American Association of University Women Fellowships and Grants
Supports aspiring scholars around the globe, teachers, and activists in local communities, women at critical stages in their careers, and those pursuing professions where women are underrepresented.
American Center of Oriental Research (AMMAN)
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships
The ACLS Fellowships are designed to permit scholars holding the Ph.D. or equivalent to devote a full year to research and writing in such fields as Literatures and Languages, History, Anthropology, Political Theory, Philosophy, Classics, Religion, the History of Art, Linguistics, Musicology, and the study of diverse world civilizations and cultures.
American Philosophical Association Prizes and Awards: Summary
Has several divisions that sponsor lectures, awards, and prizes.
American Philosophical Society Fellowships and Research Grants
The Banff Centre Programs -Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC) 2006
The program is open to literary translators from Canada, Mexico and the United States translating from any language, and to international translators working on literature from the Americas (both the North and South American continents). The primary focus of the residency program is to afford literary translators a period of uninterrupted work on a current project, within an international community of translators. Translators may request a joint residency (of up to one week) with a writer, allowing the translator to consult and deepen his or her knowledge of the writer’s intentions and the context of the work being translated.
Bibliographical Society of America (BSA)
Fellowships
Short-term fellowships. Eligible topics may concentrate on books and documents in any field, but should focus on the book or manuscript (the physical object) as historical evidence. Such topics may include establishing a text or studying the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Enumerative listings do not fall within the scope of this program.
Carmargo Foundation How to Apply
Maintains a study center in Cassis, France, for the benefit of fellows who wish to pursue projects in the humanities and social sciences related to French and Francophone cultures, as well as creative projects by writers, composers, visual artists (painters, sculptors, photographers, video artists, filmmakers, and new media artists).
Carnegie Corporation Scholars Program
For the next few years, the Scholars Program will focus on supporting scholars whose research relates to intellectual and policy developments in Islam and Muslim communities. The overall aim is to build a critical mass of thoughtful and original scholarship in order to add to our fund of knowledge regarding Islam as a religion as well as the cultures and civilizations of Muslim societies and communities, both in the United States and abroad.
Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships
-see ACLS
Council of American Overseas Research Centers
CAORC/ECA Fellowships
Multi-country advanced research fellowship program.
Dartmouth Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities or Social Sciences
Dumbarton Oaks Fellowships
Dumbarton Oaks offers residential fellowships in three areas of study: Byzantine Studies (including related aspects of late Roman, early Christian, Western medieval, Slavic, and Near Eastern studies), Pre-Columbian Studies (of Mexico, Central America, and Andean South America), and Garden and Landscape Studies.
Florida International University - Wolfsonian
The Wolfsonian's fellowship program has hosted scholars from North and South America, Europe, and Australia. By actively encouraging research in llate-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century material culture,
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. For Historians. Fellowships and Prizes
Short-term fellowships in several categories: Research Fellowships for post-doctoral scholars at every faculty rank, Dissertation Fellowships for doctoral candidates who have completed exams and begun dissertation reading and writing, and Research Fellowships for journalists and independent scholars.
Harvard College Houghton Library
Public Programs - Houghton Library - Harvard College Library
Visiting Fellowships. The Houghton Library is the principal rare book and manuscript library of Harvard College. The library's holdings are particularly strong in the following areas: European, English, American, and South American literature, including the country's pre-eminent collection of American literary manuscripts; philosophy; religion; history of science; music; printing and graphic arts; dance; and theatre. Fellows will also have access to collections in Widener Library as well as to other libraries at the University.
Hagley Museum and Library
Hagley Museum: Grants and Fellowships
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.
James J. Hill Reference Library
Research grant program
Funds research involving its significant collections that focus on the history of business in the United States.
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Huntington Research | Fellowships
The Huntington is an independent research center with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, and the history of science and medicine. Post-doctoral and/or dissertation fellowships.
Indiana University Lilly Library
Fellowships
The Lilly Library is the principal rare book and manuscript library of Indiana University. Its holdings support research in British, French, and American literature and history; the literature of voyages and exploration, specifically the European expansion in the Americas; early printing, and the Church, children's literature, music; film, radio and television; medicine, science, and architecture; and food and drink.
Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Kroc Institute : Visiting Fellows
The Kroc Institute has two visiting fellowship programs. Kroc Institute Fellows conduct research in peace studies, broadly defined. Rockefeller Fellows examine the complex role of religion in contemporary conflicts.
McNeil Center for Early American Studies
MCEAS Postdoctoral Fellowships
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Programs
The Foundation supports a wide range of initiatives to strengthen selective research universities in the United States, with particular emphasis on the humanities and "humanistic" social sciences.
Microsoft New Faculty Research Fellowship Program
Because new faculty are so vital to the future of academic computer science, the Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship Program identifies, recognizes, and supports exceptional new faculty members engaged in innovative computing research. The objective is to stimulate and support creative research by promising researchers who have the potential of making a profound impact to the state-of-the-art in their research discipline.
Newberry Library Fellowships Special Awards and Fellowships
Sponsors various awards and fellowships for scholars utilizing the library's holdings in the Humanities.
New York Public Library
Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
Sponsors various awards and fellowships for scholars utilizing the library's holdings in the Humanities.
National Humanities Center Fellowships, National Humanities Center
National Park Service
Sabbatical in the Parks
The Sabbatical in the Parks program assists in arranging faculty sabbaticals to conduct research and other scholarly activity which provides usable knowledge for the National Park Service and/or advances science and human understanding.
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Fellowship - Mellon
One-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in any area of early American studies. The award carries a year's support to revise the applicant's first book manuscript and the Institute's commitment to publish the resulting study. The Institute's scope encompasses the history and cultures of North America's indigenous and immigrant peoples during the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods of the United States and the related histories of Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America, the British Isles, Europe, and Africa, from the sixteenth century to approximately 1815.
Princeton University Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, comprised of recent Ph.D. recipients in the humanities, and in selected social and natural sciences, seeks to promote innovative interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship and teaching.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Fellowship program
Fellowships designed to support scholars, scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts.
Santa Fe Art Institute Residency Programs
The following programs are now offered: Artist and Writer Residencies, Writers Foundation Residencies, Witter Bynner Poetry Translator Residencies, Balkan Artist and Writer Residencies and Emergency Relief Residencies.
Smithsonian Institution
Fellowship Opportunities
Social Science Research Council SSRC :: Fellowships
Soros/Open Society Institute Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships
UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies Fellowships
Various programs and fellowships for senior and postdoctoral scholars.
University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
University of Michigan; Michigan Society of Fellows Fellowships
Each year the Society selects four or five outstanding applicants for appointment to three-year fellowships in the arts and humanities, in the social, physical and life sciences, and in the professional schools.
US Library of Congress The Library of Congress
Supports a wide variety of programs including fellowships through the American Folklife Center, Kluge Center, Paul Peck Humanities Institute, Swann Foundation, Witter Brynner program and the Yukos Research program.
W.E.B. DuBoise Fellowship Program
-see National Institute for Justice
Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowships
Pursues its two major goals-advancing basic research in anthropology and building an international community of anthropologists-through several funding programs.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellows and Scholars @ the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Use of Beinecke Classrooms
Short-term post-doctoral fellowships. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for early manuscripts and rare books in the fields of literature, theology, history, and the natural sciences. In addition to its general collection of rare books and manuscripts, the library houses the Yale Collection of American Literature, the Yale Collection of German Literature, the Yale Collection of Western Americana, and the Osborn Collection. The Beinecke collections afford opportunities for interdisciplinary research in such fields as medieval, Renaissance, and eighteenth-century studies, art history, photography, American studies, the history of printing, and modernism in art and literature. Books and manuscripts at Yale have been extensively described since 1926 in the "Yale University Library Gazette," which is available in many libraries.
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