Funding Opportunities

Deadlines for Individual and Collaborative Grants in the Humanities - Faculty

September

• ACLS American Research in the Humanities in China
  (deadline 15 September 2009)
• ACLS New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society
  (deadline 15 September 2009)
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships
  (deadline 15 September 2009)
• NEH Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants
  (deadline 15 September 2009)
• North Korea Programs
  (deadline 15 September 2009)
• National Gallery of Art: Visiting Senior Fellowship Program, 2010-2011
  (deadline 21 September 2009 and 21 March 2010)
• Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship Program (deadline 25 September 2009)
• ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships
  (deadline 30 September 2009)
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
  (deadline 30 September 2009)
• Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars
  (deadline 30 September 2009)
• UMI 3199 "Transitions" Fellowships
  (deadline 30 September 2009)

October

• U.S.-Japan Network for the Future
  (deadline 1 October 2009)
• The Grammy Foundation Grant Program
  (deadline 1 October 2009)
• National University of Singapore - Research & Visiting Fellowships, Asian Studies (deadline 1 October 2009)
• NEH Teaching Development Fellowships
  (deadline 1 October 2009)
• Princeton University - Postdoctoral Fellowships in Humanities and Social Sciences (deadline 1 October 2009)
  
• Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program (DPDF)
  (deadline 2 October 2009)
• American Antiquarian Society, Fellowships for Creative and Performing Artists
  and Writers
  (deadline 5 October 2009)
• DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Enriching Digital Collections
  (deadline 8 October 2009)
• Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences Fellowships (deadline 10 October 2009)
• Princeton University - Research Fellowship, Latin American Studies
  (deadline 12 October 2009)
• The Holberg International Memorial Prize 2010
  (deadline 12 October 2009)
• Soros Justice Fellowships
  (deadline 14 October 2009)
• American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowships in the Humanities
  and Social Sciences
  (deadline 15 October 2009)
• Knight News Challenge
  (deadline 15 October 2009)
• National Education Association (NEA) Foundation Grants
  (deadline 15 October 2009)
• National Gallery of Art: Senior Fellowship Program, 2010–2011
  (deadline 15 October 2009)
• Penn Humanities Forum: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the
  Humanities
  (deadline 15 October 2009)
• Technological Innovation: The 2010 National Center for Preservation Technology and Training Grants Program
  (deadline 15 October 2009)
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Visiting Scholars Program
  (deadline 16 October 2009)
• Ruhr-University Bochum - Fellowships for Research in the Basic
  Religious Notions of Islam
  (deadline October 16 2009)
• Ruhr-University Bochum - Fellowships for Research in the History of
  Christianity/ European History of Religion
  (deadline 16 October 2009)
• Ruhr-University Bochum - Fellowships for Research in the Philosophy of Religion (deadline October 16 2009)
• National Planning Grants and Indian Tribes Planning Grants
  (deadline 19 October 2009)
• Request for Proposals: Malaysia Programs
  (deadline 19 October 2009)
• Children, Youth & Families at Risk Sustainable Community Projects
  (deadline 23 October 2009)
• European University Institute, Florence Postdoctoral Fellowships
  (deadline 25 October 2009)
• AmeriCorps State Planning Grants
  (deadline 27 October 2009)
• Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Bilateral Symposia and Workshops
  (deadline 29 October 2009)
• National Endowment for the Humanities: Collaborative Research Grants
  (deadline 29 October 2009)
• National Endowment for the Humanities: Scholarly Editions and Translations
  (deadline 29 October 2009)
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Trans-Coop Programme
  (deadline 31 October 2009)
• Duke University Thompson Writing Program Fellowships
  (deadline 31 October 2009)

November

• Archaeological Institute of America Olivia James Traveling Fellowship
  (deadline 1 November 2009)
• Archaeological Institute of America Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship
  (deadline 1 November 2009)
• Archaeological Institute of America Archaeology of Portugal Fellowship
  (deadline 1 November 2009)
• American Research Institute in Turkey Fellowship Programs for 2010-2011
  (deadline 1 November 2009)
• American Academy in Rome: Rome Prize Fellowship
  (deadline 1 November 2009)
• Archaeological Institute of America Publications Subvention Program
  (deadline 1 November 2009)
• Dumbarton Oaks: Fellowships in Byzantine Studies, Pre-Columbian Studies,
  and Studies in Landscape Architecture
  (deadline 1 November 2009)
• Dumbarton Oaks: Project Grants
  (deadline 1 November 2009)
• The Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations
  (deadline 1 November 2009)
• NEH Fellowships for Research in Turkey 2010-2011
  (deadline 1 November 2009)
• Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Fellowships
  (deadline 1 November 2009)
• Fulbright German Studies Seminar 2010
  (deadline 1 November 2009)
• Rice University - External Faculty Fellowships
  (deadline 2 November 2009)
• Canadian Government Research Grant Program
  (deadline 2 November 2009)
• National Endowment for the Humanities: National Digital Newspaper Program
  (deadline 3 November 2009)
• American-Scandinavian Foundation Visiting Lectureships, 2010/11
  (deadline 6 November 2009)
• Princeton University - Program in Law And Public Affairs
  (deadline 6 November 2009)
• Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships
  (deadline 9 November 2009)
• Supreme Court Fellows Program
  (deadline 9 November 2009)
• George A. And Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation: Creative Writing in English:
  Fiction and Poetry
  (deadline 9 November 2009)
• 2010 Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowships
  (deadline 9 November 2009)
• Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Grants to Individuals in East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History
  (deadline 13 November 2009)
• Archaeological Institute of America Fellowship for Study in Berlin
  (deadline 14 November 2009)
• American Association of University Women: American Fellowships
  (deadline 15 November 2009)
• Ray D. Wolfe Doctoral and Post Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies
  (deadline 15 November 2009)
• Center for Khmer Studies Fellowship
  (deadline 15 November, 2009)
• The Rockefeller Archive Center Grants-in-Aid Program
  (deadline 15 November 2009)
• Walt Whitman Award
  (deadline 15 November 2009)
• Strengthening Ecuadorian Justice Project Grant
  (deadline 16 November 2009)
• Saudi Arabia: Women’s Civic Participation; Judicial Engagement; and Governance and Public Management Fellowships
  (deadline 16 November 2009)
• American Philological Association/Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
  (deadline 16 November 2009)
• ACLS Early-Career Postdoctoral Fellowships in East European Studies
  (deadline 16 November 2009)
• Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)
  (deadline 17 November 2009)
• Murphy Institute Faculty Fellowships in Ethics and Public Affairs
  (deadline 17 November 2009)
• Request for Proposals: Democracy, Human Rights and Rule of Law for countries in Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe, South and Central Asia, the Near East, and the Western Hemisphere
  (deadline 17 November 2009)
• University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Quadrant Fellows
  (deadline 20 November 2009)
• Fellowships at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  (deadline 24 November 2009)
• Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program
  (deadline 24 November 2009*)
• Global Human Rights Defenders Emergency Fund
  (deadline 24 November 2009)
• Dan David Prize
  (deadline 30 November 2009)
• Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund
  (deadline 30 November 2009)
• Rice University - Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships
  (deadline 30 November 2009)
• University of Pennsylvania - Mellon Post Doc/Teaching Fellow
  (deadline 30 November 2009)
• Wesleyan University - Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2010-2011
  (deadline 30 November 2009)

December

• 2010 UF Research Opportunity Seed Fund Competition Announced
  (internal deadline for CLAS 1 December 2009)
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
  (deadline 1 December 2009)
• Andrew W. Mellon Program for Postdoctoral Fellows at the University of Toronto (deadline 1 December 2009)
• Canadian Government Faculty Enrichment Program
  (deadline 1 December 2009)
• Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Visiting Research Fellowships
  (deadline 1 December 2009)
• RFP on the Science of Generosity
  (deadline 1 December 2009)
• The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Scholars-in-Residence Program
  (deadline 1 December 2009)
• Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Residential Fellowships for 2010-2011
  (deadline 1 December 2009)
• University of Delaware Title VIII Research Program
  (deadline 6 December 2009)
• Harvard Academy Scholars Program
  (deadline 7 December 2009)
• National Endowment for the Humanities: Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
  (deadline 8 December 2009)
• University of California Berkeley - S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowships in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy
  (deadline 11 December 2009)
• 2010-2011 Long-Term Fellowships at the Huntington
  (deadline 15 December 2009)
• 2010-2011 Short-Term Fellowships at the Huntington
  (deadline 15 December 2009)
• 2010-2011 History of Science Fellowships at the Huntington
  (deadline 15 December 2009)
• Mellon/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowships
  (deadline 12 December 2009)
• Partner University Fund – French-American Cultural Exchange
  (deadline 15 December 2009)
• Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations Fellowship Program
  (deadline 15 December 2009)
• Valparaiso University - Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities and the Arts
  (deadline 15 December 2009)
• Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources Historic Preservation Grants
  (deadline 15 December 2009)
• Institute of Museum and Library Services Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program
  (deadline 15 December 2009)
• Visiting Fellowships in Jewish Studies 2010/2011 Academic Year
  (deadline 25 December 2009)
• Autry National Center Institute for the Study of the American West 2010 Research Fellowships
  (deadline 31 December 2009)
• Cushwa Center Hibernian Research Award
  (deadline 31 December 2009)

January

• Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Visiting Teaching Fellowships
  (deadline 1 January 2010)
• Woodrow Wilson Center/Kennan Institute Title VIII Research Scholar Program
  (deadline 1 January 2010)
• The Harry Ransom Center/University of Texas at Austin 2010-2011 Research Fellowship (deadline 2 January 2010)
• Tomorrow's Leaders II Scholarship Program and Recruitment
  (deadline 5 January 2010)
  
• National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects
  (deadline 7 January 2010)
• Rutgers University Center for Cultural Analysis Postdoctoral Fellowships 2010-11
  (deadline 8 January 2010)
• Black Metropolis Research Consortium Short-Term Fellowship Program in African American Studies
  (deadline 11 January 2010)
• Black Metropolis Research Consortium Short-Term Fellowship Program in African American Studies - 2
  (deadline 11 January 2010)
• Duke University John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute HBCU Faculty Fellowships
  (deadline 11 January 2010)
• Newberry Library Long Term Fellowships In The Humanities 2010-2011
  (deadline 11 January 2010)
• The America For Bulgaria Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship In Archaeology At The Field Museum Of Natural History
  (deadline 15 January 2010)
• Archaeological Institute of America Anna C. And Oliver C. Colburn Fellowship
  (deadline 15 January 2010)
• Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant Program
  (deadline 15 January 2010)
• International Collaborative Archaeological And Bioarchaeological Research Program
  (deadline 15 January 2010)
• Smithsonian Institution Latino Studies Fellowship Program
  (deadline 15 January 2010)
• Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellowships
  (deadline 15 January 2010)
• University of Connecticut/Humanities Institute Visiting Faculty Fellowships
  (deadline 15 January 2010)
• Vanderbilt University's 2010-2011 William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellowship
  (deadline 15 January 2010)
• AmeriCorps State and National Grants FY 2010
  (deadline 26 January 2010)
• Columbia University Journalism School Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship
  (deadline 31 January 2010)

February

• National Education Association (NEA) Foundation Grants
  (deadline 1 February 2010)
• The Francis A. Countway Library Fellowships in the History of Medicine 2010-2011
  (deadline 1 February 2010)
• Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowships (2010-11)
  (deadline 1 February 2010)
• The American Center of Oriental Research (Amman)
  (deadline 1 January 2010)

February

• Florida Humanities Council Mini Grants
  (deadline 15 February 2010)
• University of Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowships
  (deadline 26 February 2010)

March

• Archaeological Institute of America Publications Subvention Program
  (deadline 1 March 2010)
• Newberry Library Short Term Fellowships In The Humanities 2010-2011
  (deadline 1 March 2010)
• National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Fellowships: Creative Poetry Writing
  (deadline 4 March 2010)

June

• National Education Association (NEA) Foundation Grants
  (deadline 1 June 2010 )

No Deadline

• The Dekker Foundation Grants in Education
• Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Humanities Program and Research Library Program
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholarly Communications Grant Program
  

Other Funding Opportunities

In addition to funding from the Center for the Humanities and the Fine Arts & Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund, a variety of federal, public, and private agencies support research, teaching, and travel in the humanities.  The following links are suggestive not exhaustive.

• American Association of University Women
• American Council of Learned Societies
  
• Fulbright Scholar Program
  
• Getty Research Institute
  
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• Howard Foundation
  
• National Endowment for the Humanities
  
• National Humanities Center
• Rockefeller Foundation
• Russell Sage Foundation
• Stanford Humanities Center
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
  

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