The Institute for Humanities Research

We encourage you to study the opportunities listed in other categories since some may be open to graduate students or independent scholars.

ASU Division of Graduate Studies Resources

ASU Lorraine W. Frank Office of National Scholarship Advising

Includes undergraduate and graduate scholarship opportunities

American Institute of Indian Studies(AIIS) Fellowships

Founded to assist scholars in their study of all aspects of Indian history, culture and contemporary life.

American Musicological Society

Alvin H. Johnson Dissertation Fellowships

Any submission for a doctoral degree in which the emphasis is on musical scholarship will be eligible.

American Philosophical Society

The Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
The Lewis and Clark Fund (initially supported by the Stanford Ascherman/Baruch Blumberg Fund for Basic Science, established by a benefaction from the late Stanford Ascherman, MD, of San Francisco) encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation. Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, and paleontology, but grants will not be restricted to these fields. Grants will be available to doctoral students.

John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship

First, while the John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship is open to all applicants who meet the eligibility requirements (see below), the fund was created to encourage the pursuit of Ph.D. degrees by African Americans, and this remains a central objective of the fellowship program. Accordingly, special consideration will be given both to qualified African Americans and to other candidates who have a demonstrated a commitment to enlarging minority representation in academia.

Second, the John Hope Franklin Fellow is expected to spend a significant amount of time in residence at the APS Library and therefore all applicants should be pursuing dissertation topics in which the holdings of the Library are especially strong, such as quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, computer development, the history of genetics and eugenics, the history of medicine, Early American political and cultural history, natural history in the 18th and 19th centuries, the development of cultural anthropology, or American Indian linguistics and culture.

David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships (NSEP) Fellowships

Enables U.S. graduate students to add an important international and language component to their education through specialization in area study, language study, or increased language proficiency.

Ford Foundation

Predoctoral Diversity Fellowships

Through its program of Diversity Fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.

Fulbright

See federal agency listings.

Graham Foundation

Carter Manny Award

It is the intention of the Carter Manny Award to support research for academic dissertations by promising scholars who are presently candidates for a doctoral degree, and whose dissertations focus on areas traditionally supported by the Graham Foundation; that is, areas directly concerned with architecture and with other arts that are immediately contributive to architecture. Scholars whose dissertations are directed towards architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, architectural technologies, architectural research, architectural history and theory, urban design and planning, and—in some circumstances—the fine arts in relation to architectural topics are eligible for support through a Carter Manny Award.

Harvard University Society of Fellows Fellowships

Gives men and women at an early stage of their scholarly careers an opportunity to pursue their studies in any department of the University, free from formal requirements.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowships

National Science Foundation

2007 SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants

Social Science Research Council

International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships

Predissertation Fellowship for International Collaboration

UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies Fellowships

Various pre-doctoral and dissertation programs and fellowships at the Center and at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

US Department of Justice- National Institute of Justice Research Fellowship

Provides dissertation research support to outstanding doctoral candidates undertaking independent research on issues in crime and justice.