May 2021
 
A Note from the Research Development Team
 
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our team will be working remotely. We are available to provide assistance via email, phone, or Zoom conferencing. As circumstances are evolving quickly, please also refer to our FAS RAS website and the OSP website for information about submitting proposals and managing your awards.
 
Unless otherwise noted, all proposals to funders outside of Harvard must be sent for review to the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) five business days prior to the sponsor deadline. We can help you navigate the routing process for your proposal.
 
Questions?
Please contact Paige Belisle, Research Development Officer: 
pbelisle@fas.harvard.edu or 617-496-7672
 
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News & Resources 
National Endowment for the Humanities: Resources and Tips
 
Attend NEH Virtual Grant Workshops: The NEH will be offering a series of online sessions focused on the agency's various grantmaking programs throughout May. To select programs that may be of interest to you, view the full list here. All sessions will be available to watch via Microsoft Teams. 
 
Interested in applying for a 2022 Summer Stipend?
Harvard Internal Deadline: August 16, 2021 
Learn more about applying for this limited submission opportunity here
 
If you are interested in pursuing funding from the NEH and are not sure where to start, we encourage you to contact us for tips on connecting with program officers and proposal development at research_development@fas.harvard.edu.  
The Federal Funding Climate & Updates
The Research Development team will continue to monitor news regarding Federal research funding. We will share confirmed, substantive information that affects funding for the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences.
UPDATE: Federal agencies remain open for proposals and inquiries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please visit agency-specific websites for further information: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). FY21 appropriations, finalized in December 2020, include $167.5 million in funding each for NEH and NEA (a $5.25 million increase for each agency over last year), and $257 million for IMLS (a $5 million increase over FY20). Please send any questions or concerns about federal research funding to Jen Corby
New to Campus? 
Visit our Resources for New Faculty page to learn more about the services and support we provide to help faculty find and apply for funding. To request a customized funding search or one-on-one consultation, please contact Paige Belisle
Funding Opportunities
 
Internal Opportunities
 
For a comprehensive list of Harvard internal funding opportunities, please see here.
 
 
External Opportunities

Match your project to a grant program:
 
 
I am looking for research support for my project.
     
    I want to visit an archive or library and/or fund my sabbatical leave.
     
    Fellowships or grants that are portable and tenable anywhere.
       
      Fellowships with a residency requirement at an institution in the United States.
       
      Fellowships that support or require international travel and/or residency.
       
      I want to host a program or develop curriculum for faculty, scholars, students, or practitioners to expand their knowledge of a topic.
       
      I want to combine digital technology with the humanities, create a website with humanities content, or preserve a collection and/or make it easier for people to access.
       
      I want to develop or put on an exhibition or cultural program for the public or engage in community revitalization.
       
      I want to complete and/or publish a scholarly work.
       
      I am an artist looking for support to create original works of art.
       
      I am a recent PhD looking for a fellowship opportunity.

      *Indicates an UPDATED or NEW opportunity added this month.

      Internal Funding Opportunities
      Tenure-Track Manuscript Workshop Grants
      Deadline: July 1, 2021
      Award Amount: up to $3,000
       

      To support the career development of its tenure-track faculty, the Division of Arts and Humanities makes available to eligible tenure-track faculty members small grants of up to $3,000 to support travel and other expenses associated with bringing experts to Harvard to review and offer guidance on their in-progress manuscripts. This funding is intended to augment the $1,000 that is provided to each tenure-track faculty member by the Dean of the FAS at the time of the initial faculty appointment (and contained in the faculty member’s start-up account). All tenure-track faculty with primary appointments in the Arts and Humanities Division who are in their 2nd - 6th year of residence are eligible for this funding.

      Faculty Research Program
      Deadline: May 28, 2021
      Award Amount: up to $5,000 for Research Assistant Employment Grants; up to $10,000 for Small Grants for Other Academic Activities
       

      As a major internal funder of Harvard research related to China, the Harvard China Fund administers the Harvard China Faculty Grant Program to advance the research goals of Harvard faculty and improve the education of Harvard students, in collaboration with Chinese partners. This year the Harvard China Fund is soliciting proposals from Harvard faculty to fund research assistants and other academic needs due to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the request for proposals states that preference will be given to faculty whose primary academic domains are related to China Studies, proposals are welcome from all fields. The selection process will highly prioritize non-tenured faculty. Two types of awards are offered:

      • Research Assistant Employment Grants: Faculty applying to hire an RA must have someone in mind whom they would like to hire.
      • Small Grants for Other Academic Activities: These small grants will be awarded to cover the costs for academic needs that have arisen due to COVID-related disruptions. They might include honoraria for manuscript readers, subscriptions, and other academic activities or needs. 
      Faculty Special Projects Fund
      Deadline: Rolling
      Award Amount: up to $5,000

      The Harvard Data Science Initiative Faculty Special Projects Fund is intended to support one-time data science opportunities for which other funding is not readily available. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, and funding will be awarded throughout the year until available funding is exhausted. Applicants may request funding of up to $5,000 to support research, community-building, outreach, and educational activities. Examples of projects that the Fund is intended to support include offsetting the cost of running workshops or seminars, data visualization or research dissemination, and video production. The HDSI welcomes applications from all fields of scholarship.
      Deadline: Rolling
      Award Amount: up to $5,000
       
      The FAS Tenure-Track Publication Fund assists assistant and associate professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with costs related to scholarly publications, broadly defined. For example, this might include expenses associated with research assistance, publication subsidies, copying, word processing, obtaining translations or illustrations, or creating footnotes or indices. 
       
      The Tenured Publication Fund aids tenured FAS faculty members in bringing scholarly book projects to timely completion. Funds will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, to help defray eligible expenses. The Fund is meant to supplement other available means of support; faculty are expected to seek departmental, center-based, and external funds before applying to this Fund.
      Canada Program Faculty Funding
      Deadline: Rolling
      Award Amount: unspecified; budget required with application
       
      The Canada Program invites proposals from Harvard faculty, departments, and schools across the University, for research funding, or for support in hosting short-term visiting scholars, policy practitioners, and public figures who are engaged in Canadian comparative topics. Visiting Canadianists are welcome to present at Harvard faculty workshops or conferences, or to offer guest lectures for Harvard undergraduate and graduate students. 
      External Funding Opportunities
      Cromwell Fellowships
      FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
      Sponsor Deadline: July 15, 2021 
      Award Amount: $5,000
       
      The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation makes available a number of $5,000 fellowships to support research and writing in American legal history by early-career scholars. Early-career generally includes those researching or writing a PhD dissertation (or equivalent project) and recent recipients of a graduate degree working on their first major monograph or research project.
       
      Research Fellowships
      FAS/OSP Deadline: July 9, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: July 16, 2021 
      Award Amount: up to $3,000 
       
      The purpose of the ASTR Research Fellowships is to underwrite some of the research expenses of scholars undertaking projects significant to the field of theatre and/or performance studies. Anyone holding a terminal degree and who has been a member of ASTR for at least three of the last five years is eligible to apply. The fellowships can be used in conjunction with funding from other sources.
       
      American Heritage
      FAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
      Sponsor Deadline: Rolling; concept letters are highly encouraged
      Award Amount: $10,000 - $30,000
       
      The Americana Foundation seeks to promote knowledge, preservation, and accessibility of America's heritage through increasing educational opportunities of future conservators and curators in the field and through preservation and presentation of unique collections in alignment with the interests and collections of the Meyer family. Projects for consideration include: 
      • Preservation and/or acquisition of high style, classic, handcrafted furniture from the 18th and 19th centuries as well as supporting their placement with charitable and educational institutions, and/or the US government.
      • Career development support for curatorial and conservation internships within major institutions and universities.
      • Restoration projects for heritage buildings and cultural landscapes that are listed or eligible for listing in the National Register of historic places.
      Subventions for Publications
      FAS/OSP Deadline: August 9, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: August 16, 2021 
      Award Amount: up to $2,500
       

      The American Musicological Society makes funds available to help with expenses involved in the publication of works of musical scholarship, including books, essay collections, articles, chapters in essay collections, special issues of journals, and works in non-print media. Subventions are granted for any topics of musicological research. Individual authors or editors, or their sponsoring organization, society, or department, may apply for assistance to defray costs not normally covered by publishers. Examples include costs related to illustrations, musical examples, facsimiles, accompanying audio or video examples, and permissions. Subventions are not given to defray costs associated with indexing. Author subventions required by publishers are not eligible for reimbursement.

       
      Arts Writers Grant Program
      FAS/OSP Deadline: May 12, 2021
      Sponsor Deadline: May 19, 2021
      Award Amount: $15,000 - $50,000
       
      The Arts Writers Grant Program issues awards for articles, blogs, books, new and alternative media, and short-form writing projects and aims to support the broad spectrum of writing on contemporary visual art, from general-audience criticism to academic scholarship. By "contemporary visual art," the Foundation means visual art made since World War II. Projects on post-WWII work in adjacent fields - architecture, design, film, theater/performance, sound, etc. - will only be considered if they directly and significantly engage the discourses and concerns of contemporary visual art. Projects with a pre-WWII component will only be considered if the project's main focus is contemporary.  
      Humanities Research Center: Visiting Fellows Program
      FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
      Sponsor Deadline: May 31, 2021 
      Award Amount: $3,000 AUD for travel + accommodation
       
      The Humanities Research Centre at the Australia National University, Canberra looks forward to welcoming scholars from across the world and across the disciplines in 2022. The theme for 2022 is "Mobilities." Migration, asylum, tourism, transport, urban mobility, career mobility, social mobility, emotion and affect – the theme for 2022 registers the growing use of ‘mobility’ and ‘mobilities’ as key descriptive and theoretical terms in the humanities and social sciences, and offers an invitation to scholars to think about the concept in creative and interdisciplinary ways. In line with the suggestive multivalence of the word itself, proposals might consider ‘mobility’ socio-politically, physically, or mentally, as a local or global phenomenon, in different cultures and different historical periods – or they might want to investigate the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our social, physical, and psychological mobility, and the way we are likely to act and think about mobility and immobility in the future.
       
      The standard period of tenure for an HRC Visiting Fellowship is from a minimum of six to a maximum of twelve weeks. All HRC Visiting Fellows are expected to participate in the programs of the Centre and the College, meet regularly with other fellows, make public presentations of their research in the Centre’s weekly seminar series, offer to contribute to a graduate seminar/Master Class, and avail themselves of other opportunities for scholarly exchange. Grants cover travel to Australia (up to $3,000 AUD) plus accommodation. 
      Charlton Oral History Research Grant
      FAS/OSP Deadline: May 21, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: May 28, 2021 
      Award Amount: up to $3,000 
       

      The Baylor University Institute for Oral History invites scholars with training and experience in oral history research who are conducting oral history interviews to apply for support of up to $3,000 for one year (June through May). With this grant, the Institute seeks to partner with one scholar who is using oral history to address new questions and offer fresh perspectives on a subject area in which the research method has not yet been extensively applied. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural research on local, national, or international subjects is welcome. The goal of the Charlton Oral History Research Grant is to bring the strengths of oral history to new topics of investigation, create partnerships with scholars doing noteworthy fieldwork with oral history, build a substantial research collection at Baylor University through the work of a skilled oral historian, and provide long-term scholarly access to significant applications of oral history methodology that model best practices.

      BBVA Foundation

      Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
      FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
      Sponsor Nomination Deadline: June 30, 2021
      Award Amount: 400,000 euros, a diploma, and a commemorative artwork

       

      The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards recognize fundamental contributions in a broad array of areas of scientific knowledge, technology, humanities, and artistic creation. The disciplines and domains of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards are:

      • Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics)
      • Biology and Biomedicine
      • Information and Communication Technologies
      • Ecology and Conservation Biology
      • Climate Change
      • Economics, Finance and Management
      • Humanities
      • Music and Opera

      Any scientific or cultural organization or institution may nominate more than one candidate, but no candidate may be nominated in more than one award category. The awards are also open to scientific or cultural organizations that can be collectively credited with exceptional contributions. Candidates may be of any nationality. Self-nomination is not permitted.

      Grants 
      FAS/OSP Deadline: May 21, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: June 1, 2021 
      Award Amount: up to £2,500

      The Classical Association is a major giver of grants to classical projects, mainly but not exclusively in the UK. The applications the Association supports typically fall into one of the following categories: 
      1. Schools
      2. Outreach
      3. Conferences
      4. Continuing Professional Development Events
      5. Summer Schools
      6. Major Projects
      7. Other Initiatives
      Small Event Grants
      FAS/OSP Deadline: July 8, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: July 15, 2021 
      Award Amount: $300 - $1,000 
       
      CES Small Event Grants support workshops, lectures, symposia and other small events that share research on Europe with a wider community. Individuals affiliated with CES member institutions are eligible to apply for grants ranging from $300 to $1,000. Any institution that receives a grant must agree to brand the event as “sponsored by the Council for European Studies at Columbia University” and provide an audio-visual or other record of the event. CES also provides promotional support for events either fully or partially funded by this program.
       
      Einstein Fellowships
      FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
      Sponsor Deadline: May 15, 2021
      Award Amount: stipend of EUR 10,000 and reimbursement of travel expenses
       
      The Einstein Forum is offering a fellowship for outstanding young thinkers who wish to pursue a project in a different field from that of their previous research. The purpose of the fellowship is to support those who, in addition to producing superb work in their area of specialization, are also open to other, interdisciplinary approaches - following the example set by Albert Einstein. The fellowship includes living accommodations for five to six months in the garden cottage of Einstein`s own summerhouse in Caputh, Brandenburg, only a short distance away from the universities and academic institutions of Potsdam and Berlin. Candidates must be under 35 and hold a university degree in the humanities, in the social sciences, or in the natural sciences.

      Please Note: The new deadline for this program is May 15, 2021. All applications that have already been submitted will be considered in the next selection round.
      Grants
      FAS/OSP Deadline: July 8, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: July 15, 2021 
      Award Amount: $10,000 - $50,000
       
      The Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation provides grants for musical performing arts and musical education. Preference will be given to requests for the following:
      • Aid worthy students of music to secure complete and adequate musical education
      • Aid organizations in their efforts to present fine music to the public, provided that such organizations are operated exclusively for educational purposes
      Conferences
      FAS/OSP Deadline: May 21, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: May 31, 2021 
      Award Amount: unspecified; detailed budget required 
       
      The Fritz Thyssen Foundation supports scholarly events, in particular national and international conferences with the aim of facilitating the discussion and analysis of specific scholarly questions as well as fostering cooperation and networking of scholars working in the same field or on interdisciplinary topics. An application can be filed in the following areas of support:
      Funding is basically reserved for projects that are related to the promotion areas of the Foundation and have a clear connection to the German research system. This connection can be established either at a personal level through German scientists working on the project, at an institutional level through non-German scientists being affiliated to German research institutes or through studies on topics related thematically to German research interests.
       
      Fromm Commission
      FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
      Sponsor Deadline: June 30, 2021 
      Award Amount: $12,000 
       
      The Fromm Commission is available for all types of compositions regardless of idiom, instrumentation, style, or the use of technology. Submissions in jazz, hybrid, electronic, or other idioms are welcome. To be eligible, a composer must be a legal resident of the United States for a term of one year or more during the time of the application. The commission is to create a new work and cannot be applied to projects that have been awarded other commissions or previously composed.
       
      General Research Grants: Projects and Scholarships
      FAS/OSP Deadline: May 25, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: June 2, 2021 
      Award Amount: 3,100 euros per month + supplements to support childcare 
       
      Support is primarily provided for the historical humanities, in particular to support research projects in the fields of Archaeology, Art History, Historical Islamic Studies, History, History of Law, History of Science, Prehistory and Early History. Candidates can apply regardless of their nationality and place of work. Grants for research projects involve, depending on the type of project, the assumption of costs for personnel, travel, materials and/or other costs. Only full time scholarships are available. Support can be provided for a minimum of one month and a maximum of 24 months.  
      Scholarly Fellowships
      FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals 
      Sponsor Deadline: July 30, 2021 
      Award Amount: $3,000 
       
      The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History awards annual short-term research fellowships in the amount of $3000 each to doctoral candidates, college and university faculty at every rank, and independent scholars working in the field of American history. International scholars are eligible to apply. The fellowships support research at archives in New York City. 
      Grants for Libraries and Educational Institutions
      FAS/OSP Deadline for Grant Proposal Letter: May 21, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline for Grant Proposal Letter: May 31, 2021 
      Award Amount: $50,000 - $150,000 
       
      The Foundation considers major grant applications in the fields of libraries and education.
      • Grants for Libraries: Grant proposals will be considered generally for resource Endowments (for example, print, film, electronic database, speakers/workshops), capital construction and capital equipment. Projects fostering broader public access to global information sources utilizing collaborative efforts, pioneering technologies and equipment are encouraged.
      • Grants for Educational Institutions: Grant proposals from universities, colleges and secondary schools will be considered generally for: educational endowments to fund scholarships based solely on educational achievements, leadership and academic ability of the student (note: need-based scholarships are not within the Foundation's mission); endowments to support fellowships and teaching chairs for educators who confine their activities primarily to classroom instruction in the liberal arts, mathematics and the sciences during the academic year; erection or endowment of buildings, wings of or additions to buildings; equipment for educational purposes; and capital equipment for educational purposes.  
      A Grant Proposal Letter generally will be considered when:
      • Outside funding for the project (including governmental) is not available;
      • The project will be largely funded by the grant unless the grant request covers a discrete component of a larger project; and
      • The funds will be used for endowments, capital projects or capital equipment.
      Except for endowed positions, proposals for direct salary support will not be considered. A grant that supports a research project will also not be considered. 
      Humanities Program
      FAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
      Sponsor Deadline: Rolling
      Award Amount: unspecified; past grants range from $2,000 to $50,000+
       
      The Foundation intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical  studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized. Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.
      Distinguished Scholar Awards
      FAS/OSP Deadline: July 23, 2021
      Sponsor Deadline: August 1, 2021 
      Award Amount: $15,000 - $45,000 per year for one to two years 
       
      The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Awards (formerly the Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Grants) recognize leading researchers proposing to make a significant contribution to illuminating an issue of violence. The Foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and aligned disciplines that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that addresses urgent, present-day problems of violence—what produces it, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it. The Foundation is interested in violence related to many subjects, including, but not limited to, the following:
       
      • War

      • Crime

      • Terrorism

      • Family and intimate-partner relationships

      • Climate instability and natural resource competition

      • Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict

      • Political extremism and nationalism

       

      The Foundation supports research that investigates the basic mechanisms in the production of violence, but primacy is given to proposals that make a compelling case for the relevance of potential findings for policies intended to reduce these ills. Likewise, historical research is considered to the extent that it is relevant to a current situation of violence. Examinations of the effects of violence are welcome insofar as a strong case is made that these outcomes may serve, in turn, as causes of future violence. 

      FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for this type of award 
      Sponsor Deadline: June 15, 2021 
      Award Amount: NOK 6,000,000 (approximately $700,000 USD)
       
      The Holberg Prize is an international prize awarded annually for outstanding contributions to research in the humanities, social sciences, law and theology. The Holberg Prize was established by the Norwegian Parliament in 2003 and is awarded annually to a scholar who has made outstanding contributions to research in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology. The Prize may be awarded both for work within a particular academic discipline and for work of a cross-disciplinary nature. The recipient must have had a decisive influence on international research. Scholars holding positions at universities, academies and other research institutions, are entitled to nominate candidates for the Holberg Prize. 
       
      Institutional Grants
      FAS/OSP Deadline: June 24, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: July 1, 2021 
      Award Amount: unspecified; detailed budget required 
       
      The Japan-United States Friendship Commission is a grant-making agency that supports research, education, public affairs and exchange with Japan. Its mission is to support reciprocal people-to-people understanding, and promote partnerships that advance common interests between Japan and the United States. The Commission also serves to maintain expertise on Japan Studies throughout U.S. academic and professional institutions. It supports academic and non-profit organizations that conceptualize and execute U.S.-Japan training, research, and exchange programs. Grants are made in four areas: 
      • Arts and Culture; 
      • Education and Public Affairs; 
      • Exchanges and Scholarship; and 
      • Global Challenges.
      Grants
      FAS/OSP Deadline for Online Funding Inquiry: August 13, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline for Online Funding Inquiry: August 20, 2021 
      Award Amount: varies/wide range
       
      The Foundation offers grants in support of research and public engagement in its major Funding Areas. The Foundation invests in bold ideas from contrarian thinkers: ideas that cross disciplinary boundaries and challenge conventional assumptions. Funding supports innovative programs that engage the public with these ideas, in an effort to open minds, deepen understanding, and inspire curiosity. The application process has two stages, beginning with an online funding inquiry. 
       
      Pre-Production and Early Development Grants
      FAS/OSP Deadline: May 27, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: June 4, 2021 
      Award Amount: $2,500 (Early Development Grants); $5,000 (Pre-Production Grants)
       
      LEF invests in documentary film and video projects that demonstrate excellence in technique, originality of vision and voice, and creativity in form. The strongest proposals will be those that clearly articulate the ways in which the proposed project aligns with the program's funding criteria. Projects must be long format, with running times of 40 minutes or more. Pre-Production and Early Development grants may be used for research, travel, location scouting, script or storyboard development, experimentation with shooting picture and sound, distribution planning, fundraising, creating a trailer, and schedule and budget development.
      The John W. Kluge Center: David B. Larson Fellowships in Health and Spirituality
      FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
      Sponsor Deadline: July 15, 2021 
      Award Amount: $5,000 per month for 6-12 months 
       
      The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to apply for a post-doctoral fellowship in the field of health and spirituality. The fellowship is designed to continue Dr. Larson's legacy of promoting meaningful, scholarly study of health and spirituality, two important and increasingly interrelated fields. It seeks to encourage the pursuit of scholarly excellence in the scientific study of the relation of religiousness and spirituality to physical, mental, and social health. The fellowship provides an opportunity for a period of six to twelve months of concentrated use of the collections of the Library of Congress, through full-time residency in the Library's John W. Kluge Center. The Kluge Center is located in the splendid Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library, and it furnishes attractive work and discussion space for its scholars, as well as easy access to the Library's specialized staff and to the intellectual community of Washington, D.C. If necessary, special arrangements may be made with the National Library of Medicine for access to its materials as well.
      The John W. Kluge Center: Kluge Fellowships
      FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
      Sponsor Deadline: July 15, 2021 
      Award Amount: $5,000 per month for 4-11 months 
       
      The Kluge Center in Washington, D.C. encourages humanistic and social science research that makes use of the large and varied collections of the Library of Congress. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research is particularly welcome in the Kluge Fellowship program. Scholars who have received a terminal advanced degree within the past seven years in the humanities, social sciences, or in a professional field such as architecture or law are eligible, with special consideration given to those whose projects demonstrate relevance to contemporary challenges.
       
      Among the collections available to researchers are the world's largest law library and outstanding multi-lingual collections of books and periodicals. Deep special collections of manuscripts, maps, music, films, recorded sound, prints, and photographs are also available. In-residence scholars have access to the Library's specialized staff and to the intellectual community of Washington. Further information about the Library's collections can be found on the Library's website. 
       
      Global Seed Grants
      FAS/OSP Deadline: not required prior to Request to Apply 
      Sponsor Deadline for Request to Apply: August 1, 2021 
      Award Amount: $500 - $5,000
       
      Lisle International provides Global Seed Grants to support innovative projects which advance intercultural understanding through shared experiences, with the goal of creating a more just social order. Projects may seek to bridge a variety of community divides, including ethnic, cultural, religious, racial or gender perspectives, anywhere in the world. Grants of $500 to $5,000 are available to innovative projects that match the mission of Lisle. Lisle awards between three and eight grants each year to projects in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.
       
      Grants
      FAS/OSP Deadline: July 23, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: August 1, 2021 
      Award Amount: unspecified 
       
      The Marc Fitch Fund makes small grants towards the costs of publishing scholarly work in the fields of British and Irish national, regional and local history, archaeology, antiquarian studies, historical geography, the history of art and architecture, heraldry, genealogy and surname studies, archival research, artifact conservation and the broad fields of the heritage, conservation and the historic environment. The following grants are available:
      • Publication Grants: These are intended to help with production costs, including the costs of illustrative material.
      • Research Grants: These are intended to cover incidental expenses, such as the cost of travel and accommodation within the UK/Ireland to visit archives; they are not intended to cover time spent in research and writing. To qualify, the work must already have been provisionally accepted for publication.
      • Special Project Grants: From time to time the Fund considers applications for special projects that do not fit easily into one of the above categories, such as the conservation, cataloguing, scanning, transcription and study of significant primary sources, or the conservation and study of significant artifacts. To qualify, original research and the publication of the results has to be part of the project.
      Prospective applicants should submit a brief outline of their project by e-mail. If the proposal meets the Fund's criteria, the relevant application forms will be provided.
       
      Grants
      FAS/OSP Deadline: June 23, 2021
      Sponsor Deadline: June 30, 2021 
      Award Amount: unspecified; detailed budget is required 
       
      The Max van Berchem Foundation, whose goal is to promote the study of Islamic and Arabic archaeology, history, geography, art history, epigraphy, religion and literature, awards grants for research carried out in these areas by scholars who have already received their doctorate. In recent years, the Foundation has financed archaeological excavations, research projects and studies in Islamic art and architecture in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Spain, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Iran, Sudan, Iraq, Turkmenistan and India. It has also provided financial support for epigraphical projects in France (the Thesaurus d'Epigraphie Islamique), Spain, Italy, Palestine, China, Yemen, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Bengal.
      Grants for Arts Projects
      FAS/OSP Deadline: June 29, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: July 8, 2021 
      Award Amount: Applicants may request cost share/matching grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000. Please discuss cost sharing requirements with your grants administrator prior to submitting an internal proposal.
       
      Grants for Arts Projects is the National Endowment for the Arts' principal grants program for organizations based in the United States. Through project-based funding, the program supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation, the creation of excellent art, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life. The Arts Endowment encourages applications from a variety of eligible organizations, e.g., with small, medium, or large budgets, and from rural to urban communities. Similarly, projects may be large or small, existing or new, and may take place in any part of the nation's 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. The National Endowment for the Arts is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and fostering mutual respect for the diverse beliefs and values of all individuals and groups. The Arts Endowment encourages projects that use the arts to unite and heal in response to current events, as well as address any of the following:
      • Celebrate America's creativity and/or cultural heritage.
      • Invite a dialogue that fosters a mutual respect for the diverse beliefs and values of all persons and groups.
      • Enrich our humanity by broadening our understanding of ourselves as individuals and as a society.
      Next Steps: This is a limited submission opportunity, and Harvard is limited to submitting one application per year. Please contact Erin Hale at erin_hale@fas.harvard.edu for next steps if you are interested in securing the internal nomination. 
      Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
      FAS/OSP Deadline: June 17, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: June 24, 2021 
      Award Amount: up to $50,000 (Level I); up to $100,000 (Level II); up to $325,000 + up to $50,000 in matching funds (Level III) 
       

      The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (DHAG) supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects at different stages of their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and sustainability. Experimentation, reuse, and extensibility are valued in this program, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. The program also supports scholarship that examines the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture or technology and its impact on society. Proposals are welcome in any area of the humanities from organizations of all types and sizes. 

       

      In support of its efforts to advance digital infrastructures and initiatives in libraries and archives, and subject to the availability of funds and IMLS discretion, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) anticipates providing funding through this program. These funds may support some DHAG projects that further the IMLS mission to advance, support, and empower America’s museums, libraries, and related organizations. IMLS funding will encourage innovative collaborations between library and archives professionals, humanities professionals, and relevant public communities that advance preservation of, access to, and public engagement with digital collections and services to empower community learning, foster civic cohesion, and strengthen knowledge networks. This could include collaborations with community-based archives, community-driven efforts, and institutions or initiatives representing the traditionally underserved. Interested applicants should also refer to the current IMLS Strategic Plan for additional context. 

      Digital Projects for the Public
      FAS/OSP Deadline: June 2, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: June 9, 2021 
      Award Amount: up to $30,000 (Discovery Grants); up to $100,000 (Prototyping Grants); up to $400,000 (Production Grants)
       

      The Digital Projects for the Public program supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments. All Digital Projects for the Public projects should 

      • present analysis that deepens public understanding of significant humanities ideas; 
      • incorporate sound humanities scholarship; 
      • involve humanities scholars in all phases of development and production; 
      • include appropriate digital media professionals; 
      • reach a broad public through a realistic plan for development, marketing, and distribution; 
      • create appealing digital formats for the general public; and 
      • demonstrate the capacity to sustain themselves. 

      All projects should demonstrate the potential to attract a broad, general, nonspecialist audience, either online or in person at venues such as museums, libraries, or other cultural institutions. Applicants may also choose to identify particular communities and groups, including students, to whom a project may have particular appeal. 

      Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
      FAS/OSP Deadline: July 8, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: July 15, 2021 
      Award Amount: up to $350,000 (Implementation Projects); up to $50,000 + up to $10,000 to support inter-institutional planning and pilot activities (Foundations Projects)
       

      The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. This program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation.

       

      Proposed projects may address the holdings or activities of a single institution or may involve collaboration between institutions. However, even in the case of single-institution projects, working with specialists in other offices or departments or colleagues in other institutions often helps ensure that proposed activities are achievable and will have maximum impact for the humanities. Collaboration can be crucial in providing the appropriate mix of humanities content and methodological expertise and can help broaden the scope of, and audiences for, proposed collections or reference resources.

       

      Media Projects
      FAS/OSP Deadline: August 4, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: August 11, 2021 
      Award Amount: up to $75,000 (Development); up to $700,000 (Production); up to $1M (Chairman's Special Awards) 
       
      The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, long-form documentary films, and documentary film series that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical. Media Projects offers two levels of funding: Development and Production. A pre-recorded webinar on this program will be posted here by July 1. 2021.
      NEH/AHRC New Directions for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions
      FAS/OSP Deadline: June 29, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: July 8, 2021 
      Award Amount: up to $50,000 (Level I); up to $150,000 (Level II)
       

      This program is a joint initiative between the NEH and the U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The overarching goal of the program is to advance digital scholarship in cultural institutions such as museums, libraries, galleries, and archives. This program will fund teams in the U.S. and U.K. working collaboratively to deliver transformational impact on digital methods and digital research in cultural institutions. Applications must be submitted by teams, composed of at least one organization from the U.S. and one from the U.K., in which each country is represented by at least one cultural institution.

       

      Preservation and Access Education and Training
      FAS/OSP Deadline: May 11, 2021
      Sponsor Deadline: May 18, 2021 
      Award Amount: up to $350,000 
       

      The Preservation and Access Education and Training program supports the development of knowledge and skills among professionals responsible for preserving and establishing access to humanities collections. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture collections, electronic records, and digital objects. The challenge of preserving and making accessible such large and diverse holdings is enormous, and the need for knowledgeable staff is significant and ongoing.

       

      Preservation and Access Education and Training awards are made to organizations that offer national, regional, or statewide education and training programs across the pedagogical landscape and at all stages of development, from early curriculum development to advanced implementation. Awards help the staff of cultural institutions, large and small, obtain the knowledge and skills needed to serve as effective stewards of humanities collections. Awards support projects that prepare the next generation of preservation professionals, as well as projects that introduce heritage practitioners to new information and advances in preservation and access practices.

      Public Humanities Projects
      FAS/OSP Deadline: August 4, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: August 11, 2021  
      Award Amount: up to $75,000 (Planning); up to $400,000 + additional $100,000 for Positions in the Public Humanities (Implementation)
       

      The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Public Humanities Projects supports projects in three program categories (Exhibitions, Historic Places, and Humanities Discussions), and at two funding levels (Planning and Implementation). Regardless of proposed activity, NEH encourages applicants to explore humanities ideas through multiple formats. Proposed projects may include complementary components: for example, a museum exhibition might be accompanied by a website or mobile app.

       

      Small and mid-sized organizations are especially encouraged to apply. We likewise welcome humanities projects tailored to particular groups, such as families, youth (including K-12 students in informal educational settings), underserved communities, and veterans. Applicants are advised to consider developing partnerships with other institutions, particularly organizations such as cultural alliances, broadcast media stations, cultural heritage centers, state humanities councils, veterans’ centers, and libraries.

      Research and Development
      FAS/OSP Deadline: May 11, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: May 18, 2021 
      Award Amount: up to $75,000 (Tier I); up to $350,000 (Tier II) 
       

      The Research and Development program supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage—from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence—and to develop advanced modes of organizing, searching, discovering, and using such materials. This program supports projects at all stages of development, from early planning and stand-alone studies, to advanced implementation. Research and Development projects contribute to the evolving and expanding body of knowledge for heritage practitioners, and for that reason, outcomes may take many forms. Projects may produce any combination of laboratory datasets, guidelines for standards, open access software tools, workflow and equipment specifications, widely used metadata schema, or other products. Research and Development supports work on the entire range of humanities collection types including, but not limited to, moving image and sound recordings, archaeological artifacts, born digital and time-based media, rare books and manuscripts, archival records, material culture, and art. Applicants must demonstrate how advances in preservation and access through a Research and Development project would benefit the cultural heritage community by supporting humanities research, teaching, or public programming. Research and Development projects are encouraged to address one or more of the following areas of special interest: 

      • Preserving our audiovisual and digital heritage
      • Conserving our material past
      • Protecting our cultural heritage 
      • Serving under-represented communities
      Short Documentaries
      FAS/OSP Deadline: August 4, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: August 11, 2021 
      Award Amount: up to $300,000
       

      The Short Documentaries program supports the production and distribution of documentary films up to 30 minutes that engage audiences with humanities ideas in appealing ways. The program aims to extend the humanities to new audiences through the medium of short documentary films. Films must be grounded in humanities scholarship. The Short Documentaries program supports production of single films or a series of thematically-related short films addressing significant figures, events, or ideas. The proposed film(s) must be intended for regional or national distribution, via broadcast, festivals, and/or online distribution. The subject of the film(s) must be related to “A More Perfect Union”: NEH Special Initiative Advancing Civic Education and Commemorating the Nation’s 250th Anniversary. Applicants must have consulted with a team of scholarly advisers in the humanities to develop the humanities themes, subjects, and ideas that the film(s) will explore. The humanities scholars must provide diverse perspectives, and incorporate a range of scholarly ideas and approaches.

       

      2022 Summer Stipends
      Harvard Internal Deadline: August 16, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline (if nominated): September 22, 2021 
      Award Amount: $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing beginning May 2022 or later
       

      The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. The program works to accomplish this goal by:

      • Providing small awards to individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both
      • Supporting projects at any stage of development, but especially early-stage research and late-stage writing in which small awards are most effective
      • Furthering the NEH’s commitment to diversity and inclusion in the humanities by encouraging applications from independent scholars and faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and community colleges

      Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research. The NEH will host a webinar on the Summer Stipends program on April 14th; a direct link to view the webinar can be found on the page here. An additional previous webinar on application writing tips can be viewed here

       
      Please Note: This is a limited submission opportunity, and Harvard may put forward two nominees for this program. Please submit an internal application here to be considered for nomination. 
      Mellon Start-Up Grants for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American History
      FAS/OSP Deadline: June 2, 2021
      Sponsor Deadline: June 9, 2021 
      Award Amount: up to $60,000 per year for up to 2 years
       

      The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), with funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, seeks proposals for its new program for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American History. With an overarching goal to broaden participation in the production and publication of historical and scholarly digital editions, the Start-Up grants program is designed to:

      • Provide opportunities that augment the preparation and training of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) new to the work of historical documentary editing, especially those currently working in history or related area and ethnic studies departments.
      • Encourage and support the innovative and collaborative re-thinking of the historical and scholarly digital edition itself—how it is conceived, whose voices it centers, and for what purposes.
      • Encourage and support the early planning and development of significant, innovative, and well-conceived digital edition projects rooted in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American history and ethnic studies.
      • Stimulate meaningful, mutually beneficial, and respectful collaborations that help to bridge longstanding institutional inequalities by promoting resource sharing and capacity building at all levels, and that build into their plans a variety of means for achieving meaningful community and user input and engagement.

      Grants are awarded to collaborative teams consisting of at least two scholar-editors, as well as one or more archivists, digital scholars, data curators, and/or other support and technical staff, as appropriate to fulfill the planning goals and early-implementation needs of the proposed edition. NHPRC strongly encourages applications from collaborative teams that include BIPOC faculty and staff in key positions, and that include editorial, archival, and technical staff at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges, and/or other Indigenous and Native American tribal scholars and community members, and members of the Asian American community. NHPRC also encourages projects to seek out community members as well as undergraduate and graduate students to contribute to (and benefit from) participation in all phases of the project.

      Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions
      FAS/OSP Deadline: June 2, 2021
      Sponsor Deadline: June 9, 2021
      Award Amount: up to $175,000. Please note that cost sharing is required; the Commission provides no more than 50 per cent of total project costs. Please discuss this requirement with your grants administrator before beginning an application. 
       

      The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals to publish documentary editions of historical records. The NHPRC especially welcomes projects that focus on broad historical movements in U.S. history, such as law (including the social and cultural history of the law), politics, social reform, business, military, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience, including any aspect of African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American history. Projects may also center on the papers of major figures from American history.

       

      The Commission is especially interested in projects to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The NHPRC encourages applications that use collections to examine the ideals behind the founding of the United States and the continual interpretation and debate over those ideals over the past 250 years. The NHPRC welcomes projects that engage the public, expand civic education, and promote understanding of the nation’s history, democracy, and culture from the founding era to the present day.

      Linguistics
      FAS/OSP Deadline: July 8, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: July 15, 2021 
      Award Amount: varies/wide range
       

      The Linguistics Program supports basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages, and of natural language in general. Research areas include syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics, and phonology. The program encourages projects that are interdisciplinary in methodological or theoretical perspective, and that address questions that cross disciplinary boundaries, such as (but not limited to):

      • What are the psychological processes involved in the production, perception, and comprehension of language?
      • What are the computational properties of language and/or the language processor that make fluent production, incremental comprehension or rapid learning possible?
      • How do the acoustic and physiological properties of speech inform our theories of natural language and/or language processing?
      • What role does human neurobiology play in shaping the various grammatical properties of language? 
      • How does language develop in natural learning contexts across the life-span?
      • What social and cultural factors underlie language variation and change?

      Because NSF's mandate is to support basic research, the Linguistics Program does not fund research that takes as its primary goal improved clinical practice or applied policy, nor does it support work to develop or assess pedagogical methods or tools for language instruction. Proposals for conferences are also accepted. 

       

      Science and Technology Studies
      FAS/OSP Deadline: July 27, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: August 3, 2021 
      Award Amount: wide range/varies by award type
       
      Science and Technology Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field of research that uses historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate STEM theory and practice. It may focus on history and socio-cultural formation, philosophical underpinnings, or the impacts of science and technology on broader societal concerns including quality of life, ethics, and culture. STS researchers strive to understand the research assumptions of STEM fields, and the co-production of STEM and society, meaning the many ways in which cultural, economic, historical, social and political contexts influence developments in STEM, and how those developments reciprocally influence these contexts. The STS program supports proposals across the broad spectrum of STS research areas, topics, and approaches. They include, but are not limited to:
      1. Studies of societal aspects of an emerging technology such as artificial intelligence, robotics, big data analysis, neuroscience, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, and quantum technologies (computers, sensors, and encryption).
      2. Research on the social organization of scientific work (e.g., organizations, groups, and collaborations) and how this shapes the knowledge that gets produced and its intellectual and social impacts.
      3. Issues relating science and engineering to broader societal concerns including ethics, policy, governance, equity, race and gender, inclusion, trust, reliability, risk and uncertainty, sustainability, user-centeredness, and globalization.
      4. Research on the historical and conceptual foundations of any of the natural, social, or formal sciences including its nature and fundamentals, its origins, or its place in modern politics, culture, and society.
      5. Mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) approaches, and approaches that integrate traditional STS perspectives (historical, philosophical, social scientific) with each other or with innovative perspectives from the arts or humanities.
      6. Interdisciplinary projects on topics of broad societal concern that engage in integrative collaborative research involving at least one STS expert and one in some other STEM field with prospective outcomes that serve to advance both fields.
      For this deadline, the following types of applications will be accepted: Standard and Collaborative Research; Scholars; Professional Development; Research Community Development; Conferences; and DDRIG Proposals. 
      Dance Research Fellowship
      FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
      Sponsor Deadline: May 14, 2021 
      Award Amount: $7,500
       
      The seismic events of 2020 continue to shape daily life and have compelled reckoning and reflection. For the upcoming cohort of the Dance Research Fellowship the Jerome Robbins Dance Division invites applications from scholars and practitioners interested in investigating the theme of dance and democracy. The program is interested in projects that explore dance’s site as a civic, social and political space and welcome research on the potential within dance for collective action. The program additionally encourages applicants to explore the dance artists in our archives who have harnessed kinetic  imagination and empathetic power to create inclusive environments where dialogue and democracy thrives. 
       
      Fellows must take up residency between July 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021. Fellows are not expected to be in continuous residence for the duration of the fellowship award period but must provide evidence of progress during mandatory check in points throughout the residency. Given the uncertainty of the duration of the Covid-19 crisis, the Division is making provision for a virtual version of the fellowship and symposium should onsite study and practice prove impossible.
       
      PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants
      FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals 
      Sponsor Deadline: June 1, 2021 
      Award Amount: $2,000 - $4,000
       
      The PEN/Heim Translation Fund provides grants to support the translation of book-length works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or drama that have not previously appeared in English in print or have appeared only in an outdated or otherwise flawed translation. Works should be translations-in-progress, as the grant aims to provide support for completion. There are no restrictions on the nationality or citizenship of the translator, but the works must be translated into English. Projects may have up to two translators.
       
      Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health
      FAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
      Sponsor Deadline: Rolling 
      Award Amount: The average Pioneer grant in 2019 was $315,031. However, there is not an explicit range for budget requests. Grant periods are flexible, though generally range from 1 to 3 years.
       
      Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. The Foundation is interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; and Future of Work. Additionally, the Foundation welcomes ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and progress toward a Culture of Health.

      The Foundation wants to hear from scientists, anthropologists, artists, urban planners, and community leaders--anyone, anywhere who has a new or unconventional idea that could alter the trajectory of health, and improve health equity and well-being for generations to come. The changes the Foundation seeks require diverse perspectives and cannot be accomplished by any one person, organization, or sector. 

      Please Note: While this call for proposals is focused on broader and longer-term societal trends and shifts that were evolving prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Foundation recognizes that the unique circumstances and learning created by the COVID-19 pandemic may inform your response. It is at your discretion whether you propose a project related to the pandemic directly or indirectly.
      Miller/Packan Film Fund
      FAS/OSP Deadline: May 7, 2021
      Sponsor Deadline: May 15, 2021
      Award Amount: up to $15,000 (Advanced Development Stages); up to $25,000 (Production and Post-Production Stages)
       
      The Miller/Packan Film Fund supports documentary films that educate, inspire and enrich. At the highest level, the Fund's subject categories are Education, the Environment and Civics. The Foundation encourages potential applicants to review its ideals and values for a sense of what types of topics might be supported. The Foundation is especially interested in investigations into the cost structures of social institutions, such as healthcare and education, and topics that bring the global community together. The Fund supports filmmaking in advanced development (up to $15,000), production and post-production stages (up to $25,000).
      Grants
      FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
      Sponsor Deadline: July 15, 2021 
      Award Amount: $1,500
       
      The Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation gives annual awards of $1500 to individual artists living and working in the United States, and who are engaged in or planning a new fine craft or visual art project. The Foundation does not accept film, video, performance art, or music submissions. Previous winners of a Foundation grant are not eligible for a second award.
       
      Fellowships
      FAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
      Sponsor Deadline: June 30, 2021 
      Award Amount: up to $15,000 
       
      The SCAR Fellowship program is for PhD students, or those within five years of having completed a PhD on the day of the deadline for applications, to undertake research at an institute in one of the 44 SCAR Member countries (for a full list of countries, please see the information about SCAR Member Countries). Topics for support should link to the objectives of one or more of SCAR's science groups, including the Humanities and Social Sciences group. In order to apply for a fellowship, candidates will be required to first contact and liaise with appropriate host Antarctic projects or programs in order to secure the support and mentorship of an active team capable of including them in their own research program or project group.
       
      Art Seeking Understanding Grants
      FAS/OSP Deadline: July 9, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: July 19, 2021 by 8:00am EST
      Award Amount: up to $234,000
       

      Art Seeking Understanding (ASU) is a program strategy concerned with improving the methods of inquiry into the existence and nature of what Sir John Templeton called spiritual realities. ASU begins with aesthetic cognitivism, a theory about the value of the arts that approaches them not simply (or not even) as sources of delight, amusement, pleasure, or emotional catharsis but, instead, as sources of understanding.

      • But is there an empirically demonstrable connection between art and understanding vis à vis what Sir John referred to as spiritual reality and/or spiritual information in particular?
      • And if so, what distinctive cognitive value does engagement with the arts (production and/or consumption) generate?
      • Under what conditions and in what ways does participation in artistic activities encourage or stimulate spiritual understanding, insight, or growth (meaning- or sense-making)?

      Projects in this area would bring together writers, poets, painters, sculptors, musicians, dancers, filmmakers – artists of all kinds – as well as art historians and musicologists with philosophers, theologians, and scientists from a variety of sub-disciplines within the psychological, cognitive, and social sciences to conceive and design empirical and statistical studies of the cognitive significance of the arts with respect to spiritual realities and the discovery of new spiritual information.

       

      Exhibition Grants
      FAS/OSP Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: July 26, 2021
      Sponsor Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: August 2, 2021 
      Award Amount: varies/wide range
       

      Recognizing the importance of experiencing original works of art firsthand, the Terra Foundation supports exhibitions that increase the understanding and appreciation of historical American art (circa 1500–1980). The Foundation has a particular interest in exhibitions that travel outside the United States or to Chicago, where the Foundation is headquartered. For exhibitions that travel outside the United States, the following are encouraged:

      • A focused thesis that makes a significant contribution to scholarship on historical American art
      • International curatorial involvement
      • Inclusion of international catalogue essayists
      • A presentation that is meaningful to international audiences

      Visual arts that are eligible for Terra Foundation Exhibition Grants include painting; sculpture; works on paper (prints, drawings, watercolors, photographs); decorative arts (typically handmade functional objects of high aesthetic quality); design (objects of high aesthetic quality; excludes industrial design); performance art; video art; and conceptual art. Excluded are architecture and commercial film/animation.

      Artistic Production Grants
      FAS/OSP Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: May 17, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: May 24, 2021 
      Award Amount: up to $100,000
       
      Artistic Production Grants are awarded twice annually to individual artists, nonprofit organizations, and institutions to support new artistic commissions that take place outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in nontraditional exhibition environments. Individual artists or producing organizations seeking production funding must have a confirmed exhibition venue or presenting partner. Artistic Production funding ranges from $25,000 to $100,000 (can be lower than $25,000) per project, with grants at the upper levels of funding reserved for permanent or long-term installations, or newly commissioned works that may be gifted to a U.S. public collection. Artistic Production Grants are awarded to projects that best exemplify the Fund's three core values of Artistic Production, Thought Leadership, and Public Engagement. 
       
      Fellowships
      FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline (if nominated): June 7, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline (if nominated): June 14, 2021 
      Award Amount: $50,000 
       
      The Whiting Public Engagement Programs are designed to celebrate and empower humanities faculty who embrace public engagement as part of the scholarly vocation. They fund ambitious, often collaborative projects to infuse into public life the richness and nuance that give the humanities their lasting value. In this cycle, the focus is on the following disciplines: history; the study of literature; visual art, music, and other arts; philosophy; and area studies combining these fields. Projects should be designed primarily to engage one or more specific publics beyond the academy, and they should benefit in a distinctive way from the involvement of a scholar.
       

      Proposals for the Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship should be far enough into development or execution to present specific, compelling evidence that they will successfully engage the intended public. Strong proposals will show evidence of both the overall strategy and the practical plan to implement the proposed project. Relationships with key collaborators should already be deeply developed, and, in some cases, the nominee and collaborators may have tested the idea in a pilot, or the project itself may already be underway. Nominees may propose to direct funds however will best meet the needs of the project. Funding may not be used to cover indirect costs of administering the program. The Foundation anticipates awarding up to seven Fellowships in this cycle.

       
      To be eligible, nominees must be full- or part-time humanities faculty in both 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years. Nominees must also be early-career; they should have received their doctorate between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2020. Faculty need not be on a tenure track to be eligible. Please note, while the Whiting Foundation lists adjunct faculty as eligible candidates, Harvard nominees must have principal investigator rights, thus in most cases adjunct faculty would not be eligible.
       
      Please Note: This is a limited submission opportunity. Harvard may nominate one faculty member for the Fellowship program. Interested applicants should contact Erin Hale at erin_hale@fas.harvard.edu
      Seed Grants
      FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline (if nominated): June 7, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline (if nominated): June 14, 2021 
      Award Amount: $50,000 
       
      The Whiting Public Engagement Programs are designed to celebrate and empower humanities faculty who embrace public engagement as part of the scholarly vocation. They fund ambitious, often collaborative projects to infuse into public life the richness and nuance that give the humanities their lasting value. In this cycle, the focus is on the following disciplines: history; the study of literature; visual art, music, and other arts; philosophy; and area studies combining these fields. Projects should be designed primarily to engage one or more specific publics beyond the academy, and they should benefit in a distinctive way from the involvement of a scholar.
       

      The Public Engagement Seed Grant supports projects at a somewhat early stage of development, before the nominee has been able to establish a specific track record of success for the proposed public-facing work. It is not, however, designed for projects starting entirely from scratch: nominees should have fleshed out a compelling vision, including a clear sense of whose collaboration will be required and the ultimate scope and outcomes. They should also have articulated specific short-term next steps required to advance the project and understand the resources required to complete them. The Foundation anticipates that a recipient might use the grant, for example, to test the project on a smaller scale or to engage deeply in planning with collaborators or the intended public. The Foundation anticipates awarding up to 10 Seed Grants in this cycle.

       
      To be eligible, nominees must be full- or part-time humanities faculty in both 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years. Nominees must also be early-career; they should have received their doctorate between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2020. Faculty need not be on a tenure track to be eligible. Please note, while the Whiting Foundation lists adjunct faculty as eligible candidates, Harvard nominees must have principal investigator rights, thus in most cases adjunct faculty would not be eligible.
       
      Please Note: This is a limited submission opportunity. Harvard may nominate one faculty member for the Seed Grant program. Interested applicants should contact Erin Hale at erin_hale@fas.harvard.edu
      Grants
      FAS/OSP Deadline: June 8, 2021 
      Sponsor Deadline: June 15, 2021 
      Award Amount: $5,000 - $25,000
       
      The Wyeth Foundation for American Art provides financial support to encourage the study, appreciation, and recognition of excellence in all aspects of historic American art. The Foundation reviews funding proposals to support research, conservation, and exhibition programming in American art. Grants from the Foundation typically support innovative exhibitions that explore new research about American art; innovative and important museum catalogues and books; and conservation and restoration of American masterpieces. The Foundation does not support grant applications exclusively focused on art of the last three decades.  
      For assistance, please contact:
      Paige Belisle
      Research Development Officer
       
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