Barnard College Office of Institutional Funding February 26, 2021
Grant Opportunities & News You Can Use
Hello, faculty, We are back with a new edition of our Grant Opportunties newsletter and an exciting new announcement: We’re adding a new monthly column! You know already about our monthly Featured Funder columns (this month profiling the Social Science Research Council) and our Sage Advice column (which treats this month the differences between academic and grant writing), but what you might not know is that I have been plotting for quite some time to start a third column, “The History of Philanthropy.” Why? Here at the Institutional Funding and Sponsored Research Office, we spend all day swimming in questions related to grants, private founda- tions, and government agencies. I’m enough of a humanist that I think you Inside this issue can’t really understand where you are unless you understand where Featured Funders...... 2 you’ve been. I’ve already found some delightfully arcane beginnings to American philanthropy, and for this introductory column, I am beginning Sage Advice ...... 3 with the question of who first invented the idea of a trust—the Romans, History of Philanthropy………….4 Crusaders, or Franciscan monks. I hope you’ll check it out. News ...... 5 As usual, we also have news and upcoming deadlines. I want to highlight Grant Opportunities two in particular. The first is Columbia University’s Collaboratory Fellows Special Opportunities………..…...7 Fund, which awards up to $100,000 to faculty teams within Columbia to develop courses that link data science with other disciplines. Deadline: General...... 9 April 19, 2021. The second is a summer institute at Grinnell College fund- Humanities………...………………….10 ed by the Mellon Foundation, called “The Humanities in Action: The Fu- Creative Arts ...... 11 ture of the Humanities at Liberal Arts Colleges.” “This event will feature Social Science ...... 11 four days of discussion about curricular and pedagogical change in the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences, with a particular focus on Language & Area Studies ...... 12 two themes: the creation of new gateway courses to welcome students to STEM ...... 12 humanistic study and the development of new opportunities in communi- Deadline Reminders ty-engaged learning. Deadline: March 31, 2021. General Interest ...... 13 The next Internal Grant deadline is March 9, for Presidential Research Arts & Humanities ...... 15 Awards and nominations for Gildersleeve Visiting Professorships, which “bring visiting scholars, preferably women from abroad, to the Barnard Education ...... 18 campus.” As always, if you need assistance finding grants or beginning an Social Sciences……………………….18 application, please feel free to email. We love to hear from you! Language & Area Studies ...... 20 Liane Carlson, [email protected] STEM ...... 21 Library Science……………………….23 Featured Funders The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) It’s a good thing that Charles Edward Merriam Jr. was better at revolutionizing the social sciences than he was at political campaigning, because by my count, he lost five elections between 1911 and 1919: three for mayor of Chicago, one for presidential nominee for the Progressive party, and one for alderman. Fortunately, Merriam was a gifted scholar and in the course of his long career helped found the Social Science Research Council in 1923 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Merriam was born in 1874 in Iowa to Charles Edward Merriam and Margaret Campbell Kirkwood Merriam. His father owned a dry goods store and must have been relatively respected in the community, because he also served as trustee of the local Lenox College, where Charles Edward Jr. went to college. By the time he was 25, he had received his BA, JD, MA and PhD. By the time he was 28, he was working as the first member of the political science department at the University of Chicago and had published A History of American Political Theories, a book that established his credentials as a Progressive and made his career. Over the course of his career, Merriam became known for advocating a new vision of social science, one that broke from the highly theoretical discussions in Europe and engaged in empirical research. His role in founding the SSRC in 1923 was part of that agenda. From its earliest years, the SSRC stood out as a new type of organization. As it was neither government agency, no university, it was free, in theory, of the politics that sometimes hampered both. Early Progressive founders imagined it as one research organization among others, including the Brookings Institution (1927) and the Council on Foreign Relations (1921), capable of offering unbiased advice to policymakers. Today, the SSRC defines its mission as building “interdisciplinary and international networks, working with partners around the world to link research to practice and policy, strengthen individual and institutional capacities for learning, and enhance public access to information.” It offers fellowships, workshops, working groups, and prizes to scholars and students, including the following. The Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowship. “The Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal (RSDR) Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) aims to bring knowledge of the place of religion and spirituality into scholarly and public conversations about renewing democracy in the United States. These fellowships are offered by the SSRC Program on Religion and the Public Sphere with the support and partnership of the Fetzer Institute.” Deadline: April 6, 2021. Funding: Up to $18,000 Transregional Collaboratory on the Indian Ocean. “This year, the Collaboratory invites proposals for 12-month collaborative research grants to conduct fully conceptualized research projects that deepen understanding of the effects of political, economic, and social processes in contexts of profound climate and environmental change in and across Indian Ocean countries. This competition is open to research teams intending to embark on new research projects or to expand research in progress in novel directions.” Deadline: April 26, 2021. Funding Range: Up to $50,000/team. Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network. “Our 2021 grant competition aims to address some of the unique challenges posed to researchers during this unprecedented time. In recognition of the uncertainty facing academics and the flexibility that may be required on the part of grantors, the SSMN grant guidelines have been adapted with these considerations in mind. Please see the new guidelines below... These grants are only open to PhD graduates of the Sloan Minority PhD Program (Sloan Scholar PhDs).” Deadline: May 1, 2021. Funding: $7,500-20,000.
2 Return to table of contents Sage Advice Academic Writing vs. Grant Writing A few months ago, when virtual conference session was in full swing, the various members of our team attended a conference called CLASP (Colleges of Liberal Arts - Sponsored Programs). Mostly, CLASP is a listserv where you can ask questions about small technical issues, share information about the impact of larger national legislation, or even just speculate more generally about the direction of philanthropy. In the course of the discussions, someone mentioned an article from 2006 called “Why Academics Have a Hard Time Writing Good Grant Proposals,” by Robert Porter, Ph. D. The title is a little combative—lots of you write great grant proposals—but the content is interesting, so I thought I’d share it today. Right at the beginning, Porter includes the following table: Academic Writing versus Grant Writing: Contrasting Perspectives Academic Writing Grant Writing Scholarly pursuit: Sponsor goals: Individual passion Service attitude Past oriented: Future oriented: Work that has been done Work that should be done Theme-centered: Project-centered: Theory and thesis Objectives and activities Expository rhetoric: Persuasive rhetoric: Explaining to reader “Selling” the reader Impersonal tone: Personal tone: Objective, dispassionate Conveys excitement Individualistic: Team-focused: Primarily a solo activity Feedback needed Few length constraints: Strict length constraints: Verbosity rewarded Brevity rewarded Specialized terminology Accessible language: “Insider jargon” Easily understood
The most interesting section to me in this table was the contrast between “theme-centered articles” and “project-centered grants.” Here’s what Porter had to say about that point in the body of the text: Scholarly writers are prone to dwell on theme, thesis and theory. Essays and books can be devoted to the authors’ original thinking, contributions of past and present scholars, or the evolution of entire schools of thought. They draw us into the realm of ideas. Grant writers, however, draw us into a world of action. They start by sketching out an important problem, then they move quickly to describing a creative approach to addressing that problem with a set of activities that will accomplish specific goals and objectives. The overall project is designed to make a significant contribution to a discipline or to a society as a whole. Academic writers often seek funding to “study,” “examine,” or “explore” some theme or issue. But this can be deadly, as sponsors rarely spend money on intellectual exploration. They will, however, consider funding activities to accomplish goals that are important to them. The article is only a few pages long. It’s worth checking out the rest of it.
Return to table of contents 3 The History of Philanthropy From Charity to Philanthropy: Introduction and Early Precedents All of the daily work we do in Institutional Funding and Sponsored Research—writing grants, meeting with donors, checking margins, parsing guidelines, reviewing opportunities, writing and rewriting budgets, frantically uploading documents—all of that depends on a subtle historical shift from charity to philanthropy. Charity or almsgiving to the needy has existed, well, I won’t say from the dawn of mankind, but for a very long time, in very many forms. Professional philanthropy, with its tax codes, private foundations, grants, and limitations on what donors can and cannot support, is in many ways an idiosyncratically American phenomenon and has a winding but definitely traceable history. This column chronicles that shift from charity to professional philanthropy. Like any chronicle, its starting point is necessarily somewhat arbitrary, but I have read enough, at least, to know that whoever you want to credit, it certainly shouldn’t be the Gilded Age tycoons who we might suspect. Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and others all started their foundations in a country with well- established legal and cultural precedents in place that made their plans for permanent charitable organizations possible. For someone like John D. Rockefeller to start a foundation, you need to have the idea that it’s John D. Rockefeller’s money to do whatever he pleases with after he dies and that he doesn’t have any obligation to keep his estate intact for his children. You need to have a tax code that favors charitable donations. You need to have a codified understanding of what charity is. You need some way for Rockefeller direct what he wants done with his money after he gives it away. Most of all, you need some sort of legal arrangement that allows a third party to manage someone’s assets without simply giving them total ownership—which is to say that you need the idea of a trust. Trusts were certainly not an American idea; like so much of the story I’ll be telling in the next few columns, they’re a remnant of the British legal code that Americans inherited when they finally won independence in 1783. Whether trusts are a British invention is less clear. Some accounts trace the idea of trusts back to the Roman concept of fideicommissa, which translates to “to commit to someone’s trust.” Roman tax laws denied individuals the right to leave property to women, foreigners, and childless individuals, so if a wealthy man wanted to look after his daughter, for example, he would leave the estate to someone else, with the stipulation that his heir had to support the original owner’s daughter. Not everyone is convinced that this counts as the beginning of philanthropic trusts; it only applied after death and was really about inheritance, not charitable works. The better-known story traces the invention of trusts back to the Crusades. Starting in the twelfth century, British lords would suit up their armor and sail for the Holy Land, leaving their lands behind in the care of a trusted steward. After years of mostly disastrously unsuccessful war, they would return to England, ride up to their ancestral lands, and meet…..a steward who had absolutely no interest in giving back the village he had been quite literally lording over for years. And since there was no law in place enforcing the original owners claim, the steward had a reasonably good chance of keeping the land unless something changed, which is how the British courts came to invent the idea of a trust. The final story gives credit to the Franciscans, a mendicant order founded in 1209 by the radical Christian reformer, Francis of Assisi. Men were required to give up all their earthly possessions in order to join, but authorities could accept gifts on the monks’ behalf as something like a dowry. Sometimes the gifts were permanent; sometimes they followed another Roman tradition of usufruct, in which the Church could benefit from the fruits of the donated land, but would have to return the property after the monk died. Whatever the origin story, by the end of the medieval period some of the basic preconditions of professional philanthropy were in place. Next came government regulation.
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NSF and Amazon collaborate to advance fairness in AI From the NIH Posted on February 10, 2021 by NSF Staff
“From personalized music playlists to improved health care, artificial intelligence continues to Keeping on Top of NIH-Funded Research You Care enhance daily life. The field of AI moves quickly, the Most About Just Got Easier making it important to understand how to ensure Posted on February 16, 2021 by Mike Lauer that this technology is fair, transparent, accountable, inclusive and beneficial to all. The “Last fall, we launched our newly revamped U.S. National Science Foundation leads the RePORTER site which made it easy to find nation’s investments in university research to information about specific NIH supported grants, answer these challenging questions, exploring investigators, and institutions. Today, we are everything from the theoretical foundations of adding to RePORTER’s functionality with a machine learning to the social and economic modernized version of MyRePORTER so you can impacts of AI. This basic research unlocks new stay on top of the research you care the most knowledge, while partnerships with industry about. stakeholders can enhance the ability to answer With MyRePORTER, you can save searches and set crucial questions about the fairness of AI systems. customized weekly email alerts that are sent when Embedding new concepts and methods in real- new projects are funded or new publications are world systems ensures relevance to solving linked to projects in your search. Email alerts will societal challenges. In collaboration with Amazon, provide a summary listing of the new items, with NSF is pleased to announce the 2021 awardees of hyperlinks to bring you back to MyRePORTER to its Program on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence. get more information about the projects and The program supports computational research publications.” <
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Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare Webinar – and the review and reporting requirements 21st Century Cures Act: Update associated with it, should help ensure that children on Implementation and older adults are not inappropriately excluded from clinical studies. The policy also has the Posted on February 1, 2021 by NIH Staff potential to provide a more robust understanding “The NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare of the full spectrum of participants recruited into (OLAW) will be releasing their prerecorded clinical studies.’ quarterly webinar titled “21st Century Cures “Together with my NIH colleagues Drs. Marie Act: Update on Implementation” on March 11, Bernard and Janine Clayton, we made this point in 2021, featuring Drs. Patricia Brown a 2018 JAMA opinion piece following the inaugural (NIH), Betty Goldentyer (USDA), and Brianna NIH Inclusion Across the Lifespan workshop. Fast Skinner (FDA). No registration required! In this forward, we revisited this issue at the NIH’s webinar, the speakers will provide updates on the Inclusion Across the Lifespan 2 workshop held this agencies’ progress in implementing the past September. You can watch the videocast here. recommended measures of the 21st Century Cures The report covering the event was posted today, Act.” <
Posted on February 2, 2021 by NIH staff. From Other Sources “NIH issued guidance for NIH Fiscal Operations for
FY 2021 including the following policies: FY 2021 Funding Levels: Non-competing Biden Orders Review of Federal Scientific Integrity continuation awards made in FY 2021 will Policies generally be issued at the commitment level From American Institute of Physics. Posted on indicated on the Notice of Award. February 5, 2021 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA): NIH will increase NRSA stipends by “President Biden signed a memorandum on Jan. 27 approximately two percent for predocs and two titled “Restoring trust in government through percent for postdocs. science and integrity and evidence-based policy making,” ordering a review of federal agencies’ Next Generation Researchers Initiative scientific integrity policies and their plans for Policy: NIH will prioritize meritorious R01- integrating evidence into decision-making. The equivalent applications from Early Stage Investor memo places an emphasis on preventing (ESI) PD/PIs. “improper political interference” and requires Salary Limits: Salary limit is set at $199,300. ” every agency, including ones without scientific <
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during the first few months of the pandemic. Mothers also suffered a 33% larger drop in U.S. scientists want Congress to look into research hours compared with fathers, according complaints of racial profiling in China Initiative to a global survey of 20,000 Ph.D. holders From Science Magazine by Jeffrey Mervis. Posted published as a National Bureau of Economic on February 25, 2021 Research working paper last month. The survey, “Scientists and civil rights organizations are conducted from May to July 2020, also found that ramping up pressure on Congress and President mothers took on more household and child care Joe Biden’s administration to examine whether duties than fathers.” <
Pandemic hit academic mothers especially hard, new data confirm Special opportunities
From Science Magazine by Katie Langin. Posted on Mellon Foundation-Grinnell College February 5, 2021 The Humanities in Action: The Future of the “In March 2020, Reshma Jagsi—a radiation Humanities at Liberal Arts Colleges oncologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Deadline: March 31, 2021 Arbor—wrote an opinion piece predicting female “Grinnell College is pleased to announce a virtual scientists would feel a disproportionate impact summer institute for liberal arts college faculty on from the COVID-19 pandemic. Skeptical journal the theme “The Humanities in Action: The Future editors declined to publish it. Since then, though, of the Humanities at Liberal Arts Colleges.” This many commentators have echoed her message. event will take place from June 7-10, 2021, And now the evidence has become clear: The and will feature four days of discussion about pandemic has exacerbated existing disparities and curricular and pedagogical change in the created additional challenges for women, humanities, arts, and humanistic social especially those with children, struggling to sciences, with a particular focus on two themes: maintain their research productivity. the creation of new gateway courses to welcome students to humanistic study and the “In some fields, studies show, the proportion of development of new opportunities in community- female authors on preprints, submitted engaged learning. “ <
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American Psychological Foundation individuals and groups and on trust in government APF COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant and other institutions. Our priorities do not include Deadline: April 1, 2021 analyses of health outcomes or health behavior. “In response to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, <
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Foundation (NSF) is accepting proposals to preparation, response, and impact of this global conduct non-medical, non-clinical-care research pandemic as seen through evidence-based that can be used immediately to explore how to reporting.” <
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researchers an opportunity to undertake a 12- integral to the project’s research goals. That is, week residency at the Library. Applicants may the project must be conceived as digital because work in any field or discipline where the Library’s the research topics being addressed and methods collections have appropriate depth and breadth to applied demand presentation beyond traditional support the desired outcomes. Fellowships are print publication. Competitive submissions available to researchers who require onsite access embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, to the Library’s uniquely held or extensive and clearly articulate a project’s value to collections to advance their research towards humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.” publication or other public outcomes. Fellowships <
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to participate in the activities of the Center Applicants must be US citizens or residents. throughout the fellowship period. Lectures, Whiting welcomes submissions for works of colloquia, and informal discussions complement history, cultural or political reportage, biography, the fellowship program.... Paul Mellon and Ailsa memoir, the sciences, philosophy, criticism, food Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellowships are or travel writing, and personal essays, among intended to support research in the history, other categories." <
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tribal nations and organizations to develop Language & Area Studies tangible and mutually beneficial criminal or juvenile justice research studies that are rigorous National Endowment for the Humanities and culturally appropriate. Research proposals Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research must be tribally driven and address the challenges in Japan of fighting crime and strengthening justice systems Deadline: April 28, 2021 in Indian country and Alaska Native villages." "The Fellowships for Advanced Social Science <
American Political Science Association Small Research Grant Program Whitehall Foundation Deadline: April 30, 2021 Research Grants and Grants-in-Aid "The APSA Small Research Grant Program supports Deadline: April 15, 2021 research in all fields of political science. The intent "The Whitehall Foundation, through its program of of these grants is to provide funding opportunities grants and grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research for research conducted by political scientists not in the life sciences. It is the Foundation's policy to employed at PhD-granting departments in the assist those dynamic areas of basic biological field, or who are in non-tenure track or contingent research that are not heavily supported by Federal positions ineligible for departmental funding." Agencies or other foundations with specialized <
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The Foundation emphasizes the support of young scope of the project outlined in the application. scientists at the beginning of their careers and Applications requesting more than 5% overhead productive senior scientists who wish to move into are usually not considered. Papers verifying new fields of interest. “ <
with biomedical engineering tracks/minors. This Below are grants that are, or are expected to be, FOA targets the education of undergraduate due in the next six months. For a list of grant biomedical engineering/bioengineering students deadlines for the whole year, please see our in a team-based environment. While current best Grants Calendar on the Barnard website. practices such as multidisciplinary/
interdisciplinary education, introduction to the GENERAL INTEREST AND CROSS-DISCIPLINARY regulatory pathway and other issues related to the
commercialization of medical devices, and clinical March 1—Fondation Brocher Visiting Research immersion remain encouraged components of a Residency strong BME program, this FOA also challenges March 15 – Rockefeller Archive Center Grants-in- institutions to propose other novel, innovative Aid for Research and/or ground-breaking activities that can form March 30—United States Institute for Peace the basis of the next generation of biomedical Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship engineering design education." <
Belin du Pont Research Grants & Exploratory Elsa U Pardee Foundation Research Grants Deadline: April 30, 2021 April 1— Fahs-Beck Fund Research and “The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research to Experimentation Grant Program investigators in United States non-profit April 1—King’s College London Georgian Papers institutions proposing research directed toward Programme Royal Archives Fellowships identifying new treatments or cures for cancer. April 1—Alex C. Walker Foundation Grants The Foundation funds projects for a one year April 2—Musee du guai Branlt—Jacques Chirac period which will allow establishment of Postdoctoral Fellowships capabilities of new cancer researchers, or new April 10—Columbia Brown Institute Magic Grant cancer approaches by established cancer April 14—National Endowment for the Humanities researchers. It is anticipated that this early stage Fellowships funding by the Foundation may lead to April 15—Library of Congress John W. Kluge subsequent and expanded support using Center Philp Lee Phillips Society Fellowship government agency funding. Project relevance to April 22 – National Geographic Society Grants cancer detection, treatment, or cure should be Program clearly identified. By design, there are no limits set April 25—Project Management Institute on the grant amount that can be requested. It Sponsored Research Program must be reasonably and clearly supported by the
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April 26—Columbia University Entrepreneurship Collaboratory Fellows Fund April 28—European Commission Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Research and Innovation Staff Exchange April 28—National Endowment for the Humanities Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication April 30—National Library of Australia Fellowships April 30—Lawrence Foundation Grants in Environment and Human Services April 30—Feminist Review Trust Awards April 30—Academic & Textbook Writing Grants May 1—John Templeton Foundation Academic Cross-Training Fellowship May 6—William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants May 15— Einstein Forum Fellowship May 15—Association for Information Science and Technology Bob Williams History Fund Research Grant Award May 17—DAAD German Academic Exchange Service Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists May 23—Russel Sage Foundation Social, Political and Economic Inequality June 1—University of Minnesota’s Immigration History Research Center Archives Michael G. Karni Scholarship June 3 — PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship June 15—National Science Foundation Perception, Action, & Cognition Conference Proposals June 15—Carey Institute for Global Good Logan Nonfiction Program June 22—Columbia Alliance Joint Projects June 30—Hagley Museum and Library Henry Belin du Pont Research Grants & Exploratory Research Grants July 10 – National Geographic Society Grants Program July 15—Library of Congress Kluge Center Fellowship July 15—Leakey Foundation Research Grant August 1 – American Academy of Religion Collaborative Research Grants August 1—National Science Foundation Perception, Action, & Cognition Research Proposals August 5—Joyce Foundation Grants August 31—Fritz Thyssen Foundation Conference Grants Rolling deadline—Columbia University Seminars Leonard Hastings Schoff Publication Fund Rolling deadline – Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grants in Humanities & Social Sciences Rolling deadline – Institute for Humane Studies Hayek Fund for Scholars—Covering conference and job interview travel Rolling deadline – Pulitzer Center Travel Grants Rolling deadline – Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund Rolling deadline – Puffin Foundation Investigative Fund Rolling deadline—Type Investigations Ida B. Wells Fellowship Rolling deadline—Type Investigations Wayne Barrett Project Rolling deadline—Type Investigations H.D. Lloyd Fund for Investigative Journalism Rolling deadline – Tools and Trades History Society Salaman Awards
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Arts & Humanities
General Interest and Cross Disciplinary March 1 – The Library Company of Philadelphia Short Term fellowships March 1—National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Programs in the Humanities for College Educators March 2—Mary Baker Eddy Library Fellowship Program March 2—The American Folklife Center Archie Green Fellowship March 2— The American Folklife Center Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund Award March 2— The American Folklife Center Henry Reed Fund Award March 2—National Endowment for the Humanities Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities March 2— The American Folklife Center Blanton Owen Fund Award March 4—Society for Classical Studies Pedagogy Award March 6—American Philosophical Society Digital Humanities Fellowship March 6—American Philosophical Society Library Short Term Resident Research Fellowships March 9—Columbia University Arts and Sciences Humanities War and Peace Initiatives March 19—Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships March 26—Independent Research Fund Denmark Sapere Aude Starting Grant April 1—American Historical Association J Franklin Jameson Fellowship April 1—Humanities New York Action Grants April 14—National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships April 15—Columbia University Heyman Center Edward Said Fellowship April 20—John Paul II Center for Interreligious Studies Fellowship in Interreligious Studies April 28—National Endowment for the Humanities Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication April 28—University of Melbourne Redmond Barry Fellowship April 30—University of Sydney Visiting Research Fellowship Scheme May 15—Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Hiett Prize in the Humanities May 31—Shafik Gabr Foundation East-West: The Art of Dialogue May 31—Northern Illinois University Horatio Alger Fellowship for the Study of American Popular Culture May 31—Australian National University Humanities Research Center Visiting Fellowships June 11 – Vilcek Foundation Prizes for Creative Promise June 15—Terra Foundation Academic Workshop & Symposium Grants July 1—American Institute of Indian Studies—Research & Senior Scholarly/Professional Development Fellowships July 1—International Documentary Association Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund July 11—National Endowment for the Arts – Art Works II: Media Arts
August—International Research Center ‘Work and human Lifecycle in Global History’ at Humboldt University in Berlin (re:work) August 31—University of Sydney Visiting Research Fellowship Scheme Rolling deadline— J.M. Kaplan Fund Furthermore Grants in Publishing Rolling deadline – Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Rolling deadline – Max Kade Foundation Rolling deadline – New York Council for the Humanities Vision Grants
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Rolling deadline – Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies Grant for Book-length Monographs Rolling deadline— Renaissance Society of America RSA-Patricia H. Labalme Fellowship Rolling deadline—Renaissance Society of America RSA-Newberry Fellowship Rolling deadline—Renaissance Society of America RSA-Huntington Fellowship Rolling deadline – Institute for Humane Studies Hayek Fund for Scholars—Covering conference and job interview travel Rolling deadline – Pulitzer Center Travel Grants Rolling deadline – Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund Various— Society for Classical Studies Awards, Scholarships, and Fellowships Various—University of London, School of Advanced Study Institute/Consortium Fellowships
Art History & Architecture March 15—College Art Association Millard Meiss Publication Fund March 16—Terra Foundation Academic Workshop and Symposium Grants March 21—National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Visiting Senior Fellowship April 1—Kress Foundation Interpretative Fellowships at Art Museums April 19—The Architectural League of New York Deborah J. Norden Fund May 30—Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center
Creative Arts March 1—Warhol Foundation Grants for Curatorial Programs March 2—New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project Production Grant March 9—New England Foundation for the Arts National Theater Project Creation & Touring Grant March 11—National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships March 12—New York State Council on the Arts March 15—International Literacy Foundation Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Awards March 25—Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation ArtsCONNECT March 27—Cave Canem Community of Writers at Squaw Valley Workshop Scholarships April 1—Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in-Residence April 4—Halcyon Arts Lab Fellowship for Emerging Artists April 8—Oxford American Jeff Baskin Writers Fellow April 9—National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Grants April 10—Enterprise Rose Fellowship April 13—National Endowment for the Arts Research Grants in the Arts April 15—Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Awards April 15—Bogliasco Foundation Fellowships April 15—The Macdowell Colony Residencies April 19—Harpo Foundation Grants for Visual Artists April 20—Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant April 30—Association of Performing Arts Professionals Cultural Exchange Fund May 20—Arts Writers Grants Program May 30—National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows May 31—Vilcek Foundation Prizes for Creative Promise June 1—Carey Institute for Global Good Logan Nonfiction Fellowship June 15—Vermont Studio Center Fellowships June 26 – Headlands Center for the Arts Artists in Residency
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June 29—Artist Trust Grants for Artist Projects July 1—Bogliasco Foundation Fellowships Rolling deadline (6-8 weeks before performance) – Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants Rolling deadline – Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Program Various—Artist Trust Grants
English Literature and Translation March 1—University of London Institute of English Studies Fellowship
Gender Studies April 17—Yale University LGBT Studies Research Fellowship June 1—CLAGS Center for LGBTQ Studies Fellowship Award July 1— GLAGS Center for LGBTQ Studies Scholar in Residence Fellowship July 31— New York Public Library Martin Duberman Visiting Fellowship Rolling—Reed Foundation Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund
History March 1 – The Library Company of Philadelphia Mellon Scholars Fellowship Program March 1—The Library Company of Philadelphia Short-Term Fellowships March 15—The John Carter Brown Foundation Hodson Trust –John Carter Brown Library Fellowship March 26—The Society for the Study of French History Visiting Scholars April 1—American Historical Association Fellowship in Aerospace History April 1—American Historical Association J Franklin Jameson Fellowship April 1— Thomas Jefferson Foundation Short Term Fellowships April 15—The American Congregational Association Boston Athenæum Fellowship May 15—Gilder Lehrman Fellowships May 15—American Historical Society Joan Kelly Memorial Prize May 15—American Historical Society William and Edwyna Gilbert Award May 24—The Culinary Historians of New York Scholar’s Grant June 15—Coordinating Council for Women in History Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize June 15—Coordinating Council for Women in History Catherine Prelinger Award Rolling deadline – University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Program Julian Pleasants Travel Award Rolling deadline— The Huntington Dibner Program in the History of Science
Religion May 1—Association for the Sociology of Religion Joseph H. Fichter Research Grant Competition June 30—Max van Berchem Foundation Research Grant for Islamic and Arabic Studies August 1—American Academy of Religion Individual and Collaborative Grants
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Education
February 1—National Education Association Foundation Learning and Leadership Grants February 2– National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources February 5—Spencer Foundation Large Research Grants March 2—AccessLex Institute/Association for Institutional Research Grants March 15—International Literacy Association Jerry Johns Outstanding Teacher Educator in Reading Award March 31—Horne Family Foundation April 1— Brady Education Foundation Grants May 8— James S. McDonnell Foundation Teachers as Learners June 1—International Literacy Association Maryann Manning Special Service Award June 1—International Literacy Association Jerry Johns Outstanding Teacher Educator in Reading Award June 1—National Education Association Foundation Learning and Leadership Grants July 1 – Spencer Foundation Small Research Grants July 1– William T. Grant Foundation William T. Grant Scholars Program August 1— Brady Education Foundation Grants August 4 – National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources August 14—National Science Foundation Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Rolling deadline—Cornell Douglas Foundation Grants Various—Institute of Education Science Research Grants
Social Sciences
General Interest and Cross Disciplinary March 6—Rita Allen Scholars Program March 15 – Gerald R. Ford Library Research Travel Grants Program March 16—Ploughshares Foundation Projects that Promote a Nuclear-Free World March 30—European University Institute Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship March 30—National Institute of Justice research and Evaluation on Firearm Violence April 1—Truman (Harry S.) Library Institute April 1—National Institute of Justice Research into Immigration and Crime April 1—National Institute of Justice Research and Evaluation on Domestic Terrorism Prevention April 13—National Institute of Justice Research and Evaluation on Policing April 15—American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Investigators Research Grant April 20—National Institute of Justice Research and Evaluation on Administration of Justice April 20—National Institute of Justice Research and Evaluation on Trafficking of Persons April 20—National Institute of Justice Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime April 30 —National Institute of Justice W.E.B Du Bois Program May 6—William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants on Reducing Inequality May 6—William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence May 21—Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics May 21—Russell Sage Foundation Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
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May 21—Russell Sage Foundation Immigration and Immigrant Integration May 31—Harvard University Weatherhead Center Huntington Prize June 15—National Science Foundation Perception, Action & Cognition June 15—Smith Richardson Foundation Strategy and Policy Fellows June 24—Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars Program July 15—The Leakey Foundation Research Grants July 15—National Science Foundation Linguistics August 1—National Science Foundation Perception, Action & Cognition August 1—The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grants August 15—National Science Foundation Cultural Anthropology Senior Research Awards August 18—National Science Foundation Decision, Risk and Management Sciences August 18—National Science Foundation Economics August 21—Russell Sage Foundation Computational Social Science August 21—Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics August 21—Russell Sage Foundation Future of Work Various—Russell Sage Foundation Small Grants Program Rolling deadline—Congressional Budget Office Visiting Scholar Rolling deadline—Smith Richardson Foundation Grants
Anthropology and Archeology March 1—Archeological Institute of America Samuel H. Kress Grant for Research and Publication in Classical Art and Architecture March 4—Society for Classical Studies Pedagogy Award March 25—Society for Classical Studies Ludwig Koenen Fellowship for Training in Papyrology May 1—Wenner Gren Foundation Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship May 1—Wenner Gren Foundation Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship May 1—Wenner Gren Foundation Post-Ph.D. Research Grants June 1—Wenner Gren Foundation Conference and Workshop Grants July 15 – The Leakey Foundation Research Grants July 20 — National Science Foundation Biological Anthropology Rolling—National Science Foundation High-Risk Research in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (among others related to Archaeology and Achaeometry)
Political Science February 14—American Political Science Association Awards Recognizing Excellence in the Profession February 16—American Political Science Association Awards Recognizing Excellence in the Profession March 1—Kettering Foundation Katherine W. Fanning Residency in Journalism and Democracy April 15—American Political Science Association Small Research Grant Program April 30—American Political Science Association Small Research Grant Program May 11—National Institution of Justice Visiting Fellows Program August 15—National Science Foundation Political Science Rolling deadline—Baylor Collections of Political Materials Dowdy Research Grant Various —American Political Science Association Award
Sociology February 16—National Institutes of Health Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genomic Research Small Research Grant Program
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June 15—American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline July 15—National Science Foundation Social Psychology August 15—National Science Foundation Sociology August 16—Sociological Initiatives Foundation
Language and Area Studies
March 1—Wilson Center George F. Kennan Fellowship March 1—Association for Asian Studies First Book Subvention Program March 1—Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies Grant Programs March 1—International Institute for Asian Studies Fellowship March 1—American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Publication Prize March 1—OEAD, Austria Franz Werfel Scholarship March 1—American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Publication Prize March 2—Baylor University Libraries Texas Collection Wardlaw Fellowship March 15—American Classical League Scholarships March 31—Institute of Turkish Studies Grants in Turkish and Ottoman Studies April 1—Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellowship on Contemporary Southeast Asia April 12—Harriman Institute, Columbia University Faculty Publication Grants April 22—National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research in Japan April 30—University of London, School of Advanced Study Institute of Modern Languages Research Fellowship May 1—Trust for Mutual Understanding Grants May 10—University of London, School of Advanced Study Institute of Modern Languages Research Fellowship May 15—American Historical Association John F. Richards Prize May 15—Wilson Center Billington Fellowship May 21—Russell Sage Foundation Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration June 1—Conference on Latin American History Lydia Cabrera Awards June 30—University of London, School of Advanced Study Institute of Commonwealth Studies Henry Charpes Chapman Fellowship July 1—American Institute of Indian Studies Research & Senior Scholarly/Professional Development Fellowships July 15—The Leakey Foundation Research Grants August 30—Daesan Foundation Translation, Research, and Publication Rolling deadline—Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies Grant for Book-length Monographs in Chinese Buddhism Rolling deadline—Columbia University European Institute Faculty Research Grants Rolling deadline—Columbia University Institute of Latin American Studies FT Faculty Research Grants Rolling deadline—Japan Foundation Grant for Japanese Studies Rolling deadline—Japan Foundation Grant for Art and Culture Various—Harriman Center at Columbia University Faculty Research Support
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STEM
General Interest and Cross Disciplinary March 2—Henry Luce Foundation Clare Boothe Luce Program March 10—National Science Foundation Time-Sensitive Obesity Policy and Program Evaluation March 11—Morris Animal Foundation Established Investigator Grant March 15—Sigma Xi Research Grants March 15—The Eppley Foundation for Research March 15—Scoliosis Research Society Research Grants March 16—NIH R21 renewal, resubmission, revision March 16—NIH R03 renewal, resubmission, revision March 18—Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Research Grants March 19—Human Frontier Science Program Research Grants March 31—Horne Family Foundation Grants March 31—Columbia Population Research Center Seed Grant Program April 1—Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences, and Mathematics April 1—Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation Research Grant Program April 2—Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering April 6—Foundation for Women’s Wellness Research Grant April 6—Microsoft and National Geographic AI for Earth April 12—R13, U13 Conference Grants and Conference Cooperative Agreements April 15—Whitehall Foundation Grants-in-Aid and Research Grants May 1—National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine National Research Council Research Associateship Programs May 1—W. M. Keck Foundation Research Program June 25—National Institutes of Health Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) R15 Grants June 25—Northeast SARE Grants for Researchers June 30—AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science July 1—Research Corporation for Science Advancement Cottrell Scholars Award July 10—Organic Farming Research Foundation Grants for Researchers July 19—National Science Foundation Career Awards Biological Sciences, Computer & Information Science & Engineering, Education & Human Resources July 20 – National Science Foundation Career Awards Geoscience, Mathematics, Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences August 1—AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science August 1—Henry Luce Foundation Clare Booth Luce Program August 1—National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine National Research Council Research Associateship Programs August 3—National Science Foundation Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS) August 31—Engineering Information Foundation Women in Engineering Grant Program Rolling—The Franklin Institute Benjamin Franklin Medal Rolling—National Speleological Society Research Grants
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Biology and Earth Science March 2—National Science Foundation GeoPRISMS April 1—International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Mid-Career Research Fellowships April 1—Fred C. Gloeckner Foundation Grants April 26—Network for Land Conservation Landscape Conservation Catalyst Fund June 15—Simons Foundation Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology July 1—National Speleological Society Int’l Exploration Grants July 20—National Science Foundation Biological Anthropology August 3—National Science Foundation Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS) August 15—Sarah de Coizart Article Tenth Perpetual Charitable Trust grants Rolling—National Speleological Society Research Grants Rolling—National Science Foundation Environmental Biology Rolling—National Science Foundation Long Term Research in Environmental Biology
Chemistry Active funding opportunities for Chemistry from the National Science Foundation can be found here. March 12—American Chemical Society New Directions Grants March 12—American Chemical Society Undergraduate Research March 12—American Chemical Society Undergraduate New Investigator June 1—American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Grants June 15—American Chemical Society WCC Rising Star Award Rolling deadline—American Chemical Society Community Recognition Grants Rolling deadline—Chemical Heritage Foundation Travel Grants
Engineering April 26—National Institutes of Health Team-Based Design in Biomedical Engineering Education (R25) May 28—National Institutes of Health Team-Based Design in Biomedical Engineering Education (R25) July 16—National Science Foundation Career Awards -- Engineering August 31—Engineering Information Foundation Women in Engineering Grant Program
Health and Medicine March 15—Sontag Foundation Distinguished Scientist Awards April 30 -- Elsa U. Pardee Foundation Grants May 31—Vilcek Foundation Biomedical Science July 1—John and Polly Sparks Foundation August 9—National Science Foundation Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences Rolling deadline—Robert Wood Johnson Evidence for Action (E4A): Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health
Mathematics and Physics April 1—American Astronomical Society Chretien International Research Grants June 1—National Science Foundation Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences June 30—American Astronomical Society Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy August 9—National Science Foundation Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences Rolling deadline—National Science Foundation Conferences and Workshops in the Mathematical Sciences
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Rolling deadline—Simons Foundation Targeted Grants in Mathematics and Physical Sciences Various—American Psychological Society Fellows
Psychology and Neuroscience March 1—American Psychological Foundation Esther Katz Rosen Fund March 1—American Psychological Foundation Wayne F. Placek Grants March 15—APF John and Polly Sparks Early Career Grant for Psychologists Investigating Serious Emotional Disturbance March 15—American Psychological Foundation APA Travel Grants for US Psychologists to Attend International Conferences March 25—McKnight Foundation Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award April 1—American Psychological Foundation Visionary Grants April 1—Society for the Teaching of Psychology SAGE Teaching Innovations & Professional Development Award April 1—Society for the Teaching of Psychology Conference Speak Grant Program April 15—American Psychological Foundation Alexander Gralnick Research Investigator Prize May 1—American Psychological Foundation Alexander Gralnick Research Investigator Prize May 8—National Institutes of Health Blueprint for Neuroscience Research May 31—American Psychological Foundation Society for General Psychology Mary Whiton Calkins Grant June 1—American Psychological Foundation The Trust Grant in Honor of Eric A. Harris, EdD, JD June 1—American Psychological Foundation Division 49 Group Psychology Grant June 14—Society for Neuroscience Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award June 15—American Psychological Foundation Division 39 Grant July 15—National Science Foundation Developmental Science July 15—National Science Foundation Social Psychology July 15—American Psychological Foundation APA Travel Grants for US Psychologists to Attend International Conferences August 1—American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Focus Grants August 13—National Science Foundation Cognitive Neuroscience August 15—American Psychiatric Association Kempf Fund Award
Library Science
February 28—Society of American Archivists Fellows February 28—Association for Recorded Sound Collections Research Grants May 18—National Endowment for the Humanities Research and Development Program Rolling—International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Research Grants
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