Archive for the 'Grant-in-Aid' Category

NYPL Schomburg Center Scholar-in-Residence

Deadline: November 8, 2012 Length: 6 or 12 months Comments: “Program is open to scholars studying the history, literature, and culture of peoples of African descent from a humanistic perspective”; “candidates for advanced degrees must have received the degree by the application deadline”; “foreign nationals are not eligible unless they will have resided in the [...]

Roosevelt Institute Grant-in-Aid

Deadline: November 15 Length: Short-term Comments: Grants “support … research on the “Roosevelt years” or clearly related subjects”; program is “particularly designed to encourage younger scholars to expand our knowledge and understanding of the Roosevelt period” URL: http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/projects/research-support

NYPL Cullman Center Fellowships

Deadline: September 28 Length: September to May Comments: For academics, independent scholars, journalists, and creative writers “whose work will benefit directly from access to the research collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building” of the New York Public Library System; “people seeking funding for research leading directly to a degree” are not eligible URL: http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/fellowships-institutes/center-for-scholars-and-writers/fellowships-at-the-cullman-center [...]

UNC Greensboro Special Collections Research Grants

Deadline: April 16, 2012 Length: Short-term Comments: “Collections include rare books, manuscripts, women’s literature, cello music, University archives, and Betty Carter Women Veterans Historical Project”; “open to graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars” URL: http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/services/researchtravel.aspx

NYU Center for the United States and the Cold War Dissertation, Postdoctoral, and Travel Fellowships

Deadline: February 15, 2013 Length: 1 semester to 1 year for dissertation and postdoctoral fellows, per month for travel grants Comments: For “research on the Cold War at home and the ways in which this ideological and geopolitical conflict with the Soviet Union affected American politics, culture, and society”; dissertation fellows must be ABD; postdoctoral [...]

Deutsches Museum Residential Scholar Program

Deadline: October 12, 2012 Length: 6 or 12 months Comments: For scholars at all levels (including predoctoral) working on the history of science and technology URL: http://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/research/scholar-in-residence/

Black Metropolis Research Consortium Timuel Black Fellowship in African-American Studies

Deadline: January 11 in 2010 Length: Short-term Comments: For scholars, writers, educators, and institutional researchers who could benefit from the resources of the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection in the Woodson branch of the Chicago Public Library; scholars must hold doctorates, educators must teach full-time in public elementary schools, secondary schools, or community colleges URL: [...]

Black Metropolis Research Consortium (Chicago) Short-Term (Summer) Fellowships

Deadline: January 11 in 2010 Length: Short-term Comments: For scholars, media artists, musicians/composers, playwrights, visual artists, fiction/non-fiction writers; scholars must have PhD, artists need not have MFA or other terminal degree; must have need to use resources of at least one institution in the consortium URL: http://www.blackmetropolisresearch.org/shortTerm.html

Brown University Brown Library Long-Term Fellowships

Deadline: December 15, 2012 Length: 5-10 months Comments: “Applicants for NEH Long-Term Fellowships must be American citizens or have been resident in the United States for the three years immediately preceding the application deadline. Graduate students are not eligible for Long-Term Fellowships.” URL: http://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/fellowships/description-fellowship-program

Kennan Institute Summer Research Grants

Deadline: December 17, 2012 Length: 2 months Comments: To support “research in the social sciences or humanities focusing on the former Soviet Union (excluding the Baltic States), and who demonstrate a particular need to utilize the library, archival, and other specialized resources of the Washington, D.C., area”; must be U.S. citizen or permanent resident URL: [...]