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Humanities and Social Sciences
Deadlines: April 1, 2012 – August 31, 2012


FELLOWSHIPS (STIPEND ONLY)

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NOTE: Many deadlines are anticipated deadlines, based on prior application cycles. Please confirm deadlines with funding sources.

International Institute for Asian Studies
Fellowships
DEADLINE:  April 1, 2012 for fellowships beginning in September
ELIGIBILITY:  The positions are intended for outstanding postdoctoral researchers from around the world, to work on an important piece of research in the social sciences and humanities. Interdisciplinary interests are encouraged. Researchers who would like to work on a collaborative grant proposal or develop their Ph.D. thesis into book publication are welcomed to apply.
ABSTRACT:  The IIAS hosts several categories of postdoctoral researchers (fellows). The fellowship program contributes to IIAS' aim of enhancing and sharing expertise, encouraging underdeveloped areas of study, and mediating between national and international Asian studies scholars and institutes. IIAS fellows are invited to present lectures, participate in seminars and cooperate in the institute's research projects. The sponsor is particularly looking for researchers focusing on the three clusters 'Asian cities', 'Asian heritages' and 'Global Asia'. However some positions will be reserved for outstanding projects in any area outside of those listed. Applications which link to more than one field are also welcome.
URL:   http://www.iias.nl/page/fellowship-application

Bogliasco Foundation
Bogliasco Fellowship Program
DEADLINE:  April 15, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  To be eligible for a Fellowship, applicants should demonstrate significant achievement in their disciplines, commensurate with their age and experience. The Foundation gives preference to persons whose applications suggest that they would be comfortable working in an intimate, international, multi-lingual community of scholars and artists.
ABSTRACT:  Located on the Italian Riviera in the village of Bogliasco, the Liguria Study Center provides residential fellowships for qualified persons working on advanced creative or scholarly projects in the arts and humanities. Fellowships are awarded, without regard to nationality, to qualified persons doing advanced creative work or scholarly research in the following disciplines: Archaeology; Architecture;
Classics; Dance; Film/Video; History;  Landscape Architecture;  Literature; Music; Philosophy; Theater; and Visual Arts. In the Arts, the Study Center welcomes persons doing both creative and scholarly work (such as Art History, Musicology, Film Criticism, and so on). With respect to Dance, Music, and Theater, however, the Center does not have rehearsal studio space for persons wishing to work extensively in performance.
URL:  http://www.bfny.org/english/fellowships.cfm

German Historical Institute
Postdoctoral Fellowships
DEADLINE:  April 15, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  GHI especially invites applications postdoctoral scholars who currently do not receive funding from their home institutions.
CITIZENSHIP:  Germany; North America
ABSTRACT:  The GHI awards short-term fellowships to German and American postdoctoral scholars in the fields of German history, the history of German-American relations, and the history of the role of Germany and the USA in international relations. The research projects must draw upon primary sources located in the United States. The GHI will not provide funding for preliminary research, manuscript composition or the revision of manuscripts. It will give clear priority to those postdoctoral projects that are designed for the "second book".
URL:  http://www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=287&Itemid=62

Library of Congress
Kluge Center
Fellowship in Health and Spirituality
DEADLINE:  April 17, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and must possess a doctoral degree awarded by the deadline date.
ABSTRACT:  The Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship in the field of health and spirituality. The fellowship is designed to promote meaningful, scholarly study of these two important and increasingly interrelated fields. It seeks to encourage the pursuit of scholarly excellence in the scientific study of the relation of religiousness and spirituality to physical, mental, and social health. The fellowship provides an opportunity for a period of six to twelve months of concentrated use of the collections of the Library of Congress, through full-time residency in the Library's John W. Kluge Center.  If necessary, special arrangements may be made with the National Library of Medicine for access to its materials as well.
URL:  http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/larson.html

American Jewish Historical Society
Lapidus Fellowship
DEADLINE:  April 27, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Preference will be given to researchers interested in 17th and 18th century American Jewish history and to authors seeking subsidization of a first book in the field of early American Jewish history.
ABSTRACT:  This fellowship supports one or more researcher(s) wishing to use the collections of the American Jewish Historical Society. Preference is given to research in 17th and 18th century American Jewish history. At the discretion of the awards committee, the fellowship funds may also be applied to subsidizing publication of a first book in the field of American Jewish history, again with preference given to works in early American Jewish history.
URL:  http://www.ajhs.org/scholarship/Awards.cfm

National Library of Australia
Harold White Fellowships
DEADLINE:  April 30, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Fellowships are open to established international researchers or writers in any discipline in which the Library has strong collections. Successful applicants are generally senior scholars or writers with a strong publication track record, including publication of full-length monographs. Fellowships are not intended for postdoctoral or early career researchers.
ABSTRACT:  The fellowships scheme aims to promote the Library as a center of scholarly activity and research, encourage scholarly and literary use of the library's collections and production of publications arising from that scholarship, and to promote the library's rich and varied collections. The fellowships offer the means and the time to work with the library's significant collection of books, journals, newspapers, maps, music, manuscripts, pictures, and oral histories. Fellows have privileged access to the library's materials and facilities, as well as sustained interaction with many of its staff. The Library holds the greatest collection in the world of material relating to Australia and the Australian people. It ranges from the earliest European works about the Great Southern Land to the most current publications. The collection includes all formats of material, from books and magazines to pictures, photographs, maps, sheet music, oral history recordings, manuscript papers, ephemera and much, much more.
URL:  http://www.nla.gov.au/awards-and-grants/harold-white-fellowships

American Institute of Afghanistan Studies
Richards Fellowship Program
DEADLINE:  May 1, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Eligibility is limited to U.S. citizens and permanent residents
ABSTRACT:  The American Institute of Afghanistan Studies invites applications for support of short-term research or other scholarly projects that will advance the knowledge of Afghanistan. The Institute will be accepting applications for proposed projects that do not involve travel to Afghanistan as well as those which do involve travel to Afghanistan; however, the ability of AIAS to fund projects with travel to Afghanistan will depend on the outcome of pending negotiations with the funding provider.
URL:  http://www.bu.edu/aias/fellowships.html

National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowships
DEADLINE:   FIRST WEEK IN MAY –DEADLINE NOT YET ANNOUNCED
ELIGIBILITY:  All applicants must have completed their formal education by the application deadline.
All United States citizens, whether they reside inside or outside the United States, are eligible to apply. Foreign nationals who have been living in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years prior to the application deadline are also eligible.
ABSTRACT: Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, and other scholarly tools. Projects may be at any stage of development.  Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of six to twelve months.
URL:  http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fellowships.html

National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan
DEADLINE:  FIRST WEEK IN MAY –DEADLINE NOT YET ANNOUNCED
ELIGIBILITY:  All U.S. citizens, whether they reside inside or outside the United States, are eligible to apply. Foreign nationals who have been living in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years prior to the application deadline are also eligible. Recipients of NEH Fellowships may simultaneously hold fellowships or grants from institutions other than NEH - including sabbaticals and grants from their own institutions - in support of the same project during their award period.
Applicants may receive only one NEH individual award in a federal fiscal year.
ABSTRACT:  The Fellowship Program for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan is a joint activity of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Awards support research on modern Japanese society and political economy, Japan's international relations, and USA-Japan relations. The program encourages innovative research that puts these subjects in wider regional and global contexts and is comparative and contemporary in nature. Research should contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of issues of concern to Japan and the United States. Appropriate disciplines for the research include anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, linguistics, political science, psychology, public administration, and sociology. The fellowships are designed for researchers with advanced language skills whose research will require use of data, sources, and documents in their original languages or whose research requires interviews on site in direct one-on-one contact. Fellows may undertake their projects in Japan, the United States, or both, and may include work in other countries for comparative purposes.
URL:  http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fellowships-japan.html

University of Wisconsin, Madison
Institute for Research on Poverty
Visiting Scholars Program
DEADLINE:  June 30, 2012 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY:  Applicants must be U.S.-based poverty scholars from underrepresented groups. The invitation extends (but is not restricted) to those who are in the early years of their academic careers.
ABSTRACT:  The IRP invites applications from U.S.-based social science scholars from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups to visit IRP, interact with its faculty in residence, and become acquainted with the staff and resources of the Institute. The intent of the program, which is supported by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is to enhance the research interests and resources available to visitors, to foster interaction between resident IRP affiliates and a diverse set of scholars, and to broaden the corps of poverty researchers. The scholars will be invited to give a seminar, to work on their own projects, and to confer with an IRP faculty mentor, who will arrange for interchange with other IRP affiliates.
URL:  http://www.irp.wisc.edu/initiatives/vscholars.htm

American Council on Germany
Dr. Guido Goldman Fellowship for the Study of German and European Politics, Political Economy, and International Affairs
DEADLINE:  July 1, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  The fellowship program aims to serve academics in relatively early stages of their careers (including individuals enrolled in Ph.D. programs who are finishing their dissertation). All applicants must hold United States citizenship. While applicants should demonstrate an interest in German and European affairs, prior experience in Germany or Europe is not required, and knowledge of the German language is not a prerequisite.
ABSTRACT:  This fellowship was established to promote the study of German and European issues by American scholars in relatively early stages of their careers. The fellowship is intended to foster the study of European economic and international affairs. Topics that would fall under the rubric of the fellowship include the formulation of German economic and foreign policy and the evolution of U.S.-European relations.
URL: http://www.acgusa.org/about2.php?pagename=Fellowships&subpagename=For+Scholars&toppagename=Goldman+Fellowships&mlinkid=27



American Council on Germany
Hunt Fellowships for the Study of German History, Politics, Society, and Culture
DEADLINE:  July 1, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  The fellowship program aims to serve academics in relatively early stages of their careers. All applicants must hold United States citizenship. Applicants should demonstrate an interest in German political, social, and cultural affairs; however, no prior experience in Germany is required. While helpful, knowledge of the German language is not a prerequisite. Fellows are required to develop research itineraries in consultation with the ACG.
ABSTRACT:  The fellowship was launched to enable promising American academics to probe issues of both historical and contemporary significance. The fellowship is intended to promote the cooperative study of Germany. This fellowship provides support for individuals interested in the political, social, and cultural history of Germany.
URL: http://www.acgusa.org/about2.php?pagename=Fellowships&subpagename=For+Scholars&toppagename=Hunt+Fellowships&mlinkid=28

American Institute of Indian Studies
Research Fellowships
DEADLINE:  July 1, 2012
ABSTRACT: Senior Research Fellowships are designed to enable scholars with a Ph.D. , who specialize in South Asia, to pursue further research in India and to establish a formal affiliation with an Indian institution.  Short-term awards fund up to four months of research, and long-term awards fund six to nine months. Senior Scholarly/Professional Development Fellowships are available both to established scholars who have not previously specialized in Indian studies and to established professionals who have not previously worked or studied in India. The following disciplines are eligible: anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, behavioral sciences, communications, cultural studies, economics, education, environmental studies, ethnomusicology, film/photography, gender/sexuality studies, geography, history, history of art/architecture, history of science, linguistics, literature, medicine, natural sciences, performance studies, performing arts, philosophy, political science, public health, religious studies, sociology, technology studies, and urban planning.
URL:  http://www.indiastudies.org/catalog.cfm?dest=dir&linkon=Subsection&linkid=225

University of California, Berkeley
Canadian Studies Program
John A. Sproul Research Fellowship in Canadian Studies
DEADLINE:  July 20, 2012
ABSTRACT:  The fellowship helps to support a scholar with interests in Canada who wishes to spend a period of time at Berkeley. The fellow will be expected to attend Canadian Studies Program activities and to give at least one presentation on a Canadian topic while in residence.
URL:  http://canada.berkeley.edu/sproul.htm

Institute for international Education
Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Fulbright Scholar Program
DEADLINE:  August 1, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:   Fulbright scholars must be U.S. citizens, hold a Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree, have appropriate teaching experience (for awards that include teaching), and foreign language proficiency as specified by the award description.
ABSTRACT:  The core Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
URL:  http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards/

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
DAAD/AICGS Research Fellowship Program
DEADLINE:  August 31, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Applicants must be German or American citizens. Applicants should have completed a Ph.D.
ABSTRACT: The DAAD/AICGS Research Fellowship Program is designed to bring scholars and specialists working on Germany, Europe, and/or transatlantic relations to AICGS for research stay of two months each in Washington, D.C.  Project proposals should address a topic closely related to one or more of the Institute's three research and programming areas: 1. Business and Economics; 2.Foreign and Domestic Policy; and 3.Society, Culture, and Politics.
Projects should also be compatible with and supportive of the AICGS mission, which is to strengthen the German-American relationship in an evolving Europe and changing world. The Institute produces objective and original analyses of developments and trends in Germany, Europe, and the United States; creates new transatlantic networks; and facilitates dialogue among the business, political, and academic communities to manage differences and define and promote common interests.
URL:  http://www.aicgs.org/fellows/opps/daad.aspx