Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation
Provides opportunities for foreign scholars to conduct research and relative activities in Germany. Offers fellowships and grants.
The American Antiquarian Society offers three broad categories of visiting research fellowships, with tenures ranging from one to twelve months.
American Association of University Women
Fellowship and grant recipients perform research in a wide range of disciplines and work to improve their schools and communities.
Rome Prize fellowships are designed for emerging artists and for scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers. In the case of scholars, preference will be given to applicants for whom research time in Italy, and especially in the city of Rome, is essential, and who have not had extensive prior experience there.
American Council of Learned Societies
A private non-profit federation of sixty-one national scholarly organizations. The mission of the ACLS, as set forth in its constitution, is to "advance humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the Humanities and the related social sciences and to maintain and strengthen relations among the national societies devoted to such studies."
American Philosophical Society
Supports several major grant and fellowship programs to assist the promotion of useful knowledge. Awards are made for research only. Applicants must be residents of the United States or American citizens resident abroad. Grants are made to individuals only.
American Political Science Association
American Sociological Association
Association for Women in Mathematics
The purpose of the travel grants is to enhance the research activities of women mathematicians and increase their visibility in various research venues. On average, only a third of those applying can be supported.
Boren Graduate Fellowships
The National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships enable U.S. graduate students to pursue specialization in area and language study or to add an international dimension to their education. Boren Fellowships support students pursuing the study of languages, cultures, and world regions that are critical to U.S. national security but are less frequently studied by U.S. graduate students, i.e., areas of the world other than Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Council of American Overseas Research Centers
American Overseas Research Centers foster international scholarly exchange, primarily through sponsorship of fellowship programs which allow pre-doctoral and senior scholars to pursue independent research important to the increase of knowledge and to our understanding of foreign cultures.
The International Affairs Fellowship Program is designed to advance the professional development of outstanding young Americans between the ages of 27 and 35. Each year, approximately ten men and women receive the opportunity to broaden their experience in the field of international affairs through this unique program.
Who is eligible: American citizens who are Alaska Natives, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, American Indians, Native Pacific Islanders, or Puerto Ricans, and who aspire to, or are engaged in, a career in college teaching and research. on the academies' Web site.
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The Folger Shakespeare Library offers residential research Fellowships to encourage use of its exceptional collections and to encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars of the early modern period.
The U.S. government's flagship academic exchange effort. Fulbright grants are made to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries for a variety of educational activities, primarily university lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and teaching in elementary and secondary schools. Both U.S. and Visiting Fulbright Scholars lecture or conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields ranging from journalism and urban planning to music, philosophy, business administration and zoology.
Traditional Fulbright Scholar Program
The traditional Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. It is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Under a cooperative agreement with the Bureau, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) assists in the administration of the Fulbright Scholar Program for faculty and professionals.
The Fulbright Specialists Program is designed to provide short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) for U.S. faculty and professionals. Shorter grant lengths give specialists greater flexibility to pursue a grant that works best with their current academic or professional commitments. Applications for the Fulbright Specialists Program are accepted on a rolling basis, and peer review of applications is conducted eight times per year.
Fulbright German Studies Seminar
The two-week seminar covers wide areas of contemporary Germany with program portions in Berlin and other cities in eastern and western Germany. Each year the seminar is dedicated to a special topic. Past topics included: Urban Planning in Germany; International Migration and National Identities; Challenges of Demographics; Muslim Minorities; Germany in a Changing Europe.
German Marshall Fund of the United States
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Offers three-year fellowships, designed to allow recipients to remain in their current positions, and are intended to offer the experiences, insights, competencies and skills necessary "to achieve or advance in executive leadership positions in a healthcare systems undergoing unprecedented change."
Cyril O. Houle Scholars in Adult Education
Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. -- Program Support is provided to foster emerging scholars who will make a significant contribution to the field of adult education. Awards of $20,000 per year for two years are available. Eligible applicants must be citizens of Southern Africa, Mexico, or the U.S., be in the early years of their professional career in adult education and be currently employed in a research-related position in adult education.
Contact: Cyril O. Houle Scholars in Adult Ed.
Telephone: 706-542-2214
Email: hsp@arches.uga.edu
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John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress
The Kluge Center especially encourages humanistic and social science research that makes use of the Library's large and varied collections. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, or multi-lingual research is particularly welcome. Scholars who have received a terminal advanced degree within the past seven years in the humanities, social sciences or in a professional field such as architecture or law are eligible
Leadership in Professional Development Grants
Up to fifty $1000 grants will be awarded to individual educators to support professional development experiences of their choice. Activities must address the recommendations described in NFIE's report "Teachers Take Charge of Their Learning: Transforming Professional Development for Student Success." The report is available online: Applications may be submitted at any time and will be reviewed in March and October
James Madison Fellowship Foundation
Established by Congress for the purpose of improving teaching about the United States Constitution in secondary schools, offers two types of fellowships: Junior Fellowships are awarded to students who are about to complete, or have recently completed, their undergraduate course of study and plan to begin graduate work on a full-time basis. Junior Fellows have two years to complete their degrees. Senior Fellowships are awarded to experienced teachers who wish to undertake work for a graduate degree on a part-time basis through summer and evening classes. Senior Fellows have up to five years to complete their degree.
National Humanities Center Fellowships
Applicants must hold doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Young scholars as well as senior scholars are encouraged to apply, but they must have a record of publication, and recent Ph.Ds should be aware that the Center does not support the revision of a doctoral dissertation
National Endowment for the Humanities -- Provides support for six to twelve months of full-time work on a project that will make a significant contribution to thought and knowledge in the humanities. Includes, but is not limited to the study of history; philosophy; languages; linguistics; literature; archaeology; jurisprudence; the history, theory, and criticism of the arts; ethics; comparative religion; and those aspects of the social sciences that simply historical or philosophical approaches.
Summer internship program, post baccalaureate research opportunities, graduate education program, clinical and research training programs for medical and dental students.
Short-term fellowships and long-term fellowships available. Short-term fellowships are generally restricted to individuals from outside the metropolitan Chicago area and are primarily intended for researchers with a need to examine specific items in the Library's collection. Long-term fellowships are generally available without regard to an applicant's place of residence and are intended to support significant works of scholarship that draw on the Library's strengths.
Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace
Scholar Dissertation Fellowships to enable outstanding scholars, policy-makers, journalists, and other professionals to conduct research on important issues concerning international conflict and peace.
For all majors with high academic achievement, proven commitment, service and physical stamina. A Rhodes Scholarship is tenable at the University of Oxford. It may be held for a maximum of three years.
A web site that lets scholars who are planning sabbaticals or other trips search for apartments and house-sitting opportunities around the world.
Smithsonian Institution In-Residents Fellowships
Offers fellowships for research and study in various disciplines.
In-residence fellowships support writing projects, or Ph.D. dissertations about topics in the understanding of humankind. Topics may be humanistic or scientific, from the perspective of anthropology or from anthropologically informed perspectives in fields such as history, sociology, art, and philosophy. The award provides a stipend of $30,000 for a nine-month tenure.
Social Science Research Council
These programs provide pre-dissertation and dissertation fellowships, postdoctoral fellowships, and advanced research grants in both the social sciences and humanities.
21st Century Museum Professionals
To support projects that address the preparation of museum professionals for the future by updating and expanding their knowledge and skills.
United States Institute of Peace
An independent, nonpartisan federal institution created by congress to promote research, education, and training on the peaceful resolution of international conflicts.
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Awards approximately 20 residential fellowships annually in an international competition to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues - topics that intersect with questions of public policy.