American Councils Research Fellowships – Supports collaborative education with some of the world’s most strategically important nations and regions (Amount/time varies by program)

American Philosophical Society’s Franklin Research Grants – This program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses. ($60k/6-12 months)

Beinicke at Yale – Offers short-term fellowships to support research in the Yale Library special collections. This application is open to academic and independent scholars, locally and globally, who would like to apply for funding to pursue research projects that require up to two months of onsite research with the collections.  

Brain Research Foundation Seed Grant Program (LOI) – Provides start-up monies for new research projects in the field of neuroscience that will likely lead to extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other outside funding sources. ($80k/ 2 yrs)

Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships – For doctoral faculty to pursue publicly engaged humanities scholarship ($81k+/1 yr)

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend – 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. ($8k/2 months)

National Humanities Center – Provides scholars with an environment and resources conducive to generating new knowledge and furthering understanding of the human experience. (Half salary/1 academic year)

The Stanford Humanities Center offers residential fellowships to scholars from Stanford and elsewhere at all career stages, giving them the opportunity to pursue their work in a supportive intellectual community. (Up to $70,000 plus a housing and moving allowance of up to $40,000/1 year)