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. 

American Association of University Women- Research Grant, due November 13

Deadline: November 13, 2024 at 11:59pm PST. Notification April 15, 2025

Budget/Amount: $8,000. Indirect/overhead costs allowed. Stipend paid directly to recipient; may incur tax obligation.

Purpose: Provides support to scholars to prepare research manuscripts for publication, with ultimate goal of assisting the scholar in obtaining tenure and other promotions. Must have time for eight consecutive weeks of final writing and editing in response to issues raised in critical reviews. Applicants must demonstrate that the support will result in a reduction of their ongoing work-related activities during the eight-week period. Activities undertaken during the grant period can include drafting, editing, or modifying manuscripts; replicating research components (research verification); responding to issues raised through critical review; and other initiatives to increase the likelihood of publication. 

Eligibility: Open to women, including people who identify as women, in all fields of study at an accredited institution of higher education. Tenure-track, part-time, and temporary faculty, and both new and established researchers. Tenured professors not eligible. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

RFP: https://www.aauw.org/resources/programs/fellowships-grants/current-opportunities/american/

Institute for Citizens & Scholars-Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award, due December 1

Budget/Amount: Maximum $20,000 stipend ($12,000 for summer; $8,000 for academic year) can cover travel, books/supplies, manuscript preparation, research assistance. No indirect costs allowed. 

Purpose: Pre-tenure support to emerging faculty leaders working in any field of the humanities and social sciences. Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award will recognize junior faculty candidates who not only balance research, teaching, and service but in fact give great weight to the creation of an inclusive campus community for underrepresented students and scholars. The selectors will focus on and privilege service and leadership activities that address and ameliorate underrepresentation on campus, and give preference to candidates who embody a high standard of excellence. 

Eligibility: Assistant professors in tenure-track appointments who have passed the standard third-year/midpoint review (or equivalent), typically in fourth or fifth year of tenure-track appointment. Cannot have already submitted tenure review dossier or be up for tenure during award year. Cannot have been recipient of Career Enhancement Fellowship. Must be US Citizen or Permanent Resident. Note: Two letters of recommendation from senior colleagues must be submitted directly before full application can be submitted. 

RFP: https://citizensandscholars.org/fellowships/for-scholars-education-leaders/mellon-emerging-faculty-leaders-award/ 

Webinar/Resources: Applications open August 5. 

Folger Shakespeare Library Long Term Fellowship, due December 15

Deadline: December 15, 2024 by 11:59 pm ET
Budget/Amount: $70,000 for 9-month fellowship (25/26 academic year)

Purpose: Supports full-time scholarly work on significant research projects that draw on the strengths of the Folger’s collections and programs. Up to 3 months of fellowship can be virtual; remainder must be on-site.

Eligibility: Must hold terminal degree (PhD) by time fellowship begins.

RFP: https://www.folger.edu/research/the-folger-institute/fellowships/apply-for-a-fellowship/long-term-fellowships/

Webinar/Resources:  FAQ. Separate application for Short-term Fellowships due January 15, 2025 (https://www.folger.edu/research/the-folger-institute/fellowships/apply-for-a-fellowship/short-term-fellowships/#application-instructions)

American Institute for Economic Research: Harwood Visiting Research Fellowship, Due January 15

Deadlines:

Harwood/Long Term: January 15, 2025 (also April 1, July 1)

Award: $350/week stipend, travel assistance, accommodation, meals. 

Purpose: Residential fellowships (in person at AIER in Great Barrington, MA) for researchers and academics in the social sciences and humanities. Short-Term: 2-6 weeks.

Eligibility: Full-time professional researchers at all career stages.

American Institute for Economic Research: Short-Term Visiting Research Fellowship, Due January 15

Short-Term Visiting Research Fellowship

Deadlines: Rolling deadline

Budget/Amount: accommodation, meals.

Purpose: Residential fellowships (in person at AIER in Great Barrington, MA) for researchers and academics in the social sciences and humanities. Harwood: 10-12 weeks. Short-Term: 2-6 weeks.

Eligibility: Full-time professional researchers at all career stages.

Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science, due 1/15/25

Budget/Amount: 5 years of funding, subject to review after 2 years (can continue after faculty position secured, but must start as non-faculty). Award is CHF 600,000 (~$700k USD) over 5 years.

Purpose: Supports Postdoctoral researchers in all areas (including natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, and humanities) who pursue original and unconventional projects in science that are outside the mainstream of research in the discipline. Projects should exploit new avenues of research and may be transdisciplinary. Applicants must provide evidence of outstanding achievement in their particular scientific field and be willing to engage in a dialogue on relevant social, cultural, political, or economic issues across the frontiers of their particular discipline.

Eligibility: Must hold PhD by application deadline and have received it maximum of 5 years prior to application deadline. Cannot hold or have ever held faculty-equivalent position.

RFP: https://brancoweissfellowship.org/

Webinar/Resources:  Fellowship Guidelines

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

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