External Graduate Student Funding

Main Humanities Funders

This is a general list of significant federal, foundation, corporate, and regional funding bodies in the humanities. Many of these organizations fund collaborative project funding that involves more than one scholar, as well as projects that may involve activities beyond writing books and papers.

Learn about Main Humanities Funders

Opportunities and Deadlines

These funding opportunities are broken down by types of research project and organized by deadlines to assist you in planning your time. Select a list and scroll by deadline, or use the keyboard shortcut “Control+F” (or “Command+F” on a Mac) to search by field, discipline, or interest area.

Early Career Fellowships

This category of funding supports doctoral students at the pre-dissertation stages of their careers. Funding opportunities may include tuition scholarships, diversity fellowships for students from particular demographic groups, and general education support for certain topic areas

Research and Travel Funding

Funding for research and research travel at any point in graduate studies, including preliminary research and dissertation research.

Dissertation Completion

Dissertation completion fellowships and grants are a particular category of humanities funding for students in their final year of dissertation work, post-candidacy. The goal of these funding opportunities is to give students significant time to write their dissertations, thereby increasing the impact and quality of the dissertation.

Humanities Fellowships and Grants