Humanities and Social Sciences - Grant Development Links for Faculty
Reasons for Seeking External Funds
- Time
off from teaching: to write, read, interview, examine
documents and artifacts, etc.
Examples of funding resources:- Portable
(can be used anywhere) fellowships: NEH, Guggenheim, American
Association of University
Women
- Residential (designated period at a specific place) fellowships: National Humanities Center, New York Public Library Fellowship, Stanford University Humanities Center Fellowships
- Portable
(can be used anywhere) fellowships: NEH, Guggenheim, American
Association of University
Women
- Travel
to resources: to archives, collections, sites, special
conferences
Examples of funding resources:
Winterthur Museum Research Fellowships, Folger Shakespeare Library Short Term Fellowships, American Antiquarian Society Summer Fellowships Caltech Institute Archives http://archives.caltech.edu/grants-in-aid.cfm - Research
assistance: to transcribe and organize notes, pull slides
and books, check citations, do literature reviews.
Examples of funding resources: - Purchase
materials: books, slides, audio, bibliographic software, recording
devices (audio and visual)
Examples of funding resources: - Subvention
of publication costs: reprint permissions and image
reproduction such as illustrations, figures,
etc. in their books.
Examples of funding resources:- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi- bin/getRec?id=50622
- National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi- bin/getRec?id=50622
- Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award/Newberry Library http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html
- Arkansas Humanities Council http://www.arkhums.org/grants/categories.html#Publications
UF Internal Funding Opportunities
- Humanities Scholarship Enhancement (up to $10,000) http://www.clas.ufl.edu/forms/humanities.html
- Support for Meetings, Workshops and Conferences (matching funds up to $3000) http://rgp.ufl.edu/rgp/pdf/meeting.pdf
- Faculty Request for Travel Funds http://www.clas.ufl.edu/forms/travel_faculty.pdf
Foundations
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Asian Cultural Council
- Ford Foundation
- Getty Grant Program
- Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
- Henry Luce Foundation
- Japan Foundation
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- National Geographic Society
- Pew Charitable Trusts
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Smith Richardson Foundation
- Smithsonian Institution
- Spencer Foundation
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
- Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation
Government Agencies
- Institute of Museum and Library Services
- National Archives and Records Administration
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
- U.S. Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)
- U.S. Department of Education, Grants and Contracts Information
- U.S. Department of Education, International Education and Graduate Programs (IEGPS)
- U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education
- U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
- U.S. Department of State, Fulbright Program
Humanities Funding Agencies
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
- American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS)
- American Philosophical Society (APS)
- Council of American Overseas Reseach Centers
- Fulbright Program (Institute for International Education)
- German Marshall Fund of the United States
- International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- National
Academies of Science
(Includes humanities opportunities.) - National Endowment for the Humanities
- Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Humanities Research Centers
- American Academy in Rome
- American Overseas Research Centers
- American School of Classical Studies at Athens
- Bellagio Study and Conference Center (Rockefeller Foundation)
- British School at Athens
- British School at Rome
- Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (in Stanford)
- Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
- Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado
- Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University
- Clark Art Institute
- Getty Research Institute
for the History of Art and the Humanities
Institute for Advanced Study (in Princeton) - John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress
- National Humanities Center
- New York Public Library, Center for Scholars and Writers
- Radcliffe Institute (Bunting Fellowship Program)
- Stanford Humanities Center
- Tanner Humanities Center
- University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
- University of Wisconsin Institute for Research in the Humanities
- Villa I Tatti
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Databases and Search Engines
- Ask Jeeves
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
- CharityChannel
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Community of Science (COS) Funding Opportunities Database
- Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)
- Federal Register
- Foundation Finder
- Google
Non-specific search engine - Google Scholar
Focuses on academic materials - Grants,
Fellowships, Scholarships, and Internships
A listing of reference sources held by the KU Libraries - Grants.gov -- Find Federal Grant Opportunities
- H-Net Announcements
- H-Net Discussion Networks
- H-Net Job Guide
- KU Graduate School's E-Grants: Electronic Grants Information Newsletter
- LibWeb--Library Servers Via the WWW
- Lycos
- NYFA Source--Opportunities for Artists
- Profusion
- Student Aid on the Web
- Teoma
- The Foundation Center RFP Bulletin
- University of Arizona School of Art Funding Links
- Voice of the Shuttle
- Yahoo Grant Sources
Humanities Research Libraries and Museums
- American Antiquarian Society
- Beinecke Library, Yale University
- Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- Boston Athenaeum
- British Library
- Clark Art Institute
- DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- Hagley Museum and Library
- Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
- Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
- Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
- John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
- Library of Congress
- Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museum of Modern Art
- National Archives and Records Administration
- National Gallery of Art
- New York Public Library
- Newberry Library
- Princeton University Libraries
- Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Smithsonian Institution
- Spencer Research Library
- U.S. Presidential Libraries
- Whatcom Museum of History and Art
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA
- Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
- Woodruff Library, Emory University
- Yale Center for British Art
In-Residence Opportunities for all Scholarly Ranks
- Bellagio Study and Conference Center (Rockefeller Foundation)
- Center for Historical Studies, University of Maryland
- Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University
- Clark Art Institute
- Clements Center for Soutwest Studies--Southern Methodist University
- Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
- Kennan Institute for Russian and East European Studies
- Public Goods Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan
- Rockefeller Foundation Humanities
Fellowships
(Links to sites and themes for Rockefeller-funded postdoctoral fellowship programs.) - UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
- University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Woodruff Library Research Fellowships--Emory University
