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Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
for Faculty

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


RESIDENCIES AT RESEARCH CENTERS AND HOST INSTITUTIONS

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

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

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

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

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



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

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

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