For Faculty in the Humanities
 

Samples of Humanities Fellowships (residency and other; see listings below for info):
   ACLS Fellowships       www.acls.org
   NEH Fellowships        www.neh.gov/grants
   American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Visiting Scholar  www.amacad.org/visiting.aspx
   Getty Research Scholars   www.getty.edu/grants/research
   Columbia Fellows,  www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows
   Einstein Fellowship,  www.einsteinforum.de
   eurias, Institutes for Advanced Study    www.eurias-fp.edu
   Fox Humanities Center, Emory  http://www.chi.emory.edu/center/index.html
   Leibniz-DAAD Research Fellowships    www.daad.de/leibniz
   National Humanities Center    http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org
   Netherlands Institute   www.nias.knaw.nl
   Newton International   www.newtonfellowships.org
   Penn Humanities Forum
   SAR, Santa Fe   www.sarweb.org
   Rome Prize   www.aarome.org
   Tanner Humanities Center, Utah    www.thc.utah.edu
   Transatlantic Academy Fellows   www.transatlanticacademy.org
   UT-Ransom Center
   various library and museum fellowships, see lists below

Amer.Acad.Arts & Sciences, Visiting Scholar    www.amacad.org/visiting.aspx
To $60,000 for academic year research residency supporting humanities, social sciences, policy analysis, espec. multidisciplinary topics. Pref to untenured junior faculty.  October 15

American Antiquarian Society                www.americanantiquarian.org
Library collections = Amer. hist or culture through 1876.  Fields = history, art and music history, literature, political science, 18th-cent. studies, newspapers, magazines, history of book.
   Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship -- $35,000 for 12-month fellowship. Up to 3 yrs from Ph.D.  Any topic in collection; to revise or extend dissertation for publication. Deadline Oct.
   AAS-NEH Fellowships -- To $40,000 for 4-12 mo residency.  Mid-career encouraged.  January.
   AAS Short-term Fellowships - $1,000 per month for 1-3 mo. For research in collections. January.

American Historical Association              www.historians.org/prizes/
Prizes, research grants, and fellowships.  Deadlines generally February.

AGLSP National Faculty Award                www.aglsp.org
Assoc. of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs.  $1,000, conference presentation; to outstanding interdisciplinary faculty teaching in graduate liberal studies program.  Nomination deadline June.

Bancroft Prize                                www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/amerihist/
Book published in current year on American History (North, South, Central) or Diplomacy.  Nov. 1

Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History        www.amphilsoc.org/prizes/
For book published in past year, exhibiting distinguished work in American or European cultural history.  Deadline January.

Bollingen Prize for Poetry                    http://highway49.library.yale.edu/bollingen
$100,000 prize awarded every two years for best volume of poetry published in those two years, or for lifetime achievement.

Center for Hellenic Studies                        www.chs.harvard.edu/fellowships.sec
Stipend, housing, travel.  One yr. For research project on ancient Greece, e.g. archaeology, art history, epigraphy, history, philosophy, interdisciplinary. Pref to early-career tenure-track, but not dissertation revision.  Deadline October. 

S. DuBois Cook Postdoc Fellowship      
History, social sciences. $40,000 one-yr fellowship researching race, ethnicity, gender from interdisciplinary perspectives. Social Science Research Institute, Duke University.  January 15

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation        www.delmas.org
Grants for research in Venice. Historical or contemporary Venetian society and culture. Humanities and social sciences, e.g. arts, archaeology, history, economics, law, literature, music, religion, theater...Deadline Dec. 15.

Dumbarton Oaks, Fellowships                    www.doaks.org
One-month, summer, or acad. yr residential fellowships in Byzantine or Pre-Columbian studies.

The Einstein Fellowship                            http://www.einsteinforum.de
5-6 months at Einstein's summerhouse + € 10,000. "For young thinkers to pursue project in a field different from their previous research."  Age under 35, with a degree in humanities, social sciences, or natural sci.  Not awarded to complete an academic study already begun.  Deadline May 15.

eurias                                                        www.eurias-fp.eu
European Institutes for Advanced Study.  10-month residencies for self-directed research, at one of 14 institutes (Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Budapest, Cambridge, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Paris, Vienna...)  May 31

Fox Humanities Center, Emory               http://www.chi.emory.edu/center/index.html
Year-long post-doc residency Fellowship in the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry

Fulbright-Hays Research Grants            http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsfra/index.html
Travel, stipend, research expenses for research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies (not Western Europe).  US citizen or perm res.  Deadline October.

Fulbright-Hays Short Seminars Abroad    http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpssap/index.html
Airfare, room, board, fees to month-long seminars abroad (not Western Europe) to improve knowledge of culture.  Humanities, social sciences; US citzn or perm res.  Deadline early Sept.

Getty Research Institute                        www.getty.edu/grants/research
Arts, humanities, social sciences.  Museum Institute or at Villa.  All deadlines are Nov 1
   Research Scholar -- To $75,000 for academic-yr residency
   Visiting Scholar -- $3,500 monthly, up to 3 mo.
   Post-doc -- $22,000 for academic year.  Ph.D. 2002 or later
   Library Research Grant -- To $2,500.  Five days to 3 months.
   Pre-doc -- $18,000 for academic year.

Gittler Prize                                            www.brandeis.edu/gittlerprize
$25,000  For a body of published work that reflects scholarly excellence and a lasting contribution to racial, ethnic or religious relations anywhere in the world.  Deadline April.

Drue Heinz Literature Prize                www.upress.pitt.edu
$15,000 and publication.  Short fiction: novellas, short stories.  Open to writers who have published a book-length collection of fiction or at least 3 short stories.  Submission deadline June

Hedgebrook Writer's Retreat                www.hedgebrook.org
For women writers.  Whidbey Island, Washington State.  Sept 1

Hiett Prize               http://www.dallasinstitute.org/Programs/Spring%202008/Hiett2008frames.htm
$50,000  Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.  Candidate in early stages of career track, with primary work in a field centered in the humanities and a clearly public or practical dimension related to contemporary culture.  Nomination deadline October.

Howard Fellowships                            www.brown.edu/Howard_Foundation
$25,000 stipend to support mid-career (completed degree in past 5-15 yrs) project; espec. to augment paid sabbatical leave. 6-yr rotation of Liberal and Fine Arts fields.  Fall '11 app for 2012-13:  Anthropology, Archaeology.  Fall '12  for 2013-14:  Art History, Painting.  Deadline Nov.

Huntington Library Fellowships            www.huntington.org/ResearchDiv/Fellowships.html
Fields:  British and American history, literature, art history, history of science and medicine.  December.
   Barbara Thom Postdoc -- $40,000.  Non-tenured faculty revising manuscript to publish.
   Mellon Postdoc Research Fellowship -- $40,000. 
   NEH Fellowship -- up to $40,000; 4-12 months. US citizen or 3 yrs' US residence.
   Huntington Fellows -- $2,000/mo for 1-5 months.  Ph.D. or candidate at dissertation stage.
   Keck Foundation Young Scholars -- $2,300/mo. Non-tenured fac or cand. at dissert. stage.
   Huntington-British Academy -- one month in Great Britain. 
   Clark-Huntington Postdoc -- $4,000, two months.  History of the book.
   Visiting Professorships, Occidental College (US Hist) and CalTech (Hist of Science).

HWK European Studies Fellowships        www.h-w-k.de/europefellowship.html
3 to 10-month fellowships, social sci and related disciplines (eco, law, history, philosophy...) for research projects on European cultures and societies. Espec. encourage setting up temporary study groups on the topic.  Two deadlines: Aug. 31, Feb. 28

Jameson Fellowship in American History        www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships
For early-career history faculty; research for one semester in Library of Congress collections.

Jentel Artist Residency                                        www.jentelarts.org/
One-month residency, artists and creative writers age 25+. Deadline Jan.15 sum/fall, Sept.15 wint/spr.

John Carter Brown Library Fellowships            www.brown.edu/Facilities
Short-term = $2,000 per month for 2-4 mo, all aspects of colonial history of the Americas.
Long-term = $4,000 per month for 5-10 months.  Deadline January 1

John F. Kennedy Library Fellowships               www.jfklibrary.org
   Kovler Fellowship -- to $2,500 Research on foreign intelligence and presidency, or related. March
   Schlesinger -- $5,000 Western Hemisphere history or policy, Roosevelt to Kennedy.  Aug 15
   Schwartz -- $3,100 Immigration, naturalization, or refugee policy.  March 15
   Sorensen -- $3,600 Domestic policy, political journalism, polling, or press relations. March 15
   Kennedy Research Grants to $2,500 Any topic relating to Kennedy period. Mar. for fall, Aug for spr.
   Hemingway Research Grants to $1,000  Use of Hemingway collection.  November 1

Kislak Fellowship, American Studies        www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships
Post-doc and short-term faculty fellowships for research  in Kislak Collection, Library of Congress.

Kluge Fellowships                                  www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/
Library of Congress.  Up to 11 months, for research in LOC collections.

John W. Kluge Prize                                www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/
Fields: history, philosophy, politics, anthropology, sociology, religions, art criticism, + others. For body of work; deep intellectual accomplishment in study of humanity. 

Leibniz-DAAD Research Fellowships          www.daad.de/leibniz
Postdoc grants in Germany, up to 12 months.  PhD within past 2 yrs.  Humanities, social science, education, math, life sciences, engineering.  June 15

Lukas Book Prize                                    www.journalism.columbia.edu
$10,000.  Narrative nonfiction on a topic of American political or social concern that exemplifies literary grace, commitment to serious research, and social concern.  Book published during current calendar year.  November 15

Lukas Work-in-Progress Award            www.journalism.columbia.edu
$30,000 to aid in completion of a significant work of nonfiction on a topic of American political or social concern. Must already have contract with publisher.  November 15

Mark Lynton History Prize                        www.journalism.columbia.edu
$10,000.  Book-length work of history on any topic that best combines intellectual distinction with felicity of expression.  Published in current calendar year.  November 15

MacDowell Residency                                www.macdowellcolony.org
Up to 8 weeks. Peterborough, New Hampshire.  Deadlines Sept 15 for spring, Janu 15 for summer, April 15 for fall

Massachusetts Historical Society                www.masshist.org/fellowships
$1,500 for short-term (20 days) research in Society collections.  Deadline March 1
$40,000 for long-term (6-12 months, may be divided time periods).  January 1
$5,000 for 8 wks research at regional consortium institutions.  February 1
$4,000 for 8 wks, research related to Civil War.  Deadline February 1

J. Clawson Mills Scholarships                www.metmuseum.org/education/fellowship
 Awarded for one year's study or research at the Metropolitan Museum or abroad in any branch of the fine arts relating to the Museum's collection. These scholarships are generally reserved for mature scholars of demonstrated ability.  Nov. 1

National Book Critics Circle Award            http://bookcritics.org
Nonfiction, fiction, poetry.  Published in current year.  Submit as early as possible

National Humanities Center                    http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org
Academic-year residential fellowships, all humanities areas.  Oct 15

NEH Summer Stipends            www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html
$6,000 for two consecutive months full-time research and writing, of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities, projects at any stage of development. US citzns or foreign nationals in US for 3 yrs.  Junior or senior faculty; adjunct or part-time ok. Not for: collection inventories; curriculum development; textbooks; creative or performing arts.  Two nominations allowed per university. Express interest to SMU Office of National Fellowships.  Deadline July 31.

NEH Fellowships                    www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fellowships.html
6-12 months; up to $50,000.  Deadline May 3.

Netherlands Institute                                        www.nias.knaw.nl
Academic-year or 5-month fellowships; humanities/social sciences, senior scholars and prominent researchers. Deadline March 1.

Newberry Library Fellowships                        www.newberry.org/research
Collections:  Western Europe, Renaissance, French Revolution; settlement of Americas; British lit and hist; Native American histories, literatures; American West and Midwest; Brazilian, Portuguese history; genealogy; history, theory of music; linguistics; history of printing, history of cartography. 
January application deadline:  up to $40,000, for fellowships 6-11 months:
   Lewis Fellowships, American History
   Mellon Postdoc Research Fellowships
   Monticello Fellowship for Women, particularly proposals related to study of women
   NEH Fellowships
   Newberry-British Academy
   Ecole des Chartes Exchange Fellowship to Paris, history of the book and archival science
   Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award for pre-1700 French or Italian lit, cultural studies
March 1 application deadline:  $1,600/mo for one week to two months:
   American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship
   Cappon Fellowship in Documentary Editing
   Fellowships in History of Cartography 
   Lumsden-Kouvel Fellowship, late medieval or Renaissance history or literature
   Newberry Short-Term Resident Fellowships for Individual Research
   Power, Tanner Fellowship for post-docs and Ph.D. candidates of American Indian heritage
   South Central MLA Fellowship
   Frances C. Allen Fellowship for women of Native American heritage
September deadline:
   Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars

Newton International Fellowships            www.newtonfellowships.org
Funding for 2 yrs post-doc collaborative research in U.K.  Humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering.  Apply when completing Ph.D. or up to 6 yrs postdoc.  Deadline August.

Organization of American Historians, Book Awards    www.oah.org/awards
Multiple awards, annual or biennial.  Submission deadline October 1.

Phillips Fund                                            www.amphilsoc.org
Grants to $3,500 for research projects in Native American history, continental US or Canada. Not archaeology.  March 1

Pulitzer Prize                            www.pulitzer.org
Categories U.S. history, general non-fiction, music, drama, fiction, poetry, journalism.  June 15 and Oct 1

Resident Scholars                                        www.sarweb.org
School of American Research, Santa Fe.  9-mo residency for writing manuscript (research completed).  Anthropology or anthropological perspectives in history, sociology, philosophy, art, law.  Deadline Nov 1.

Rome Prize                                                    www.aarome.org
American Academy in Rome.  Residential Fellowships 6 months to two years. Ancient studies, medieval, Renaissance, early modern, and modern Italian studies.  Deadline Nov 1.

Shohet Scholars                            www.catacombsociety.org
$10,000-30,000, one yr.  For significant original research in archaeology, art history, classical studies, history, comparative religions, or related subjects, within the sphere of the Mediterranean world from late Hellenistic to end of Roman Empire.  Special interest: interdisciplinary, new perspectives.  Nov. 15

Smithsonian Postdoc Fellowships            www.si.edu
Social and cultural history of US.  For scholars up to 7 yrs beyond Ph.D.  $42,000/yr, 3-12 months.  January 15.

Smithsonian Senior Fellows                      www.si.edu
For scholars 7+ yrs beyond Ph.D.  $42,000/yr, 3-12 months.  January 15.

Spanish Ministry PCC            www.umabroad.umn.edu/professionals/faculty/pcc.php
Program for Cultural Cooperation, to disseminate Spanish history/culture in US; matches up to 50% of direct costs for research projects in Spain.  Grants also for translations, symposia, arts productions, publication subvention, dissertation research.  Deadline April 1.

SAR Summer Scholars                                www.sarweb.org
8-week residency, School for American Research, Santa Fe, for research or writing project in human behavior, culture, society;  anthropology or related fields, humanistically or scientifically oriented.  Deadline Dec 15.

Supreme Court Fellows                                www.fellows.supremecourtus.gov
One-year fellowship with Supreme Court. Seeks diverse backgrounds, including those in Humanities. Need multi-disciplinary training and experience, including familiarity with the judicial process; 2+ yrs professional experience; administrative ability.  Deadline Nov.

Tanner Fellowship                                www.thc.utah.edu
Tanner Humanities Center, Univ. of Utah.  Academic-year visiting research fellow.  Dec 1

Transatlantic Academy Fellows                  www.transatlanticacademy.org
German Marshall Fund of the US.  10-month residential Fellows (interdisciplinary, selected from N. America and Europe), in Washington D.C. for research/discussion on annual announced topic.  2011 app for '12-'13: Future of the Western Liberal Order. May 1

UNESCO Fellowship                    www.state.gov/p/io/unesco/programs
to $15,000 for 1 to 6 months abroad in training or advanced research.  April 1

Frederic W. Ness Book Award                    http://www.aacu.org/about/ness.cfm
$2,000  Recognition of a book that contributes to the understanding and improvement of liberal education.  Nomination deadline May 1.

ETS tests, Visiting Scholars                        www.ets.org/visitingscholars
$3,500 honorarium, travel, housing.  Month of June at ETS; write/review test questions and equity.  Members of underrepresented groups.  Deadline early December.

Ucross Residency                                        www.ucrossfoundation.org
Residencies: creative writers, artists, composers, collaborative teams. Oct.1 for spr, Mar.1 fall.

Yaddo Residency                            http://yaddo.org
Saratoga Springs, New York.  Resident room, board, studio for 2 weeks to 2 months for professional creative artists:  music composition, visual arts, literature, choreography, film/video.  January 1 for May-Feb starts; Aug 1 for Oct-May start