Fellowship Opportunity List

GSAS tracks upcoming fellowships & award opportunities at the following website:

Fellowship Funding Organization Eligible Area/Short Description Web Address Internal Supports collaboration between students at partner universities: CU, Sciences Po, 1 Panthéon- Alliance Program Grants Predocs, Diss. Sorbonne and École Polytechnique. Mellon Postdoc at . Please note: Columbia graduate students are not eligible Columbia University Mellon Music Postdocs Postdocs for this fellowship. CU music students are eligible to apply; an extraordinarily competitive postdoc, with around Columbia University Society of Fellows Postdocs 1000 applications for about three positions. For those who are enrolled in a full-time program that combines modern foreign-language training with international or area studies. Candidates applying for dissertation writing or research abroad FLAS -- Academic Year Predocs must have advanced language proficiency. For those who are enrolled in a full-time program that combines modern foreign-language training FLAS -- Summer Predocs with international or area studies. GSAS Conference Matching Travel Fund Predocs For travel to conferences to give a paper. CU international travel fellowship for dissertation GSAS International Travel Awards Predocs completion. GSAS Summer Funding Predocs Opportunities for summer funding. GSAS Summer Language Fellowships for International Supports international students who need to study a Students Predocs foreign language abroad. For PhD students who have completed or are Institute for Research on Women and Gender Graduate planning to complete the IRWGS graduate Fellowships Predocs certificate.

External Aaron Copland Fund Composers Only Music recording, performers, organizations. Supports post-doctoral scholars to carry out long- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdocs term research projects in Germany. The Ditson Fund supports contemporary American Alice M. Ditson Fund Composers Only classical concert music.

Updated: April 2020 For established & emerging scholars, writers & American Academy in Berlin Postdocs professionals to engage in independent study. Predocs & Residence in Rome; stipend, meals, bedroom with American Academy in Rome Postdocs pvt bath; study/studio Opportunity for early career anthropologists to learn American Anthropological Association Postdocs leadership. American history: Residencies for scholars and American Antiquarian Society Postdocs performing artists. Predocs & Various fellowships for women completing diss. American Association of University Women Postdocs research or Postdocs. Various opportunities; updated often; residencies, American Composers Forum Composers Only assistance. EarShot, Women Composers Reading and Commission Program, Underwood New Music American Composers Orchestra: Opportunities for Reading Reading and Commission, Jazz Composers and Commissions Composers Only Orchestra Institute. Predocs & Supports scholars in humanities & related social American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Postdocs sciences. To fund a major piece of scholarly work by an applicant from any discipline of the humaninites and related social sciences. Eligibility for the "regular" pool of ACLS Fellowships begins two years after ACLS Fellowships Postdocs completion of the PhD Supports graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of PhD Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships Final Year Diss. dissertation writing Offers 21 two-year term positions at organizations in government and nonprofit sectors for recent PhDs Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Competition for Recent PhDs Postdocs from the humanities and humanistic social sciences American Philosophical Society Library & Museum in Open to scholars in all fields who show a Philadelphia (APS): Short-Term Resident Research Predocs & demonstrated need to use the Library & Museum’s Fellowships Postdocs collections for their project. Amphion Foundation Composers Only Music recording, performers, organizations. Musicology, ethno, theory. The most prestigious AMS: Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Final Year Diss. fellowship for dissertation-level students. Music-centered approaches to creativity in AMS: Elliott Antokoletz Fund for Research in Twentieth- Predocs & twentieth-century music (composition, Century Music Postdocs improvisation, performance) AMS: H. Robert Cohen/RIPM Fund for Research Based on Predocs & Supports research and travel related to the goals of the Musical Press Postdocs Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals. AMS: Harold Powers World Travel Fund Diss. & Postdocs Global-oriented research; disciplinarily open.

Updated: April 2020 Dissertation The fellowship recognizes academic achievement AMS: Holmes / D'Accone Fellowship Research and future promise in the study of opera. For a student who is a member of a group historically underrepresented in the discipline, including, in the U.S., African, Native, Hispanic & AMS: Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship Predocs, Diss. Asian Americans, and, in Canada, visible minorities. AMS: Jan LaRue Travel Fund for Research Travel to Predocs & For research in Europe. PredocsPostdocs & AMS: M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Fund Postdocs For research in . AMS: Ora Frishberg Saloman Fund for Musicological Predocs & For research oriented to music criticism and Research Postdocs reception history. Award honors exceptional musicological work in Predocs & the field of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/ AMS: Philip Brett Award Postdocs transsexual studies. For a graduate music student for a scholarly paper AMS: Pisk Prize Predocs presented at the Annual Meeting of the AMS. Predocs & AMS: Various awards, prizes, and fellowships Postdocs Various awards, prizes and fellowships by AMS. AMS: Virginia and George Bozarth Travel Fund for Predocs & Musicological Research in Postdocs For research in Austria. Any field of musical scholarship; research to be AMS: Wolf Travel Fund for European Research Final Year Diss. undertaken in Europe. For recent humanities Ph.D.’s interested in APS: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial exploring career paths in libraries, museums, and Fellowships Postdocs cultural heritage institutions. For the costs of travel to libraries & archives for research purposes, purchase of microfilm, photocopies or equivalent research materials; the Predocs & costs associated with fieldwork or laboratory APS: Franklin Research Grants Postdocs research expenses. ASCAP Foundation Awards Composers Only Foundation grant and award program. To support the pioneering research contributions of the next generation of scholars of eighteenth-century studies, this prize recognizes an outstanding ASECS: Graduate Student Research Essay Prize Predocs unpublished research essay of 15-30 pages. Predocs & 18th-century Studies: Various awards for papers, ASECS: Other Awards Postdocs research, etc. ASECS: Traveling Jam-Pot Fund for Graduate Students Diss., Postdocs Free conference registration; travel funding. Barlow Endowment Composers Only Barlow Prize: $12,000 commission. Study abroad funding for performers and Beebe Fund for Musicians Composers Only composers.

Updated: April 2020 Up to 1 year of dissertation or postdoctoral research Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Diss., Postdocs support at the Freie Universität Berlin BMI Foundation Composers Only Awards, scholarships, internships, funds. Brahms Society: The Karl Geiringer Fund in Brahms Studies Final Year Diss. Music History: Brahms Research. 3-year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the British Acadeny Postdoctoral Fellowship Postdocs humanities or social sciences Music History: Proposals will be considered which treat any aspect of the history of recording and the British Library Visiting Edison Scholarship Predocs performance of western art music. Brown University Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships Postdocs Two 1-year postdocs appointed every year. For research in two or more countries outside the Dissertation United States, at least one of which hosts a CAORC: Multi-Country Research Fellowship Research participating American overseas research center. Information on jazz, classical, and contemporary Chamber Music America Composers Only music grants. To encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Final Year Diss. humanities and social sciences. CLAGS (Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Predocs & Open to intellectuals contributing to the field of Graduate Center) Postdocs LGBTQ studies. Dissertation Supports dissertation research in the humanities or CLIR Mellon Fellowships Research related social sciences using original sources. Provides composers with protected time for composing. Affilated Residencies with Civitella Composers Now: Creative Residencies Composers Only Ranieri Center. Various Commissions; celebrates living American Composers, Inc. Composers Only composers. 2-year postdoc in Classics and Performing & Media Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Postdocs Arts. Cornell University Society for the Humanities Fellowships Postdocs 1-year fellowships which reflect a yearly theme. Council for European Studies: Mellon-CES Dissertation Must be working on a topic within or substantially Completion Fellowships Final Year Diss. overlapping European Studies. Stipend provided. 4 consecutive months of research in an American overseas research center in one of the following countries: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Cyprus, Georgia, Indonesia, Mexico, Mongolia, Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC): Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Senegal, Sri NEH Senior Research Fellowship Postdocs Lanka or Tunisia.

Updated: April 2020 Supports artists with up to $50,000 in project funding, advisory services, career advancement Creative Capital Foundation Composers Only resources, and national networking. For people whose work will benefit directly from access to the research collections at the Stephen A. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars Fellowship Postdocs Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue & 42nd St. Predocs & Short-Term and Long-Term Research Grants for DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Postdocs research in Germany (up to 1 year). Dartmouth College Mellon Postdocs Postdocs 2-year postdoc at Leslie Center for the Humanities. Publications focusing on Armenian studies, history or literature of the nineteenth century or earlier; Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship Predocs research takes place in America. Provides a year in residence at one of the campuses for minority graduate students in the final phase of Five College Fellowship for Minority Students Final Year Diss. the doctoral degree. For projects in all disciplines that focus centrally on Predocs & women or gender. Applications are accepted for Five College Women's Studies Research Center Postdocs either a semester or an academic year. Research fellowships for four continuous weeks of Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellowships Postdocs writing and research. For those planning a career in teaching & research at the college or university level. Awarded in the Predocs & categories of Predoctoral (3 years of support); Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Postdocs Dissertation (1 year), & Postdoc (1 year). Based at Emory University. 1 and 2-year postdocs Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Postdocs available. Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard Composers Only Commissions of $12,000. Fulbright | Creative & Performing Arts Composers Only For research, study, and composition abroad. Grants to colleges and universities to fund individual doctoral students who conduct research in other countries, in modern foreign languages and Fulbright Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Predocs area studies for periods of six to 12 months. Predocs & Fulbright IIE Fellowships Postdocs Study and research awards around the world. For emerging scholars to complete work on projects Predocs & related to the Getty Research Institute's annual Getty Foundation Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellowships Postdocs research theme. Predocs & Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowship Postdocs American History: $3000 short-term fellowship. Predocs & Handel Society: J. Merrill Knapp Research Fellowship Postdocs Research funding for projects related to Handel

Updated: April 2020 Fifteen I Tatti Residential Fellowships for 1 year for Harvard U Center for Italian Renaissance Study (Villa I post-doctoral research in any aspect of the Italian Tatti) Postdocs Renaissance. 1-year postdoctoral fellowships in connection with Harvard U Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar Fellowship Postdocs on the topic of migration & the humanities. By nomination only, "generally by those under whom they have studied." Three-year term; no Harvard U Society of Fellows Postdocs teaching; includes composers. 2 year Mellon Postdoc supporting interdisciplinary Haverford College Mellon Postdocs Postdocs exchange and innovative pedagogy. Predocs & Hewlett Foundation Postdocs Grants database. Predocs & Long & short-term fellowships on projects in any Huntington Library Fellowships Postdocs area where the Huntington’s collections are strong. Predocs & IHR Fellowships -- London Postdocs History Fellowships - between 6 and 24 months. Predocs & Japan Foundation, Japanese Studies Fellowship Postdocs Fellowship to conduct research in Japan Jerome Foundation Grants Program Composers Only Non-profit arts organizations; grants for musicians. Fellowship program to recognize and assist students whose scholastic achievements reflect Professor von Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust Final Year Diss. Karman’s high standards. Encourages distinguished scholarship in the disciplines of music, theater, dance, literary Predocs & criticism and history addressing music theater since Kurt Weill Foundation for Music: Kurt Weill Prize Postdocs 1900 (including opera) Predocs & Humanistic and Social Science research; from 4-11 Library of Congress - Kluge Fellowships Postdocs months. The grant supports original live performance MAP Fund Composers Only projects. Predocs & Various awards for graduate students and early- Music Library Association Postdocs career professionals Music Performance Fund Composers Only Sponsors free concerts. Mustard Seed Foundation; Harvey Fellowships Program Postdocs Fellowships available for Christian students. National Endowment for the Arts Composers Only Grants for performers, organizations. Fellowships cover periods lasting from six to twelve National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Postdocs months Fellows are given the freedom to work on their projects while benefiting from the exceptional National Humanities Center: Residential Fellowships Postdocs services of the Center.

Updated: April 2020 Foundation for the Arts Composers Only Opportunities for artists. NYFA Source Composers Only National directory of funding sources. Supports the work of opera creators, companies and Opera America Composers Only administrators; travel grants. This website occasionally has fellowships posted -- Oxford (various schools) Junior Research Fellowships Postdocs check often. Three to five postdoctoral fellows are appointed each year for three-year terms in residence to pursue research and teach half-time in their academic host department, the Program in Humanistic Studies, or Princeton Society of Fellows Postdocs other university programs. Fellows devote an academic year in residence at Princeton University Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Princeton to research and writing about topics Faculty Fellowships Postdocs involving human values in public and private life. 50 fellowships each academic year. The program is based in Radcliffe Yard--in the heart of Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellows Postdocs University. SAM: Mark Tucker Award for best paper by a grad student Award for best paper by grad student delivered at delivered at SAM Predocs SAM. Recognizes a single dissertation on American SAM: Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award Postdocs Music. Long & short-term fellowships to support scholars & writers working on projects that would benefit from access to the Center's extensive resources for Schomberg Center for the Study of Black Culture, Scholar- the study of African diasporic history, politics, in-Residence Postdocs literature & culture. The Foundation considers applications from performing organizations from any country for the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of joint commissioning of composers of all Congress Composers Only nationalities. Must be an initiated member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Educational Foundation Scholarships Predocs Sinfonia Fraternity Smithsonian Institution Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Predocs & Fellowships available for Graduate students, Fellowships Postdocs Predocs, & Postdocs, for research in many fields. Native American Studies: Graduate students who are affiliated with a Native American community or tribe can come conduct independent research. Also includes Internship Program and Community Smithsonian Institution Native American Award Program Predocs Scholars Program. SOCAN Foundation provides grants for Canadian Predocs & music creators and publishers working to promote SOCAN Foundation Grants Postdocs appreciation for Canadian music in today’s society.

Updated: April 2020 Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant (GSE), the Social Science Research Council (SSRC): Mellon Mays Predoctoral Research Development Grant (PRD), Predoctoral Research Grants Predocs and the Dissertation Completion Grant (DCG). Predocs & Society for American Music Postdocs Various awards and fellowships by SAM. Predocs & Society for Ethnomusicology Postdocs Various awards and fellowships by SEM. Predocs & Society for Music Theory Postdocs Various awards and grants by SMT. Supporting the development of innovative dissertation proposals in the humanities and social SSRC: Dissertation Proposal Development (DPD) Program Predocs sciences

Provides PhD candidates with support for international research. Supports the next generation of scholars in the humanities and humanistic social SSRC: International Dissertation Research Fellowship sciences pursuing research that advances knowledge (IDRF) Program Predocs about non-US cultures and societies. Support for dissertation and postdoctoral research in SSRC: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Japan in the humanities and social sciences for up to Fellowship ABD & Postdocs 2 years. Intended primarily for individuals currently teaching in or affiliated with an academic institution, but Stanford University External Faculty Junior Fellowship Postdocs independent scholars may apply. Four 2-year fellowships (possibly extended to 3 Stanford University Mellon Postdocs Postdocs years). U. of Cambridge, Churchill College, Early Career Research 3-year postdocs at various colleges within Fellowship Postdocs Cambridge. 2-years of funding for the highest caliber junior scholars from diverse backgrounds with the intent that they will be promoted to Assistant Professor at Uchicago Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships Postdocs the end of the fellowship period. Four-year postdoctoral teaching appointment; 2 UChicago Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Postdocs courses in each of three quarters. UCLA Center for 17th-and-18th-Century studies -- various Predocs & fellowships Postdocs Various fellowships for long and short stays. For appointment to three-year fellowships in the humanities, the arts, the social, physical, and life University of Michigan Society of Fellows Postdocs sciences, and in the professional schools. (5) one-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships each academic year to junior scholars in the humanities who are no more than five years out UPenn Wolf Humanities Center Mellon Postdoc Fellowships Postdocs of their doctorate.

Updated: April 2020 The Special Awards in the Arts Program supports the creation of new works in dance, theater Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Composers Only production, and music composition. Washington University in St. Louis -- Modeling Three 1-year fellowships in the humanities and Interdisciplinary Inquiry Postdocs social sciences. One Mellon postdoctoral fellow appointed for one Wesleyan University Mellon Postdocs Postdocs year. Encourages original and significant research about Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's women that crosses disciplinary, regional, or Studies Final Year Diss. cultural boundaries.

See Also: GSAS Website for External Grants Provides descriptions of grant makers, including private grant-making foundations, community foundations, operating foundations & corporate Johns Hopkins Website for Grants grant makers. Obviously there's a theme of institutions providing lists of internal and external grants. Make sure to be on the lookout for those!

Updated: April 2020