• Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative
• Harvard China Fund: Faculty Grants*
• Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund
• Harvard Data Science Initiative: Special Projects Fund
• Lemann Brazil Research Fund*
• Office of Undergraduate Education: Course Development Funds
• Provost Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration
• Publication Funds for FAS Tenure-Track and Tenured Faculty
• Weatherhead Center for International Affairs: Canada Program Faculty Funding

EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES

• Eurasia Foundation: U.S.-Russia Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Dialogue Program*
• The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation: Humanities Program
• National Endowment for the Humanities: Collaborative Research Grants
• National Endowment for the Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants*
• Samuel H. Kress Foundation: History of Art Grants
• TED Conferences: The Audacious Project
• Terra Foundation for American Art: Academic Workshop & Symposium Grants
• University of London: Endangered Language Documentation Programme Grants* 
• U.S. Mission to Argentina: Public Diplomacy Grants Program*
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation: Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award
• Wyeth Foundation for American Art: Grants

• American Philosophical Society: Franklin Research Grants
• Gerda Henkel Foundation: General Research Grants and Scholarships
• The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine: Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships
• The Phi Beta Kappa Society: Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship*

* Indicates an UPDATED or NEW opportunity added this month.

Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund

Deadline: December 6, 2019 

Award Amount: Up to $15,000. Exceptional proposals or those exhibiting strong potential for scale will be considered for $25,000 or more. 

The Culture Lab Innovation Fund awards grants to Harvard students, staff, faculty, and academic personnel to pursue ideas that seek to strengthen Harvard's capacity to advance a culture of belonging. Proposals should aim to focus on having a direct connection to the Harvard community and influence the University's trajectory towards sustainable inclusive excellence guided by the framework recommended by the  Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging.  Proposals should aim to address critical challenges around diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging by identifying innovative and creative solutions that have the potential to catalyze a culture shift at Harvard.

The priority theme for the 2019-2020 funding cycle of the Culture Lab Innovation Fund is "Advancing Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging through Technology Driven Solutions." These are innovative ideas that leverage technology and data to address challenges around diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at Harvard. The Harvard Culture Lab encourages applicants to review  previously awarded projects  to see a range of examples and those within this theme.

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

Award Amount: unspecified; budget required with application

The Canada Program invites proposals from Harvard faculty, departments, and schools across the University, for research funding, or for support in hosting short-term visiting scholars, policy practitioners, and public figures who are engaged in Canadian comparative topics. Visiting Canadianists are welcome to present at Harvard faculty workshops or conferences, or to offer guest lectures for Harvard undergraduate and graduate students. 

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Public Understanding of Science, Technology & Economics

FAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline: Rolling

Award Amount: varies

This program aims to give people a keener appreciation for the increasingly scientific and technological world in which we live and to convey some of the challenges and rewards of the scientific and technological enterprise.   The program's primary aim is to build bridges between the two cultures of science and the humanities and to develop a common language so that they can better understand and speak to one another--and ultimately to grasp that they belong to a single common culture.   The Foundation has established a nationwide strategy that focuses on books, theater, film, television, radio, and new media to commission, develop, produce, and distribute new work mainstreaming science and technology for the lay public. 

American Antiquarian Society *

Short-Term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships

FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2020

Award Amount: $1,850 per month for 1-2 months

The American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA offers short-term visiting academic research fellowships tenable for one to two months each year. Fellows are selected on the basis of the applicant's scholarly qualifications, the scholarly significance or importance of the project, and the appropriateness of the proposed study to the Society's collections . 

All of the short-term fellowships available for scholars are listed here . Please check each description for eligibility. Doctoral candidates engaged in dissertation research are eligible for many of the fellowships. Candidates holding a recognized terminal degree appropriate to the area of proposed research, such as the master's degree in library science or M.F.A., are often eligible to apply.

American Council of Learned Societies *

Digital Extension Grants

FAS/OSP Deadline: December 23, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: January 8, 2020

Award Amount: up to $150,000

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, extending their reach to new communities of users, and supporting teams of scholars at all career stages as they participate in digital research projects.

This program aims to extend the opportunity to participate in the digital transformation of humanistic inquiry to a greater number of humanities scholars. ACLS Digital Extension Grants support projects that have advanced beyond the start-up phase of development as they pursue one or more of the following activities:

American Philosophical Society

Franklin Research Grants

This program provides small grants to scholars in order to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of 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. They are not intended to meet the expenses of attending conferences or the costs of publication. Applicants who have previously received a Franklin grant may reapply after an interval of two years.

Asian Cultural Council

Individual Fellowship Program

FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: November 7, 2019

Award Amount: individually determined

Toward the mission of advancing understanding through cultural exchange, ACC's first priority in all grant areas is to support activities that involve cultural immersion; meaningful cross-cultural engagement; and relationship building, collaboration, or exchange of best practices among peers. The Individual Fellowship Program is open to individuals (or two collaborators) undertaking trips ranging from one to six months for research, study, or exploration. Applicants from the U.S. may apply for travel to China, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Macau SAR, the Philippines, and Taiwan. Grants are awarded to professional artists, arts administrators, scholars, graduate/post-graduate students, and organizations working in the following fields: archeology, architecture, art history, arts administration, arts criticism, conservation, crafts, curation, dance, ethnomusicology, film/video/photography, literature (Japan only), museum studies, music, theater, and visual art.

Bogliasco Foundation *

Fellowships

FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2020

Award Amount: full room and board; no stipend

An American nonprofit with a program in Italy, the Bogliasco Foundation awards one-month Fellowships to individuals of all ages and nationalities who have made significant contributions in the arts and humanities. Fellows live and work in bucolic surroundings on the coast near Genoa, where natural beauty combines with an intimate group setting to encourage inquiry and transformative exchange across all disciplines. Twice a year, the Foundation welcomes applications from individuals doing creative or scholarly work in the following disciplines: archaeology, architecture, classics, dance, film/video, history, landscape architecture, literature, music, philosophy, theater, and visual arts. The Foundation awards approximately 60 Fellowships each year in seven residency periods that run from September through May.

British Library

Endangered Archives Programme Grants

FAS/OSP Deadline: November 1, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: November 11, 2019

Award Amount: varies by project type; please see below

• Pilot project grants can either involve investigating the potential for a major project through a survey, or they may be small digitisation projects. These projects should last for no more than 12 months and have a budget limit of £15,000.
• Major project grants are intended for digitisation and cataloguing of a collection or collections. This type of grant may involve preservation necessary for digitisation, and may also relocate the material to a more secure location/institution within the country. These projects can last for up to 24 months and have a budget limit of £60,000.
• Area grants are similar to a major grant, but larger in scale and ambition. Applicants must demonstrate an outstanding track record of archival preservation work and be associated with an institution that has the capacity to facilitate a large-scale project. The Programme will award a maximum of two area grants in each funding round. They can last for up to 24 months and have a budget limit of £150,000. Potential applicants must contact the EAP office before submitting an application for this type of grant.
• Rapid Response grants will be introduced in late 2019. They are intended to safeguard an archive in immediate and severe danger. These grants are intended for the situations in which the time scale of the standard EAP decision process could result in extensive damage to the material. These grants will be accepted on a rolling basis. They should last for less than six months and have a budget limit of £10,000. 

Center for Khmer Studies

Senior Research Fellowships

FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals 

Sponsor Deadline: November 15, 2019 

Award Amount: unspecified  

The Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) provides in-country research fellowships for U.S., Cambodian, and French scholars (or EU citizens holding a French degree) and doctoral students on a yearly basis.  CKS Senior Research Fellows are given direct funding for their research, access to CKS in-country resources, and provided with logistical support and contacts while in-country.  Senior Fellowships are open to scholars in all disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities to pursue further research focusing on Cambodia only, or Cambodia within a regional context.   Scholars can pursue research in other countries in mainland Southeast Asia (Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Burma, Southern China) provided that part of their research is undertaken in Cambodia.

• Senior Long-Term Research Fellowships: Fellowships are available for 6 to 11 months of research (for U.S and Cambodian citizens) and up to 9 months of research (for French citizens). The fellowships are for scholars who already hold a PhD degree.
• Senior Short-Term Research Fellowships: Fellowships are available for up to 4 months of research (for U.S and Cambodian scholars) and are open to scholars who already hold a PhD degree.

The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange *

Conference/Seminar/Workshop Grants

FAS/OSP Deadline: January 8, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2020

Award Amount: up to $25,000

The Foundation will consider applications from institutions for grants to hold conferences, workshops, or seminars on specific subjects related to the Foundation's goals and objectives. Applicants are urged to seek matching funds. Applications should be filed before September 15, or January 15 for conferences to be held during the following six-month period. In principle, the Foundation does not provide funding for annual meetings. Priority will be given to collaborative projects involving institutions in Taiwan. Projects on Taiwan Studies are especially encouraged.

College Art Association *

Terra Foundation for American Art Research Travel Grants

FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2020

Award Amount: up to $9,000

The Terra Foundation for American Art Research Travel Grants provide support to doctoral, postdoctoral, and senior scholars from both the US and outside the US for research topics dedicated to the art and visual culture of the United States prior to 1980. The grants foster firsthand engagement with American artworks and art-historical resources; build networks for non-US-based scholars studying American art; and expand access to artworks, scholarly materials, and communities for US-based scholars studying American art in an international context. Projects eligible for consideration meet the following criteria: 

• Research topics are dedicated to the art and visual culture of the United States prior to 1980 (i.e. visual art dating from c. 1500 to 1980, made by artists from what is now the geographic area of the United States).
• All visual art categories are eligible except architecture and commercial film/animation. Projects should place objects and practices in an art-historical perspective. 
• For projects with transnational or transcultural content, eligibility will be determined on the significance of the topic for US art history.

Council on Library and Information Resources *

Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: January 10, 2020

Award Amount: Remuneration varies by sponsoring institution and by type of fellowship; benefits and some travel expenses are routinely provided. Most fellowships are for two years.

The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program offers recent Ph.D. graduates the chance to develop research tools, resources, and services while exploring new career opportunities. CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows work on projects that forge and strengthen connections among collections, educational technologies, and current research. Host institutions benefit from fellows' field-specific expertise by gaining insights into their collections' potential uses and users, scholarly information behaviors, and current teaching and learning practices. CLIR solicits and facilitates the host and fellowship application processes. Fellows are then hired directly by host institutions.

Eurasia Foundation *

U.S.-Russia Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Dialogue Program

FAS/OSP Deadline: November 27, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: December 6, 2019

Award Amount: up to $55,000. Each application must also include a cost share component beyond the EF funding amount. Applicants are required to contribute at least 10% of the requested sum in monetary and in-kind contributions.

Through this Request for Applications (RFA) and with the support of the U.S. Embassy Moscow, the Eurasia Foundation (EF) invites project applications from nonprofit organizations and institutions seeking to expand U.S.-Russian communication and cooperation. EF will fund innovative projects promoting peer-to-peer collaboration and long-term engagement between Russians and Americans on topics of mutual interest. Projects should result in collaborative outcomes and deliverables that address one or more of the following areas: 1) American business values of innovation, entrepreneurship, and fair legal and labor practices, 2) U.S.-Russian collaboration in space exploration and science, 3) U.S.-Russian collaboration in the arts, 4) grassroots expression of ideas through writing, art, and new media.

While universities and other research institutions are eligible to apply to the P2P program, funded projects must expand beyond pure research. Specifically, all P2P projects should include or culminate in concrete deliverable or deliverables, including but not limited to offering newly-developed training sessions, lectures, conferences, video/music productions, art exhibits, performances, etc. 

Fritz Thyssen Foundation

Conferences

 

The Fritz Thyssen Foundation supports scholarly events, in particular national and international conferences with the aim of facilitating the discussion and analysis of specific scholarly questions as well as fostering cooperation and networking of scholars working in the same field or on interdisciplinary topics. An application can be filed in the following areas of support:

Funding is basically reserved for projects that are related to the promotion areas of the Foundation and have a clear connection to the German research system. This connection can be established either at a personal level through German scientists working on the project, at an institutional level through non-German scientists being affiliated to German research institutes or through studies on topics related thematically to German research interests.

Gerda Henkel Foundation

General Research Grants and Scholarships

FAS /OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: November 25, 2019

Award Amount:  3,100 euros per month + supplements to support childcare

Support is primarily provided for the historical humanities, in particular to support research projects in the fields of Archaeology, Art History, Historical Islamic Studies, History, History of Law, History of Science, Prehistory and Early History. Candidates can apply regardless of their nationality and place of work. Grants for research projects involve, depending on the type of project, the assumption of costs for personnel, travel, materials and/or other costs. Only full time scholarships are available. Support can be provided for a minimum of one month and a maximum of 24 months. 

The Foundation awards travel grants to individual scholars to support historical research on Venice and the former Venetian empire, and for the study of contemporary Venetian society and culture. Disciplines of the humanities and social sciences are eligible areas of study, including (but not limited to) archaeology, architecture, art, bibliography, economics, history, history of science, law, literature, music, political science, religion, and theater. Funds may be used for travel to and residence in Venice and the former Venetian empire; transportation within the Veneto; and specific research expenses. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States. 

Fellowships

FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: December 1, 2019

Award Amount: varies by fellowship; please see below

Sponsorship of research at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island is reserved exclusively for scholars whose work is centered on the colonial history of the Americas, North and South, including all aspects of European, African, and Native American engagements in global and comparative contexts.

Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies *

Library of Congress

Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies

FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals 

Sponsor Deadline: December 6, 2019 

Award Amount: $4,200 per month for up to 11 months 

The Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies provides an opportunity for scholars to utilize digital methods, the Library's large and varied digital collections and resources, curatorial expertise, and an emerging community of digital scholarship practitioners. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research is particularly welcome in the Kluge Digital Studies program. The fellowship is open to scholars from all disciplines with special consideration given to those whose projects demonstrate relevance to the challenges facing democracies in the 21st century. The Digital Studies Fellowship supports a wide array of academic work that encompasses digital scholarship, digital humanities, data science, data analysis, data visualization, and digital publishing that utilize digital collections, tools, and methods. Fellows will have the opportunity to engage with various digital departments in the Library of Congress while pursing and sharing their research.

Mahindra Humanities Center

Postdoctoral Fellowships

FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: November 15, 2019

Award Amount:  Fellows will receive stipends of $65,000, medical insurance, additional research support of $2,500, and (for those not already in residence in Greater Boston) $1,500 in moving expenses

The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University invites applications for one-year postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on the topic of migration and the humanities. The Center welcomes applications from scholars in all fields whose work innovatively engages with migration and the humanities. In addition to pursuing their own research projects, fellows will be core participants in the bi-weekly seminar meetings for both academic terms of the fellowship. Other participants will include faculty and graduate students from Harvard and other universities in the region, and occasional visiting speakers. Applicants for 2020-21 fellowships must have received a doctorate or terminal degree in or after May 2017. 

MAP Fund

Grants

FAS/OSP Deadline: November 18, 2019

Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation *

Fellowships for Higher Education of Present and Prospective Teachers

FAS/OSP Deadline: January 3, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: January 10, 2020

Award Amount: approximately $5,252 per fellowship

These annual fellowships support scholars of all disciplines to study at a location or locations--either national or international--other than their home institution. The aim is to stimulate and broaden the minds of teachers so as to improve and enhance the quality of their instruction. Grants are primarily for travel and related expenses and not as salary substitutes, scholarships or grants in aid. While there is a preference toward teachers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Foundation awards fellowships across the New England area.

The Foundation does not maintain a website but application guidelines can be found  at the link above . Applicants should submit all required materials along with the  candidate information form  to the foundation via email. Additional information can be found in the foundation's  FAQs.

Mass Humanities

Project Grants

FAS/OSP Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: December 9, 2019

Sponsor Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: December 16, 2019

Award Amount: up to $10,000 or up to $15,000 for documentaries and projects focused on current priorities. Organizations must demonstrate a cash cost-share that equals or exceeds 10 percent of the MH funds requested, and the total cost-share (cash and in-kind) must equal or exceed the MH funds requested.

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. In general, Mass Humanities prioritizes funding projects that engage those whose contact with humanities programming is limited, and programming that responds to the current theme, The Vote: Exploring Voting Rights in America.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

National Endowment for the Humanities *

Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

FAS/OSP Deadline: January 8, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2020

Award Amount: up to $325,000 outright + up to $50,000 in matching funds

Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG) support digital projects at different stages throughout their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and sustainability. Experimentation, reuse, and extensibility are hallmarks of this program, leading to innovative work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. Digital Humanities Advancement Grants may involve:

National Endowment for the Humanities *

Media Projects: Development Grants

FAS/OSP Deadline: December 23, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: January 8, 2020

Award Amount: up to $75,000

National Endowment for the Humanities *

Media Projects: Production Grants

FAS/OSP Deadline: December 23, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: January 8, 2020

Award Amount: up to $1M

The Media Projects: Production Grants program supports the production and distribution of documentary film, television, radio, and podcast projects that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. All projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical. The approach to the subject matter must go beyond the mere presentation of factual information to explore its larger significance and stimulate reflection.  The Division of Public Programs encourages media projects that promote a deeper understanding of American history and culture and advance civic education. The Division of Public Programs also supports media projects that examine international themes and subjects in the humanities.

• Film and television production projects may be single programs or a series addressing significant figures, events, or ideas. Programs may be intended for regional or national distribution, via traditional carriage or online distribution. Films should be longer than thirty minutes.
• Radio and podcast production projects may involve single programs, limited series, or segments within an ongoing series. Programs receiving production grants may be either broadcast or disseminated online. They may be intended for national or regional distribution.

National Endowment for the Humanities *

Public Humanities Projects

FAS/OSP Deadline: January 8, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2020

Award Amount: up to $400,000 (Implementation); up to $75,000 (Planning)

The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. This program supports projects in three categories: Exhibitions (permanent, temporary,or traveling); interpretive programs at Historic Places; and Humanities Discussions related to the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding.

• Exhibitions: The Exhibitions category supports the creation of permanent exhibitions (on view for at least three years) and single-site temporary exhibitions (open to the public for a minimum of two months), as well as traveling exhibitions that will be available to public audiences in at least two venues in the United States (including the originating location).
• Historic Places: The Historic Places category supports long-term interpretive programs for historic sites, houses, neighborhoods, and regions that are intended to be presented to the public for at least three years. Such programs might include living history presentations, guided tours, exhibitions, and public programs.
• Humanities Discussions: The Humanities Discussions category supports series of at least six in-person public programs focused on/related to the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, and engaging audiences with humanities resources such as historic artifacts, artworks, or documents. These programs should reach a diverse public audience and should be anchored in perspectives presented by humanities experts as speakers, panelists, or discussion leaders, providing context and analysis of program themes. Projects may include, but are not limited to, symposiums, lecture series, reading and discussion programs, analytical discussions of museum collections or theater/musical performances, lifelong learning programs, or other methods of face-to-face audience engagement or informal education. The proposed series should occur over a period of three-months to two years.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations

National Endowment for the Humanities *

Short Documentaries

FAS/OSP Deadline: December 23, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: January 8, 2020

Award Amount: up to $250,000

The Short Documentaries program supports documentary films up to 30 minutes that engage audiences with humanities ideas in appealing ways. The program aims to extend the humanities to new audiences through the medium of short documentary films. Films must be grounded in humanities scholarship. The Short Documentaries program can support single films or a series of thematically-related short films addressing significant figures, events, or ideas. Programs may be intended for regional or national distribution, via broadcast, festivals, and/or online distribution.

National Endowment for the Humanities *

Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections

FAS/OSP Deadline: January 8, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2020

Award Amount: up to $350,000 (Implementation); up to $50,000 (Planning) 

The Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (SCHC) program helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, and support institutional resilience: the ability to anticipate and respond to disasters resulting from natural or human activity. Effective and sustainable preservation strategies must be informed by the nature of an institution and its collections. Applicants should have completed the process of basic preservation planning and environmental monitoring, which might include a general preservation plan, collection inventory, emergency plan, and/or basic assessments of building and storage environments. Using priorities established through this basic planning process, applicants to SCHC should consider how to address long-term collection care needs. Sustainable preservation strategies can take many forms, depending on collection materials, the building envelope, and the local climate. However, interdisciplinary collaboration during planning and implementation of these strategies is essential. In SCHC projects, such teams typically consist of consultants and members of the institution's staff and can include architects, building engineers, conservation scientists, conservators, curators, archivists, and facilities managers, among others.

National Historical Publications & Records Commission *

Access to Historical Records: Major Initiatives

FAS/OSP Deadline for Preliminary Proposals: January 9, 2020

Sponsor Deadline for Preliminary Proposals: January 16, 2020

Award Amount: $100,000 - $350,000 for one to three years; cost sharing is required as 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. The Commission is especially interested in collections of America's early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation's legal history. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio and moving images. Projects may:

The NHPRC welcomes collaborative projects, particularly for bringing together related records from multiple institutions. Projects that address significant needs in the field and result in replicable and scalable approaches will be more competitive. The NHPRC also encourages organizations to actively engage the public in the work of the project. 

New Music USA *

Project Grants

The Foundation's approach to Project Grants is driven by two core convictions. First, that the best way to serve new music is to ask practitioners what they need rather than tell them what they should want. Second, that the process for requesting financial support should be simple and should help artists connect with audiences, not just funders. Applicants are asked to present their projects using the same language and media they would use to build public interest in their work. The Foundation's goal is to make grantmaking less about grant writing, and focus instead on how artists naturally talk about their work. New Music USA is also passionate about adding value to the grants it gives and works to provide a platform for further exploration. The Foundation does this to build community around the artists served through promotion of projects through social media, email, and connections within the field.

The New York Public Library

Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program

FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: December 1, 2019

Award Amount: $35,000 (Long-Term Fellowships); $3,000 per month (Short-Term Fellowships)

The Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program offers long-term and short-term fellowships to support scholars and writers working on projects that would benefit from access to the Center's extensive resources for the study of African diasporic history, politics, literature, and culture. The Schomburg Center is a world-renowned repository of sources on every facet of the African diasporic experience, with extensive holdings including numerous unique manuscript and archival collections as well as a comprehensive range of publications, photographs, films, audio recordings, and visual art. Long-term fellowships provide a $35,000 stipend to support postdoctoral scholars and independent researchers who work in residence at the Center for a continuous period of six months. Short-term fellowships are open to postdoctoral scholars, independent researchers, and creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets) who work in residence at the Center for a continuous period of one to three months. Short-term fellows receive a stipend of $3000 per month. Only U.S. citizens, permanent residents and foreign nationals who have been resident in the United States for the three years immediately preceding the application deadline may apply.

The New York Public Library *

Short-Term Research Fellowships

FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2020

Award Amount: stipends are $1,000 per week for a minimum of two and maximum of four weeks

The New York Public Library is pleased to offer Short-Term Research Fellowships to support scholars from outside the New York metropolitan area engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, and independent research. Individuals needing to conduct on-site research in the Library's special collections are welcome to apply. Preference is given to applications making a strong case for accessing special collections materials. Only U.S. citizens, permanent residents and foreign nationals who have been resident in the United States for three years as of January 31, 2020, and live outside of the New York metropolitan area may apply.    

With support from the Roger W. Weiss and Howard Mayer Brown Fund, the Newberry offers up to $8,000 to subsidize the publication of scholarly book or books on European civilization before 1700 in the areas of music, theater, cultural studies, or French or Italian literature. Applicants must document that their projects have been accepted for publication and provide detailed information regarding the publication and the subvention request. The purpose of this award is to enable the publication of works of the highest quality either:

• by making it possible to publish a work in a particularly appropriate way (with special typography plates, or appendices, for example) that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive; or
• by significantly reducing the cover price, allowing the publication to reach a wider audience.

Once these criteria are met, preference will be given to publications that:

• are unique, unusual in concept or execution, or that represent a departure from the normal habits of a given publishing house or entity; or
• bring into print previously unpublished source materials; or
• promise to reach the broadest possible audience for the type of book envisioned.

The Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship is awarded annually, alternating in the fields of Greek and French. The award may be used for the study of Greek culture (e.g. language, literature, history, archaeology), or the study of French language or literature. It is not restricted to members of Phi Beta Kappa or to U.S. citizens. The stipend is typically paid in two installments, the first on July 1 of the award year, and the second on January 1 of the following year. The fellowship is intended, according to the donor's wishes, for women in the early stages of their research careers who:

The 2020 application cycle is to support scholars in French Studies.

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies *

Mellon-Schlesinger Summer Research Grants

FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: November 15, 2019

Award Amount: $15,000 stipend

A major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has allowed the Schlesinger Library to launch  the Long 19th Amendment Project  interrogating the centennial of American women's suffrage. The grant will fund up to three eight-week residencies each June-July in 2019, 2020, and 2021 for researchers doing advanced work on gender and suffrage, voting rights, citizenship, or other related topics. Successful projects will draw in meaningful ways on Schlesinger Library collections. Radcliffe will consider applications from clusters of two or three researchers as well as from individuals. Such collaborations could produce a range of materials, from co-authored books and articles, to course syllabi, to datasets or interview transcripts, to podcasts and video modules.

The Rogovy Foundation

Miller/Packan Film Fund

FAS/OSP Deadline: November 7, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: November 15, 2019

Award Amount: up to $25,000

The Miller/Packan Film Fund supports documentary films that educate, inspire and enrich. At the highest level, the Fund's subject categories are Education, the Environment and Civics. The Foundation encourages potential applicants to review its ideals and values for a sense of what types of topics might be supported. The Foundation is especially interested in investigations into the cost structures of social institutions, such as healthcare and education, and topics that bring the global community together. The Fund supports filmmaking in advanced development (up to $15,000), production and post-production stages (up to $25,000).

Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Conservation

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 through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, exhibitions that include a prominent focus on materials and techniques, and other professional events.  

The History of Art program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding 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.

The Audacious Project

FAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days before submission

• Capture a bold, breakthrough vision that promises significant, enduring impact on a meaningful and urgent topic facing our world 
• Present a solution that challenges "business as usual" or changes the narrative in a provocative or surprising way
• Are designed and led by brave and visionary leader(s) with proximate and relevant experience and who bring a distinct voice to our global community
• Tap into fundamental human emotions like wonder, curiosity, outrage and joy

• Show evidence that the idea will have impact, including a track record of past success and confidence that results can be sustained in the future
• Convey a believable pathway to scale or to a breakthrough discovery, with demand for the solution from those most affected and clarity about the resources required to get there
• Are managed by a capable and confident team, ready to deliver on an ambitious plan amidst dynamic conditions 
• Have a clear understanding of potential risks and unintended consequences - and have plans for how to mitigate them 
• Are housed at a nonprofit, NGO or institution (or collaboration between them) that can receive philanthropic funds and has the core infrastructure necessary to support the work. (Note: Past projects have had an annual operating budget of $1 million USD or more.)

Terra Foundation for American Art

Academic Workshop & Symposium Grants

FAS/OSP Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: November 27, 2019

Sponsor Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: December 6, 2019

Award Amount: up to $25,000

The Terra Foundation for American Art 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) that take place:

Additionally, the foundation welcomes applications for international research groups. Such groups should involve 2 to 4 faculty members from two or more academic institutions, at least one of which must be located outside the United States. Groups should pursue specific research questions that will advance scholarship and meet in person two or more times.  Visual arts that are eligible for Terra Foundation Academic Workshop and Symposium Grants include   all visual art categories except architecture and commercial film/animation. The Foundation favors programs that place objects and practices in an art historical perspective.

Terra Foundation for American Art *

Convening Grants for Internationally Collaborative Exhibitions

FAS/OSP Deadline: January 10, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: January 17, 2020

Award Amount: $10,000 - $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. An institution may apply for a convening grant even if it has applied (or plans to apply) separately for general exhibition support for the same project. Proposals for convening grants and general exhibition support are each considered on their own merits; grant approval in one program does not guarantee grant approval in the other. Funding is available for travel, lodging, and meals; facility/equipment rental; modest honoraria for participants not affiliated with the organizing/presenting institutions; and indirect costs (with amount capped at 15% of a grant).

University of London *

Endangered Languages Documentation Programme: Grants

FAS/OSP Deadline: January 8, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2020

Award Amount: varies by grant type; please see below

The goal of the Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) is to preserve endangered languages globally. To this end ELDP gives grants worldwide to individuals to document endangered languages. ELDP provides funding for documentation projects led by individuals such as linguists, linguistic anthropologists and community members with skills in linguistic documentation. The following types of grants are available:

• Small Grants: Small grants can be used for a range of purposes related to the documentation of endangered languages, such as to carry out fieldwork, develop a pilot project, or complete a project already begun. The maximum grant awarded is £10,000. 
• Individual Postdoctoral Fellowships: IPF grantees are typically researchers at an early stage in their academic career (e.g. who have held a PhD less than 5 years), with qualifications in linguistics and experience in linguistic fieldwork. IPFs are available for between between 12 and 24 months and the maximum amount is £150,000.
• Major Documentation Projects: MDP funding can cover elements including fieldwork costs, equipment, researchers' salaries, and graduate students' stipends (stipends should be included only for activities contributing to the project while in the field or processing the documentation materials). Project duration is from 6 to 36 months. Funding for these projects typically ranges from anything above £10,000 up to £130,000 (the maximum is £150,000). 
• Legacy Materials Grants: ELDP Legacy Material Grants are offered to support the digitisation and archiving of legacy materials. The collections that are the target of these grants are in private hands or in small repositories without any access to resources for digitisation. The collections may include audio and video recordings (e.g., on tapes or reel to reel and so on), field notes, text collections and photographs. Typically, these data were collected without an archiving plan in place, and are in or about languages which are endangered or no longer spoken. Legacy Materials Grant projects may develop existing data collections in a variety of ways with a view to making them accessible and discoverable, but the primary focus must be on safeguarding and preserving legacy materials through digitisation and archiving. The maximum grant is £10,000. Legacy Grant projects last from 6 to 12 months; projects can only be funded if the materials can be made openly accessible at the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR).

U.S. Mission to Argentina *

Public Diplomacy Grants Program

FAS/OSP Deadline: December 16, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: December 31, 2019 

Award Amount: $10,000 - $100,000

The Grants Program supports projects proposed by U.S. and Argentine academic, cultural, educational, and other non-profit organizations and/or individuals that fulfill U.S. Embassy goals and objectives: to promote economic prosperity and security through academic and cultural initiatives seeking to promote and increase understanding between U.S. and Argentine people and institutions.The Grants Program assists organizations in carrying out programs aimed at providing new opportunities for citizen engagement, and promoting and advancing issues of public importance, focusing on the following topics:

Wellesley College *

Newhouse Faculty Fellows

FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: November 15, 2019

Award Amount: stipend of up to $50,000

The Newhouse Center fellows' community consists of Wellesley faculty on sabbatical, Wellesley summer fellows, three to five scholars and artists from outside the college, and the undergraduate fellows of the Mellon Mays program. All fellows are given office space and are encouraged to engage actively in Newhouse Center programs. 

The Newhouse Center hosts three to five external fellows each academic year. Residencies are ordinarily for the full academic year, but one-semester residencies may also be considered. Resident fellows devote themselves primarily to their own research, but they also participate actively in the intellectual life of the institution, attending fellows' lunches and sharing their work in progress with one another and with the larger Wellesley community. Fellows may also work with the director to develop programming for the center in the form of guest speakers, a faculty series, or a mini-conference.

Women's Travel Club *

2020 Travel Scholarships

FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: February 15, 2020

Award Amount: $5,000

The Women's Travel Club (WTC) is an organization that five Boston women established in 1934 "to promote intelligent travel and exploration by women" and "to provide help to other women travelers." Every other year the Club awards Travel Scholarships to two women for whom travel is critical for their interests and professional goals. The Club selects candidates on the basis of the compelling nature of their projects in all the arts and sciences.  There are no restrictions with regard to the destination or the age of the applicant. Recent Travel Scholars have included a violinist intending to travel to Russia to study Tuvan music, a PhD candidate traveling to Chili to study the efficacy of recently enacted legislation protecting domestic workers and a nurse-midwife creating monitoring and evaluation practices for midwives in Lesotho.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award

FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: December 2, 2019

Award Amount:  $17,500 stipend - $10,000 to be used for summer research support and $7,500 for research assistance during the academic year

The Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award supports tenure-track faculty who have passed their midpoint review. The award is structured to free the time of junior faculty, including those from underrepresented groups and others committed to eradicating disparities in their fields, so that they can both engage in and build support systems, networks, and affinity groups that make their fields and campuses more inclusive. 

Emerging Faculty Leaders may be working in any field of the humanities or social sciences. Preference will be given to those whose work echoes and elaborates themes related to 20th- and 21st-century American history, politics, culture, and society, with emphases including but not limited to African American issues, women's issues, and/or higher education. Examples might include changing perspectives on civil rights; legal, social, and organizational responses to social change (such as affirmative action or community organizing); women in leadership; single-gender higher education; the history of coeducation in higher education; and the evolution of social institutions and movements from 1900 to the present.

Wyeth Foundation for American Art

Grants 

FAS/OSP Deadline: December 6, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: December 15, 2019

Award Amount: $5,000 - $25,000 

The Wyeth Foundation for American Art provides financial support to encourage the study, appreciation, and recognition of excellence in all aspects of historic American art. The Foundation reviews funding proposals to support research, conservation, and exhibition programming in American art. G rants from the Foundation typically support innovative exhibitions that explore new research about American art; innovative and important museum catalogues and books; and conservation and restoration of American masterpieces. The Foundation does not support grant applications exclusively focused on art of the last three decades.