Home | Literary Movements  | Timeline  |  American Authors | American Literature Sites | Bibliographies | Site Updates

Grants and Fellowships

 

Narrative +

 

 

Massachusetts Historical Society

2 reference letters

http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/long_term.cfm

January 15, 2012

Harvard-Houghton Library (various)

2 reference letters

http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/public_programs/visiting_fellowships.cfm

Focus is on bibliography projects.

January 13, 2012

NEH Fellowship at the Newberry Library 3 letters

http://www.newberry.org/fellowships

December 12,

Legacy fellowship / American Antiquarian Society (AAS)

Am lit & culture to 1876
2 reference letters

http://www.americanantiquarian.org/acafellowship.htm

January 15

Connecticut Humanities  

http://web.uconn.edu/uchi/opportunities.php?page=custom&site=Fellowships%20and%20Grants&id=5

9 months

January 15
Newberry Library Postdoc fellows   http://www.newberry.org/fellowships January 11

Newberry Library NEH, etc.

 

http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/long-term.html

January 11

American Antiquarian Society NEH

 

http://www.americanantiquarian.org/nehfellowship.htm

January 15

Harry Ransom Center

2 reference letters

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fellowships/application/

 

February 1, 2012

RMMLA/Huntington Library Research Grant   http://rmmla.wsu.edu/awards/huntington.asp February 1, 2012

NEH Summer Seminar

NEH Summer Institute

 

http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-university.html
Application information: http://www.folger.edu/library.cfm?libid=2905

Summer Seminars: For teachers of undergraduates; Institutes for scholarly projects

March 1, 2012
American Philosophical Society  

Library Resident Fellowships

http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/resident

March 1, 2012
Library Company of Philadelphia  

Short-term fellowships in early American literature and history; mostly devoted to dissertation fellowships and young scholars http://www.librarycompany.org/economics/efellowships.htm

March 11, 2012 (dissertation fellow)

WSU

Meyer Awards

Travel grants

http://libarts.wsu.edu/college/faculty-staff/index.asp April 1, 2012
New York Public Library Short-term fellowships http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/fellowships-institutes/short-term-research-fellowships March 18, 2012

Schlesinger Library/ Radcliffe Fellowships

  • Curriculum vitae, not to exceed 10 pages
  • Project Proposal, with bibliography when appropriate
  • · Writing Sample, not to exceed 30 single-sided pages for all articles
  • · List of three recommenders

http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/apply.aspx

http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/research_grant.aspx (Friday, March 16, 2012)

http://radcliffe.onlineapplicationportal.com/misc/guidelines/humanities.aspx

(Primarily for east coast universities.)

March 16

Everett Helm Visiting Fellowships, Lilly Library

Letters only if not published

http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/fellowships.shtml

April 15; October 15

Nebraska Digital Humanities Primarily for early scholars and senior DH scholars; some are just for Nebraska faculty http://cdrh.unl.edu/opportunities/fellowships.php April 27, 2012
UCLA Visiting Researcher   Film http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/access/researchstipend.html April 25, 2012

NEH

 

Two recommenders; their letters must be uploaded by June 5.

http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fellowships.html

 

May 3, 2012 11:55 p.m. Eastern time

NEH Summer Stipend

T-t faculty must be nominated by institution; only 2 members per institution may be nominated

http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html#awardinfo

http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html

Summer Stipends: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html

WSU OGRD site: http://informer.ogrd.wsu.edu/

WSU deadlines for this: July 19

Applications accepted August 1-October 1, 2012

ACLS Fellowships

 

2 reference letters

http://www.acls.org/programs/acls/

http://ofa.acls.org/

These are largely for pretenure or newly tenured people; Burckhardt fellowships are exclusively for this group. Also, must have "a lapse of at least two years since the last "supported research leave" and July 1, 2011" (including sabbatical).

September 30

Guggenheim Fellowships

4 references, list of works, work plan http://www.gf.org/applicants/application-resources/

http://www.gf.org/applicants/the-united-states-canadian-competition/

Applications available in late June. Asks for 4 references, but will contact them about the letters.

Sept. 15

ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships   http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=50 September 28
NEH Digital Humanities Startup   http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html September 27
WSU Faculty Travel Grants

http://libarts.wsu.edu/college/faculty-staff/index.asp

Eligible for only 1 award per year.

April 1
October 1
       
Fulbright Specialist 2 referees http://www.cies.org/specialists/Joining_The_Roster/Peer_Review.htm#interested October 5
National Humanities Center 3 rec letters http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellowships/appltoc.htm

October 15

Humanities Washington   http://www.humanities.org/programs/grants/No project awards 2012 due to budget cuts. October 15
AAUW Fellowships  

http://www.aauw.org/what-we-do/educational-funding-and-awards/american-fellowships/american-fellowship-application/

http://www.act.org/aauw/ampub/ but "Scholars with strong publication records should seek funding elsewhere."

November 15
Beinecke Library

1200 word narrative
application form
2 letters

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs-events/fellowship-program

Graduate housing filled by early summer; request early.

December 9
Huntington Library Fellowships Narrative & 3 letters of support http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=566 November 30

Ineligible/defunct

Howard Foundation

Lit crit in 2011-2012

http://www.brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/Howard_Foundation/

Early to mid-career only.

November 1

Oregon State University Center for the Humanities

Corvallis, OR

2 letters from scholars

Financial form

11 copies

 

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/humanities

Not awarded in 2010-2011or 2011-2012 because of financial constraints.

December 12

American Philosophical Society Sabbatical leave must be approved & a letter from dept. sent

Sabbatical Fellowships
http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/sabbatical
PROGRAM HAS CEASED

Franklin grants are only for the work of early career scholars.

October 15

       

NEH Digital Humanities startup

 

http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html