General Advice
- Grants are often something you find by
word-of-mouth.
- Your professors are good sources of information,.
- Professional journals also list grant opportunities. The PMLA for instance lists them under "Professional Notes and Comments", and online for members of the MLA under "Professional Resources".
- Scan the last few pages of each week's Chronicle of Higher Education with grants and fellowships by deadline. And the online version has many useful links.
- The last pages of the MLA Job List (General Reference: PB 6 .J62) also has "Postdoctoral Listings".
- JHU maintains a page of funding and grant opportunities.
- The Office Of Academic Advising also has a helpful page.
Databases
- Columbia University Fellowship Database Type in a subject (discipline) to search, such as "Literature"
- Cornell University Graduate School Fellowship Database Search by discipline (from a drop-down box) and then by keyword.
Major Grant Sites
- National Endowment for the Humanities The NEH is an independent federal agency created in 1965. It is the largest funder of humanities programs in the United States.
- Fulbright Scholar Program Made to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries for a variety of educational activities.
- American Council of Learned Societies Invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities. Scholars devote 6 to 12 months of fulltime research and writing. Many kinds of fellowships offered.
- National Humanities Center Fellowships For advanced study in the humanities during the academic year. Applicants must hold doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Young scholars as well as senior scholars.
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Residential fellowships to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues.
- Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. Fellowships are not available for students.
- Townsend Center for the Humanities Funding opportunities for dissertation-stage graduate students, recent Ph.D. recipients, and faculty in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
- Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program Provides support for young scholars to complete their dissertation and, later, to advance their research after being awarded the Ph.D.
- Penn Humanities Forum Awards five one-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships each academic year to junior scholars in the humanities who are not yet tenured
- CLIR - Mellon Foundation for dissertation research in the humanities in original sources 10 competively awarded humanities fellowships, for work with original (primary) sources in institutions either in the US or abroad. For students working toward a dissertation
- Library of Congress: Kluge Center Fellowships Post-doctoral Fellows pursuing resident research, usually for periods from 6 to 12 months. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural topics are welcome.
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries for Humanists Individuals who have earned their Ph.D.s in disciplines in the humanities within the past 5 years (or who will earn them before starting the program), seeking to develop meaningful linkages between scholarship, libraries, archives, and digital tools
- Humanities & Social Sciences Fellowships and Grants for Postdoctoral Students A good list of opportunities from Duke University
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German and Romance Languages and Literature, the Humanities Center, Jewish Studies, the Writing Seminars
Office: M Level, MSE Library
Phone: (410) 516-5212
Send Email
Subjects:
German and Romance Languages and Literature, the Humanities Center, Jewish Studies, the Writing Seminars
Books
Directory of Grants in the Humanities
General Reference: AZ 188 .U5 D65 2005/2006
Financial aid for research & creative activities abroad.
Very comprehensive and indexed by country, subject.
General Reference : LB 2337.2 .F574 2008-2010
A Casebook of Grant Proposals in the Humanities.
Has good background "how-to" information.
General Reference: AZ 188 .U5 C371
Foundation Grants to Individuals
Comprehensive listing of private foundations, providing financial assistance to individuals: students, artists, scholors, foreign individuals,
minorities, musicians, scientists and writers. All kinds of grants, aid, and fellowships.
General Reference: AZ 911 .A2 F594
The Grants Register
The complete guide to postgraduate funding worldwide.
General Reference : LB 2338 .G7
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