Support Services

Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
for Faculty

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


RESEARCH SUPPORT
(MAY OR MAY NOT INLUDE SALARY SUPPORT OR STIPEND)

by deadline

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

American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Wiener Laboratory Research Associateships
DEADLINE:  April 1, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Postdoctoral scholars in classical and ancient Mediterranean studies or related fields who have a specific project that requires extended residence in Greece are eligible to apply. Priority will be given to applicants who have not received significant support from the Wiener Laboratory in the past three years.
ABSTRACT:  Research Associateships in the Wiener Laboratory are available on a limited basis each year for the purpose of accommodating well-defined research by qualified scholars undertaking limited investigations. Preference will be given to projects that make significant use of the facilities of the Wiener Laboratory.
URL:  http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/wiener-laboratory/wlfellowships

Hartford Seminary
Religious Research Association
Jacquet Research Awards
DEADLINE:  April 1, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Applicants are required to be members of the RRA. Full-time students may join the association at the time of their application. All others must hold membership in the RRA for at least one full year prior to the application deadline.
ABSTRACT:  The Religious Research Association gives awards for applied and basic research on religion each year on a competitive basis, with priority being given to applied projects. In this competition, applied research is that which has an identifiable organizational or institutional client who will use the research results for specific goal-centered activities. The committee especially encourages proposal submissions from scholars who are in the early stages of their careers, as well as proposals from students. Applied, client-centered projects are given priority, but basic research is also regularly funded. Funding may be used for research expenses and release time, but not for supplemental income or capital equipment.
URL:  http://rra.hartsem.edu/constant.htm

Grant Foundation
Investigator-Initiated Research Grants
DEADLINE:  April 3, 2012 for letters of inquiry; August 1, 2012 for full proposals
ABSTRACT:  The William T. Grant Foundation supports high-quality research that addresses its current research interests: enhancing our understanding of how youth settings work, how they affect youth development, and how they can be improved; and when, how, and under what conditions research evidence is used in policy and practice that affect youth, and how its use can be improved.  The Foundation's goal is to fund high-quality research to understand and improve the everyday settings of youth ages 8 to 25 in the United States. The Foundation defines settings as the social environments in which youth experience daily life. These settings include environments with clear boundaries such as classrooms, schools, and youth-serving organizations and environments with less prescribed boundaries such as neighborhoods or other settings in which youth interact with peers, family members, and other adults. At their best, these settings embed youth within a network of engaging activities; ample resources; meaningful relationships with adults and peers; and opportunities for academic, social, emotional, and identity development.
The proposed project must be consistent with the foundation's current research interests and must address issues that have compelling relevance for theory, policy, and/or practice affecting the settings of youth ages 8 to 25 in the United States.
URL: http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/funding_opportunities/research_grants/investigator_initiated_grants

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
Title VIII Short-Term Travel Grants for Research in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Balkans
DEADLINE:  April 16, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  To qualify, applicants must be U.S. citizens with a Ph.D., or U.S. citizens with comparable professional experience.
ABSTRACT:  The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research invites proposals for its Title VIII Short-Term Travel Grant Program for Research on Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Balkans. Short-term travel grants are individual grants to scholars or researchers which may be used for up to two months for the following purposes:
1. Enabling scholars and researchers to get quick access to research resources in the relevant subregions
2. Refresher visits on particular topics for already-established research work
3. Research planning with colleagues from the subregions on broader multi-year projects already funded or to be funded by other sources
4. Creation of databases or research aids such as archival guides
5. On an exceptional basis, inviting scholars or researchers from the subregions to the United States for conferences or special collaborative research opportunities.
The Short-Term Travel Grant program is meant to support research that is relevant to United States policy towards Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Balkans.  Projects in fields such as history, popular culture, and other matters that may be outside the immediate purview of government officials are eligible for funding, as long as the applicant explains convincingly why the research is relevant at some level, even indirectly, to the formation of policy.
URL:  http://www.nceeer.org/programs/short-term-travel-grants.html

Spencer Foundation
Relation Between Education and Social Opportunity
DEADLINE:  for applications for small grants (less than $40,000):  April 30, 2012, July 9, 2012; required preliminary proposals for larger grants are accepted at any time.
ABSTRACT:  The Spencer Foundation provides funding for research projects that study education in the United States and abroad. The foundation seeks to shed light on the role education plays in reducing economic and social inequalities - as well as, sometimes, reinforcing them - and to find ways to realize  more fully education's potential to promote more equal opportunity. Education enriches and expands people's lives in many ways, including through their employment opportunities, their civic and political involvements, and the quality of their personal lives. The foundation's interests therefore extend to studies that examine the ways in which differences in educational experiences (including quality and character of schooling as well as number of years in school) translate into differences in employment, earnings, and civic and social outcomes.
URL:  http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/education-and-social-opportunity

Association for the Sociology of Religion
Fichter Research Grants
DEADLINE:  May 1, 2012 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY:  Applicants must be members of the ASR and also have been members at least during the year prior to that in which they submit their application. Scholars at the beginning of their careers are particularly encouraged to apply.
ABSTRACT:  Applications are invited from scholars involved in promising research in either of two areas, prioritized as follows: (1) women and religion, gender issues, and feminist perspectives on religion; (2) religion and poverty.
URL:  http://www.sociologyofreligion.com/lectures-papers/fichter-research-grant-competition/

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.
Post-Ph.D. Research Grants
DEADLINE:  May 1, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Qualified scholars are eligible without regard to nationality, or institutional or departmental affiliation.
ABSTRACT:  These grants are awarded to individuals holding a Ph.D. or equivalent degree to support individual research projects. The program contributes to the Foundation's overall mission to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields.
URL:  http://www.wennergren.org/programs/post-phd-research-grants

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Faculty Research Visit Grant
DEADLINE:  May 15, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Eligibility is open to scholars at United States or Canadian universities or research institutions who hold the Ph.D. (or equivalent) and have been working in research or teaching full time for at least two years at the time of application and after receipt of the doctorate. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or Canada. German nationals must have been affiliated with a United States or Canadian institution in full-time employment for at least six consecutive years. Applicants should possess adequate knowledge of the German language to carry out the proposed research.
ABSTRACT:  DAAD offers grants in all academic disciplines to scholars at U.S. and Canadian institutions of higher education to pursue research at universities, libraries, archives, institutes, or laboratories in Germany. Grants are awarded for specific research projects and cannot be used for travel only, attendance at conferences or conventions, editorial meetings, lecture tours, or extended guest professorships.
URL:  http://www.daad.org/?p=researchvisit

Center for Chinese Studies
Research Grant Program
DEADLINE:  May 31, 2012
ELIGIBILITY: This program is designed for foreign professors, associate professors, assistant professors, and doctoral candidates in departments related to Chinese studies at foreign universities, as well as researchers at related foreign academic institutes.
ABSTRACT: The CCS offers research grants. The content of the research, to be undertaken in Taiwan, should be within the field of Chinese studies.
URL:  http://ccs.ncl.edu.tw/ccs2/english/regulation.aspx

United States Indonesia Society
Travel Grants
DEADLINE:  June 1, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  All U.S. and Indonesian citizens are welcome to apply.
ABSTRACT:  The United States-Indonesia Society awards grants to fund travel to Indonesia or to the United States. These grants are awarded to promote academic and other exchanges between the two countries.  Grants are open to U.S. and Indonesian citizens seeking to travel to Indonesia or the United States to conduct field research or other professional projects, including conferences.
URL:  http://www.usindo.org/usindo-grants/travel-grants

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.
International Collaborative Research Grant
DEADLINE:  June 1, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Proposals must involve collaboration between two or more researchers of different nationalities who are working in different countries. Scholars are eligible without regard to institutional or departmental affiliation.
ABSTRACT: This grant supports international research collaborations between two or more qualified scholars, where the principal investigators bring different and complementary perspectives, knowledge, or skills to the project. Supplemental funds are also available to provide essential training for academic research participants in ICRG-funded projects (co-applicants, students, as well as other professional colleagues). By encouraging international collaborations, the grant contributes to the development of an international anthropology that values and incorporates different national perspectives and resources. By providing training funds, the grant helps to build capacity in countries where anthropology may be under-resourced. Priority is given to those projects involving at least one principal investigator who is a citizen of, and is working and residing in, a country where anthropology is underrepresented and where there are limited resources to develop the discipline. Other international collaborations will, however, be given serious consideration where they are consistent with at least two of the following aims of the foundation:
- Bring together researchers with different national perspectives that complement each other and enrich the research
- Strengthen anthropology in countries where there are limited resources to support its development
- Combine different areas of expertise and knowledge that will benefit both researchers.
URL:  http://www.wennergren.org/programs/international-collaborative-research-grants

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
East European Studies
Short-Term Grants
DEADLINE:  June 1, 2012 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: These Title VIII grants are available to American academic experts and practitioners engaged in specialized research requiring access to Washington, DC and its research institutions.
ABSTRACT:  With funding provided by Title VIII (The Act for Research and Training for Eastern Europe and Independent States of Former Soviet Union), EES offers short-term grants to scholars working on policy relevant projects on East Europe. While Southeast Europe remains a primary focus, projects on Central Europe and the Baltic states are again eligible. Projects should focus on fields in the social sciences and humanities including, but not limited to: Anthropology, History, Political Science, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Sociology. All projects should aim to highlight their potential policy relevance.
URL: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1422&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=5989#short

American Sociological Association
Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline
DEADLINE:  June 15, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  While ASA membership is not a criterion for applying or being selected for this award, if and when this award is received, the recipient must be a current ASA member.  Awardees must also provide documentation of pertinent IRB approval for the project. Preference is given to applicants who have not previously received a FAD award.
ABSTRACT:  Supported by the ASA through a matching grant from the National Science Foundation, the goal of this project is to nurture the development of scientific knowledge by funding small, groundbreaking research initiatives and other important scientific research activities such as conferences. FAD awards provide scholars with "seed money" for innovative research that has the potential for challenging the discipline, stimulating new lines of research, and creating new networks of scientific collaboration. The awards are intended to provide opportunities for substantive and methodological breakthroughs, broaden the dissemination of scientific knowledge, and provide leverage for acquisition of additional research funds. Proposals are reviewed for scientific merit and the importance of the proposed research project.
URL:  http://www.asanet.org/funding/fad.cfm

Gerda Henkel Foundation
Mobility for Experienced Researchers in Historical Humanities, Including Islamic Studies
DEADLINE:  June 15, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Experienced postdoctoral researchers are eligible.
ABSTRACT:  The Henkel Foundation’s support is given primarily to work in the historical humanities, particularly in the fields of history, archaeology, history of art, historic Islamic studies, legal history, history of science, and the special program, “Islam, the Modern Nation State and Transnational Movements”:
http://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/content.php?nav_id=195&language=en&nav_id=195. This special initiative, “Mobility for Experienced Researchers in Historical Humanities Including Islamic Studies” (M4HUMAN Program) supports twenty-four-month grants for research stays at a host institution in Germany.  The researcher must be in residence for at least 70% of the grant period. Grants will cover costs such as a living allowance, travel allowances, research costs (including costs such as further training, start-up costs, and an allowance for the host institution).
http://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/m4human


Smith Richardson Foundation
Junior Faculty Research Grant Program
DEADLINE:  June 15, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Applicants must have a Ph.D., preferably in Political Science, Public Policy, Policy Analysis, International Political Economy, or History. They also must hold a position as a full-time tenure-track faculty member of a college or university in the United States.
ABSTRACT:  The program supports junior faculty research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. The foundation will award research grants to support tenure-track junior faculty engaged in the research and writing of a scholarly book on an issue or topic of interest to the policy community. Projects in military and diplomatic history are especially encouraged. Group or collaborative projects will not be considered.
URL:  http://www.srf.org/grants/international_junior_faculty.php

Japan-United States Friendship Commission
Japanese Studies Grant Program
DEADLINE:  July 1, 2012 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY:  Grants may be made to individual universities or local organizations, but primarily in consideration of their contribution to national resources for understanding of the other country.
CITIZENSHIP:  Japan; United States
ABSTRACT: The commission believes that American public understanding of Japan, and the close friendship between Japan and the United States, require the development and strengthening of the next generation of American area specialists on Japan, trained to a high level of linguistic and disciplinary competence, and adequately represented in both the scholarly and non-academic professions. The commission therefore devotes a large portion of its annual program budget to Japanese studies in American higher education. The commission provides support for scholarly research in Japanese studies through grants to academic associations that can organize peer review panels to review and select individual research project proposals for support with Commission funds. Potential applicants with an individual research project proposal they wish to present to the commission are strongly urged to consult with commission staff before submitting an application. The Commission will give higher priority to collaborative projects with some or all of the following features: an interdisciplinary approach to the research agenda; opportunities for cross-training among research team members in regional/cultural studies on the one hand and disciplinary studies on the other; opportunities for interaction of scholarly research and policy; and a high degree of resource-sharing among a variety of funding organizations.
URL:  http://www.jusfc.gov/grant-programs/

University of North Carolina at Asheville
Center for Craft, Creativity and Design
Craft Research Fund Project Grants
DEADLINE:  July 1, 2012
ELIGIBILITY: Proposals are welcome from academic researchers, independent scholars, and museum curators.
ABSTRACT: The mission of the fund is to advance, expand, and support scholarship about United States craft. The goals of the fund are to support innovative research on artistic and critical issues in craft theory and history; to explore the interrelationship among craft, art, design, and contemporary culture; to foster new cross-disciplinary approaches to scholarship in the craft field in America; and to advance investigation of neglected questions in U.S. craft history and criticism.
URL:  http://www.craftcreativitydesign.org/research/grants.php

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Program on Research for Understanding and Reducing Violence, Aggression and Dominance
Research Grants
DEADLINE:  August 1, 2012
ELIGIBILITY:  Applicants for a research grant may be citizens of any country. The foundation awards research grants to individuals (or a few principal investigators at most) for individual projects and does not award grants to institutions for institutional programs.
ABSTRACT:  The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world.  Questions that interest the foundation concern violence and aggression in relation to social change, intergroup conflict, war, terrorism, crime, and family relationships, among other subjects. Research with no relevance to understanding human problems will not be supported, nor will proposals to investigate urgent social problems where the foundation cannot be assured that useful, sound research can be done. Priority will also be given to areas and methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other funding sources.
URL:  http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm