Category: Humanities

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American Indian Graduate Center Fellowship

Main Purpose: To support American Indian and Alaskan Native graduate students.

Benefits: $1,000-$5,000 per academic year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Pursuing a graduate degree at an institution in The United States
  • Demonstrated financial need
  • Enrolled member of a federally recognized American Indian or Alaskan Native group or able to provide documentation of descent (one-fourth degree verifiable federally recognized Indian blood) by submitting a Tribal Eligibility Certificate

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: Check back early Spring 2016

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Humanities Modern Languages

Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL)

Main Purpose: To support research that will contribute to the knowledge of endangered human languages.

Benefits: 

  • varies, 26-30 awards available
  • “Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases.”
  • Doctoral Dissertation Grants are available for up to 24 months

Eligibility:

  • Doctoral student
  • Dissertation that will advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages
  • The Principal Investigator must be the advisor of the doctoral student or a faculty member at the U.S. university where the doctoral student is enrolled. The doctoral student will be the Co-PI.

Additional  Information and Application Links: click here

Deadline: September 15, 2015

 

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Arts and Arts Administration Behavioral Sciences Business Administration Counseling Education Environmental Studies Foreign Languages Health Professions History Humanities Music Nursing Physical Sciences Political Science and Applied Politics Psychology Psychology- Adult Development and Aging Psychology- Organizational Social Sciences Speech- Language Pathology and Audiology( AuD.) Urban Studies and Public Affairs

The Awesome Foundation Grants

Main Purpose: The Awesome Foundation supports projects of all kinds that will  “conserve, sustain, and support the worldwide ecosystem of awesomeness. Projects have included efforts in a wide range of areas including technology, arts, social good, and beyond.” It is “a micro-genius grant for flashes of micro-brilliance.”

Benefits: $1,000

Eligibility Criteria: no specific criteria, a wide variety of people and projects have been funded.

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: ongoing, grants available monthly

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Humanities Minority-Specific Grants Social Sciences

American Sociological Association: Minority Fellowship Program

Main Purpose: To support sociologists of color in pursuing a doctoral degree in any area of sociology.

Benefits:

  • Annual Stipend: $18,000
  • Access to workshops and paper sessions at the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting
  • Travel support to scientific conferences,
  • Formal and informal networking

 

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Must be enrolled in a program that will grant a Ph.D. in sociology
  • Sufficiently advanced in a Ph.D program that commitment to a research career has been demonstrated (must have completed at least one academic year)
  • Specifically, applicants must be members of one of the following racial/ethnic groups: Blacks/African Americans, Latinos/as (e.g., Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans), American Indians or Alaskan Natives, and Asians (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Southeast Asian), or Pacific Islanders (e.g., Hawaiian, Guamanian, Samoan, Filipino).
  • Must be a citizen or non-citizen national of the U.S., or have been lawfully admitted to the U.S. as a permanent residence. Must possess an Alien Registration Card.

 

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: January 31, 2016

 

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Health Professions Humanities Physical Sciences

Biological Anthropology Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (BA-DDRIG)

Biological Anthropology Program Doctoral dissertation Research Improvement Grants (BA-DDRIG)

Main Purpose: To support doctoral students’ dissertation research in the area of human biology and ecology. This includes research regarding the evolutionary history that has shaped the biological diversity of human and nonhuman primates.

Benefits:

  • Anticipated $300,000-$400,000 per fiscal year divided into 15-20 grants
  • Proposals may not exceed $20,000 in direct costs

Eligibility:

  • Proposals must be submitted by the principal investigator (PI: faculty member serving as dissertation advisor) on behalf of the Co-PI (the doctoral student)
  • PI and Co-PI should be from the same university

Application Link and Additional Information: Click Here

Deadline: March 12, 2015, November 10, 2015, July 14, 2016, March 09, 2017, November 09, 2017, July 11, 2018, March 14, 2019, November 14, 2019, July 09, 2020- by 5 p.m. (proposer’s local time)

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Humanities Social Sciences

The Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Grants

Main Purpose: To assist students with funding doctoral or thesis research in anthropology that focuses on humanity’s cultural and biological origins, development, and variation.

Benefits:

  • Maximum award: $20,000, non-renewable

Eligibility:

  • Student currently enrolled in a doctoral program.
  • Apply jointly with dissertation supervisor or other scholar
  • Must complete all other doctoral requirements other than dissertation/thesis. Application may be submitted prior to completion but they must be completed prior to the research start date.

Application Link: click here

Deadlines: May 1 and November 1. Final decisions are made six months later

 

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History Humanities

Phillips Fund for Native American Research

Main Purpose: To provide grants for research in the areas of Native American language, history, and culture.

Benefits:

  • Average awards: $2,500, not exceeding $3,500

Time Limit: one year, however two awards are sometimes

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Young scholar who has received his or her doctorate -OR-
  • Graduate student working on a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: Monday, March 2, 2015 (annually March 1)