March 2018

• Provost Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration
• The Milton Fund
• Elson Family Arts Initiative
• Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative

For a more comprehensive list of Harvard internal funding opportunities, please see  here .

Provost Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration

Deadline: May 18, 2018

Award Amount: Up to $20,000

Eligible Applicants: The designated faculty leader(s) must hold primary Harvard faculty appointments at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor or senior non-ladder faculty appointments including Senior Lecturer, Senior Preceptor, and Professor of Practice.

 

The Provost Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration (PFIC) was developed to promote faculty collaboration across multiple Harvard Schools. This fund can be used to support a variety of projects, including but not limited to cross-School interdisciplinary course support, research working groups, and small-scale conferences. The Fund will occasionally prioritize particular forms of collaboration, and during the 2017-2018 academic year, funding priority will be given to proposals intended to advance cross-School teaching. 

 

To be eligible for support, the designated faculty leader(s) must hold primary Harvard faculty appointments at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor or senior non-ladder faculty appointments including Senior Lecturer, Senior Preceptor, and Professor of Practice, and the project must engage faculty and/or students from at least two Harvard Schools. Priority will be given to applicants who have not previously received funding from the grant. Colleagues from outside Harvard may be included as well.

 

These one-year grants should be considered seed money rather than continuing support. Funding should be expended within a year of the award. Preference will be given to proposals that illustrate the potential cross-School impact of funding (e.g., cross-listed courses, sponsored research opportunities, resulting scholarly products) as well as to proposals that leverage other resources (e.g., cost-sharing with a Department, School, or outside funder).

The Milton Fund

Deadline: April 3, 2018

Award Amount: Up to $50,000

Eligible Applicants: Applications are invited from individuals who hold a junior faculty appointment. This includes Assistant Professors, Associate Professors, and Junior Fellows of the Harvard Society of Fellows.

 

The Milton Fund supports research projects in the fields of medicine, geography, history and science that promote the physical and material welfare and prosperity of the human race, 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. 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 solutions. 

Elson Family Arts Initiative Fund

Deadline: March 30, 2018

Award Amount: Up to $5,000

 

The Elson Family Arts Initiative fund supports undergraduate education in the arts and humanities and the integration of the arts into the curriculum within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. This initiative is one of many activities created in response to the recommendations of the Harvard Task Force on the Arts. Course proposals may (but need not) involve collaborations across departments and divisions of the FAS. The Committee will only consider proposals that have a curricular connection and that show the prudent use of funds. As a general rule, priority will be given to proposals for art-making in courses where art-making has not traditionally been inserted. 

Russel Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars Program

OSP review not required

Sponsor Deadline: June 28, 2018

Award Amount:  Supplemental salary support of up to 50 percent of recipient's academic year salary when unavailable from other sources (up to a maximum of $125,000 for the full academic year, or up to a maximum of $62,500 for a half year)

The Russell Sage Foundation's  Visiting Scholars Program  provides a unique opportunity for select scholars in the social, economic and behavioral sciences to pursue their research and writing while in residence at the Foundation's New York headquarters. Research carried out by Visiting Scholars constitutes an important part of the Foundation's ongoing effort to analyze and understand the complex and shifting nature of social and economic life in the United States. While Visiting Scholars typically work on projects related to the Foundation's  current programs , a few scholars whose research falls outside these areas are occasionally invited as well. 

All scholar applicants must have a Ph.D. or comparable terminal degree, or a career background that establishes their ability to conduct high-level, peer-reviewed scholarly research. Most selected applicants are typically several years beyond the Ph.D. 

Smith Richardson Foundation Strategy and Policy Fellows Program

OSP review not required

Sponsor Deadline: June 15, 2018

Award Amount: $60,000

The Smith Richardson Foundation Strategy and Policy Fellows Program supports young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history.  The purpose of the program is to strengthen the U.S. community of scholars and researchers conducting policy analysis in these fields.  Within the academic community, this program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates, and post-docs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and writing. Within the think tank community, the program supports members of the rising generation of policy thinkers who are focused on U.S. strategic and foreign policy issues. 

Please note that the Fellowship program will only consider single-author book projects.  It will not consider collaborative projects (e.g., edited or multi-authored books, conference volumes or reports, or a collection of previously published articles, chapters or essays.)

Russell Sage Foundation Project and Presidential Awards: Race, Ethnicity & Immigration / Behavioral Economics

OSP review not required for letter of inquiry

Sponsor Letter of Inquiry Deadline: May 24, 2018

Award Amount: Up to $150,000

The Russell Sage Foundation dedicates itself exclusively to strengthening the methods, data, and theoretical core of the social sciences as a means of diagnosing social problems and improving social policies. For the May 2018 letter of inquiry deadline, Project and Presidential Awards will support social science research in the following program areas:

Russell Sage Foundation: Immigration and Immigrant Retention

 

Russell Sage Foundation: Computational Social Science 

OSP review not required for letters of inquiry

Sponsor Letter of Inquiry Deadline: May 24, 2018

Award Amount: Up to $150,000

The Russell Sage Foundation's initiative on Computational Social Science (CSS) supports innovative social science research that brings new data and methods to bear on questions of interest in its core programs in Behavioral Economics, Future of Work, Race, Ethnicity and Immigration, and Social Inequality. Limited consideration will be given to questions that pertain to core methodologies, such as causal inference and innovations in data collection. 

Gladys Brooks Foundation Grants for Libraries and Educational Institutions

OSP Deadline: May 23, 2018

Sponsor Deadline: May 31, 2018

Award Amount: $50,000 - $100,000

The Foundation considers major grant applications in the fields of libraries and education.

 

Grants for Libraries: Applications will be considered for resource endowments (print, film, electronic database, speakers/workshops), capital construction, and innovative equipment. Projects fostering broader public access to global information sources utilizing collaborative efforts, pioneering technologies, and equipment are encouraged.

 

Grants for Educational Institutions: Applications will be considered for: educational endowments to fund scholarships; endowments to support fellowships and teaching chairs; and erection or endowment of buildings and equipment for educational purposes.

Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grants

OSP review not required

Sponsor Deadline: May 2, 2018

Award Amount: $40,000

The Whiting Foundation supports works in progress to enable authors to complete their books. Its chief objective is to foster original, ambitious projects that bring writing to the highest possible standard. This grant is intended to support multiyear book projects requiring large amounts of deep and focused research, thinking, and writing at a crucial point mid-process, after significant work has been accomplished but where an extra infusion of support can make a difference in the ultimate shape and quality of the work. Whiting welcomes submissions for works of history, cultural or political reportage, biography, memoir, the sciences, philosophy, criticism, food or travel writing, and personal essays, among other categories. Applicants must be US citizens or residents and must be under contract with a publisher and at least two years into their contract as of the May 2 application deadline. 

Whiting Public Engagement Programs

Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: April 23, 2018 11:30pm

OSP Deadline for Full Proposals (if nominated): June 8, 2018

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: June 15, 2018

Award Amount for Fellowships: Up to $50,000

Award Amount for Seed Grants: $10,000

Eligibility: Nominees must have been full-time faculty in the humanities (including humanistic social sciences) for at least two academic years as of September 2018; they must be pre-tenure, untenured, or have received tenure in the last five years.

 

The Whiting Public Engagement Programs are designed to celebrate and empower humanities faculty who embrace public engagement as part of the scholarly vocation. The programs fund ambitious, often collaborative projects to infuse into public life the richness, profundity, and nuance that give the humanities their lasting value. These two programs are entirely separate: aspiring fellows need not have received a Seed Grant, and receiving a Seed Grant does not automatically qualify a grantee for a future Fellowship. Both programs support ambitious projects infusing into public life the richness, profundity, and nuance that give the humanities their lasting value. The stage of a project will determine the relevant program. Additional information about these programs is available on the Whiting Foundation's website.

The Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship is for public-facing projects far enough along in development or execution that the nominee can present compelling, specific evidence that they will successfully engage the intended public. For the strongest Fellowship proposals, both the overall strategy and the practical plan to implement the project will be deeply developed, relationships with key collaborators will be in place, and initial connections with the intended public will have been cultivated. In some cases, the nominee and collaborators may already have tested the idea in a pilot, or the project itself may already be underway.  Harvard is limited to submitting one proposal in consideration of this opportunity. Prospective applicants are asked to submit an internal pre-proposal here by April 23, 2018. 

The Whiting Public Engagement Seed Grants support projects at a somewhat earlier stage of development than the Fellowship, before the nominee has been able to establish a specific track record of success for the proposed public-facing work. It is not, however, designed for projects starting entirely from scratch: nominees should have fleshed out a compelling vision, including a clear sense of whose collaboration will be required and the ultimate scope and outcomes. They should also have articulated specific short-term next steps required to advance the project and understand the resources required to complete them.  Harvard is limited to submitting one proposal in consideration of this opportunity. Prospective applicants are asked to submit an internal pre-proposal here by April 23, 2018. 

• Publication Grants provide reimbursement for eligible expenses directly related to bringing an academic book, textbook, or journal article to publication.
• Contract Review Grants reimburse eligible expenses for legal review when you have a contract offer for a textbook or academic monograph or other scholarly work that includes royalty arrangements.

The Searle Freedom Trust fosters research and education on public policy issues that affect individual freedom and economic liberty. Through its grant-making, the foundation seeks to develop solutions to the country's most important and challenging domestic policy issues.  The foundation invests primarily in scholarship that results in the publication of books, journal articles, and policy papers. Funding is typically provided in the form of research grants, fellowships, and other types of targeted project support. The Searle Freedom Trust also provides funding for public interest litigation and supports outreach to the public through a variety of forums, including sponsorship of research conferences and seminars, film and journalism projects, and new media initiatives.

Social Science Research Council: Conflict Resolution Fellowship

Harvard OSP Deadline: April 8, 2018

Sponsor Deadline: April 15, 2018

Award Amount: Up to £17,000 (~$23,760)

The Conflict Research Fellowship (CRF) offers yearlong support for experienced scholars based at a university or NGO. The CRF is part of the Conflict Research Programme, a four year, UK Department of International Development funded research program based at the London School of Economics and Political Science that investigates the drivers of violent conflict in five cases: Somalia, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, and Syria. The program focuses on ways in which the political economy of public authority helps to explain the persistence and spread of violence. Successful fellowship candidates will need to examine how different interventions affect violent conflict and/or the risk of renewed violent conflict; analyze "what works" to counter drivers of conflict; and explore the contextual factors that affect the efficacy of such interventions, including the linkages among international, national, state, and local level dynamics. 

Candidates must be postdoctoral scholars with at least three years of field-based experience since the completion of the PhD (or researchers with equivalent experience who have published one book or three peer-reviewed academic articles). Applications will be considered for to support fieldwork, teaching buy-out at your home institution, or a visiting appointment at a US or European university. Research projects must focus on the core countries of the CRF: Somalia, South Sudan, DRC, Iraq, or Syria. Applicants must also be available to attend a preparatory workshop in New York within the first two months of their fellowship period, and a capstone workshop towards the end of the year-long fellowship. At the end of the fellowship period, recipients must produce an original research output that is suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed academic journal.

IBM Center for the Business of Government Research Stipends

OSP review not required

Sponsor Deadline: April 2, 2018

Award Amount: $20,000 stipend 

 

The aim of the IBM Center for the Business of Government is to tap into the best minds in academe and the nonprofit sector who can use rigorous public management research and analytic techniques to help public sector executives and managers improve the effectiveness of government. The Center is looking for very practical findings and actionable recommendations - not just theory or concepts - in order to assist executives and managers to more effectively respond to mission and management challenges.  Individuals receiving a stipend should produce a 10,000- to 12,000-word report written for government leaders and public managers, providing very practical knowledge and insight. 

National Historical Publications & Records Commission: Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions  

Deadline to submit draft proposal for feedback (optional): April 4, 2018

Harvard OSP Deadline: June 6, 2018

Sponsor Deadline: June 13, 2018

Award Amount: Up to $200,000. The Commission provides no more than 50 per cent of total direct project costs so cost sharing is required.

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals to publish documentary editions of historical records.  The goal of this program is to provide access to, and editorial context for, the historical documents and records that tell the American story. Projects may focus on the papers of major figures from American history or cover broad historical movements in politics, social reform, business, military, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience. The historical value of the records and their expected usefulness to broad audiences must justify the costs of the project.  Applicants should demonstrate familiarity with the best practices recommended by the  Association for Documentary Editing  or the  Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions. 

All new projects must publish a digital edition which provides online access to a searchable collection of all documents. (Ebooks or volumes in PDF do not qualify for the purposes of this grant program.) New projects may also prepare print editions as part of their overall publishing plan, but the contents of those volumes must be published online within a reasonable period of time following print publication.  

• See all current NIH opportunities
   

• American National Election Studies Competition - April 20, 2018
• Smart and Connected Health - May 22, 2018
• Cognitive Neuroscience - June 11, 2018
• Perception, Action & Cognition - June 15, 2018
• Archaeology and Archaeometry - July 2, 2018
• Science of Learning - July 11, 2018
•  Developmental Sciences - July 16, 2018
• Linguistics - July 16, 2018
• Social Psychology - July 16, 2018
• See all current NSF opportunities in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences 

• NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication - April 11, 2018
• Fellowships - April 11, 2018
• Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan - April 25, 2018
• Preservation and Access Education and Training - May 1, 2018
• Common Heritage - May 31, 2018
• Digital Humanities Advancement Grants - June 5, 2018
• Digital Projects for the Public - June 6, 2018
• Preservation and Access Research and Development - June 7, 2018
• Humanities Collections and Reference Resources - July 19, 2018
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