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THE WILLIAM F. MILTON FUND
Deadline: February 1, 2017
Applications are encouraged from scholars of all disciplines.
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ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH COMPUTING
Interested in pursuing a project in the digital humanities?
Digital Arts and Humanities (or, informally, DARTH) provides consultation, instruction, and technical development for the digital research initiatives of faculty, staff, and students. DARTH also sponsors lectures, workshops, and symposia related to emerging trends in technology for artistic creation and scholarship.
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HARVARD INITIATIVE for LEARNING & TEACHING (HILT)
Spark Grants | Application opens in March of 2017
HILT awarded six Spark Grants of $5,000 to $15,000 this fall. To see descriptions of the selected projects, please see
here.
To learn more about the program and to apply, please visit the
HILT application
page.
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For a robust list of Harvard's internal funding opportunities, please see
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Match your project to a grant program:
I am looking for research support for my project.
I want to visit an archive or library and/or fund my sabbatical leave.
Fellowships or grants that are portable and tenable anywhere.
Fellowships with Boston-area residency requirement.
Fellowships with a residency requirement within the United States.
Fellowships that support or require international travel and/or residency.
I want to translate a work of prose, poetry, or drama into English.
I want to develop or produce a radio show, television or film documentary.
I want to host a program for faculty, scholars, or practitioners to expand their knowledge of a topic.
I want to combine digital technology with the humanities or preserve a collection and/or make it easier for people to access.
I want to create a website with humanities content.
I want to develop or put on an exhibition or cultural program for the public or engage in community revitalization.
I want to complete and/or publish a scholarly book.
I am an artist looking for support to create original works of art.
I want to facilitate scholarly exchange between my institution and another.
I want to support a new teaching position at my institution.
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Spark Grants for Collaboration, Research and Student Engagement
Application Opens March 2017
Award Amount: up to $15,000 for 18-month awards
Eligible Applicants: Harvard benefits-eligible faculty and/or staff
The HILT Spark Grants are designed to help "spark" promising teaching and learning projects from idea to reality and position innovations for future success. Awardees will receive resources, feedback, and community support to help them develop their ideas into prototypes, pilots, and small-scale innovations. Funding can be used, for example, to pay for a research assistant, hire a graduate student with academic technology expertise, and convene collaborative groups.
As with previous rounds of grants, proposals that build communities of practice around teaching and learning, facilitate high quality assessment practices and educational research, experiment with and document new instructional practices, and/or provide pedagogically-driven tools for teaching and learning (multimedia and instructional technology) are encouraged.
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Deadline: February 1, 2016
Award Amount: up to $50,000 payable over one year
Eligible Applicants: Ladder faculty and junior fellows of the Harvard Society of Fellows
Funding research projects in the fields of medicine, geography, history and science, the winning projects must either promote the physical and material welfare and prosperity of the human race, or investigate and determine the value and importance of any discovery or invention, or assist in the discovery and perfecting of any special means of alleviating or curing human disease. Reviewers will evaluate applications on intellectual merit, interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and likely impact on all fields of medicine, geography, history and science.
Funds awarded through the Milton Fund support research to explore new ideas, to act as the catalyst between ideas and more definitive directions, and to consider new methods of approaching global solutions. Preference will be given to junior investigators.
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Advance Grants
Application Opens: January 2017
Deadline: February 2017
Award Amount: up to $25,000 for eighteen-month awards
Advance Grants support previous HILT grant recipients aiming to extend the scale and success of their project.
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Regional Fellowships
Deadline: January 7, 2017 [anticipated]
Award Amount: up to $47,000
Tenure: one or two terms
The Center is particularly interested in discovering and cultivating the connections among the scholarly literatures in the humanities and social sciences that explore Russia, the Soviet and post-Soviet space, and other nations and regional orders. Despite this interest, any scholar whose research touches on the work of the Davis Center community is welcome to apply to the Fellows Program.
Regional Fellowships support advanced scholars who have completed a Ph.D. or equivalent by September 2010, plus policymakers, journalists, and other specialists.
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Faculty Awards
Deadline: January 13, 2017
Award Amount: only on rare occasions, and only for proposals of the highest caliber, will MBB grant an award amount that exceeds $50,000
These awards are intended to support faculty members who want to examine MBB-related issues through interdisciplinary research, education, or experiences.
These awards should increase productivity and/or facilitate inter-faculty collaboration. Therefore, all proposals must be explicitly cross-disciplinary, involving
at least two principals
, each from a different discipline.
An MBB Faculty Award may be used for: personnel; research equipment or supplies; study participant payments/costs; and/or developing and hosting interdisciplinary workshops, conferences, or seminars. These awards cannot be used as salary support for the Principal Investigator(s).
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Faculty Fellowship
Deadline: December 12, 2016
Award Amount: up to $57,000
Tenure: 9 months
The 2017-18 Warren Center Faculty Fellowship will be on the theme of Crime and Punishment in American History led by Elizabeth Hinton (History and African and African American Studies), and Lisa McGirr (History).
The Center, Harvard's research center for American history, invites applications for a workshop on the history of crime and punishment in the Americas from the colonial period to the recent past. The Center will convene scholars in the social sciences and humanities conducting original research on the development of the penal regimes in the Western Hemisphere from a local, regional, national and global perspective. Topics considered include the history of prisons, prison labor, ideas and knowledge production about crime and punishment, criminal law, extra-legal forms of punishment such as lynching, the rise and decline of the Southern convict lease system, progressive era penal knowledge and reform, the role of institutionalized punishment in state and empire building, the criminalization of alcohol and drug use, policing and surveillance, social movements and issues of prisoners' rights, the death penalty, and the rise of mass incarceration since the 1970s.
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Deadline: last day of
November, February, May, and August
Award Amount: $40,000 for ladder faculty; $5,000 for doctoral students and postdocs
The FHBI provides seed grants to support transformative research in the social and behavioral sciences. Successful proposals will be those that promise to advance understanding of the social, institutional and biological mechanisms shaping human beliefs and behavior. Funds will be used to support interdisciplinary social science research projects based on innovative experimental or observational designs that make use of sophisticated quantitative methods.
The Fund also supports seminars, conferences, and other research-related activities.
Eligible grant recipients are Harvard University affiliates in the following categories: full time doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows, and ladder faculty.
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OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: unspecified; recent grants range from $20,000 to $1.2M
This program focuses on Creative Placemaking, a comprehensive community development approach that intentionally embeds arts, culture, and community-engaged design into strategies to stabilize communities. Kresge's unique niche in Creative Placemaking is to influence the systems and practices that, over time, expand opportunities for low-income people in disinvested communities in American cities.
Competitive projects will include the following core characteristics:
- Infuses creativity (arts, culture and community-engaged design) into comprehensive community development and urban planning practices;
- Builds on a community's assets and distinctive attributes;
- Is cross-sector and cross-disciplinary; and
- Takes root in economically distressed communities and ensures that residents with low incomes contribute to, engage in, benefit from and are empowered by activities.
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Academy Film Scholars Program
OSP Deadline: January 24, 2017
Deadline: January 31, 2017
Award Amount: $25,000
Through its grants program, the Academy seeks to: promote diversity; bridge the opportunity divide; attract and engage broad new audiences for theatrical motion pictures; provide a platform for underrepresented artists, the full range of film genres, and a variety of viewpoints and approaches; encourage filmmaking as a vocation; and illuminate less visible aspects of filmmaking and the film industry through scholarly research, presentations and discussions.
Grants fund new English-language projects that address cultural, educational, historical, theoretical or scientific aspects of theatrical motion pictures.
Applicants must be established scholars, writers, historians or researchers possessing either a significant record of achievement, or exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments in his or her field.
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Multi-Country Research Fellowships
OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Deadline: January 30, 2017
Award Amount: up to $10,500
Tenure: 3 to 9 months
The Multi-Country Research Fellowship supports advanced regional or trans-regional research in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences for U.S. doctoral candidates, and postdoctoral scholars. Preference will be given to candidates examining comparative and/or cross-regional research. Applicants must be U.S. citizens.
Scholars must carry out research in two or more countries outside the United States, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center.
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Helen Gartner Hammer Scholars-In-Residence Program
OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 26, 2017
Award Amount: unspecified monthly stipend + office space
Tenure: one month to one semester
Program provides scholars, artists, writers and communal professionals the opportunity to be in residence at the HBI at Brandeis University while working on significant projects in the field of Jewish women's and gender studies.
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Big Read
OSP Deadline: January 19, 2017
Sponsor Deadline: January 26, 2017
Award Amount: $5,000 to $20,000
NOTE: this is a Limited Submission Opportunity; each institution may submit only one application. If you are interested in applying for an award, please contact Erin Cromack before December 9, 2016.
NEA Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. The initiative offers grants to support innovative community reading programs designed around a single book.
The Big Read supports organizations across the country in developing community-wide programs that encourage reading and the participation of diverse audiences. Organizations selected to participate in the NEA Big Read receive a grant, access to online training resources and opportunities, digital guides, and promotional materials designed to support widespread community involvement.
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OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 25, 2017
Award Amount: accommodation + living expenses + travel
Tenure: 4 to 12 months
This Fellowship program supports curators, museum professionals and Chinese art history research academics taking part in fellowships in the program's
Participating Institutions
. In order to realize the goal of promoting international exchange and cooperation in the field of Chinese art, the program requires applicants to be based in museums or institutions in places outside their habitual residence.
Fields of Fellowships include Chinese art history, curatorship, archaeology, conservation, museum management and museum education.
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OSP Deadline: January 18, 2017
Sponsor Deadline: January 25, 2017
Award Amount: up to $125,000 + an additional $25,000 to fund concrete plans to collaborate and to build networks with scholars at diverse institutions
This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. It is hoped that these grants will help advance humanistic scholarship by enhancing established digital projects and extending their reach to new communities of users.
Each grant may provide funding to support a range of project costs, including, where necessary, salary replacement for faculty or staff, software, equipment, travel, or consultant fees. These awards may be taken concurrently with fellowships covering the salary of a project's principal investigator or co-investigators.
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Access to Historical Records: Major Initiatives
OSP Deadline: January 11, 2017
Preliminary Proposal Deadline (required): January 19, 2017
Award Amount: up to $350,000 for one to three years
NOTE: Cost sharing is required. The Commission provides no more than 50 per cent of total project costs.
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks projects that will significantly improve public discovery and use of major historical records collections. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio and moving images. Projects may:
- Digitize historical records collections, or related collections, held by a single institution and make them freely available online;
- Provide access to born-digital records;
- Create new freely-available virtual collections drawn from historical records held by multiple institutions; or
- Create new tools and methods for users to access records.
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2017 Battlefield Planning Grants
OSP Deadline: January 11, 2017
Sponsor Deadline: January 19, 2017
Award Amount:
the average award amount is $32,300, although the program has awarded grants of up to $122,000
The American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) of the National Park Service invites non-profit groups, academic institutions, and local, regional, state, and tribal governments to submit applications for the 2017 Battlefield Planning Grants.
The purpose of this grant program is to provide seed money for projects that lead directly to the identification, preservation and interpretation of battlefield land and/or historic sites associated with battlefields. Projects that involve multiple stakeholders are given preference.
Eligible projects include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Site identification and documentation projects;
- Planning and consensus building projects; and
- Interpretation or education projects.
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Scholar in Residence Grants
OSP Deadline: January 9, 2017
Letter of Inquiry Deadline: January 17, 2017
Award Amount: up to $3,500
The Scholar in Residence (SIR) program funds research that advances the interpretation and presentation of history by Massachusetts history organizations, based on research in the organization's collections or mission purview. The program has a dual purpose: to provide organizations with expertise not usually available to them, and to encourage scholars to use the rich resources of the state's history museums and historical societies.
Priority is given to small organizations.
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Convening Grants for Internationally Collaborative Exhibitions
OSP Deadline: January 6, 2017
Sponsor Deadline: January 16, 2017
Award Amount: $10,000 to $25,000
To encourage and enrich international partnerships between art museums and to deepen research and dialogue, for the next two years the foundation offers Convening Grants for Internationally Collaborative Exhibitions.
Grants are for pre-exhibition convenings and available only when the exhibition topic (which may be about any aspect of historical American art except architecture, conservation, or film) and the organizing and presenting institutions have been identified and confirmed (and must represent at least two countries).
The grants allow for an international team of at least four people (curators, professors, or advising scholars) to convene in person.
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Collaborative Awards in Humanities and Social Science
OSP Deadline: January 6, 2017
Preliminary Application Deadline: January 16, 2017
Award Amount: £1 million to £1.5 million for up to five years
Collaborative Awards promote the development of new ideas and bring disciplines together to speed the pace of discovery. This scheme funds teams who are tackling major health-related questions in the humanities and social sciences that require a collaborative approach.
Teams of two to six principal applicants can apply for an Award. Each applicant should have a good track record in their area of research, relative to their career stage.
Teams can come from the same discipline or from a combination of disciplines. They can be from the same university department or a number of organizations (anywhere in the world).
NOTE: the host organization (the main applicant) must be based in the UK, Republic of Ireland, or a low- or middle-income country.
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Fellowships
OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2017
Award Amount: $1,850 per month (short-term); $4,200 per month (long-term)
Tenure: 1 to 12 months
The American Antiquarian Society, located in Worcester, Massachusetts, offers three broad categories of visiting research fellowships, with tenures ranging from one to twelve months. All of the fellowships are designed to enable academic and independent scholars and advanced graduate students to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library.
Under their January 15 deadline, the Society offers:
- Long-term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships: four to twelve months.
- Short-Term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships: one to two months.
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The Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowships
OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2017
Award Amount: $20,000
Tenure: one year
The annual Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship is awarded alternately in the fields of Greek and French. The award may be used for the study of Greek language, literature, history, or archaeology, or the study of French language or literature. For 2016, the Sibley Fellowship is for the study of
Greek language or literature.
Candidates must be unmarried women 25 to 35 years of age who have demonstrated their ability to carry on original research. They must hold a doctorate or have fulfilled all the requirements for a doctorate except the dissertation, and they must be planning to devote full-time work to research during the fellowship year. The award is not restricted to members of Phi Beta Kappa or to U.S. citizens.
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Long-Term Research Fellowships
OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2017
Award Amount: $4,200 per month
Tenure: 4 to 12 months
The Society offers long-term fellowships for scholars to perform continuous research within its collections. Reviewers pay special attention both to the quality of proposed projects and to their relationship to the Society's collections. It will give preference to candidates who have not held a long-term grant during the three years prior to the proposed fellowship term.
MHS-NEH fellowships are open to U.S. citizens and to foreign nationals who have lived in the United States for at least three years immediately preceding the application deadline.
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Conference, Seminar, Workshop & Publication Grants
OSP Deadline: January 9, 2017
Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2017
Award Amount: up to $25,000 (conferences, etc.); up to $10,000 (publication)
The Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation supports research on Chinese Studies in the humanities and social sciences. The Foundation offers funding for conferences, workshops, or seminars on specific subjects related to Chinese Studies. Events should be held during the six-month period immediately following the application deadline.
The Foundation also accepts applications from academic publishers; publishers may apply for subsidies for the publication of scholarly works related to Chinese Studies. The Foundation will not subsidize books that are part of a series, and applicants may not include translation and research-related expenses. Priority will be given to first book projects by junior scholars.
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Travel and Research Grants
OSP Deadline: January 9, 2017
Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2017
Award Amount: up to $4,500
The Society provides travel and research grants to North American doctoral candidates and recent PhDs (up to three years after completion of degree) in the field of Central European history.
Funds are intended to support dissertation research and follow-up research, and may be used for travel between 1 April and 31 December 2016. Applicants should be affiliated with an accredited North American institution of higher education and a member of the Central European History Society at or near the time of application.
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OSP Deadline: January 9, 2017
Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2017
Award Amount: up to $7,500
The Fuller Foundation primarily funds non-profit agencies that support youth at risk, protect wildlife, and showcase the arts. Under their Arts program, the Foundation
expects its grants to encourage, through the agencies, "hands-on" and participatory collaborations between established cultural institutions, artists and communities. Specific program interests include:
- Art for viewing and listening;
- Art education in school;
- Art and performing arts festivals Art (murals & sculpture) that beautifies or inspires a community;
- Programs that bring symphony, opera and theatre to the community;
- Adult and/or children's museum education programs.
Applications are accepted from: organizations headquartered in the Boston area (inside 128) and the immediate Seacoast area of New Hampshire.
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OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Fall Semester Deadline: January 15, 2017 (for the following September)
Spring Semester: April 15, 2017 (for the following February)
Award Amount: room and board; no stipend
Tenure: 30 to 34 days (during the academic year)
Bogliasco Fellowships are awarded to gifted individuals working in all the disciplines of the Arts and Humanities without regard to nationality, age, race, religion or gender. Although the Fellowship is not a cash prize, Fellows are provided with living quarters, separate private studios and full board for a month at the Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy.
The Bogliasco Foundation accepts applications from those doing both creative and scholarly work in the following fields: Archaeology, Architecture, Classics, Dance, Film/Video, History, Landscape Architecture, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Theater, and Visual Arts. Applicants should demonstrate significant achievement in their disciplines, commensurate with their age and experience.
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Short-Term Fellowships
OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Deadline: January 15, 2017
Award Amount:
$2,500 per month
Tenure: 1 to 2 months
Newberry Fellowships provide support for researchers who wish to use the collections. The library (Chicago, IL) offers both Long-Term and Short-Term residential fellowships.
Short-Term Fellowships are primarily intended to assist researchers who need to examine specific items in the Newberry's collection and are mostly restricted to individuals who live outside the Chicago area.
Preference is given to applicants who have not held major fellowships within the three years prior to their proposed period of residency.
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History of Art
OSP Deadline: January 9, 2017
Deadline: January 15, 2017
Award Amount:
unspecified; recent grants range from $6,000 to $20,000
The History of Art Grants Program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the understanding and appreciation of European art and architecture. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and publications, and technical and scientific studies.
Grants are also awarded for activities that permit art historians to share their expertise through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, and other professional events.
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Conservation
OSP Deadline: January 9, 2017
Deadline: January 15, 2017
Award Amount:
unspecified; recent grants range from $10,000 to $21,000
The Conservation Program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-modern era. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, exhibitions and publications focusing on art conservation, scholarly publications, and technical and scientific studies.
Grants are also awarded for activities that permit conservators and conservation scientists to share their expertise with both professional colleagues and a broad audience.
Support for conservation treatments is generally limited to works from the distributed Kress Collection, and is coordinated through the Kress Program in Paintings Conservation at the Conservation Center of the New York University Institute of Fine Arts.
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The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation New Professorships in Buddhist Studies
OSP Deadline: January 4, 2017
Letter of Inquiry Deadline: January 11, 2017
Award Amount: up to $300,000 to be expended over four years
This grant supports institutions of higher education worldwide to create new teaching positions in
Buddhist studies.
Award funds should be used only for the new professor's salary, benefits, and research expenses, not for indirect or administrative costs, or office expenses. In addition, applicant institutions are eligible to request funds for costs related to a competitive search for the proposed position.
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OSP Deadline: January 9, 2017
Sponsor Deadline (anticipated) : January 15, 2017
Award Amount: $11,000 per year for three years
NOTE:
All YouthReach grants must be matched; first-cycle grants can be matched with cash and in-kind support (e.g., supplies, space, and administrative support).
The goal of the YouthReach initiative is to promote integration of substantive out-of-school arts, humanities, and science opportunities into a collaborative community response to the needs of young people - specifically those at risk of not making a successful transition to young adulthood.
YouthReach supports innovative programs that:
- Provide young people with in-depth arts, humanities, or science experiences that simultaneously pursue excellence and youth development;
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the needs of participating young people and their communities;
- Provide young people an opportunity to interact directly with practicing professionals in their field;
- Are assets-based and believe in the capacity of all young people to create; or
- Marshal the resources of the community to foster substantive cross sector collaboration to support art making as a vital tool for youth and community development.
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2017 Study of the U.S. Institute for Scholars
OSP Deadline: December 23, 2016
Sponsor Deadline: January 6, 2017
Award Amount: up to $290,000 per year
NOTE: This is a Limited Submission Opportunity; Harvard University may submit only one application. If you are interested in submitting an application, please contact
Erin Cromack.
This program intends to award cooperative agreements to support the creation of three U.S. Institutes for Scholars to run for up to three years.
Institutes for Scholars are intensive academic programs whose purpose is to provide foreign university faculty and other scholars the opportunity to deepen their understanding of U.S. society, culture, and institutions. The ultimate goal is to strengthen curricula and to improve the quality of teaching about the United States in academic institutions abroad.
Institutes should be six weeks in length; participants should spend a minimum of four weeks at the host institution and up to two weeks on an educational study tour, including at least three days in Washington, D.C., at the conclusion of the Institute.
Each program should be designed as an intensive, academically rigorous seminar for an experienced group of educators from abroad.
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National Digital Newspaper Program
OSP Deadline: January 5, 2017
Sponsor Deadline: January 12, 2017
Award Amount: up to $325,000 for a two-year period
NOTE: Although cost sharing is not required, this program is rarely able to support the full costs of projects approved for funding.
The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is a partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress to create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963, from all the states and U.S. territories.
Awards are made to an organization within each U.S. state or territory, which typically collaborates with relevant state partners in this effort. After their initial NDNP awards, state partners are encouraged to seek second and third awards, to produce a total of approximately 300,000 pages of digitized newspapers per state. These cooperative agreements will take the form of a partnership between the award recipients and NEH, with technical support provided by the Library of Congress.
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Public Humanities Projects
OSP Deadline: January 4, 2017
Sponsor Deadline: January 11, 2017
Award Amount: up to $40,000 (Planning); $50,000 to $400,000 (Implementation). Applicants with ambitious implementation projects of exceptional significance and impact may apply for a Chairman's Special Award of up to $1M.
NOTE
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Although cost sharing is not required, this program is rarely able to support the full costs of projects approved for funding.
Public Humanities Projects grants support projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to illuminate significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art, or to address challenging issues in contemporary life.
NEH encourages projects that involve members of the public in collaboration with humanities scholars or that invite contributions from the community in the development and delivery of humanities programming. This program supports projects that fall within one of the following three formats:
- Community Conversations;
- Exhibitions; or
- Historic Places.
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Media Projects: Development & Production Grants
OSP Deadline: January 4, 2017
Sponsor Deadline: January 11, 2017
Award Amount: $40,000 to $75,000 (Development); $100,000 to $650,000 (Production). In rare circumstances, Chairman's Special Awards of up to $1M are available for projects that will reach an exceptionally large audience.
NOTE: Although a specific dollar amount or percentage of cost sharing is not required, the program is rarely able to support the full costs of projects approved for funding
The Media Projects program supports film, television, and radio projects that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. All projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship in disciplines such as history, art history, film studies, literature, drama, religious studies, philosophy, or anthropology.
Development Grants enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop humanities content and to prepare programs for production. Grants should result in a script and may also yield a detailed plan for outreach and public engagement in collaboration with a partner organization or organizations. Awards are usually made for six to twelve months.
Production Grants support the production and distribution of films, television programs, and radio programs that promise to engage a broad public audience. Grants support projects over one to three years.
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Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
OSP Deadline: January 4, 2017
Sponsor Deadline: January 11, 2017
Award Amount: $5,000 to $40,000 (Level I); $40,001 to $75,000 (Level II); $100,000 to $325,000 (Level III)
NOTE: Cost sharing is not required for Level I and Level II projects. Level III projects that request a Sustainability Match must report the contributions raised to release NEH matching funds as cost sharing.
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG) support digital projects throughout their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and long-term sustainability. Experimentation, reuse, and extensibility are hallmarks of this grant category, leading to innovative work that can scale to enhance research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. Grants may involve:
- creating or enhancing experimental, computationally-based methods or techniques that contribute to the humanities;
- pursuing scholarship that examines the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society, or explores the philosophical or practical implications and impact of digital humanities in specific fields or disciplines; or
- revitalizing and/or recovering existing digital projects that promise to contribute substantively to scholarship, teaching, or public knowledge of the humanities.
Both Level I and Level II Grants support full-time or part-time activities for periods up to 18 months. Level III Grants support projects for up to 3 years. Level III Grants support implementation and scaling-up of already established projects.
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OSP Deadline: December 21, 2016
Deadline to Submit a Museum Profile (required): January 4, 2017
Statement of Intent Deadline: February 28, 2017 or March 10, 2017, based on whether you have a partner museum or not
Full Proposal Deadline: April 15, 2017 (OSP Deadline: April 10, 2017)
Award Amount: $50,000 to $100,000
NOTE: All awards require a 50% cost-share match of direct or indirect expenses.
The Museums Connect program strengthens connections and cultural understanding between people in the United States and abroad through innovative projects facilitated by museums and executed by their communities. The program's mission is to build global communities through cross-cultural exchanges while also supporting U.S. foreign policy goals, such as youth empowerment, environmental sustainability and disability rights awareness.
Through Museums Connect:
- Communities in the U.S. and abroad develop a broader knowledge about and understanding of one another's cultures.
- Museums and related arts and cultural organizations create replicable models for international collaborations that reach beyond their physical walls to directly engage members of their communities.
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OSP Deadline: December 12, 2016
Letter of Inquiry Deadline: December 19, 2016
Award Amount: up to $15,000
Project grants support public programming in the humanities in Massachusetts, including but not limited to:
- humanities based civic conversations;
- public lecture, conference and panel discussion;
- reading and discussion programs;
- film and discussion programs;
- museum exhibitions and related programming;
- theatrical productions with post- or pre-performance discussion;
- oral history projects;
- walking tours;
- audio projects;
- film pre-production and distribution;
- websites; and
- content-based professional development workshops for teachers.
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OSP Deadline: December 9, 2016
Sponsor Deadline: December 17, 2016
Award Amount: average grants range from $550 to $2,500
Puffin Foundation West, Ltd. (PFW) seeks to open the doors of artistic expression by providing grants to activist artists and Not For Profits organizations that often are excluded from mainstream opportunities due to race, gender, or social philosophy.
The Foundation supports artists and projects that use art to reach across both physical borders and the boundaries of our imagination to peaceably transform our society's ideas about social and civil justice issues. Foundation support is granted to artful, creative and innovative initiatives that advance civic and social justice programs to improve lives and instill optimism.
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Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
OSP Deadline: December 6, 2016
Sponsor Deadline: December 13, 2016
Award Amount: $40,000 maximum (Planning Grants); $350,000 (Implementation Grants); although cost sharing is not required, this program is rarely able to support the full costs of projects approved for funding
Libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country face an enormous challenge: to preserve collections that facilitate research, strengthen teaching, and provide opportunities for life-long learning in the humanities. Ensuring the preservation of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art, and historical objects requires institutions to implement measures that slow deterioration and prevent catastrophic loss.
This program therefore helps cultural repositories plan and implement preservation strategies that pragmatically balance effectiveness, cost, and environmental impact.
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Academic Program Grants
OSP Deadline: December 2, 2016
Letter of Inquiry Deadline: December 9, 2016
Award Amount: $25,000 maximum
The Terra Foundation actively supports projects that encourage international scholarship on American art topics, as well as scholarly projects with focused theses that further research of American art in an international context. Academic program funding is available for in-person exchanges such as workshops, symposia, and colloquia that advance scholarship in the field of American art (circa 1500-1980).
Programs should: (1) take place in Chicago or outside the United States; or (2) take place in the United States and examine American art within an international context and include a significant number of international participants. All visual art categories are eligible, except for architecture, performance art, and commercial film or animation.
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Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants
OSP Deadline: November 30, 2016
Sponsor Deadline: December 7, 2016
Award Amount: $100,000 per year (maximum); although cost sharing is not required, the program is rarely able to support the full costs of projects approved for funding
Grants support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts of value to the humanities that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. Typically, the texts and documents are significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials; but other types of work, such as musical notation, are also eligible.
Projects must be undertaken by at least one editor or translator and one other collaborating scholar. These grants support full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years.
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Collaborative Research Grants
OSP Deadline: November 30, 2016
Sponsor Deadline: December 7, 2016
Award Amount: $100,000 maximum over 1 to 3 years; although cost sharing is not required, the program is rarely able to support the full costs of projects approved for funding
Collaborative Research Grants support interpretive humanities research
undertaken by two or more collaborating scholars, for full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. Support is available for various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-related travel and archival research; field work; and technical support and services.
Eligible projects include:
- research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding of the humanities;
- conferences on topics of major importance in the humanities that will benefit scholarly research; and
- archaeological projects that emphasize interpretation, data reuse, and dissemination of results.
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Access to Historical Records - Archival Projects
OSP Deadline: November 29, 2016
Sponsor Deadline: December 6, 2016
Award Amount:
$100,000 maximum over 1 to 2 years
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks projects that ensure online public discovery and use of historical records collections. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio and moving images. Projects may preserve and process historical records to:
- Create new online Finding Aids to collections; and/or
- Digitize historical records collections and make them freely available online.
The NHPRC encourages organizations to actively engage the public in the work of the project.
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Translation Projects
OSP Deadline: November 29, 2016
Sponsor Deadline: December 6, 2016
Award Amount:
$12,500 or $25,000
Through fellowships to published translators, the NEA supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. The NEA encourages
translations of writers and of work that are not well represented in English translation.
Priority will be given to projects that involve work that has not previously been translated into English. This program does not fund the translation of scholarly writing.
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Fellowships in Digital Studies
OSP Deadline: Not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: December 6, 2016
Award Amount:
$4,200 per month
Tenure: up to 11 months
The Kluge Center (Washington D.C.) invites and welcomes more than 100 scholars to the Library each year at varying levels of funding and terms. Recipients are expected to be in continuous residence at the Center and to participate in, and contribute to, its intellectual life.
Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies support research related to the impact of the digital revolution on society, culture and international relations. The program is open to scholars and practitioners worldwide.
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Special Program: Security, Society and the State
OSP Deadline: November 23, 2016
Sponsor Deadline: December 2, 2016
Award Amount:
2,700 EUR per month
The "Security, Society and the State" research program reflects the contradictory trends of these areas. It targets new security-related issues that are prime examples of the post-Cold-War era but have been largely neglected in mainstream research. The program encourages junior scholars to pursue unconventional research agendas that are nonetheless crucial, while providing senior scholars the opportunity to focus intensively on work in progress for a limited period. The objective is to combine basic theoretical research with concepts that are applicable to present-day political issues of security policy.
Scholars of all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are eligible to apply. Both research grants and research scholarships are available. Research projects should be closely related to one or more of the five fields of research:
- Cyber Security as a Governmental Task;
- Public Administration and Human Security;
- Patterns of Conflict Resolution between the State and Traditional Actors;
- Non-Governmental Actors as Partners and Contenders of the State; and
- Security Strategies between Doctrine Formation and Implementation.
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Franklin Grants
OSP Deadline: November 22, 2016
Sponsor Deadline: December 1, 2016
Award Amount: $6,000 maximum
The Franklin program funds travel to libraries and archives for research purposes, the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials, the costs associated with fieldwork, or laboratory research expenses.
Franklin grants are made for noncommercial research. They are not intended to meet the expenses of attending conferences or the costs of publication. Grants will not be made to replace salary during a leave of absence or earnings from summer teaching; pay living expenses while working at home; cover the costs of consultants or research assistants; or purchase permanent equipment such as computers, cameras, tape recorders, or laboratory apparatus.
The Society is particularly interested in supporting the work of young scholars who have recently received the doctorate. American citizens and residents of the United States may use their Franklin awards at home or abroad.
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Museum Grants for African American History and Culture
OSP Deadline: November 22, 2016
Sponsor Deadline: December 1, 2016
Award Amount: $5,000 to $150,000 for up to 3 years; applicants who request grants over $25,000 must provide matching funds in an amount that is equal to or greater than the amount of the request
Museum Grants for African American History and Culture support projects that improve the operations, care of collections, and development of professional management at African American museums.
Eligible applicants include museums with a primary purpose and focus on African American life, art, history, and/or culture, encompassing: the period of slavery; the era of Reconstruction; the Harlem renaissance; the civil rights movement; and other periods of the African American diaspora. Nonprofit organizations whose primary purpose is to support museums identified above may also apply.
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This is a Limited Submission Opportunity; institutions may submit only one application at the $5,000 to $25,000 level. There is no limit on proposals at the $25,001 to $150,000 level. If you are interested in applying for an award between $5,000 and $25,000, please contact
Erin Cromack before October 26, 2016
Museums for America
OSP Deadline: November 22, 2016
Sponsor Deadline: December 1, 2016
Award Amount: $5,000 to $500,000 for up to 3 years; applicants who request grants over $25,000 must provide matching funds in an amount that is equal to or greater than the amount of the request
The Museums for America (MFA) program supports projects that strengthen the ability of an individual museum to serve its public. MFA has three project categories:
- Learning Experiences;
- Community Anchors; and
- Collections Stewardship.
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National Leadership Grants for Museums
OSP Deadline: November 22, 2016
Sponsor Deadline: December 1, 2016
Award Amount: $5,000 to $1M for up to 3 years; applicants who request grants over $50,000 must provide matching funds in an amount that is equal to or greater than the amount of the request
National Leadership Grants for Museums support projects that address critical needs of the museum field and that have the potential to advance practice in the profession so that museums can improve services for the American public. National Leadership Grants for Museums has three project categories:
- Learning Experiences;
- Community Anchors; and
- Collections Stewardship.
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Individual and Organization Grants
OSP Deadline: November 22, 2016
Sponsor Deadline: December 1, 2016
Award Amount: $10,000 maximum
Individual Grants: the ACC supports transformative cultural exchange by awarding grants to artists, scholars, and arts and humanities professionals, as well as organizations and educational institutions from the United States and Asia for research, study, and creative work in the United States and Asia and within the countries of Asia.
Organization Grants: since ACC's program resources are focused on fellowships to individuals, grants to organizations are usually modest in number and size and generally support the participation of artists, scholars, and specialists from the United States or Asia in activities administered by the applicant organization. The participant(s) for which an organization is requesting support must be traveling outside of their home country to take part in the project.
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Fellowships and Grants
OSP Deadline: November 22, 2016
Deadline: December 1, 2016
Award Amount: $55,000 (Fellowship); $2,500 (Grants)
Tenure (Fellowships): September 1 through August 31
The Foundation provides fellowships and grants to support graduate students and young scholars who are working in the history of science and technology in modern East Asia. Comparative studies of East Asia and the West as well as studies in related fields (mathematics, medicine and public health) are also welcome.
Fellowships are awarded to distinguished young scholars who have received their doctoral degrees within the previous five years. Applicants should include an invitation letter from their host institution. Traveling/Research Grants are awarded to scholars who are traveling either to present papers at international conferences, workshops or annual meetings, or for short-term research projects (less than a month).
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Research Fellowships
OSP review is not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Deadline: December 1, 2016
Award Amount: $2,100 per month (Short-Term); $4,200 per month (Long-Term)
Tenure: 2 to 4 months (Short-Term); 5 to 10 months (Long-Term)
The Library provides residential fellowships at Brown University to
scholars whose work is centered on the colonial history of the Americas, North and South, including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American engagement.
Both Short-Term and Long-Term Fellowships are open to individuals who are engaged in pre- and post-doctoral, or independent research, regardless of nationality.
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Long-Term Fellowships
OSP review is not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Deadline: December 1, 2016
Award Amount: $4,200 per month
Tenure: 4 to 12 months
Newberry Fellowships provide support for researchers who wish to use the collections. The library (Chicago, IL) offers both Long-Term and Short-Term residential fellowships.
Long-Term Fellowships are generally available without regard to an applicant's place of residence and are intended to support significant works of scholarship that draw on the strengths of the collection.
Preference is given to applicants who have not held major fellowships within the three years prior to their proposed period of residency.
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External Fellowships
OSP review is not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Deadline: December 1, 2016
Award Amount: up to $50,000
Tenure: one year; one-semester residencies can also be considered
The Newhouse Center for the Humanities hosts ten to twelve resident fellows each year. Resident fellows devote themselves primarily to their own research but also participate actively in the intellectual life of the institution: developing programming, meeting at weekly luncheons and salons, sharing their work in progress with one another and with the larger Wellesley community.
The Newhouse Center welcomes applications from faculty in the humanities at all levels.
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Residency Program
OSP review is not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Deadline: December 1, 2016
Award Amount: room and board; travel assistance and stipend amounts are determined following application submission
Tenure: 2 to 4 weeks
The Bellagio Center has a strong interest in proposals that align with The Rockefeller Foundation's work to expand upon opportunities that enable more broadly shared prosperity and build resilience in people, places and institutions to prepare for, withstand, and emerge stronger from acute shocks and chronic stresses.
The Academic Writing residency is for university and thinktank-based academics, researchers, professors, and scientists working in any discipline. Successful applicants will demonstrate decades of significant professional contributions to their field or show evidence of being on a strong upward trajectory for those earlier in their careers.
The Arts & Literary Arts residency is for composers, fiction and non-fiction writers, playwrights, poets, video/filmmakers, and visual artists who share in the Foundation's mission of promoting the well-being of humanity around the world and whose work is inspired by or relates to global or social issues.
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Small Grant Cycle 4
OSP Deadline: November 21, 2016
Letter of Inquiry Deadline (required): November 30, 2016
Award Amount: $217,400 or less
The Templeton Foundation provides both large and small grants under its five Core Funding Areas. A number of topics--including creativity, freedom, gratitude, love, and purpose--can be found under more than one Area:
- Science and the Big Questions: is divided into several subfields, including mathematical and physical sciences, life sciences, human sciences, philosophy and theology, and science in dialogue;
- Character Virtue Development: supports a broad range of projects focused on the universal truths of character development and on the roots of good character in human nature, whether understood from a scientific, philosophical, or religious point of view;
- Individual Freedom and Free Markets: encourages research and education intended to liberate the initiative of individuals and nations and to establish the necessary conditions for the success of profit-making enterprise;
- Exceptional Cognitive Talent and Genius: is committed to identifying and nurturing young people who demonstrate exceptional talent in mathematics and science; and
- Genetics: focuses on how major advances in genetics might serve to empower individuals, leading to spiritually beneficial social and cultural changes.
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Research Grants & Scholarships
OSP Deadline: November 15, 2016
Deadline: November 22, 2016
Award Amount:
up to 2,700 euros per month
Research Grants & Scholarships provide support for the historical humanities, in particular to research projects in the fields of Archaeology, Art History, Historical Islamic Studies, History, History of Law, History of Science, Prehistory and Early History.
The grants for Research Projects involve, depending on the type of project, the assumption of costs for personnel, travel, materials and/or other costs. Research Grants typically support a team of scholars; whereas, Research Scholarships support one scholar working on an individual project.
The November deadline does not apply to applications for smaller funding amounts (max. 15,000 euros). Smaller funding amounts are granted by the Foundation through a simplified procedure with a deliberation time of approximately three to four months. Applications can be sent at any time.
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For assistance, please contact:
Caitlin McDermott-Murphy
Research Development Officer
To see previous Arts and Humanities Funding Newsletters, please visit our email archive.
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