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Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
for Faculty

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


GRANTS FOR TRAVEL TO LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, COLLECTIONS, OR OTHER RESEARCH SITES

by deadline

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

Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National and International Affairs
Research Grants
DEADLINE:  April 1, 2012
ABSTRACT:  Research grants are awarded biannually and are intended to enable researchers to come to the Harry S. Truman Library for one to three weeks to use its collections. Awards are to offset expenses incurred for this purpose only. Preference will be given to projects that have application to enduring public policy and foreign policy issues and that have a high probability of being published or publicly disseminated in some other way. The potential contribution of a project to an applicant's development as a scholar will also be considered.
URL:  http://www.trumanlibrary.org/grants/#ress

Harvard University
Countway Library of Medicine
Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine Research Fellowships
DEADLINE:  April 1, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Preference will be given to applicants who live beyond commuting distance of the Countway Library.
ABSTRACT:  Foundation fellowships are offered for research related to the history of women to be conducted at the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. Preference will be given to projects that deal specifically with women physicians or other health workers or medical scientists, but proposals dealing with the history of women's health issues may also be considered. Manuscript collections which may be of special interest include the recently-opened Mary Ellen Avery Papers, the Leona Baumgartner Papers, and the Grete Bibring Papers. Preference will be given to those who are using collections from the Center's Archives for Women in Medicine, but research on the topic of women in medicine using other material from the Countway Library will be considered.
URL:  https://www.countway.harvard.edu/menuNavigation/chom/fellowships/about.html#3

International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello
Short-Term Fellowships and travel grants for Jefferson-Related Projects
DEADLINE:  April 1, 2012
ABSTRACT:  Short-term fellowships are awarded to doctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars from any country working on Jefferson-related projects. At least one fellowship will be reserved for related research topics in African-American History and in archaeology for fellows using the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery. Fellows are expected to be in residence at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, where they will have access to Monticello's expert staff and research holdings at the Jefferson Library as well as those of the University of Virginia. Travel grants support short-term visits to Monticello to pursue research or educational projects related to Jefferson.
URL:  http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/fellowships

Boston Athenaeum
Research Fellowships
DEADLINE:  April 15, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, teaching faculty, and professionals in the humanities are eligible. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals holding the appropriate U.S. government documents.
ABSTRACT:  The Athenaeum offers short-term fellowships to support the use of its collections for research, publication, curriculum and program development, or other creative projects. The Athenaeum's collections comprise over half a million volumes, with particular strengths in Boston history, New England state and local history, biography, English and American literature, and the fine and decorative arts.
URL:  http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/42

Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
Heckman Stipends
DEADLINE:  April 15, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:   Postdoctoral scholars (those who are within three years of completing a terminal degree) are eligible.
ABSTRACT:  The Hill Museum and Manuscript Library invites applications for research stipends, made possible by the A.A. Heckman Fund, from scholars seeking to consult materials found in the collections. The program is specifically intended to help scholars who have not yet established themselves professionally and whose research cannot progress satisfactorily without consulting materials to be found in the collections of the HMML, which houses the world's largest collection of images of manuscripts from Europe, Ethiopia, the Middle East, and India. HMML's teams have been photographing manuscripts since 1965, and the collection now consists of more than 125,000 manuscripts preserved on microfilm and in digital format.
URL:  http://www.hmml.org/research2010/heckman10.htm

Indiana University
Lilly Library
Mendel Fellowships
DEADLINE:  April 15, 2012
ABSTRACT:  The Lilly Library of Indiana University invites applications for fellowships during the academic year in support of research in the library's Bernardo Mendel. The Mendel Fellowships are intended to support research by scholars from around the world in areas of particular interest to the Mendels, including: the history of the Spanish Colonial Empire; Latin American independence movements; European expansion in the Americas; voyages, travels and exploration; geography, navigation and cartography; German literature and history; and music, including sheet music.
URL:  http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/fellowships.shtml

Indiana University
Lilly Library
Visiting Fellowships
DEADLINE:  April 15, 2012
 ABSTRACT: The Lilly Library invites applications for visiting fellowships for research in residence in its collections. The Lilly Library is the principal rare book and manuscript library of Indiana University. Its holdings support research in British, French, and American literature and history, the literature of voyages and exploration, specifically the European expansion in the Americas, early printing, the Church, children's literature, music; film, radio and television, medicine, science,  and architecture. Project proposals should demonstrate that the Lilly Library's resources are integral to proposed research topics. Candidates are encouraged to inquire about the appropriateness of a proposed topic before applying.
URL:  http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/fellowships.shtml

State Historical Society of Iowa
Research Grants for Authors
DEADLINE:  April 15, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Preference will be given to applicants proposing to pursue previously neglected topics or new approaches to or interpretations of previously treated topics. SHSI invites applicants from a variety of backgrounds, including academic and public historians, graduate students, and independent researchers and writers.
ABSTRACT:   SHSI will award research stipends to support original research and interpretive writing related to the history of Iowa or Iowa and the Midwest. Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
1. Significance and originality (or fresh treatment) of the topic and argument
2. Awareness of appropriate range of primary and secondary sources and their applicability to the proposed argument
3. Quality of writing and organization
4. Potential for producing publishable work - grant recipients will be expected to produce an annotated manuscript targeted for The Annals of Iowa, SHSI's scholarly journal.
URL:  http://www.iowahistory.org/publications/the-annals-of-iowa/research-grants-for-authors.html

University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Du Bois Library Fellowships
DEADLINE:  April 15, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Eligibility is open to full-time graduate students, faculty, or independent scholars (with a Ph.D.), with a preference for persons early in their career.
ABSTRACT:  The Department of Special Collections and University Archives of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library offers short-term residential fellowships to assist younger scholars in conducting research in its collections. Among the  manuscripts are many valuable collections for the study of social change in the United States, including the papers of the most important exponent of the politics and culture of the twentieth century, W.E.B. Du Bois. In addition, the University Library houses over three million volumes and a rich suite of electronic resources to support advanced research in the humanities. Fellows may come from any field and any perspective, and they may work on any topic, but their research should explore the major themes that characterize Du Bois' scholarship and activism, including the history and meaning of racial, social, and economic justice; the problems of democracy and political inclusion; the role of capitalism in world affairs; and the global influence of African cultures.
URL:  http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?page_id=4136

Brown University
Anne S. K. Brown Research Fellowships
DEADLINE:  April 30, 2012
ABSTRACT:  The Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Hay Research Library, Brown University, offers grants to researchers (established and emerging scholars, artists, and writers) who can make effective use of the Collection's research materials. The Collection has more than 30,000 books, serials, and related items such as albums, sketchbooks, scrapbooks, manuscripts, print portfolios, and sheet music covers, along with over 15,000 individual prints, drawings, paintings, watercolors, and photographs, and more than 6,000 miniature toy soldiers. The recipients will be research fellows at the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, which will provide essential administrative and reader services during the research visit.
URL:  http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=188816

Georgia State University
Reed Fink Award in Southern Labor History
DEADLINE:  April 30, 2012
ABSTRACT:  The Reed Fink Award in Southern Labor History is given annually to individuals whose research in the Southern Labor Archives will lead to a book, article, dissertation, or other substantive product.  In return, recipients agree to make a presentation about their research to the Georgia State University community within one academic year after receiving the award. The Southern Labor Archives has over 500 collections used by researchers from throughout the Southeast, the United States, and the world.
URL:  http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/pages/pages.asp?ldID=105&guideID=0&ID=3155

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

University of Central Oklahoma
Library Fellowships
DEADLINE:  May 1, 2012
ABSTRACT:  Sponsored by the Friends of the Library of UCO, Chambers Library Fellows is a new research fellowship program offering awards to scholars for short-term travel and residential costs to utilize the UCO Library's collections. The major criterion for selection is a demonstrated information need, for which the UCO Library's collections will be significantly helpful to the scholar in his or her area of research. Applications should include a brief summary of the library's holdings that will benefit the research topic. All fellowship recipients are expected to be in regular and continuous use of the collections at the library during their period of residence.
URL:  http://library.uco.edu/friends/grants/

University of Southern Indiana
Center for Communal Studies
Travel Grant
DEADLINE:  May 1, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Applicants may be graduate students or established scholars from any discipline that involves the study of communalism (such as history, English, anthropology, sociology, psychology, etc.).
ABSTRACT:  The Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana  invites applications for a travel grant to fund research at the Communal Studies Collection at USI's David L. Rice Library. The Communal Studies Collection's rich archival materials contain information on over 600 historic and contemporary communal societies, utopias, and intentional communities. Particular strengths include the Harmonists, The Farm, Shakers, Twin Oaks, and Amana, but the collection covers American communalism much more broadly.
URL:  http://www.usi.edu/libarts/communal/announce.asp

Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg
Travel and Research Grants
DEADLINE:  May 28, 2012
ABSTRACT:  Penn State Harrisburg is pleased to offer a grant program to support visiting scholars and graduate students who need to use materials held by Archives and Special Collections in the Penn State Harrisburg Library. The travel and research grant program encourages scholarly use of the repository's premier collection, the Alice Marshall Women's History Collection, considered to be one of the largest privately compiled research collections on women's history in the United States. Research topics are not limited to women's history, but they must require significant use of the repository's holdings.
URL:  http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/harrisburg/asc/grants.html

Duke University
Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Fellowship
DEADLINE:  June 1, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Faculty members, graduate students, and independent scholars with relevant research projects are eligible to apply.
ABSTRACT:  Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library offers this fellowship for researchers whose work would benefit from access to the Jantz Collections held at Duke. Research topics must be strongly supported by the RBMSCL's Jantz Collections. In the area of German studies, the library's holdings are focused primarily on 16th to 18th-century printed works on various topics; the Harold Jantz Collection of Baroque literature; Jantz collections of 18th to 20th-century works by and about Germans in America, and works about America published in Germany; as well as Nazi-era printed works. The principal collection in this area is the Harold Jantz Collection of German Baroque Literature and German Americana. There is also a large collection of printed books, pamphlets, etc. of and relating to Nazi Germany.
URL:  http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/services/grants/jantz.html

University of Minnesota
Immigration History Research Center
Grants In Aid
DEADLINE:  June 1, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Eligible applicants are graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and independent scholars, in the U.S. or internationally, who live more than a day's drive from the Twin Cities and who need to do research in the IHRC collections. Preference will be given to newer scholars, international scholars, and the use of the following collections: Czech/Slovak, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Polish, and Refugee-Related Materials.
ABSTRACT:  The Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota offers Grants In Aid to assist scholars traveling to conduct research for a specified residency at the IHRC. The IHRC is an internationally known migration studies center with expansive archives documenting immigration to the United States, from the latter 19th century to current refugee migrations. Key areas of coverage include European and Near Eastern immigrants (1880-1930) and 20th-century refugees, such as Displaced Persons after World War II and Southeast Asian, African, and other forced migrations. The Center has exceptional collections of fraternal organization records, personal files, and immigrant and refugee assistance organization materials, as well as ethnic print collections..
URL:  http://ihrc.umn.edu/educators/grantsinaid.php

Hagley Museum and Library
Research Grants and Fellowships
DEADLINE:  June 30, 2012
ABSTRACT:  DuPont Fellowships support access to and use of Hagley's research collections. They enable scholars to pursue advanced research and study in the library, archival, and artifact collections of the Hagley Museum and Library. Preference will be given to those whose travel costs to the library will be higher.  Exploratory Research Grants support one-week visits by scholars who believe that their project will benefit from Hagley research collections, but need an opportunity to explore them on-site to determine if a duPont Research Grant application is warranted.  Preference will be given to junior scholars with innovative projects that seek to expand on existing scholarship. Hagley’s collections document the interaction between business and the cultural, social, and political dimensions of our society from the late 18th century to the present. The library is organized into six departments: Manuscripts and Archives, Pictorial Collections, Imprints, Digital Archives, Conservation, and the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society.
URL:  http://www.hagley.org/library/center/grants.html

University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA Film & Television Archive
Visiting Researcher Stipend
DEADLINE:  July 9, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Scholars from all academic disciplines are eligible and encouraged to apply.
ABSTRACT: The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Research and Study Center is pleased to announce the ARSC Visiting Researcher Stipend program for 2012. The purpose of the stipend is to (1) support the work of scholars in all academic disciplines by awarding funding to offset expenses associated with a research visit to the UCLA Film & Television Archive; and (2) encourage research access to moving image collections held by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. The UCLA Film & Television Archive holds over 300,000 films and television programs produced from the 1890s to the present. The collection includes independent and studio-produced shorts and feature films, advertising and industrial films, documentaries, local and network TV programming, commercials, news and public affairs broadcasts, and 27 million feet of newsreels produced between 1919 and 1971. Proposed research centrally requires viewing of films or television programming held by the Archive.
URL:  http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/education/visiting-researcher-stipend-2012

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Various Research Fellowships
DEADLINE:  August 15, 2012
ABSTRACT:  Several named research fellowships support work on specific areas:
Kovler Fellowship:  preference is given to research in the area of foreign intelligence and the presidency, or a related topic.
Schlesinger Fellowship:  preference is given to applicants specializing in Latin American or Western Hemisphere history or policy studies during the Kennedy administration or the period from the Roosevelt through the Kennedy presidencies.
Schwartz Fellowship:  preference is given to research on immigration, naturalization, or refugee policy.
Sorensen Fellowship:  preference is given to research on domestic policy, political journalism, polling, or press relations.
Kennedy Research Grants support research on any topic relating to the Kennedy period or requiring use of the holdings. 
URL:  http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/How-to-do-Research-at-the-Kennedy-Library/Research-Grants-and-Fellowships.aspx