External Funding
The Townsend Center maintains this list of funding opportunities for dissertation-stage graduate students, recent Ph.D. recipients, and faculty in the arts, humanities and social sciences. For more details on each program, or to print this information, please download the PDF.
The Center also offers a free proposal writing guide, Scholarly Arguments, for graduate students and scholars seeking funding.
| Institution | Focus | Grant Amount | URL | Deadline | |
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| University Of California, Berkeley | Center For Studies In Higher Education | The project should be specifically linked to the resources and opportunities available at the Center and on the Berkeley campus. | Workspace and campus resources. | http://cshe.berkeley.edu/ | Open |
| Bowling Green State University | Institute for the Study of Culture and Society | Interdisciplinary study of popular culture in all its many roles and manifestations and combining approaches of the humanities and social sciences. | Workspace and campus resources. | www.bgsu.edu/offices/ics | Open |
| New America Foundation | For young writers, thinkers, and analysts who wish to become leading voices in the national policy debate. | $25-75,000 | www.newamerica.net | Rolling | |
| Rockefeller Foundation | The Foundation awards organizations only, not individuals. Major themes are Food Security, Health Equity, Creativity & Culture, Working Communities, and Global Inclusion; and regional work in Southeast Asia, North America, and Eastern and Southern Africa. | Grant information depends on location/project desired. | www.rockfound.org/ | Rolling, to institutions only | |
| Center For Advanced Study In Behavioral Science | Areas include: humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematical and statistical specialities. | Competitive | www.casbs.org | by nomination only | |
| Hastings Center | Ethical issues in medicine, the life sciences and the professions | Accommodations only | www.thehastingscenter.org/ | 3 mo. in advance of intended visit | |
| International Research & Exchanges Board | Policy research and development; cross-disciplinary studies strongly urged to apply. | Living expenses | www.irex.org | Varies | |
| William Reese Company | Relating to bibliography of any part of the Western Hemisphere; the history of the book in the Americas. | Varies | www.reeseco.com/papers/fellow.htm | Varies | |
| University Of London | Institute For Historical Research | Archival research in the humanities in the U.K. | $20,000 | www.history.ac.uk/awards/index.html | Varies |
| Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Six core program areas: higher education, museums and art conservation, performing arts, population, conservation and the environment, and public affairs. | Varies | www.mellon.org | Varies | |
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| German Marshall Fund | Issues important to European countries and the US., economics, environment, foreign policy, immigration. | $5,000 - 10,000 | www.gmfus.org | Nominations: June 20 | |
| American Institute Of Indian Studies | Research on and in India. | 55,000 - 80,000 Rs/month stipends | www.indiastudies.org | ~ July 1 annually | |
| Rhodes University, SA | Humanities. | R 75,000 + | www.ru.ac.za/research/ | ~ July 31 | |
| Council For International Exchange Of Scholars | Fulbright Scholar Program | All disciplines. | Varies by country and award type | www.cies.org/about_fulb.htm | August 1 annually for traditional award |
| Library Of Congress | John W. Kluge Center | $4,000 per month for up to 12 months | www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships | August 16, 2005 | |
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| American Philosophical Society | Generally unrestricted: Field research; Native American research. | $25,000 | www.amphilsoc.org | Fall and Spring | |
| Social Science Research Council | Area studies, economics, sexuality, public policy, social sciences, philanthropy, global security. | Varies | www.ssrc.org/fellowships/ | Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan | |
| University Of Cambridge | Madgalene College | Arts and Social Sciences. | Not availalble | www.magd.cam.ac.uk/admissions | ~ September 2 |
| Harvard University | Society Of Fellows | $56,500 per year | www.socfell.fas.harvard.edu/ | September 9, 2005 | |
| American Institute For Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) | German studies; emphasis on transnational issues and German-American cooperation. | up to $4,600/mo. | www.aicgs.org | September 15, 2005 and February 15, 2006 | |
| Dallas Institute Of Humanities And Culture | Scholarly work with a significant public or applied component related to cultural concerns. | $50,000 cash award | www.dallasinstitute.org | September 15, 2005, by nomination | |
| Playwrights’ Center | Playwriting. | $9,000 | www.pwcenter.org | September 16, 2005 | |
| American Council Of Learned Societies | All disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. | $17,000 - $75,000 | www.acls.org | September 28, 2005 and November 10, 2005 | |
| New York Public Library | Cullman Center For Scholars & Writers | Collections at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library. | $50,000 | www.nypl.org/research/chss/scholars/ | September 30, 2005 |
| University Of Michigan | Michigan Society Of Fellows | $47,271 per year | www.rackham.umich.edu/fellowships | September 30, 2005 | |
| Woodrow Wilson International Center | Latin American Program | Democracy in Latin America. | $10,000 | www.wilsoncenter.org | September 30, 2005 |
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| Cornell University | Society For The Humanities | $40,000 | www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum | October 1, 2005 | |
| John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | All fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. | $37,747 avg. | www.gf.org | October 1 and December 1, 2005 | |
| Indiana University | Lilly Library | For research using the library’s collection: British, French and American literature and history. | up to $40,000 | www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/fellowships.shtml | ~ October 1 and April 1 annually |
| Organization Of American Historians | The roles of the White House as home, workplace, museum, structure, and symbol. | $2,000 per month | www.oah.org/index.html | October 1 and December 1, 2005 | |
| Rhodes Scholarship | All fields available at the University of Oxford. | All educational costs and living expenses | www.rhodesscholar.org | ~ October 1 annually | |
| Temple University | Temple Society Of Fellows In The Humanities | Unknown | www.temple.edu/humanities | October 1, 2005 | |
| Woodrow Wilson International Center | Primary themes are: governance, including the development of democratic institutions;the U.S. role in the world; and key long-term future challenges | Salary replacement | www.wilsoncenter.org | October 1, 2005 | |
| Columbia University | Society Of Fellows In The Humanities | $52,000 + | www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows | October 3, 2005 | |
| Harvard University | Radcliffe Institute | All fields, especially the study of women, gender and society. | up to $55,000 | www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/apply/index.php | October 3, 2005 |
| Princeton University | Society Of Fellows In The Liberal Arts | $62,000 per year | www.princeton.edu/~sf | October 3, 2005 | |
| U. S. Department Of Education | Javits Fellowship | Open | Up to $30,000 and tuition | www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits | October 3, 2005 |
| British Consulate- General | Marshall Scholarhip | All fields | About 20,000 pounds per year | www.marshallscholarship.org | October 5, 2005 |
| American Antiquarian Society | American history and culture through 1876. | up to $40,000 | www.americanantiquarian.org/fellowships.htm | October 5, October 15, January 15, 2006 | |
| Us-Ireland Alliance | All fields | $12,000 | www.us-irelandalliance.org | October 10, 2005 | |
| Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation | Women’s studies. | $3,000 in research funds | www.woodrow.org/womens-studies | October 10, 2005 | |
| American Academy Of Arts & Sciences | Humanities & Culture; Science & Global Security; Social Policy & American Institutions; Education. | $35,000 - 50,000 | www.amacad.org | October 14, 2005 | |
| Weatherhead Center For International Affairs | Harvard Academy For International And Area Studies | Area studies, with preference to non-Western areas. | $25,00 and $44,000 | www.wcfia.harvard.edu/academy | October 14, 2005 |
| University Of California, Office Of The President | All disciplines. | up to $50,000. | www.ucop.edu/research/prfh | October 14 and November 15, 2005 | |
| Harvard University | Center For Hellenic Studies | Ancient Greek civilization. Fields of research include archaeology, art history, epigraphy, history, literary criticism, philology, philosophy, and interdisciplinary studies. | up to $26,000 | www.chs.harvard.edu | October 15, 2005 |
| Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation For Int’l Scholarly Exchange | Chinese Studies in the humanities and social sciences. | $15,000 and $30,000 | www.cckf.org/index-e.htm | October 15 | |
| Harvard University | Villa I Tatti | The Italian Renaissance. | $45-50,000 | www.itatti.it | October 15, 2005 |
| National Humanities Center | Religion, literary studies, art history or visual culture, french history/culture, asian studies, theology, American Art History; o/wise unrestricted. | up to $50,000 | www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/fellowships/fellshipapinfo.htm | October 15, 2005 | |
| University Of Pennsylvania | PENN Humanities Forum | 2006-2007 Theme: Travel | $42,000 | http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/mellon_description.shtml | October 15, 2005 |
| University Of Virginia | Virginia FOUNDATION For The Humanities | South Atlantic United States, Folk Culture, African American Studies, Virginia History and Culture, Violence and Survival | up to $15,000 per semester | www.virginiafoundation.org | October 15, 2005 |
| University Of Wisconsin Madison | Institute For Research In The Humanities | Literary and historical studies of the European Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance periods up to about 1700. | $40,000 | www.humanities-institute.wisc.edu | October 15, 2005 |
| W.F. Albright Institute Of Archaeological Research | Ancient Near Eastern Studies | www.aiar.org | October 15, 2005 | ||
| Stanford University | Stanford Humanities Center | $40,000 - 50,000 | http://shc.stanford.edu | October 17 and December 5, 2005 | |
| Harvard Divinity School | Women's Studies In Religion Program | Feminist theology, biblical studies, ethics, women’s history, and interdisciplinary scholarship. | $40,000 + | www.hds.harvard.edu/wsrp | October 17, 2005 |
| Columbia University | Center For Comparative Literature & Society | Rethinking comparative literary and cultural studies in their relation to area studies and the historically oriented social sciences. | $41,000 + | www.columbia.edu/cu/ccls | October 18, 2005 |
| Institute Of International Education | FulbrightProgram ForU.S. Students | Research abroad in all discplines. | 1 year of research support | www.fulbrightonline.org/us/home.html | October 21, 2005 |
| University Of Calgary | Calgary Institute For The Humanities | Science, engineering and the humanities. | $7,500 CA | www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/Others/CIH | October 24, 2005 |
| Robert Schuman Center For Advanced Studies | European University Institute | European economics, history and civilization, law, political science, social sciences. | 2,000 Euro per month | www.iue.it/RSCAS | October 25, 2005 |
| Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation | Varies | www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/index.htm | ~ October 31 | ||
| University Of Cambridge | Centre For Research In The Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities | The theme for 2006-07 will be “Evidence”. | Accommodation and travel expenses. | www.crassh.cam.ac.uk | October 31, 2005 |
| November | |||||
| National Academies | Ford Foundation Fellowships | Social sciences, performance studies, literature. | $40,000 | http://national-academies.org/fellowships | November-December 2005 |
| University Of California Office Of The President | Pacific Rim Research Program | Interactions, flows, or major issues affecting the Pacific Rim region; collaboration of scholars in different countries and disciplines. | $10,840 and $16,500 on average | www.ucop.edu/research/pacrim/ | November - February, depending on campus |
| American Academy In Rome | Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Historic Preservation, Music Composition, Visual Arts, Italian Studies, | $10,000 - 21,000 | www.aarome.org | November 1 annually | |
| University Of Pennsylvania | Mcneil Center For Early American Studies | North America and the Caribbean before 1850 and relying on research in Philadelphia-area archives and libraries. | $18,000 and $39,000 | www.mceas.org/ | November 1, 2005 and March 1, 2006 |
| Boston University | Archaeological Institute Of America | Meditteranean archaeology. | $11,000 and $22,000 | www.archaeological.org/ | November 1, 2005 and January 15, 2006 |
| Library Company Of Philadelphia | The Library contains printed materials relating to every aspect of American culture and society from 1731 to the latter part of the 19th century, | www.librarycompany.org | November 1, 2005 and March 1, 2006 | ||
| American Political Science Association | Scholarly interest in Congress and the policymaking process. | $38,000 + | www.apsanet.org/section_165.cfm | November 1, 2005 | |
| American- Scandinavian Foundation | All fields, study in Scandinavia | $20,000 | www.amscan.org | November 1, 2005 | |
| Baeck Institute | The history of German-speaking Jewry | $2,000 | www.lbi.org | November 1, 2005 | |
| College Of William And Mary | Omohundro Institute Of Early American History & Culture | North America’s indigenous and immigrant peoples during colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. | $40,000 | www.wm.edu/oieahc/fello.html | November 1, 2005 |
| Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collections | Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, Garden and Landscape Studies. | $35,000 and $70,000+ | www.doaks.org/fellowships.html | November 1, 2005 | |
| Getty Foundation | Art History. The theme for 2006-07 is “Religion and Ritual”. | $18,000 - $75,000 | www.getty.edu | November 1, 2005 | |
| Harvard University | Edmond G. Safra Foundation Center For Ethics | Ethical issues in public life and the professions. | up to $40,000 | www.ethics.harvard.edu | November 1, 2005 |
| National Gallery Of Art | Center For Advanced Study In The Visual Arts | History, Theory, and Criticism of Visual Art. | $50,000 | www.nga.gov/resources/casva.htm | November 1, 2005 |
| Soros (Paul And Daisy) Fellowships For New Americans | Arts, humanities, and social sciences | $20,000 plus 50% tuition per year | www.pdsoros.org/ | November 1 annually | |
| Spencer Foundation | The dissertation topic must concern education, but graduate study may be in any academic discipline or professional field. | $20,000 | www.spencer.org | November 1, 2005 | |
| Folger Shakespeare Library | Folger Institute | Folger Shakespeare Library collections | $35,000 - $50,000 | www.folger.edu/academic/fellows.asp | ~ November 1 and March1 |
| DAAD German Academic Exchange Service | Al fields, for study in Germany. | About 10,000 Euro | www.daad.org | November 1 and 15, 2005 | |
| Wenner-Gren Foundation | Anthropological research. | $25,000 and $40,000 | www.wennergren.org | November 1 and May 1 | |
| Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation | Ethical or religious values. | $18,500 | www.woodrow.org/newcombe | November 7, 2005 | |
| National Academy Of Education | Matters relevant to the improvement of education in all its forms. | $55,000 | www.nae.nyu.edu/spencer/index.htm | November 10, 2005 | |
| Wesleyan University | Center For The Humanities | Themes for 2006-2007 will be “The Natural, the Supernatural, and the Unnatural” (fall) and “Domesticity, Past, Present, and Future” (spring). | $45,000 | www.wesleyan.edu/chum | November 10, 2005 |
| American Association Of University Women | $6,000 - 30,000 | www.aauw.org | November 15, December 1 | ||
| College Of The University Of Chicago | Society Of Fellows | Core courses | $43,330 | https://fellows.uchicago.edu/ | ~ November 15 |
| Hagley Museum And Library | Arts and industries; research on the library’s collections. | up to $6,000 | www.hagley.lib.de.us | November 15 and December 1, 2005. | |
| Institute For Advanced Study | Greek and Roman civilizations, European history, Islamic history, East Asian studies, history of art, and moderan international relations | Salary equivalent | www.hs.ias.edu | November 15, 2005 | |
| School Of American Research | Anthropology | $35,000 | www.sarweb.org | November 15, and December 15 | |
| Stanford University | Freeman Spogli Institute For International Studies | Japanese Studies | $46-56,000 | http://fsi.stanford.edu | ~ November 15 |
| The Graduate Center/CUNY | Center For Lesbian And Gay Studies | LGTBQ studies. | $5,000 and $7,500 | www.clags.org | November 15, 2005 |
| University Of British Columbia | $44,000 per year | www.grad.ubc.ca | November 15, 2005 | ||
| Australian National University | Humanities Research Centre | Theme for 2006-2007 not available at time of publication. | No stipend | www.anu.edu.au/hrc/ | ~ November 25 |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | Center For Advanced Holocaust Studies | Holocaust studies | $3,000 per month | www.ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/ | November 25, 2005 |
| University Of Cambridge | Churchill College | Arts and Social Sciences | ~ 17,000 pounds per year | www.chu.cam.ac.uk/admissions/fellows/ | ~ November 25 |
| Stanford University | Humanities Fellows Program | History, Philosophy, Classics, and Religious Studies | $50,000 pa | http://fellows.stanford.edu/application.html | November 29, 2004 |
| University Of Michigan | Center For Afroamerican & African Studies | All Disciplines, but studies on certain geographical areas encouraged. | $45,000 | www.umich.edu/~iinet/caas/ | November 30, 2005 |
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| Economic History Association | Economic History | $5,000 and $10,000 | www.eh.net/EHA/Grants/content.html | December | |
| University Of California, Irvine | Humanities Research Institute | Interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities. | $18,000 - 29,000 + | www.uchri.org | December and February |
| Freie Universitat Berlin | Berlin Program For Advanced German And European Studies | Comparative and interdisciplinary study of economic, political and social aspects of modern and contemporary German and European affairs. | 1,400 Euro per month | http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/ | December 1, 2005 |
| Gilder Lehrman Institute Of American History | Research in American civilization at one of the institute’s five archives. | $1,500-4,000 | www.gilderlehrman.org/historians/fellowship1.html | December 1, 2005 and ~ May 6, 2006 | |
| New York Public Library | Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture | History, literature, and culture of peoples of African descent. | $25,000 and $50,000 | www.nypl.org/research/sc/scholars/ | December 1, 2005 |
| Princeton University | Shelby Cullom Davis Center For Historical Studies | 2005-2006: “Utopia/Dystopia: Historical Conditions of Possibility” | Salary replacement. | http://davisctr.princeton.edu | December 1, 2005 |
| University Of Houston African American Studies Program | African American Studies | Teaching Salary | www.hfac.uh.edu/aas/visit_Scholars.html | ~ December 1 | |
| University Of Illinois At Urbana Champaign | College Of Liberal Arts And Sciences | Anthropology, English, history, and literature. | $40,000 per year | www.aasrp.uiuc.edu/education/postDoc.html | December 1, 2005 |
| University Of Utah | Tanner Humanities Center | $33,000 + | www.hum.utah.edu/humcntr | December 1, 2005 | |
| Washington University In St. Louis | Interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the humanities and social sciences. | $40,700 per year | http://artsci.wustl.edu/~szwicker/mellonpostdoc | December 1, 2005 | |
| Woodrow Wilson International Center | East European Studies | Policy relevant projects on East Europe, esp. projects on Southeast Europe, or the Western Balkans. | Unavailable | www.wilsoncenter.org | December 1, 2005 |
| Woodrow Wilson International Center | Kennan Institute | Political, social and economic issues affecting Russia and other successor states to the Soviet Union. | $3,000 per month | www.wilsoncenter.org | December 1, 2005 |
| University Of Edinburgh | Institute For Advanced Studies In The Humanities | 5,000 pounds | www.iash.ed.ac.uk/index.html | ~ December 1 and May 31 annually | |
| University Of Virginia | Carter G. Woodson Institute | African American and African Studies. | $15,000 pa and $25,000 | www.virginia.edu/~woodson/ | December 5, 2005 |
| Brown University | Pembroke Center | Annual theme. | $35,000 | www.pembrokecenter.org | ~ December 10 |
| University Of Washington | Program In Critical Asian Studies, Simpson Center | Annual theme. | $37,500 | http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/ research_asian_studies.htm |
~ December 10 |
| Oregon State University | Center For The Humanities | Interdisciplinary themes will receive first consideration. | up to $32,000 | http://osu.orst.edu/dept/humanities | December 12, 2005 |
| Harry S. Truman Library Institute | Some aspect of the life and career of Harry S. Truman or of the public and foreign policy issues which were prominent during the Truman years. | $16,000 and $30,000 | www.trumanlibrary.org/grants/ | December 15 and February 1 | |
| Frank Huntington Beebe Fund | Music composition and performance | $15,000 | www.beebefund.org/ | ~ December 15 | |
| Huntington Library | Scholarly research on the library’s collections: British & US history, literature, art, the history of science, & photography. | up to $40,000 | www.huntington.org | December 15, 2005 | |
| Rutgers University | Rutgers Center For Historical Analysis | “The Quest of the West” | $35,000 | http://rcha.rutgers.edu/ | December 15, 2005 |
| University Of Alberta | Most fields of study | $40,000 per year | http://gradfile.fgsro.ualberta.ca/postdoctoral/ | December 16, 2005 | |
| Florida International University | Wolfsonian | Material cultures of the modern world. Humanities themes that can be supported by materials in the Wolfsonian’s collection | Living expenses | www.wolfsonian.org | ~ December 31 annually |
| George Mason University | Institute For The Humane Studies | up to $12,000 | www.theihs.org | ~ December 31 annually | |
| NATO Manfred Worner Fellowship | NATO-specific topics. | 20,000 Euro | www.nato.int/acad/fellow/mw00e.htm | December 31, 2005 | |
| University Of California, Los Angeles | Institute Of American Cultures | Interdisciplinary research at the institute’s centers: American Indian, Asian American, African American Studies, and Chicano. | $30,000 - 35,000 + | www.gdnet.ucla.edu/iacweb/iachome.htm | ~ December 31 annually |
| January | |||||
| Rockefeller Foundation | Bellagio Center | Resident housing and expenses | www.rockfound.org/bellagio | January, May, August | |
| American School Of Classical Studies At Athens | Research and study in the history and monuments of Hellenic civilization. | Varies | www.ascsa.edu.gr | ~ January-February | |
| Swedish Institute | SEK 7,500-9,000 per month | www.studyinsweden.se | ~ January - March | ||
| Emory University | American Research Center In Egypt | Middle Eastern studies inthe humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. | $2,000 average monthly stipend | www.arce.org/ | January 5, 2006 |
| Newberry Library | American Indian studies, American history, Renaissance Studies, women’s studies, history of cartography. | up to $40,000 | www.newberry.org | January 6, January 10, and March 1, 2006 | |
| New York University | Internatonal Center For Advanced Studies | “The Authority of Knowledge in a Global Age” | $35,000 | www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/icas/ | January 6, 2006 |
| Rutgers University | Center For Critical Analysis Of ContemporaryCulture | Annual theme applies. | $40,000 | www.criticalanalysis.rutgers.edu | ~ January 5 annually |
| University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill | Carolina Postdoc Program For Faculty Diversity | Any discipline represented on the campus | $35,625 + | http://research.unc.edu/red/postdoc.php | January 6, 2006 |
| Yale University | Program In Agrarian Studies | Theme: “Hinterlands, Frontiers, Cities, and States: Transactions and Identities” | Individually determined; limited | www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies | January 6, 2006 |
| Hispanic Theological Initiative | Religion and theology. | $15,000 and $16,000 | www.htiprogram.org/index.htm | January 11 | |
| Harvard University | John M. Olin Institute For Strategic St.,Weatherhead Ctr. | Basic research in the broad area of security and strategic affairs. | $20,000 and $35,000 | www.wcfia.harvard.edu/olin/ | January 14 |
| Chateaubriand Scholarship Program | Any discipline in the humanities or social sciences. | 1,300 Euros per month | ~ January 15 annually | ||
| Harvard University | W. E. B. Dubois Institute For Afro-American Research | History, culture and social institutions of Africans and African Americans | Accommodation but no stipend | http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu/ | ~ January 15 annually |
| Louisville Institute | Contemporary religious communities; the institutional reconfiguration of American religion. | $18,000 | www.louisville-institute.org/ | January 15 annually | |
| Northwestern University | Science In Human Culture Program | Science studies | $33,500 per year | http://www2.mmlc.northwestern.edu/shc/postdoc.htm | ~ January 15 |
| Princeton University | Program In Hellenic Studies | Hellenic Studies, with a special emphasis on Modern Greek or Byzantine Studies, including their relation to the Classical tradition. | $39,100 + | www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/fellowships.html | ~ January 15 annually |
| University Of Notre Dame | Center For Philosophy Of Religion | Philosophy of religion | $14,000 and $25,000 | www.nd.edu/~cprelig/fellowship.html | ~ January 15 and March 1 |
| Smithsonian Institution | Independent research projects in association with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff | $20,000 and $35,000 | www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm#fofg | ~ January 15 annually | |
| Smithsonian Institution | American Art Museum/Renwick Gallery | Resident research in the American Art Museum of the Smithsonian. | $20,000 and $35,000 | www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm#fsaam | ~ January 15 |
| Smithsonian Institution | Center For Folklife And Cultural Heritages | Theoretical development of the concept of cultural heritage. | Stipend - amount unknown | www.folklife.si.edu/index.html | ~ January 15 annually |
| John Carter Brown Library | Colonial history of the Americas. | $1,600-4,000/mo. for 2-9 mo. | www.JCBL.org | January 10, 2006 | |
| Council Of American OverseasResearch Centers | For advanced multi-country research overseas. | $9,000 | www.caorc.org | January 13, 2006 | |
| American Musicological Society | Music scholarship | $15,000 | www.ams-net.org | January 15, 2006 | |
| Harvard University | Charles Warren Center For Studies In American History | Cultural Reverberations of Modern War | Individually determined | www.fas.harvard.edu/~cwc/index.html | January 15, 2006 |
| University Of Notre Dame | Medieval Institute | Medieval studies. | $37,500 | www.nd.edu/~medinst/ | January 15, 2006 |
| Smithsonian Institution | Lemelson Center, National Museum Of American History | Creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society | Stipend - amount unknown | www.invention.smithsonian.org/resources/ | ~ January 15 annually |
| Bogliasco Foundation | Liguria Study Center For The Arts And Humanities | Archeology, architecture, classics, dance, film and video, history, landscape architecture, literature, music, philosophy, theater, and visual arts. | Housing | www.liguriastudycenter.org | January 15 and April 15 annually |
| Stanford University | Center For East Asian Studies | New Chinese Studies | $32,000 | http://ceas.stanford.edu/ | ~ January 15 |
| University Of California, La Jolla | Center For Comparative Immigration Studies | Advanced research and writing on any aspect of international migration and refugee flows, in any of the social sciences, history, law, and comparative literature. | $2,250 - $4,000 per month | www.ccis-ucsd.org | ~ January 15 |
| University Of California, San Diego | Center For US- Mexico Studies | Any discipline for research related to Mexico or U.S.-Mexican relations. a | $3,000-5,000 per month | www.usmex.ucsd.edu | ~ January 15 annually |
| University Of Colorado | Center For Humanities And The Arts | $33,000 + | www.colorado.edu/artssciences/CHA | ~ January 15 annually | |
| University Of Connecticut | Humanities Institute | $40,000 | www.humanities.uconn.edu | ~ January 15 annually | |
| University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign | African American Studies And Research Program | Africa and the African Diaspora. | $42,000 | www.aasrp.uiuc.edu/education/postDoc.html | ~ January 15 |
| University Of London | School Of Advanced Study | Humanities and social sciences. | Costs of travel and accommodation | www.sas.ac.uk | ~ January 15 annually |
| Yale University | Center For International And Area Studies | International and area studies. Fundamental questions of order, conflict, and violence. | $20,600 and $36,000 | www.yale.edu/ycias/ | ~ January 15 |
| Vanderbilt University | Robert Penn Warren Center For The Humanities | “Between Word and Image” | $40,000 | www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center | January 18, 2006 |
| Harvard University | Minda De Gunzburg Center For European Studies | History, politics, economics, society or culture; preference to projects involving Germany. | $40,000 + | www.ces.fas.harvard.edu | ~ January 21 |
| Tulane University | Deep South Regional Humanities Center | Study of the Deep South (Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee) | Up to $1,500 | http://www.tulane.edu/~rhc/ | ~ January 24 |
| University Of Notre Dame | Erasmus Institute | A wide array of disciplines, with a regard for the resources available within Catholic intellectual and cultural traditions and the other Abrahamic faiths. | $35,000 | www.nd.edu/~erasmus/residential_fellowships/ | ~ January 28 |
| Dartmouth College | Leslie Humanities Center | Humanities and social sciences. | $46,750 + | www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/mellon.html | January 31, 2006 |
| University Of Rochester | Frederick Douglass Institute | African and African-American studies | $18,000 and $35,000 | www.rochester.edu/College/AAS/ | January 31, 2006 |
| Josephine De Karman Fellowship Trust | Humanities. | $16,000 | www.dekarman.org | ~ January 31 | |
| University Of California At Berkeley | Any humanities discipline at UC Berkeley. | $50,000 per year | http://ls.berkeley.edu/art-hum/mellon/ | ~ January 31 | |
| University Of California, Berkeley | France-Berkeley Fund | Scientific and scholarly exchanges between France and UC Berkeley in all disciplines. | up to $10,000 | http://ies.berkeley.edu/fbf/ | ~ January 31 annually |
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| American Schools Of Oriental Research | American Center Of Oriental Research (Amman) | Near Eastern Studies especially, and the arts, humanities and social sciences. | up to $25,000 | www.bu.edu/acor | ~ February 1 annually |
| Columbia College | Center For Black Music Research | Research, preservation, and dissemination of information about the history of black music on a global scale | $25,000 + | www.cbmr.org | ~ February 1 |
| Fund For Theological Education | Theological education and scholarly research. | Tuition plus stipend up to $15,000. | www.thefund.org | February 1 and March 1 | |
| Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation | Understanding of the causes, manifestations and control of violence, aggression and dominance. | $15-30,000 | http://hfg.org | ~ February 1 and August 1 annually | |
| Harvard University | Belfer Center For Science And International Affairs | Interdisciplinary research in science, technology and public policy. Special themes apply. | $20,000 and $34,000 | http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu | ~ February 1 annually |
| Morris K. Udall Foundation | Environmental public policy and/or environmental conflict resolution. | $24,000 | http://www.udall.gov/ | ~ February 1 | |
| Newcomen Society Of The United States | Historical topics relating to any aspect of business, industry, technology, and the professions in American life. | $10,000 and $46,000 | http://www.newcomen.org/scholarships_overview.php | February 1, 2006 | |
| Stanford University | Center For International Security And Cooperation | A broad range of topics related to peace and international security. | $20,000 and $33,000 | http://cisac.stanford.edu | ~ February 1 annually |
| University Of California, Los Angeles | Center For 17th & 18th Century Studies | 17th and 18th century studies; British Studies; Research in the collections of the Clark Library. | $27,600 and $35,000 per year | www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/ | February 1, 2006 |
| University Of Texas At Austin | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | For research requiring use of the Center’s collections; 20th century British, American and French literature, photography, music, film and performance. | Up to $3,000 per month | www.hrc.utexas.edu | February 1, 2006 |
| University Of Virginia | Miller Center Of Public Affairs | Contemporary history, public policy, and American politics. | $18,000 | www.millercenter.virginia.edu | ~ February 1 |
| Harvard University | Reischauer Institute Of Japanese Studies | Japanese Studies. | $40,000 | www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs | ~ February 3 annually |
| Yale University | Whitney Humanities Center | $45,000 | http://www.yale.edu/whc/ | February 3, 2006 | |
| University Of California, Santa Cruz | Center For Cultural Studies | “Other Globalizations: Histories, Trans-regionalisms, and Cultural Formations” | $40,000 | http://humanities.ucsc.edu/CultStudies/Rockefeller.html | February 4, 2005 |
| Haverford College | Hurford Humanities Center | Humanities, arts. | Amount of stipend unknown | www.haverford.edu/HHC | ~ February 15 |
| Intercollegiate Studies Institute | Graduate studies for the purpose of teaching at the college level. | Tuition and awards up to $20,000 | www.isi.org/ | ~ February 15 annually | |
| Mary Baker Eddy Library | Collections of the library: women's history, spirituality and health, religious studies, 19th-century history, and journalism. | $625 per week | www.marybakereddylibrary.org | ~ February 15 | |
| Library Of Congress | Swann Foundation | Caricature and cartoon. | $15,000 | www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/swann-fellow.html | February 15, 2006 |
| University Of Windsor | Humanities Research GROUP | Traditional humanities disciplines or theoretical, historical or philosophical aspects of the sciences, social sciences, arts and professional studies. | No stipend | www.uwindsor.ca/hrg | February 15, 2006 |
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| Institute Of Turkish Studies | Turkish studies | $5,000 - $10,000 | http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=155130 | March | |
| Yale University | Howard A. Lamar Center For The Study Of Frontiers And Bdrs | Advanced historical study of North American frontiers and borders, as well as the comparative study of the frontier experience throughout the world. | $31,000 + | www.yale.edu/lamarcenter/fellowships.html | March? |
| North American Conference On British Studies | British history or British studies | $6,000 | www.nacbs.org/diss.html | March | |
| University Of Geneva, Switzerland / University Of Virginia | Graduate Institute Of International Studies | International affairs | $11,250 + | http://minerva.acc.virginia.edu/crees/gallatin1.htm | March |
| Smithsonian Institution | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum | Theoretical development of the concept of cultural heritage. | $10,000 | http://ndm.si.edu/ | ~ March 1 annually |
| Harvard University | Program On US-Japan Relations | Social sciences research that illuminates Japan's relations with the rest of the world in the broadest sense. | up to $40,000 | www.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan | ~ March 1 annually |
| National Italian American Foundation | For Italian American students or students from any ethnic background majoring or minoring in Italian language, Italian studies, Italian American studies or a related field. | $2,500 - $10,000 | www.niaf.org/scholarships/about.asp | March 1, 2006 | |
| Pontifical Institute Of Mediaeval Studies | Medieval studies | $35,000 | http://www.pims.ca/ | March 1, 2006 | |
| University Of Maryland | Latin American Studies Center | Issues related to Latin America, focusing on culture and democracy, governance and civil society, literature and ethnicity, and migration studies. | $20,000 | www.inform.umd.edu/las/Academics/pdg/index.htm | March 1, 2006 |
| University Of Texas Medical Branch | Institute For The Medical Humanities | Theme not yet announced. | $4,000/mo. | www.utmb.edu/imh/ | ~ March 1 annually |
| Woodrow Wilson International Center | Africa PROGRAM | Subjects concerning Africa that are relevant to the broader policy community in Washington. | $3,000 per month | www.wilsoncenter.org | March 1 |
| American Historical Association | American history and the collections of the Library of Congress. | $5,000 | www.historians.org/prizes/index.cfm | ~ March 15 | |
| Graham Foundation For Advanced Studies In The Fine Arts | Architecture and built environment. | Up to $15,000 | www.grahamfoundation.org/ | March 15 | |
| Harvard University | Carr Center For Human Rights Policy | Human rights. | Non-stipendiary | www.ksg.harvard.edu/cchrp/ | ~ March 15 annually |
| Lawrence University | Liberal arts | $32,000-36,000 + per year | www.lawrence.edu/dept/hr/jobs/Fellowships.htm | ~ March 15 | |
| Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies | Celtic studies. | 20,000 Euros | http://www.celt.dias.ie/ | ~ March 31 | |
| Yale University | Yale University Library | Collections of the Yale Library | $46,700 | www.library.yale.edu/lhr/jobs/intern/scfellow.html | ~ March 31 |
| University Of Southern California | College Of Letters, Arts And Sciences | Humanities. | $40,000 | http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/ | Early Spring |
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| University Of California, Riverside | Uc Mexus | Mexican studies, US-Mexico relations, Latino studies, Critical issues, UC-Mexico collaboration | up to $30,000 | http://ucmexus.ucr.edu/index.php | ~ April annually |
| Economic History Society | Institute For Historical Research | Economics and social history | Unknown | www.ehs.org.uk/society/grants_awards.asp | ~ April 1 |