Fellowships for Faculty
St. Olaf’s Office of Government and Foundation Relations works to secure grants for the College and its faculty and staff from foundations, corporations and government agencies. We can help you to identify funding sources, prepare proposals and manage grants once funding has been received. Check our Web site for more information. http://www.stolaf.edu/offices/foundations/The following list includes a wide variety of fellowships and grants that might be of interest to St. Olaf faculty. The Fulbright Scholar Program, administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars at the U.S. State Department, offers several opportunities. The traditional Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program is designed to provide short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) for U.S. faculty and professionals. Shorter grant lengths give specialists greater flexibility to pursue a grant that works best with their current academic or professional commitments. A number of St. Olaf faculty have been named Fulbright Scholars. http://www.cies.org/
National Endowment for the Humanities
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Fellowships Program for Independent Research Institution Awards provides funding for research at a number of institutions such as the
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Summer Stipends Programs 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. This program provides $5,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing. http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html
The American Council of Learned
Societies (ACLS) offers a variety of fellowships and grants in more than a
dozen programs for research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at
the doctoral and postdoctoral levels. The following site provides links to
individual program descriptions for fellowships in a variety of
disciplines.
http://www.acls.org
The American Philosophical Society offers a number of research programs for scholars, including Sabbatical Fellowships for faculty in the humanities and social sciences. Grants are for research only. The Society makes no grants for study, travel to conferences, workshops or consultation with other scholars, for permanent equipment, or assistance with publication or translation. http://www.amphilsoc.org/
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the encouragement of
excellence in education through the identification of critical needs and the
development of effective national programs to address them. The Millicent C.
McIntosh Fellowship for Recently Tenured Faculty supports especially promising
faculty who demonstrate a deep commitment to excellent teaching and scholarship
in the humanities, and who are exceptional citizens of their academic community.
http://www.woodrow.org/
The Bogliasco Foundation, Inc. offers residential
fellowships at the
http://www.liguriastudycenter.org
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage
in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts.
Fellowships are awarded to advanced professionals in all fields (natural
sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts.
Successful applicants already will have demonstrated exceptional capacity for
productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.
http://www.gf.org/
The George A. and Eliza Howard Foundation awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in selected fields. Support is intended to augment paid sabbatical leaves. The Foundation targets its support specifically to early mid-career individuals, those who have achieved recognition for at least one major project. Approximately ten fellowships will be awarded for 2010-2011 in the fields of Creative Writing in English: Fiction and Poetry. Stipends of $25,000 will be awarded to support individuals working on specific writing projects. There are no residency requirements. Beginning in the fall of 2010, the Howard Foundation plans to follow a five-year rotation of fields for its annual fellowship competitions in both Creative Arts and Historical and Critical Studies. Consult the web site to see specific competitions for specific years. Successful candidates will be given the option of postponing receipt of their fellowship, so as to make the Howard competition accessible to those whose personal plans do not line up exactly with the year in which awards are offered in their fields. http://www.brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/Howard_Foundation/
The American
Association of University Women (AAUW) offers several types of
American Fellowships to support women doctoral
candidates completing dissertations or scholars seeking funds for postdoctoral
research leave from accredited institutions. Candidates are evaluated on
the basis of scholarly excellence, teaching experience, and active commitment
to helping women and girls through service in their communities, professions,
or fields of research. Some AAUW funding programs include the Summer/Short-Term
Research Publication Grants, Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships, Career Development Grants, Community
Action Grants and International Fellowships.
http://www.aauw.org/
The Library
Company of Philadelphia and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania jointly award approximately 25 one-month fellowships for research in residence
in either or both collections during
the academic year. These two independent research libraries, adjacent to each
other in Center City Philadelphia, have complementary collections capable of
supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the
history of America and the Atlantic world from the 17th through the 19th
centuries, as well as Mid-Atlantic regional history to the present.
http://www.librarycompany.org
The Huntington Library is an independent research
center in
http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=566&terms=fellowships
The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the
The Newberry Library The Newberry Library is an
independent research library concentrating in the humanities with an active
educational and cultural presence in
The Center for the Humanities at
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chum/
Getty Scholar and Visiting Scholar Grants provide residential
research grants for scholars at the
Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study offers residential fellowships to humanists,
social scientists, creative artists, natural scientists and mathematicians who receive office or studio space and access to libraries and
other resources of
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Resident Fellowship program, which is not just for Virginians, offers time, space, and resources to scholars and writers applying the tools of history, philosophy, ethics, cultural studies, and literary criticism to matters of public concern. The foundation seeks applications that are intellectually stimulating, imaginative, and accessible to the public. Fellowships are open to faculty members in the humanities, independent scholars, and others working on projects in the humanities. Applicants need not have advanced degrees, but the VFH generally does not support work toward a degree. The maximum fellowship stipend is $15,000 per semester. Fellowships are awarded for one semester or a full academic year. http://www.virginiafoundation.org/research/fellowships/
The William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellowship The
The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program offers fellowships to recipients to conduct research in a
discipline pursued at the Smithsonian in
http://www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm
The Hiett Prize in the Humanities is an annual award presented to a person whose work in the humanities shows extraordinary promise and has a significant public component related to contemporary culture. Its purpose is to encourage future leaders in the humanities by 1) recognizing their achievement and their potential and 2) assisting their work through a cash award of $50,000. Candidates should be within the early stages of a career track in which the primary work is in a field centered in or directly related to one or more of the humanities. http://www.dallasinstitute.org/Programs/Spring%202008/Hiett2008frames.htm
The Clark
Fellowship Program, offered by The Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute in
http://www.clarkart.edu/research/content.cfm?ID=42
The James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowships for psychologists provide funds to supplement the regular sabbatical allowance provided by the recipients' home institutions. The maximum award is limited to the lesser of (1) half the recipient's salary for the academic year, (2) an amount less than half salary that will bring the total of the university allowance plus the award up to the individual's normal academic-year salary, or (3) a ceiling of $35,000. Candidates must be tenured or have formal College confirmation that they will be tenured by March 1, following the December 1 submission deadline. http://www.cattell.duke.edu/index.html
The National Humanities Center offers
40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the
academic year. 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. 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. Located in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina,
the Center provides an environment for individual research and the exchange of
ideas among scholars. 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.
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/fellowships/appltoc.htm
The Camargo Foundation,
located in Cassis, France, is a residential center for scholars pursuing
studies in the humanities and social sciences related to French and francophone
cultures as well as for composers, writers and visual artists (painters,
sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, video artists, and new media artists) pursuing
creative projects. For scholarly projects, research should be at a sufficiently
advanced stage so as not to require resources unavailable in the
Marseille-Cassis-Aix region. The Foundation's campus includes 13 furnished
apartments, a reference library, a music/conference room, an artist's studio
with darkroom, a composer's studio and a studio for either an artist or a composer.
Residencies are one semester (early-September to mid-December or mid-January to
late May) and accompanied by a stipend of $2,500.
http://www.camargofoundation.org/toapply.asp