William F. Milton Fund
Deadline: April 1, 2021
Award Amount: Up to $50,000 payable over one year
The William F. Milton Fund supports research projects in the fields of medicine, geography, history and science. The winning projects must either promote the physical and material welfare and prosperity of the human race, or investigate and determine the value and importance of any discovery or invention, or assist in the discovery and perfecting of any special means of alleviating or curing human disease. Funds awarded through the Milton Fund support research to explore new ideas, to act as the catalyst between ideas and more definitive directions, and to consider new methods of approaching global solutions. Applications are invited from individuals who hold a “junior faculty” appointment at a Harvard school, defined in FAS and SEAS as those with the title of Assistant or Associate Professor. Junior Fellows of the Harvard Society of Fellows may also apply, as may those in a post-doctoral position at Harvard with a formal accepted offer to join the Junior Faculty at one of Harvard’s schools.
Recent recipients from the Arts and Humanities Division and the Division of Social Science
include:
- Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Romance Languages and Literatures,
“Satire or Criminal Offence? The Medieval Discussion”
- Sarah Derbew, Society of Fellows,
“Racing Stone: Black Antiquity in Modern Museums”
- Victor Seow, History of Science,
“Made in China: Manufacturing Revolutions in an Era of Reform"
- David Yang, Economics,
“The Selection and the Making of Civil Servants: Evidence from China’s College Graduate Civil Services Program”
- Kathryn Davidson, Linguistics,
“Semantic variation across four sign languages”
- Idan Dershowitz, Society of Fellows,
“Scattering Salt: Extracting New Information from the Dead Sea Scrolls”
- Sophia Roosth, History of Science,
“The Quick and the Dead”
- Benjamin Enke, Economics,
“The Gradient of Prosociality”
- Jon Rogowski, Government,
“Political Economy of State Development”
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