Fellowships

ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
Stipend: Up to $55,000
Project costs Amount: Up to $25,000
Deadline: November 10
Description: This program invites applicants to pursue digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences.

American Academy in Rome Prize Fellowships
 Deadline: November 1
Description: The Academy supports up to thirty individuals working in archaeology, architecture, classical studies, design arts, historic preservation and conservation, history of art, landscape architecture, literature, modern Italian studies, musical composition, post-classical humanistic studies and visual arts.

Council of American Overseas Research Centers - Fellowship Program for Advanced Multi-Country Research
Deadline: January 12  
Description: The program is open to U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. in fields in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences and wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance.  Scholars must carry out research in at least one of the countries which host overseas research centers.

Folger Library Research Fellowships
Deadline: November 1
The Folger Shakespeare Library offers long-term and short-term research fellowships.

Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Grants to Individuals in East Asian Archaeology and Early History
Study and Research Fellowships
Stipend: $32,000
Deadline: February 15
Description: These fellowships will be awarded to doctoral candidates and recent recipient of the Ph.D. for a full academic residence (10 months) at a university.

Summer Field-School Scholarships
Stipend: $9,000
Deadline: February 15
Description: These fellowships will be awarded to scholars, archivists, curators, conservators, and other professionals for study of archaeological techniques and comparative perspectives at excavation sites outside of East Asia administered by U.S. or Canadian institutions.

Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture
Hiett Prize in the Humanities
Award: $50,000
Deadline: September 15
Description: One beginning scholar whose work in the humanities has a significant public or applied component related to cultural concerns will receive the cash award to assist their work.

The Getty Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Stipend: $40,000
Deadline: November 1
Description: Postdoctoral Fellowships twelve-month period, for scholars in the early stages of their careers, allowing them the flexibility to travel and study wherever necessary, contribution to the understanding of art and its history.

Guggenheim Foundation
Fellowships to assist Research and Artistic Creations
Stipend: Varies
Deadline: October 1
Description: The fellowships are awarded to men and woman who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Appointments are ordinarily made for one year but no less than six months.

History of Philosophy Fellowships
Stipend: $2,000
Deadline: December 1
Description: Two awards of $2,000 each are offered annually to young scholars in the history of philosophy to defray expenses while travelling to do research. Applicants may not have received their Ph.Ds more than six years prior to applying.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Short and long-term Fellowships
Stipend: around $2000 per month for short term and $40000 for long term
Deadline: December 15
Description: Residential and exchange fellowships.

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture 
Deadline: November 1 
Description: The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture offers two Postdoctoral Fellowships in any area of early American studies.

NEH Fellowships  
Deadline:  May 1
Stipend:  up to $50,400 for 12 months
Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, and other scholarly tools.

NEH Collaborative Research Grants
Deadline: November 11 
Description: The National Endowment for the Humanities/Division of Research Programs invites applications for Collaborative Research Grants. These grants support humanities-related research undertaken by teams of two or more scholars, or coordinated by an individual scholar.

NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
Deadline: Due November 15 and April 3  
Description: NEH invites proposals for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in all areas of the humanities.

NEH Summer Stipends
Stipend: $5,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing.
Deadline: October 2
Description: Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public's understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools.

Newberry Library Long-Term Fellowships
Deadline: January 10
Stipend: Up to $40000
Description: Long-term fellowships are available to post-doctoral scholars for periods of six to eleven months. Applicants for post-doctoral awards must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application. These grants support individual research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the Library's scholarly activities, including a biweekly fellows' seminar. Newberry Library website

Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowships
Deadline: March 1
Amount: $1200 per month
Description: Short-term fellowships are generally restricted to post-doctoral scholars or Ph.D. candidates from outside of the Chicago area who have a specific need for Newberry collections; some fellowships, however, are open to other categories of applicants and Chicago residents. Please read the following descriptions carefully for the eligibility restrictions on particular fellowships. The tenure of short-term fellowships varies from one week to two months, unless otherwise noted under the award description. A majority of fellowships will be for one month or less. Newberry Library website

Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships
Deadline: October 16
Description: The Stanford Humanities Center will award 6-8 External Faculty Fellowship for 2007-2008, and also looks to award thematic fellowships in the areas of Digital Humanities and Humanities and International Studies. Both junior and senior faculty members are eligible, though every applicant should have received his or her Ph.D. by September 30, 2004.

UTMB Institute for the Medical Humanities Visiting Scholars
Stipend: $ 4000 per month
Deadline: March 1
Description: Visiting scholars are to carry out projects in humanities disciplines that will deepen understanding of and develop pedagogical approaches to the program's annual theme. Visitors are expected to carry out their proposed project at the Institute and to participate in its multidisciplinary work (colloquia, symposia). Periods of residency may range from two months to nine months. UTMB Institute website

Wilson Center
Fellows-in-Residence
Duration: One academic year (9 months)
Stipend: from $26,000 to $85,000 (the maximum possible in 2007–2008) + round-trip travel (If spouses and/or dependent children will reside with the fellow for the entire fellowship period, money for their travel will also be included in the stipend) + 75 percent of health insurance.
Deadline: October 2
Description: Fellows are expected to work from their offices at the Center and to participate in appropriate meetings organized by the Center. Fellows are also expected to present their research at our informal internal Work-in-Progress seminars, and to attend the Work-in-Progress presentations given by their colleagues. In addition, fellows are encouraged to make a more formal presentation to the public such as a colloquium, seminar, workshop, or other form of meeting.

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowships
Deadline: 10 October
Description: The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation's Women's Studies Fellowships support the final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses topics of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original ways.