Ongoing Opportunities
There are a number of fellowships and other ongoing opportunities for funding available. Most of these are offered on an annual or semiannual basis.
We periodically update this information to include the latest funding opportunities, but funders change guidelines frequently. To ensure the most current guidelines, please follow the links to check funder websites.
Fellowships
Fellowships for research differ from grants because most are paid directly to the applicant, not to the institution, and often provide only personal expenses such as stipend, travel, and some research expenses. Some fellowship awards require that the recipient devote full time to research during the award’s tenure. The department chair and dean of the faculty must approve any faculty member’s absence or reduction of teaching and administrative duties at the time of the application. Approvals are collected via the internal transmittal form. Whenever possible, faculty members should adhere to the college’s schedule for notice of intended leave, that is, by September 10 of the academic year preceding the leave. Please inform the director of faculty grants of all fellowship applications and outcomes, so that the Grants Office can assist in facilitating matching salary funds where available, publicity and post-award reporting.
Fellowship Opportunities
Application deadline: Various fellowships with various deadlines
Cornell’s Society for the Humanities was established in 1966 as one of the first humanities research institutes in North America. The Society brings distinguished visiting fellows, Cornell faculty, and graduate student fellows together each year to pursue research on a rotating interdisciplinary focal theme.
Application deadline: U.S. Scholars Program deadlines usually in September
Fulbright is the most widely recognized and prestigious international exchange program in the world. Fulbright offers U.S. scholars fellowship opportunities abroad as well as opportunities for non-U.S. scholars to visit American institutions. The program actively seeks out individuals of achievement and potential who represent the full diversity of their respective societies and selects nominees through open, merit-based competitions.
More at:
www.cies.org
Application deadline: Usually September 17
Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Fellowships are awarded through two annual competitions: one open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada, and the other open to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean (NB: The Foundation has suspended the Latin America and Caribbean program for 2021). Candidates must apply to the Guggenheim Foundation in order to be considered in either of these competitions.
More at:
www.gf.org/about/fellowship/
Application deadline: Usually October 1
The Humanities Center offers approximately twenty-five residential fellowships for the academic year to Stanford and non-Stanford scholars at different career stages, giving them the opportunity to pursue their work in a supportive intellectual community.
More at:
shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/non-stanford-faculty/
Application deadline: Annual deadline usually in October
The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study awards 10-15 Faculty Fellowships annually to researchers whose work addresses the Institute’s yearly research theme (2020’s theme:”Resilience.”)
Faculty Fellows typically receive up to half their salary per academic year (up to $75,000), subsidized housing (for those who currently reside outside of the South Bend area), a research allowance of up to $500 per semester, and a private office at the NDIAS. Fellows’ home institutions ordinarily provide the remainder of their salaries as well as all benefits, including health insurance. The NDIAS also has a cohort of undergraduate research fellows available to work with Faculty Fellows on their projects, if desired.
Faculty Fellowships are open to scholars, scientists, social scientists, and artists in all disciplines who are conducting research on the annual research theme. Faculty Fellows typically have a faculty appointment at their home institution, but these fellowships are also open to independent researchers, postdoctoral scholars, and those who have recently received their Ph.D. (or equivalent) degree.
More at:
https://ndias.nd.edu/fellowships/
Proposal Deadline: various
The NEH has numerous fellowship programs. You can find a full list at www.neh.gov/divisions/research/fpiri-supported-fellowships. Below are a few highlights. Remember that the applications are generally available a month or more in advance of any deadlines.
The NEH General Fellowships have deadlines in April and support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities.
NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication have deadlines in April and supports individual scholars pursuing interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication.
NEH Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions has deadlines in August and supports fellowships at institutions devoted to advanced study and research in the humanities. Recognizing that at times scholars need to work away from their homes and institutions, the FPIRI program sponsors fellowships that provide scholars with research time, a stimulating intellectual environment, and access to resources that might otherwise not be available to them.
NEH Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan has deadlines in April and supports research on modern Japanese society and political economy, Japan’s international relations, and U.S.-Japan relations.
Proposal deadlines: various
ACLS has a number of programs with application various deadlines mostly in the fall. The Fellowship Program invites research applications from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. Other programs include the Leading Edge Fellowships, and programs in China Studies, American Art, Religion and Journalism and many others. Faculty appointments are not necessarily required.
A list of opportunities can be found at:
www.acls.org/Fellowship-and-Grant-Programs/Competitions-and-Deadlines
Other Grant Opportunities
In addition to fellowships, funders also offer other grants for research and program support.
Other Opportunities
Proposal deadline: Usually mid-September
Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.
Eligible projects usually result in articles, monographs, books, digital materials and publications, archaeological site reports, translations, or editions. Projects must incorporate analysis and not result solely in the collection of data.
More at:
www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends
An informational webinar can be found here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZXEQucuk24&feature=youtu.be
Proposal Deadline: various
The NEH has many grant programs. Search them at www.neh.gov/grants/listing. Here are a few.
NEH Collaborative Research Grants usually have a December deadline with the application available October 1. The grant program encourages collaboration that proposes diverse approaches to topics, incorporates multiple points of view, and explores new avenues of inquiry that lead to publications and other resources for humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.
NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants also have a December deadline with an application available in October. These grants support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts of value to the humanities that are currently inaccessible or available only in inadequate editions or transcriptions. Typically, the texts and documents are significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials; but other types of work, such as musical notation, are also eligible.
The deadline for the NEH Public Scholar Program is usually in mid-December with the application available in mid-October. The program supports well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership. Grants aim to encourage scholarship that will be of broad interest and have lasting impact. Such scholarship might present a narrative history, tell the stories of important individuals, analyze significant texts, provide a synthesis of ideas, revive interest in a neglected subject, or examine the latest thinking on a topic.
Proposal deadline: November 1 and May 1
Post-Ph.D. Research Grants are awarded to individuals holding a Ph.D. or equivalent degree to support individual research projects. 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 particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields.
More at:
www.wennergren.org/programs/post-phd-research-grants
Proposal deadlines: February 24, 2022
This program, launched by the Embassy of France in the United States and the FACE Foundation, aims to encourage and support cooperation among the most promising young French and American researchers, and foster forward-looking collaborative research projects. Applications are accepting in the three following fields: Humanities, and Social Sciences (HSS), Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), Science for Society (interdisciplinary STEM-HSS projects).
Proposal deadlines are twice a year on September 1 and March 1.
The Furthermore program is concerned with nonfiction book publishing about the city; natural and historic resources; art, architecture, and design; cultural history; and civil liberties and other public issues of the day. Our grants apply to writing, research, editing, design, indexing, photography, illustration, and printing and binding, Book proposals to which a university press or trade publisher is already committed and for which there is a feasible distribution plan are usually preferred.
More at:
www.furthermore.org
Proposal deadline: This program has paused all grant making activities until sometime in 2022
Grants are available to scholars and other professionally qualified individuals of recognized merit for work toward a doctoral dissertation, for postdoctoral work, or for independent scholarship. Applications for publication subventions and multi-year grants will be considered.
More at:
thereedfoundation.org/landes/grants.html
Proposal deadline: To be announced, generally late in the calendar year
Grants are “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.”
