Arts and Humanities

American Academy of Arts & Sciences: Fellowships are open to U.S. residents and permanent citizens whose Ph.D. or equivalent professional training has been completed with the past 10 years. Fellowships will be awarded to individuals who can demonstrate that their work promise will lead to substantial contribution to one of the major areas of the Academy's major program areas: Science, Technology, and Global Security; Social Policy & Education; and Humanities and Culture.
http://www.amacad.org/

Annenberg Foundation: Provides support for projects within its grant-making interests of education, culture, the arts, and community and civic life. It generally limits funding to programs likely to produce beneficent change on a large scale.
http://www.annenbergfoundation.org/

Art Deadlines List: Arts contests, competitions, grants, scholarships, internships, jobs, and other types of funding.
http://artdeadlineslist.com/

de Kármán, Josephine Fellowship: Students in any discipline entering senior undergraduate year or graduate students entering the terminal year of a Ph.D. program in the fall of 2003. Applicants should have manifested exceptional ability and serious purpose. Special consideration will be given to applicants in the Humanities and to those who have completed their qualifying examinations for the doctoral degree.
http://www.dekarman.org/

Echoing Green Foundation: The stipend serves as seed money to start a new public service organization or an independent project. The proposed project can be domestic or international. We do not limit our fields of interest, but support projects in all public service areas including, but not limited to, the environment, arts, education, health, youth service and development, civil and human rights, and community and economic development.
http://www.echoinggreen.org/

German Chancellor Scholarship: U.S. citizens who have completed at least a Bachelor’s Degree by the time the Programme begins are eligible to apply. Applications may come from prospective leaders in professions spanning all sectors of American society - public, private, not-for-profit, cultural, and academic (the arts and humanities, social and political studies, law, business, architecture, journalism and economics). Candidates may be no more than 34 years old at the time they enter the program.
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/programme/stip_aus/buka.htm

Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships for 2003-04: The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities anticipates the appointment of two external postdoctoral Fellows for 2003-04, during which the IPRH annual theme will be “Violence.” (A complete description of the theme can be found here.) Each Fellow will receive $35,000 for the year, as well as a $2,000 research account. Each Fellow will be invited to teach one course based on their current research and writing to interested graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and to participate in the yearlong interdisciplinary seminar coordinated by the IPRH in conjunction with the annual theme and the Program’s resident fellowship program. Fellows will also present their work at the IPRH annual conference in the spring.
http://www.iprh.uiuc.edu/postdoctoral_fellowships.htm

Institute-NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship: Offers annually a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in any area of early American studies. A principal criterion for selection is that the candidate's dissertation or other manuscript have significant potential as a distinguished, book-length contribution to scholarship. Applicants may not have previously published or have under contract a scholarly monograph, and they must have met all requirements for the doctorate before commencing the fellowship. Those who have earned the Ph.D. and begun careers are also encouraged to apply.
http://www.wm.edu/oieahc/fello.html

Javits, Jacob K. Fellowship Program: Fellowship for first year graduate students, graduate study leading to doctoral degree, or Master of Fine Arts (MFA). Twenty percent of fellowships awarded in social sciences, 20% in arts, 60% in humanities.
http://www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html

Liebmann, Dolores Zohrab Fellowships: are available for graduate students in any program of study in the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences (including law, medicine, engineering, architecture, or other formal professional training) who are U.S. citizens and demonstrate a need for financial assistance. Candidates should be of outstanding character and ability who hold promise for achievement and distinction in their fields and who do not advocate or uphold the principles of communism. Each fellowship covers tuition, room and board, ordinary living expenses, and income taxes. Students must apply through the dean of their Graduate College; each university is limited to three applicants. For more information, Tufts students should contact: Charlene Carle, Ballou Hall, (617) 627-3106.

Michigan Society of Fellows: Each year the Society selects four outstanding applicants for appointment to three-year fellowships in the arts and humanities, in the social, physical and life sciences, and in the professional schools.
http://www.rackham.umich.edu/Faculty/society.html

National Humanities Center Fellowships: The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study. Applicants must hold doctorate or have equivalent scholarly credentials, and a record of publication is expected. Both senior and younger scholars are eligible for fellowships, but the latter should be engaged in research other than the revision of a doctoral dissertation. Fellowships are for the academic year (September through May). Scholars from any nation and humanistically inclined individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life, as well as from all fields of the humanities, are eligible. Most of the Center's fellowships are unrestricted. The following designated awards, however, are available for the academic year 2004-05: three fellowships for scholars in any humanistic field whose research concerns religion or theology; three fellowships for young scholars (up to 10 years beyond receipt of doctorate) in literary studies; a fellowship in art history or visual culture; a fellowship for French history or culture; a fellowship in Asian Studies.
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/

Social Science Research Council: Sponsors fellowship and grant programs on a wide range of topics, and across many different career stages. Most support goes to predissertation, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowships, offered through annual competitions. Some programs support summer institutes and advanced research grants. Although most programs target the social sciences, many are also open to applicants from the humanities, the natural sciences, and relevant professional and practitioner communities.
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/?Predissertation

von Humboldt, Alexander Foundation TransCoop Programme: The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation supports transatlantic research cooperation among German, American and/or Canadian scholars (Ph.D. required) in the humanities, social sciences, economics, and law by means of the TransCoop Programme.
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/
programme/stip_aus/transcoop.htm