Several categories of awards are offered, and funding is available for four to twelve months' residency at the Society. The John B. Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship and the ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship provide support up to one year while the other categories provide one to three months' support. At least three long term fellowships will be awarded, together with some twenty short-term awards.
ACLS supports individual scholars and scholarly teams around the world in their pursuit of research with the potential to advance knowledge in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.
AISLS fellowships support two to six months of research in Sri Lanka by US citizens who already hold a PhD or the equivalent at the time they begin their fellowship tenure. Both scholars with little or no experience in Sri Lanka as well as specialists are encouraged to apply. This program is funded by a grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US State Department. One competition is held annually.
Senior long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (four months or less) fellowships are available for scholars who wish to conduct their research in India and hold their Ph.D. degree.
We maintain seven grant or fellowship programs in a wide range of fields. Our Franklin, Lewis and Clark, Library Fellowship, and Phillips programs award small grants ($1000 to $6000) for modest research purposes. Our Daland, John Hope Franklin, and Sabbatical Fellowship programs award much larger grants ($25,000 to $50,000) in highly selective competitions.
The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the cost of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses. Award: up to $6,000.
The American Philosophical Society Library offers short-term residential fellowships for conducting research in its collections. The Society's Library, located near Independence Hall in Philadelphia, is a leading international center for research in the history of American science and technology and its European roots, as well as early American history and culture.
The Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma seeks applicants for its Visiting Scholars Program, which provides financial assistance to researchers working at the Center's archives. Awards of $500-$1000 are normally granted as reimbursement for travel and lodging. Applications are accepted at any time.
Funds from this grant may be used to support any legitimate professional development need identified by the candidate. Some examples of possible uses include the following: (a) Travel to a professional meeting, (b) travel to conduct interviews, work with a colleague on a collaborative project, or field research, (c) purchase of databases, software, books, or other materials needed for research, or (d) participation in an appropriate pedagogy workshop or institute.
The East-West Center seeks scholars of high accomplishment and promise whose research and presence will contribute creatively to the development of its research areas and to the Asia Pacific region.
Applications are invited from teachers and scholars who wish to develop their ability to address questions of moral choice in areas such as business, design, education, government, law, medicine, and public policy,
The program provides for a stay of one year in Germany for professional development, study, or research. Applicants design individual projects specific to Germany and decide at which institutions to pursue them. The program begins September 1 and lasts twelve months. It is preceded by language classes taught in Germany. Monthly stipends range from EUR 2,200 to 2,700 and allowances are available for accompanying family members, travel expenses, and German language instruction. Candidates must be citizens of the United States, Brazil, China, India, or South Africa, and possess a bachelor's degree. Prior knowledge of German is not a prerequisite.
Projects that focus on Japan or Japan’s international role from a comparative, historical, or global perspective are welcome. Knowledge of the Japanese language is not required. Awards are for the academic year and provide $66,000 over 10 months.
The Hayek Fund for Scholars makes strategic awards of up to $1,000 to graduate students and untenured faculty members for career-enhancing activities such as: presentations at academic or professional conferences, travel to academic job interviews, travel to and research at archives or libraries, participation in career development or enhancing seminars, distribution of a published article to colleagues in your field, submission of unpublished manuscripts to journals or book publishers. Deadline: rolling.
The Foundation makes targeted grants for work in major areas of the social sciences. Preference will be given to projects that deal with contemporary issues in the social sciences and issues of policy relevance and to scholars in the initial stages of research.
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly qualified, early-stage researchers from abroad to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany. Applications may be submitted for long-term research stays of at least 6 and at most 12 months. Deadline: rolling admission.
The IARO Program provides fellowships to US scholars and professionals for overseas research on contemporary political, economic, historical, or cultural developments relevant to US foreign policy. Eligible countries of research focus include Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
This Program was established to develop a new generation of creative thinkers in health policy research. Up to 12 Scholars will be selected in the coming year to participate in the Program at one of three nationally prominent academic institutions -- Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, and The University of Michigan.
The Library of Congress invites 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.
The Latina/Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a one-year, post-doctoral fellowship. The term of appointment is 12 months. In addition to conducting his/her research project(s), the fellow will be expected to teach one introductory course in Latina/Latino Studies and give a public lecture related to his/her research. The fellowship provides a salary of $47,500.
The Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) offers Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and related supporting activities in an effort to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in selected areas of science in the U.S.
The Pembroke Center annually supports three or four postdoctoral research fellows in residence for an academic year. Candidates should do work that is qualitative and humanistic in nature.
These fellowships will be awarded to outstanding scholars and teachers interested in devoting a year in residence at Princeton writing about ethics and human values.
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs invites applications for a three-year postdoctoral fellowship. Teach half-time in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and pursue research. Stipend: approx. $64,500.
The Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program offers long-term and short-term fellowships to support scholars and writers working on projects that would benefit from access to the Center's extensive resources for the study of African diasporic history, politics, literature, and culture.
The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics.
The Institute of American Cultures, in cooperation with UCLA's four Ethnic Studies Research Centers, offers fellowships to postdoctoral/visiting scholars to support research on African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Chicanas/os. The fellowship includes a stipend (which can be used as a sabbatical supplement) that ranges from $32,000 to $35,000, up to $4,000 in research support, and health benefits.
This program was established to encourage outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of California. It is open to all qualified candidates who are committed to university careers in research, teaching, and service that will enhance the diversity of the academic community at the University of California.
USIP Fellowship programs support cutting-edge research, writing, analysis and convening by emerging and leading international experts from many disciplinary and professional backgrounds.
