History/Humanistic Social Sciences

NEH Fellowships

Deadline: 
April 12, 2017
See website for full application details. Non-Citizens who have been US residents for three years or more are eligible to apply.
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I. Grant Program Description

Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities. Projects may be at any stage of development.

NEH encourages submission of Fellowships applications from faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Tribal Colleges and Universities.

Fellowships may not be used for

  •     projects that seek to promote a particular political, religious, or ideological point of view;
  •     projects that advocate a particular program of social action;
  •     specific policy studies;
  •     research for doctoral dissertations or theses by students enrolled in a degree program;
  •     the preparation or revision of textbooks;
  •     curriculum development;
  •     the development of pedagogical tools (including teaching methods or theories);
  •     educational or technical impact assessments;
  •     the creation or enhancement of databases, unless part of a larger interpretive project;
  •     empirical social science research, unless part of a larger humanities project;
  •     inventories of collections;
  •     works in the creative and performing arts (for example, painting, writing fiction or poetry, dance performance, etc.);
  •     the writing of autobiographies and memoirs; or
  •     the writing of guide books, how-to books, and self-help books.

Type of award

Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of six to twelve months. Successful applicants receive a stipend of $4,200 per month. The maximum stipend is $50,400 for a twelve-month period.

Gerda Henkel Foundation Fellowships

Deadline: 
December 1, 2016
Cannot receive salary simultaneous with this opportunity, so budget should be adjusted accordingly. Hard-copy submission required in addition to electronic.
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Applications for research projects and research scholarships can be made in connection with the research grant programme.

Support is primarily provided for the historical humanities, in particular to support research projects in the following fields:

  • Archaeology
  • Art History
  • Historical Islamic Studies
  • History
  • History of Law
  • History of Science
  • Prehistory and Early History

Gerda Henkel Foundation Basic Program Grants

Deadline: 
June 28, 2013
The above deadline is for consideration at the November 2013 meeting (with funding beginning as early as December). Hard-copy submission required in addition to electronic, arriving (NOT postmarked) by 28 June 2013.
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Applications for research projects and research scholarships can be made in connection with the research grant programme.

Support is primarily provided for the historical humanities, in particular to support research projects in the following fields:

  •     Archaeology
  •     Art History
  •     Historical Islamic Studies
  •     History
  •     History of Law
  •     History of Science
  •     Prehistory and Early History

Gerda Henkel Foundation Special Program Grants

Deadline: 
June 1, 2013
Deadlines are in two cycles, June and December; above date is an estimate. Hard-copy submission required in addition to electronic.
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The below requirements are for the Security, Society, and the State program; please see the website for additional information specific to other programs.

Grants

Proposals are invited for existing research projects. The Foundation generally only accepts applications for research project grants from postdoctoral scholars at universities, other research institutes or comparable institutions. The applicants must be actively involved in the research work of the project.

The grants for research projects involve, depending on the type of project, research and PhD fellowships for project participants, travel and material expenses as well as academic conferences and workshops. The costs incurred by visiting (foreign) scholars can also be financed as part of a research project.

The payment of fellowships is based on Gerda Henkel Foundation’s usual rates. The maximum amount of funding is € 100.000 per project application. Applications for limited travel and material grants only will not be accepted.

NEH Grant for Institutes in Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities

Deadline: 
March 11, 2014
Requires submission through, and approval by, University Research Administration; must notify Grants team of intent to apply by mid-February at the latest--ideally earlier.
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Program Description

These NEH grants support national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.

The projects may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few days and held at multiple locations or as long as six weeks at a single site. For example, training opportunities could be offered before or after regularly occurring scholarly meetings, during the summer months, or during appropriate times of the academic year. The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic.

US-UK-India Higher Education Partnership Grants

Deadline: 
April 13, 2012
Proposals must be supported by UK, US and Indian institutions and endorsed by the respective heads of department or equivalent.
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First Call for Proposals in New US-UK-India Higher Education Partnership

The British Council is excited to announce the first trilateral strand of the successful UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) with the launch of the new Trilateral Research in Partnership (TRIP) Awards with the United States.  Ten awards of up to £50,000 (USD $75,000) in funds will be available to support multidisciplinary research projects between UK, US and Indian higher education institutions.

Fellowships at the School for Advanced Research

Deadline: 
November 1, 2014
Application includes letters of recommendation. Non-US Citizens must have lived in the States for three years prior to application.
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Resident Scholars

The School for Advanced Research (SAR) awards approximately six Resident Scholar Fellowships each year to scholars who have completed their research and analysis and who need time to think and write about topics important to the understanding of humankind. Resident scholars may approach their research from anthropology or from related fields such as history, sociology, art, and philosophy. Both humanistically and scientifically oriented scholars are encouraged to apply.

SAR provides Resident Scholars with low-cost housing and office space on campus, a stipend up to $40,000, library assistance, and other benefits during a nine-month tenure, from September 1 through May 31. A six-month fellowship is also available for a female postdoctoral scholar from a developing nation, whose research promotes women’s empowerment. SAR Press may consider books written by resident scholars for publication in its Resident Scholar Series.

Franke Institute Event/Programming Funding

Deadline: 
October 28, 2016
Does not need to go through URA. Early submission to the Franke for feedback is recommended.
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The deadline for submission of funding proposals to the Franke Institute for the autumn meeting of the Institute's Governing Board is Friday, October 28th at 5:00 pm. At this autumn meeting, proposals will be considered for funding events or programs for 2017 and 2018. The Institute's Governing Board will meet at the end of the quarter to consider these proposals. Proposals should include all information that will enable Board members to evaluate fully the intention and reach of a potential event. 

Fellowships at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies

Deadline: 
January 7, 2014
Some application materials (e.g., letters of recommendation) must be submitted in hard-copy and received by 1/7/14.
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Mapping Cultural Space: Sites, Systems, and Practices across Eurasia is the theme of the 2014–2015 Davis Center Fellows Program, coordinated by Professors Julie Buckler (Slavic Languages and Literatures), Eve Blau (Graduate School of Design), and Kelly O’Neill (History). The seminar for 2014-15 will explore the significance of cultural space as both an object and a tool of analysis, taking as its focus Eurasia, an area of the world where political and cultural boundaries have been repeatedly reconfigured.

The 2014–2015 program coordinators are looking to build an intellectual community for a project that may extend beyond 2014-15, in order to deepen understanding of the complex and enormous territory of Eurasia in both theory and practice, and to explore interdisciplinary discourse and methodologies, as well as collaborative, multimedia forms of scholarly output that serve multiple functions (research, pedagogy, etc.).

Onassis Foundation Foreigners' Fellowships

Deadline: 
January 31, 2015
PROJECTED DEADLINE; will be updated when new date is available. Please see FAQ for full submission details. Greek citizens are ineligible to apply.
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In 1995 the Foundation established an annual programme of grants and scholarships for research, study and artistic endeavour within Greece. The programme is intended exclusively for non-Greeks: members of national academies, university professors of all levels, PhD holders, post-doctorate researchers, post-graduate students and doctoral candidates, artists, and teachers of Greek language, literature, history and culture in both primary and secondary education. Exceptionally and on a case-by-case basis, the programme may accept Greeks of the Diaspora, second generation Greeks, and Greeks who permanently reside abroad and have been studying or have been employed in foreign Universities for over 10 or 15 years, depending on the type of scholarship.

(See FAQ for additional details: http://www.onassis.gr/uploaded/pdf/Scholarships%20Foreigners/FAQ_18.pdf)

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