barnard college office of institutional funding march 31
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Grant Opportunities &
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Barnard College Office of Institutional Funding
Hello, faculty,
I hope you’re enjoying the warming weather. We are back with our March edition of our Grant Opportunities newsletter.
This month, we are covering the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in our Fea-tured Funder column. For our Sage Advice column our student worker, Nicole Heyward (class of ‘22, economics), has put together a helpful guide on applying to the NSF as a collaborative proposal. And for our new col-umn, The History of Philanthropy, we are staying in the Middle Ages and looking at the rise of Mortmain Laws, or “Dead hand laws.” Why such a spooky name? Read on to find out.
As always, we have upcoming deadlines, this time for May. I want to high-light the upcoming NEH Fellowship, which is due April 14. Some col-leagues who work at other small liberal arts colleges have put together a webinar where winners from their colleges discuss the application. You can see it here.
The next Internal Grant deadline is April 6, 2021. That applies to Barnard Faculty Research Grants, as well as the Fund for Innovation in Teaching Grants.
If you need assistance finding grants or beginning an application, please feel free to email any of the members of the Institutional Funding and Sponsored Research team. We love to hear from you!
Liane Carlson
Inside this issue
Featured Funders............ ........ 2
Sage Advice ............................. 3
History of Philanthropy…………..4
News ........................................ 5
Grant Opportunities
Special Opportunities………..…...6
General.. .................................. .8
Arts & Humanities ………………….9
Creative Arts ............................ .11
Social Science .......................... 11
Language & Area Studies ......... 13
STEM ....................................... 13
Deadline Reminders
General Interest ...................... 14
Arts & Humanities ................... 16
Education ................................ 18
Social Sciences……………………….18
Language & Area Studies ......... 19
STEM ....................................... 20
Library Science……………………….22
March 31, 2021
Featured Funders
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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
In the thumbnail photo that accompanies Alfred P. Sloan’s Wikipedia photo, he has his right arm propped against the back of a chair and he is using it to hold up his head, while his hooded eyes look down and slightly to the right. His tie is sagging out from his three-piece suit, his eyebrows are contracting, and his jaw is slack. It’s the photo of a pensive man, exhausted and maybe a little regretful.
I started with this photo because it’s hard to get a sense of who Alfred Sloan was from written sources (or at least those easily available on the internet). We know that he was born in 1875 the first of five children to a housewife and a machinist who happened to co-own a tea import company. We know he married young and stayed married, though he never had children. We know that he was smart, with a knack for business that made him president of General Motors in 1923 and General Motors one of the leading car manufacturers at the time of his death in in 1966. We know that he despised the union-busting violence contemporaries like Henry Ford used, though he was perfectly willing to insert spies into troublesome worker organizations. And we know that he prized efficiency.
As for his personality, the Sloan Foundation website describes him as “a realist as well as a humanist and philanthropist.” That may be true, but investigations after World War II also paint a less flattering picture of Sloan. In 1931, GM acquired Opel, a major manufacturer in Germany. Sloan claimed that company was soon nationalized and its American businessmen replaced with loyal Nazi officials, but Nazi armament official Albert Speer reportedly claimed that “‘would never have considered invading Poland’ without synthetic fuel technology provided by General Motors.”
GM’s collaboration of the Nazis remains a contentious topic, but the historical record reveals that Alfred Sloan was, at minimum, not terribly worried about stopping involvement with the Nazi government. In a letter to GM’s Board written in March 1939, Sloan insisted that the internal politics of Germany “should not be considered the business of the management of General Motors...We must conduct ourselves as a German organization...We have no right to shut down the plant.”
Today the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation “support[s] original research and education related to science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics.” They have a number of fellowships and grants, including the following:
“The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise…Candidates must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, molecular biology, neuroscience, physics, or a related field.” Funding: $75k. Deadline: September 15, 2021.
Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance Grants “support rigorous and objective research projects on U.S. economic structure, behavior, and performance whose findings inform and strengthen decision-making by regulators, policymakers, and the public.” Deadline: Rolling.
Energy and Environment Grants seek to “inform the societal transition toward low-carbon energy systems in the United States by investigating economic, environmental, technological, and distributional issues.” Deadline: Rolling
The Public Understanding of Science, Technology & Economics Program aims to give people a keener appreciation for the increasingly scientific and technological world in which we live and to convey some of the challenges and rewards of the scientific and technological enterprise.” Deadline: Rolling.
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Sage Advice
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When to Submit a Collaborative NSF Proposal
Note: Today’s column is written by our student worker, Nicole Heyward, class of 2022, economics major.
Have you ever wondered about what makes a collaborative proposal at the NSF? Collaborative Proposals at the NSF are ones in which investigators from two or more organizations hope to collaborate on a single project.
Proposals can be submitted in two ways:
A single proposal requesting a single award. For a single proposal, one investigator is designated as the lead investigator and submits a “single, focused proposal,” with collaborators listed as subawardees. The lead investigator is also responsible for any communication with NSF officials.
Multiple proposals requesting multiple awards. This allows for each organization to submit sections of the proposal relevant to their organization. Proposals can be submitted via FastLane or Research.gov. The project title must begin with “Collaborative Research.”
While the lead organization and the non-lead organizations both submit proposals, the sections that each submit differ.
The lead organization submits the project narrative, budget, and other key components.
The other organizations only submit materials related to their roles, such as C&P, biographical sketches, and budget.
Are there any advantages to submitting multiple proposals?
Yes! In a single proposal with subawards, the single PI is responsible for allocation of all funds, as well as any reporting requirements to the NSF. In a collaborative project with multiple PIs, each organization is responsible for their own reporting and expenditures.
General Guidelines:
More detailed information on submission is available on Research.gov.
All components in the collaborative proposal must meet the established deadline date.
Any postdoctoral researcher mentoring plans must be included in the supplementary .documentation section on FastLane.
All collaborative proposals--both submitted in a single proposal or in multiple proposals--must clearly delineate the roles and responsibilities of each organization, designate the lead and non-lead organizations, and also explain the advantages of collaboration.
The History of American Philanthropy
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Last month I left our story about the birth of American philanthropy at the invention of the first trust. Two of the three stories were intimately concerned with the medieval English Church. Since there’s no American charitable law without the precedent of English charitable law, and no English charitable law without the Crown’s struggle with the Catholic Church, I’m going to keep that focus on medieval England a little longer and tell the story of “The Statutes of Mortmain.”
The Statutes of Mortmain really grew out of a question that we still struggle with: Should a charitable concern be able to shield wealth from taxation at all and, if so, for how long?
By the thirteenth century, the Catholic Church had started to claim an increasing quantity of land in England. It was enough of an issue that in 1279 King Edward I (sometimes called Longshanks) tried to put a stop to it. Technically Edward I was the second king to try to put a stop to it; his grandfather, King John, had managed to ban the transfer of land to the Church without the approval of the king in the Magna Carta, but he died soon after signing it and the clause was never enforced. It certainly wasn’t enforced by Edward’s father, Henry III, who was at once feckless and extremely deferential to the Church. Longshanks is today best known for expelling the Jews from England and for sadistically crushing William Wallace in Braveheart, but he was probably the most competent of the flailing Plantagenet kings. He was also devoted in the early part of his reign to administrative, legal reform.
He had grounds for stemming the transfer of property to the Catholic Church. Under English law at the time, all the property in the realm belonged to the king. Feudal lords held estates as “tenants in capite” or “tenants in chief” to the king, lesser nobility or smaller landholders held smaller estates from the great lords in turn, and so on. Essentially, land was divided in hierarchical stack of estates, with each tenant owing a certain amount service or tax to the person above him.
Even though the king owned the land, the tenants below him still had the right to create new estates and transfer rights to it, and that’s really where the problem was. There were two ways of transferring the rights to land, (or “alienating it” in the terminology of the time). A tenant could either sell the estate as is and clear off, or further subdivide it and sell that new estate to someone else, who would then owe them (i.e. the person subdividing it) rent. At some point, savvy peasants realized that they could transfer their lease to the Church and then rent it back from them—this time, with no feudal dues attached. The peasants were obviously happy with the arrangement because they got to work the same land under less onerous conditions and the Church was happy because they now held the property. The king, however, was decidedly unhappy because the bulk of his income came from inheritance taxes and once the Church had possession there was no more inheritance.
Why? Individuals could be counted on to die and pass on their wealth with (to us) alarming regularity, but the Church was bigger than any single individual officeholder. In the terms of the day, it was a corporation. That meant that increasing quantities of land were held by a legal institution that could never die, never attain the age of majority, and never have its land seized under the charge of treason. It was as if huge portions of the country were held by a dead man and out of economic circulation forever. That is where the term “mortmain” comes from. It means “dead hand” in French.
Longshanks tried to address the problem twice by issuing the Statutes of Mortmain in 1279 and 1290, which forbade the transfer of land to a corporation without royal permission. The fact that he needed to issue it twice tells you how successful the law was. Still, the Statue of Mortmain isn’t a simple historical curiosity. For one thing, early American courts would draw on mortmain laws when ruling about the legality of trusts. More importantly, though, the question of why wealth should be out of reach of taxation and for how long is one that critics of American philanthropy still raise today.
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News
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From the NSF
Now Available in Research.gov: Three New Proposal Types and Proposal Withdrawal Functionality
Posted on January 7, 2021
“Effective March 22, the National Science Foundation (NSF) enabled three new proposal types in the Research.gov Proposal Submission System and in the recently launched Research.gov Proposal Preparation Demo Site. These are the Facilitation Awards for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities (FASED), Equipment, and Travel proposal types. New automated compliance checks and associated error and warning messages for these proposal types were also implemented. In addition, proposal withdrawal functionality was added for both single submission (with or without subawards) and separately submitted collaborative proposals from multiple organizations. New training resources have also been added to the Research.gov About Proposal Preparation and Submission page. “ <<more>>
Wildfires May Have Larger Effects on Cloud Formation and Climate Change Than Thought
Posted on March 15, 2021 by NSF staff
“As the frequency and size of wildfires continue to increase worldwide, new research from Carnegie Mellon University shows that chemical aging of particles emitted by these fires can lead to more extensive cloud formation and intense storm development. ” <<more>>
From the NIH
US health agency will invest $1 billion to investigate ‘long COVID’
From Nature by Staff. Posted on March 04,2021
“The United States has announced that it will
spend big on research into ‘long COVID’ — the long-lasting health effects of a SARS-CoV-2 infection. The funding comes as the scientific community is just starting to recognize the impact of the condition and unravel why it occurs. On 23 February, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced an initiative worth US$1.15 billion over four years to fund investigations of the condition, and listed some first priorities.” <<more>>
NIH Head Apologizes for Structural Racism in Biomedical Research
From Bloomberg Law by Jennie Baumann. Posted on February 26, 2021
“Francis Collins apologized for structural racism that has sidelined Black and other disadvantaged scientists in biomedical research and vowed to make changes. An analysis found that while the number of Black scientists who applied for and received NIH grants jumped significantly in the past seven years, that number is still a small proportion of the overall scientific pool. In one grant category, the number of Black applicants increased 65% to 703 applicants in 2020 compared with 425 in 2013. But white applicants by comparison were 19,919 in 2020 and 16,918 in 2013.” <<more>>
From Other Sources
Applying to the NEH Fellowship from a SLAC
A conversation among faculty at small liberal arts colleges who have won the NEH Fellowship. <<more>>
New EPA administrator: ‘Science is back’
The Washington Post by Brady Dennis and Dino Grandoni. Posted on March 15, 2021
“Michael Regan has bold aspirations, and a long to-do list, as President Biden’s newly confirmed
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Environmental Protection Agency administrator.
“He wants to hasten the nation’s shift to cleaner forms of energy, make transformational investments in communities battered by decades of pollution, and improve air and water quality around the country. But to accomplish any of that, the 44-year-old administrator said Monday, he must first help the EPA get its groove back.
“We’ve got a lot of work to do, starting with rebuilding the staff morale and getting all of our staff back to feeling as if they matter, their voices matter,” Regan said in his first interview after being sworn in last week. “We really have to restore the scientific integrity and the utilization of data, of facts, as we move forward and make some very important decisions.” <<more>> Europe moves to exclude neighbors from its quantum and space research
From Science Magazine, by Nicholas Wallace. Posted March 11, 2021
“In a sign of growing national tensions over the control of strategic research, the European Commission is trying to block countries outside the European Union from participating in quantum computing and space projects under Horizon Europe, its new research funding program.
The proposed calls, which must still be approved by delegates from the 27 EU member states in the coming weeks, would shut out researchers in countries accustomed to full access to European research programs, including Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Israel. European Economic Area (EEA) countries Norway, Lichtenstein, and Iceland would be barred from space research calls while remaining eligible for quantum computing projects.” <<more>>
Patent system often stifles the innovation it was designed to encourage
From The Conversation by Michael Meurer and Janet Freilich.
“Most technologies are developed by many
inventors over many years, a process called “cumulative” innovation. Too often, however, early inventors get a patent on a small and perhaps insignificant piece of the technological puzzle, yet their patent covers the entire puzzle. Inventors who solve subsequent parts of the puzzle may need to pay royalties to the patentee, even if their contributions are larger.
As legal experts who focus on technology law and policy, we suggest that the problem boils down to two issues: too many patents and too little accurate information about them.” <<more>>
Grant Opportunities
Special opportunities American Psychological Foundation APF COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant Deadline: April 1, 2021 “In response to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, the American Psychological Foundation is allocating funding to support psychological research that will provide insights that will help psychologists to work with individuals, families and groups who are struggling to cope during these challenging times.” <<more>> NIH (NOSI): Competitive and Administrative Supplements for the Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Minority Health and Health Disparities Deadline: May 1, 2021 “This NOSI is soliciting research in health disparity populations that -seeks to understand: 1) how state and local policies and initiatives mitigate or exacerbate disparities in health services use and health outcomes; 2) the role that community-level protective and resilience factors and interventions
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Grant Opportunities
have in mitigating the effects of the sector disruptions that the COVID-19 outbreak causes; and 3) how behavioral and/or biological mechanisms may contribute to COVID-19 manifestations. Outcomes of interest include, but are not limited to, the COVID-19 incidence, prevalence, and mortality rates in defined populations; substance abuse and mental health effects; impact on chronic conditions; effects on severe maternal morbidity and mortality; and influence on access, utilization, and quality of health care (including needed medical care, medical treatments, and access to prescription drugs).” <<more>> Russell Sage Foundation Deadline: May 4, 2021 Research on the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession in the U.S. Specifically, research that assesses the social, political, economic, and psychological causes and consequences of the pandemic, especially its effects on marginalized individuals and groups and on trust in government and other institutions. Our priorities do not include analyses of health outcomes or health behavior. <<more>> Russell Sage Foundation Deadline: May 4, 2021 Research focused on systemic racial inequality and/or the recent mass protests in the U.S. Specifically, research that investigates the prevalence of racial disparities in policing and criminal justice and their social, political, economic, and psychological causes and consequences; the effects of the current social protest movement and mass mobilization against systemic discrimination; the nature of public attitudes and public policies regarding policing, criminal justice, and social welfare; and the effects of those attitudes in the current political environment. <<more>>
The John Templeton Foundation Character Through Community Deadline: June 11, 2021 The Character Virtue Development department at the John Templeton Foundation invites proposals from organizations that seek to strengthen their understanding and practice of character development through communities of practice. The Foundation has allocated $15M for this funding competition. Interested applicants should submit an Online Funding Inquiry (OFI) through the Foundation’s application portal. Please see below for further information on the Request For Proposals (RFP) focus, project requirements, and other important dates. The submission deadline for an OFI is June 11, 2021.” <<more>> NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MPS-Ascend) Deadline: June 15, 2021 “The purpose of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPS-Ascend) program is to support postdoctoral Fellows who will broaden the participation of groups that are underrepresented in MPS fields in the U.S. including Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, and Native Americans (to include Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians or other Native Pacific Islanders) as future leaders in MPS fields. The program is intended to recognize beginning investigators of significant potential and provide them with experience in research that will broaden perspectives, facilitate interdisciplinary interactions and help broadening participation within MPS fields. The program funds postdoctoral Fellows in postdoctoral research environments that will have maximal impact on their future scientific development and facilitates their transition into a faculty appointment. Awards will support research in any scientific area within the purview of the five MPS Divisions: the Divisions of Astronomical Sciences (AST), Chemistry (CHE), Materials Research (DMR), Mathematical Sciences
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(DMS), and Physics (PHY). Fellowships are awards to individuals, not institutions, and are administered by the Fellows.“ <<more>> NIH Urgent Phase I/II Clinical Trials to Repurpose Existing Therapeutic Agents to Treat COVID-19 Sequelae (U01 Clinical Trial Required) Deadline: Rolling “The purpose of this urgent funding opportunity announcement is to invite applications to repurpose existing therapeutic agents to treat Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) sequelae and associated complications that result from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections. The therapeutic agent must have already completed at least a Phase I clinical trial for a different indication, and not require additional regulatory studies for the new indication prior to starting a clinical trial." <<more>> NSF Rapid Grants Deadline: Rolling “In light of the emergence and spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States and abroad, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is accepting proposals to conduct non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to explore how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19, to inform and educate about the science of virus transmission and prevention, and to encourage the development of processes and actions to address this global challenge.” <<more>> NSF Rapid Grants: Provisioning Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to Further COVID-19 Research Deadline: Rolling “Through this DCL, the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) within the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering is inviting RAPID proposals and
supplemental funding requests to existing awards that address COVID-19 challenges through data and/or software infrastructure development activities. Such activities would be funded by the Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) program or the Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program.” <<more>>
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator Deadline: Rolling “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard today committed up to $125 million in seed funding to speed-up the response to the COVID-19 epidemic by identifying, assessing, developing, and scaling-up treatments. The partners are committed to equitable access, including making products available and affordable in low-resource settings. The COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator will play a catalytic role by accelerating and evaluating new and repurposed drugs and biologics to treat patients with COVID-19 in the immediate term, and other viral pathogens in the longer-term. Currently there are no broad-spectrum antivirals or immunotherapies available for the fight against emerging pathogens, and none approved for use on COVID-19.” <<more>>
General Interests and cross-disciplinary John Templeton Foundation Academic Cross-Training Fellowship
Deadline: TBA, previously May 1, 2020
“The Academic Cross-Training (ACT) Fellowship program is intended to equip recently tenured philosophers and theologians with the skills and knowledge needed to study Big Questions that require substantive and high-level engagement with empirical science.” <<more>>
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Russell Sage Foundation Social, Political and Economic Inequality
Deadline: May 4, 2021
“The Russell Sage Foundation’s program on Social, Political, and Economic Inequality supports innovative research on the factors that contribute to social, political and economic inequalities in the U.S., and the extent to which those inequalities affect social, psychological, political, and economic outcomes, including educational access, job opportunities, social mobility, civic participation and representation, and the transmission of advantage and disadvantage within and across generations.” <<more>>
William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants
Deadline: May 5, 2021
“The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.” <<more>>
Einstein Forum Fellowship
Deadline: May 15, 2021
“The Einstein Forum and the Daimler and Benz Foundation are 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.” <<more>>
Association for Information Science and Technology Bob Williams History Fund Research Grant Award
Deadline: TBA, previously May 15, 2020
“The Bob Williams Research Grant will be awarded to an outstanding research proposal exploring the history of information science and technology. Researchers working on all topics relevant to the
history of information science and technology are encouraged to apply and will be considered. The grant consists of funding of up to USD $2,000 along with a certificate signed by the chair of ASIS&T SIG-HFIS.” <<more>>
DAAD German Academic Exchange Service Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists
Deadline: May 17, 2021 “The aim of this particular programme is to support short-term research stays and thus promote the exchange of experience and networking amongst colleagues.” <<more>>
ARTS & HUMANITIES
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Hiett Prize in the Humanities
Deadline: TBA, previously May 15, 2020 “The Hiett Prize in the Humanities is an annual award aimed at identifying candidates who are in the early stages of careers devoted to the humanities and whose work shows extraordinary promise. The opposite of a lifetime achievement award, the Hiett Prize seeks to encourage future leaders in the humanities by recognizing their early accomplishment and their potential and assisting their ongoing work through a cash award of $50,000.” <<more>>
American Historical Society Joan Kelly Memorial Prize
Deadline: May 15, 2021
“Established in 1984 and named in memory of Joan Kelly (1928–82), this prize is awarded annually for the book in women’s history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan Kelly. The prize was established by the Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession and the Conference Group on Women’s History (now the
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Coordinating Council for Women in History), and is administered by the American Historical Association.” <<more>>
American Historical Society William and Edwyna Gilbert Award
Deadline: May 15, 2021
“The William and Edwyna Gilbert Award for the Best Article on Teaching History annually recognizes outstanding contributions to the teaching of history through the publication of articles in journals, magazines, and other serials. Originally the “William Gilbert Award,” named in memory of William Gilbert, a longtime AHA member and distinguished scholar-teacher of the Renaissance at the University of Kansas, it was renamed the William and Edwyna Gilbert Award in 2012 after Edwyna Gilbert passed away and left additional funds to supplement the original bequest for the award.” <<more>>
The Culinary Historians of New York Scholar’s Grant
Deadline: June 15, 2021
“Every year, Culinary Historians of New York invites submissions for the CHNY Scholar’s Grant in support of research and scholarship in the field of culinary history.” <<more>>
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center Deadline: TBA, previously May 30, 2020
“Academic Fellowships support independent research in the humanities, and may also include cross-disciplinary topics, creative practice, and collaborations. The goal of the fellowship program is to foster new research, exploration, and dialogue about Georgia O’Keeffe and Modernism. Projects that utilize the collections and research materials of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will be given priority.” <<more>>
Shafik Gabr Foundation East-West: The Art of Dialogue Fellowship
Deadline: TBA, Previously May 31, 2020
“The East-West: The Art of Dialogue initiative organises an annual exchange program, the Gabr Fellowship, for young emerging leaders from the
East and the West to join forces to develop and implement projects addressing critical issues in their countries.” <<more>>
Northern Illinois University Horatio Alger Fellowship for the Study of American Popular Culture
Deadline: May 31, 2021
“The University Libraries, Northern Illinois University, invite applications for the Horatio Alger Fellowship for the Study of American Popular Culture. Funding is available to scholars who will be using materials from the Libraries’ major holdings in American popular culture. These holdings include the nation’s preeminent collections related to Horatio Alger, Jr. and Edward Stratemeyer.” <<more>>
Australian National University Humanities Research Center Visiting Fellowships
Deadline: May 31, 2021
“The Humanities Research Centre (HRC) was established in 1972 as a national and international centre for excellence in the humanities and as a catalyst for innovative humanities scholarship and research within the Australian National University. The HRC interprets the ‘humanities’ generously, recognising that new methods of theoretical enquiry have done much to break down the traditional distinction between the humanities, the creative arts, and the social sciences. It also recognises the importance of establishing a dialogue between the humanities and the natural and technological sciences. One of its central functions is to bring to Australia scholars of international standing who will provoke fresh ideas both within and beyond the academic community. Our theme for 2022 is Mobilities, a description of which appears below. We encourage scholars from all over the world working in every discipline to apply for Visiting Fellowships at our Centre.” <<more>>
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Gilder Lehrman Scholarly Fellowships Deadline: July 30, 2021
“The Gilder Lehrman Institute provides 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. Since 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute has awarded a total of 673 fellowships.” <<more>>
Creative arts
Vilcek Foundation Prizes for Creative Promise Deadline: June 11, 2021
“The Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise were established in 2009 as a complement to the Vilcek Prizes, to encourage and support emerging to mid-career immigrant artists and scientists who have demonstrated exceptional achievements early in their careers. As with the Vilcek Prizes, the Creative Promise Prizes are awarded annually in biomedical science and in a rotating category of the arts — in 2022, in dance.” <<more>>
The Andy Warhol Foundation
Arts Writers Grants Program
Deadline: May 19, 2021
“The Arts Writers Grant supports both emerging and established writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. We also support art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply.” <<more>>
National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows
Deadline: TBA, previously May 30, 2020
“The NEA National Heritage Fellowships recognize the recipients' artistic excellence and support their continuing contributions to our nation's traditional arts heritage.” <<more>>
Social Sciences
Wenner Gren Foundation Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: May 1, 2021
“Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowships (ethnographic film)provide up to $40,000 towards the completion of an ethnographic film that is based on anthropological research already accomplished by the applicant. The fellowship is awarded to early career scholars, who frequently lack the time and resources they need for film production. Applicants should be no more than ten years beyond their PhD, with allowances made for periods of caregiving, and have a doctorate in anthropology or an equivalent field. A maximum of four full Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded annually.” <<more>>
Wenner Gren Foundation Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: May 1, 2021
“Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships (writing) provide up to $40,000 towards the writing-up of already completed research. The fellowship is awarded to early career scholars, who frequently lack the time and resources they need to publish their work. Applicants should be no more than ten years beyond their PhD, with allowances made for periods of caregiving, and have a doctorate in anthropology or an equivalent field. A maximum of eight Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded annually.” <<more>>
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Wenner Gren Foundation Post-Ph.D. Research Grants
Deadline: May 1, 2021
“Post-Ph.D. Research Grants are awarded to individuals holding a Ph.D. or equivalent degree to support individual research projects. The program contributes to the Foundation's overall mission to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas.” <<more>>
Russell Sage Foundation
Behavioral Economics
Deadline: May 4, 2021
“The Russell Sage Foundation's program on Behavioral Economics supports novel research that uses insights and methods from psychology, economics, sociology, political science and other social sciences to examine and improve social and living conditions in the United States. We seek investigator-initiated research proposals that will broaden our understanding of the social, economic and political consequences of actual behaviors and decisions.” <<more>>
Russell Sage Foundation Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Deadline: May 4, 2021
“The Russell Sage Foundation’s program on Race, Ethnicity & Immigration supports innovative investigator-initiated research on the social, economic, and political effects of the changing racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population, including the transformation of communities and ideas about what it means to be American. We are especially interested in research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, gender and legal status in outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, and native-born whites.” <<more>>
Russell Sage Foundation Immigration and Immigrant Integration
Deadline: May 4, 2021
“The Russell Sage Foundation/Carnegie Corporation Initiative on Immigration and Immigrant Integration seeks to support innovative research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture and public policy on outcomes for immigrants and for the native-born of different racial and ethnic groups and generations. This initiative falls under RSF’s Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Program and represents a special area of interest within the core program, which continues to encourage proposals on a broader set of issues.” <<more>>
William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants on Reducing Inequality
Deadline: May 5, 2021
“The Foundation’s mission is to support research to improve the lives of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. One way that we pursue this mission is by investing in high-quality field-initiated studies on reducing inequality in youth outcomes.” <<more>>
William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence
Deadline: May 5, 2021
“The Foundation’s mission is to support research to improve the lives of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. One way that we pursue this mission is by investing in high-quality field-initiated studies on improving the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth.” <<more>>
Harvard University Weatherhead Center Huntington Prize
Deadline: May 31, 2021
“Students and friends of Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008) have established a prize in the amount of $10,000 for the best book published each year in the field of national security. The book can be a work of history or political science, or a work by a practitioner of statecraft. The prize will not be awarded if the Huntington Prize
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Committee judges that the submissions in a given year do not meet the high standards set by Samuel P. Huntington.” <<more>>
Language & Area Studies Trust for Mutual Understanding Grants
Deadline: May 1, 2021
TMU provides grants for costs associated with professional exchanges in the arts and environmental sciences and the intersection between these two fields. <<more>>
Russell Sage Foundation Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Deadline: May 4, 2021
“The Russell Sage Foundation’s program on Race, Ethnicity & Immigration supports innovative investigator-initiated research on the social, economic, and political effects of the changing racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population, including the transformation of communities and ideas about what it means to be American. We are especially interested in research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, gender and legal status in outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, and native-born whites.” <<more>>
University of London, School of Advanced Study Institute of Modern Languages Research Fellowship
Deadline: May 14, 2021
“The Institute of Modern Languages Research offers opportunities for visiting scholars, with or without funding, to conduct research into any field relevant to the work of the Institute.” <<more>>
American Historical Association John F. Richards Prize
Deadline: May 15, 2021
“The John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History recognizes the most distinguished work of scholarship on South Asian history published in English. South Asia is defined as the geographic
area included in the modern states of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Eligibility will be defined quite broadly, including books on any period or field of South Asian historical studies and works which integrate South Asian history with broader global issues and movements.” <<more>>
Wilson Center Billington Fellowship
Deadline: May 15, 2021
“The Kennan Institute seeks applications from scholars who have received their Ph.D. within the past 10 years for the James H. Billington Fellowship to conduct research on Russian history and culture. The Billington Fellowship was established in 2016 in tribute to the co-founder of the Kennan Institute, Director Emeritus of the Wilson Center, and Librarian Emeritus of Congress, James H. Billington.” <<more>>
STEM
(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine National Research Council Research Associateship Programs
Deadline: May 1, 2021
“The NRC Research Associateship Programs (RAP) promote excellence in scientific and technological research conducted by the U.S. government through the administration of programs offering graduate, postdoctoral, and senior level research opportunities at sponsoring federal laboratories and affiliated institutions.” <<more>>
W. M. Keck Foundation Research Program Deadline: May 1, 2021
“Supporting pioneering discoveries in science, engineering and medical research has been our mandate from the beginning. By funding the high-
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risk/high-impact work of leading researchers, we are laying the groundwork for new paradigms, technologies and discoveries that will save lives, provide innovative solutions, and add to our understanding of the world. Senior, Mid and Early Career investigators are encouraged to apply.” <<more>>
National Institutes of Health Team-Based Design in Biomedical Engineering Education (R25)
Deadline: May 28, 2021
“The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The over-arching goal of this NIBIB R25 program is to support educational activities that
complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.” <<more>>
Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science Deadline: June 11, 2021
“The Vilcek Foundation will award three Creative Promise Prizes of $50,000 each to young foreign-born biomedical scientists who demonstrate outstanding early achievement. Eligible work may be in basic, applied, and/or translational biomedical science.” <<more>>
American Psychological Foundation/Society for General Psychology Mary Whiton Calkins Grant
Deadline: May 31, 2021
“The APF/Society for General Psychology Mary Whiton Calkins grant encourages research that fits into the broad category of general psychology with a particular interest in research that combines multiple subfields within the discipline or addresses overarching themes. The strongest proposals will align with one or more of Div. 1's (Society for General Psychology) goals and will support faculty members who seek to promote coherence among psychology’s subfields.” <<more>>
National Institutes of Health Blueprint for Neuroscience Research
Deadline: Varies “A collaborative framework that includes the NIH Office of the Director and 14 NIH Institutes and Centers that support research on the nervous system.” <<more>>
LIBRARY SCIENCE
National Endowment for the Humanities Research and Development Program
Deadline: May 18, 2021
“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.” <<more>>
Deadline Reminders Below are grants that are, or are expected to be, due in the next six months. For a list of grant deadlines for the whole year, please see our Grants Calendar on the Barnard website. GENERAL INTEREST AND CROSS-DISCIPLINARY April 1— Fahs-Beck Fund Research and
Experimentation Grant Program April 1—King’s College London Georgian Papers
Programme Royal Archives Fellowships April 1—Alex C. Walker Foundation Grants April 2—Musee du guai Branlt—Jacques Chirac
Postdoctoral Fellowships April 10—Columbia Brown Institute Magic Grant April 14—National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowships
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April 15—Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center Philp Lee Phillips Society Fellowship April 22 – National Geographic Society Grants Program April 25—Project Management Institute Sponsored Research Program April 26—Columbia University Entrepreneurship Collaboratory Fellows Fund April 28—European Commission Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Research and Innovation Staff
Exchange April 28—National Endowment for the Humanities Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication April 30—National Library of Australia Fellowships April 30—Lawrence Foundation Grants in Environment and Human Services April 30—Feminist Review Trust Awards April 30—Academic & Textbook Writing Grants May 1—John Templeton Foundation Academic Cross-Training Fellowship May 6—William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants May 15— Einstein Forum Fellowship May 15—Association for Information Science and Technology Bob Williams History Fund Research
Grant Award May 17—DAAD German Academic Exchange Service Research Stays for University Academics and
Scientists May 23—Russel Sage Foundation Social, Political and Economic Inequality June 1—University of Minnesota’s Immigration History Research Center Archives Michael G. Karni
Scholarship June 3 — PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship June 15—National Science Foundation Perception, Action, & Cognition Conference Proposals June 15—Carey Institute for Global Good Logan Nonfiction Program June 22—Columbia Alliance Joint Projects June 30—Hagley Museum and Library Henry Belin du Pont Research Grants & Exploratory Research
Grants July 10 – National Geographic Society Grants Program July 15—Library of Congress Kluge Center Fellowship July 15—Leakey Foundation Research Grant August 3 – American Academy of Religion Collaborative Research Grants August 2—National Science Foundation Perception, Action, & Cognition Research Proposals August 4—Joyce Foundation Grants August 31—Fritz Thyssen Foundation Conference Grants Rolling deadline—Columbia University Seminars Leonard Hastings Schoff Publication Fund Rolling deadline – Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grants in Humanities & Social Sciences Rolling deadline – Institute for Humane Studies Hayek Fund for Scholars—Covering conference and job
interview travel Rolling deadline – Pulitzer Center Travel Grants Rolling deadline – Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund Rolling deadline – Puffin Foundation Investigative Fund Rolling deadline—Type Investigations Ida B. Wells Fellowship Rolling deadline—Type Investigations Wayne Barrett Project Rolling deadline—Type Investigations H.D. Lloyd Fund for Investigative Journalism Rolling deadline – Tools and Trades History Society Salaman Awards
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Arts & Humanities
General Interest and Cross Disciplinary April 1—American Historical Association J Franklin Jameson Fellowship April 1—Humanities New York Action Grants April 14—National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships April 15—Columbia University Heyman Center Edward Said Fellowship April 20—John Paul II Center for Interreligious Studies Fellowship in Interreligious Studies April 28—National Endowment for the Humanities Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication April 28—University of Melbourne Redmond Barry Fellowship April 30—University of Sydney Visiting Research Fellowship Scheme May 15—Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Hiett Prize in the Humanities May 31—Shafik Gabr Foundation East-West: The Art of Dialogue May 31—Northern Illinois University Horatio Alger Fellowship for the Study of American Popular
Culture May 31—Australian National University Humanities Research Center Visiting Fellowships June 11 – Vilcek Foundation Prizes for Creative Promise June 15—Terra Foundation Academic Workshop & Symposium Grants July 1—American Institute of Indian Studies—Research & Senior Scholarly/Professional Development
Fellowships July 1—International Documentary Association Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund July 11—National Endowment for the Arts – Art Works II: Media Arts August—International Research Center ‘Work and human Lifecycle in Global History’ at Humboldt University in Berlin (re:work) August 31—University of Sydney Visiting Research Fellowship Scheme Rolling deadline— J.M. Kaplan Fund Furthermore Grants in Publishing Rolling deadline – Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Rolling deadline – Max Kade Foundation Rolling deadline – New York Council for the Humanities Vision Grants Rolling deadline – Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies Grant for Book-length Monographs Rolling deadline— Renaissance Society of America RSA-Patricia H. Labalme Fellowship Rolling deadline—Renaissance Society of America RSA-Newberry Fellowship Rolling deadline—Renaissance Society of America RSA-Huntington Fellowship Rolling deadline – Institute for Humane Studies Hayek Fund for Scholars—Covering conference and job
interview travel Rolling deadline – Pulitzer Center Travel Grants Rolling deadline – Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund Various— Society for Classical Studies Awards, Scholarships, and Fellowships Various—University of London, School of Advanced Study Institute/Consortium Fellowships Art History & Architecture April 1—Kress Foundation Interpretative Fellowships at Art Museums April 19—The Architectural League of New York Deborah J. Norden Fund May 30—Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center
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Creative Arts April 1—Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in-Residence April 4—Halcyon Arts Lab Fellowship for Emerging Artists April 8—Oxford American Jeff Baskin Writers Fellow April 9—National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Grants April 10—Enterprise Rose Fellowship April 13—National Endowment for the Arts Research Grants in the Arts April 15—Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Awards April 15—Bogliasco Foundation Fellowships April 15—The Macdowell Colony Residencies April 19—Harpo Foundation Grants for Visual Artists April 20—Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant April 30—Association of Performing Arts Professionals Cultural Exchange Fund May 20—Arts Writers Grants Program May 30—National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows May 31—Vilcek Foundation Prizes for Creative Promise June 1—Carey Institute for Global Good Logan Nonfiction Fellowship June 15—Vermont Studio Center Fellowships June 26 – Headlands Center for the Arts Artists in Residency June 29—Artist Trust Grants for Artist Projects July 1—Bogliasco Foundation Fellowships August 6—National Endowment for the Arts Our Town August 20—American Musicological Society Subventions for Publications Rolling deadline (6-8 weeks before performance) – Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency
Grants Rolling deadline – Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Program Various—Artist Trust Grants Gender Studies April 17—Yale University LGBT Studies Research Fellowship June 1—CLAGS Center for LGBTQ Studies Fellowship Award July 1— GLAGS Center for LGBTQ Studies Scholar in Residence Fellowship July 31— New York Public Library Martin Duberman Visiting Fellowship Rolling—Reed Foundation Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund History April 1—American Historical Association Fellowship in Aerospace History April 1—American Historical Association J Franklin Jameson Fellowship April 1— Thomas Jefferson Foundation Short Term Fellowships April 15—The American Congregational Association Boston Athenæum Fellowship May 15—Gilder Lehrman Fellowships May 15—American Historical Society Joan Kelly Memorial Prize May 15—American Historical Society William and Edwyna Gilbert Award May 24—The Culinary Historians of New York Scholar’s Grant June 15—Coordinating Council for Women in History Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize June 15—Coordinating Council for Women in History Catherine Prelinger Award August 17—MLA Humanities Innovation Grants
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Rolling deadline – University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Program Julian Pleasants Travel Award
Rolling deadline— The Huntington Dibner Program in the History of Science Religion May 1—Association for the Sociology of Religion Joseph H. Fichter Research Grant Competition August 1—American Academy of Religion Individual and Collaborative Grants
Education April 1— Brady Education Foundation Grants May 8— James S. McDonnell Foundation Teachers as Learners June 1—International Literacy Association Maryann Manning Special Service Award June 1—International Literacy Association Jerry Johns Outstanding Teacher Educator in Reading Award June 1—National Education Association Foundation Learning and Leadership Grants July 1 – Spencer Foundation Small Research Grants July 1– William T. Grant Foundation William T. Grant Scholars Program August 1— Brady Education Foundation Grants August 4 – National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources August 14—National Science Foundation Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Rolling deadline—Cornell Douglas Foundation Grants Various—Institute of Education Science Research Grants
Social Sciences General Interest and Cross Disciplinary April 1—Truman (Harry S.) Library Institute
April 1—National Institute of Justice Research into Immigration and Crime
April 1—National Institute of Justice Research and Evaluation on Domestic Terrorism Prevention
April 13—National Institute of Justice Research and Evaluation on Policing
April 15—American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Investigators Research Grant
April 20—National Institute of Justice Research and Evaluation on Administration of Justice
April 20—National Institute of Justice Research and Evaluation on Trafficking of Persons
April 20—National Institute of Justice Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime
April 30 —National Institute of Justice W.E.B Du Bois Program May 6—William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants on Reducing Inequality May 6—William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence May 21—Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics May 21—Russell Sage Foundation Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration May 21—Russell Sage Foundation Immigration and Immigrant Integration May 31—Harvard University Weatherhead Center Huntington Prize June 15—National Science Foundation Perception, Action & Cognition
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June 15—Smith Richardson Foundation Strategy and Policy Fellows June 24—Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars Program July 15—The Leakey Foundation Research Grants July 15—National Science Foundation Linguistics August 1—National Science Foundation Perception, Action & Cognition August 1—The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grants August 15—National Science Foundation Cultural Anthropology Senior Research Awards August 18—National Science Foundation Decision, Risk and Management Sciences August 18—National Science Foundation Economics August 21—Russell Sage Foundation Computational Social Science August 21—Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics August 21—Russell Sage Foundation Future of Work Various—Russell Sage Foundation Small Grants Program Rolling deadline—Congressional Budget Office Visiting Scholar Rolling deadline—Smith Richardson Foundation Grants Anthropology and Archeology May 1—Wenner Gren Foundation Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship May 1—Wenner Gren Foundation Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship May 1—Wenner Gren Foundation Post-Ph.D. Research Grants June 1—Wenner Gren Foundation Conference and Workshop Grants July 15 – The Leakey Foundation Research Grants July 20 — National Science Foundation Biological Anthropology Rolling—National Science Foundation High-Risk Research in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology
(among others related to Archaeology and Achaeometry) Political Science April 15—American Political Science Association Small Research Grant Program April 30—American Political Science Association Small Research Grant Program May 11—National Institution of Justice Visiting Fellows Program August 15—National Science Foundation Political Science Rolling deadline—Baylor Collections of Political Materials Dowdy Research Grant Various —American Political Science Association Award Sociology June 15—American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline July 15—National Science Foundation Social Psychology August 15—National Science Foundation Sociology August 16—Sociological Initiatives Foundation
Language and Area Studies
April 1—Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellowship on Contemporary Southeast Asia April 12—Harriman Institute, Columbia University Faculty Publication Grants April 22—National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research in
Japan April 29—National Institute of Justice Research into Desistance from Crime
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April 30—University of London, School of Advanced Study Institute of Modern Languages Research Fellowship
May 1—Trust for Mutual Understanding Grants May 10—University of London, School of Advanced Study Institute of Modern Languages Research
Fellowship May 15—American Historical Association John F. Richards Prize May 15—Wilson Center Billington Fellowship May 21—Russell Sage Foundation Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration June 1—Conference on Latin American History Lydia Cabrera Awards June 30—University of London, School of Advanced Study Institute of Commonwealth Studies Henry
Charpes Chapman Fellowship July 1—American Institute of Indian Studies Research & Senior Scholarly/Professional Development
Fellowships July 15—The Leakey Foundation Research Grants Rolling deadline—Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies Grant for Book-length Monographs in
Chinese Buddhism Rolling deadline—Columbia University European Institute Faculty Research Grants Rolling deadline—Columbia University Institute of Latin American Studies FT Faculty Research Grants Rolling deadline—Japan Foundation Grant for Japanese Studies Rolling deadline—Japan Foundation Grant for Art and Culture Various—Harriman Center at Columbia University Faculty Research Support
STEM
General Interest and Cross Disciplinary April 1—Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences, and Mathematics April 1—Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation Research Grant Program April 2—Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering April 6—Foundation for Women’s Wellness Research Grant April 6—Microsoft and National Geographic AI for Earth April 12—R13, U13 Conference Grants and Conference Cooperative Agreements April 15—Whitehall Foundation Grants-in-Aid and Research Grants April 15—Scoliosis Research Society Research Grants May 1—National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine National Research Council Research
Associateship Programs May 1—W. M. Keck Foundation Research Program June 25—National Institutes of Health Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) R15 Grants June 25—Northeast SARE Grants for Researchers June 30—AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science July 1—Research Corporation for Science Advancement Cottrell Scholars Award July 10—Organic Farming Research Foundation Grants for Researchers July 19—National Science Foundation Career Awards Biological Sciences, Computer & Information
Science & Engineering, Education & Human Resources July 20 – National Science Foundation Career Awards Geoscience, Mathematics, Social, Behavioral &
Economic Sciences
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August 1—AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science August 1—Henry Luce Foundation Clare Booth Luce Program August 1—National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine National Research Council Research Associateship Programs August 3—National Science Foundation Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS) August 31—Engineering Information Foundation Women in Engineering Grant Program Rolling—The Franklin Institute Benjamin Franklin Medal Rolling—National Speleological Society Research Grants Biology and Earth Science April 1—International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Mid-Career Research Fellowships
April 1—Fred C. Gloeckner Foundation Grants
April 26—Network for Land Conservation Landscape Conservation Catalyst Fund June 15—Simons Foundation Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology July 1—National Speleological Society Int’l Exploration Grants July 20—National Science Foundation Biological Anthropology August 3—National Science Foundation Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS) August 15—Sarah de Coizart Article Tenth Perpetual Charitable Trust grants Rolling—National Speleological Society Research Grants Rolling—National Science Foundation Environmental Biology Rolling—National Science Foundation Long Term Research in Environmental Biology Chemistry Active funding opportunities for Chemistry from the National Science Foundation can be found here. June 1—American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Grants June 15—American Chemical Society WCC Rising Star Award Rolling deadline—American Chemical Society Community Recognition Grants Rolling deadline—Chemical Heritage Foundation Travel Grants Engineering April 27—National Institutes of Health Team-Based Design in Biomedical Engineering Education (R25) May 28—National Institutes of Health Team-Based Design in Biomedical Engineering Education (R25) July 16—National Science Foundation Career Awards -- Engineering August 31—Engineering Information Foundation Women in Engineering Grant Program Health and Medicine April 30 -- Elsa U. Pardee Foundation Grants May 31—Vilcek Foundation Biomedical Science July 1—John and Polly Sparks Foundation Rolling deadline—Robert Wood Johnson Evidence for Action (E4A): Investigator-Initiated Research to
Build a Culture of Health Mathematics and Physics April 1—American Astronomical Society Chretien International Research Grants June 1—National Science Foundation Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences
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June 30—American Astronomical Society Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy August 9—National Science Foundation Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences Rolling deadline—National Science Foundation Conferences and Workshops in the Mathematical
Sciences Rolling deadline—Simons Foundation Targeted Grants in Mathematics and Physical Sciences Various—American Psychological Society Fellows Psychology and Neuroscience April 1—American Psychological Foundation Visionary Grants April 1—Society for the Teaching of Psychology SAGE Teaching Innovations & Professional
Development Award April 1—Society for the Teaching of Psychology Conference Speak Grant Program April 15—American Psychological Foundation Alexander Gralnick Research Investigator Prize May 1—American Psychological Foundation Alexander Gralnick Research Investigator Prize May 8—National Institutes of Health Blueprint for Neuroscience Research May 31—American Psychological Foundation Society for General Psychology Mary Whiton Calkins
Grant June 1—American Psychological Foundation The Trust Grant in Honor of Eric A. Harris, EdD, JD June 1—American Psychological Foundation Division 49 Group Psychology Grant June 14—Society for Neuroscience Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award June 15—American Psychological Foundation Division 39 Grant July 15—National Science Foundation Developmental Science July 15—National Science Foundation Social Psychology July 15—American Psychological Foundation APA Travel Grants for US Psychologists to Attend International Conferences August 1—American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Focus Grants August 13—National Science Foundation Cognitive Neuroscience August 15—American Psychiatric Association Kempf Fund Award
Library Science
May 18—National Endowment for the Humanities Research and Development Program Rolling—International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Research Grants
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