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• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange: Conference/Seminar/ Workshop Grants
• Eurasia Foundation: U.S.-Russia Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Program*
• Fritz Thyssen Foundation: Conferences*
• National Endowment for the Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities*
• National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Seminars and Institutes
• National Science Foundation: Science, Technology, and Society
• Terra Foundation for American Art: Academic Workshop & Symposium Grants*
• Terra Foundation for American Art: Convening Grants for Internationally Collaborative Exhibitions

I want to complete and/or publish a scholarly work.

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Academy Film Scholars Grants
• American Musicological Society: AMS 75 PAYS Subventions
• American Musicological Society: Subventions for Publications
• College Art Association: Millard Meiss Publication Fund*
• National Endowment for the Humanities: Public Scholar Program
• J.M. Kaplan Fund: Furthermore Grants in Publishing

Deadline: last day of February, May, August, and November

Award Amount: $40,000 for ladder faculty; $5,000 for doctoral students and postdocs

Deadline: Rolling

Award Amount: up to $5,000

The Harvard Data Science Initiative Faculty Special Projects Fund is intended to support one-time data science opportunities for which other funding is not readily available. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, and funding will be awarded throughout the year until available funding is exhausted. Applicants may request funding of up to $5,000 to support research, community-building, outreach, and educational activities. Examples of projects that the Fund is intended to support include offsetting the cost of running workshops or seminars, data visualization or research dissemination, and video production. The HDSI welcomes applications from all fields of scholarship.  

Harvard Global Institute

Grants

Letter of Interest Deadline: January 22, 2019 (Extended Deadline)

Full Proposal Deadline: April 17, 2019

Award Amount for Small Grants: $50,000 - $100,000

Award Amount for Large Grants: $500,000 - $1M

 

In the 2019-20 academic year, HGI will fund research projects in China and India that have the potential for impact both locally and globally. Project activities are not limited to the Harvard campus but also include work that happens in China and/or India. Faculty conducting research in China have access to space at the  Harvard Center Shanghai , and HGI encourages project teams to make use of the Center as a convening site. Faculty from across the Schools who are already working on China and/or India-related topics, as well as those who wish to begin doing so, are invited to apply for funding by submitting preliminary expressions of interest (EOIs).

 

Funding will be provided at two levels:

• Large grants will support multi-faculty, cross-school, cross-discipline, integrative projects on problems or issues of global relevance that build on existing research and include significant collaboration with scholars in China. The goal is to help innovative research "scale up" and "scale out." There should thus be a substantial track record of prior work upon which a more ambitious project would be developed. Ideally, such a project should represent not just quantitative enhancement of previous research, but qualitative transformation of that research through heightened collaboration with colleagues in other Schools, disciplines, and countries.
• Small grants will support innovative, interdisciplinary projects that, like the large grants, focus on issues of global significance that would be unlikely to find funding from other sources. Funding is available at this level for projects with a focus on China and/or on India, or for comparative work. The majority of the funding, however, is available for projects that are related to China. 

The principal investigator must be an active tenure-track faculty member. Students and postdoctoral scholars may participate in a grant under the supervisory auspices of the faculty member who applies for an award. 

Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching *

Spark Grants

Deadline: March 20, 2019
Award Amount: up to $15,000

These grants are designed to help "spark" promising teaching and learning projects from idea to reality and position innovations for future success. Funding can be used in various ways; for example, to pay for a research assistant, hire a graduate student with academic technology expertise, or convene collaborative groups.  Through Spark Grants, awardees will receive feedback, and community support to help them develop their ideas into prototypes, pilots, and small-scale innovations.

This program aims to extend the opportunity to participate in the digital transformation of humanistic inquiry to a greater number of humanities scholars. To this end, projects supported by ACLS Digital Extension Grants may:

OSP Deadline for Concept Paper: January 25, 2019 

Sponsor Deadline for Concept Paper: February 1, 2019 

Award Amount: $5,000 - $50,000

Grants are awarded in the areas of arts and culture, education and youth development, environment and conservation, health and human services, and for civic and public benefit. Within these fields, as appropriate, the trustees prefer programs mainly serving youth and young adults, with a special interest in programs focused on insuring the healthy growth and development of infants and young children, as a foundation for their future success. The Trust makes grant awards twice a year to nonprofit organizations in the city of Boston and contiguous communities, as well as to organizations in which Cabot family members maintain philanthropic interest.

The CAORC National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Senior Research Fellowship supports advanced research in the humanities. Fellowship awards are for four consecutive months.  Fields of study include, but are not limited to, history, philosophy, religious studies, literature, literary criticism, and visual and performing arts. In addition, research that embraces a humanistic approach and methods will be considered.  Applicants must propose four consecutive months of research in an American overseas research center in one of the following countries: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Cyprus, Georgia, Indonesia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Senegal, Sri Lanka or Tunisia.  Fellows may travel and carry out research for four consecutive months between the period of May 2019 to November 2020.

OSP Deadline: February 15, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: February 25, 2019

Award Amount: up to $30,000 

OSP Deadline: February 22, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: March 1, 2019

Award Amount: $1,500 - $15,000

Furthermore grants assist nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture, and design; cultural history, New York City, and related public issues; and conservation and preservation. The foundation looks for work that appeals to an informed general audience, gives evidence of high standards in editing, design, and production, and promises a reasonable shelf life. Funds apply to such specific publication components as writing, research, editing, indexing, design, illustration, photography, and printing and binding. Book projects to which a university press, nonprofit or trade publisher is already committed and for which there is a feasible distribution plan are usually preferred.  

Sponsor Deadline: January 25, 2019

Award Amount:  varies; covers airfare, accommodation, and living expenses for four to twelve months

The J. S. Lee Memorial Fellowship Programme supports curators, museum professionals and art history research academics taking part in Chinese art related Fellowships at  Participating Institutions . In order to realize the goal of promoting international cultural and intellectual exchange in the field of Chinese art, the Programme requires the applicant to be based in a museum or an institution in a place outside of his / her habitual residence. Fields of Fellowship supported include Chinese art history, curatorship, archaeology, conservation, museum management and museum education.

Selected Fellows will have the opportunities to work under leading curatorial professionals, and to participate in curatorial work and research for a period of four to twelve months. The Fellowship fund will cover international round-trip airfare, accommodation, and living expenses during the Fellowship period. 

Internal Pre-Proposal Deadline: January 8, 2019 at 11:30pm

OSP Deadline (if selected): February 7, 2019

Sponsor Deadline (if selected): February 14, 2019

Award Amount: $10,000 - $100,000; all Art Works grants require a non-federal match of at least 1:1

Please Note:  This is a Limited Submission Opportunity. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) runs two application cycles per year for their Art Works program. Each year, Harvard University may submit one application to only one of these grant cycles. Applicants who wish to apply for either cycle should submit an internal application by January 8, 2019.

OSP Deadline: review not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: March 6, 2019

Award Amount: $25,000

OSP Deadline: January 8, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2019

Award Amount: $10,000 - $50,000 (Level I); $50,001 - $100,000 (Level II); $100,001 - $325,000 (Level III)

OSP Deadline: March 5, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: March 12, 2019

Award Amount: $250,000

The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through this program NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars and practitioners using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities. The institutes may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few days and held at multiple locations or as long as six weeks at a single site. The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic. These professional development programs may focus on a particular computational method, such as network or spatial analysis. They may also target the needs of a particular humanities discipline or audience.

OSP Deadline: review not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: February 6, 2019

Award Amount: $5,000 per month for 6-12 months

OSP Deadline: February 13, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: February 21, 2019

Award Amount: up to $125,000 (Seminars); up to $200,000 (Institutes)

NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes grants broaden and deepen understanding of the humanities in supporting professional development programs, specifically designed for a national audience of K-12 educators or college and university faculty. The programs provide one- to four-week opportunities for participants (NEH Summer Scholars) to explore a variety of topics relevant to K-12 or undergraduate education in the humanities. 

An NEH Summer Seminar or Institute may be hosted by a college, university, learned society, center for advanced study, library or other repository, cultural or professional organization, or school or school system. The host site must provide facilities for collegial interaction and scholarship. The program must be held only in the United States and its territories.

OSP Deadline: January 24, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: January 31, 2019

Award Amount: up to $40,000 over up to 2 years (Planning Grants); up to $350,000 over up to 5 years (Implementation Projects) 

The Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections program helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, and support institutional resilience: the ability to anticipate and respond to natural and man-made disasters. Effective and sustainable preservation strategies must be informed by the nature of an institution and its collections. All applicants, whether at the planning or the implementation level, should have completed the process of basic preservation planning; they should also clearly state how sustainable strategies will address priorities established in existing preservation or collection management plans. Sustainable preservation strategies can take many forms, depending on collection materials, the building envelope, and the local climate. However, interdisciplinary collaboration during planning and implementation of these strategies is essential. In SCHC projects,  such teams typically consist of consultants and members of the institution's staff and can include architects, building engineers, conservation scientists, conservators, curators, archivists, and facilities managers, among others.

Registration Deadline: March 22, 2019

OSP Deadline: April 19, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: April 26, 2019

Award Amount: up to $20,000

Grants are awarded to nonprofit and public institutions for laboratory work to preserve culturally and historically significant film materials. The grants target orphan films (1) made in the United States or by American citizens abroad and (2) not protected by commercial interests. Materials originally created for television or video are not eligible, including works produced with funds from broadcast or cable television entities. The grant must be used to pay for new laboratory work involving the creation of:

OSP Deadline for Preliminary Proposal: January 10, 2019

Sponsor Deadline for Preliminary Proposal: January 17, 2019

Award Amount: $100,000 - $350,000; cost sharing is required as the Commission provides no more than 50 percent of total project costs

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks projects that will significantly improve public discovery and use of major historical records collections. The Commission is especially interested in collections of America's early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation's legal history. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio and moving images. Projects may:

The NHPRC welcomes collaborative projects, particularly for bringing together related records from multiple institutions. Projects that address significant needs in the field and result in replicable and scalable approaches will be more competitive. NHPRC also encourages organizations to actively engage the public in the work of the project.

OSP Deadline: January 29, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: February 5, 2019

Award Amount: varies; maximum project period is 5 years

OSP Deadline: review not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: February 1, 2019

Award Amount: $15,000 - $30,000

New America's Fellows Program invests in thinkers--journalists, scholars, filmmakers, and public policy analysts--who offer inventive perspectives on the major challenges facing our society. Fellows advance big ideas through research, reporting, analysis, and storytelling. The big idea can be a sweeping reframing of a familiar subject through new research or a new combination of existing research; a masterful presentation of a case study that advances our understanding of a timeless American theme or stress fracture; an innovative new media or academic project to disseminate knowledge about a shared challenge; or a bold policy prescription for moving domestic and international issues forward. The goal in the Fellows Program is to find bold, impactful thinkers and to fund them for a year, long enough so that they can make progress in writing a book, develop a series of articles, work on a documentary, or work on another project that would be accessible to a broad audience and long enough to be able to build a real community among the fellows. Fellows typically remain in their jobs and home city, but come together for three cohort gatherings, each lasting ~3 days and held in Washington, DC or NYC.

OSP Deadline: review not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: February 1, 2019

Award Amount: $5,000 for a minimum of 8 weeks of research at participating institutions

OSP Deadline: January 24, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: January 31, 2019

Award Amount: $250 - $15,000

A "project" is defined as any activity that involves new music getting out into the world through a live performance or recording. New Music USA is especially interested in having funds go towards paying artists directly for their work; whether that's creating, engaging, performing, or something else. New Music USA places special emphasis on funds toward:

The most competitive projects are those that include specified living composers and recent music.

OSP Deadline: review not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: January 18, 2019

Award Amount: up to $1,000 for 2-4 weeks

The Phi Beta Kappa Society

The Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship

OSP Deadline: review not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2019
Award Amount: stipend of $20,000

The Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship is awarded annually, alternating in the fields of Greek and French. The award may be used for the study of Greek language, literature, history, or archaeology, or the study of French language or literature. The 2019 Sibley Fellowship will be for Greek studies.

Candidates must be unmarried women 25 to 35 years of age who have demonstrated their ability to carry on original research. They must hold a doctorate or have fulfilled all the requirements for a doctorate except the dissertation, and they must be planning to devote full-time work to research during the fellowship year. The award is not restricted to members of Phi Beta Kappa or to U.S. citizens. 

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Schlesinger Library Grants

OSP Deadline: review not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: February 4, 2019
Award Amount: up to $3,000

The Schlesinger Library invites scholars and other serious researchers at any career stage beyond graduate school to apply for support for their work in its collections. Grants of up to $3,000 will be given on a competitive basis. Applicants must have a doctoral degree or equivalent research and writing experience. Priority will be given to those who have demonstrated research productivity and whose projects require use of materials available only at the Schlesinger Library. The awards may be used to cover travel and living expenses, photocopies or other reproductions, and other incidental research expenses, but not for the purchase of equipment or travel to other sites for research.

OSP Deadline: review not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: February 15, 2019

Award Amount:  up to $2,500 for visits 4-6 weeks in length

Recognizing the importance of experiencing original works of art firsthand, the Terra Foundation supports exhibitions that increase the understanding and appreciation of historical American art (circa 1500-1980). The foundation has a particular interest in exhibitions that travel outside the United States or to Chicago, where the Foundation is headquartered. For exhibitions that travel outside the United States, the Foundation encourages:

Visual arts that are eligible for Terra Foundation Exhibition Grants include painting; sculpture; works on paper (prints, drawings, watercolors, photographs); decorative arts (typically handmade functional objects of high aesthetic quality); design (objects of high aesthetic quality; excludes industrial design); video art; and conceptual art. Excluded are architecture, performance art, and commercial film/animation.

Terra Foundation International Research Travel Grants offer US-based scholars working on American art and visual culture prior to 1980 the opportunity to conduct research abroad. Grant funding is available for projects that require study of materials outside the United States and that will enable scholars to discover new primary source material; experience works of art first-hand in museums and private collections; make contact with artists, critics, art dealers, archivists, curators, and university scholars; consult archives and library collections outside the US; and establish professional networks for future research.

Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: March 18, 2019 at 11:30 PM

OSP Deadline for Full Proposal (if nominated): June 7, 2019

Award Amount: $50,000

Eligibility: N ominees must be full-time faculty as of September 2019; they must be pre-tenure, un-tenured, or have received tenure in the last five years. 

The Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship celebrates and supports faculty in the humanities who embrace public engagement as part of the scholarly vocation.  Proposals for the Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship should be far enough into development or execution to present specific, compelling evidence that they will successfully engage the intended public. Strong proposals will show evidence of both the overall strategy and the practical plan to implement the proposed project. Relationships with key collaborators should already be deeply developed, and, in some cases, the nominee and collaborators may have tested the idea in a pilot, or the project itself may already be underway. Nominees may propose to direct funds however will best meet the needs of the project. Funding may not be used to cover indirect costs of administering the program.

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposal: June 14, 2019

Award Amount: $10,000

Eligibility: Nominees must be full-time faculty as of September 2019; they must be pre-tenure, untenured, or have received tenure in the last five years.

The Whiting Foundation offers Seed Grants for proposals with strong promise that would benefit from additional time and modest resources to deepen the planning, make or strengthen relationships with intended collaborators, or test the waters with a small-scale pilot related to the proposed project. The Seed Grant supports projects at an earlier stage of development than those eligible for the Fellowship Grant. However, proposals for Seed Grant funding should not be in the very first phase of development.  The work proposed should be at the stage where a compelling vision has been fleshed out, including a clear sense of whose collaboration will be required and the ultimate scope and expected outcomes of the final product.  Project proposers should be able to articulate specific short-term next steps required to advance the proposed project and understand the resources required to complete them.