Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
for Faculty

Humanities and Social Sciences
Deadlines: February 2008 - July 2008


  • Grants for Travel to Libraries, Archives, Collections, or Other Research Sites


GRANTS FOR TRAVEL TO LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, COLLECTIONS, OR OTHER RESEARCH SITES

(by deadline)


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

Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
Research Travel - North America Awards
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008 for spring/summer awards
ABSTRACT: The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Korea Foundation, offers a grant program in Korean studies designed to assist the research of individual scholars based in North America, to improve the quality of teaching about Korea on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Korea into the major academic disciplines. The Research Travel - North America Awards are available to scholars who are engaged in research on Korea and wish to use museum, library, or other archival materials located in the United States and Canada. The awards are primarily intended to support postdoctoral research. Predoctoral dissertation research will be considered.
URL: http://www.aasianst.org/grants/main.htm

Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
Short-Term Travel to Japan for Professional Purposes
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008 for spring/summer awards
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must have a Ph.D. or comparable professional qualifications. Applicants must not have received funds in this category within the past five years.
CITIZENSHIP: Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
ABSTRACT: The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, supports a variety of grant programs in Japanese studies designed to facilitate the research of individual scholars, to improve the quality of teaching about Japan on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Japan into the major academic disciplines. Grants are available to cover expenses in Japan while conducting a specific project explicitly related to Japan, which can be accomplished in the period of time requested.
URL: http://www.aasianst.org/grants/main.htm

Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
Short-Term Research Travel to Korea Grants
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008 for spring/summer awards
ELIGIBILITY: Individual scholars should be based in North America.
CITIZENSHIP: US or Canadian citizenship
ABSTRACT: The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Korea Foundation, offers a grant program in Korean studies designed to assist the research of individual scholars based in North America, to improve the quality of teaching about Korea on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Korea into the major academic disciplines. Short-Term Research Travel to Korea Grants are available to cover travel, research, and subsistence expenses on trips to Korea for projects explicitly related to Korean studies that can be accomplished in a relatively short period. These grants are intended for use by scholars who are already familiar with Korea and with their topic, but who need time in Korea in order to complete their work.
URL: http://www.aasianst.org/grants/main.htm

American Philosophical Society
Library Resident Research Fellowships
DEADLINE: March 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The fellowships are open to both U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who are holders of the Ph.D. or the equivalent, Ph.D. candidates who have passed their preliminary examinations, and independent scholars. Applicants in any relevant field of scholarship may apply. Candidates who live 75 or more miles from Philadelphia will receive some preference.
ABSTRACT: The American Philosophical Society Library offers the Library Resident Research Fellowships as short-term residential fellowships for conducting research in its collections. Located near Independence Hall in Philadelphia, 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. 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.htm

Massachusetts Historical Society
Short-Term Research Fellowship Program
DEADLINE: March 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Short-term awards are open to independent scholars, advanced graduate students, and holders of the Ph.D. or the equivalent, with candidates who live fifty or more miles from Boston receiving preference.
CITIZENSHIP: Recipients must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals holding the appropriate U.S. government documents.
ABSTRACT: MHS awards fellowships to support twenty days of research at MSH. Stipends vary.
URL: http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/short_term.cfm

Newberry Library
Various Short-Term Fellowships for Individual Research
DEADLINE: March 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Fellowships are generally restricted to scholars from outside the Chicago area who have specific need for Newberry collections. Several of the short-term fellowships have restricted eligibility. See the website for details.
ABSTRACT: The Newberry Library is an independent research library concentrating in the humanities. It houses a non-circulating collection of rare books, maps, and manuscripts. The library's holdings span the history and culture of western Europe from the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century and the Americas from the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans. Its strengths include European discovery, exploration, and settlement of the Americas; the American West; local history, family history, and genealogy; literature and history of the Midwest, especially the Chicago Renaissance; Native American history and literature; the Renaissance; the French Revolution; Portuguese and Brazilian history; British literature and history; the history of cartography; the history and theory of music; the history of printing; and early philology and linguistics. The tenure of short-term fellowships varies from one week to two months, but a majority of the awards will be for one month or less.
URL: http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/short-term.html

Smithsonian Institution
Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology Resident Scholar Program
DEADLINE: March 1, 2008
ABSTRACT: The Smithsonian Institution Libraries Resident Scholar Program offers two short-term in-residence study grants for terms of one to six months. The awards are designed to encourage study of the history of science and technology and use of the collections of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. Those interested in the history and bibliography of science and technology are invited to apply.
URL: http://www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm#fsil

White House Historical Association
Research Grants Program
DEADLINE: March 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Preference is given to those undertaking dissertation research or postdoctoral research with plans for publication, but all proposals, including graduate-level research and independent projects, will be considered.
ABSTRACT: The White House Historical Association invites scholars who are conducting research at the National Archives and Records Administration, Presidential Library System, Library of Congress, or other appropriate repository, to apply for grants that will defray costs of travel and accommodations. The association wishes to encourage new scholarship on the history of the White House. For the research grants program, the association will consider projects that make use of textual and non-textual records pertinent to the president, first family and subordinates while the president lives in the White House.
URL: http://www.whitehousehistory.org/08/subs/08_a.html

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

George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
O'Donnell Grant Program
DEADLINE: March 15, 2008
ABSTRACT: The Peter and Edith O'Donnell Endowment in the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation provides grants to aid scholars doing research at the George Bush Presidential Library. Research must include, but not be limited to, holdings of the George Bush Presidential Library. Funding priority will be given to proposals that have the greatest likelihood of publication and subsequent usefulness to educators, scholars, students, and policymakers.
URL: http://www.georgebushfoundation.org

Gerald R. Ford Library
Research Travel Grants Program
DEADLINE: March 15, 2008
ABSTRACT: In honoring President Ford's lifelong commitment to public service, the Foundation's focus is on exhibits, community affairs and educational programs, conferences, symposia, research grants and special projects that improve citizen interest and understanding of the challenges that confront government, particularly the presidency.
URL: http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/hpgrants.asp

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library and Museum
Research Fellowships
DEADLINE: March 15, 2008
ABSTRACT: The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation invites scholars to apply for support of their research and use of the archival, manuscript, and audiovisual holdings of the Library. Several fellowship programs support research in specific areas such as foreign intelligence and the presidency; immigration, naturalization, or refugee policy; domestic policy, political journalism, polling or press relations; and research in recently opened or relatively unused collections.
URL: http://www.jfklibrary.org

Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation
Grant-in-Aid of Research
DEADLINE: March 15, 2008
ABSTRACT: A limited number of grants-in-aid will be awarded by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation to defray living, travel, and related expenses for scholars conducting research at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas.
URL: http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/resinfo.asp

American Jewish Archives
Fellowship Program
DEADLINE: March 18, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be conducting research in some area relating to the history of North American Jewry. Typically, fellowships will be awarded to postdoctoral scholars, Ph.D. candidates who are completing dissertations, and senior or independent scholars.
ABSTRACT: The annual Fellowship Program provides recipients with month-long fellowships for 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. Scholars come to conduct in-depth research and to take part in the academic community of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. The program provides fellows with an opportunity not only to pursue their own research, but also to interact and exchange ideas with research peers as well as with the faculty and students of HUC-JIR. The research proposal must detail the precise nature of the applicant's research interests. The proposal must demonstrate clearly how the resources and holdings of the AJA are vital to the applicant's research.
URL: http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/programs/index.html

Library of Congress American Folklife Center
Parsons Fund Award
DEADLINE: March 30, 2008
ABSTRACT: The purpose of the fund is to make the collections of primary ethnographic materials housed anywhere at the Library of Congress available to the needs and uses of those in the private sector. Projects may lead to publication in media of all types, both commercial and non-commercial; underwrite new works of art, music, or fiction; involve academic research; contribute to the theoretical development of archival science; explore practical possibilities for processing ethnographic collections in the Archive of Folk Culture or elsewhere in the Library of Congress; develop new means of providing reference service; support student work; experiment with conservation techniques; and support ethnographic field research leading to new library acquisitions.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/grants.html

Charlotte Newcomb College Center for Research on Women at Tulane University
Travel-To-Collections Grants
DEADLINE: March 31, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The grants are available to graduate students for research towards M.A., Ph.D. or other postgraduate degrees; faculty members working on research projects; or independent scholars working on nonprofit projects.
ABSTRACT: The Newcomb Archives awards Travel-to-Collections Grants to scholars wishing to conduct research in the Newcomb Archives. Preference is given to researchers interested in Newcomb pottery; the lives of artists educated at Newcomb, particularly Sadie Irvine, Harriet Joor or Juanita Mauras; or the life courses of educated women during the 1900-1950s.
URL: http://8.12.35.67/nccrow-research-grants

Hagley Museum and Library
Grants-in-Aid
DEADLINE: March 31, 2008; June 30, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: These grants are available to both degree candidates and senior scholars. Applications are welcome from scholars and writers working independently as well as college and university teachers, librarians, archivists, museum curators, and scholars from fields other than the humanities.
ABSTRACT: Short-term grants-in-aid support visits to Hagley for scholarly research in the imprint, manuscript, pictorial, and artifact collections. They are designed to assist researchers with travel and living expenses while using the research collections. Scholars receive a stipend, make use of the research holdings, and participate in the programs of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society. Grant recipients are required to spend their time in residence at Hagley, or at least to travel there on a regular and consistent basis.
URL: http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/grants.html

Harry S. Truman Library Institute
Research Grants
DEADLINE: April 1, 2008
ABSTRACT: Research grants are awarded biannually and are intended to enable graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and other researchers to come to the library for one to three weeks to use its collections. Awards are intended to offset expenses for that purpose only. Preference will be given to projects that have application to enduring public policy and foreign policy issues and that have a high probability of being published or publicly disseminated in some other way. The potential contribution of a project to an applicant's development as a scholar will also be considered.
URL: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/grants/#ress

International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello
Travel Grants
DEADLINE: April 1, 2008
ABSTRACT: Travel grants are available on a limited basis for scholars and teachers wishing to make short-term visits to Monticello to pursue research or educational projects related to Jefferson.
URL: http://monticello.org/research/fellowships/travelgrants.html

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

Lilly Library at Indiana University
Everett Helm Visiting Fellowships
DEADLINE: April 15, 2008
ABSTRACT: The Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship program supports research and provides access to the collections of the Lilly Library for scholars residing outside the Bloomington area. Project proposals should demonstrate that the Lilly Library's resources are integral to proposed research topics.
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/fellowships.shtml

Swedish Information Services
SASS Swedish Travel Grant
DEADLINE: April 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The grant is open to all residents of the United States, with priority given to members of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study and, in particular, to graduate students and untenured faculty.
ABSTRACT: The SASS Swedish Travel Grant is an academic travel grant in support of study or research in Swedish literature, culture or social sciences.
URL: http://www.swedenabroad.com/pages/general____18552.asp

Gilder Lehrman Fellowships
DEADLINE: May 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Fellowships are not available for scholars who live within commuting distance of New York City.
ABSTRACT: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History invites applications for short-term fellowships to support work in one of five archives: 1. The Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New York Historical Society; 2. The Library of the New York Historical Society; 3. The Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library; 4. The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library; 5. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
URL: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historians/fellowship1.html

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