Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
for Faculty

Humanities and Social Sciences
Deadlines: February 2008 - July 2008


  • Awards for Junior Faculty Only or That Give Priority to Junior Faculty


AWARDS FOR JUNIOR FACULTY ONLY OR THAT GIVE PRIORITY TO JUNIOR FACULTY

by deadline


NOTE: Many deadlines are anticipated deadlines, based on prior application cycles. Please confirm deadlines with the funding agencies.

Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University
Law and Culture Fellowship
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The Law and Culture Fellowship is available to postdoctoral candidates, including untenured faculty.
ABSTRACT: The Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University invites applications for residential fellowships for the 2008-2009 academic year to undertake research, writing, and discussion in ways that span traditional academic disciplines. The CSLC welcomes scholars from any field who are interested in spending the academic year in residence at Columbia Law School working on scholarly projects relating to the CSLC's 2008-2009 theme, "Legal Theologies." The center aims to appoint fellows whose scholarship addresses the implications of legal, religious, and political ideologies and practice.
URL: http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/law_culture/Fellowships

Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University
Postdoctoral Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 28, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Postdoctoral fellowships are awarded to those who have held the Ph.D. for no more than three years before receiving the fellowship. The Ph.D. must have been awarded before the application deadline.
ABSTRACT: Emory University's Center for Humanistic Inquiry announces Postdoctoral Fellowships for an academic year of study, teaching, and residence in the center. The purpose of the CHI Postdoctoral Fellows Program is to stimulate and support humanistic research by providing scholars in early stages of their careers with the necessary time, space, and other resources. Postdoctoral Fellows will be expected to offer an upper-level undergraduate course on a subject of their choice during the spring of their fellowship year.
URL: http://www.chi.emory.edu/fellowships/index.html#3

Resources for the Future
Krutilla Research Stipend
DEADLINE: February 29, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The award is open to young scholars who are no more than five years beyond receipt of the doctorate.
ABSTRACT: The focus of the award is research related to environmental and resource economics. The awardee may be invited to present the results of the research activities at RFF in the year after completion of the work.
URL: http://www.rff.org

American Philosophical Society
Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research
DEADLINE: March 3, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The committee prefers to support the work of younger scholars who have received the doctorate. Applications are also accepted from graduate students for research on master's theses or doctoral dissertations.
ABSTRACT: 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 committee distinguishes ethnohistory from contemporary ethnography as the study of cultures and culture change through time. Grants are not made for projects in archaeology, ethnography, or psycholinguistics.

New York Academy of Medicine
Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellowship in the Medical Humanities
DEADLINE: March 4, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The academy invites applications from anyone, regardless of citizenship, academic discipline, or academic status. Preference will be given to those whose research will take advantage of resources that are uniquely available at the academy, and to individuals in the early stages of their careers.
ABSTRACT: Each year the New York Academy of Medicine offers the Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellowship to support work in history and the humanities as they relate to health, medicine, and the biomedical sciences, including works of non-fiction, visual or performing arts, biography, and memoir, as well as scholarly research in a humanistic discipline other than the history of medicine. Preference in the selection process will be given to applicants whose projects require use of the resources of the academy library and who plan to spend time at the academy.
URL: http://www.nyam.org/grants/history.shtml

New York Academy of Medicine
Klemperer Research Fellowship in the History of Medicine
DEADLINE: March 4, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The academy invites applications from anyone, regardless of citizenship, academic discipline, or academic status. Preference will be given to those whose research will take advantage of resources that are uniquely available at the academy, and to individuals in the early stages of their careers.
ABSTRACT: Each year the New York Academy of Medicine offers the Paul Klemperer Fellowship to support work in history and the humanities as they relate to health, medicine, and the biomedical sciences. The fellowship supports research using the academy library's resources for scholarly study of the history of medicine. It is intended specifically for a scholar in residence at the academy library.
URL: http://www.nyam.org/grants/history.shtml

American Historical Association
J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History
DEADLINE: March 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: At the time of application, applicants must hold the Ph.D. degree or equivalent; must have received this degree within the past seven years, and must not have published or had accepted for publication a book-length historical work. The AHA encourages non-tenured faculty, public historians, independent scholars, and faculty at two-year colleges to apply.
ABSTRACT: The Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History is offered annually to support significant scholarly research for one semester in the collections of the Library of Congress by scholars at an early stage in their careers in history. The applicant's project in American history must be one for which the general and special collections of the Library of Congress offer unique research support
URL: http://www.historians.org/prizes/Jameson_fellowship.htm

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library and Museum
Kennedy Research Grants
DEADLINE: March 15, 2008 for spring grants
ELIGIBILITY: Preference is given to dissertation research by Ph.D. candidates working in newly opened or relatively unused collections, and to the work of recent Ph.D. recipients who are expanding or revising their dissertations for publication.
ABSTRACT: Each year in the spring and fall, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation provides funds for the award of a number of research grants. The purpose of these grants is to help defray living, travel, and related costs incurred while doing research in the textual and non-textual holdings of the library in Boston, Massachusetts. Grant applications are evaluated on the basis of expected utilization of available holdings of the Library, the degree to which they address research needs in Kennedy period studies, and the qualifications of applicants. Preference will be given to projects not supported by large grants from other institutions.
URL: http://www.jfklibrary.org

Hartford Seminary Religious Research Association
Constant H. Jacquet Research Awards
DEADLINE: April 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The committee especially encourages proposal submissions from scholars who are in the early stages of their careers, as well as proposals from students. Applicants are required to be members of the RRA. Full-time students may join the Association at the time of their application. All others must hold membership in the RRA for at least one full year prior to the application deadline.
ABSTRACT: The Religious Research Association gives awards for applied and basic research on religion each year on a competitive basis, with priority being given to applied projects. In this competition, applied research is that which has an identifiable organizational or institutional client who will use the research results for specific goal-centered activities.
URL: http://rra.hartsem.edu/constant.htm

Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
Heckman Stipends
DEADLINE: April 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral scholars (those who are within three years of completing a terminal master's or doctoral degree) are eligible.
ABSTRACT: The Hill Monastic Manuscript Library invites applications for research stipends, made possible by the A.A. Heckman Fund. The stipends may be used to defray the cost of travel, room and board, microfilm reproduction, photo-duplication, and other expenses associated with research at the library. The program is specifically intended to help scholars who have not yet established themselves professionally and whose research cannot progress satisfactorily without consulting materials to be found in the collections of the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library. HMML represents one of the largest and most comprehensive archives of medieval and Renaissance sources in the world. The collection includes substantial holdings from Germany and Austria (including the National Library in Vienna), Spain, Portugal, England, Malta, Ethiopia, and smaller collections from other countries. Virtually every subject of knowledge - theology, philosophy, law (canon and civil), music, art, science and medicine, the mechanical arts, and the liberal arts - is reflected in this vast collection.
URL: http://www.hmml.org/research06/opportunities/heckman.htm

Archives of the History of American Psychology at the University of Akron
Kantor Research Fellowship
DEADLINE: June 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Preference will be given to applicants who have received the doctoral degree within the last five years.
ABSTRACT: Fellows are expected to utilize the resources of the Archives of the History of American Psychology in support of a program of research and scholarship in the history of psychology. Proposals are welcome on any topic relating to the evolution of scientific psychology.
URL: http://www3.uakron.edu/ahap/news/news.phtml

East-West Center and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Southeast Asia Fellowship Program
DEADLINE: July 31, 2008
CITIZENSHIP: Asia; United States
ABSTRACT: The East-West Center and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore are pleased to announce the Southeast Asia Fellowship Program. The program is designed to offer young scholars from Southeast Asia and the United States the opportunity to undertake serious academic writing on the management of internal and international conflicts and political change in Southeast Asia, U.S.-Southeast Asia relations, and to contribute to the development of Southeast Asian studies in the Washington area.
URL: http://www.eastwestcenterwashington.org