Grant Sources by Discipline

Grants and Fellowships

General

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
American Association of University Women Fellowships
American Philosophical Society
American-Scandinavian Foundation
Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI)
Bogliasco Foundation Italy
Camargo Foundation Cassis, France
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement and Support of Education
The Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences Stanford, CA
CHCI Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes
CAORC Council of American Overseas Research Centers
DAAD Grants for Study and Research in Germany
FedGrants Federal Funding Opportunities Search
Fulbright Scholar Program
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program
The Grant Advisor Plus
Grants.Gov Grant Opportunities from all Federal Grant-making Agencies
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships
George A. and Eliza Howard Foundation (Brown University)
Moore Fellowship Friends Historical Library and/or the Swarthmore College Peace Collection
National Humanities Center
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Italy
Scholarly Societies Project
Schomberg Center Residential Fellowship
Smithsonian Institution
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Grants for Young Investigators

If you are seeking funding for Jr. leave, these agencies offer opportunities targeted at Jr. Faculty (Assistant/Untenured) and may specify years since obtaining Ph.D.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association of University Women Educational Foundation
American Historical Association
American Mathematical Society
American Philosophical Society
American Psychological Foundation
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research, Jane Coffin
Clark Library
Fulbright
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Human Frontier Science Program
Huntington Library
Library of Congress: Kluge Center Fellowships
Life Sciences Research Foundation
L'Oreal USA Fellowships for Women in Science
McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
National Academies
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Geographic Society
National Institutes of Health
Newberry Library
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Russell Sage Foundation
Smith Richardson Foundation
Whitehall Foundation, Inc.

Sabbatical Funding (non-residential and residential)

Non-residential Fellowships

Year- or semester-long sabbatical research and writing support can be obtained by piecing together several smaller grant opportunities, or applying for larger grants for year-long support. Below are examples of the awards that humanities and social sciences faculty most commonly apply for, although there are thousands more to be found. Note that the grants listed below are also the most competitive due to the large number of applicants; the number of projects funded can be as low as 6–7 percent per funding cycle.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS): https://www.acls.org/programs/acls/ (Includes Collaborative Research Fellowships, Digital Extension Grants, African Humanities Program, Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society, Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows, and others). Deadlines vary by program.

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship: http://www.gf.org/about/fellowship/ Characterized as mid-career awards for individuals who have already “demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” Deadline: usually mid-September.

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Research Fellowship: http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/fellowships April deadline for projects beginning the following January.

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication: http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/neh-mellon-fellowships-digital-publication. Supports individual scholars pursuing research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. Deadline: late April for projects beginning the following January.

National Science Foundation: Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=SBE. NSF offers a wide variety of competitions with varying deadlines.

Residential Fellowships

Although many faculty members have family or other obligations that prevent them from being away from home for extended periods of time, residential fellowships can offer extraordinary opportunities for research and writing. Some include minor teaching responsibilities, but others offer research assistants, meals, and plenty of time to undertake research and writing without teaching responsibilities. Because the applicant pool for residential fellowships can be significantly smaller than for the non-residential funding opportunities listed in the previous section, the likelihood of winning an award is sometimes higher.

Scholarships for Recently Tenured Faculty: https://www.acls.org/programs/burkhardt/ Deadline: usually September.

DePaul University Humanities Center, External Faculty Fellowships: http://las.depaul.edu/centers-and-institutes/depaul-humanities-center/faculty-fellowships/Pages/default.aspx. Application information available in the fall.

The Getty Research Institute Fellowships: http://www.getty.edu/research/scholars/years/future.html Check to see if your research topic matches the Institute’s annual themes. Application information available in the fall.

Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) (Princeton): https://www.hs.ias.edu/. Deadline: usually December.

The National Humanities Center: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/become-a-fellow/ Deadline: usually in October

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study: https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/fellowship-program/how-apply. Deadline typically in the fall.

Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships: http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/non-stanford-faculty. Application access opens in August.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities: http://virginiahumanities.org/fellowships/apply-for-a-fellowship/. Deadline: usually December.