Young Investigator Awards for Humanities Faculty

American Council on Germany (ACG), Richard M. Hunt Fellowship for the Study of German Politics, Society, and Culture - covers costs of pre-approved international and domestic travel and per diem of $150 for up to 28 days in Germany to (but not limited to) postgraduate students in relatively early stages of their careers, including individuals enrolled in PhD programs finishing their dissertation, scholars with an academic affiliation, and those who are independent or have other professional associations; should demonstrate interest in German political, social, and cultural affairs; no prior experience in Germany or knowledge of the language required. Deadline: July 2008.

American Council of Learned Societies, ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships - for scholars who are at least 2 years beyond their PhD for 6–12 month fellowships to pursue research and writing on the societies and cultures of Asia, Africa, the Near and Middle East, Latin America, East Europe and the former Soviet Union. Deadline 3 October 2007.

American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowships - up to $30K for assistant professors in a broad range of humanities and humanistic social sciences including anthropology, archeology, art history, economics, geography, history, language, psychology, religion, musicology, and literature; must be at least a 3-year lapse since last supported leave. Deadline: 3 October 2007.

American Council of Learned Societies, Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars - $75K for 1 academic year, plus institutional support for an additional period. Intended to support an academic year of residence at any one of the national residential research centers participating in the program. Deadline: 3 October 2007.

American Council of Learned Societies, New York Public Library Fellowships - up to $50K to support residential collaborations at the library's new Center for Scholars & Writers; must be at least 3 years' lapse since last supported research leave. Deadline: 3 October 2007.

American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grants - up to $6K per year; grants made payable to individual applicant and are taxable to the recipient. Deadlines: October 1 or December 1.

American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), Fellowships - $8840 stipend plus room, board, and fees for September to June to PhD candidates and recent PhDs focusing on Late Antiquity, Byzantine Studies, and Modern Greek Studies; must demonstrate need to work in the Gennadius Library. Deadline: January 2008.

American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, W.F. (Jerusalem), George A. Barton Fellowship- $7K for 5 months to recent PhD recipients in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, including archeology, anthropology, art history, Bible, epigraphy, historical geography, history, language, literature, philology and religion, or related disciplines from prehistory through the early Islamic period; research period should be continuous, without frequent trips outside the country; the stipend is $2,950; remainder ($4,050) is for room and half-board at the Institute. Deadline: 1 October 2007.

Baeck Institute, Leo Baeck Institute/DAAD Fellowship - Research in the Federal Republic of Germany - monthly stipend of up to €975 (depending on level) from July through January; travel is one-time lump sum of €520; no support for family; applicants must be PhD candidates or PhDs who have received the degree in the preceding 2 years; to prepare a scholarly essay or book on the social, communal, and intellectual history of German-speaking Jewry that requires research in Germany. Deadline: 1 November, annually.

British Academy, Sir Ernest Cassel Educational Trust Fund - up to £7.5K for personal research and £1K for travel costs; aimed at recent postdoctoral scholars and is applicable to all humanities fields. Deadline: 15 April, annually.

Brown University, Pembroke Center for Teaching & Research on Women- $35K a year for residential fellowship; applicants may not hold a tenured position in a US college or university; preference to third-world and minority scholars; the Center has an annual research focus. Deadline: 14 December 2007.

Catholic University of America, Catholic Biblical Association of America, Young Scholars Fellowship - $20K stipend plus travel to/from the institution chosen; to active or associate CBA members who have recently finished the doctorate and have taught for not more than 6 years to continue their studies at another center of learning or do research for publication. Deadline: 1 December 2007.

Center for Hellenic Studies, Junior Fellowships - maximum $26K stipend, housing in DC for fellows and their families, subsidized health insurance, other benefits; up to $1K for professional travel and other research expenses; for outstanding Hellenists in the earlier career stages (not more than 10 years postdoctorate); from September to May or 1 semester. Deadline: 15 October annually.

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Junior Scholar Grants - up to $30K to postdoctoral scholars and assistant professors without tenure who have taught for no more than 6 years since receiving their PhD. Research should target Chinese cultural heritage; Republic of China; Taiwan area studies, including history, archeology, sociology, economy, politics, and culture; China-related compartative studies. Deadline: 15 Octboer annually.

Columbia University, Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Postdoctoral Fellowship - $25K stipend, full fringe benefits, $1K for travel, and $2K for innovative course planning for spring 2008 semester; must have received PhD between 2001 and 2007 to develop cross-disciplinary and cross-regional scholarship; teach 1 spring course with a Columbia faculty member. Deadline: 20 October 2007.

Columbia University; Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Fellowship - up to $52K stipend plus $3K to support research, must have received PhD between 1/1/04 and 7/1/08. Fellows will conduct research on a project that is the focus of the application, have teaching duties in the core curriculum, and attend Society of Fellows lectures and events and core curriculum training meetings. Fellows will also actively participate in the intellectual life of the society. Fellows are appointed as lecturers in appropriate departments at Columbia University and as postdoctoral research fellows. Deadline: 8 October 2007.

Cornell University, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships - stipend of $45K for 1 year; must have received PhD after September 2001; areas of specialization include Classics (Greek/Hellenistic literature) and Music (Western art music of the late 19th and/or 20th century). Deadline: October 1, 2007.

Cornell University, Society for the Humanities Fellows - up to $45K for 1 year; the theme for 2008-2009 will be Water, A Critical Concept for the Humanities. Deadline: 31 October annually.

Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program for Advanced Multi-Country Research - up to $9K for doctoral candidates and established postdoctoral scholars to conduct research in at least one of the countries that host overseas research centers as well as other countries, unless subject to official security or travel restrictions or warnings.Countries include Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cyprus, Egypt, Gaza Strip, Greece, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkey, West Bank, Yemen. Research in Nepal is possible via the Center for South Asia Libraries. Applicants must be US citizens. Deadline:January 2008 (not yet posted)..

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowships - for a stay of 6-12 months in Germany for research. Monthly stipends range from Ç 2,100 to Ç 3,000; special allowances are available for accompanying family members, travel expenses, and German language instruction. Applicants must be highly qualified scholars who hold a PhD (or equivalent) and are under 40 years of age. Deadline: continuous.

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Contemporary German Literature Grant - The Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, supports summer research in modern German literature and collaboration among US students or scholars and German-speaking writers, critics, scholars, and students in this field. Deadline: March 2008.

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), DAAD-AICGS Grant - provides funds for research at AICGS in Washington, DC, to assist PhD candidates, recent PhDs and junior faculty members in their research.. Deadlines: February and June (see also Baeck Institute).

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Faculty Research Visit Grants - 1-3 months to pursue research in all academic disciplines at universities, libraries, archives, institutes or laboratories in Germany. Deadlines:1 February and 1 August 2008.

Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Getty Trust, Postdoctoral Fellowships - $40K stipend for 1 year; for scholars whose PhDs in art history have been or will be conferred within the last 6 years; PhDs in other fields must demonstrate their work will make substantial and original contribution to art history; fellows pursue their research wherever necessary; those who choose to affiliate with a university or independent research center are responsible for making their own arrangements with the host before the fellowship application is submitted. Deadline: 1 November 2007.

Harvard University; Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti Fellowships - stipends of up to $50-55K per year for postdoctoral scholars in early career stages; focus on Italian Renaissance Studies in literature, history, fine arts, music, and philosophy. Deadline: October 15 annually.

Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Postdoctoral Fellowships- $34,500 stipend plus basic family medical insurance for 1 academic year or 1 semester; must have completed PhD not earlier than September 2002; for recent PhDs whose work combines disciplinary excellence in the humanities or social sciences with a focus on Russia, Eastern Europe, or Central Asia. Deadline: 3 December 2007.

Harvard University, Korea Institute, Postdoctoral Fellowship - applicants should submit duplicate copy of materials to the Korea Institute 2 months before deadline required by the Korea Foundation; non-Korean scholars who received PhD in a subject related to Korea within 5 years but do not hold a regular faculty position; well-designed projects from initial research to revision for publication in the humanities and social sciences related to Korea. Deadline: 15 November 2007.

Harvard University, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard Postdoctoral Fellowships in Japanese Studies - $40K stipend and health insurance for 10 or 12 months beginning July 1 or September 1 to give recent PhDs of exceptional promise in humanistic or social science Japanese studies the opportunity to turn their dissertations into publishable manuscripts; residence in the Cambridge or Boston area and participation in institute activities required. Deadline: 15 January 2008.

Humboldt Foundation, Humboldt Research Fellowships - awards of monthly stipend plus other expenses to highly qualified, early-stage researchers, who hold doctorates, to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany. Applications may be submitted for long-term research stays of 6-12 months. Deadline: continuous.

Humboldt Foundation, Summer Research Fellowships for US Scientists and Scholars - fellowships to conduct research for 9-18 months within a period of up to 3 years. Fellowship holders are expected to spend at least 3 consecutive months per year in Germany. Deadline: continuous.

Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, Fellowships, Long-Term Awards, Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowship - support for 9-12 months to nontenured faculty revising a manuscript for publication; scholarship in a field appropriate to the Huntington's holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, the history of science, and medicine. Deadline: 15 December 2007.

Institut Français de Washington, Fellowships - $1500 for at least 2 months; must be in the final stage of dissertation or have held PhD no more than 6 years for research in France in art, economics, history, history of science, linguistics, literature, and social sciences. Deadline: 15 January annually.

Journal of the History of Philosophy, Kristeller-Popkin Travel Fellowships - $2K to help younger scholars travel to libraries and archives for research on topics in the history of philosophy; must have completed thePhD no more than 6 years prior to award. Deadline: TBA.

Lehrman Institute of American History, Gilder, Research Fellowships - stipends of $1500 to $4000 for 1 week to 2 months to work in one of 5 archives: the Gilder Lehrman Collection on deposit at the New-York Historical Society, the Library of the New-York Historical Society, the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Deadline: postmarked by May 1 or December 1 annually.

Library of Congress, Kluge Center Fellowships - $4K per month for 6-11 months of residential research at the Library of Congress; must have received PhD within the past 7 years in the humanities, social sciences or law. Deadline: post-marked by 15 August 2007.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fellowship Programs, Chester Dale Fellowships- $40K for senior fellows and $30K for predoctoral fellows with up to $3K for travel for 3-12 months residential research in the fine arts of the Western world; must be under 40 years old. Deadline: 2 November 2007.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipends - $5K for 2 consecutive months of full time independent research leading to articles, monographs, book chapters, or translations. Faculty must be nominated by the university to apply for a Summer Stipend. Wake Forest University can nominate 2 faculty members; at least 1 should be a junior scholar with rank of assistant professor. Deadline: submission of abstract of proposed project by September 1 to the Dean of the College.* NEH deadline: 2 October 2007.

*Note: Adjuncts and instructors may apply for NEH summer stipends and fellowships as independent scholars without nomination.

National Institutes of Health (NIH), DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Museum of Medical Research, Memorial Fellowship in the History of Biomedical Science and Technology - annual stipend from ~$30K- $37K, based on experience, for 6-12 months in residence to junior scholars in history, history of science, history of medicine, and history of technology, although candidates with backgrounds in other disciplines will not be automatically excluded. Deadline: 1 December 2007.

Newberry Library*, Monticello College Foundation Fellowship for Women - 6-month award of $15,000 designed for a postdoctoral woman at early stage of academic career; the applicant's topic should be related to the Newberry's collections; preference given to proposals particularly concerned with the study of women. Deadline: 10 January 2008.

*The Newberry Library offers more fellowship opportunities that are open to faculty at any rank; please click on the link above for more information.

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship - $45K and benefits, office facilities, and some travel funds for conferences and research; candidate's manuscript must have significant potential for publication as a distinguished, book-length contribution to scholarship; must submit completed manuscript; may not have previously published a scholarly book or have a book under contract, must have met all requirements for the doctorate at least 12 months prior; a year's support to revise the first book manuscript and the institute's commitment to publish it; area encompasses all aspects of the lives of North America's indigenous and immigrant peoples during colonial, revolutionary, and early national periods in the US and the related histories of Canada, Caribbean, Latin America, the British Isles, Europe, and Africa, from the 16th century to approximately 1815. Deadline: 1 November 2007.

Princeton University, Center for the Study of Religion (CSR), Postdoctoral Fellowships in American Religion - support of younger scholars studying US religion and religious history. Two areas in 2005-06: 1) Christian Thought and Practice with emphasis on the religious life of US Christians, congregations, or clergy that may be relevant for congregations or pastoral leaders, 2) Public Theology with emphasis on contemporary issues bridging theology and the social sciences, such as just war theory, pluralism, or social welfare. Deadline: January 2008.

Social Science Research Council, Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, Eurasia Program - up to $20K to junior faculty within the first 5 years of having received PhD and who have no more than 3 years' experience in a tenure-track position for significantly revising and rewriting an existing project or on designing a new research project. Deadline: new information posted 1 September 2007.

Social Science Research Council, JSPS Fellowship Program - for promising and highly qualified recent PhDs to conduct research in Japan; provides roundtrip international airfare for fellows originating in the US; insurance coverage for accidents and illness; monthly stipend of ¥392,000; settling-in allowance of ¥200,000; eligibility for up to an additional ¥1,500,000 annually for research expenses for stays of 12-24 months; domestic research travel allowance of ¥58,500 for stays of 12+ months, ¥117,000 for stays of 18+ months. Deadline: 1 December 2007.

Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship - $10K; must hold PhD in the history of technology or related field awarded on or after August 1, 2002; other awards may be held in conjunction with the fellowship and it may be used for any purpose connected with research or writing on the history of technology for a period of not less than 4 months. Deadline: 1 April annually.

Stanford University, Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowships - up to $40K for scholars at least 3 years beyond receipt of their PhD by the start of their prospective fellowship year. Fellows remain in residence from September to June. Deadline: 15 October 2007.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Visiting Scholars Program, Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - $3K per month for 1 academic year, includes direct travel to/from Washington, DC; no support for housing, health insurance, or accompanying family; persons who received a PhD or equivalent within the last 10 years; for research in Holocaust and genocide studies, especially scholarly work that uses museum’s archival materials; fields include, but are not limited to, historiography and documentation of the Holocaust, ethics and the Holocaust, comparative genocide studies, impact of the Holocaust on contemporary society and culture; refuge and rescue, propaganda and mass media as they relate to genocide; welcomes a variety of approaches by scholars in history, political science, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature, psychology, and other disciplines. Deadline: November annually.

University of Notre Dame, Medieval Institute, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medieval Studies - $40K; must hold regular appointment at US institution and plan to return following their fellowship year; no more than 5 years beyond PhD; permits outstanding young scholar in any field of medieval studies to continue research in residence. Deadline: 15 January 2008.

University of Pennsylvania, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships - up to $42K plus health insurance to faculty who received PhD between 12/98 and 12/06. Applicants must be willing to teach 1 college freshman seminar and be in residence for a year. Research should relate to annual topic of Penn Humanities Forum. Deadline: 15 October annually.

Vienna Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen), Junior Fellowships - Stipendien fur DoktorandInnen und Post-Docs - gives promising young scholars in humanities and social sciences an opportunity to pursue research in Vienna under the guidance of IWM's Permanent and Visiting Fellows; projects should be thematically related to IWM's fields of research or policy-oriented projects: Robert Bosch Junior Visiting Fellowships are awarded in cooperation with IWM's partner institutions in Bucharest, Bratislava, Prague, and Warsaw; Jan Patocka Junior Visiting Fellowships enable young scholars to conduct research on the philosophy of Patocka and related fields. Deadlines vary.

Wesleyan University, Center for the Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cultural Studies - $40K to scholars in any field of the humanities or humanistic social sciences who received PhD after June 2003 to further their own work in a cross-disciplinary setting; teach a one-semester undergraduate course; participate in the collegial life of the Center, and give 1 public lecture; annual themes. Deadline: November 2007.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Fellowships - $26,200- $85,000 stipend, 75% of health insurance, and travel expenses. Residencies to individuals with outstanding proposals on national and international issues, especially those fostering communication between the world of ideas and public affairs. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical or cultural framework to illumine policy issues of contemporary importance.Primary themes are 1. governance, including the key features of the development of democratic institutions, democratic society, civil society, and citizen participation; 2. the US role in the world and issues of partnership and leadership - military, political, and economic dimensions; and 3. key long-term future challenges confronting the US and the world. Deadline: 1 October 2007.