Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
for Faculty

Humanities and Social Sciences
Deadlines: DECEMBER 2009-APRIL 2010


  • 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.

American Philosophical Society
Franklin Research Grants

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009 for work in April through December
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants are expected to have a doctorate. Ph.D. candidates are not eligible to apply, but the society is particularly interested in supporting the work of young scholars who have recently received the doctorate. American citizens and residents of the United States may use their Franklin awards at home or abroad. Foreign nationals must use their Franklin awards for research in the United States. Applicants who have received Franklin grants may reapply after an interval of two years.
ABSTRACT: The Franklin 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.
URL: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/franklin

 

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Independent Research on Venetian History and Culture - Postdoctoral Grants
DEADLINE: December 15, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States and have experience in advanced research
ABSTRACT: The foundation announces its program of postdoctoral grants for travel to and residence in Venice and the Veneto. Grants will be awarded for historical research specifically on Venice and the former Venetian empire, and for study of contemporary Venetian society and culture. Disciplines of the humanities and social sciences are eligible areas of study, including (but not limited to) archaeology, architecture, art, bibliography, economics, history, history of science, law, literature, music, political science, religion, and theater.
URL: http://www.delmas.org/guidelines/v_ir_a.html

 

American Institute for Maghrib Studies
Grants Program for U.S. Citizens

DEADLINE: December 31, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Faculty in all disciplines are eligible to apply. All applicants must be U.S. citizens and members of AIMS at the time of application..
ABSTRACT: The AIMS announces its annual Grants Program for the academic year beginning in May 2010. The program offers grants to U.S. scholars interested in conducting research on North Africa in any Maghrib country, specifically Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, or Mauritania. TALM Research Grants: The Tangier American Legation Museum is the AIMS Overseas Research Center in Morocco and welcomes proposals for research conducted anywhere in Morocco. 2. CEMAT Research Grants: Centre d'Etudes Maghrebines a Tunis, the AIMS Research Center in Tunis, welcomes applications for research anywhere in Tunisia. 3. CEMA Research Grants: To encourage research in Algeria, the AIMS newly established Overseas Research Center in Oran welcomes applicants for research anywhere in Algeria. 4. AIMS Multi-country Research Grants are available for scholars interested in conducting research in Libya or Mauritania or conducting multi-country research in any combination of North African countries.
URL: http://aimsnorthafrica.org/fellowships/lstuscitz_grants.cfm?menu=2

 

University of Notre Dame
Hibernian Research Award

DEADLINE: December 31, 2009
ABSTRACT: Funded by an endowment from the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the purpose of this award is to further the scholarly study of the Irish in the United States. The award will be made to a scholar of any academic discipline who is engaged in a research project related to the study of the Irish people in the United States.
URL: http://www.nd.edu/~cushwa/hibernian/index.shtml

 

Association for Asian Studies
AAS China and Inner Asia Council Small Grants

DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be current AAS members, but there are no citizenship requirements.
ABSTRACT: Small grants are available to scholars with special interests in China or Inner Asia. Applications are specifically encouraged in the following areas: 1. Curriculum development at the college or secondary level. 2. Conferences and seminars: organization of small conferences and seminars away from major centers of Chinese studies. 3. Short research trips for scholars at non-research institutions, to travel to major libraries and collections in North America and Taiwan. 4. Specialist or regional newsletters or websites disseminating important information to their respective fields 5. Translations of scholarly books and articles. 6. Collaborative projects in which the grant will facilitate communication and limited travel by scholars working on a common project in Taiwan and North America. The following items are not eligible for funding: (1) travel to conferences, including the AAS annual meeting; (2) book subventions and publication costs; and (3) repeat applications for previously funded projects and organizations.
URL: http://www.aasianst.org/grants/main.htm#CIAC

 

Association for Asian Studies
Short-Term Research Travel to Korea

DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants in this category must be current AAS members who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Applicants must not have received funding in this category within the past three years.
ABSTRACT: 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. Under the category of Short-Term Research Travel to Korea, grants are available to support 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

 

Association for Asian Studies
Short-Term Travel to Japan for Professional Purposes

DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Grants are made only to people with a Ph.D. or comparable professional qualification. Ph.D. Applicants must not have received funds in this category within the past five years.
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

 

Dirksen Congressional Center
Congressional Research Awards

DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: The competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, and journalists are among those eligible.
ABSTRACT: The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The center's first interest is to fund the study of the leadership in the Congress, both House and Senate. Topics could include external factors shaping the exercise of congressional leadership, institutional conditions affecting it, resources and techniques used by leaders, or the prospects for change or continuity in the patterns of leadership. In addition, the center invites proposals about congressional procedures, such as committee operation or mechanisms for institutional change, and Congress and the electoral process. The center also encourages proposals that link Congress and congressional leadership with the creation, implementation, and oversight of public policy.
URL: http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRAs.htm

 

International Research and Exchanges Board
Short-Term Travel Grants

DEADLINE: February 2, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent professional or terminal degree at the time of application. U.S. citizenship or permanent residency is also required.
ABSTRACT: The program seeks to attract, select, and support in-depth field research by U.S. scholars and experts in policy-relevant subject areas related to Eastern Europe and Eurasia, as well as to disseminate knowledge about these regions to a wide network of constituents in the U.S. and abroad. The program provides fellows with the means to conduct in-country research on contemporary political, economic, historical, and cultural developments relevant to U.S. foreign policy.
URL: http://www.irex.org/programs/stg/

 

Association for the Sociology of Religion
Fichter Research Grants

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be members of the ASR and also have been members at least during the year prior to that in which they submit their application. Scholars at the beginning of their careers are particularly encouraged to apply.
ABSTRACT: Applications are invited from scholars involved in promising research in either of two areas, prioritized as follows: (1) women and religion, gender issues, and feminist perspectives on religion; (2) religion and poverty.
URL: http://www.sociologyofreligion.com/FICHEXLP2004.html

 

Religious Research Association
Jacquet Research Awards

DEADLINE: April 1, 2010 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants are required to be members of the RRA and must have held membership in the RRA for at least one full year prior to the application deadline.
ABSTRACT: The Religious Research Association gives awards for applied and basic research on religion each year on a competitive basis, with priority being given to applied projects. In this competition, applied research is that which has an identifiable organizational or institutional client who will use the research results for specific goal-centered activities. The committee especially encourages proposal submissions from scholars who are in the early stages of their careers. Applied, client-centered projects are given priority, but basic research is also regularly funded. Funding may be used for research expenses and release time, but not for supplemental income or capital equipment.
URL: http://rra.hartsem.edu/constant.htm

 

University of Minnesota
Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain and U.S. Universities
Research Awards
DEADLINE: April 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: Applications submitted by scholars in the United States who wish to undertake or complete research projects in Spain will be considered. These academic investigations are evaluated on the basis of scholarly quality as well as relevance to the dissemination of Spanish culture in the United States. The Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and U.S. Universities is designed to promote closer ties between scholarly Hispanicism in the United States in the areas of humanities, social sciences, and the cultural and academic developments of Spain. Projects oriented toward the dissemination of Spanish culture throughout the academic systems of the United States are reviewed for subsidy. Priority is given to those proposals of high scholarly quality that will have an important impact upon the field of Hispanicism, both regionally and nationwide.
URL: http://www.umabroad.umn.edu/pcc/