Harvard Theatre Collection Grant – Scholars at all stages of their careers are invited to apply to pursue projects that require in-depth research on Houghton Library’s holdings, draw on staff expertise, and participate in intellectual life at Harvard. ($4.5k stipend/1 year; required to be in residence at Houghton for four weeks within the fellowship year, July through June)
Kaplan Institute Faculty Fellowship – Enables Northwestern faculty to pursue independent projects of significance to the humanities while immersed in an interdisciplinary community of scholars. (Faculty may apply for a 50% teaching reduction, which does not count against the leave clock, or, funds permitting, a full year of supported leave.)
The Les Paul Foundation works to inspire innovative and creative thinking by sharing the legacy of Les Paul through music education, recording, innovation, and medical research related to hearing. ($1.5k-$2k/1 year)
McKnight Foundation Neuroscience Scholar Awards – Encourages neuroscientists in the early stages of their careers to focus on disorders of learning and memory. ($225k/3 years)
National Endowment for the Humanities Media Projects – Supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Media Projects offers two levels of funding: Development and Production. ($75k for Development/6-12 months; $700k for Production/1-3 years).
UConn Humanities Institute – Offers residential fellowship opportunities to pursue advanced work in the humanities. Visiting Humanities Scholars, UConn Humanities Scholars, and UConn Graduate Humanities Fellowships are year-long and allow for time and space to research, write, and collaborate on work that extends and celebrates humanities scholarship. ($2k/1 year)
William T. Grant Foundation (LOI due) – Offers grants that support high-quality research studies in several focus areas, career-development awards for promising early-career faculty, grants that encourage research institutions to make structural changes that encourage engaged research, and programs of good-neighbor grants that support nonprofit youth service providers in New York City. ($100k to $1M/2-4 years).