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We are excited to share these funding opportunities from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship program and the Exploratory Seminars and Accelerator Workshops programs are accepting applications with deadlines in the fall. More information about these awards can be found in the synopsis and links below. For a full list of currently open opportunities that have been announced through our office, please visit our new Current Opportunities web page. As a reminder, our Research Development team is available to provide proposal development support to FAS ladder faculty.

 

Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program

  • Application Deadlines:
    • September 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM ET for humanities, social sciences, creative arts, nonfiction and journalism
    • October 1, 2026, at 5:00 PM ET for science, engineering, and mathematics
  • Award Amount: $78,000 stipend and $5,000 for project expenses.
    • Stipends are paid directly to individuals; U.S. citizens or permanent residents from a U.S.-based home institution may opt to have their stipend paid through the institution.
  • Program Overview: Radcliffe Fellows spend a full academic year (September through May) in residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, working on manuscripts, research, art, or digital projects. The Radcliffe Fellowship program awards 50 Fellowships each year and welcomes proposals from scholars, artists, and public intellectuals proposing innovative work that confronts pressing social, scientific, and policy issues and engages audiences beyond academia. Proposals relevant to the Institute's multiyear focus area, which for 2024-2029 is academic freedom and connecting across difference, are welcome. Reflecting Radcliffe's unique history and institutional legacy, the Institute welcomes—but does not limit eligibility to—proposals that focus on women, gender, and society or draw on the Schlesinger Library’s rich collections. Radcliffe also welcomes proposals in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics directly impacted by federal research funding cuts.
    • Throughout the year, Fellows convene regularly to share their work in progress, supporting one another in various intellectual groups and building connections through social events.There are five Fellowship Program Areas for the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship application. Applicants should confirm they meet Fellowship eligibility criteria for their Program Area before starting an application in one of the five Areas. Former Harvard Radcliffe fellows (1999-present) are ineligible.
  • Additional Information: A video recording of a Radcliffe Fellowship Application Workshop is available on the Fellowship application information page. Additional details about eligibility, application materials, and other resources are available on the Fellowship FAQ page. Explore a gallery of Radcliffe Fellows. Questions may be submitted via the Radcliffe Fellowship Information Request Form.
 

Harvard Radcliffe Institute Exploratory Seminars and Accelerator Workshops

 
  • Application Deadline: October 9, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET for convenings to be held between July 1, 2027, and June 30, 2028.

  • The Exploratory Seminar Program at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute provides funding to scholars, practitioners, and artists for collaboration in the interdisciplinary exploration of early-stage ideas. This program encourages intellectual risk-taking as participants gather in an intensive seminar setting to explore new fields of research and inquiry. Exploratory Seminars challenge their participants to reimagine the boundaries of knowledge through multidisciplinary discussion.

  • Radcliffe’s Accelerator Workshop Program provides funding to scholars, practitioners, and artists to propel collaborative, multi-disciplinary research projects toward a specific outcome: a publication, grant application, degree curriculum, exhibition, performance, or set of policy recommendations, to name only a few possibilities. With an eye toward accelerating the spread of innovative ideas and knowledge into the academic or public realms, Radcliffe’s Accelerator Workshops bring participants together to further develop and refine their work as they prepare for its eventual dissemination.

  • Program details:
    • Hosted on the Harvard Radcliffe Institute campus and coordinated by Radcliffe’s professional events staff, subject to Institute policies and programmatic guidelines.
    • One- to two-day, by-invitation-only, in-person convenings for up to 16 participants (including leaders and co-leaders), subject to budgetary limitations.
    • Lead applicant must be a Harvard ladder faculty member from any School (tenure-track or tenured, including HMS and HSDM instructors and HLS clinical (full) professors); co-applicants may apply with lead applicants who meet eligibility requirements.
      • Current or former Radcliffe fellows are eligible to serve as the lead applicant for Exploratory Seminars.
      • For both programs, Emeritus/a faculty and Research Professors are not eligible to serve as lead applicant.
      • Lead applicants may submit up to two  substantively distinct proposals during the same application season, but Radcliffe will not grant more than one award to any lead applicant for a single funding period.
    • Applications are peer reviewed.
  • Proposals are welcomed from a broad range of fields and perspectives that:
    • Explore the viability of innovative research ideas in any discipline or via multiple disciplines.
    • Invite the perspectives of diverse arrays of participants and stakeholders.
    • Integrate senior and junior scholars from institutions in the greater Boston area, across the United States, or around the world, including institutions and professions historically underrepresented in academic gatherings.
    • Demonstrate risk taking and creativity.
  • The following areas—while not exclusive—are of special interest:
    • Radcliffe supports engaged scholarship. Proposals that connect research to public policy, pressing social issues, and/or the active engagement of audiences beyond academia are welcomed.
    • Proposals relevant to the Institute’s 2027-2028 focus area on Academic Freedom and Connecting Across Difference.
    • Reflecting Radcliffe’s unique history and institutional legacy, the Radcliffe Institute welcomes proposals that focus on women, gender, and society and/or draw on the Schlesinger Library’s collections.
  • Additional Information:
 

Questions from FAS or SEAS faculty about this opportunity may be directed to FAS Research Development.

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RESOURCES

Research Development maintains a Sample Proposal Library of successful proposals from recent award recipients that are available to FAS and SEAS faculty by request; please email Research Development to request to view a proposal. For more information on Research Development's resources—including lists of internal funding programs, early career funding programs, and sabbatical fellowships—please visit the Funding Opportunities web page. 
 

SEARCH FOR OPPORTUNITIES WITH PIVOT

All Harvard affiliates can search for opportunities and set up alerts using Pivot, a searchable database of federal and private funding opportunities. Information on Pivot, including a one-page user guide, and other funding opportunity databases available to the Harvard community can be found on the Funding Databases web page.
 

PIVOT CURATED SEARCHES

Curated funding opportunity lists are funding search topics of broad interest. The following curated lists can be further refined in Pivot based on your funding needs. To view the results you must be on a Harvard network or logged in to your Pivot account. Information on setting up a Pivot account can be found in our one-page user guide. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Additional curated lists are available on the Funding Databases web page. We continue to add to and refine these lists based on feedback. Please feel free to reach out to us at research_development@fas.harvard.edu with any suggestions you may have.
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