Barnard College Office of Institutional Funding January 29, 2021
Grant Opportunities & News You Can Use
Hello, faculty, Welcome back to the new semester! I hope everything is going reasonably well and you had some time to relax. We are back with our monthly Grant Opportunities newsletter. For our Featured Funder this month we are profiling the Whiting Foundation. For our Sage Advice column, we walk you through the difference in the NSF between a Letter of Collaboration and a Letter of Support. After Sage Advice, we have a few news stories, including news of a possi- ble amnesty for academics who failed to report foreign ties. We also have brief profiles of upcoming opportunities, including NEH Fel- Inside this issue lowships, which are coming due April 14, 2021. After that, we have a cal- endar of opportunities coming due in the next six months. Featured Funders...... 2 The next Internal Grant deadline is March 9, for Presidential Research Sage Advice ...... 3 Awards and nominations for Gildersleeve Visiting Professorships, which News ...... 4 “bring visiting scholars, preferably women from abroad, to the Barnard Grant Opportunities campus.” Special Opportunities………..…...6 As always, if you need assistance finding grants or beginning an applica- tion, please feel free to email any of the members of the Institutional General...... 8 Funding and Sponsored Research team. We love to hear from you! Arts & Humanities ………………….10 Creative Arts ...... 11 Liane Carlson Social Science ...... 12 212-870-2524 Language & Area Studies ...... 13 [email protected] STEM ...... 13 Deadline Reminders General Interest ...... 16 Arts & Humanities ...... 17 Education ...... 20 Social Sciences……………………….21 Language & Area Studies ...... 22 STEM ...... 23 Library Science……………………….26
Featured Funders The Whiting Foundation I’m a little bit sheepish not to have any scandals to relate today, but, so far as I can tell, the fortune behind the subject of today’s column, The Whiting Foundation, was acquired through completely straightforward means. No kidnappings, no fun inventions to disperse clouds of acid, no pioneering feminists establishing the first food safety laws in the country—just inherited wealth and a few well- chosen investments funneled into a foundation through some generous contributions before and after death. The Whiting in question was Flora Ettlinger Whiting, the daughter of Louis E. Ettlinger (1845-1927), a German immigrant who came to American in 1866 and formed a lithography firm called Schumacher & Ettlinger. Schumacher & Ettlinger made prints for cigar boxes and trading cards that still show up today in museums and libraries. Its prints largely consist of treacly images of upper middle class women with impossibly tiny waists, swathed in furs or clutching parasols like muskets, always while wearing elaborate hats. Schumacher and Ettlinger eventually merged with the New American Lithographic Company in 1892, and Ettlinger spent his later years working as director of a publishing firm and chairman of the Persian Rug Manufactory. By the time he died, he was a wealthy man. Flora was born in 1878 and all the information out there agrees that she started from an early age to collect antiques. By all accounts, she was exceptionally gifted at spotting high-quality pieces and helped organize one of the early exhibitions of American antiques, working alongside the wives of Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Calvin Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson. She went on to become one of the founding members of the Friends of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where much of her collection resides today. Her fortune came from a combination of inheritance, a wealthy marriage to the President of the Persian Rug Manufactory, where her father had been chairman, and a few timely investments in the company that would become IBM, back in the early days when it primarily made cash registers. Upon her death in 1971, her fortune was valued at $25 million, much of which was left to the Whiting Foundation. Today the Whiting Foundation supports artists, endangered cultural artifacts, and scholars. “The Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant of $40,000 will be awarded to as many as eight writers in the process of completing a book-length work of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction for a general readership.” Deadline: TBA. “The Whiting Public Engagement Seed Grant of up to $10,000 supports projects at a somewhat earlier stage of development than the Fellowship, before the nominee has been able to establish a specific track record of success for the proposed public-facing work.” Deadline: June 14, 2021. “The Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship of $50,000 is for public-facing projects far enough along in development or execution that the nominee can present compelling, specific evidence that they will successfully engage the intended public.” Deadline: June 14, 2021. Both of the Public Engagement Fellowships are meant for early-career Humanities faculty. Please contact our office if you would like to talk about the nomination process for either Public Engagement grant.
2 Return to table of contents Sage Advice Reference Letters vs. Letters of Support in NSF Applications Back when I first took over the Newsletter from the inimitable Kari Steeves, I ran a column on the difference between a reference letter and a letter of support. That column was based on NIH recommendations and included helpful tips, such as not to add unnecessary letters, since “Unnecessary letters can also limit the pool of expert peer reviewers. Due to potential conflicts of interest, anyone who writes a letter may not review your application. You could un-intentionally eliminate the scientists who would have been your best supporters.” For today’s column, I want to talk about a similar issue – the difference in NSF applications betweena letter of collaboration and a letter of support. Letters of collaboration. There are two different types of collaboration. There are funded collaborations, in which “investigators from two or more organizations wish to collaborate on a unified research project.” Funded collaborations don’t need letters of collaboration. There are unfunded collaborations, which the NSF describes as, “Any substantial collaboration with individuals not included in the budget.” Unfunded collaborators “should be described in the Facilities, Equipment and Other Resources section of the proposal (see Chapter II.C.2.i) and documented in a letter of collaboration from each collaborator.” Letters of collaboration have a specific form. NSF decided a few years ago that the absence of guidelines inadvertently gave an unfair advantage to schools with more time and resources to craft elaborate letters and so decided to standardize the format. "If the proposal submitted by Dr. [insert the full name of the Principal Investigator] entitled [insert the proposal title] is selected for funding by NSF, it is my intent to collaborate and/or commit resources as detailed in the Project Description or the Facilities, Equipment and Other Resources section of the proposal." And that’s it! Your collaborator has to sign the letter, but you cannot add anything else to the letter. Letters of support, by contrast, are not a standard part of NSF applications and are defined by the NSF as follows. “A letter of support is typically from a key stakeholder such as an organization, collaborator or Congressional Representative, and is used to convey a sense of enthusiasm for the project and/or to highlight the qualifications of the PI or co-PI. A letter of support submitted in response to a program solicitation requirement must be unique to the specific proposal submitted and cannot be altered without the author’s explicit prior approval. Proposals that contain letters of support not authorized by the program solicitation may be returned without review.” The NSF has a helpful chart breaking down the difference, reproduced below.
Letter of Collaboration Letter of Support May be submitted with any pro- May only be submitted if required Optional or Required? posal by the program or solicitation Improper letters may be removed Inclusion when not required may Impact on proposal processing? from the proposal; however, the cause the proposal to be returned proposal will still be accepted without review Neither counts against the 15- Impact on proposal length? page limit
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About the NSF Check Out NIH’s New COVID-19 Research Website Posted on January 19, 2021 by Mike Lauer NASA, NSF Sign Agreement to Advance Space, “We are pleased to announce that the new NIH Earth, Biological, Physical Sciences COVID-19 website launched last week. The site Posted on January 7, 2021 provides a central location for trusted, up-to-date, accurate information about NIH research and our “NASA and the U.S. National Science strategic role in COVID-19 research. The site Foundation (NSF) have signed a memorandum of complements information made available on understanding affirming the agencies’ intent to our COVID-19: Information for NIH Applicants and continue their longstanding partnership in Recipients of NIH Funding webpage.” <
“At NIH, we have and continue to focus not just on FY21 Budget Outlook: National Institutes of gender equity but on ensuring greater diversity in Health all aspects of the biomedical workforce. This means, that along with women, members of racial American Institute of Physics, Posted on November and/or ethnic minority groups, people with 19, 2020 disabilities, and those from disadvantaged “The Senate is seeking a $2 billion budget increase backgrounds are also included. To help ensure that for the National Institutes of Health for fiscal year the nation remains a global leader in scientific 2021, while the House is proposing a small discovery and innovation, NIH needs the richness increase augmented by $5 billion in pandemic- and breadth of varied perspectives that comes related emergency spending. ” <
4 Return to table of contents News and older adults are not inappropriately excluded DOJ Considers Amnesty for Foreign Funding from clinical studies. The policy also has the Disclosures potential to provide a more robust understanding From Inside Higher Ed by Elizabeth Redden. Posted of the full spectrum of participants recruited into on January 25, 2021 clinical studies.’ “Officials at the Department of Justice are “Together with my NIH colleagues Drs. Marie considering a proposed amnesty program through Bernard and Janine Clayton, we made this point in which academics could disclose past foreign a 2018 JAMA opinion piece following the inaugural funding without fear of punishment, The Wall NIH Inclusion Across the Lifespan workshop. Fast Street Journal reported. Discussion of such an forward, we revisited this issue at the NIH’s amnesty program comes in the context of a Inclusion Across the Lifespan 2 workshop held this crackdown on researchers accused of hiding past September. You can watch the videocast funding or affiliations involving Chinese sources. here. The report covering the event was posted The Justice Department has brought more than a today, and I wanted to share some of my dozen criminal cases since mid-2019 against takeaways.” <
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A Scientist is Arrested, and Academics Push Back
From The New York Times by Ellen Barry. Posted Report finds holes in U.S. policies on foreign on January 26, 2021 influence in research “Police officers that morning had arrested Gang From Science by Jeffrey Mervis. Posted on Chen, a professor of mechanical engineering at the December 28, 2020 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on “A new report by a congressional watchdog says suspicion of hiding affiliations with Chinese U.S. agencies need to flesh out and clarify their government institutions in order to secure $19 policies for monitoring the foreign ties of the million in U.S. federal grants. researchers they fund. “Dr. Chen’s prosecution was the latest in the “The report, by the Government Accountability Justice Department’s two-year-old China Initiative, Office (GAO), is likely to spur efforts in Congress which aims to root out research scientists passing aimed at preventing China and other nations from sensitive technology to China... using funding and other connections to gain “In the 10 days since Dr. Chen’s arrest, his improper access to research funded by the U.S. colleagues have publicly protested, arguing that government. But at least one of the agencies prosecutors have overreached, blurring the line under scrutiny—the National Science Foundation between disclosure violations and more serious (NSF)—is pushing back on the idea that its policies crimes, like espionage or intellectual property are lax. It is warning that tougher rules could theft.” <
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Prestigious AI meeting takes steps to improve Biden announced on 15 January. She has spoken ethics of research and written about divisive and controversial subjects in bioethics, such as gene editing and From Nature, by Davide Castelvecchi. Posted direct-to-consumer genetic tests.” <
“After a year of heavy scrutiny and seemingly endless controversy around artificial-intelligence (AI) technologies, the field’s most prestigious conference has tried to set a good example. For the first time, the Neural Information Processing Grant Opportunities Systems (NeurIPS) meeting, which took place completely online this month, required presenters Special opportunities to submit a statement on the broader impact their research could have on society, including any NSF possible negative effects. ” <
the intersection of COVID-19, the associated “‘Inspired choice’: Biden appoints sociologist mitigation actions, and rehabilitation: Alondra Nelson to top science post 1. Encourage research to address the rehabilitation needs of survivors of COVID-19 From Nature by Nidhi subbaraman. Posted on 2. Understand the impact of disruptions to January 21, 2021 rehabilitation services caused by the COVID-19 “Alondra Nelson, who has studied the societal pandemic and associated mitigation actions impacts of emerging technology, as well as racism 3. Understand the social, behavioral, economic, in science and medicine, will help lead the White and health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and House Office of Science and Technology Policy the associated mitigation actions on people with (OSTP) as deputy director for science and society, physical disabilities.” <
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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 Deadline: April 1, 2021 do not include analyses of health outcomes or “In response to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, health behavior. <
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Foundation (NSF) is accepting proposals to conduct General Interests and cross-disciplinary non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to explore how to model and Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and understand the spread of COVID-19, to inform and Experimentation educate about the science of virus transmission Grant Program and prevention, and to encourage the Deadline: April 1, 2021 development of processes and actions to address “Grants of up to $20,000 are available to help this global challenge.” <
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American Historical Association Columbia Brown Institute Fellowship in Aerospace History Magic Grant Deadline: April 1, 2021 Deadline: TBA. Previously. April 10, 2020 “The Fellowships in Aerospace History are “Each year, the Brown Institute awards close to offered annually by the National Aeronautics $1M in grants and fellowships to foster new Space Administration (NASA) to support tools and modes of expression, and to create significant scholarly research projects in stories that escape the bounds of page and aerospace history. These fellowships grant the screen. We are committed to radical opportunity to engage in significant and experimentation with the potential to define sustained advanced research in all aspects of the new priorities and practices for both history of aerospace from the earliest human engineering and journalism. The “Magic Grant” interest in flight to the present, including program provides year-long funding awards of cultural and intellectual history, economic up to $150,000 ($300,000 for teams with history, history of law and public policy, and the members of both the Columbia and Stanford history of science, engineering, and communities). In addition to funding, grantees management.” <
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center Short Term Fellowships Philip Lee Phillips Society Fellowship Deadline: April 1, 2021 Deadline: TBA. Previously April 15, 2020 “Short-term fellowships are awarded for one or “The John W. Kluge Center and the Philip Lee more months, and open to academics from any Phillips Society at the Library of Congress invite country, subject to selection by qualified scholars to conduct research at the committee. Successful applicants will be Kluge Center using the Geography and Map working on Jefferson-related projects. Priority is Divisions collections and resources for a period given to Jefferson-related projects using of two months. Established in 2000 through an the Digital Archeological Archive of Comparative endowment of $60 million from John W. Kluge, Slavery or Getting Word.” <
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Building of the Library of Congress. Residents have audiences to reflect on their values, explore new easy access to the Library's specialized staff and to ideas, and engage with others in their community. the intellectual community of Washington.” All subjects and themes relevant to the <
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Columbia University Heyman Center this five-month residential fellowship is designed Edward Said Fellowship to provide support and resources to emerging Deadline: TBA. Previously April 15, 2020 artists working on projects which address issues of “Named in his honor, Edward W. Said Fellows social justice, civic engagement, and community receive a $5,000 research study award that is building. Arts Lab fellows strive to expand their intended to offset the financial costs of consulting practices and grow as leaders in their respective the Edward W. Said Papers in the Rare Book and fields.” <
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we facilitate an inclusive approach that creates computer software or equipment, supplies, and preserves sustainable, healthy and affordable mailing expenses, author’s copies.” <
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evidence related to strategies for effective The intent of these grants is to provide funding prevention of terrorism in the United States. opportunities for research conducted by: Political Applicants should propose research projects that scientists in non-tenure track or contingent will primarily benefit, and have clear implications positions who are ineligible for departmental for, criminal justice agencies and their attendant funding and Political science faculty of all ranks communities at the state, local, and tribal levels. who are employed in departments that do not NIJ is particularly interested in research grant PhDs. Prior grant recipients published books responding to the following areas: and book chapters, journal articles, working 1.Evaluations of programs and practices to papers, and conference presentations as the result prevent terrorism. of the grants.” <
National Institute of Justice Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Research and Evaluation on Policing Distinguished Fellowship on Contemporary Deadline: TBA. Previously April 13, 2020 Southeast Asia “With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for Deadline: TBA. Previously April 1, 2020 funding for investigator-initiated, randomized “The Lee Kong Chian Fellowship is the core of controlled trial (RCT) studies of approaches to the the Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Initiative on challenges of policing in the United States that Southeast Asia, a joint effort established in 2007 address the strategic priorities and objectives by the National University of Singapore and identified in NIJ’s Policing Strategic Research Plan, Stanford University to raise the visibility, extent, 2017-2022.” <
American Political Science Association Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics, Life Small Research Grant Program Sciences, and Mathematics Deadline: TBA. Previously April 30, 2020 Deadline: April 1, 2021 “The APSA Small Research Grant Program “The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics supports research in all fields of political science. was founded in 2012 by Yuri Milner to recognize
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those individuals who have made profound and related fields at universities, colleges and contributions to human knowledge. It is open to Federal research institutions in the United States. all physicists – theoretical, mathematical, The proposed research and educational projects experimental – working on the deepest mysteries must be of substantial importance, and the results of the Universe. The Breakthrough Prize in Life made available to the interested public.” Sciences honors transformative advances toward <
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awards for two current STP members (early career Microsoft and National Geographic and graduate student) who are planning on AI for Earth Grants attending the annual APA convention. This award Deadline: April 5, 2021 has the purpose of helping defray the travel costs “AI for Earth grants provide access to Microsoft associated with attending the convention.” resources to support projects that change the way <
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Grant, Resident/ Fellow Grants, Exploratory Micro April 25—Project Management Institute Research Grant, SRS-Cotrel Foundation Basic Sponsored Research Program Science Research Grant, and Standard Research April 26—Columbia University Entrepreneurship Grant” <
Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication Below are grants that are, or are expected to be, April 30—National Library of Australia Fellowships due in the next six months. For a list of grant April 30—Lawrence Foundation Grants in deadlines for the whole year, please see our Environment and Human Services Grants Calendar on the Barnard website. April 30—Feminist Review Trust Awards
April 30—Academic & Textbook Writing Grants GENERAL INTEREST AND CROSS-DISCIPLINARY May 1—John Templeton Foundation Academic
Cross-Training Fellowship February 21—University of London, School of May 6—William T. Grant Foundation Research Advanced Study Newton International Grants Fellowships May 15— Einstein Forum Fellowship February 26—Sharjah International Book Fair May 15—Association for Information Science and Translation Grant Technology Bob Williams History Fund February 28—Fritz Thyssen Foundation Research Grant Award Conference Grants May 17—DAAD German Academic Exchange February 28—Center for the Study of Social Service Research Stays for University Difference Faculty Working Groups Academics and Scientists March 1—Fondation Brocher Visiting Research May 23—Russel Sage Foundation Social, Political Residency and Economic Inequality March 15 – Rockefeller Archive Center Grants-in- June 1—University of Minnesota’s Immigration Aid for Research History Research Center Archives Michael G. March 30—United States Institute for Peace Karni Scholarship Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship June 3 — PEN America Writing for Justice March 31—Hagley Museum and Library Henry Fellowship Belin du Pont Research Grants & Exploratory June 15—National Science Foundation Perception, Research Grants Action, & Cognition Conference Proposals April 1— Fahs-Beck Fund Research and June 15—Carey Institute for Global Good Logan Experimentation Grant Program Nonfiction Program April 1—King’s College London Georgian Papers June 22—Columbia Alliance Joint Projects Programme Royal Archives Fellowships June 30—Hagley Museum and Library Henry Belin April 1—Alex C. Walker Foundation Grants du Pont Research Grants & Exploratory April 2—Musee du guai Branlt—Jacques Chirac Research Grants Postdoctoral Fellowships July 10 – National Geographic Society Grants April 10—Columbia Brown Institute Magic Grant Program April 14—National Endowment for the Humanities July 15—Library of Congress Kluge Center Fellowships Fellowship April 15—Library of Congress John W. Kluge July 15—Leakey Foundation Research Grant Center Philp Lee Phillips Society Fellowship Rolling deadline—Columbia University Seminars April 22 – National Geographic Society Grants Leonard Hastings Schoff Publication Fund Program
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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
Arts & Humanities
General Interest and Cross Disciplinary February 1—National Science Foundation Perception, Action & Cognition Research Proposals February 21—University of London, School of Advanced Study Newton International Fellowships February 26—Sharjah International Book Fair Translation Grant February 26—Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grants February 28—Fritz Thyssen Foundation Conference Grants February 28—Center for the Study of Social Difference Faculty Working Groups 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
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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 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 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 February 1—University of Cincinnati Tytus Fellowship Program February 1—University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Residential Fellowships February 1 – Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto Visiting Faculty Fellowships February 3—American Institute of Architects, New York Arnold W. Brunner Grant February 13—National Endowment for the Arts – Art Works II: Media Arts February 17—Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Project Grants February 17—Arizona State Institute for Humanities Research Visiting Fellows Program 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 February 13—National Endowment for the Arts Media Arts Grants February 13—National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Organizations Art Works February 15—American Musicological Society Subventions for Publications February 26—Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grants February 28—Association for Recorded Sound Collections Research Grants Program February 28—Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award Series
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February 29—Creative Capital Awards 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 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 February 1—Children’s Literature Association Faculty Research Grants March 1—University of London Institute of English Studies Fellowship
Gender Studies January 24—Virginia Museum of History and Culture Research Fellowship and Award 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
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History February 4—Mary Baker Eddy Library Fellowship Program 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 February 1—Association for the Sociology of Religion Joseph H. Fichter Research Grant Competition March 31—Max van Berchem Foundation Research Grant for Islamic and Arabic Studies May 1—Association for the Sociology of Religion Joseph H. Fichter Research Grant Competition
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 Rolling deadline—Cornell Douglas Foundation Grants Various—Institute of Education Science Research Grants
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Social Sciences
General Interest and Cross Disciplinary February 1—American Economics Association Summer Economics Fellowships February 1 – National Science Foundation Perception, Action & Cognition February 2—National Science Foundation Science of Organizations 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 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 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
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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 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 June 15—American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline July 15—National Science Foundation Social Psychology
Language and Area Studies
February 1—Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University Visiting Researcher Program February 1—National Endowment for the Humanities and American Center for Oriental Research Fellowships February 1—Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council Japan Studies Grants February 1—Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council Korean Studies Grants February 1—American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) Research Fellowships February 1—David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Visiting Scholar February 14—American Institute for Yemeni Studies Fellowships for Study and Research in Yemen February 15—The Jacobs Research Funds and the Kinkade Language and Culture Fund Research Funds February 15—Society for French Historical Studies Research Fellowship February 15—Society for French Historical Studies Research Travel Award 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
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April 22—National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research in Japan April 29—National Institute of Justice Research into Desistance from Crime 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 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
STEM
General Interest and Cross Disciplinary February 1—National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine National Research Council Research Associateship Programs February 4—Dreyfus Foundation Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards February 5—NIH R01 new February 9—National Science Foundation A Science of Science Policy Approach to Analyzing and Innovating the Biomedical Research Enterprise (SCISIPBIO) February 12—Burroughs Wellcome Fund Innovation in Regulatory Science February 15—Esther A. & Joseph Kingenstein Fund Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences February 16—National Institutes of Health R03 Small Research Grants February 16—National Institutes of Health R21, Exploratory/Developmental Grant and R33, Exploratory/Developmental Grant Phase II February 16—National Institutes of Health R34, Clinical Trial Planning Grant February 16—NIH R21 new February 17—American Philosophical Society/NASA Lewis and Clark Fund for Field Research in Astrobiology Grants February 25—NIH R15 new, renewal, resubmission, revision February 25—National Institutes of Health Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) R15 Grants
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February 28—Engineering Information Foundation Women in Engineering Grant Program 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 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 April 15—Scoliosis Research Society 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 Rolling—The Franklin Institute Benjamin Franklin Medal Rolling—National Speleological Society Research Grants
Biology and Earth Science February 3—National Science Foundation Integrated Earth Systems February 3—National Science Foundation Frontier Research in Earth Sciences (FRES) February 15—National Science Foundation Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination 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 Rolling—National Speleological Society Research Grants
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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. February 28—American Association for Clinical Chemistry Outstanding Scientific Achievement Awards February 28—American Association for Clinical Chemistry Outstanding Scientific Achievements by a Young Investigator 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 February 28—Engineering Information Foundation Women in Engineering Grant Program April 27—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
Health and Medicine February 1—American College Health Association FirstRisk Advisors Initiatives in College Mental/ Behavioral Health Funding Opportunity February 5—National Institutes of Health R01 Research Grants February 12—Burroughs Wellcome Fund Collaborative Research Travel Grant February 19—New York Stem Cell Foundation Investigator Awards 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 Rolling deadline—Robert Wood Johnson Evidence for Action (E4A): Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health
Mathematics and Physics February 17—Institutes for Advanced Study Women and Mathematics 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 Rolling deadline—National Science Foundation Conferences and Workshops in the Mathematical Sciences Rolling deadline—Simons Foundation Targeted Grants in Mathematics and Physical Sciences Various—American Psychological Society Fellows
Psychology and Neuroscience February 1—Society for the Teaching of Psychology Instructional Resource Award
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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