Category Archives: Social Sciences & Humanities

New NSF Opportunities

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New NSF funding opportunities in social, behavioral, economic and biological sciences.

  1. Resource Implementations for Data Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (RIDIR) NSF 18-517
    1. Due 2/28/18
    2. Program webpage – RIDIR
    3. Synopsis: As part of NSF’s Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR), the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) seeks to develop user-friendly large-scale next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques to advance fundamental research in SBE areas of study. Successful proposals will, within the financial resources provided by the award, construct such databases and/or relevant analytic techniques and produce a finished product that will enable new types of data-intensive research. The databases or techniques should have significant impacts, either across multiple fields or within broad disciplinary areas, by enabling new types of data-intensive research in the SBE sciences.
  2. SOCIOLOGY PROGRAM – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (Soc-DDRI) NSF 14-604
    1. Due 2/28/18
    2. Program webpage – Soc-DDRI
    3. Synopsis: The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization — societies, institutions, groups and demography — and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology. The Program supports both original data collections and secondary data analysis that use the full range of quantitative and qualitative methodological tools. Theoretically grounded projects that offer methodological innovations and improvements for data collection and analysis are also welcomed…
  3. Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2018 NSF 18-512
    1. Due 2/28/18
    2. Program webpage – Dimensions of Biodiversity
    3. Synopsis: Despite centuries of discovery, most of our planet’s biodiversity remains unknown. The scale of the unknown diversity on Earth is especially troubling given the rapid and permanent loss of biodiversity across the globe. The goal of the Dimensions of Biodiversity campaign is to transform, by 2020, how we describe and understand the scope and role of life on Earth.  This campaign promotes novel integrative approaches to fill the most substantial gaps in our understanding of the diversity of life on Earth. It takes a broad view of biodiversity, and focuses on the intersection of genetic, phylogenetic, and functional dimensions of biodiversity. Successful proposals must integrate these three dimensions to understand interactions and feedbacks among them. While this focus complements several core programs in BIO, it differs by requiring that multiple dimensions of biodiversity be addressed simultaneously, in novel ways, to understand their synergistic roles in critical ecological and evolutionary processes, especially pertaining to the mechanisms driving the origin, maintenance, and functional roles of biodiversity.

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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Data Challenge

Deadline: June 15, 2016

This challenge encourages the creation of web-based tools, data visualizations, and other creative uses of the information found in the Chronicling America historic newspaper database.

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Access to Historical Records

Deadline: June 15, 2016

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals that promote the preservation and use of the nation’s most valuable archival resources. This grant program is designed to support archival repositories in preserving and processing primary source materials. The program emphasizes the creation of online tools that facilitate the public discovery of historical records.

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Henkel (Gerda) Foundation, Research Projects

Deadline: June 15, 2016

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.

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Refugee Microenterprise Development (MED) Program

Deadline: June 21, 2016

The overall purpose of the ORR Refugee MED Program, hereafter referred in the FOA as the MED Program, is to assist refugees to become economically self-sufficient. Under the MED Program the following objectives must be carried out: assisting refugees to establish microenterprise businesses through the provision of MED loans, T/TA, and assisting refugees in developing credit history and/or in repairing their credit scores.

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EMDR Research Foundation, Research Grant Awards

Deadline: July 1, 2016

Proposed studies examining the effectiveness of EMDR in treating PTSD will be considered, however, priority will be placed on studies that emphasize under developed areas of knowledge such as, the underlying mechanisms of EMDR; the treatment of depression, anxiety disorders, somatic disorders, substance abuse, eating disorders, dissociative disorders; or populations such as combat veterans, children and adolescents.

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Ohio Humanities Council, Major Grants

Deadline: July 15, 2016

Cultural programs must have a clear humanities focus. Projects must make use of a humanities perspective. Programs should situate and share stories in the context of the humanities, encouraging participants to engage in considered reflection on those stories. Areas of study include: history, anthropology, folklore, archaeology, literature, languages, linguistics, philosophy, ethics, comparative religion, jurisprudence, historical and critical approaches to the arts, and aspects of the social sciences which use historical or philosophical approaches.

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Upcoming NEH Grant Listing

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The National Endowment for the Humanities has current listings for NEH Grant opportunities through the remainder of this year. Check out opportunities on the NEH Grants webpage.

Bear in mind that some NEH opportunities limit the number of applications submitted from each institution. The University of Akron Limited Submission instructions can be found online at http://www.uakron.edu/research/ora/limited_submissions.dot 

Upcoming Grants for Psychoanalytic Research

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Fund for Psychoanalytic Research- Grants for Specific Projects

Deadline: May 1, 2016

Grants of one year duration at a maximum of $20,000 for grants beginning in 2016 for a specific project building upon psychoanalytic principles or directly investigating the process and/or outcome of psychoanalytically informed treatments will be made.

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Fund for Psychoanalytic Research – Beginning Scholar Pilot Grant

Deadline: May 1, 2016

The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) awards small grants of less than $5,000 for one year to permit a beginning scholar to gather pilot data in preparation for the submission of a full grant to the Fund or to another agency.

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Fund for Psychoanalytic Research – Small Grants for Consultation Travel

Deadline: May 1, 2016

Grants of up to $3,000 will be made to permit a beginning scholar to spend time visiting and consulting with a more experienced, senior investigator who has agreed to help the junior investigator begin their investigative work. Typically these awards are made to permit the beginning scholar the funds to travel and/or to reimburse the senior investigator for travel and consultation. These grants may also be used to support travel to a research training seminar in the US or abroad that is a relevant to the applicant’s career plans.

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Fund for Psychoanalytic Research – Grants for a Beginning Career

Deadline: May 1, 2016

The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) awards grants of up to $15,000 annually for one year to support the beginning career of a psychoanalytic investigator. These mini-career awards are intended, for example, to “buy time” for a junior faculty member or clinician just starting a practice so that they may consult with other investigators, join an investigative team, or attend seminars on research methodology or specific methods relevant to their research.

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Social Sciences & Humanities

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Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions

Deadline: April 4, 2016

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals to publish documentary editions of historical records. Projects may focus on the papers of major figures from American history or cover broad historical movements in politics, military, business, social reform, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience. The historical value of the records and their expected usefulness to broad audiences must justify the costs of the project.

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Humanities Access Grants

Deadline: April 6, 2016

Humanities Access grants establish or augment term endowments (that is, endowments whose funds are entirely expended over the course of a set time period) to provide funding for existing programs at institutions such as public libraries, local and regional museums, historical societies, community colleges, HBCUs and tribal colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions, archival repositories, and other cultural organizations. Humanities Access grants are intended to seed longer-term endowment-building efforts.

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Mining History Association

Deadline: April 15, 2016

The Mining History Association (MHA) Research Grant Program is open to all who are currently engaged in or who plan to conduct mining history research, including graduate students, academic scholars, public sector professionals in related disciplines, independent scholars, writers, and educators. Research may focus on technology, business, social and cultural life, the environment, or any other aspect of mining, its associated industries, and its communities. The MHA does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, age, national origin, sexual orientation or disability.

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Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan

Deadline: April 28, 2016

The Fellowship Program for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan is a joint activity of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Awards support research on modern Japanese society and political economy, Japan’s international relations, and U.S.-Japan relations.

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African Studies Association, Melville J. Herskovits Award

Deadline: April 30, 2016

The African Studies Association (ASA) invites publishers to nominate titles for the Herskovits Award. The ASA presents the Herskovits Award to the author of the most important scholarly work in African studies published in English during the preceding year.

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