Funding Opportunities at Washington University for Graduate Students

•The Humanities Digital Workshop - Offers Summer Fellowships for both undergraduate and graduate students

•Dissertation Fellowships - Require an application and are awarded by the Graduate School.

•The Center for the Humanities - Offers fellowships to humanities students who will hold dissertation fellowships

•Writing and Research Graduate Fellowships – Provide support for doctoral students who are at or near the dissertation-writing stage

Outside Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students

•American Academy in Rome - For advanced research and independent study in the fine arts and humanities.

•American Antiquarian Society - Offers various short-term and long-term visiting academic research fellowships.

•American Association of University Women - AAUW advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research. Offers various leadership programs, fellowships and grants.

•American Comparative Literature Association - Travel grants for ACLA members presenting papers at the annual conference. A discounted membership rate is available for students.

•American Council of Learned Societies - Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships and other fellowships and grants.

•American Historical Association - PhD students who are members of AHA are eligible to apply for small research grants. A discounted membership rate is available for students.

•American Institute of Indian Studies - AIIS Junior Fellowships are for graduate students conducting research for their doctoral dissertations in India.

•American Philological Association - The APA is the principal learned society in North America for the study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations. Offers various awards and fellowships.

•American Philosophical Society - Offers various fellowship and grant programs.

•American Society for 18th-Century Studies - Various prizes and fellowships; some require membership in the ASECS. A discounted membership rate is available for students.

•American-Scandinavian Foundation - The ASF offers fellowships and grants to individuals to pursue research or study in one or more Scandinavian countries for up to one year.

•Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Various grants/fellowships

•Asian Cultural Council - The Council will help cover living costs and international travel for students participating in graduate degree programs relating to the visual and performing arts.

•Association for Asian Studies - Offers various funding opportunities.

•Bancroft Library - Fellowships at UC Berkeley

•Belgian American Educational Foundation - Fellowships for study or research in Belgium

•Blakemore Foundation - Blakemore Freeman Fellowships fund an academic year of advanced language study abroad of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and selected Southeast Asian languages.

•Boston Athenaeum - Short-term fellowships

•Camargo Foundation - For studies in the humanities and social sciences related to French and francophone cultures.

•Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies - Research fellowships at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

•Center for Comparative Immigration Studies - At UC San Diego

•Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies NEH Research Fellowship - At Saint Louis University

•Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation - Dissertation Fellowships

•Chateaubriand Fellowship - Offered by the Embassy of France in the United States

•Chemical Heritage Foundation - Offers long-term and short-term fellowships.

•Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange - Doctoral fellowships for non-ROC citizens in the field of Chinese studies in the humanities and social sciences. Dissertation fellowships for ROC citizens who are completing dissertations in the humanities and social sciences.

•China Scholarship Council - Schilarships offered by the Chinese government, the Confucius Institute, local Chinese governments, foreign governments, and institutes.

•CLIR/Library of Congress Mellon Fellowship - Fellowship for dissertation research with original source material at the Library of Congress.

•Cornell University Doctoral/Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowships - Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

•Critical Language Schools parsnip Program - Fully-funded overseas language and cultural immersion program.

•Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection - An institute of Harvard University dedicated to supporting scholarship internationally in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies. Graduate students are eligible for Junior or Summer Fellowships.

•Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs - Predoctoral, Dissertation and Postdoctoral programs

•Foundation for Jewish Culture - Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Jewish Studies

•Frederick Douglass Institute Fellowship Program - Predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships for scholars studying the African and African-American experience.

•Froebel Trust - Offers small grants for pilot studies or research projects.

•Fulbright Programs - Various grants that include overseas research, experiences, training, etc.

•German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) - Scholarships and grants funded by DAAD.

•German Historical Institute - Various Fellowships

•Getty Foundation - Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Getty Research Institute.

•Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Short-term research fellowships.

•Hagley Museum and Library - Henry Belin du Pont Dissertation Fellowships

•Harry Ransom Center - UT Austin - Offers small fellowships designated for graduate students who are working on doctoral dissertations that require use of the Center's collections.

•Haynes Foundation - Haynes Lindley Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships

•Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Visiting Research Fellowships

•Houghton Library - Visiting Fellowships

•Institute for Humane Studies-George Mason University - The Institute for Humane Studies assists undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars worldwide with an interest in individual liberty.

•Institute for International, Comparative and Area Studies - At UC San Diego

•Institute of Historical Research - Doctoral students are eligible for various Junior Fellowships.

•Jacob K. Javits Fellowships Program - Fellowships to students on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise—to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in selected fields.

•Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives - Offers various endowed fellowships.

•Japan Foundation - Los Angeles - The mission of the Japan Foundation is to promote international cultural exchange and mutual understanding between Japan and other countries.

•Japan Foundation - New York - The mission of the Japan Foundation is to promote international cultural exchange and mutual understanding between Japan and other countries.

•John Carter Brown Library - Short-term and long-term fellowships.

•John W. Kluge Center - Graduate students are eligible for Kislak Short-Term Fellowships for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas.

•Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust - Special consideration will be given to fellowship applicants in the humanities. Fellowships are for one academic year.

•Leo Baeck Institute - Devoted to the study of the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry. Offers several fellowships.

•Library Company of Philadelphia - Offers several short-term fellowships as well as a fellowship for dissertation research in residence at the library.

•Library of Congress - Search internship and fellowship opportunities.

•McNeil Center for Early American Studies - Various Dissertation Fellowships

•Medieval Academy of America - Some fellowship competitions require membership in the Medieval Academy. A discounted membership rate is available for students.

•Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources - For dissertation research in the humanities or related social sciences in original sources.

•Metropolitan Museum of Art - Internships/Fellowships

•National Gallery of Art - Internships/Fellowships

•New York Public Library - Short-Term Research Fellowships and other opportunities.

•Organization of American Historians - Offers some small travel awards, dissertation and essay prizes.

•P.E.O. International - P.E.O. Scholar Awards provide substantial merit-based awards for women pursuing a doctoral degree.

•Pacific Rim Research Program - Currently soliciting Mini-grants of up to $5,000 for Advanced Graduate Students only.

•Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans - Supports the graduate educations of 30 New Americans – permanent residents or naturalized citizens if born abroad; otherwise children of naturalized citizen parents -- each year.

•Phi Beta Kappa Society - Offers The Walter J. Jensen Fellowship for French Language, Literature, and Culture and The Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship, awarded alternately in the fields of Greek and French.

•Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science - Dissertation Writing & Research Fellowships

•Pivot - UCI - Use your UCI email address to create a Pivot account. Pivot's database allows you to easily search for funding opportunities and set weekly email alerts of funding opportunities in focused areas of interest.

•School for Advanced Research - For advanced scholarship in anthropology, social sciences and the humanities.

•Smithsonian American Art Museum - Fellowships/Internships

•Smithsonian Fellowships - Various Opportunities

•Social Science Research Council - The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) offers support to graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who are enrolled in doctoral programs in the U.S. and conducting dissertation research outside of the U.S. Other fellowship programs also offered.

•Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations - Various Dissertation Fellowships

•The Huntington - Short-term awards

•The Newberry - Graduate students are eligible for most short-term fellowships.

•UC Center for New Racial Studies - At UC Santa Barbara

•UC Humanities Research Institute - Multi-campus research unit located here at UCI.

•UC Mexus - Institute for Mexico and the United States - Grants for dissertation research.

•UCLA Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies - Various fellowships

•UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies - The Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Books and Manuscripts support the use of the extensive medieval and Renaissance monographic and manuscript holdings in UCLA Library Special Collections.

•University at Buffalo (SUNY) Humanities Institute - UB Libraries Special Collections Fellowships

•Washington University Scholarships - Available on the WUSTL graduate school website.

•Western Association of Women Historians - Offers two graduate student prizes: Founders' Dissertation Fellowships and a conference paper prize.

•Winterthur Museum & Library Fellowships - Dissertation & Research Fellowships

•Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation - Administers the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship and other awards.