Every year, CHAT advertises and helps faculty apply for grants to support innovative research in the Humanities. CHAT is a member of several state, regional, and national institutions which offer funding opportunities.
Collective Futures Prizes, due June 16
Starting in 2021, the Collective Futures Fund began awarding a yearly total of $80,000 in grant funding to collaborative and public-facing projects by visual artists, curators, and collectives across Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex, and Plymouth counties. Next application cycle opens April 19, 2024 in the following three categories: Sustaining Practice, New Projects Grants, and Ongoing Platforms Grants.
Deadline: Applications are due June 16, by end of day.
Prizes: Prize awards range from $2,000 to $7500.
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, due May 15
Purpose: Recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year.
Eligibility: Award is to poet, but submissions are done by publisher. Open to any book of original poetry, in English, published in the United States during 2023 in a standard edition (48 pages or more) by a living poet who meets US citizenship or residency eligibility guidelines. $75 entrance fee.
Budget/Amount: $25,000 award. Prize also includes a ten-day residency at Glen Hollow in Naples, New York, and distribution of the winning book to hundreds of Academy of American Poets members. Prize is considered taxable income.
Deadline: May 15, 2024 11: 59 PM ET
Resources: Questions to: awards@poets.org
James Laughlin Prize, due May 15
Purpose: To honor a second full-length print book of original poetry, in English, by a living poet, forthcoming in the next calendar year.
Eligibility: Award is to poet, but submissions are done by publisher. To be eligible for the award in 2024, a book must be under contract with a U.S. publisher and scheduled to be published between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2025. Winning books must be published by December 31, 2025. Submitted book must be 48 pages or more. Author must have at least one previously published book of 48 pages or more and meet US citizenship or residency eligibility guidelines.
Budget/Amount: $5,000 prize plus an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, and distribution of the winning book to approximately one thousand Academy of American Poets members. Prize is considered taxable income.
Deadline: May 15, 2024 11: 59 PM ET
Resources: Questions to: awards@poets.org
Tufts Springboard Grants, due May 8
Tufts Springboard is an intramural grant program sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR), and Tufts Medicine. The goal of Tufts Springboard is to stimulate high impact research, scholarship and educational initiatives that have an explicit plan leading to extramural funding or other outcomes that influence research, scholarship, educational outcomes, and/or policy. Moreover, the Tufts Springboard program aims to further the priorities of the University and its schools and to fortify Tufts' status as a R1, very-high research activity university and member of the Association of American Universities.
Submissions are due May 8th for projects starting August 1st.
Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, due May 14
Deadline: May 14, 2024 11:59pm ET
Budget/Amount: Article grants are $15,000; Book grants are $50,000; Short-Form Writing grants are $30,000. 1 year grants.
Purpose: Awards to both emerging and established writers to support work about contemporary (since World War II) visual art. Awards are given in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing. Open to art historians, artists, critics, curators, journalists, or writers in an outside field who are strongly engaged with the contemporary visual arts Projects on post-WWII work in adjacent fields—architecture, dance, film, media, music, performance, sound, etc.—will only be considered if they directly and significantly engage the discourses and concerns of contemporary visual art.
Eligibility: Writer must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or hold an O-1 visa; be at least 25 years old by Oct 1 of the application year; and must be a previously published author. Projects based on a PhD dissertation or MA thesis are not eligible, nor are awards to full-time students in a degree-granting program (unless the applicant maintains a simultaneous/separate professional career as an art writer). Collaboration allowed for book projects. Grant given to individual rather than institution; note that grant is considered taxable income.
RFP: https://www.artswriters.org/. See Application Guidelines for a more comprehensive list of eligibility criteria, and Project Types page for publishing history requirements for each project type.
Webinar/Resources: For questions regarding application and eligibility: questions@artswriters.org. $935,000 awarded in 2023 to 27 writers.
ACLS Fellowship Program, expanded opportunities for September 2024
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) today announced an expansion of the eligibility requirements for the ACLS Fellowship Program. ALCS will continue to devote significant resources—at least half of all fellowships offered in the coming 2024-25 competition—to early-career scholars. This complements efforts across ACLS initiatives, including the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies, and the Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies, which offer fellowships for recent PhDs. ACLS will also continue its commitment to supporting scholars working in every sector of the academy and beyond, and to advancing inclusive excellence in its review and award processes.
Eligibility: Starting this coming academic year, in the 2024-25 competition, the program will accept applications from eligible scholars across all career stages, from recent PhDs through senior scholars, working in every sector of the academy and beyond.
Amount: grants of up to $5,000
Due: September 2024 deadline to be announced. You can sign up to receive updates from ALCS.
Performing Arts Technologies Lab, due May 6
The Performing Arts Technologies Lab is both a grant and a support system designed to expand access to and nurture new methods for creating, sharing and experiencing the performing arts. Selected projects will proceed through a series of development phases, beginning with the articulation of a basic concept and culminating, for some proposals, in a fully funded implementation. Support will combine financial resources with technical assistance. Participants will be expected to participate in a series of virtual and in-person meetings that will be programmed to facilitate shared learning and exchange.
- Information Webinar- April 11, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
- Application Deadline - May 6
- Phase 1 Grantees Notified - July 1
- Phase 1 Convening - Aug. 8-9
Wenner-Gren Post-PhD Research Grant, due May 1
Purpose: This grant program funds individual research projects undertaken by doctorates in anthropology or a closely related field. Our goal is to support vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of what it means to be human. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, topic, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that integrate two or more subfields and pioneer new approaches and ideas.
Deadline: May 1, 2024
Eligibility: Doctorates in Anthropology, Doctorates in Related Fields, Independent Scholar
RFP: Post-PhD Research Grant | Wenner-Gren Foundation (wennergren.org)
Webinar/Resources: Application deadlines are May 1 (for project start dates between January 1 and June 30 of the following year) and November 1 (for project start dates between July 1 and December 31 of the following year).
Request for Proposals: Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation- Humanities Program, rolling deadline
Deadline: Rolling throughout year. Allow 3-4 months for decision.
Budget: Generally, single-year projects. Do not fund capital campaigns or building projects. Do not fund overhead or indirect costs. Past awards in the $5K-$25k range.
Purpose: This grant supports projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized. Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; history, criticism, and theory of the arts; humanistic social sciences. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship. Primarily but not exclusively directed toward European and American history and letters, broadly defined.
RFP: Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation-Humanities Program and Application Instructions
Webinars/Resources: past grantees: https://www.delmas.org/grantees-humanities
