Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
for Faculty

Humanities and Social Sciences
Deadlines: DECEMBER 2009-APRIL 2010


  • Fellowships (Stipend Only)


FELLOWSHIPS (STIPEND ONLY)

(by deadline)

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

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Visiting Scholar Program

DEADLINE: November 24, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Fellowships are awarded to postdoctoral researchers and senior scholars.
ABSTRACT: The center awards fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. The Center welcomes proposals from scholars in all relevant disciplines including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, psychology, comparative genocide studies, law and others. The length of an award is at the discretion of the Center. A minimum tenure of three consecutive months is required; fellowships of five months or longer have proven most effective.
URL: http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/application

 

Council on Library and Information Resources
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries for Humanists
DEADLINE: November 30, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: At this time, this program is limited to scholars in the humanities. The applicant must have received a Ph.D. in a humanities discipline no more than five years before applying. Fellows must be in residence at a sponsoring institution for the duration of the fellowship
ABSTRACT: The fellowship provides new scholars in the humanities a unique opportunity to develop expertise in the new forms of scholarly research and the information resources that support them, both traditional and digital, that are challenging research institutions. The program offers fellowships to individuals who believe that there are opportunities to develop meaningful linkages between disciplinary scholarship, libraries, archives, and evolving digital tools. The fellowship program is designed to give the best recent Ph.D. recipients in the humanities a unique opportunity to develop as information professionals and scholars. Fellows are placed at different institutions, each with specific goals and projects for the participants. In addition, fellows contribute to the development of the CLIR program by participating in an intensive summer seminar; sharing work-in-progress through electronic portfolios; and meeting regularly in virtual seminars with leading figures in the fields of librarianship, the humanities, and other related areas. Previous fellows have gone on to launch careers in libraries, archives, and special collections; consulting and writing; digital resource management; pedagogy support; and university faculty positions.
URL: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/postdoc.html

 

American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies
Fellowship Program

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Both scholars with little or no experience in Sri Lanka as well as specialists are encouraged to apply. Applicants must hold U.S. citizenship. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent academic degree or show that they will hold such a degree before taking up the fellowship.
ABSTRACT: AISLS fellowships support two to nine months of research in Sri Lanka by U.S. citizens who already hold a Ph.D. or the equivalent at the time they begin their fellowship tenure. Projects in all fields in the social sciences and humanities are eligible. Proposals in other areas that contribute to the understanding of Sri Lankan history, culture, or society are also invited. All proposals should fall into one of the following categories: 1. Proposals by scholars with an established interest in Sri Lanka, who can show that their research will contribute to the understanding of historical or contemporary connections with other parts of the world. Such connections may take the form of substantive links, or they make take the form of relating processes or events in Sri Lanka to analogous processes and events elsewhere 2. Proposals by scholars whose primary interest is not in Sri Lanka, but who wish to include consideration of Sri Lanka as part of a wider project. 3. Proposals by scholars whose primary interest has not been in Sri Lanka, but who wish to undertake, or examine the feasibility of undertaking, a major research project there.
URL: http://www.aisls.org/fellowship-directions.html

 

Catholic Biblical Association of America
Postdoctoral Fellowships

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be active or associate members of the CBA. They must have recently finished the doctorate and not have taught for more than six years. They must show promise of making a genuine contribution to biblical scholarship, be in financial need, and present a feasible and worthwhile academic project, involving a minimum of six months full-time work.
ABSTRACT: The purpose of the fellowships is to give recent graduates and young scholars the opportunity to continue their studies at another center of learning or do research for publication.
URL: http://cba .cua.edu/ysf.cfm

 

Harvard University
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Postdoctoral and Senior Fellowships

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ABSTRACT: Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian Studies invites applications to its fellowship programs for scholars whose work combines disciplinary excellence in the humanities or social sciences with an area focus on Russia, Eastern Europe, or Central Asia. Postdoctoral fellowships support scholars who are no more than five years beyond the doctorate; senior fellowships support scholars who have already made a significant contribution to the field. Fellowships support a ten-month residency.
URL: http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/research_programs/fellowships.html

 

Social Science Research Council
JSPS Fellowship Program

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents at the time of application and submit proof of affiliation with an eligible host research institution in Japan as part of the application packet. Citizens of other countries are eligible for short-term fellowships if they have completed a Ph.D. course at an institution of higher education in the U.S. and, upon completing the course, have for at least three continuous years conducted high-level research at a university in the United States. Priority will be given to researchers who are not Japanese citizens.
ABSTRACT: The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship Program for U.S. researchers provides promising and highly qualified recent Ph.D. recipients with opportunities to conduct research in Japan. JSPS guidelines target the applicant who wishes to conduct cooperative research under the leadership of a host researcher, thereby advancing the fellow's own research and at the same time stimulating Japanese academic circles through close collaboration with young Japanese researchers. Applications are welcome from all social science and humanities disciplines and need not be explicitly related to the study of Japan. Projects must include work with colleagues and resources in Japan and propose a single, continuous stay in Japan from 1 to 12 months (short-term) or one to two years (long-term).
URL: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/search/

 

University of Utah
Tanner Visiting Research Fellowships

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must have Ph.D.s in hand two years prior to August 1, 2010, or by August 1, 2008, to be eligible. The center seeks fellows whose work demonstrates excellence and represents a variety of disciplines and methodologies without regard to senior or junior status, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, citizenship, or national or ethnic origin.
ABSTRACT: The Tanner Humanities Center sponsors an annual competitive fellowship program to promote research by visiting faculty. Projects in any of the following fields are eligible for support: anthropology and archaeology, communication, history, philosophy, religious studies, ethnic/gender/cultural studies, jurisprudence, history/theory/criticism of the arts, languages and linguistics, literature, creative writing, historical, or philosophical issues in the social and natural sciences, or the professions. The center encourages projects that are interdisciplinary and that are likely to contribute to substantive intellectual exchange among a diverse group of scholars. Fellows are required to remain working in residence at the Tanner Humanities Center for the nine-month academic fellowship year (September through May), to participate in center activities, and to contribute to the intellectual life of the University community.
URL: http://www.hum.utah.edu/index.php?pageId=227

 

University of Virginia
The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies
Postdoctoral Residential Research and Teaching Fellowship

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must have been awarded a Ph.D. no earlier than 2002. The institute will favor candidates whose research can be readily adapted for the creation of courses and pedagogies directly pertinent to the institute's curriculum in African American and Diasporic studies. Preference will be given to applicants whose field research is already substantially completed.
ABSTRACT: The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia invites scholars whose work focuses on Africa and/or the African Diaspora to apply for a two-year postdoctoral research and teaching fellowship. The postdoctoral fellow must be in residence at the University of Virginia for the duration of the award period, and must agree to teach one course per year in the African-American and African Studies program to be offered in the fall or the spring. Woodson fellows are expected to attend twice-monthly workshops and to make at least one formal presentation of their work to the university community. See the Institute’s website for a complete list of priority topics.
URL: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/woodson/fellowship/postdoc.html

 

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Residential Fellowship Program

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ABSTRACT: The fellowship program offers time, space, and resources to scholars applying the tools of history, philosophy, ethics, cultural studies, and literary criticism to matters of public concern. Each fellowship session includes affiliated and independent scholars and professionals, including librarians, museum curators, writers, journalists, and others. The mixture of subjects and personalities at VFH gives it a lively, challenging atmosphere, and opens us all up to new ways of thinking about the humanities. All fellows have University of Virginia faculty status while in residence. The foundation is accepting proposals on subjects with strong public interest in any field of the humanities. It also encourages projects on violence and its intergenerational effects, the South Atlantic United States, Revolutionary War history, folklife, and African American and Virginia history.
URL: http://www.virginiafoundation.org/research/fellowships/index.html

 

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Kennan Institute Summer Research Grants

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Awards are limited to scholars who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents upon commencement of their scholarship.
ABSTRACT: Scholars who conduct research in the social sciences or humanities focusing on the former Soviet Union (excluding the Baltic States), and who demonstrate a particular need to utilize the library, archival, and other specialized resources of the Washington, D.C., area can apply for the new summer research grants.
URL: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.item&news_id=548790

 

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Short-Term Grants

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009; March 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: These grants are available to American academic experts and practitioners engaged in specialized research requiring access to Washington, DC and its research institutions.
ABSTRACT: With funding provided by Title VIII (the Act for Research and Training for Eastern Europe and Independent States of Former Soviet Union), EES offers short-term grants to scholars working on policy relevant projects on East Europe. Special consideration will be given to projects on Southeast Europe, or projects that can be credibly linked to issues in the Western Balkans. Projects should focus on fields in the social sciences and humanities including, but not limited to, anthropology, history, political science, Slavic languages and literatures, and sociology. All projects should aim to highlight their potential policy relevance.
URL: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm

 

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Title VIII Research Scholarships
DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Title VIII Research Scholarships are available to academic participants in the early stages of their career (before tenure) or scholars whose careers have been interrupted or delayed. Eligibility is limited to the postdoctoral level for academic participants, although doctoral candidates in the process of completing a dissertation may apply (the dissertation must be successfully defended before taking residence at the Kennan Institute). Awards are limited to scholars who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents upon commencement of their scholarship.
ABSTRACT: Research proposals examining the countries of Central Eurasia are eligible. Those proposals related to regional Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Belarus, the Caucuses, and contemporary issues are particularly welcome. The center is an international, interdisciplinary scholarly institute which fosters scholarship in the humanities and social sciences and encourages dialogue between the disciplines and the professions. The Kennan Institute is committed to improving American expertise and knowledge about Russia and the former Soviet Union. Grant recipients are required to be in residence at the Institute in Washington, D.C., for the duration of their grant.
URL: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm

 

New York Public Library
Shomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
Scholars-in-Residence Program

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: The Fellowship Program is open to scholars studying the history, literature, and culture of peoples of African descent from a humanistic perspective and to professionals in fields related to the Schomburg Center's collections and program activities. Projects in the social sciences, science and technology, psychology, education, and religion are eligible if they utilize a humanistic approach and contribute to humanistic knowledge. Creative writing (works of poetry and fiction) and projects that result in a performance are not eligible.
CITIZENSHIP: Foreign nationals are not eligible unless they will have resided in the United States for three years immediately preceding the application deadline.
ABSTRACT: The Schomburg Center residency program assists scholars and professionals whose research on the black experience can benefit from extended access to the center's resources. Fellowships funded by the center will allow recipients to spend six months or a year in residence with access to resources at the Schomburg Center and other research units of the New York Public Library. The Scholars-in-Residence Program is designed to encourage research and writing on the history, literature, and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African diaspora; to promote and facilitate interaction among the participants including fellows funded by other sources; and to facilitate the dissemination of the researchers' findings through lectures, publications, and the ongoing Schomburg Center Colloquium and Seminar Series.
URL: http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/scholars/applicationa.html

 

Huntington Library
Short-Term and Long-Term Fellowships

DEADLINE: December 15, 2009
ABSTRACT: The Huntington is an independent research center with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, and the history of science and medicine. The Library collections range chronologically from the eleventh century to the present and include a half-million rare books, nearly six million manuscripts, 800,000 photographs, and a large ephemera collection, supported by a half-million reference works. Short-term fellowships are tenable for periods of one to five months; long-term fellowships are tenable for periods from nine to twelve months. Fellows are expected to be in continuous residence.
URL: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=566

 

H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies
Faculty Fellowship

DEADLINE: January 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Faculty of colleges, universities, or seminaries (other than Calvin), as well as independent scholars are invited to apply Applicants should have completed their Ph.D. prior to tenure of the fellowship.
ABSTRACT: Fellowships are available to any faculty member from a college, university, or institute for the purpose of appointment as a Meeter Center Research Fellow for study at the H. Henry Meeter Center. Successful fellows are expected to acknowledge the assistance provided by the Meeter Center in any published work resulting from their period of research in the center and are encouraged to present a paper on their research at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference for a session sponsored by the Meeter Center. Faculty Research Fellows will be asked to give an oral presentation on the results of their research toward the end of their stay in the Meeter Center.
URL: http://www.calvin.edu/meeter/scholarships/faculty.htm

 

Indiana University
Center for Law, Society, and Culture
Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellowship
DEADLINE: January 4, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Pre-tenure scholars, recently awarded Ph.D.s, and those with equivalent professional degrees are encouraged to apply.
ABSTRACT: The Center for Law, Society, and Culture invites applications from scholars of law, the humanities, or social sciences working in the field of sociolegal studies. Fellows will devote a full academic year to research and writing in furtherance of a major scholarly project. They will conduct research at Indiana University and participate in the activities of the center, which include an annual symposium, a colloquia series, and regular workshops and lectures. Fellows are expected to be in full-time residence in Bloomington in order to take advantage of the rich intellectual life of the center, the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and Indiana University.
URL: http://www.law.indiana.edu/students/centers/lawsociety/postdoctoral-fellowship.shtml

 

University of Michigan
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
Berman Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Contemporary American Jewish Life

DEADLINE: January 4, 2010
ABSTRACT: This two-year postdoctoral fellowship is an opportunity for a recent Ph.D. (since June 2006) to pursue research on American Jews and the American Jewish community in conjunction with University of Michigan faculty. A strong commitment to multidisciplinary work in the social sciences is required. The fellow will be expected to be in residence during the academic years of the fellowship, to conduct research, to participate in the intellectual activities of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, and to disseminate scholarship to diverse audiences.
URL: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/judaic/

 

Columbia University
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Southeast Asian Studies
DEADLINE: January 6, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must have completed all Ph.D. degree requirements (completed and filed the dissertation) between July 2006, and July 2010. Applicants must have completed their Ph.D. in a social science discipline, including history, working on modern Southeast Asia. Applications from individuals who hold or have held regular faculty positions will not be considered.
ABSTRACT: The Weatherhead East Asian Institute invites applications for its 2010-2011 postdoctoral fellowship in modern Southeast Asian studies. Candidates from all social science disciplines, including history, are welcome to apply. The fellow will devote half time to their own research and will teach one graduate-level course on southeast Asia per semester.
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/postdoctoral-fellowship.html

 

Winterthur Museum
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 7, 2010 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be U.S. citizens or residents for three years prior to application.
ABSTRACT: Winterthur participates in a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded program, Fellowships at Independent Research Institutions, in which scholars may receive 4 to 12 month fellowships to pursue advanced research. Winterthur Library is a recognized center for advanced study and is dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of America's artistic, cultural, social, and intellectual history from colonial times into the twentieth century. Fellows have conducted research in the areas of material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden and landscape studies, Shaker studies, travel and tourism, the Atlantic World, childhood, sentimental literary culture, and many other areas of social and cultural history. Winterthur's museum and library collections are rich and diverse, and Winterthur welcomes applications that offer fresh approaches to the resources.
URL: http://www.winterthur.org/research/fellowship.asp?sub=fellowships_avail

 

Winterthur Museum
Winterthur Research Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 7, 2010 ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ABSTRACT: Winterthur Research Fellowships are short-term (one to three months) fellowships for academic and independent scholars. Winterthur Library is a recognized center for advanced study and is dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of America's artistic, cultural, social, and intellectual history from colonial times into the twentieth century. Fellows have conducted research in the areas of material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden and landscape studies, Shaker studies, travel and tourism, the Atlantic World, childhood, sentimental literary culture, and many other areas of social and cultural history.
URL: http://www.winterthur.org/research/fellowship.asp?sub=fellowships_avail

 

Princeton University
Center for the Study of Religion
Fellowships in Religion and Religious History

DEADLINE: January 8, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: The applicant's doctorate may be in any relevant field. Princeton University PhDs are not eligible.
ABSTRACT: The Center for the Study of Religion brings a select number of pre-tenure scholars and recent PhD graduates to Princeton University to study religion and religious history. The fellows, who are appointed by the Dean of the Faculty, devote time to serving the intellectual life of the Center and the University through mentoring graduate and undergraduate students and participating in one of the Center's weekly interdisciplinary seminar. For 2010-2011, fellows will be appointed in the area of Christian Thought and Practice with special emphasis on the religious life of American Christians, congregations, or clergy. Fellows should be engaged in projects that focus attention on North American Christianity and may be relevant for congregations or pastoral leaders. Fellows will conduct their own research on historical or contemporary aspects of Christian thought and practice, attend one of the weekly interdisciplinary workshops, and participate in occasional Center-sponsored events.
URL: http://www.princeton.edu/csr/funding-opportunities/visiting-fellows/

 

John Carter Brown Library
Long-Term Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 10, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants for some of the Long-Term Fellowships (funded by NEH) must be American citizens or have been resident in the United States for the three years immediately preceding the application deadline.
ABSTRACT: The JCB is an independently administered and funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities located on the campus of Brown University. Sponsorship of research at the JCB is reserved exclusively for scholars whose work is centered on the colonial history of the Americas, North and South, including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American involvement. The JCB will receive applications for Long-Term Fellowships, several of which are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), an independent agency of the U.S. Federal government, by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and by the InterAmericas Fellowship which supports research on the history of the West Indies and the Caribbean basin. The R. David Parsons Fellowship supports the study of the history of exploration and discovery. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to relocate to Providence and to be in continuous residence at the JCB for the entire term of the award.
URL: http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/

 

John Carter Brown Library
Short-Term Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 10, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: These fellowships are open to Americans and foreign nationals who are engaged in postdoctoral research.
ABSTRACT: The JCB is an independently administered and funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities located on the campus of Brown University. Sponsorship of research at the JCB is reserved exclusively for scholars whose work is centered on the colonial history of the Americas, North and South, including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American involvement. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to relocate to Providence and to be in continuous residence at the JCB for the entire term of the award. The JCB offers several Short-Term Fellowships to scholars who are engaged in postdoctoral, or independent research in areas of research on colonial America that may benefit from the use of JCB materials, including such areas as research in the history of cartography or a closely related area; research in bibliography and the history of printing; research on the history of women and the family in the Americas prior to 1825, including the question of cultural influences on gender formation; research in early maritime history; research in the comparative history of the colonial Americas; colonial Spanish American history; research on some aspect of the Jewish experience in the New World before 1825.
URL: http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library

 

Newberry Library
Long-Term Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 11, 2009
ABSTRACT: Long-term fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars for periods of six to eleven months. These grants support individual research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the Library's scholarly activities, including a biweekly fellows' seminar. The stipends for these fellowships range from $25,200 to $50,400. Applicants may combine these fellowship awards with sabbatical or other stipendiary support. Scholars may apply for any of the long-term fellowships using the same application.
URL: http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/long-term.html

 

American Antiquarian Society
AAS-NEH Long-Term Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who have been resident in the U.S. for at least three years immediately preceding the application deadline are eligible.
ABSTRACT: AAS-NEH fellowships last from four to twelve months, and fellows are expected to be in residence at the Society. They must devote full time to their study and may not hold other fellowships or grants, except for sabbatical and other supplemental grants from their own institution.
URL: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/nehfellowship.htm

 

American Antiquarian Society
Short-Term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships

Deadline: January 15, 2010
ABSTRACT: Short-term visiting academic research fellowships are tenable for period of one to three months. Fellows are expected to be in residence at the Society during the entire fellowship period.
URL: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/acafellowships.htm

 

Harvard University
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Program on U.S. - Japan Relations - Advanced Research Fellows

DEADLINE: January 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Candidates must hold a doctoral or other terminal degree in a discipline bearing on the study of contemporary United States-Japan relations, other aspects of Japan's foreign relations, or domestic Japanese politics and policy.
ABSTRACT: The program awards several advanced research fellowships for the duration of one academic year to applicants with excellent research credentials. Awards are made annually on a competitive basis, and applicants tend to be in early stages of their careers. Because a major aim of the fellowship is to provide talented researchers based outside Japan with an opportunity to carry on a dialogue with the program's Japanese associates, preference is given to non-Japanese.
URL: http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/funding/student/us_japan

 

Massachusetts Historical Society
Long-Term Research Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Fellows must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals who have lived in the United States continuously for at least three years at the time of application.
ABSTRACT: Long-term awards support six to twelve months of continuous research in the collections. Fellows must be in residence for the entire tenure of the fellowship.
URL: http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/long_term.cfm

 

Smithsonian Institution
Postdoctoral Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants are eligible to apply for postdoctoral fellowships who have held the Ph.D. or equivalent for fewer than seven years as of the application deadline.
ABSTRACT: Fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution provide scholars with opportunities to pursue independent research projects in association with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff. Applicants to the fellowship programs must propose research in a field pursued at the Smithsonian. A specific and detailed research proposal indicating why the Smithsonian is an appropriate place to conduct the studies proposed is required. Fellowships are only offered to support research within Smithsonian facilities or programs. Fellows are expected to spend most of their tenure in residence at the Smithsonian, except when arrangements are made for periods of field work or research travel. For all fellowships, appropriate members of the Smithsonian professional staff must be willing to serve in the capacity of principal advisor or host, and space and facilities must be available to accommodate the proposed research. Fields of research at the Smithsonian include American history, American material and folk culture, and the history of music and musical instruments; history of science and technology, history of art, design, crafts, and the decorative arts; anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and ethnic studies; evolutionary, systematic, behavioral, environmental biology, and conservation; geological sciences and astrophysics; and materials characterization and conservation.
URL: http://www.si.edu/ofg/Applications/SIFELL/SIFELLapp.htm

 

Stanford University
Center for East Asian Studies
Chinese Studies Postdoctoral Awards

DEADLINE: January 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants may not be more than five years beyond receipt of the doctoral degree. Fellowships may be given to those who hold continuing, assistant professor-level teaching positions. U.S. citizenship is not required. Those who have received their Ph.D. from Stanford University will not normally be considered.
ABSTRACT: The Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University offers two postdoctoral positions in Chinese Studies. The postdocs are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences studying any historical period. Residence is required at Stanford University.
URL: http://ceas.stanford.edu/funding/postdoc.php

 

University of Cambridge
Mellon Research Fellowship in American History
DEADLINE: January 15, 2010

ABSTRACT: Applications are invited by the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, for a Mellon Research Fellowship in American History.
URL: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/jobs/vacancies.cgi?job=5724

 

UCLA Institute of American Cultures
Postdoctoral and Visiting Scholars Fellowship Program in Ethnic Studies
DEADLINE: January 16, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States and hold a Ph.D. from an accredited university (or, in the case of the arts, a terminal degree) in the appropriate field at the time of appointment.
ABSTRACT: The Institute of American Cultures, in cooperation with the University of California, Los Angeles' four Ethnic Studies Research Centers (the American Indian Studies Center, the Asian American Studies Center, the Bunche Center for African American Studies, and the Chicano Studies Research Center), offers fellowships to postdoctoral or visiting scholars to support research on African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Chicanas/os. The program is open to candidates from all disciplines.
URL: http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/iacweb/applic.htm

 

Tulane University
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Humanities

DEADLINE: January 20, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Candidates must have received the Ph.D. by June 30, 2010, and not before September 1, 2006. They must demonstrate successful teaching experience and an interesting and exciting research agenda. Preference may be given to applicants who intend to make use of Tulane's and New Orleans' rich cultural and archival resources, such as the Amistad Research Center, the Hogan Jazz Archive, the Newcomb Center for Research on Women, the Southeastern Architectural Archive, the Latin American Library, the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana State Museum, and the New Orleans Public Library.
ABSTRACT: The School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University invites applications for a contract as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities beginning in August 2010. Fellows will be assigned to one of six departments within the School of Liberal Arts: Communication, English, French and Italian, History, Philosophy, or Spanish and Portuguese. Fellows will teach mid- and upper-level courses in their field of expertise, and these courses will be cross-listed with one or more of four interdisciplinary programs: African and African Diaspora Studies, American Studies, Asian Studies, and Jewish Studies. The teaching load will be one course per semester, with the remainder of the fellows' time devoted to strengthening their research profiles. Fellows must be in residence at Tulane during the tenure of their fellowship.
URL: http://h-net.org/jobs/display_job.php?jobID=39536

 

Ohio State University
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
Postdoctoral Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 29, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: The program is open to scholars who have received their doctoral degree in the past five years from institutions other than Ohio State University
ABSTRACT: Each year the Mershon Center for International Security Studies hosts outstanding scholars with a variety of research interests for one-year residential fellowships. The mission of the Mershon Center is to advance the understanding of national security in a global context. One key way the center accomplishes this mission is by supporting research projects in three core dimensions of national security: 1. The use of force and diplomacy; 2. The ideas, identities, and decisional processes that affect security; 3. The institutions that manage violent conflict.
URL: http://mershoncenter.osu.edu/grants/fellowships/post_doc.htm

 

Stanford University
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Postdoctoral Fellowships in International Security

DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Fellowships are available to scholars with Ph.D. or equivalent degrees from the United States and abroad. The center invites applications from a variety of areas of expertise, including anthropology, economics, history, law, political science, sociology, medicine, and the natural and physical sciences.
ABSTRACT: CISAC offers postdoctoral and professional fellowships for concentrated study in a multidisciplinary environment. Fellows spend the academic year at Stanford University, where they participate in seminars and interact with each other as well as faculty and\researchers. They are expected to produce a research product (e.g., draft articles or a book manuscript). The center considers applicants working within a broad range of topics related to peace and international security. Suitable topics may include, but are not limited to transnational processes affecting conflict and human security; the United Nations and global governance; causes and prevention of conflict; determinants of post-war settlements; the interaction of science, politics, and policy; nuclear energy and nuclear nonproliferation; proliferation and nonproliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapon; terrorism and counter-terrorism; the politics of homeland security; and the determinants of foreign and military policy within and across states and regions.
URL: http://cisac.stanford.edu/fellowships

 

University of Texas at Austin
Harry Ransom Center
Research Fellowship Program - One- to Three-Month Fellowships

DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: All applicants must be postdoctorates. United States citizens and foreign nationals are eligible to apply. Individuals who have previously received a Ransom Center fellowship are eligible to reapply after one year has passed.
ABSTRACT: The Ransom Center awards fellowships to support scholarly research projects in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history. One- to three-month fellowships are available for research in the center's collections. A complete list of available fellowships is on the website.
URL: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fellowships/application/

 

American Center for Mongolian Studies
Research Fellowship Program

DEADLINE: February 15, 2010 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: All applicants must be current members of the ACMS to be considered for the program. All applicants must be citizens of the United States or Canada. All postdoctoral fellows must have completed their Ph.D. within seven years of the start of their fellowship program.
ABSTRACT: The program annually supports fellows conducting postdoctoral research in Mongolia on topics in the social sciences or humanities. Projects that link research conducted in Mongolia to research in other parts of Asia or across academic fields are especially encouraged. Fellowship recipients must be based in Mongolia for the duration of their fellowship, but research travel in the broader region is encouraged.
URL: http://www.mongoliacenter.org/index.php

 

Filson Historical Society
Ballard Breaux Visiting Fellowships

DEADLINE: February 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be Ph.D.s.
ABSTRACT: These fellowships are intended to encourage the scholarly use of The Filson's nationally significant collections by providing support for travel and lodging. Fellows are expected to be in continuous residence at The Filson. The society's collections are especially strong for the frontier, antebellum, and Civil War eras of Kentucky history. The fellowships are designed to encourage research in all aspects of the history of Kentucky and the regions of the Ohio Valley and the Upper South.
URL: http://www.filsonhistorical.org/fellowships.html

 

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Humanities Research Fellowship

DEADLINE: February 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Countries eligible for research are Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Herzegovina, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Applicants must be postdoctoral scholars who have U.S. citizenship, permanent resident status, or residence in the United States for three years before date of application. Applicants must have a working knowledge of one or more of the languages of East-Central Europe or the NIS, unless they can demonstrate that their research does not require it.
ABSTRACT: Postdoctoral scholars from the United States in the humanities may apply for collaborative research opportunities for the academic year 2010-2011 at universities and institutes in any country of East-Central Europe and New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. Topics are not restricted to regional or area studies; however, the project must involve at least one collaborator from the region and research in the region itself. Especially encouraged are applications with a strong regional focus and the potential to broaden and strengthen international academic linkages beyond the traditional centers such as Moscow, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, and Prague.
URL: http://www.nceeer.org/Programs/NEH/neh.php

 

Emory University
Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Junior and Postdoctoral Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 18, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Junior Fellows are scholars who, at the beginning of the fellowship year, will be at least three years beyond receipt of the Ph.D., and normally no more than ten. Post-Doctoral Fellows, who must have the Ph.D. in hand before the submission of their applications, are awarded to those who have held the Ph.D. for no more than three years before receiving the fellowship. Fellows will be expected to be in residence full-time during both terms of the regular academic year.
ABSTRACT: Emory University's Center for Humanistic Inquiry announces fellowships for an academic year of study, teaching, and residence in the center. The purpose of the 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. In addition, the program was created to allow the Emory community access to a range of humanistic work by visiting scholars from other institutions.
URL: http://www.chi.emory.edu/fellowships/index.html#3

 

American Philosophical Society
Library Resident Research Fellowships

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: These short-term fellowships are intended for conducting research in the library's collections. The APS Library is a leading international center for research in the history of American science and technology and its European roots, as well as early American history and culture. The library houses over eight million manuscripts, 250,000 volumes and bound periodicals, and thousands of maps and prints. Outstanding historical collections and subject areas include the papers of Benjamin Franklin; the American Revolution; 18th- and 19th-century natural history; western scientific expeditions and travel including the journals of Lewis and Clark; polar exploration; the papers of Charles Willson Peale, his family and descendants; American Indian languages; anthropology including the papers of Franz Boas; the papers of Charles Darwin and his forerunners, colleagues, critics, and successors; history of genetics, eugenics, and evolution; history of biochemistry, physiology, and biophysics; 20th-century medical research; and history of physics.
URL: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/resident

 

Folger Shakespeare Library
Short-Term Fellowships

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: The Folger Shakespeare Library offers research fellowships to encourage access to its exceptional collections and to encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars of the early modern period. Short-term fellowships are supported by the library's endowments.
URL: http://www.folger.edu/academic/fellows.asp

 

Leo Baeck Institute
Career Development Fellowship

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: The LBI is offering a career development award as a personal grant to a scholar or professional in an early career stage, e.g., before gaining tenure in an academic institution or its equivalent, whose proposed work would deal with topics within the LBI's mission, namely historical or cultural issues of the Jewish experience in German-speaking lands. The award is intended to provide for such costs as obtaining scholarly material, temporary research assistance, travel, and summer stipend for nontenured academics.
URL: http://www.lbi.org/career.html

 

Library Company of Philadelphia
Visiting Research Fellowships in Colonial and U.S. History and Culture

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: The Library Company of Philadelphia and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania jointly award fellowships for research in residence in their collections, which contain printed materials relating to all aspects of American history and culture up to about 1880. These fellowships support advanced, post-doctoral, or dissertation research. Founded in 1731, the Library Company was the largest public library in America until the latter part of the nineteenth century, and thus contains printed materials relating to every aspect of American culture and society in that period. It holds over half a million rare books and graphics, including the nation's second largest collection of pre-1801 American imprints and one of the largest collections of eighteenth-century British books in America. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, now enriched by the holdings of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, holds more than 18 million personal, organizational, and business manuscripts, as well as 500,000 printed items and 300,000 graphic images concerning national and regional political, social, and family history. The Balch collections have added rich documentation of the ethnic and immigrant experience in the United States. Together, the institutions form one of the most comprehensive sources in the nation for the study of colonial and U.S. history and culture. The two libraries combined have extraordinary strength in the history of women and African-Americans, popular print culture, business and banking, philanthropy and reform, education, natural sciences, medicine, technology, art, architecture, German Americana, American Judaica, and a host of other subjects.
URL: http://www.librarycompany.org/fellowships/american.htm

 

Newberry Library
Short-Term Fellowships

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: These short-term fellowships provide access to the Newberry's collections for Ph.D. candidates or post-doctoral scholars who live and work outside the Chicago area. Normally, these fellowships are awarded to individual scholars. The library will, however, award a small number of fellowships for collaborative projects. Teams of two or three scholars who plan to collaborate on a single, substantive project are therefore also eligible to apply. The stipend is $1600 per month for each scholar.
URL: http://www.newberry/org/research/felshp/short-term.html

 

American Jewish Archives
Jacob Rader Marcus Center
Fellowship Program

DEADLINE: March 18, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be conducting research in some area relating to the history of North American Jewry. Typically, fellowships will be awarded to postdoctoral candidates.
ABSTRACT: The fellowship program supports research and writing at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, located on the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. The program will support serious research in some area relating to the history of North American Jewry.
URL: http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/programs_fellowship.php