Arts & Humanities Opportunities & Resources
- : Summer Stipends (limited); Summer Seminars and Institutes; Collaborative Research Grants; Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities.
- : Challenge America (limited); Our Town (limited); Art Works (limited); Research: Art Works.
- : National Leadership Grants for Libraries and Museums; Activating Community Opportunities Using Museums/Libraries as Assets (limited).
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- : Public Engagement Fellowship (limited); Public Engagement Seed Grant (limited)
- What is a Limited Campus Competition?: In some cases, a funder limits the number of applications that can be submitted by 兔子先生传媒文化作品 to a given funding opportunity. For all limited submission funding opportunities, the Research & Innovation Office (RIO) coordinates an internal competition to identify the project(s) with the highest likelihood of receiving funding.
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| Offers multiple fellowships for women writers and artists. | |
| Offers multiple fellowships and awards for scholars of all fields to study or conduct research in Germany. | |
| Offers the Berlin Prize to support a scholar at the Berlin Academy that seeks to enrich transatlantic dialogue in the arts, humanities, and public policy. | |
| Offers The Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities at the Rome Academy. | |
| As an independent research center, the Academy is committed to multidisciplinary, nonpartisan research that engages experts in various fields and professions to provide pragmatic solutions for complex challenges. | |
| Multiple grants and awards are given each year for various projects. | |
| Offers fellowships under three programs: Short-term 兔子先生传媒文化作品ing Academic Fellowships, Long-term 兔子先生传媒文化作品ing Academic Fellowships, and Fellowships for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers. | |
| Offers multiple fellowships, including the American Fellowships to support women scholars who are completing dissertations, planning research leave from accredited institutions, or preparing research for publication. | |
| Offers various grants and fellowships in the humanities and related social sciences including Collaborative research fellowships, digital Extension Grants, and the ACLS Fellowships. | |
| Offers major grants for independent, overseas policy relevant research in humanities and social sciences as well as language training. | |
| Offers a variety of travel and research grants to music scholars. | |
| The Louise Wallace Hackney Fellowship for the study of Chinese Art is a 12 month fellowship for the study of Chinese art with special interest in the relation of painting to Chinese culture and the translation of Chinese painting into English. | |
| Offers research grants in all areas of study and small fellowship awards for specific areas of study, including American Philosophical Society Library. | |
| The ASCSA has over 25 fellowships available to Graduate students, as well as Post-Doctoral and established scholars. | |
| The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and we believe that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom to be found there. Through our grants, we seek to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. | |
| Offers a large variety of funding opportunities open to members of AIA. | |
| Site hosts listings of art commissions, competitions, jobs, internships, scholarships, grants, fellowships, and more. | |
| Hosts list of grantmaking and funding partnerships that support artists and art residency. | |
| The Association of Performing Arts Professionals has opened applications for ArtsForward, more than $2 million in direct grants of $35,000 or $50,000 to US-based performing arts presenters and artists. | |
| The Asian Cultural Council makes fellowships and grants to support cultural exchange in the arts for practicing artists, scholars, and arts professionals. | |
| Offers multiple grants to individuals in the field of Asian Studies. | |
| Offers small support grants ($500 - $1500) to individual feminist women in the arts who are citizens with primary residence in the US and Canada. | |
| Artists-in-residence program hosts international artists for a four month period to focus on creating art in a wide variety of fields including art, poetry, graphic design, music, photography, and filmmaking. | |
| Provides residential fellowships at its study center in Bogliasco where scholars of all cultures come together to work on humanities based exchange in all disciplines | |
| A list of fellowships, grants, and awards intended as a resource for faculty searching for opportunities and assistance with research relating to the humanities. A full list and several curated lists are included. | |
| The Carmago Core Program offers time and space in a contemplative environment for artists and scholars to think, create, and connect. | |
| The CHS Fellowships in Hellenic Studies support the highest quality research on topics related to ancient Greece in a residential fellowship in Washington D.C. | |
| By sponsoring public programs and conferences, offering fellowships to individual scholars, and functioning as an indispensable conduit of information, CLAGS serves as a national center for the promotion of scholarship that fosters social change. | |
| Offers funding to travel to CRASSH to work on research, projects, or activities that support the Centre 鈥 from postdoctoral and early career researchers to more established visiting fellows. | |
| Provides grants to scholars around the world that undertake research projects that shed light on Chinese culture and society. | |
| Colorado Creative Industries offers four grant opportunities: Colorado Creates, Career Advancement, Creative Districts and Arts in Society with a focus to support and expand the impact of creative industries, artists and entrepreneurs, connecting communities to advance a thriving and vibrant Colorado. | |
| Offers fellowships under three programs: HSP Postdoctoral Associates, Society Fellowships, and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships. | |
| Offers multiple exchange programs and awards including the Fulbright Scholar Program, postdoctoral awards, and global scholar awards for scholars in all fields. | |
| Offers multiple fellowships and links to associated Institutes that support overseas research and scholarship. | |
| Offers grants to support the creation of groundbreaking art by innovative and adventurous artists across the country through our national, open call process. | |
| Offers 18 month curatorial fellowship in the curatorial experimentation in the visual arts in London, England. | |
| Artist residences are awarded annually at no cost to the artist, time and space to work on projects in the fields of choreography, literature, music composition, visual arts, media arts, and science. | |
| Fellowships, project grants, summer schools, and workshops to study and conduct research in archeology, photographic surveys of objects, and monuments. | |
| Residency fellowships are offered to early-career writers and visual artists to spend seven months in Provincetown to work on an independent project. | |
| Provide mid-career artists, scholars, and writers with time to complete their work through Howard Fellowships. | |
| Supports activities in fields of historical humanities with particular interest in history-related scholarship. Gerda Henkel Prize (Limited Submission). | |
| Offers multiple grants and funding programs available for senior researchers in all fields including the Alexander Von Humboldt Professorship. | |
| Multiple grants awarded in Getty鈥檚 current initiatives in art and art history. | |
| Supports one-week visits by scholars who believe their project will benefit from the Hagley research collection with Exploratory Research Grants and serious scholarly work that makes use of Hagley鈥檚 research collections and expands on prior scholarship with Henry Belin du Pont Research Grants. | |
| Support short-term residencies for research projects that require substantial on-site use of its collections in a wide range of topics | |
| Support to advance research in the field of media, politics and public policy; facilitate a dialogue among journalists, scholars, policymakers and students; and provide an opportunity for reflection. | |
| Host writers for residencies of two to six weeks at, no cost to the writer. | |
| We encourage proposals that will engage Montanans in meaningful discussion about the human condition and enrich civic discourse among the state鈥檚 diverse cultures and across its geographical distances. | |
| Supports scholars from around the world to conduct advanced humanities research using The Huntington鈥檚 collections. | |
The enables collaborations between colleagues from beyond Indiana University and tenured or tenure-track faculty at IUB through short-term visits to the IUB campus. Projects may lead to scholarly publications, grant applications, performances, or exhibits. The program to support immersive collections research. This initiative is intended to support research in the rich collections of the IU Bloomington campus and to build partnerships between scholars at and beyond IUB. | |
| Open to independent filmmakers and documentarians, regardless of education, background or previous credits. | |
| Offers the Mellon School of Historical Studies Fellowship, a one year program memberships to support assistant professors for one academic year in the fields of historical research. | |
| We empower people across the political spectrum to obtain the skills, knowledge, tools, funding, and other resources needed to develop and implement the best ideas and policies our constitutional democracy needs to thrive. Formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. | |
| Offers grants to advance, support, and empower America's museums, libraries, and related organizations. National Leadership Grants for Libraries and Museums; Activating Community Opportunities Using Museums/Libraries as Assets (Limited Submission). | |
| Offers fellowships annually to scholars engaged in research on the early Americas. | |
| Offers various fellowships, including the Kluge Fellowship, to utilize the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. | |
| Offers various grants and fellowships in support of those who aim to present or study Kurt Weill鈥檚 competitions, scholarship in Music Theater, and composition. | |
| Offers an opportunity for members of the creative community to experience Antarctica during a short research expedition so they may communicate their experience to the international community. | |
| Opportunity to participate in the Philadelphia region鈥檚 vibrant intellectual life while conducting research in the print, graphic, and manuscript collections of the Library Company and other local institutions. | |
| Awards fellowships to qualified scholars to support research, publication, and projects in the area of classical studies. | |
| The Sabbatical Grant offers academics and scholarly religious leaders to conduct a major study that can contribute to the vitality of Christianity in North America. | |
| Provides space and time to artists in many disciplines for up to eight weeks three times per year. There are no fees. | |
| Dedicated to enhancing knowledge and understanding of American history, literature, and culture from its earliest beginnings to the current day, especially through the use of original sources. | |
| Offers four fellowship programs including over 20 short-term and 2 long-term fellowships to support research to use the Massachusetts Historical Society鈥檚 library and archival collections. | |
| These fellowships are available to support outstanding faculty whose teaching and research focus on ethics; political and social philosophy; moral psychology, agency, and responsibility; philosophy of law; political theory; or questions of moral choice in areas such as, but not restricted to, business, government, law, economics, and medicine. | |
| NCPH awards recognize excellence in the diverse ways public historians apply their skills to the world around us. The purpose of the award program is to promote professionalism and best practices among public historians and to raise awareness about their activities. | |
| Various grants for individuals and organizations to support scholarly and creative works. Challenge America (Limited Submission); Our Town (Limited Submission); Art Works (Limited Submission); Research: Art Works. | |
| Offers multiple rotating grant programs annually including Collaborative Research Grants, Summer Stipends (Limited Submission), Digital Humanities Advancement Grants, Documenting Endangered Languages with the NSF, Fellowships, Translation Grants, and Summer Seminars and Institutes. | |
| Offers CASVA Resident Fellowships to foster the study of the production, use, and cultural meaning of art, artifacts, architecture, and urbanism. | |
| Grants in fields of conservation, education, research, and technology to identify, cultivate, and develop world-changers of today and tomorrow. | |
| Offers residential fellowships for study in the humanities at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. | |
| Offers individual, theme-group, and specific co-sponsored fellowships to study the humanities and social sciences in Amsterdam for a period of time. | |
| Various in-residence fellowships and institutes for writers and humanities scholars at the New York Public library. | |
| Supports project grants for individuals and organizations undertaking imaginative work. | |
| Offers residential fellowships for scholars, artist, and scientists in all disciplines that align with the intellectual orientation of the Institute. | |
| The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education was established in 1988 to support college-level lighting programs that enable students to learn, appreciate, and apply the basics of lighting and design. | |
| Offers a limited number of grants to individuals and organizations, primarily through scholarships and fellowships. | |
| Residential fellowships for scholars working in the traditional humanities and social and natural science that engage in humanistic inquiry. | |
| Founded in 1907, the Organization of American Historians (OAH) is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. The mission of the organization is to promote excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history, and to encourage wide discussion of historical questions and the equitable treatment of all practitioners of history. | |
| Department of HistorDavis Center for Historical Studies | Founded in 1968, The Davis Center for Historical Studies is named after Shelby Cullom Davis '30, who provided a generous gift to assure the continuance of excellence in scholarship and the teaching of history at Princeton University |
| Members are selected by the Faculty of each School, and come to the Institute for periods as short as one term or as long as several years. Young scholars and applicants from non-traditional backgrounds who have outstanding promise are considered, as are senior scholars whose reputations are already well established. The major consideration in the appointment process is the expectation that each Member鈥檚 period of residence at the Institute will result in work of significance and originality. | |
| Provides fellowships for outstanding or early career composers, conductors, musicians, choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists鈥搕his list is not meant to be exhaustive鈥搘ho would find it beneficial to spend time teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community. | |
| Offers visiting research, library research, writer-in-residence, and artists-in-residence fellowships for those who are scholars in classical, late antique, Byzantine, or Modern Greek Studies. | |
| Offers a residence program at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University where fellows focus on an individual project in the arts, journalism, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. | |
| Awards various fellowships supporting research or publication that advance scholarly knowledge about the Renaissance each year. | |
| Offers the year-long interdisciplinary William S. Vaughn 兔子先生传媒文化作品ing Faculty Fellowship to explore a chosen specific topic in the humanities or social sciences. | |
| Provides unstructured time and space for creative individuals to develop new work. | |
| The Resident Scholar Fellowships support scholars who need time to prepare manuscripts or dissertations on topics important to understanding humankind. The School also offers various other fellowships in the humanities. | |
| Offers more than 30 fellowship opportunities in multiple fields. | |
| Supports the activities of scholars in American music at all stages of their careers. | |
| Site lists awards, scholarships, and fellowships granted by national and regional classics societies and associations. | |
| Offers multiple residencies at Ryder Farm in New Jersey to give artists time to create. | |
| Faculty fellowships are awarded across the spectrum of academic ranks (assistant, associate, and full professor) and a goal of the selection process is to create a diverse community of scholars. | |
| Offers fellowship opportunities to support an environmental humanities and scholar and artist in residence program. | |
| Offers grants for 鈥淪cience & The Big Questions鈥 which includes topics in human science, philosophy, and theology. | |
| Offers a residency program for two to four weeks to help artists, writers, and scholars create, advance or complete works. | |
| Offers various grants and fellowships in the field of art including the Writing Initiative, Arts, Culture, and Society, Creative Capital, and Curatorial Fellowships. | |
| Offers the Bellagio Center Residency and Conference Programs for academics, artists, thought leaders, policymakers, and practitioners from a wide range of fields to accomplish goal-oriented work. | |
| Supports bibliographic inquiry and research in the history of the book trades and publishing history through The Katharine Pantzer Senior Fellowship in Bibliography and the British Book Trades and other special fellowships. | |
| Craft Research Fund Grants support research about craft in the United States. | |
| Offers multiple Awards and Prizes on various topics related to Latin American History. | |
| Offers research support for short-term, dissertation, and postdoctoral research in a range of disciplines relating to the history of the United States and the Atlantic world in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. | |
| Hosts a residency program in Upstate New York in one-month and two-week periods for visual artists, writers, and composers. | |
| The Newberry鈥檚 long-standing fellowship program provides outstanding scholars with the time, space, and community required to pursue innovative and ground-breaking scholarship. | |
| Offers various grants, fellowships, and awards to help support individuals and organizations working in the visual arts. | |
| Offers a grant award program in various fields on a cycle basis. | |
| Hosts a lively scholarly community of visiting fellows. It is a supportive environment for postdoctoral researchers, while also attracting successful mid-career and eminent senior scholars. | |
| Offers awards, grants, prizes, and fellowships for writers and scholars. Public Engagement Fellowship (Limited Submission); Public Engagement Seed Grant (Limited Submission). | |
| UConn Humanities Fellowships are opportunities for individuals to pursue advanced work in the humanities. | |
| Supports peacebuilding projects through grants and fellowships including the Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship to support research, writing, and in-house advising in the field of peacebuilding. | |
| Offers fellowships to help scholars access the Library鈥檚 rich primary source collections for research. | |
| Provides funds for activities that enhance teaching and learning in the fields of religious and theological studies taught in colleges, universities, and theological schools. | |
| The Foundation supports historical monographs on major questions in American law and legal development, as well as biographies of important legal figures. Scholars interested in support for a book project are encouraged to follow the application procedure. | |
| Offers residential research fellowships in a broad range of scholarly topics and academic disciplines. | |
| Support artist鈥檚 individual creative process through grants, residencies, and internships that give 24-hour access to the Women鈥檚 Studio Workshop鈥檚 facilities. | |
| Long and short-term fellowships to bring scholars, religious leaders, and artists to the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale whose work is in sacred music, liturgical/ritual studies, or religion and the arts. | |
| A research institute, an institution of higher learning, an adult education organization, a cultural organization, and a world-renowned library and archive. To preserve, study, share, and perpetuate knowledge of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide. |
- NEW Pilot!: Research & Innovation Arts & Humanities Grant Program: The Research & Innovation Office is piloting an Arts & Humanities Grant Program designed to foster the advancement of arts- and humanities-related scholarship, research and creative pursuits at 兔子先生传媒文化作品. This opportunity is inspired by the Research & Innovation Office鈥檚 recognition of the essential role of the arts and humanities at a public university, including inspiring deeper connections with others, welcoming multiple and diverse perspectives and contemplating what it means to be human.
- Seed Grant Program: Designed to catalyze new areas of research and creative work, the Seed Grant Program awards nearly $1 million annually to Boulder faculty across all disciplines. Recent winners included faculty from the Departments of French and Italian, Religious Studies, Linguistics, History and the University Libraries.
- Faculty Conference Awards: These awards provide partial support for planning and hosting conferences at 兔子先生传媒文化作品 that promote and encourage the scholarship, research and creative work of the Boulder campus faculty.
- RIO Travel Grants: Designed to facilitate faculty-funder relationships, travel grants provide funding up to $1,500 for faculty to visit extramural sponsors.
- Center for Humanities & the Arts Funding: The Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA) offers awards, fellowships, competitions, and travel grants for both faculty and graduate students.
- Eugene M. Kayden Awards (Research Grants, Book Awards and Translation Awards): These awards, which are funded from the Eugene M. Kayden endowment, are intended to promote the completion of research and creative work in the Arts and Humanities, research leading to publication, and the celebration and dissemination of excellent Arts and Humanities research.
- Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion (LEAP): The LEAP program supports tenure-line faculty at all stages of their careers. For pre-tenured faculty, a two-day workshop presented by tenured faculty, administrators, and professional staff is available. Associate professors are eligible to apply for LEAP-sponsored career-development 'growth' grants, intended to support the development of research portfolios on the progression toward full professor. The call for proposals goes out in January with a submission deadline in early March.
- : The President鈥檚 Fund for the Humanities (PFH) was established to promote and enhance the humanities on and across campuses and in the wider community, and to preserve a balance in the university鈥檚 programs of education and research by giving special attention to the humanities.
- Distinguished Research Lectureship: This lectureship, among the university鈥檚 highest honors, recognizes a tenured faculty member for a distinguished body of academic or creative achievement and prominence, as well as contributions to the educational and service missions of CU Boulder. Past recipients include faculty from the departments of Music, History and Fine Arts.
- Faculty Fellows: a campus-wide research and creative works leadership program that supports rising 兔子先生传媒文化作品 faculty interested in furthering their leadership skills to achieve maximum impact within and beyond the campus.
- PI Academy: This program orients early career, tenure-track faculty to 兔子先生传媒文化作品鈥檚 research community and resources. Through the PI Academy, presenters and facilitators actively engage faculty on a number of 鈥渃ore鈥 research development topics to ensure early investigators are well-positioned to apply for and secure external funding for their research, scholarly and creative endeavors.
- RIO Webinars: List of all upcoming webinars that the Research and Innovation Office is offering.
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