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This is an extensive, but not exhaustive, list of funding opportunities for informational purposes only. Click on an entry for more details. Please be sure to verify competition guidelines, eligibility, and deadlines on the sponsor’s website.
- If you are a faculty member in the College of LAS and are applying for funding from federal agencies and/or funding that is awarded to the institution, you must contact the LAS Office of Research at las-research@illinois.edu a minimum of four weeks prior to the sponsor deadline to notify them you plan to apply.
- All faculty (regardless of college/department) applying for funding from federal agencies and/or funding that is awarded to the institution must work with Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) for proposal preparation, review, and submission. Please note that internal deadlines (set by SPA and your department) are earlier than the sponsor deadline.
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Opportunity | Summary | Rolling Submissions Cycle | Funding Categories | Funding Type |
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American Academy in Berlin (Berlin Prize) | Each year, the American Academy in Berlin welcomes around two dozen fellows, who support our mission to enrich transatlantic dialogue in the arts, humanities, and public policy through the development and communication of projects of the highest scholarly merit. | February | International | Humanities and Social Sciences |
American Academy in Rome (Rome Prize) | For over a century, the American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative | November | International | Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences |
American Antiquarian Society (Research Fellowhips) | The American Antiquarian Society offers four broad categories of visiting research fellowships, with tenures ranging from one to twelve months. | Varies | Research Library | Humanities and Social Sciences |
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) | The American Council of Learned Societies supports the creation and circulation of knowledge that | Varies | Fellowships, Grants | Humanities and Social Sciences |
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowships Competition | Given the disproportionate effect the pandemic’s social and economic disruptions have had on emerging, independent, and untenured scholars, ACLS will continue in the 2023-24 competition year to offer these fellowships solely to untenured scholars who have earned the PhD within eight years of the application deadline. | September | Portable, Fellowships | Humanities and Social Sciences |
American Philosophical Society | Fellowships are offered for short-term and long-term opportunities, for subject-specific research, digital humanities projects, and more. | Varies | Fellowships, Grants | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Bellagio Center Residency Program | Since 1959 The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center has hosted thousands of artists, policymake | Varies | Residency, International | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Camargo Foundation Fellowship | The Camargo Fellowship is the flagship program of the Camargo Foundation. | October | Fellowships, International | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences | The Center offers a residential fellowship program for scholars working in a diverse range of disciplines that contribute to advancing research and thinking in social science. | November | Fellowships, Residency | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts - Senior Fellowship Program | Fellowships are for full-time research, and scholars are expected to reside in Washington and to participate in the activities of the Center throughout the fellowship period. Lectures, colloquia, and informal discussions complement the fellowship program. | October | Fellowships, Residency | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts - Visiting Senior Fellowship Program | The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts announces its program for visiting senior fellowships. All of the fellowships are for full-time research, and scholars are expected to reside in Washington and to participate in the activities of the Center throughout the fellowship period. | March | Fellowships, Residency | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Center for Human Values (Princeton University) - Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship | Fellows devote an academic year in residence to research and writing about topics involving human values in public and private life. This full-time visiting program is open to scholars in all disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. | October | Fellowships, Residency | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Clark Fellowship | Fellowships are awarded every year to established and promising scholars with the aim of fosterin | July | Fellowships, Residency | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) | The Multi-Country Research Fellowship enables US scholars to carry out trans-regional and comparative research in countries across the network of Overseas Research Centers as well as other countries. | Varies | International, Fellowships | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowships (New York Public Library) | The Cullman Center’s Selection Committee awards fifteen Fellowships a year to outstanding scholars and writers—academics, independent scholars, journalists, creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets), translators, and visual artists. | September | Residency, Fellowships | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Dumbarton Oaks | Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection supports research and learning internationally in | November | Fellowships, Grants, Residency | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Dynamic Language Infrastructure - Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowship - National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) | The Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) Fellowships are offered as part of a joint, multi-year funding program of NEH and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and advance scientific and scholarly knowledge concerning endangered human languages. | September | Fellowships, Portable | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Fulbright U.S. Scholars Programs | The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 awards in more than 135 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research and carry out professional projects around the world. | September | International, Awards | Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences |
George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation | The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation is an independent foundation administered at Brown University. It awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in selected fields, targeting its support specifically to early mid-career individuals, who have completed at least one major project and demonstrate potential to be future leaders in their fields. | November | Fellowships, Portable | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Getty Research Institute (Center, Villa) | While in residence at the Getty Center or Villa, scholars are welcomed to an active intellectual community to do research with wide access to Getty collections and staff expertise. | Varies | Research Library, Residency, Grants | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation | The Foundation awards travel grants to individual scholars to support historical research on Venice and the former Venetian empire, and for the study of contemporary Venetian society and culture. | December | International, Grants | Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Guggenheim Fellowship - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | The Guggenheim Foundation offers fellowships to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation of any artform, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed. | September | Portable, Fellowships | Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas - Austin) | The Ransom Center fosters a supportive environment so that researchers may explore, examine, critique, and better understand the cultural works in its collections from a historical context. | November | Research Library, Fellowships | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Houghton Library Visiting Fellowships (Harvard University) | The Visiting Fellowship program offers scholars at all stages of their careers funding to pursue projects that require in-depth research on the library’s holdings, as well as opportunities to draw on staff expertise and participate in intellectual life at Harvard. | Varies | Fellowships, Research Library | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Huntington Fellowships | The Huntington is a collections-based research institute, which promotes humanities scholarship on the basis of its library holdings and art collections. | November | Research Library, Fellowships | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Illinois Humanities | Illinois Humanities, the Illinois affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a st | Varies | Grants | Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Institute for Advanced Study | Young scholars and applicants from non-traditional backgrounds who have outstanding promise are considered, as are senior scholars whose reputations are already well established. | Varies | Residency | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Institute for Historical Studies (University of Texas - Austin) | The Institute for Historical Studies will not offer residential fellowship opportunities for 2023 | Varies | Fellowships | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) | In 2022, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded $257.2 million through grantmaking, research and policy development, to advance, support, and empower America's museums, libraries, and related organizations. | Varies | Grants | Humanities and Social Sciences |
Library Company of Philadelphia | Several categories of research support are available: postdoctoral and dissertation fellowships (one-semester or full academic year), one-month research fellowships, and occasional special opportunities (e.g., subject- or collection-specific fellowships). | Varies | Fellowships, Research Library | Humanities and Social Sciences |
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