Fellowship Opportunities

Aldo Leopold Leadership Program
The Leopold Leadership Program at the Woods Institute for the Environment advances environmental decision-making by providing academic scientists with the skills and connections needed to be effective leaders and communicators. Each year up to 20 academic environmental scientists from across North America are selected to receive intensive experiential training, expert consultation, and peer networking. Leopold Leadership Fellows hone skills to better communicate the science associated with complex environmental issues to the media, policy makers, business leaders and other non-scientists.
 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The purpose of the Visiting Scholars Program is to support the work of young humanists, social scientists, and public policy analysts who show promise of becoming leaders in their fields, particularly those who work on multidisciplinary topics. The Program offers opportunities to carry out individual research and collaborate with Academy Fellows on shared scholarly or policy-related interests.
 
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
The American Association of University Women offers several types of American Fellowships to support women doctoral candidates completing dissertations or scholars seeking funds for postdoctoral research leave from accredited institutions. Candidates are evaluated on the basis of scholarly excellence, teaching experience, and active commitment to helping women and girls through service in their communities, professions, or fields of research. Some AAUW funding programs include the Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grants, Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships, Career Development Grants, Community Action Grants and International Fellowships.
 
American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroluem Research Fund (PRF)
ACS-PRF grants support fundamental research in the petroleum and energy fields and development of the next generation of engineers and scientists through advanced scientific education. Research areas supported include chemistry, the earth sciences, chemical and petroleum engineering, and related fields such as polymers and materials science. Several grant programs target new investigators and/or researchers at undergraduate institutions. Funding is also available to support sabbaticals for faculty teaching at undergraduate institutions.
 
American Council on Education (ACE)
Since 1965, hundreds of vice presidents, deans, department chairs, faculty, and other emerging leaders have participated in the ACE Fellows Program, the nation's premier higher education leadership development program in preparing senior leaders to serve American colleges and universities. The ACE Fellows Program enables participants to immerse themselves in the culture, policies, and decision-making processes of another institution under the mentorship of some of the nations top presidents in higher education.
 
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
The American Council of Learned Societies offers a variety of fellowships and grants in more than a dozen programs for research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels. Fellowships are available for research in a variety of areas including American Art, Southeast Asian Early History and Archaeology, China Studies, Southeast European Studies, Digital Innovations. Fellowships for language study and scholarly exchange are also available.
 
American Heart Association - Midwest Affiliate
The American Heart Association offers support for undergraduate research, pre-doctoral, post-doctoral and beginning scientists. Majority of awards support research in health and science fields.
 
American Philosophical Society (APS)
The American Philosophical Society offers a number of grants for scholars, including Sabbatical Fellowships for faculty in the humanities and social sciences.
 
American Physical Therapy Association (APTA)
The APTA supports the New Investigator Fellowship Training Initiative (NIFTI) which funds doctorally prepared physical therapists and physical therapy assistants engaged in research. Candidates must have received a doctoral degree no earlier than five years prior to the receipt of the application, must work closely with a mentor, and must be committed to pursuing a career in research.
 
Bogliasco Foundation, Inc.
The Bogliasco Foundation, Inc. offers residential fellowships at the Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy, for individuals doing advanced creative or scholarly work in the arts and humanities. Fields of interest include archaeology, architecture, dance, film/video, history, landscape architecture, literature, music, philosophy, theater and the visual arts.
 
Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellowship
The program seeks applications from a broad range of disciplines related to the field of aging, including but not limited to the medical, biological, and basic sciences; nursing; social sciences; and the arts and humanities. Each candidate must: 1) demonstrate leadership potential; 2) provide evidence of an ongoing commitment to a career in aging; 3) have a mentor willing and able to provide meaningful professional guidance; 4) agree to commit at least 75 percent of his or her time for career development during each of the two years of the fellowship; and 5) propose a project related to the field of aging that will contribute to the candidate's career development and also serve to enhance his or her leadership skills. Candidates should be between the first and tenth years of having completed their graduate degree.

The award is a two-year grant paid to the candidate's sponsoring institution in support of the candidate's research project. A grant award of up to $125,000 each year is intended to cover 75 percent of the fellow's time, base salary, and fringe benefits.

 
Camargo Foundation
The Camargo Foundation, located in Cassis, France, is a residential center for scholars pursuing studies in the humanities and social sciences related to French and francophone cultures as well as for composers, writers and visual artists pursuing creative projects. For scholarly projects, research should be at a sufficiently advanced stage so as not to require resources unavailable in the Marseille-Cassis-Aix region. The Foundation's campus includes furnished apartments, a reference library, a music/conference room, an artist's studio with darkroom, a composer's studio and a studio for either an artist or a composer. Residencies are one semester (early-September to mid-December or mid-January to late May) and accompanied by a stipend of $3,500.
 
Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
The Contemplative Practice Fellowship Program seeks to restore and renew the critical contribution that contemplative practices can make to the life of teaching and scholarship. The fellowships support individual or collaborative research leading to the development of courses and teaching materials that integrate contemplative practices into courses.
 
Center for the Humanities
The Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT supports individual research and teaching projects and provides a place for sustained communication between the humanities and the social sciences. Its program each semester is organized around a focal theme, which shapes a weekly series of public lectures and smaller seminars. At these events, and in other, more informal settings, Wesleyan faculty, students, and visiting scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds carry on a wide-ranging inquiry into the social dimensions of the imagination and the imaginative dimensions of social life.
 
Clark Fellowship Program
The Clark Fellowship Program, offered by The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., offers between 15 and 20 fellowships each year, ranging in duration from less than a month to 10 months. They look for projects that extend and enhance the understanding of the visual arts and their role in culture. Stipends are generous and are dependent on salary and sabbatical replacement needs. Housing and an office are also provided. The Clark combines a public art museum with a complex of research and academic programs, including a major art history library. It functions as an international center in both the academic and museum fields for research and discussion on the nature of art and its history.

The Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellowship is offered by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in conjunction with the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Williams College. A one-year fellowship will be offered to a scholar in the humanities whose work takes an interdisciplinary approach to some aspect of the visual. The selected fellow will have his or her office at the Oakley Center, be housed at the Clark scholars' residence, and participate fully in the rich intellectual life of both advanced research institutes.
 
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
The Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships seek to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.To facilitate this goal the Fellowship grants awards at the Predoctoral, Dissertation and, Postdoctoral levels to students who demonstrate excellence, a commitment to diversity and a desire to enter the professoriate. Eligible applicants are those whose "membership in an underrepresented group have been severe and long-standing." Visit the site for further information.
 
Fulbright Programs
The Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.

The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program is designed to provide short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) for U.S. faculty and professionals. Shorter grant lengths give specialists greater flexibility to pursue a grant that works best with their current academic or professional commitments. Fulbright Senior Specialist projects are designed to provide U.S. faculty and professionals with opportunities to collaborate with professional counterparts at non-U.S. post-secondary academic institutions on curriculum and faculty development, institutional planning and a variety of other activities. Personal Research is not funded via the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program.
 
George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in fields selected on a rotational basis. Ten fellowships will be offered to support persons engaged in independent projects in the following fields: 2007-08 Visual Arts, Media Studies and the Study of the History of Art & Architecture; 2008-09 Music, Playwriting and Theatre Arts; 2009-10 History, History of Science and Political Science; 2010-2011 Creative Writing in English including Novels, Short Stories, and Poetry; 2011-2012 Literary Criticism, Film Criticism, Creative Non-Fiction, and Translation (into English). The intention of the foundation is primarily to support people in the middle stages of their careers whose work to date is evidence of their promise and achievement. Nominees should generally have the rank of assistant or associate professor. Support is intended to augment paid sabbatical leaves.
 
Getty Research Institute
Getty Scholar and Visiting Scholar Grants provide support for a residence at the Getty Research Institute or the Getty Villa in Malibu, Cal., where recipients pursue their own research projects free from academic obligations, make use of Getty collections, join their colleagues in a weekly meeting devoted to the 2007-2008 theme of Networks and Boundaries and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty.
 
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC)
The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin awards about 40 fellowships annually to support scholarly research projects in all areas of the humanities. Priority is given to proposals that require substantial on-site use of the center's collections. Fellowships range from one month to two to four months, with a stipend of $3,000 per month. Also available are $1,000-$1,500 travel stipends and dissertation fellowships with a $1,200 stipend.
 
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture
The Hiett Prize in the Humanities is an annual award presented by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture to a person whose work in the humanities shows extraordinary promise and has a significant public or applied component related to cultural concerns. Its purpose is to encourage future leaders in the humanities by recognizing their achievement and their potential and assisting their work through a cash award of $50,000. Candidates should be within the early stages of a career track in which the primary work is in a field centered in or directly related to one or more of the humanities.
 
Huntington Library
The Huntington Library is an independent research center in San Marino, Cal., with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history and the history of science and medicine. The library collections have many areas of special strength include Middle Ages, Renaissance, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature, History of Science, British Drama, Colonial America, American Civil War, Western America, and California. The Huntington will award more than 100 fellowships to scholars for the academic year 2008-2009. These fellowships derive from a variety of funding sources and have different terms. 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.
 
James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowships
The James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowships for psychologists provide funds to supplement the regular sabbatical allowance provided by the recipients' home institutions. The maximum award is limited to the lesser of (1) half the recipient's salary for the academic year, (2) an amount less than half salary that will bring the total of the university allowance plus the award up to the individual's normal academic-year salary, or (3) a ceiling of $35,000. Candidates must be tenured or have formal College confirmation that they will be tenured by March 1, following the December 1 submission deadline.
 
John Carter Brown Library
The John Carter Brown Library located at Brown University will award approximately thirty Research Fellowships for the year June 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009. Sponsorship of research at the John Carter Brown Library is reserved exclusively for scholars whose work is centered on the colonial history of the Americas, North and South, including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American involvement. The Library provides both short term (two to four months) and long term (five to ten months) fellowships. Recipients of all Fellowships are expected to relocate to Providence, Rhode Island and to be in continuous residence at the John Carter Brown Library for the entire term of the award.
 
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts. Fellowships are awarded to advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. Successful applicants already will have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.
 
John Templeton Foundation
The John Templeton Foundation welcomes proposals that seek to advance discovery in areas engaging life's biggest questions. Projects must engage one of John Templeton's Core Themes (the Templeton Foundation has identified 31 themes). For more information on these Core Themes, visit http://www.templeton.org/funding_areas/core_themes/.
 
Library Company of Philadelphia & The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
The Library Company of Philadelphia and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania will jointly award approximately thirty one-month fellowships for research in residence in either or both collections during the academic year 2008-2009. These two independent research libraries, adjacent to each other in Center City Philadelphia, have complementary collections capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of America and the Atlantic world from the 17th through the 19th centuries, as well as Mid-Atlantic regional history to the present.
 
Lindbergh Foundation
The Lindbergh Foundation provides grants to men and women whose individual initiative and work in a wide spectrum of disciplines furthers the Lindberghs' vision of a balance between the advance of technology and the preservation of the natural/human environment. Grants are made in the following categories: agriculture; aviation/aerospace; conservation of natural resources; education - including education in humanities, the arts, & intercultural communication; exploration; health - including biomedical research, health & population sciences, & adaptive technology; & waste minimization & management.
 
Loreal USA Fellowship for Women in Science
Recipients of this fellowship receive $40,000 to apply toward post-doctoral research in life and physical/materials science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The fellowship is open to women post-doctoral researchers only.
 
Merck Institute for Science Education/American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
The Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program (USRP) is a national competitive awards program. Each award provides up to $60,000 paid over three years at $20,000 per year for joint use by the biology and chemistry departments at each recipient institution. The funding supports research stipends for undergraduate students and ancillary programs that foster interactions between these departments. The program goals are to: enhance undergraduate education through research experiences that emphasize the interrelationship between chemistry and biology; encourage students to pursue graduate education in chemistry and life sciences; foster undergraduate programs and activities that bridge chemistry and biology.
 
National Academy of Education (NAEd)
The NAEd/ Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship supports early career scholars working in critical areas of education research. This nonresidential postdoctoral fellowship funds proposals that make significant scholarly contributions to the field of education.
 
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
NEH Digital Humanities Fellowships are intended to support individuals pursuing advanced research or other projects in the humanities that explore the relationship between technologies and the humanities; or produce digital products such as electronic publications, digital archives, or databases, advanced digital representations of extant data using graphical displays such as geographic information systems (GIS) or other digital media, or digital analytical tools that further humanistic research.

Grants for Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions support fellowships at institutions devoted to advanced study and research in the humanities. NEH fellowships provide scholars with access to resources that might not be available at their home institutions such as the American Academy in Rome, the Newberry Library, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Visit http://www.neh.gov/projects/fpiri.html for a list of currently funded institutions.

Fellowships and Faculty Research Awards support individuals pursuing advanced research in the humanities that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the general 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.

Summer Stipends Program 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. Summer Stipends support full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months

The Fellowship Program for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan is a joint activity of the Japan-US Friendship Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities. It supports research on the modern Japanese society and political economy, Japan's international relations, and US-Japan relations.
 
National Humanities Center (NHC)
The National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year. Applicants must hold doctorates or have equivalent scholarly credentials, and a record of publication is expected. In addition to scholars from all fields of 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.
 
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Science and Society Scholar Awards provide full time academic year and summer support for faculty engaged in research and associated activities that examine the relationships among science, engineering, technology and society.

Science and Society Professional Development Fellowships are available for researchers trained in all areas of Science and Society who wish to improve and expand their skills in the areas of science or engineering, and conversely for physical and natural scientists and engineers who desire training in S&S disciplines. For example, historians, philosophers, ethicists, and others in fields of the social, behavioral and economic sciences may use this award to work with a scientist or engineer to learn the technical aspects of research in their area. Alternatively, scientists or engineers may use this award to work with a historian, philosopher or social scientist to learn the research methods, analytical tools and approaches current in S&S fields. These Fellowship proposals must contain both a training and a research component
 
Newberry Library
The Newberry Library is an independent research library concentrating in the humanities with an active educational and cultural presence in Chicago. Fellowships at the Newberry Library provide assistance to researchers who wish to use the collections, but who cannot finance a visit on their own. Fellowships are of two types: short-term fellowships with terms of one week to two months and long-term fellowships of six to 11 months.
 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study offers residential fellowships to humanists, social scientists, creative artists, natural scientists and mathematicians who receive office or studio space and access to libraries and other resources of Harvard University during the fellowship year. Stipends are funded up to $60,000 for one year with additional funds for project expenses. Fellows are expected to be free of their regular commitments so they may devote themselves full time to the work outlined in their proposal. Fellows are expected to reside in the Boston area and to have their primary office at the institute so that they can participate fully in the life of the community.
 
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
The William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellowship from the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., accepts applications from scholars in all disciplines whose lively presence will help to focus their work and stimulate discussions. Successful applicants will have completed the terminal degree in their field and will have a record of scholarly publication. Recipients will meet weekly at a faculty seminar, allowing the visiting fellow ample time to pursue a major research project. The topic for 2007-08 is Black Europe or Diaspora Studies in Europe. The visiting fellow is provided with a spacious office and a stipend of up to $40,000.
 
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides grants for projects in the United States and U.S. territories that advance their mission to improve the health and health care of all Americans. The foundation frequently issues calls for proposals within specific faculty development programs. Visit the site for further information.
 
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation supports Scholarly Residencies at the Bellagio Center. The Center typically offers one-month residencies for no more than 12 scholars and scientists at a time. Individuals in any discipline – and from any part of the world – are welcome to apply. Space is reserved for both academic projects, as well as projects that align with the Foundation’s mission to expand opportunities for poor or vulnerable people and to help ensure that globalization’s benefits are shared more widely. The Center also offers collaborative residencies for two to four persons working on the same project. The Bellagio Center lies on a hilly peninsula adjacent to Lake Como, two hours north of Milan, Italy.
 
Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program
The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program offers fellowships to recipients to conduct research in a discipline pursued at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Projects that broaden and diversify the research conducted within these disciplines are encouraged. Fellowships are offered to support research at Smithsonian facilities or field stations, and fellows are expected to spend most of their tenure in residence at the Smithsonian, except when arrangements are made for periods of field work or research travel. The Smithsonian offers Postdoctoral Fellowships to scholars who have held a Ph.D. or equivalent for less than seven years and Senior Fellowships to scholars who have held a Ph.D. or equivalent for seven years or more. Both fellowships offer a stipend of $35,000 per year plus allowances, and the term is three to 12 months.
 
Spencer Foundation
The Spencer Foundation provides Research Grants for investigations that promise to yield new knowledge about education in the United States or abroad. They have identified several Areas of Inquiry within which (or across which) grant applicants may apply: The Relation Between Education and Social Opportunity; Organizational Learning in Schools, School Systems, and Higher Education Institutions; Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Resources; Purposes and Values of Education; Field-Initiated Proposals.

The Spencer Foundation also contributes to the support of Spencer Fellows at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California. Three to five scholars with interests in issues of education, development, cognition, and the social contexts of learning are supported annually.
 
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Resident 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. They are accepting proposals on subjects with strong public interest in any field of the humanities and also encourage projects on violence and its intergenerational effects, the South Atlantic United States, Revolutionary War history, folklife, and African American and Virginia history.
 
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the encouragement of excellence in education through the identification of critical needs and the development of effective national programs to address them. The Millicent C. McIntosh Fellowship for Recently Tenured Faculty supports especially promising faculty who demonstrate a deep commitment to excellent teaching and scholarship in the humanities, and who are exceptional citizens of their academic community.