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Texas A&M University

ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
Stipend: Up to $60,000
Project costs Amount: Up to $25,000
Deadline: 30 September, 2009
Description: This program invites applicants to pursue digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences.

American Academy in Rome Prize Fellowships
Deadline: 1 November, 2009
Description: The Academy supports up to thirty individuals working in archaeology, architecture, classical studies, design arts, historic preservation and conservation, history of art, landscape architecture, literature, modern Italian studies, musical composition, post-classical humanistic studies and visual arts.

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Deadline: varies
Description: The American School of Classical Studies in Athens has various school-sponsored, senior, and other Fellowships available for 2010-2011. For a complete list with descriptions and deadlines, visit the website.

Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships
Stipend: $64,000, plus $2,500 for research and travel, and the possibility of an additional summer's support
Deadline: 30 September, 2009
Description: These fellowships support advanced assistant professors and untenured associate professors in the humanities and related social sciences whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields and who have well-designed and carefully developed plans for new research.

Columbia University, The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
Stipend: Fellows receive a stipend, full health benefits, travel allowance, and an office in the Academy
Deadline: 4 December, 2009
Description: These fellowships focus on issues related to cultural memory. Special considerations will be given to proposals in the neurosciences relevant to the Academy's ongoing project on Art and Neuroscience. Three Alexander Bodoni Research Fellowships are also available: one in Developmental and Adolescent Psychiatry, one in Culture and Religion, and one in Global Development and Finance.

Council of American Overseas Research Centers - Fellowship Program for Advanced Multi-Country Research
Deadline: 15 January, 2010 
Description: The program is open to U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. in fields in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences and wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance.  Scholars must carry out research in at least one of the countries which host overseas research centers.

Folger Library Research Fellowships
Deadline for Long-term Fellowship: 1 November, 2009
Deadline for Short-term Fellowship: 1 March, 2010

The Folger Shakespeare Library offers long-term and short-term research fellowships.

The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University
Northeast Asian History Fellowship

Stipend: $45,000 plus $2,500 for research materials
Deadline: 15 December, 2009
Description: This Fellowship upports a scholar to conduct research and writing on a historical subject that has an impact on modern and contemporary Northeast Asia.

Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Grants to Individuals in East Asian Archaeology and Early History
Dissertation Fellowships
Stipend: up to $28,000 for ten months plus travel allowance
Deadline: 13 November, 2009
Description: These fellowships will be awarded to graduate students at U.S. or Canadian institutions for research in East or Southeast Asia or, if research is complete, for writing the dissertation in North America. Funds will be available only for a full academic year.

Postdoctoral Fellowships
Stipend: up to $32,000 for ten months (amount reduced pro-rata for shorter tenure) plus a travel allowance
Deadline: 13 November, 2009
Description: These fellowships will be awarded to scholars holding the Ph.D. degree for the purpose of research and/or writing. Funds will be available for ten months (minimum: five months), to be used either in East or Southeast Asia, or in the United States or Canada. Priority will be given to scholars early in their careers.

Translation Grants
Stipend: $20,000 for six months (amount reduced pro-rata for shorter tenure) plus a travel allowance
Deadline: 13 November, 2009
Description: These fellowships will be awarded to scholars (including Ph.D. candidates) for translation of scholarly works of significant value to the field, from an East or Southeast Asian language into English. Applicants should provide evidence of formal training or practical experience in translation. Proposed plans of work should include residence at an institution at which the translator can consult with the author of the original text or with a specialist in the field who works primarily in the original text’s language. Funds will be available for a minimum residence of one academic semester.

Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture
Hiett Prize in the Humanities

Award: $50,000
Deadline: 15 May, 2010
Description: One beginning scholar whose work in the humanities has a significant public or applied component related to cultural concerns will receive the cash award to assist their work.

Guggenheim Foundation
Fellowships to assist Research and Artistic Creations

Stipend: Varies
Deadline: 15 September, 2009
Description: The fellowships are awarded to men and woman who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Appointments are ordinarily made for one year but no less than six months.

History of Philosophy Fellowships
Stipend: $2,000 & $3,000
Deadline: 1 December, 2009
Description: Two awards of $2,000 to $3,000 (depending upon the project budget) are offered annually to young scholars in the history of philosophy to defray expenses while travelling to do research. Applicants may not have received their Ph.Ds more than six years prior to applying.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Short and long-term Fellowships

Stipend: around $2,500 per month for short term and $50,000 for long term
Deadline: 15 December, 2009
Description: Residential and exchange fellowships.

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture 
Deadline: 1 July, 2010 
Description: The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture offers two Postdoctoral Fellowships in any area of early American studies.

NEH Collaborative Research Grants
Deadline: 29 October, 2009  
Description:
The National Endowment for the Humanities/Division of Research Programs invites applications for Collaborative Research Grants. These grants support humanities-related research undertaken by teams of two or more scholars, or coordinated by an individual scholar.

NEH Collaborative Research Fellowship
Deadline: 15 February, 2010
Description: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Fellowship provides up to $50,400 for four to nine months for U.S. scholars conducting humanities research in any country of Eurasia and Eastern Europe. This fellowship supports a wide range of humanities topics including, but not limited to, linguistics, literature, history, philosophy, archaeology, comparative religion, ethics and the history criticism, and theory of the arts.

NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
Deadline: 6 October, 2009  
Description: NEH invites proposals for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in all areas of the humanities.

NEH Summer Stipends
Stipend: $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing.
Deadline: 1 October, 2009
Description: Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public's understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools.

The Newberry Library
Long-Term Fellowships
Deadline: 11 January, 2010
Stipend: Range from $25,200 to $50,400
Description: Long-term fellowships are available to post-doctoral scholars for periods of six to eleven months. Applicants for post-doctoral awards must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application. These grants support individual research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the Library's scholarly activities, including a biweekly fellows' seminar.

Newhouse Center for the Humanities
at Wellesley College

Newhouse Faculty Fellowships
Deadline: 1 December, 2009
Stipend: $50,000, and up to $3,000 in research support
Description: The Newhouse Center for the Humanities offers eight to ten resident Fellowships each year. The Fellowships are open to both junior and senior faculty members at other institutions.

Short-Term Fellowships
Deadline: 1 March, 2010
Amount: $1600 per month
Description: Short-term fellowships are generally restricted to post-doctoral scholars or Ph.D. candidates from outside of the Chicago area who have a specific need for Newberry collections; some fellowships, however, are open to other categories of applicants and Chicago residents. Please read the following descriptions carefully for the eligibility restrictions on particular fellowships. The tenure of short-term fellowships varies from one week to two months, unless otherwise noted under the award description. A majority of fellowships will be for one month or less.

Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships
Deadline: 15 October
, 2009
Description: The Stanford Humanities Center will award External Faculty Fellowship for 2009-2010. Both junior and senior faculty members are eligible, though applicants must have a PhD and be at least three years beyond receipt of the degree at the start of the fellowship year.

The UTMB Institute for the Medical Humanities
Visiting Scholars
Stipend: $ 4000 per month
Deadline: 1 March, 2010
Description: Visiting scholars are to carry out projects in humanities disciplines that will deepen understanding of and develop pedagogical approaches to the program's annual theme. Visitors are expected to carry out their proposed project at the Institute and to participate in its multidisciplinary work (colloquia, symposia). Periods of residency may range from two months to nine months.

Wilson Center
Fellows-in-Residence

Duration: One academic year (9 months)
Stipend: from $26,000 to $85,000 (the maximum possible in 2007–2008) + round-trip travel (If spouses and/or dependent children will reside with the fellow for the entire fellowship period, money for their travel will also be included in the stipend) + 75 percent of health insurance.
Deadline: 1 October, 2009
Description: Fellows are expected to work from their offices at the Center and to participate in appropriate meetings organized by the Center. Fellows are also expected to present their research at our informal internal Work-in-Progress seminars, and to attend the Work-in-Progress presentations given by their colleagues. In addition, fellows are encouraged to make a more formal presentation to the public such as a colloquium, seminar, workshop, or other form of meeting.

Winterthur Fellowships
Deadline: 7 January, 2010
Description: Multiple Fellowships are available at Winterthur in a various areas of the arts and humanities.

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowships
Deadline: 11 October, 2009
Description: The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation's Women's Studies Fellowships support the final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses topics of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original ways.