Residential Fellowships and Grants for Humanities Faculty
American Antiquarian Society
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/acafellowship.htm
The American Antiquarian Society is a national research library of American history, literature, and culture through 1876. AAS offers three broad categories of visiting research fellowships, with tenures ranging from one to twelve months. All of the fellowships are designed to enable scholars, advanced graduate students, and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library on their projects and discussing their work with others.
Arizona State University, The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR)
www.asu.edu/clas/ihr/
The Visiting Fellows program, is for scholars from other institutions of higher education in the US and abroad to come to ASU for the spring semester-in-residence. The combined Fellows Programs bring together groups of scholars to pursue research and writing in an environment designed to be stimulating and supportive. Fellows will be asked to contribute to the general enrichment of humanities scholarship by giving seminars and public lectures on their research topics.
The Rockefeller Foundation
http://www.rockfound.org/bellagio/bellagio.shtml
A Bellagio residency provides time for critical thinking, disciplined work, individual reflection, and collegial engagement, uninterrupted by the usual professional and personal demands.
Scholarly Residencies: The Center typically offers one-month residencies for no more than 12 scholars and scientists at a time. Individuals in any discipline – and from any part of the world – are welcome to apply. Space is reserved for both academic projects, as well as projects that align with the Foundation’s mission to expand opportunities for poor or vulnerable people and to help ensure that globalization’s benefits are shared more widely. (Details on the Foundation’s mission and philosophy can be found in the About Us section.) Alignment can reflect policy analysis, applied work, and/or basic scholarship, or any combination thereof.
Creative Arts Residencies: Bellagio creative arts residencies – for composers, novelists, playwrights, poets, video/filmmakers and visual artists – provide time for disciplined work, individual reflection, and collegial engagement, uninterrupted by the usual professional and personal demands. The Center typically offers one-month stays for no more than 3-5 creative artists at a time. Artists of significant achievement, from any country, are welcome to apply.
Camargo Foundation Residential Fellowship, Cassis, France
http://www.camargofoundation.org/toapply.asp
The Camargo Foundation, located in Cassis, France, is an interdisciplinary and multicultural residential center for scholars pursuing studies in the humanities and social sciences related to French and francophone cultures as well as for composers, writers, and visual artists (painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, video artists, and new media artists) pursuing creative projects. The Foundation's campus includes thirteen furnished apartments, a reference library, a music/conference room, an artist's studio with darkroom, a composer's studio, and a studio for either an artist or a composer. Residencies are one semester (either early-September to mid-December or mid-January to the end of May) and accompanied by a stipend.
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (includes scholars in humanities), Stanford University
http://www.casbs.org/programs/fellowships/?PHPSESSID=8e6fba7550043f1377a659518ec54253
Residential Fellows: The cornerstone of the Center is our Residential Fellows program which awards academic year residential fellowships for about 45 scholars who form a cohesive and diverse intellectual community. Fellows enjoy time and freedom to pursue their priority research, and more importantly, to expand their horizons in active engagement with their Center colleagues.
Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, Paris, France
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/reidhall/
The Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall offers a setting in which outstanding scholars from different parts of the world may pursue their individual and collective research while interacting with other scholars in France and throughout Europe. The Institute has been established in cooperation with the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (MSH) and its International Programme for Advanced Studies.
Stipends are not available, but research and travel support is offered.
Folger Library
http://www.folger.edu/
http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=298
The Folger Shakespeare Library offers research fellowships to encourage access to its exceptional collections and to encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars of the early modern period. Each year, scholars may compete for a limited number of long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (one to three months) fellowships.
The Getty
Research Grants for Getty Scholars and Visiting Scholars
http://www.getty.edu/grants/research/scholars/research_grischolars.html
Getty Scholar and Visiting Scholar Grants provide a unique research experience. Recipients are in residence at the Getty Research Institute where they pursue their own projects free from academic obligations, make use of Getty collections, join their colleagues in a weekly meeting devoted to the 2009-10 theme of The Display of Art and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty.
Howard Foundation, at Brown University
http://www.brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/Howard_Foundation
The Foundation makes awards in a sequence of fields in the Liberal and Fine Arts. Future awards are anticipated in the following fields, but please note that with its limited resources the Foundation has occasionally been forced to define fields more narrowly to maintain an applicant pool that can reasonably be handled by our small staff and that offers applicants some chance of success. The ratio of applications to awards has sometimes exceeded 25 to one.
2009-2010: History and philosophy
2010-2011: Creative writing, including novels, short stories, and poetry
2011-2012: Literary criticism, film criticism, creative non-fiction and translation into English
Houghton Library, Harvard University
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/public_programs/fellowships.html
Short- and long-term grants are available principally for the rare book and manuscript library.
The Huntington Library
http://www.huntington.org/ResearchDiv/Fellowships.html
The Huntington is an independent research center with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, and the history of science and medicine. The Huntington will award to scholars over one hundred fellowships for the academic year 2009-2010. These fellowships derive from a variety of funding sources and have different terms. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to be in continuous residence at The Huntington and to participate in and make a contribution to its intellectual life.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, at the University of Edinburgh
Visiting Research Fellowships (no stipend, but housing is provided)
http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/visiting.fellowships.html
Applications are invited for Visiting Research Fellowships of between two and six months, tenable in the period: June 2009 - September 2011. No limitation is placed on the area of research within the Humanities and Social Sciences but priority will be given to those whose work falls within the scope of one of the Institute's current Research.
La Trobe Institute for Advanced Study, Victoria, Australia
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/ias/
The Institute for Advanced Study aims to bring together outstanding scholars -- individuals at the cutting edge of research and leaders in their discipline. Fostering research activities that otherwise might not take place is a high priority. Fellowships are open to senior researchers of exceptional distinction and junior postdoctoral researchers of high promise in disciplines represented at La Trobe University. Fellowships will be by invitation, nomination or applications.
National Humanities Center
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ (National Humanities Center)
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellowships/index.htm (NHC Fellowships)
The National Humanities Center is the only major independent American institute for advanced study in all fields of the humanities. Privately incorporated and governed by a distinguished board of trustees from academic, professional, and public life, the Center was planned under the auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and began operation in 1978. It provides a national focus for the best work in the liberal arts, drawing attention to the enduring value of ancient and modern history, language and literature, ethical and moral reflection, artistic and cultural traditions, and critical thought in every area of humanistic investigation. By encouraging excellence in scholarship, the Center seeks to insure the continuing strength of the liberal arts and to affirm the importance of the humanities in American life.
National Science Foundation, Science and Society grants
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5324
NSF has many awards for which artists and humanists are eligible. Opportunities abound at CU for partnering with scientists/engineers in connection with the “social impacts” aspects of NSF grants.
Newberry Library, Fellowships in the Humanities
http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html
Fellowships at the Newberry Library are of two types: short-term fellowships with terms of one week to two months and long-term fellowships of six to eleven months. Short-term fellowships are generally restricted to individuals from outside the metropolitan Chicago area and are primarily intended to assist researchers with a need to examine specific items in the Library's collection. 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 Library's strengths.
New York Public Library
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/scholars.index.html
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, Fellowships
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers is an international fellowship program open to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library – including academics, independent scholars, and creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets). The Center appoints 15 Fellows a year for a nine-month term at the Library, from September through May. In addition to working on their own projects, the Fellows engage in an ongoing exchange of ideas within the Center and in public forums throughout the Library.
Penn Humanities Forum, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/mellon_description.shtml
The Penn Humanities Forum awards five one-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships each academic year to junior scholars in the humanities who are not yet tenured (may not be tenured during the fellowship year).
The Fellowship carries an annual stipend of $46,500 plus health insurance, requires that the scholar spend the year in residence at the University of Pennsylvania, and is open to international applicants. The current Call for Applications is for the 2009–10 fellowship year, when our topic will be Connections. Applicants must be no more than eight years out of their doctorate (e.g., for the 2009-10 Fellowship year, you must have received or will receive your Ph.D. between December 2000 and December 2008). The Ph.D. is the only terminal degree eligible.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Fellowship Program
http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/index.php
Radcliffe Institute fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts.
Rome Prize. Eligible for A&S Dean’s salary subvention
http://www.aarome.org/prize.htm
Established in 1894 and chartered by an Act of Congress in 1905, the American Academy in Rome is a center that sustains independent artistic pursuits and humanistic studies. It is situated on the Janiculum, Rome's highest hill. Each year, through a national competition, the Rome Prize is awarded to 15 emerging artists (working in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Literature, Musical Composition, or Visual Arts) and 15 scholars (working in Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and early Modern, or Modern Italian Studies). The application deadline is November 1st (with an extended deadline of November 15th for an additional fee). The Academy community also includes invited Residents and international Affiliated Fellows. Rome Prize fellowships are designed for emerging artists and for scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers. In the case of scholars, preference will be given to applicants for whom research time in Italy, and especially in the city of Rome, is essential, and who have not had extensive prior experience there. The Academy also offers a variety of opportunities for advanced scholars and artists. These include endowed residencies in the same fields as those in which the Rome Prize is awarded and a program for visiting artists and scholars.
Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
http://rcha.rutgers.edu/rcha.php?page=RCHA%20Fellows&title=RCHA%20Fellows
Founded in 1988, the RCHA provides a setting to discuss issues of broad contemporary relevance in historical perspective. Organizing its annual activities around major research projects, the Center each year welcomes several visiting senior and postdoctoral fellows chosen through an open, international competition, along with about ten faculty and graduate fellows from within Rutgers University. No stipend is provided: The Center provides visiting fellows with office space equipped with personal computers, as well as the assistance of its staff. The building has copying and telefax equipment, E-mail and access to the Internet. The Rutgers History Department is located across the street and offers interaction with its fifty-five members, including scholars in virtually every historical period and all geographical areas. Fellows at the Center have access to all the facilities of Rutgers University, its libraries and also its social amenities.
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Visiting Professorial Fellowships
http://www.sas.ac.uk/fellowshipprogrammes.html
The S.T. Lee Professorial Fellowship
A generous endowment by Dr S.T. Lee, of Singapore, has made possible the creation of this Fellowship, open to applicants of professorial or equivalent status for the purpose of supporting research in London in any field relevant to the work of one or more of the School's Institutes. The Fellowship may be held for a period of up to 6 consecutive months between September and June of any academic year. (A longer tenure may be possible, but will not attract any financial support beyond that available for the first 6 months. Applications for periods significantly shorter than 6 months are unlikely to be successful). The endowment also provides for the delivery of the annual S.T. Lee lecture on a theme of the Fellow's choice.
A second Visiting Professorial Fellowship is offered by the School on the same terms as the S.T. Lee Fellowship. The aim is to ensure that in any given year the work of the S.T. Lee Fellow and the School of Advanced Study Fellow together covers a wide range of intellectual concerns. Holders of the Fellowship will be ready to pursue their work in the context of an active and vigorous relationship with the multi-disciplinary scholarly community within the School, and to play a leading intellectual role in cross-School seminars or other programmes. Applicants must be able to show that their research can benefit from the resources of one or more of the Institutes in the School, and that it can contribute productively to the range of activities across the School.
The School of Historical Studies at The Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, NJ
http://www.hs.ias.edu/hsannoun.htm
The School of Historical Studies supports scholarship in all fields of historical research, but is concerned principally with the history of western, near eastern and Asian civilizations, with particular emphasis upon Greek and Roman civilization, the history of Europe (medieval, early modern, and modern), the Islamic world, East Asian studies, the history of art, the history of science, philosophy, and modern international relations. The School also offers the Edward T. Cone Membership in Music Studies. Each year the School welcomes approximately forty Members. Most are working on topics in the above mentioned fields, but each year the School also selects some scholars working in other areas of historical research. Members in the School are appointed for either one term (first term Sept. 21 to Dec. 18, second term Jan. 4 to April 2) or for two terms, amounting to a full academic year.
Smithsonian Opportunity for Research and Study (SORS)
Postdoctoral and Senior Fellowships
http://www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm
Postdoctoral and Senior Fellowships -- Postdoctoral Fellowships of three to twelve months are available for scholars who have held the doctoral degree or equivalent for fewer than seven years as of the application deadline. Senior Fellowships of three to twelve months are available for scholars who have held the doctoral degree or equivalent for more than seven years as of the application deadline. Applications for senior fellowships may be made up to eighteen months in advance. Stipends for senior fellowships are the same as for the postdoctoral program, but the Smithsonian's stipend may be matched by other sources of funding such as a sabbatical salary.
Stanford Humanities Center, External Faculty Fellows
http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/external_fac.htm
Since its inception in 1980, the Humanities Center has offered external fellowships to more than 550 faculty from nearly 100 universities in the United States and other countries. External fellows come from all ranks of the professoriate and from a wide variety of disciplinary fields, colleges and universities. The Center typically offers six to eight external fellowships each year.
Stanford University, Digital Humanities Fellowship
http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/digital_hum.htm
The Stanford Humanities Center seeks to award one Digital Humanities Fellowship for the academic year 2009-2010 to a junior or senior scholar. The Digital Humanities Fellowship reflects the Stanford Humanities Center’s commitment to supporting new directions in humanities research. The fellowship is intended for humanities scholars whose research methods are critically shaped by information technology. Projects should be oriented to producing new research outcomes rather than focusing primarily on the creation of archives or software. Appropriate projects will approach significant questions in humanistic study with the aid of new research tools or methodologies.
