EXTERNAL FELLOWSHIP AND SELECTED INSTITUTIONAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR
HUMANITIES and HUMANITIES-ORIENTED SOCIAL SCIENCES SCHOLARS
This list is intended for your planning purposes. It is our hope that you will be able to use it to determine which agencies might fund your research, find more information by visiting their websites, and use what you learn to develop a personal external fundinglist that will help you stay on task as you prepare your applications.
To navigate, keep this document in layout view, scroll to the table of contents, then click on the page number of the agency or program in which you’re interested. This will take you directly to that entry. If you then wish to learn more, click on the agency’s website address (URL). If clicking doesn’t work, copy the URL, paste it into the address line of your web browser, and type return. Some agencies had not updated their websites at the time this document was compiled, so do check the agency websites and read application instructions carefully.
Althoughthis document focuses largely on fellowships for individual work, it includes a few instances of institutional grants and fellowships.You can submit individual fellowship and grant applications entirely on your own or though the Humanities Grant Development Office (HGDO). Institutional proposals (those requiring submission by a 501(c)3 non profit organization) must be submitted on your behalf by the University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. (KUCR).
Applicants must make a firm commitment of their time and focus in order to developcompetitive grant and fellowship proposals. Because most agencies have deadlines only once each year and take from three to eight months to announce awards, this requires long-term planning. A simple individual fellowship or small grant application can be prepared in four to six weeks. That is not the case for institutional grant proposals. Because of the complexity of such applications, the frequent need to interface with agency program officers, and the necessity for institutional approval and submission it is critical to begin working onthem a minimum of four months and preferably six months prior to the agency's deadline in order to compete successfully.If you have collaborators, especially at other institutions, extend your grant proposal development timeline to accommodate the interfaces and required agreements between institutions and among collaborators.Federal agencies typically post guidelines only six to eight weeks before the deadline. In such cases,you can work from the previous year's guidelines and aim for the last known deadline, then tweak materials as may be necessary after the agency posts new instructions.HGDO staff will be glad to talk with you about your research funding strategies and help you create your proposal development timeline, as well as work with you to develop and submit your external applications, whether directly or through KUCR.
As you plan, please keep in mind that the internal deadline to submitall final materials to the HGDO is five (5) working days prior to the agency’s deadline. If requesting a full review and comments, the deadline to submit final drafts is ten (10) working days prior to the agency's deadline.To take full advantage our services, you need to begin working with us on fellowships a minimum of four weeks prior to the agency's deadline. The timeline for institutional grants is much longer, as noted above. KUCR also has an internal deadline of five (5) working days for all final application materials. HGDO can serve as your interface with KUCR, if you begin working with us early enough to allow us to provide this service.
This list is not exhaustive. If you know of other sources, please let us know. If you find nothing here that might help you, go to and conduct a search specific to your needs. Access to this online database is free to KU scholars (including students) courtesy of KUCR and offers the most comprehensive and dependable compilation of funding opportunities currently available. You can access it from any KU computer or, if KU is your service provider, from your computer at home.
Humanities Grant Development Office
Kathy Porsch, Research Development Officer: • 785/864-7834
Bobbi Rahder, Research Development Specialist: • 785/864-7833
Graduate Assistant Research Development Specialists: • 785/864-7887
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PORTABLE FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
American Academy of Religion (AAR)
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS)
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
ACLS Fellowships
ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships (note that this requires residency)
Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship (Currently suspended)
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars
ACLS Public Fellows
American Research in the Humanities in China
ACLS Area Studies Fellowships
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in Buddhist Studies
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation/ACLS Collaboration Research Grant in Buddhist Studies
American Historical Association
The Michael Kraus Research Grant in Colonial American History
American Oriental Society (AOS)
American Philosophical Society (APS)
The Franklin Research Grants
Phillips Fund Grants for Native American Research
American Society for 18th Century Studies (ASECS)
American Sociological Association (ASA)
Congressional Fellowship
Community Action Research Initiative Grant
The Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD)
Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants
Bibliographical Society of America
Short Term Fellowships
The Senior Katharine Pantzer Fellowship
George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation
Japan Foundation, New York
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER)
Title VIII National Research Competition
Title VIII Short-Term Travel Grants for Research in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Balkans
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Literature Fellowships: Translations Projects
Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
NEH Fellowship
NEH Public Scholar Fellowship
Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC) – Fellowship Program for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan
NEH and National Science Foundation Fellowships Program for Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL)
Summer Stipend Program
Collaborative Research Grants
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
National Research Council (NRC)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Cultural Anthropology Program
Decision, Risk and Management Sciences program
Documenting Endangered Languages
Geography and Spatial Sciences
Law and Social Science Program
Linguistics Program
Political Science Program
Sociology Program
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF)
Renaissance Society of America
Russell Sage Foundation
Project Awards
Visiting Scholars Program
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG)
United States Institute of Peace
Grants Program
VolkswagenStiftung: 'Original – isn’t it?' New Options for the Humanities and Cultural Sciences
IN-RESIDENCE FELLOWSHIPS
American Academy in Berlin
American Academy in Rome
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Visiting Scholars Program (VSP)
Science & Technology Policy Fellowships
American Antiquarian Society
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars(also listed under ACLS above)
American Historical Association (also listed under American Historical Association above)
American Institution for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) DAAD/AICGS Research Fellowship
American Political Science Association (APSA)
The Congressional Fellowship Program
The Centennial Center Visiting Scholars Program
American School of Classical Studies in Athens
American Sociological Association (ASA)
Asian Cultural Council
Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships
Calgary Institute for the Humanities (The University of Calgary)
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Center for Cultural Analysis (CCA) (Rutgers University)
Center for the Humanities (Oregon State University)
City University of New York, Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC)
Cornell Society for the Humanities (Cornell University)
Society for the Humanities Fellowship.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships.
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics (Harvard University)
Fellows-in-Residency Program
European University Institute (EUI)
Max Weber Fellowships
Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowships
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowships
European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS)
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
Fulbright-Hays Grants for Faculty Research, offered by the U.S. Department of Education
Fulbright Scholar Program, offered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)
Transatlantic Academy Fellowships
Grantmaking programs
Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
Getty Scholar Grants
Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships
GRI-NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship
Library Research Grants
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (The University of Texas at Austin)
Hodder Fellowship (Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University)
John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities of Haverford College
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ; Note: This is NOT Princeton University)
Membership Program.
Mellon Fellowship.
Institute for Historical Studies (University of Texas at Austin)
Institute for Research in the Humanities (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
UW-Madison Kingdon Fellowships
Solmsen Fellowships
The A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Program
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)
Regional Policy Symposium Program
Short-term Travel Grants
The US Embassy Policy Specialist Program
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America (Columbia University)
Alexander Bodini Research Fellowship
Humanities and Neuroscience Fellowships
James Weldon Johnson Institute (Emory University)
Junior Research Fellowships (Trinity College, Cambridge University)
Kellogg Institute for International Studies (Notre Dame University)
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (University of Notre Dame)
McNeil Center of Early American Studies (University of Pennsylvania)
Barra Postdoctoral Fellowship
Barra Sabbatical Fellowship
Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) (University of Notre Dame)
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Two-Year Fellowships
Conservation Fellowships
Interpretive Fellowships at Art Museums
Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship (CUNY)
Lauro De Bosis Postdoctoral Fellowship (Harvard University)
Leslie Center for the Humanities (Dartmouth College)
Leverhulme Trust
Michigan Society of Fellows (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)
National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, NC)
Newhouse Center for the Humanities (Wellesley College, MA)
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (College of William and Mary)
Penn Humanities Forum (University of Pennsylvania)
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (University of Toronto)
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities (Vanderbilt University)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center
School for Advanced Research (SAR)
Resident Scholars
Summer Scholars
Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies (Princeton University)
Stanford Humanities Center (Stanford University)
Tanner Humanities Center (University of Utah)
The Beverly Rogers and Carol G. Harter Black Mountain Institute (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
I Tatti Fellowship
The Harvard University Society of Fellows
Junior Fellowships
The University Center for Human Values (UCHV) (Princeton University)
United States Institute of Peace, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowships
University of Michigan, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), Charlottesville, VA.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
RESEARCH LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS
American Antiquarian Society
American Philosophical Society Library
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale University)
Bentley Historical Library (The University of Michigan)
Carl Albert Congressional Research and Study Center (University of Oklahoma)
DeWitt Stetten Museum of Medical Research (National Institutes of Health)
Duke University Libraries, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Fellowships
One-Month Research Stipends
Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington (Mount Vernon)
Folger Shakespeare Library
Hagley Museum and Library–Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
Houghton Library (Harvard University)
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
John Carter Brown Library (Brown University)
Montana Historical Society Research Center
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium
Princeton University Library
The Rockefeller Archive Center (Sleepy Hollow, New York)
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University)
Radcliffe Institute Fellowships
The Schlesinger Library (at the Radcliffe Institute)
Smithsonian Institution
The Getty Library (Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities)
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowships in American Civilization
The Library Company of Philadelphia
The Library of Congress
Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies
David B. Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality
Kislak Fellowship for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas
Kislak Short-Term Fellowships
Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations
Kluge Fellowships
Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies
The Lilly Library (University of Indiana–Bloomington)
The Massachusetts Historical Society
The Newberry Library
The New York Public Library
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowships
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Scholars-in-Residence Program
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA) Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies
The Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship
Clark Short-Term Fellowships
ASECS/Clark Fellowships
The Kanner Fellowship in British Studies
The Clark-Huntington Joint Bibliographical Fellowship
Winterthur Library, Museum, and Garden
PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES
Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Truman Presidential Library and Museum
Research Grants
Scholar’s Award
AREA STUDIES CENTERS
Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American & African Studies (University of Virginia)
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (Harvard)
An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship
Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (University of Pennsylvania)
Clements Center for Southwest Studies (Southern Methodist University)
Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies (University of Rochester)
Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (Harvard University)
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Institute of American Cultures (UCLA)
Institute of Turkish Studies (Private foundation located in Georgetown University’s Intercultural Center)
Sabbatical Research Grant
Post-Doctoral Summer Travel-Research Grant
Grants for the Publication of Scholarly Books or Journals
Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) (Princeton University)
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research (Harvard University)
West African Research Association (Boston University)
Wolfsonian-Florida International University Fellowship Program
BOOK AWARDS
Fund for Central and East European Book Projects
Medieval Academy of America Book Subvention Program
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PORTABLE FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
American Academy of Religion (AAR)
The AAR each year awards grants ranging from $500 to $5,000 to support collaborative or individual projects proposed by AAR members. These provide support for travel to archives and libraries, research assistance, fieldwork, and released time. Funds are not provided for dissertation research, publication expenses, or travel to attend the AAR Annual Meeting. To be eligible, applicants must have been members in good standing with the AAR for the last three years.
URL:
Deadline: August 1
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
The AAUW Educational Foundation supports women at early stages of their careers through its American Fellowships, which provide an academic year fellowship and publication funding. Grants range from $6,000 to $30,000. Candidates must be US citizens or permanent residents. The AAUW requires an application fee to be paid with the electronic application.
URL:
Deadline: November 15
American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS)
ACTR/ACCELS is an international non-profit organization working to advance education, research, and mutual understanding across the US, Canada, and the nations of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as well as Central Asia. With funds from the U.S. Department of State (Title VIII) and U.S. Department of Education (Fulbright Hays), American Councils administers several major grants for independent, overseas research in the humanities and social sciences as well as language training.
URL:
Deadline: Various, check the website
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Note: The New York Public Library and Burkhardt Fellowships require residency and the international programs require travel abroad. Programs are listed together to show the spectrum of what this important agency has to offer.
ACLS Fellowships
The ACLS invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects. The ACLS Fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing. ACLS Fellowships are portable and are tenable at the fellow’s home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for research.The Fellowship stipend is set at three levels based on academic rank: up to $35,000 for Assistant Professor and career equivalent; up to $45,000 for Associate Professor and career equivalent; and up to $70,000 for full Professor and career equivalent.