Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
for Faculty

Humanities and Social Sciences
Deadlines: JUNE 2009-OCTOBER 2009


  • Research Support (May or May Not Include Salary Support or Stipend)


RESEARCH SUPPORT (MAY OR MAY NOT INLUDE SALARY SUPPORT OR STIPEND)

(by deadline)


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

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
East European Studies
Short-Term Grants

DEADLINE: June 1, 2009; September 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: These Title VIII grants are available to American academic experts and practitioners, including advanced graduate students, engaged in specialized research requiring access to Washington, DC and its research institutions.
CITIZENSHIP: U.S. citizens are eligible.
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.

 

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
International Collaborative Research Grants

DEADLINE: June 1, 2009 for applicants requesting funding starting in January through June of 2010.
ELIGIBILITY: Proposals must involve collaboration between two or more researchers of different nationalities who are working in different countries. Each researcher must hold a doctorate or equivalent qualification in anthropology or a related discipline. Priority is given to those projects involving at least one principal investigator who is a citizen of, and is working and residing in, a country where anthropology is underrepresented and where there are limited resources to develop the discipline. Other international collaborations will, however, be given serious consideration where they are consistent with at least two of the following aims of the foundation:
- Bring together researchers with different national perspectives that complement each other and enrich the research;
- Strengthen anthropology in countries where there are limited resources to support its development;
- Combine different areas of expertise and knowledge that will benefit both researchers.
ABSTRACT: This grant supports international research collaborations between two or more qualified scholars, where the principal investigators bring different and complementary perspectives, knowledge, or skills to the project. Supplemental funds are also available to provide essential training for academic research participants in ICRG-funded projects (co-applicants, students, as well as other professional colleagues). By encouraging international collaborations, the grant contributes to the development of an international anthropology that values and incorporates different national perspectives and resources. By providing training funds, the grant helps to build capacity in countries were anthropology may be under-resourced.
URL: http://www.wennergren.org/programs/

 

Smith Richardson Foundation
Domestic Public Policy Research Fellowship Program

DEADLINE: June 30, 2009 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: Fellowships will only be awarded to individual researchers and not to research teams. An applicant must have received a Ph.D. after January 1, 2002 (Check foundation’s website for updated requirements).
ABSTRACT: This program seeks to support the work of the next generation of public policy researchers and analysts. The foundation will award research grants to individuals who are interested in conducting research and writing on domestic public policy issues. Preference will be given to proposals that address policy issues that have been priority areas for the foundation's Domestic Public Policy Program during the past three years: education and school reform; income support and anti-poverty policy; child and youth development; public finance; policies related to public entitlement programs, including Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; urban and criminal justice policy; regulatory policy, including environmental policy; immigration policy; and the political process.
URL: http://www.srf.org/grants/Domestic_Public_Policy_Fellowship.php

 

Smith Richardson Foundation
International Security and Foreign Policy Program
Junior Faculty Research Grant Program

DEADLINE: June 30, 2009 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: An applicant must have a Ph.D., preferably in Political Science, Public Policy, Policy Analysis, International Political Economy, or History.
ABSTRACT: This grant program supports junior faculty research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. The foundation will award research grants to support tenure-track junior faculty engaged in the research and writing of a scholarly book on an issue or topic of interest to the policy community. Projects in military and diplomatic history are especially encouraged. Group or collaborative projects will not be considered.
URL: http://www.srf.org/grants/JF_Domestic_Description.php

 

University of North Carolina at Asheville Center for Craft, Creativity and Design
Craft Research Grants

DEADLINE: July 1, 2009
ABSTRACT: The mission of the Craft Research Fund is to advance, expand and support scholarship in United States craft (contemporary and decorative arts). The fund's goals are to support innovative research on artistic and critical issues in craft theory, practice, and history; to explore the inter-relationship among craft, art, design, and contemporary culture; to foster new cross-disciplinary approaches to scholarship in the craft field in America; and to advance investigation of neglected questions in U.S. craft history and criticism. Grant funds may be used to support documentation such as images or rights to use images or text, as part of the research yet to be completed. The grant awards are not for the printing of already completed research. Travel expenses may be included if justified by the research.
URL: http://www.craftcreativitydesign.org/research/grants.php

 

Gerda Henkel Stiftung / Gerda Henkel Foundation
Research Fellowships

DEADLINE: July 31, 2009 for consideration at fall board meeting. Applications for research grants may be submitted at any time. The foundation committees meet twice a year to consider the applications and decide on funding grants.
CITIZENSHIP: Unrestricted
ABSTRACT: Research scholarships can be applied for directly by Ph.D. holders for larger-scale research work or in connection with a research project. The foundation's funding activities concentrate basically on German and foreign academia in the fields of historical humanities. Research projects in the following fields are supported in particular: History; Prehistory and early history; Archaeology; Art history; History of Islam; Legal history.
URL: http://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/foerderung-allgemein.php

 

American Academy of Religion
Collaborative Research Grants

DEADLINE: August 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: A group must apply through an AAR member designated as the project director. Not all participants need to hold AAR membership.
ABSTRACT: Collaborative grants are intended to stimulate cooperative research among scholars in different institutions, with a focus on a clearly identified research project. They may also be used for interdisciplinary work with scholars outside the field of religion, especially when such work shows promise of continuing beyond the year funded. Grants can provide funds for networking and communication. Funds may also be used to support small research conferences. Conference proposals will be considered only if they are designed primarily to advance research. Conferences presenting papers that report on previous research will not be considered. Examples of recently funded projects include: symposium to comment on and critique chapters for an edited book; developing a typology of religious board games and toys; research, interviews, and observations of reconciliation programs in Ireland; compiling material for a CD that will accompany a textbook; and a conference to discuss approaches to translating, and writing interpretive chapters for, a book. All grant proposals will be assessed using the following criteria: 1. Clarity and focus of the research to be pursued; 2. Contribution to scholarship in a field or sub-field of religion and significance of the contribution for advancing the understanding of religion or for advancing interdisciplinary discussions between religion and other humanistic and social science disciplines; 3. Adequacy of the overall work plan, including goals, objectives, and time frame for the completion of the project.
URL: http://www.aarweb.org/Programs/Grants/Research/collaborative.asp

 

American Academy of Religion
Individual Research Grants

DEADLINE: August 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be current AAR members who have been in good standing for the previous three years.
ABSTRACT: To fulfill its commitment to advance research in religion, the AAR each year awards grants to support individual research projects proposed by AAR members and selected by the AAR Research Grants Review Committee. These grants provide support for important aspects of research such as travel to archives and libraries, research assistance, field work, and released time. All grant proposals will be assessed using the following criteria: 1. Clarity and focus of the research to be pursued; 2. Contribution to scholarship in a field or sub-field of religion and significance of the contribution for advancing the understanding of religion or for advancing interdisciplinary discussions between religion and other humanistic and social science disciplines; 3. Adequacy of the overall work plan, including goals, objectives, and time frame for the completion of the project.
URL: http://www.aarweb.org/Programs/Grants/Research/individual.asp

 

Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Traditional Fulbright Scholar Program

DEADLINE: August 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: At the time of application, the following requirements must be met –U.S. citizenship; appropriate terminal degree; college or university teaching at the level and in the field of the proposed position; foreign language proficiency as specified in the award description.
ABSTRACT: The traditional Fulbright Scholar Program sends U.S. faculty and professionals abroad to lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic fields. The catalog of available wards in on line: http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards/AwardsCatalog.htm
URL: http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/

 

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Research grants for understanding and reducing violence, aggression, and dominance
DEADLINE: August 1, 2009
ABSTRACT: The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world. Particular questions that interest the foundation concern violence, aggression, and dominance in relation to social change, the socialization of children, intergroup conflict, drug trafficking and use, and family relationships, as well as the control of aggression and violence. Research with no useful relevance to understanding and attempting to cope with problems of human violence and aggression will not be supported, nor will proposals to investigate urgent social problems where the foundation cannot be assured that useful, sound research can be done. Priority will also be given to areas and methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other funding sources.
URL: http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm

 

American Educational Research Association
Research Grants Program

DEADLINE: September 1, 2009 for review in October.
ELIGIBILITY: Underrepresented minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants may be U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or non-U.S. citizens.
ABSTRACT: With support from the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Education Statistics of the Institute of Education Sciences, the AERA Grants Program announces its Research Grants Program. The program's goals are (1) to stimulate research on issues related to U.S. education policy and practice using NCES and NSF data sets; (2) to improve the educational research community's firsthand knowledge of the range of data available at the two agencies and how to use them; and (3) to increase the number of educational researchers using the data sets. The program supports research projects that are quantitative in nature, include the analysis of existing data from NCES and NSF, and have U.S. education policy relevance. Researchers must include the analysis of data from at least one NSF or NCES data set in the project. Additional large-scale nationally representative data sets may be used in conjunction with the obligatory NSF or NCES data set. If international data sets are used, the study must include U.S. education.
URL: http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/res_grants/RGFly.html

 

American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Wiener Laboratory Research Associateships

DEADLINE: September 1, 2009. Applicants are strongly encouraged to discuss their proposals with the director (or write regarding their ideas) prior to submitting the completed application form and documents.
ELIGIBILITY: Applications will be accepted from individuals engaged in postdoctoral study who are Senior Associates of the school. Preference will be given to projects that make significant use of the facilities of the Wiener Laboratory.
ABSTRACT: The Wiener Laboratory offers these awards on a limited basis each year for the purpose of accommodating well-defined research by qualified scholars undertaking limited investigations.
URL: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/wiener-laboratory/Fellowships

 

Borchard Foundation Center on Law and Aging
Academic Research Grant Program

DEADLINE: September 30, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: This RFP is open to all interested and qualified legal, health sciences, social sciences, and gerontology scholars and professionals. Organizations per se, whether profit or nonprofit, are not eligible to apply, although they may administer the grant. Two or more individuals in the same institution or different institutions may submit a collaborative proposal.
ABSTRACT: The grant program supports research and scholarship about new or improved public policies, laws, and/or programs that will enhance the quality of life for the elderly (including those who are poor or otherwise isolated by lack of education, language, culture, disability, or other barriers). The center expects grantees to meet the objectives of the grant program through individual or collaborative research projects that (1) analyze and recommend changes in one or more important existing public policies, laws, and/or programs relating to the elderly; or (2) anticipate the need for and recommend new public policies, laws, and/or programs for the elderly necessitated by changes in the number and demographics of the country's and the world's elderly populations, by advances in science and technology, by changes in the health care system, or by other developments. Scholars in the fields of health, law, medicine, and sociology have been awarded grants.
URL: http://www.borchardcenter.org/argp.html

 

American Councils for International Education
Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Program

DEADLINE: October 1, 2009 for spring and summer programs
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities who have attained at least an intermediate level of proficiency in Russian or their proposed host-country language are eligible to apply. Applications from faculty and postdoctoral scholars, including established scholars seeking to develop their proficiency in new languages are welcome. Programs are available in Belarus, Central Asia, Russia, the South Caucasus, Ukraine, and Moldova. Scholars may apply for support in more than one country during a single trip.
ABSTRACT: Funded by the U.S. Department of State, Program for the Study of Eastern Europe and The Independent States of the Former Soviet Union, this program serves scholars who, in addition to support for research in the independent states of the former Soviet Union, require supplemental language instruction. While a wide range of topics receive support each year, all funded research must contribute to a body of knowledge enabling the United States to understand the region better and formulate effective policies within it. All applicants should clearly describe the policy-relevance of their work, be it in anthropology, history, international relations, political science, or some other field.
URL: http://www.americancouncils.org/programs.php?program_id=NDk=

 

American Councils for International Education
TITLE VIII Special Initiatives Fellowship Program

DEADLINE: October 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in a policy-relevant field and plan to spend at least four months conducting research in the region.
CITIZENSHIP: United States citizens and permanent residents are eligible.
ABSTRACT: This fellowship offers postdoctoral scholars financial aid for field-based, policy-relevant research in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Applicants may apply to conduct research in more than one country, but must plan to spend at least four months in the region overall. The American Councils for International Education administers this fellowship program with funding from the U.S. Department of State's Program for the Study of Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the former Soviet Union (Title VIII). If desired by the fellow, American Councils can arrange placement at Eurasian institutions and universities appropriate for each fellow's proposed research project.
URL: http://www.americancouncils.org/programs.php?program_id=NzA=

 

American Philosophical Society
Franklin Research Grants

DEADLINE: October 1, 2009 (for a January decision).
ELIGIBILITY: The Society is particularly interested in supporting the work of young scholars who have recently received their Ph.D. American citizens and residents of the United States may use their grants at home or abroad. Foreign nationals must use their grants for research in the United States.
ABSTRACT: The APS awards small grants to scholars in order to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. The program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses. These grants are not intended to meet the expenses of attending conferences or the costs of publication.
URL: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/franklin.htm

Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
Japan Studies Grants
Short-Term Travel to Japan for Professional Purposes

DEADLINE: October 1, 2009 for fall/winter awards
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
ABSTRACT: Under the Short-Term Travel to Japan for Professional Purposes category, grants are available to cover expenses while in Japan conducting a specific project explicitly related to Japan that can be accomplished in the period of time requested. These grants are intended for short-term research trips by scholars who are already familiar with Japan and with their topic, but who need time in Japan in order to complete their work.
URL: http://www.aasianst.org/grants/main.htm

 

Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
Korean Studies Grants
Short-Term Research Travel to Korea Grants

DEADLINE: October 1, 2009 for fall/winter awards
ELIGIBILITY: Individual scholars should be based in North America.
CITIZENSHIP: U.S. citizens and permanent residents are eligible.
ABSTRACT: Under the category of 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

 

United States Institute of Peace
Annual Grant Competition

DEADLINE: October 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Although the institute can provide grant support to individuals, it prefers that an institutional affiliation be established. When applicants are employed by an eligible institution, such as a college or university, the institute favors grants to the institution rather than to the individual.
ABSTRACT: Unsolicited grants are offered across a broad range of relevant disciplines, skills, and approaches. Topic areas of interest to the institute include, but are not restricted to, conflict analysis and prevention; mediation and conflict resolution; postconflict peace and stability operations; religion and peacemaking; women and girls in conflict and peacebuilding; rule of law and transitional justice; economies and conflict; social, psychological, and physical impacts of war and conflict; and media and conflict. The institute sets no disciplinary restrictions. It welcomes proposals of an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary nature.
URL: http://www.usip.org/grants/unsolicited.html

 

Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, American Region
Research Grants

DEADLINE: October 15, 2009
CITIZENSHIP: Citizens of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are eligible.
ABSTRACT: Scholars at academic institutions are eligible to apply for research grants. Researchers focusing on the social, cultural, economic or political development of Taiwan over the past few decades are especially encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to collaborative projects with scholars in Taiwan.
URL: http://www.cckf.org.tw/e-americaRG.htm

 

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Transatlantic Cooperation in Research

DEADLINE: October 31, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Applications should be submitted jointly by at least one German and one U.S. and/or Canadian researcher. A research cooperation among German, American, or Canadian scholars in the humanities, social sciences, economics, or law is intended. The American or Canadian partner must provide matching funds at least equal the amount applied for within the TransCoop Programme.
CITIZENSHIP: U.S., Canadian, and German citizens are eligible to apply.
ABSTRACT: This program supports transatlantic research cooperation among German, American, and Canadian scholars in the humanities, social sciences, economics, and law. The funds may be used to finance short-term research visits and travel, special conferences and workshops, material and equipment, printing costs, and research assistance. The foundation expects that the home institutions will continue to pay the salaries of the scholars and their assistants.
URL: http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/programme/stip_aus/transcoop.htm

 

United States Indonesia Society
Sumitro Fellows (Indonesian-United States Political and Economic Relations)

DEADLINE: October 31, 2009 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants for the U.S. Sumitro Fellowship must be United States citizens or permanent residents in the United States with a specific project on Indonesia's political economy. Applications outside the scope of economics or political economy will not be considered. Applicants for the Indonesian Sumitro Fellowship must be Indonesian citizens with a specific project on any aspect of the Indonesian-US bilateral relationship. Previous travel to, and experience in, Indonesia or the United States (for Indonesian Sumitro applicants) is desirable but not necessarily a requirement. Please note that though not compulsory, prior study of Bahasa Indonesia is helpful in conducting field research.
CITIZENSHIP: Indonesia; United States
ABSTRACT: The USINDO invites applications for its two travel/study grants for postdoctoral scholars, Ph.D. candidates, senior academics, and otherwise professionally qualified candidates to engage in field research in Indonesia on an economic or political-economic topic. The grant is available to United States citizens and permanent residents in the United States with a specific project relating to the political economy of Indonesia. The Indonesian Sumitro Fellowship is open to an Indonesian citizen with a project related to the Indonesia-United States bilateral relationship.
URL: http://www.usindo.org/education/sumitro.html