AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
FRANKLIN RESEARCH GRANTS
DUE: OCT 1 DEC 1
WRITE: Committee on Research
American Philosophical Society
104 South 5th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
WEB: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/franklin.htm
E-MAIL: LMusumeci@amphilsoc.org
PHONE: 215/440-3429
Since 1933 the American Philosophical Society has awarded small grants to scholars in order to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants are expected to have a doctorate, or to have published work of doctoral character and quality. Pre-doctoral graduate students are not eligible, but the Society is particularly interested in supporting the work of young scholars who have recently received their Ph.D.s American citizens and residents of the United States may use their Franklin awards at home or abroad. Foreign nationals must use their Franklin awards for research in the United States. Applicants who have received Franklin grants may reapply after an interval of two years.
FUNDING: Funding is offered up to a maximum of $6,000 for use in calendar year 2007. In 2005 the Franklin Research Grants program awarded $303,000 to 70 scholars, and the Society expects to make at least that many awards in this year's competition.
RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE
FELLOWSHIPS
DUE: OCT 2 for creative artists, humanists, and social scientists DEC 4 for natural scientists and mathematicians
WRITE: Radcliffe Institute
Fellowships Office
34 Concord Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
WEB: http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/index.php
E-MAIL: fellowships@radcliffe.edu
PHONE: 617/496-1324
The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program is a scholarly community where individuals pursue advanced work across a wide range of academic disciplines, professions, and creative arts. Radcliffe Institute fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts. In recognition of Radcliffe's historic contributions to the education of women and to the study of issues related to women, the Radcliffe Institute sustains a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society. Applicants' projects need not focus on gender, however. Women and men from across the United States and throughout the world, including developing countries, are encouraged to apply. The Institute seeks to build a community of fellows that is diverse in every way.
ELIGIBILITY: The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study welcomes proposals from small groups of scholars (two to five) who have research interests or projects in common and wish to spend a year as fellows together pursuing those aims. The Institute encourages the inclusion of junior faculty; all members of the cluster must have been awarded their doctorates by December 2005.
FUNDING: Stipends are funded up to $60,000 for one year with additional funds for project expenses. Some support for relocation expenses is provided where relevant. Fellows receive office or studio space and access to libraries and other resources of Harvard University during the fellowship year, which extends from early September 2007 through June 30, 2008. Fellows are expected to be free of their regular commitments so they may devote themselves full time to the work outlined in their proposal. Since this is a residential fellowship, the Institute expects fellows to reside in the Boston area during that period and to have their primary office at the Institute so that they can participate fully in the life of the community.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
SOCIETY OF FELLOWS IN THE HUMANITIES - POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
DUE: OCT 2
WRITE: Columbia University
Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Heyman Center -- Mail Code 5700
2960 Broadway New York, NY 10027
WEB: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows/fellowship.html
E-MAIL: sof-fellows@columbia.edu
PHONE: 212/854-4631
FAX: 212/854-4069
The Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities, with grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William R. Kenan Trust, will appoint a number of post-doctoral fellows in the humanities for the academic year 2007-2008. Fellows are appointed as Lecturers in appropriate departments at Columbia University and as postdoctoral research fellows. The fellowship is renewable for a second and third year. In the first year, Fellows teach one course per semester: at least one of these courses will be in the undergraduate general education program of the University. In years two and three, Fellows teach one course per year. In addition to teaching and research, the duties of Fellows include attendance at the Society's lectures and events as well as active participation in the intellectual life of the Society and of the department with which the Fellow is affiliated.
ELIGIBILITY: Applications are invited from qualified candidates who have received the Ph.D. between 1 January 2003 and 1 July 2007.
FUNDING: The annual stipend will be $52,000. Each Fellow also receives a research allowance of $3,000 per annum.
MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF FELLOWS
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
DUE: OCT 6
WRITE: The University of Michigan
Michigan Society of Fellows
3572 Rackham Building
915 E. Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070
WEB: http://www.rackham.umich.edu/Faculty/society.html
E-MAIL: society.of.fellows@umich.edu
PHONE: 734/763-1259
The Michigan Society of Fellows, under the auspices of the Rackham Graduate School, was established in 1970 with endowment grants from the Ford Foundation and the Horace H. and Mary Rackham Funds. The most distinctive aspect of the Society is a multidisciplinary emphasis which gives the Fellows an opportunity to interact across disciplines and to expand their horizons and knowledge. While their own scholarship is enriched, the Fellows also enrich the University of Michigan through teaching during their residency and bringing new insights to other faculty members. Each year the Society selects four or five outstanding applicants for appointment to three-year fellowships in the arts and humanities, in the social, physical and life sciences, and in the professional schools. The newly appointed Postdoctoral Fellows join a unique interdisciplinary community composed of their peers as well as Senior Fellows. The Chair of the Society is Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.
ELIGIBILITY: Applications are invited from qualified candidates who are at the beginning of their academic careers, having received the Ph.D. or comparable professional or artistic degree between June 1, 2004, and September 1, 2007. Fellows are appointed as Assistant Professors in appropriate departments at the University of Michigan and as Postdoctoral Scholars in the Michigan Society of Fellows. They are expected to be in residence during the academic years of the fellowship, to teach for the equivalent of one academic year, to participate in the informal intellectual life of the Society, and to devote time to their independent research.
FUNDING: The annual stipend will be $49,635.
NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER
NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER FELLOWSHIPS
DUE: OCT 15
WRITE: Fellowship Program National Humanities Center
7 Alexander Drive
P.O. Box 12256
Research Triangle Pk, NC 27709-2256
WEB: http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/fellowships/appltoc.htm
E-MAIL: nhc@ga.unc.edu
PHONE: 919/549-0661
FAX: 919/990-8535 The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year, September 2007 through May 2008.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must hold doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Young scholars as well as senior scholars are encouraged to apply, but they must have a record of publication, and recent Ph.D.s should be aware that the Center does not support the revision of a doctoral dissertation. Scholars from any nation may apply. In addition to scholars from all fields of the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects.
FUNDING: Fellowships up to $50,000 are individually determined, the amount depending upon the needs of the Fellow and the Center's ability to meet them. The Center provides travel expenses for Fellows and their dependents to and from North Carolina.
WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS
FELLOWSHIPS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
DUE: OCT 1
WRITE: Scholar Selection and Services Office
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004-3027
WEB: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=fellowships.welcome
E-MAIL: fellowships@wilsoncenter.org
PHONE: 202/691-4170
The Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illumine policy issues of contemporary importance. While the Center does not engage in formulating actual policy, priority will be given to proposals related to these themes and intersecting with crucial public policy issues. Within this framework, the Center also welcomes projects that provide the historical and/or cultural context for some of today's significant public policy debates.
ELIGIBILITY: Applications are welcomed from: Citizens or permanent residents from any country; Men and women with outstanding capabilities and experience from a wide variety of backgrounds (including government, the corporate world, professions, as well as academia); Academic candidates holding a Ph.D. (Ph.D. must be received by the application deadline of October 2); Academic candidates demonstrating scholarly achievement by publications beyond their doctoral dissertations; Practitioners or policymakers with an equivalent level of professional achievement. English proficiency as the Center is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas among its fellows.
FUNDING: The Center tries to ensure that the stipend provided under the fellowship, together with the fellow's other sources of funding (e.g., grants secured by the applicant and sabbatical allowances), approximate a fellow's regular salary. Stipends provided in recent years have ranged from $26,000 to $85,000 (the maximum possible in 2007-2008). Stipends include round trip travel for fellows. 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. In addition to stipends, the Center provides 75 percent of health insurance premiums for fellows who elect Center coverage and for their accompanying family members. Fellows are expected to be in residence for the entire U.S. academic year (early September through May, i.e., nine months), although a few fellowships are occasionally awarded for shorter periods with a minimum of four months.
WHITEHALL FOUNDATION, INC.
GRANT PROGRAMS
DUE: OCT 1 JAN 15 APR 15 letter of intent
WRITE: Grant Programs
Whitehall Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 3423
Palm Beach, FL 33480
WEB: http://www.whitehall.org/
E-MAIL: email@whitehall.org
PHONE: 561/655-4474
FAX: 561/659-4978
The Foundation offers Research Grants and Grants-in-Aid. Research grants in neurobiology are available to established scientists of all ages working at accredited institutions in the United States. Applications will be judged on the scientific merit and the innovative aspects of the proposal as well as the competence of the applicant. Research grants of up to three years will be provided. A renewal grant with a maximum of two years is possible, but it will be awarded on a competitive basis. Research grants will not be awarded to investigators who have already received, or expect to receive, substantial support from other sources, even if it is for an unrelated purpose. The Grants-in-Aid program is designed for researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. Grants-in-Aid can also be made to senior scientists. All applications will be judged on the scientific merit and innovative aspects of the proposal, as well as on past performance and evidence of the applicant's continued productivity.
FUNDING: Research grants normally range from $30,000 to $75,000 per year. Grants-in-Aid are awarded for a one-year period and do not exceed $30,000.
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