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/

de Kármán, Josephine Fellowship:
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/

Javits, Jacob K. Fellowship Program: This program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability--selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise--to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in selected fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences.
http://www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html

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.
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