Faculty Funding Opportunities
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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Grants are made on a project basis to curatorial programs at museums, artists' organizations and other cultural institutions to originate innovative and scholarly presentations of contemporary visual arts. Projects may include exhibitions, catalogues and other organizational activities. The program also supports the creation of new work through regranting initiatives and artist-in-residence programs. The work of choreographers and performing artists occasionally is funded when the visual arts are an inherent element of a production.
Deadlines: March 1 and September 1 Annually
Web: http://www.warholfoundation.org/
Bogliasco Residential Fellowships
Bogliasco Fellowships are awarded to qualified persons doing advanced creative work or scholarly research in the following disciplines: Archaeology, Architecture, Classics, Dance, Film or Video, History, Landscape Architecture, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Theater, Visual Arts. Approximately 50 Fellowships are awarded each year. During their stay at the Center, Bogliasco Fellows are provided with living quarters, separate private studios and full board. Applicants are expected to demonstrate significant achievement in their disciplines and must submit descriptions of the projects that they intend to pursue in Bogliasco, Italy. During 2007-2008 the dates are as follows: September 10 to December 14 (fall-winter), and February 11 to May 16 (winter-spring). Fellowships usually have a duration of one month or, in some cases, a half semester. In special circumstances residencies of other lengths may be approved.
Application deadlines: January 15, 2007, for the fall-winter semester in September, 2007, and April 15, 2007, for the winter-spring semester in February, 2008.
Web: http://www.liguriastudycenter.org/english/fellowsh.cfm
College Art Association: Millard Meiss Publication Fund
Publication grants for book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art, visual studies, and related subjects.
Deadline: October 1 and March 15 Annually
Web: http://www.collegeart.org/caa/resources/meiss/index.html
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Residencies in Woodside, CA are awarded competitively to artists in the disciplines of choreography, literature, music composition, visual arts and media arts/new genres.
Deadline: February 15, Annually
Web: http://www.djerassi.org/guidelines.html
National Gallery of Art: Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
Provides support for advanced research in the history, theory, and criticism of art, architecture, and urbanism. Various residential grants available. See website for more details.
Deadlines: Vary
Web: http://www.nga.gov/resources/casvaflws.htm
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships
Fellowships in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) or poetry are available to published creative writers of exceptional talent. Fellowships enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Grants are also available to published translators of literature for projects that involve the specific translation of prose (fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama) or poetry (including verse drama) from other languages into English. In order to qualify for this program, you must be a US citizen or permanent resident with current or past experience as a published writer/poet. This program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships for $20,000 in prose available one year and fellowships in poetry available the next.
Website Address: http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/Lit06/index.html
Deadline: Ongoing
Kellogg Foundation Youth and Education Program
Grants to forge partnerships between higher education institutions and communities to promote learning, academic performance, and workforce preparation among vulnerable young people.
Deadline: Ongoing
Web: http://www.wkkf.org/
The Spencer Foundation
Grants for research in four areas: The Relation Between Education and Social Opportunity; Organizational Learning in Schools, School Systems, and Higher Education Institutions; Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Resources; and Purposes and Values of Education.
Deadline: Ongoing
Web: http://www.spencer.org/programs/index.htm
3M Foundation
Provides seed money to launch new, academically based initiatives that fundamentally change or transform the basis of learning and build ties to the local community. This opportunity is by invitation only. Wheaton is on the list as one of the invited institutions.
Deadline: March, 2006
Web: solutions.3m.com/
The American Academy in Rome
Each year through a national juried competition, the Academy offers up to thirty Rome Prize fellowships, which range in duration from six months to two years. Fellowships are offered in the following disciplines: Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Landscape Architecture, Literature, Musical Composition, Visual Arts, and in humanistic approaches to Ancient Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and Modern Italian Studies. Rome Prize and other fellowship winners are joined at the Academy by a select group of distinguished Residents and other artists and scholars, forming a residential community of approximately 100 individuals.
Deadline: November 1, 2006
Web: http://www.aarome.org/prize.htm
The American Association of University Women American Fellowships
Support women doctoral candidates completing dissertations or scholars seeking funds for postdoctoral research leave from accredited institutions. Fellowships are available in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
Deadline: Applications Available Aug. 1, 2006.
Web: http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/american.cfm
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
ACLS is best known as a funder of humanities research through fellowships and grants awarded to individuals and, on occasion, to groups and institutions. The centerpiece of this work is the ACLS Fellowship Program. ACLS Fellowships are designed to permit scholars holding the Ph.D. or equivalent to devote a full year to research and write in such fields as Literature, Languages, History, Anthropology, Political Theory, Philosophy, Classics, Religion, Art History, Linguistics, Musicology, and the study of diverse world civilizations and cultures. Additional programs target faculty at specific stages: the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship Program, supporting recently tenured faculty; the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship Program, supporting untenured faculty; and the ACLS/Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships for Junior Faculty, supporting untenured scholars earlier in their careers.
Deadlines: vary
Web: http://www.acls.org/ex-felcomp.htm
American Council of Learned Societies Invites Applications for Digital Innovation Fellowships
The American Council of Learned Societies invites applications for the second annual competition for the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities related social sciences. The fellowships are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital form. Projects may involve development of new digital tools that further humanistic research (such as digital research archives or innovative databases), research that depends on or is greatly enhanced by the use of such tools, or some combination of these features. ACLS does not support creative works (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translations, or purely pedagogical projects.
The ACLS will award up to five fellowships in this competition year which carries a stipend of up to $55,000 toward an academic year's leave and provides for project costs of up to $25,000. Applicants must have a Ph.D. prior to the application deadline. U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status is required as of the application deadline.
Deadline: September 27, 2006
Web: http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10003427/acls
APS Sabbatical Fellowships
This program is open to mid-career faculty of universities and 4-year colleges in the United States who have been granted a sabbatical/research year, but for whom financial support from the home institution is available for only part of the year. Candidates must not have had a financially supported leave at any time subsequent to September 1, 2002. The doctoral degree must have been conferred no later than 1998, and no earlier than 1983.
Deadline: October 15, Annually
Web: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/sabbatical.htm
The Bradley Foundation
Grants for projects that focus on cultivating a renewed, healthier, and more vigorous sense of citizenship among the American people and among peoples of other nations. They may address any arena of public life -- economics, politics, culture, or civil society -- in which citizenship as here understood is an important issue.
Deadlines: December 1, March 1, June 1, and September 1 Annually
Web: http://www.bradleyfdn.org/programs.html
THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY
An independently administered and funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities. The fellowship program was created to give scholars from this country and abroad an opportunity to pursue their work in proximity to a distinguished collection of primary sources. Approximately thirty fellowships are awarded each year ranging from two to ten months. Fellowships are available for any qualified researcher, the main criteria for appointment being the merit and significance of the candidate¢â¡Ás proposal, the qualifications of the candidate, and the relevance of the project to the holdings of the Library. Long-term fellowships carry a stipend of $4,000 per month; short-term fellowships offer a stipend of $1,800 per month. All candidates for long-term fellowships are automatically considered for a short-term fellowship should their application for a long-term fellowship be denied.
Deadline: January 10, 2007
Web: http://brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/pages/fr_resfellow.html
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
International fellowship
The fellowship program at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library includes academics, independent scholars, journalists, novelists, poets, playwrights, and scientists and lawyers engaged with the humanities. The Library is one of the world's pre-eminent resources for study in anthropology, art, geography, history, languages and literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, and sports. 15 fellowships a year are awarded to outstanding scholars and writers whose projects require access to the collections at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library.
Each fellow receives a stipend of $50,000 to $55,000, an office, a computer, and full access to the Library's resources. Fellows work at the Center from September through May and give a talk on current work-in-progress to the other fellows and guests and may take part in other programs at The New York Public Library.
Submission deadline: September 29, 2006; letters of recommendation are due October 6, 2006
Full text on Website: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/scholars/fellowship.html
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers fellowships to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts. Fellowships are awarded through two annual competitions: one open to citizens and permanent residents of the U. S. and Canada, and the other open to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean. The fellowships are awarded to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.
The fellowships are for one year, but not for a period shorter than six consecutive months. Members of the teaching profession receiving sabbatical leave on full or part salary are eligible for appointment, as are holders of other fellowships and appointments at research centers. In 2006 the foundation awarded 187 United States and Canadian fellowships for a total of $7.5 million (and an average grant of $40,107) and 34 Latin American and Caribbean fellowships for a total of $1.2 million (and an average grant of $35,294).
Submission deadline: October 1, 2006 (U.S. and Canada);
and December 1, 2006 (Latin America and Caribbean).
Web: http://www.gf.org/
The Howard Foundation
The Howard Foundation will award approximately ten fellowships for the 2007-2008 academic year to support persons engaged in independent projects in the following fields: Visual Arts, Media Studies, and the History of Art and Architecture. Stipends for one year (normally) are $25,000, with no residency requirements. Nominees should generally have the rank of associate (or advanced assistant) professor or their non-academic equivalents. Associate or (advanced assistant) professors should have a significant record of publication beyond the dissertation. The project should be an original and important contribution to the candidate's field, and at least a second or third major project for the candidate, comprehensible to persons outside the immediate field of specialization. Support is intended to augment paid sabbatical leaves. Independent artists and scholars who have a significant record of accomplishments are encouraged to apply.
Deadline for Nomination Form: October 17, 2006 (postmark date)
Web: http://brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/howard
Institute for Humane Studies: Hayek Fund for Scholars
Awards to students and untenured faculty members who would like to participate in career-enhancing activities including presentations at academic or professional conferences; travel to and research at archives or libraries; participation in career development or enhancing seminars; distribution of a published article to colleagues in the applicant's field; and submission of unpublished manuscripts to journals or book publishers.
Deadline: Ongoing
Web: http://www.theihs.org/subcategory.php/26.html?menuid=4
2007-2008 Fellowships at the Huntington Library
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 Library collections range from the eleventh century to the present and include a half-million rare books, nearly six million manuscripts, 600,000 photographs, and a large ephemera collection, supported by a half-million reference works. The Huntington will award over one hundred fellowships to scholars for the academic year 2007-2008. 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. Long-term awards: $40,000. Short-term awards: $2,000+ per month.
Application deadline: December 15, 2006.
Web: http://www.huntington.org/ResearchDiv/Fellowships.html
Library of Congress Kluge Center Fellowships
Stipend allows qualified scholars to conduct research in the John W. Kluge Center using the Library of Congress collections and resources for a period of up to eleven months. Encourages humanistic and social science research that makes use of the Library's large and varied collections. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, or multi-lingual research is particularly welcome.
Deadline: August 15, Annually
Web: http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/kluge-fellowships.html
National Humanities Center Residential Fellowships
The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year. Applicants must hold doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials and must have a record of publication. Scholars from any nation may apply. In addition to scholars from the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects. Candidates with an interest in the impact of recent scientific research on the human attributes of autonomy, singularity, and creativity are encouraged to apply. Individual fellowships are also available in the following fields: art history or visual culture, French history or culture, Asian Studies, theology, American art history, and environmental history. Fellowships up to $50,000 are individually determined, the amount depending upon the needs of the Fellow and the Center's ability to meet them. The Center also provides support for information technology and editorial assistance.
Application Deadline: October 15, 2006
Web: http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/fellowships/fellshipapinfo.htm
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center Program
Center in northern Italy offers one-month stays for 15 residents at a time in any discipline or field and coming from any country who expect a publication, exhibition, performance or other concrete product to result.
Deadlines: August 1, 2006
Web: http://www.rockfound.org/
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE
SCHOLARS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
The Schomburg Center residency program assists scholars and professionals whose research on the black experience can benefit from extended access to the Center's resources. Fellowships are awarded for continuous periods of six or twelve months at the Schomburg Center in New York City with maximum stipends of $25,000 for six months and $50,000 for twelve months. Fellows must devote full time to their research projects. They are expected to be in continuous residence at the Schomburg Center and to participate in the intellectual life of the Program. They may not be employed during the period in residence except sabbaticals from their own institutions. The Scholars-in-Residence Program is designed to (1) encourage research and writing on the history, literature, and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African diaspora, (2) to promote and facilitate interaction among the participants, and (3) to facilitate the dissemination of the researchers' findings. The Fellowship Program is open to scholars studying the history, literature, and culture of peoples of African descent from a humanistic perspective. Projects in the social sciences, science and technology, psychology, education, and religion are eligible.
Submission deadline: December 1, 2006
Web: http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/scholars/applicationa.html
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellowship
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities is committed to humanities research in the public interest. The VFH Fellowship program offers time, space, and resources to scholars applying the tools of history, philosophy, ethics, cultural studies, and literary criticism to matters of public concern. Each Fellowship session includes affiliated and independent scholars and professionals, including librarians, museum curators, writers, journalists, and others. This year the Foundation is accepting proposals on subjects with strong public interest in any field of the humanities. Projects on violence and its intergenerational effects, the South Atlantic United States, Revolutionary War history, folklife, and African American and Virginia history are encouraged. The VFH Resident Fellowships are competitive appointments. A stipend up to $15,000 per semester is provided; summer Fellows receive travel funds only.
Deadline for application is October 15, 2006.
Web: http://www.virginiafoundation.org/research/fellowships
Abe Fellowship
The Abe Fellowship program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers in US-Japan relations and to create an intellectual network between the two countries. The purpose of the program is to encourage multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern and for research focusing explicitly on policy-relevant and contemporary issues that have a comparative or transnational perspective of the US and Japan. Fellowships are flexible and are designed to meet the needs of Japanese and American researchers at different stages in their careers. The program provides Abe Fellows with a minimum of 3 and maximum of 12 months of full-time support over a 24 month period. Candidates should propose to spend at least one-third of the Fellowship tenure in residence abroad in Japan or the United States which may also include periods of research in other countries.
The deadline for receipt of applications is September 1 annually.
Applications must be submitted on-line at http://applications.ssrc.org.
Asian Cultural Council
Support for individuals in the visual and performing arts seeking grant assistance to conduct research, study, receive specialized training, undertake observation tours, or pursue creative activity in Asia.
Deadline: February 1 and August 1 Annually
Web: http://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/applications.html
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants research fellowships and research awards to highly qualified scholars and scientists of all nationalities not residing in Germany, enabling them to undertake periods of research in Germany.
Deadlines: Vary
Web: http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/programme/index.htm
American Councils for International Education Research Scholar Program
The Special Initiatives Fellowship Program offers grants of up to $35,000 for field research for four to nine months of research in the field on policy-relevant topics in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. American Councils has supported research in such fields as history, political science, security studies, sociology, anthropology, economics, business, language, art history, theater, cinematography, education, law, and medicine.
Deadline: October 1 and January 15, Annually
Web: http://www.americancouncils.org/program.asp?PageID=121&ProgramID=42
Association For Asian Studies NEAC Japan Studies Grants
Supports a variety of grant programs in Japanese studies designed to facilitate the research of individual scholars, to improve the quality of teaching about Japan on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Japan into the major academic disciplines. Provides funding for research travel, seminars, and instructional material.
Deadline: October 1 and February 1 Annually
Web: http://www.aasianst.org/grants/grants.htm#NEAC-JAPAN
The Center for Global Partnership Intellectual Exchange Program
Funds collaborative research and dialogue among scholars and policymakers to encourage global partnerships between Japan, the United States, and other countries of the world. Funding is provided for Intellectual Exchange projects that involve policy-oriented research conducted by universities and research institutions in the United States and Japan to examine issues of common concern, to share insight and knowledge with colleagues in other countries, and to present new, collaboratively developed policy recommendations.
Deadlines: July 1 and December 1, Annually
Web: http://www.cgp.org/index.php?option=section&id=4&PHPSESSID=ed03f711f9ef8bf7cd42f640891e06f3
The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
Provides support for research on Chinese studies in the humanities and social sciences.
Deadlines: Vary
Web: http://www.cckf.org/e-dornation.htm
DAAD/AICGS Research Fellowship Program
This program is designed to bring scholars working on Germany, Europe, and/or transatlantic relations to the AICGS, in Washington, DC, for two months. Fellowships include a monthly stipend of up to $4,600, depending on the seniority of the applicant, airfare to and from Washington, and office space at the Institute. All Fellows will be expected to produce a short analytical essay for publication on the Institute's website; for Fellows producing research of exceptional quality, AICGS will provide opportunities to present to a Washington policy audience. Project proposals should be in line with the Institute's mission and programming areas: Germany & United States in the Global Economy; Germany in Europe; New Security Challenges & Changing Foreign Policy Agendas; Culture, Values, and Politics; Transnational Issues.
Deadlines: February 15, 2007 & June 30, 2007
Web address: http://www.daad.org/page/50130/
Fulbright Scholar Programs
Fulbright Scholar Programs offer U.S. faculty, administrators and professionals grants to lecture, do research or participate in seminars, often abroad or involving to international exchange.
Deadline: Vary
Web: http://www.cies.org/Fulbright_programs.htm
The Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC)
Support for Japanese studies programs, collaborative research on contemporary issues affecting the US/Japan relationship, public education programs on the culture and history of Japan and American programs at Japanese universities.
Deadlines: Vary
Web: http://www.jusfc.gov/commissn/commissn.html
The Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations
Open to senior scholars worldwide with their Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree and a substantial record of scholarly activity with a stipend of $135,000 for ten months. The research will be on foreign policy and international affairs related to the United States.
Deadline: November 1, Annually
Web: http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/kissinger.html
The Louise Wallace Hackney Fellowship
Grants to permit the study of Chinese art, with special relation to painting and its reflection of Chinese culture, and to permit the translation into English of works upon the said subject for the purpose of furthering a better understanding of Chinese painting in the United States.
Deadline: March 1, Annually
Web: http://www.umich.edu/%7Eaos/hackney.htm
The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study Center, Italy
Residency program provides scholars, artists, writers, scientists,
policymakers and development professionals an opportunity to pursue ideas and engage others in their work. Center offers one-month stays for as many as 15 residents for uninterrupted work. Individuals in any discipline or field who expect work to result in publication, exhibition, performance or other concrete product may apply.
Deadline: August 1, 2006
Web: http://www.rockfound.org/AboutUs/SpecialPrograms/Bellagio
Tourism Cares for Tomorrow
Grants for projects or programs with either or both of the following goals: Projects that protect, restore, or conserve sites of exceptional cultural, historic, or natural significance and programs that educate local host communities and the traveling public about conservation and preservation of sites.
Deadlines: March 1, June 30, November 1, 2006
Web: http://www.tourismcaresfortomorrow.org/tourismcares/
W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research
Offers a variety of fellowships to those in ancient Near Eastern studies, including the fields of archaeology, anthropology, art history, Bible, epigraphy, historical geography, history, language, literature, philology and religion and related disciplines from prehistory, through the early Islamic period.
Deadlines: Vary
Web: http://www.aiar.org/fellowships.html#list
Institute of Museum and Library Services
IMLS grant programs help libraries bring people the information they want and can use. Eligibility requirements differ for each library grant program. Visit the site for criteria.
Deadlines: Vary
Web: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/applicants.shtm
NEH Library Implementation Grants
NEH Library Implementation Grants support public humanities programs that interpret and use collections in libraries and archives. Support is available for various activities that use a range of formats, including: Book and film discussion programs; Exhibitions; Public conferences, forums, and symposia; and Web sites. Projects should be based on sound scholarship; involve humanities scholars in all phases of development and implementation; deepen public understanding of significant humanities questions; approach the subject thematically, analytically, and interpretively through an appropriate variety of perspectives; employ appealing and accessible program formats that will actively engage the general public in learning; and expand the numbers of people reached by taking place at multiple venues, featuring creative collaborations, promoting outreach to new or underserved audiences, or serving as models that can be emulated. Implementation grants can also be used to support final consultation with scholars, staff training for implementation, fabrication of exhibition panels, development of the companion Web site, crating and shipping, completion of interactive components, publication costs, publicity, promotion, presentation and distribution of materials and programs, and audience evaluation.
Successful applicants will be awarded a grant in outright funds, matching funds, or a combination of the two, depending on the applicant's preference and the availability of NEH funds. Awards of up to $300,000 are usually made for a period of 18 to 36 months. Applicants may also request up to an additional $150,000 for a traveling exhibition component, for a maximum total request of $450,000.
Deadline: January 23, 2007
Web: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/implement_libraries.html
Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology
(and)
Exploratory Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R21)
The NIH Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology supports research and research training in areas that join biology with the computer sciences, engineering, mathematics, and physics. The center develops and manages programs in computational biology, such as the generation of mathematical models of biological networks, the development of modeling and simulation tools, the conduct of basic theoretical studies related to network organization and dynamic processes, and the development of methods for the analysis and dissemination of computational. Other center activities include the support of multidisciplinary collaborations and of workshops, courses, and specialized meetings.
Deadline: Ongoing, beginning June 24, 2006
Web:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/search_results.htm?year=active&scope=pa
Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology
(and)
Exploratory Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R21)
See under Mathematics and Technology for information and web link.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Science and Technology program supports research in science including molecular evolution, theoretical neurobiology, computational molecular biology, astrophysics (Sloan Sky Survey), limits to knowledge (The Known, Unknown, Unknowable), and marine science (Census of Marine Life).
Deadline: Ongoing
Web: http://www.sloan.org/programs/scitech_supresearch.shtml
American Astronomical Society.
Grants to cover costs associated with any type of astronomical research.
Deadlines: May 1 and November 27, 2006
Web: http://www.aas.org/grants/smrg.html
American Institute of Physics Center for History of Physics
Provides funding for research in the history of modern physics and allied sciences (such as astronomy, geophysics, and optics) and their social interactions.
Deadlines: April 15 and November 15, Annually
Web: http://www.aip.org/history/web-grnt.htm
American Museum of Natural History
A variety of modest short term awards are offered to advanced graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who are commencing their careers in the fields of zoology, paleontology, anthropology, astrophysics and earth and planetary sciences.
Deadlines: Vary
Web: http://research.amnh.org/grants/grantsprog.html
American Physiological Society Teaching Career Enhancement Awards
The APS Teaching Career Enhancement Award is designed to enhance the career potential of regular members. The award provides up to $4,000 to allow an individual to develop innovative and potentially widely applicable programs for teaching and learning physiology. The award can be used to support short-term visits to other schools to consult with experts who can assist with the development project. It can also be used to support attendance at special courses devoted to methodologies appropriate for the educational development project. The award does not include any indirect cost reimbursement. Other related grants are also available.
Deadlines: April 15 and September 15 Annually
Web: http://www.the-aps.org/awards/society.htm#Teaching
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
The purpose of the foundation is to advance the science of chemistry, chemical engineering and related sciences as a means of improving human relations and circumstances around the world. Refer to the many opportunities listed on the site.
Deadlines: Vary
Web link for all programs: http://www.dreyfus.org/index.shtml
The Leakey Foundation
Supports research into human origins. Recent priorities include research into the environments, archaeology, and human paleontology of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene; the behavior, morphology, and ecology of the great apes and other primate species; and the behavioral ecology of contemporary hunter-gatherers. Other areas of study have been funded occasionally.
Deadline: July 15 and December 15, 2006
Web: http://www.leakeyfoundation.org/grants.html
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Grants for health-related research and research training projects or activities.
Deadlines: Vary
Weblink: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm
National Academies
Offer a variety fellowships in science, engineering, and medicine.
Deadlines: Vary
Web links: http://www.nationalacademies.org/grantprograms.html
National Science Foundation (NSF)
The National Science Foundation funds research and education in science and engineering. Special programs include support for junior faculty members; research on learning and intelligent systems; curriculum and instructional materials development; awards for excellence in science and mathematics teaching, and more.
Deadlines: Vary
Weblink: http://www.nsf.gov/home/programs/
Research Corporation Cottrell College Science Awards
Supports basic research in the physical sciences (mainly astronomy, chemistry, and physics) at U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. Beginning faculty, or those within the first three years of their first tenure-track appointment, are normally eligible.
Deadline: November 15 and May 15 Annually
Web: http://www.rescorp.org/ccsa/ccsa.htm
Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program
The Smithsonian Institution offers 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. Smithsonian's stipend may be matched by other sources of funding such as a sabbatical salary.
Stipends:
Senior and Postdoctoral - $35,000 per year
Earth and Planetary Sciences Senior and Postdoctoral - $40,000 per year
Deadline: January 15th (postmark) for awards to begin on or after June 1st
http://www.si.edu/ofg/SORScontents.htm
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Standards of Living and Economic Performance program supports academic research and scholarship aimed at painting a realistic picture of how corporations and other business organizations function, with special emphasis on how the people in them actually behave, how they are motivated, and how they are rewarded.
Deadline: Ongoing
Web: http://www.sloan.org/programs/pg_standard.shtml
American Psychological Foundation
Provides a variety of scholarships, grants, and awards in order to advance psychology as a science and a profession and as a means of understanding behavior and promoting health and human welfare.
Deadlines: Vary
Web: http://www.apa.org/apf/grants.html
American Tax Policy Institute
Supports individual or collaborative research projects that provide objective and non-partisan analysis of specific tax policy issues of current interest. Research topics may cover any type of tax (e.g., income, estate and gift, excise), any U.S. jurisdiction (federal, state, or local), and any aspect of the tax system (e.g., legislative proposals, administrative issues such as collection, or broader policy concerns).
Deadline: Ongoing
Web: http://www.americantaxpolicyinstitute.org/
The Century Foundation
Sponsors and supervises research on significant economic, social, and political issues. The Foundation's research projects usually are designed to produce analytic, book-length manuscripts containing public policy recommendations.
Deadline: Ongoing
Web: http://www.tcf.org/about.asp
E&R Foundation
The primary purpose of the E&R Foundation is to foster education and development in the field of resource management. Subjects include supply chain management, curriculum development, information management, performance benchmarks, and process improvement throughout organizations.
Deadline: Ongoing
Web: http://www.apics.org/Education/ERFoundation/research
The Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation
Grants of up to $15,000 are available to help support the research of faculty members in the United States and Canada. Areas of interest to the Fund are evaluations of innovative interventions designed to prevent or ameliorate major social, psychological, public health, or literacy problems of adults or children, or studies that have the potential for adding significantly to knowledge about those problems or in the development or refinement of interventions designed to address them.
Deadlines: May 1 and November 1, Annually
Web: http://www.fahsbeckfund.org/index.html
The Poverty and Race Research Action Council
Funds projects to generate, gather and disseminate information and resources regarding the intersections of race and poverty in the United States, and to promote the development and implementation of policies and practices that alleviate conditions caused by the interaction of race and poverty.
Deadlines: May 1 and November 1, Annually
Web: http://www.prrac.org/grants.php
The Russell Sage Foundation
Grants for research in three program areas: research on the future of work, concerned with the causes and consequences of the decline in demand for low-skill workers in advanced economies; research on current U.S. immigration that focuses on the adaptation of the second generation to American society; and social-psychological research on improving relations among racial and ethnic groups in schools, workplaces, and neighborhood settings. Also will award support for other miscellaneous social science research.
Deadline: August and March Annually
Web: http://www.russellsage.org/
The Wenner-Gren Foundation
Individual research grants for advancing basic research in anthropology and building an international community of anthropologists-through several funding programs.
Deadlines: May 1 and November 1, Annually
Web: http://www.wennergren.org/programsirg.asp