Grant and Fellowship Opportunities  

(last updated on 07/24/08)

Funding for Women and Minorities

Federal Sponsors

Non-Federal Sponsors

Non-Federal Sponsors

Sponsor	Description of Award	Announcement
American Academy of Arts and Sciences	Visiting Scholars Program residential fellowships to recent Ph.D's, post-docs and untenured junior faculty	Funding Opportunities
American Academy in Rome	Offering residential fellowships in the arts and humanities, ranging from 6 months to 2 years	Funding Opportunities
The American Association of University Women	Fellowships and awards in support of women scholars and graduate students at critical stages of their careers, and those pursuing professions where women are underrepresented	Funding Opportunities
The American Council of Learned Societies	Fellowships and grants in the Humanities and the Social Sciences	Funding Opportunities
The American Historical Association	Research grants and fellowships for ABD's and Ph.D.'s in History; Gutenberg<e> Prize	Funding Opportunities
The American Philosophical Society	Funding in the Humanities and the Sciences	Funding Opportunities
American Political Science Association	Congressional Fellowship Programs for political scientists, communications scholars and journalists	Funding Opportunities
The Carnegie Corporate Scholars Program	Funding of up to $100,000 for up to two years for work done in connection with the Carnegie Corporation's grantmaking priorities	Funding Opportunities
Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University	Offering a Distinguished Visiting Faculty Fellowship and two Post-Doctoral Fellowships	Funding Opportunities
Columbia University	Funding in the humanities and social sciences from the Center for the Society of Fellows in the Humanities and the Center for Comparative Literature and Society	Funding Opportunities
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.	Congressional Fellowships for minority persons with graduate or professional degrees, professionals with a minimum of five years experience pursuing graduate studies, and junior faculty for experience in the development of legislative and public policy initiatives	Funding Opportunities
Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges at DePauw University	Post-doctoral fellowships for minorities in the liberal arts	Funding Opportunities
German-American Academic Exchange (DAAD)	DAAD/AICGS Research Fellowships and Summer Fellowships in German studies	Funding Opportunities
The Getty	Funding in art and art history	Funding Opportunities
The Guggenheim Foundation	Fellowships in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, creative arts	Funding Opportunities
Harvard Academy for International & Area Studies	Post-doctoral fellowships in international and area studies	Funding Opportunities
Howard Foundation at Brown University	Fellowships for literary criticism, film criticism and translation	Funding Opportunities
The Humboldt Foundation	Fellowships for scholars under 40 years of age who would like to conduct research in Germany.  Not restricted by field; residents of Germany not eligible	Funding Opportunities
Institute of International Education	SRF Fellowships for Threatened Scholars	Funding Opportunities
The Gilder Lehrman Institute	Fellowships in American History; book prizes on Abraham Lincoln/Civil War and Frederick Douglass.	Funding Opportunities
The George C. Marshall Foundation	Offering travel grants in doctoral and post-doctoral research in 20th century U.S. Military or Diplomatic History and related fields	Funding Opportunities
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies	Offering post-doctoral fellowships in a variety of disciplines	Funding Opportunities
Michigan Society of Fellows	Fellowships in the arts and humanities, in the social, physical and life sciences, and in the professional schools	Funding Opportunities
The National Academies	Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships for minority graduate students and post-docs	Funding Opportunities
The National Endowment for Democracy	The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship Program (open to both practitioners and scholars)	Funding Opportunities
National Foundation for Jewish Culture	Awards, Grants and Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for topics in Jewish culture/studies	Funding Opportunities
National Humanities Center	Fellowships for advanced study in the humanities	Funding Opportunities
Newberry Library Fellowships	Fellowships and grants to support individual research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the Library's scholarly activities	Funding Opportunities
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture	Mellon Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in early American studies; Omohundro Institute/NEH Post-doctoral; Fellowship in early American studies	Funding Opportunities
Phi Betta Kappa Society	Sibley Fellowship for Greek studies and the Jensen Fellowship for French language, literature and culture; awards in the fields of the humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences and mathematics for books published in the U.S.	Funding Opportunities
Princeton University Society of Fellows	Three-year Post-doctoral Fellowships	Funding Opportunities
Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship	One-year fellowship to support a recent Ph.D. working on the topic of "US-Arab Relations, Arab or Islamic Studies" (CCAS)	Funding Opportunity
RAND Corporation	Postdoctoral fellowships in population studies and the study of aging; postdoctoral fellowship in international relations and security	Funding Opportunities
The Rockefeller Foundation	Fellowships and grants in the humanities	Funding Opportunities
Social Science Research Council	SSRC Post-doctoral Fellowship in Sexuality and Policy	Funding Opportunities
Society for the Humanities at Cornell University	Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowships; post-doctoral teaching-research fellowships for persons receiving the Ph.D. after September 2002	Funding Opportunities
Smith Richardson Foundation	Junior faculty research grant in the areas of international security and foreign policy; research fellowship in domestic public policy	Funding Opportunities
The Spencer Foundation	Post-doctoral fellowships, grants and doctoral dissertation support for research on education	Funding Opportunities
U.S. Institute of Peace	Offers Senior and dissertation fellowships and solicitated and unsolicitated grants on international conflict resolution	Funding Opportunities
The Watson Institute at Brown	One-year visiting fellowship in international studies	Funding Opportunities
The Wenner-Gren Foundation	Post-doctoral grants and non-renewable fellowships in support of anthropological research	Funding Opportunities
Wesleyan U Center for the Humanities	Post-doctoral teaching/research fellowships; non-stipendiary research fellowships (pre-docs eligible)	Funding Opportunities
The Woodrow Wilson Ctr for Int'l Scholars	Fellowships in the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues that intersect with questions of public policy	Funding Opportunities
Yale International Security Studies	Henry Chauncey Jr. '57 Postdoctoral Fellowship in international studies	Funding Opportunities