Research Funding

This category of funding includes fellowships and grants for research, travel, writing, residential periods in libraries and centers, diversity fellowships, and conference and exhibition support. These opportunities may support individual research as well as collaborative undertakings.

January

The Leakey Foundation Grants for Research Related to Human Origins

The Leakey Foundation exclusively funds research related to human origins. The Foundation exclusively funds research related specifically to human origins, including paleoanthropology, genetics, primate behavior, and studies of modern hunter-gatherer groups. Other areas of study are generally not funded.

European Union Seventh Framework Programme for Small or medium-scale focused research projects (STREP)

Small or medium-scale focused research projects (STREPs) are objective-driven research projects, which aim at generating new knowledge, including new technology, or common resources for research in order to improve European competitiveness, or to address major societal needs. They have clearly defined scientific and technological objectives directed at obtaining specific results, which could be applicable in terms of development or improvement of products, processes, services or policy.

The Historical Metallurgy Society Grants Fund

The Society awards grants for activities that further the aims of the Society. Interests range from processes and production through to technology and economics, in a range of specialisms including historical research, archaeology and conservation. It aims to gain recognition for the subject from the community at large and to be consulted when issues of preservation and recording arise. In the past grants have typically been made for research, travel, publication, or attendance at conferences.

*The Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship Fund for Women Medievalists

The Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship Fund of The Dallas Foundation is designed to support the research of women medievalists with tenure below the rank of full professor. Current award amount: $15,000 paid directly to the recipient. Applicants must be women who hold a Ph.D. in any area of medieval studies and who are full-time tenured associate professors in an academic department in the U.S.

Society of Antiquaries of London Research Grant

The Society welcomes applications from early career researchers, and for projects that are innovative in their approach, entail new initiatives, and/or create interdisciplinary interest. There are no period, geographic or disciplinary restrictions and applications are encouraged across the full range of the Society’s remit and interests: archaeology, art history, architectural and buildings history, studies of material culture items and assemblages (including books and manuscripts), the history of collecting and collections, and the development of intellectual enquiry into the human past through its material remains.

Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards

The Cultural Anthropology Program welcomes proposals from researchers in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology and research at any temporal and spatial scale. The overarching research goals should be to produce empirically grounded findings that will be generalizable beyond particular case studies and contribute to building a more robust anthropological science of human society and culture.

Council of American Overseas Research Centers National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship

The CAORC – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Senior Research Fellowship provides the opportunity for scholars to spend significant time in one country with an American Overseas Research Center as a research base. The fellowship supports advanced research in the humanities. Fellowship awards are for four to six consecutive months. Selected fellows are awarded $5,000 per month of the award.

JDC Archives Fellowships and Grants

The JDC Archives awards help senior scholars, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC Archives, either in New York or in Jerusalem. Research topics in the fields of twentieth century Jewish history, modern history, social welfare, migration, and humanitarian assistance will be considered, as well as other areas of academic research covered in the JDC archival collections.

New Foundation for Art History Fellowships

The New Foundation for Art History offers two non-residential fellowships for mid-career scholars. These fellowships will be awarded to assistant and associate professors carrying out innovative work on the art of any era or culture. Fellowship grants will constitute up to half of the candidate’s regular annual salary, not to exceed $50,000.

February

The American-Scandinavian Foundation Grants

The American-Scandinavian Foundation promotes the cultures of the Nordic countries in the United States and American culture in the Nordic countries by encouraging programs that will enhance public appreciation of culture, art, and thought. The maximum award amount is $5,000; however, average grants range between $1,000 to $2,000.

Retirement Research Foundation Advocacy Grants

RRF funds advocacy projects that focus on improving public policy for older persons. Of particular interest are projects that advance policy issues of critical importance to older people such as economic security, caregiving, housing, etc; use clearly focused and strategic efforts to address systemic problems; and forge partnerships with organizations to achieve better use of resources and to share knowledge.

Retirement Research Foundation Direct Service Grants

RRF awards Direct Service Grants for projects that increase the availability and effectiveness of comprehensive community programs that will enable older persons to continue living in their homes; provide supportive services to older persons in residential settings, such as congregate living facilities, group homes, and assisted living facilities; coordinate the provision of care and services for older persons with chronic conditions who live in community settings, and provide new and expanded opportunities for older persons to remain meaningfully engaged in community life, including intergenerational programs.

Retirement Research Foundation Research Grants

RRF funds research that seeks to identify interventions, policies and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers. Preference is given to projects aimed at generating practical knowledge and guidance that can be used by advocates, policy-makers, providers, and the aging network.

Retirement Research Foundation Professional Education & Training Grants

RRF funds professional education and training projects that will be broadly disseminated to achieve a national impact. RRF recognizes the importance of a well-trained work force to serve older persons. Of particular interest are programs that increase the knowledge and skills of professionals and paraprofessionals who serve older people and expand the capacity and number of professionals and paraprofessionals prepared to meet the growing needs of an aging population.

*Children’s Literature Association Diversity Research Grant

The Diversity Research Grant is a grant to support research related to children’s and young adult cultural artifacts (including media, culture, and texts) about populations that have been traditionally underrepresented or marginalized culturally and/or historically. Funds may be used for – but are not restricted to -research-related expenses such as travel to special collections, subvention funds, or purchasing materials and supplies.

*Children’s Literature Association June Cummins Diversity Conference Travel Grant

The grant supports the professional development of students and scholars from minority communities, and aims to specifically support students, contingent (adjunct/part-time) faculty, and independent scholars from underrepresented groups who are presenting research/papers that focus on matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Children’s Literature Association Faculty Research Grants

Faculty Research Grants have a combined maximum fund of up to $5,000 per year, and individual awards may range from $500 to $1,500, based on the number and needs of the winning applicants. The grants are awarded for proposals dealing with criticism or original scholarship with the expectation that the undertaking will lead to publication and make a significant contribution to the field of children’s literature in the area of scholarship or criticism.

Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) Research Grants for Emerging Scholars

AABS invites applications for research grants of up to $6,000 in any field of Baltic Studies. The AABS promotes research and education in Baltic Studies by sponsoring meetings and conferences, supporting publications, sustaining a program of scholarships, grants, and prizes, and disseminating news of current interest in Baltic Studies.

March

Massachusetts Historical Society Short-term Research Fellowships

The MHS will offer more than 20 short-term research fellowships in 2022. Most grants will provide a stipend of $2,000 for four weeks of research at the Society. Short-term awards are open to independent scholars, advanced graduate students, and holders of the Ph.D. or the equivalent.

Library Company of Philadelphia

The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania offer many opportunities for support in the form of one-month fellowships for research in residence in either or both institutions.

The Institute for Humane Studies Sabbatical Research Fellowship

The Institute for Humane Studies offers funding in the amount of $50,000 for semester-long sabbaticals for the study, research, and teaching of classical liberal ideas. Areas of interest include research in the classical liberal intellectual tradition, free/open markets, individual rights, private property, peace, prosperity, self-determination/autonomy, decentralization, limited government, privacy, free speech, the cultural drivers and consequences of classical liberal ideas, and related themes.

American Philosophy Society Phillips Fund for Native American Research

The Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society provides grants for research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans, in the continental United States and Canada. The grants are intended for such costs as travel, tapes, films, and consultants’ fees.

Early American Industries Association Research Grants

The Early American Industries Association supports projects related to its mission to preserve and present historic trades, crafts, and tools, and the interpretation of their impact on our lives. Individual grants up to $3,000.00 may be awarded.

Russkiy Mir Foundation Grants

The Russkiy Mir Foundation provides grants for projects aimed at popularizing the Russian language and culture and to support Russian language study programs.

Pasold Research Fund Research Project Grants

The aims of these research grants are to fund medium-size research projects, preliminary work in preparation of a more substantial grant application and small themed workshops. These grants are awarded to fund high quality research, relating to all branches of textile history including the history of dress and fashion. Applications are encouraged for projects where there will be a lasting outcome in the form of a publication (a monograph; part of a book, a series of articles), or an exhibition or similar.

GHI Fellowships at the Horner Library

The fellowship will be awarded to PhD and M.A. students and advanced scholars without restrictions in research fields or geographical provenance. The GHI Fellowship at the Horner Library in Philadelphia will provide a travel subsidy and an allowance of $1,000 to $3,500 depending on the length of the stay and the qualifications of the fellows.

Hagley Museum and Library Research Fellowships

Exploratory Research Grants support one-week visits by scholars who believe that their project will benefit from Hagley research collections, but need the opportunity to explore them on-site to determine if a Henry Belin du Pont research grant application is warranted. Priority will be given to junior scholars with innovative projects that seek to expand on existing scholarship.

April

Archaeological Institute of America Society Outreach Grant Program

The AIA Society Outreach Grant Program encourages AIA societies to plan and implement outreach activities in their local community. Any event that promotes archaeology, the AIA’s mission, and focuses on public outreach and education will be considered for funding. This grant is meant for innovative outreach programs, replicable by other societies and beyond the regular lecture program supported by the national office.

The Americas Research Network Transnationalism Fellowship Program

The Americas Research Network announces its fellowship program to support innovative research on U.S.-Mexican Transnationalism and on U.S.-Mexican Transnational Communities in order to foster collaboration among U.S. and Mexican scholars. Research projects on any aspect of U.S.-Mexican Transnationalism and Transnational Communities will be considered, but the projects must focus on topics that have not been thoroughly explored and must contribute significantly to the advancement of relevant scholarship.

Society for the History of Technology National Aeronautics Space Administration Fellowships

The Fellowships in Aerospace History are offered annually by the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) to support significant scholarly research projects in aerospace history. These fellowships grant the opportunity to engage in significant and sustained advanced research in all aspects of the history of aerospace from the earliest human interest in flight to the present, including cultural and intellectual history, economic history, history of law and public policy, and the history of science, engineering, and management.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships

NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research.

National Endowment for the Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication

Through NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication, the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation jointly support individual scholars pursuing interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication.To be considered, an applicant’s plans for digital publication must be integral to the project’s research goals.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan

The program aims to promote Japan studies in the United States, to encourage U.S. – Japanese scholarly exchange, and to support the next generation of Japan scholars in the United States. Awards support research on modern Japanese society and political economy, Japan’s international relations, and U.S. – Japan relations.

May

Retirement Research Foundation Advocacy Grants

Retirement Research Foundation Direct Service Grants

Retirement Research Foundation Research Grants

Retirement Research Foundation Professional Education & Training Grants

The Daesan Foundation Support for Translation, Research and Publication of Korean Literature

The Daesan, which promotes the enrichment and globalization of Korean culture, supports the translation, research, and publication of Korean works to foster the globalization of Korean culture and to advance cultural exchange. The Foundation’s Translation Grant selects, translates, and researches quality literary works worthy enough to globalize Korean literature, publishing these works at prestigious publishing companies of the target languages and promoting the globalization of Korean literature through the distribution of these works.

The International Institute for Jewish Genealogy Research Grants

The Institute invites proposals for original work squarely in the field of Jewish Genealogy, broadly defined. Proposals may be in the categories of pure genealogical research, or inter-disciplinary research. They may also seek to provide Jewish genealogists and family historians with innovative “tools and technologies” to advance their work.

Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) Baumanis Grant for Creative Projects in Baltic Studies

The AABS promotes research and education in Baltic Studies by sponsoring meetings and conferences, supporting publications, sustaining a program of scholarships, grants, and prizes, and disseminating news of current interest in Baltic Studies. An award of up to $7,000 is available for any creative project (e.g., book, film, exhibit, etc.) that promotes Baltic studies. Preference will be given to topics with a pan-Baltic or comparative aspect.

June

William T. Grant Scholars Program

The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. Applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers. We recognize that early-career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take measured risks in their work, so this award includes a mentoring component, as well as a supportive academic community. Awards are based on applicants’ potential to become influential researchers, as well as their plans to expand their expertise in new and significant ways.

July

The Leaky Foundation Research Grants Related to Human Origins

The Leakey Foundation exclusively funds research related to human origins. Priority of funding is commonly given to exploratory phases of promising new research projects that meet the stated purpose of the Foundation. The majority of The Leakey Foundation’s Research Grants awarded to doctoral students are in the $3,000-$15,000 range. Larger grants given to senior scientists and post-doctoral researchers may be funded up to $25,000.

The Leakey Foundation Grants for Research Related to Human Origins

Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC) Grant

JUSFC’s mission is to raise awareness about the importance of the U.S.-Japan relationship. Commissioners will evaluate projects based on their proposed ability to advance JUSFC’ mission by contributing to U.S.-Japan relations. The agency seeks applications from organizations that represent the rich diversity of the United States and Japan, and make a commitment to inclusiveness in their programs in order to be more effective and better enhance their abilities to make a contribution to the U.S.-Japan relationship.

August

Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Grants

The Foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and aligned disciplines that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that addresses urgent, present-day problems of violence—what produces it, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it.

The Historical Metallurgy Society Grants Fund

Retirement Research Foundation Advocacy Grants

Retirement Research Foundation Direct Service Grants

Retirement Research Foundation Research Grants

Retirement Research Foundation Professional Education & Training Grants

September

The Malevich Society Grant

Proposed projects should increase the understanding of Kazimir Malevich and his work, or augment historical, biographical or artistic information about Malevich and/or his artistic legacy.

Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)/Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Library & Information Science Research Grant Program

This program promotes independent research, particularly work helping to integrate new technologies that offer innovative approaches, and research that contributes to a better understanding of the information environment and user expectations and behaviors. The intent is to create access and minimize barriers for people from a broad range of backgrounds who will add value to our professional communities. Grant awards range up to $25,000 and support one-year research projects.

Romance Writers of America Academic Research Grant

Romance Writers of America is a program that seeks to develop and support academic research devoted to genre romance novels, writers, and readers. The ultimate goal of proposals should be a significant publication in major journals or as a monograph from an academic press as well as the dissemination of the study results to a wider, non-academic audience. Grants up to $5,000 are awarded.

The Institute for Humane Studies Sabbatical Research Fellowship

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends

The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.

Russkiy Mir Foundation Grants

The Russkiy Mir Foundation provides grants for projects aimed at popularizing the Russian language and culture and to support Russian language study programs.

Music Library Association Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American Music

Grants are awarded to support research in archives or libraries internationally on any aspect of American music. There are no restrictions as to an applicant’s age, nationality, profession, or institutional affiliation. All proposals are reviewed entirely on the basis of merit.

October

Institute for Citizens and Scholars Career Enhancement Junior Faculty Fellowship

The Career Enhancement Fellowship Program seeks to increase the presence of minority junior faculty members and other faculty members committed to eradicating racial disparities in core fields in the arts and humanities. The Junior Faculty Fellowship provides each Fellow with a six-month or one-year sabbatical grant; a stipend for research and travel or publication; and participation in an annual conference/retreat.

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Faculty Research Visit Grant

DAAD offers grants for one to three months in all academic disciplines to scholars at US and Canadian institutions of higher education to pursue research at universities, libraries, archives, institutes or laboratories in Germany. The aim of this particular program is to support short-term research stays and thus promote the exchange of experience and networking amongst colleagues.

*Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Myrna F. Bernath Fellowship

The Myrna F. Bernath Fellowship was established by the Bernath family to promote scholarship in U.S. foreign relations history by women. The Myrna Bernath Fellowship of up to $2,500 is intended to defray the costs of scholarly research by women.

Pasold Research Fund Research Project Grants

The aims of these research grants are to fund medium-size research projects, preliminary work in preparation of a more substantial grant application and small themed workshops.

Marilynn Thoma Fellowship in Spanish Colonial Art

The Marilynn Thoma Fellowship funds research devoted exclusively to the field of Spanish Colonial art. Fellowships range in duration from one to two years, and eventuate in major measurable outcomes, including museum exhibitions, dissertations, book publications, scholarly essays, and lecture series.

American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grants

The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.

Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Research Grants

Scholars at academic institutions are eligible to apply for research grants. Priority will be given to collaborative projects involving institutions in Taiwan. Projects on Taiwan Studies are especially encouraged. Research grants are usually given for no more than two years.

November

Institute for Citizens and Scholars Career Enhancement Adjunct Faculty Fellowship

The Career Enhancement Fellowship Program seeks to increase the presence of minority junior faculty members and other faculty members committed to eradicating racial disparities in core fields in the arts and humanities. The Adjunct Faculty Fellowship provides each Fellow with a six-month period during which to focus on the research and scholarship necessary to secure a tenure-track position.

Russell Sage Foundation Funding Opportunities

The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) will accept letters of inquiry (LOIs) under these core programs and special initiatives: Social, Political, and Economic Inequality; Future of Work; and Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context. RSF will also accept LOIs relevant to any of its core programs that address at least one of the following issues: Research on the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession in the U.S. and Research focused on systemic racial inequality and/or the recent mass protests in the U.S.

Asian Cultural Council Grants

The Asian Cultural Council makes fellowships and grants to support cultural exchange in the arts for practicing artists, scholars, and arts professionals. Priority is given to process-driven activities that enable cultural immersion, relationship-building, collaboration, or the exchange of knowledge among peers, such as research, training, study, and exploration.

American Society for Environmental History Samuel P. Hays Research Fellowship

The American Society for Environmental History created this fellowship to advance the field of environmental history, broadly conceived. The fellowship provides a single payment of $1,000 to help fund travel to and use of an archive or manuscript repository, or to collect related research material. It is open to practicing historians (either academic, public, or independent).

*The Center for Khmer Studies Senior Fellowships

The Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) provides in-country research fellowships for US, Cambodian and French scholars (or EU citizens holding a degree from a French university) and doctoral students on a yearly basis. These fellowships are open to scholars who already hold a PhD degree in all disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities who seek to pursue further research focusing on Cambodia alone or on Cambodia within a regional context.

Wenner-Gren Foundation Post-Ph.D. Research Grants

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.

American Scandinavian Foundation Grants

The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) offers fellowships and grants to individuals to pursue research or study in one or more Scandinavian country for up to one year. ASF promotes firsthand exchange of intellectual and creative influence between the United States and the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

Kurt Weill Foundation for Music Grants Program

The Foundation’s Grant and Collaborative Initiatives Programs award financial support to individuals and not-for-profit organizations for projects related to Weill, Lenya, or Marc Blitzstein. Its Grants and Collaborative Initiatives Programs reflect the Kurt Weill Foundation’s commitment to principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. As such, the Foundation ensures that its grant funding is awarded to organizations who have demonstrably committed to and implemented policies ensuring non-discrimination, diversity, and equality in its practices.

Dumbarton Oaks Project Grants

Dumbarton Oaks makes a limited number of grants to assist with scholarly projects in Byzantine Studies, Pre-Columbian Studies, and Garden and Landscape Studies. Support is generally for archeological investigation, as well as for the recovery, recording, and analysis of materials that would otherwise be lost.

Harvard University Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship

The Loeb Classical Library Foundation awards fellowships to qualified scholars to support research, publication, and other projects in the area of classical studies. Fellowships will normally range from $1,000 to $40,000. Fellowships may be used for a wide variety of purposes. Examples include publication of research, enhancement of sabbaticals, travel to libraries or collections, reasonable payment of student research assistants, dramatic productions, excavation expenses, or cost of research materials.

The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation

The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in selected fields, targeting its support specifically to early mid-career individuals, who have completed at least one major project and demonstrate potential to be future leaders in their fields. It is an unrestricted, non-residency fellowship for the sole purpose of aiding the intellectual and artistic development of the recipients.

Omohundro Institute Mount Vernon Fellowships for Digital Collections in the American Founding Era

The fellowship will award up to $5,000 to the holding library and to the scholar whose research relies on, or will be greatly enhanced by, the digitization of a collection or partial collection of materials related to the American Founding era, broadly defined to span from 1763 to 1800, with preference for projects connected to George Washington and his world.

Samuel H. Kress Grants For Research And Publication In Classical Art And Architecture

The purpose of this grant is to assist scholars in preparing, completing and publishing results of their research in Graeco-Roman Art and Architecture, and the broader Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity. Awards may be used for research leading to the publication of an art historical monograph or for costs associated with publication, such as image licensing.

Julie Herzig Desnick Endowment Fund For Archaeological Field Surveys

The Julie Herzig Desnick Fund provides grants to archaeologists to start new archaeological survey projects. The awards are intended for projects involving field survey on the ground or a combination of field survey and remote sensing methods, rather than those based entirely on satellite imagery or other remote sensing data.

Archaeological Institute of America Kathleen And David Boochever Endowment Fund For Fieldwork And Scientific Analyses

The Boochever Fund will support both fieldwork and laboratory research informed by new technologies. The Boochever Fund will provide a total award of up to 4,000 USD.

The Ellen And Charles Steinmetz Endowment Fund For Archaeology

The Steinmetz Fund will support the use of technology in archaeological research by providing grants to archaeological projects that make innovative use of technological tools and methods. The Steinmetz Fund will provide a total award of up to 5,500.

Council of American Overseas Research Centers Multi-Country Research Fellowship

The Multi-Country Research Fellowship enables US scholars to carry out trans-regional and comparative research in countries across the network of Overseas Research Centers as well as other countries. The fellowship supports advanced research in the humanities, social sciences, and allied natural sciences.

*Harriet And Leon Pomerance Fellowship

The purpose of this fellowship is to support an individual project of a scholarly nature, related to Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology, and to be conducted between July 1 of the award year and the following June 30. A $5,000 stipend is given with this fellowship.

Site Preservation Grant

The Site Preservation Grant is intended to fund projects that uphold the Archaeological Institute of America’s mission to preserve and protect the world’s archaeological heritage for future generations. The goal of the grant, which carries a maximum award of $15,000, is to enhance global preservation efforts and promote awareness of the need to protect threatened archaeological sites.

American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Research Fellowships

The American Institute of Indian Studies provides funding to pre- and post-doctoral scholars and artists in pursuit of knowledge about India.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies

In cooperation with the Henry Luce Foundation, ACLS has embarked on a three-year bridging initiative to reassess and reconfigure the Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies. Fellowships will support research, writing, and curriculum development. Research may also be conducted on Chinese culture and society outside these areas, as required by the research plan.

Humanities Without Walls Grand Research Challenge

The Humanities Without Walls Grand Research Challenge (GRC) funds collaborative and interdisciplinary humanities research projects that demonstrate a commitment to methodologies of reciprocity and redistribution. The Grand Research Challenge provides grants of up to $150,000 over a two-year period.

December

American Council of Learned Societies Digital Extension Grant

The grants are designed to advance humanistic scholarship by enhancing established digital projects, extending their reach to new communities of users, and supporting teams of scholars at all career stages as they participate in digital research. This program aims to promote inclusion and sustainability by extending the opportunity to participate in the digital transformation of humanistic inquiry to a greater number of humanities scholars.

The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Title VIII Dissertation Completion Grant Program

The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) invites proposals for its Dissertation Completion Grant Program. This grant provides a maximum award of $25,000 to doctoral candidates in an advanced stage of dissertation work whose research concerns the countries of Eastern Europe and Eurasia on topics of relevance to current U.S. foreign policy.

National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars

The Public Scholars program supports the creation of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public and offers grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel, and other activities leading to publication. The program is intended both to encourage non-academic writers to deepen their engagement with the humanities by strengthening the research underlying their books and to encourage academic writers in the humanities to communicate the significance of their research to the broadest possible range of readers.

American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grants

National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grants

The Collaborative Research program aims to advance humanistic knowledge by supporting sustained collaboration between two or more scholars. Proposed projects must aim to result in tangible and sustainable outcomes, such as co-authored or multi-authored books; born-digital publications; themed issues of peer-reviewed journals; a series of peer-reviewed articles; or open-access scholarly digital resources. All project outcomes must incorporate collaboration and interpretation to address significant humanities research questions.

Thoma Foundation Research & Travel Awards In Art of the Spanish Americas

Congruent with the Marilynn Thoma Fellowship, the Foundation offers annual grants to scholars, curators, art historians, and advanced graduate students working on MA theses or PhD dissertations in support of projects and research initiatives that will advance the field of the art of the Spanish Americas. These grants are meant to help defray the costs of research-related expenses. Funding is provided each year to several scholars selected by an international jury of undisclosed experts in the field.

Japan Foundation Research Fellowships

This program provides support to outstanding scholars, researchers, and professionals in the field by offering the opportunity to conduct research in Japan.

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Houghton Library Visiting Fellowships

Scholars at all stages of their careers are invited to apply to pursue projects that require in-depth research on Houghton Library’s holdings, draw on staff expertise, and participate in intellectual life at Harvard.

AccessLex Institute/Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Research and Dissertation Fellows Program

This grant program is designed to promote scholarship on issues related to access, affordability and the value of graduate and professional education. Two levels of grants are available to support year-long research projects for recipients affiliated with a non-profit U.S. postsecondary institution or relevant higher education organization.

Western Society for French History Millstone Research Fellowship

The Millstone Fellowship provides $2500 for research in France. Eligibility is restricted to doctoral students, untenured and adjunct faculty members, and independent scholars who reside in North America and whose research related to French and Francophone history and culture requires work in archives, libraries, or other repositories in France.

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Funding

The Foundation offers three types of grants—Curatorial Research Fellowships, Exhibition Support, and Multiyear Program Grants. Grants are made on a project basis to curatorial programs at museums, artists’ organizations, and other cultural institutions to originate innovative and scholarly presentations of contemporary visual arts. Projects may include exhibitions, catalogues, and other organizational activities directly related to these areas.

American Research Center in Sofia Foundation Fellowships and Grants

The ARCS provides financial and logistical support for individual and team research projects and to promote the preservation of archaeological sites and the development of museums in Bulgaria.

*Gerda Henkel Foundation Historical Humanities Research Project Grants

The focus of the funding activity is the support of German and foreign scholars in the field of the historical humanities. Research projects from the following areas are funded: Archeology, Historical Sciences, Historical Islamic Studies, Art History, Legal History, Prehistory and Early History, History of Science. Funds are approved for Concrete and time-limited research projects in the form of personnel, travel and material resources; Research and doctoral grants for German and foreign scientists; and Printing subsidies for particularly successful projects funded by the foundation.

Music Library Association Carol June Bradley Award for Historical Research in Music Librarianship

The award exists to support research into the history of music libraries and music librarianship. There are no restrictions as to an applicant’s age, nationality, profession, or institutional affiliation. All proposals are reviewed entirely on the basis of merit.

Fitch Foundation James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship

Research grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to one or more mid-career professionals who have an academic background, professional experience and an established identity in one or more of the following fields: historic preservation, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, architectural history and the decorative arts. The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation will consider proposals for the research and/or the execution of the preservation-related projects in any of these fields.

Fitch Foundation Samuel H. Kress Fellowship

The Samuel H. Kress Mid-Career Fellowship research grants of up to $15,000 may be awarded to a mid-career professional whose research project relates to the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of European art, architecture and related disciplines from antiquity to the early 19th century, in the context of historic preservation in the United States. Potential Kress Fellow projects could include the exploration of shared European and American influences in style, design, materials, construction techniques, building types, conservation and interpretation methodologies, philosophical and theoretical attitudes, and other factors applicable to preservation in both Europe and America.

Carnegie Corporation of New York Grant Programs

Carnegie Corporation of New York works to promote democracy, education, and peace across the globe, advancing knowledge and understanding in these areas of central importance. The Corporation supports innovative projects, organizations, and individuals that are striving to create meaningful change. Programs include Education, Democracy, International Peace and Security, and Higher Education and Research in Africa.

The Bibliographical Society of America

The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) funds a number of fellowships to promote inquiry and research in books and other textual artifacts in both traditional and emerging formats. Projects may include establishing a text or studying the history of book or manuscript production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading, and the history of bibliographical study itself. Fellowship awards may be used to fund travel to collections and other expenses associated with research, publication, or other scholarly outcomes related to the topic for which the award was made.

The Spalding Memorial Educational Trust

The Trust awards grants for the study of recognized religious traditions of the world. Its objects are focussed on the promotion of ethical, philosophical and religious education, as far as possible throughout the world, through the support of inter-religious study to promote mutual understanding and respect. Trustees award grants from the main fund – generally no more than £3,000 for any one grant – to encourage the study of a recognized religious tradition other than the applicant’s own or to study religion from a comparative perspective.

Smith Richardson Foundation Grants for Public Policy

The International Security and the Foreign Policy Program and Domestic Public Policy Program make grants for research and writing on public policy topics that have been identified as priority areas for the Foundation.

Law School Admission Council (LSAC) Research Grant Program

The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) Research Grant Program funds research on a wide variety of topics related to the mission of LSAC. Specifically included in the program’s scope are projects investigating precursors to legal training, selection into law schools, legal education, and the legal profession. To be eligible for funding, a research project must inform either the process of selecting law students or legal education itself in a demonstrable way.

United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Grant Program

The Grant Program increases the breadth and depth of the Institute’s work by supporting peace-building projects managed by non-profit organizations including educational institutions, research institutions, and civil society organizations.

Institute for New Economic Thinking Grants

The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) seeks to create an environment nourished by open discourse and to empower the next generation of scholars with the necessary support to accelerate and advance new and important thinking on economic issues. INET encourages scholars in economics as well as in related fields such as history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, political science and the physical sciences to submit grant proposals.

University of Virginia Library Fellowships

Fellowships fund different areas of research.

DeGolyer Library Travel Grants

Fellowships fund different areas of research.