Grants typically support editions and translations of significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials, but other types of work, such as musical notation, are also eligible.
Award Amount: $50000
Disciplines: Arts, Humanities
Deadline: October 29, 2009 - Grants.gov application deadline (CLOSED)
For More Information: http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/editions.html
National Endowment for the Humanities - Summer Stipend
Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools. Summer Stipends support full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months.
Award Amount: $6000
Discipline: Humanities
Deadline: October 1, 2009 - Deadline for WU's internal nomination is Friday, August 28, 2009 (CLOSED)
For More Information: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html
National Endowment for the Humanities - Teaching Development Fellowships
Teaching Development Fellowships (TDF) support college and university teachers pursuing research aimed specifically at improving their undergraduate teaching. The program has three broad goals: 1) to improve the quality of humanities education in the United States; 2) to strengthen the link between research and teaching in the humanities; and 3) to foster excellence in undergraduate instruction. Fellowships cover periods lasting from three to five months and carry stipends of $4,200 per month ($21,000 max.).
Award Amount: $21000
Discipline: Humanities
Deadline: October 1, 2009 - (CLOSED)
For More Information: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/TD_Fellowships.html
National Humanities Center - National Humanities Center Fellowships 2010-2011
The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year, September 2010 through May 2011. Applicants must hold doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Young scholars as well as senior scholars are encouraged to apply, but they must have a record of publication, and new Ph.D.s should be aware that the Center does not support the revision of a doctoral dissertation. 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.
Disciplines: Humanities, Social Sciences
Deadline: October 15, 2009 - postmark deadline (CLOSED)
For More Information: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellowships/appltoc.htm
Newberry Library - Long-Term Fellowships in the Humanities
Fellowships at the Newberry Library provide assistance to researchers who wish to use the collections, but who cannot finance a visit on their own. Fellowships at the Newberry Library are of two types: short-term fellowships with terms of one week to two months and long-term fellowships of six to eleven months. Short-term fellowships are generally restricted to individuals from outside the metropolitan Chicago area and are primarily intended to assist researchers with a need to examine specific items in the Library's collection. Long-term fellowships are generally available without regard to an applicant's place of residence and are intended to support significant works of scholarship that draw on the Library's strengths.
Award Amount: $40000
Discipline: Humanities
Deadline: January 1, 2010 - Tentative deadline
For More Information: http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study - Fellowship Program
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.
Award Amount: $65000
Disciplines: Arts, Humanities
Deadline: October 1, 2009 - Online application portal at https://radcliffe.onlineapplicationportal.com/ (CLOSED)
For More Information: http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/apply.aspx
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities - William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellowship
The Warren Center will host a year-long interdisciplinary faculty seminar to explore the complex and multidirectional relationship between representation and social change. In our current globalized and mediated culture, experiences of social change are commonly communicated through a variety of representational means, and the reach and influence of mass communication increases the possibility that representations can be used to create social change as well as to reflect it. Yet today’s conditions are not unique—historical examples abound of instances in which representations of circumstances and events, once disseminated, have both communicated and facilitated social change.
Award Amount: $50000
Discipline: Humanities
Deadline: January 1, 2010 - Tentative postmark deadline
For More Information: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center/VF_Fellowship_2010_2011.htm
Stanford Humanities Center - External Faculty Fellowships (Residential)
External fellowships are intended primarily for individuals currently teaching in or affiliated with an academic institution, but independent scholars may apply. Faculty fellowships are awarded across the spectrum of academic ranks (assistant, associate, and full professor) 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. There are no citizenship requirements for these fellowships; non-U.S. nationals are welcome to apply. Awards are made from an applicant pool of approximately 250.
Disciplines: Humanities, Social Sciences
Deadline: October 15, 2009 - (CLOSED)
For More Information: http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/non-stanford-faculty
Yale University - Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Visiting Scholars Fellowship
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library offers short-term fellowships to support visiting scholars pursuing post-doctoral or equivalent research in its collections. The Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for early manuscripts and rare books in the fields of literature, theology, history, and the natural sciences. In addition to its general collection of rare books and manuscripts, the library houses the Yale Collection of American Literature, the Yale Collection of German Literature, the Yale Collection of Western Americana, and the Osborn Collection. The Beinecke collections afford opportunities for interdisciplinary research in such fields as medieval, Renaissance, and eighteenth-century studies, art history, photography, American studies, the history of printing, and modernism in art and literature.
Award Amount: $5000
Disciplines: Humanities, Social Sciences
Deadline: December 15, 2009 - Receipt deadline for hardcopy materials
For More Information: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brbleduc/brblapplyvisiting.html