American Academy in Rome - Rome Prize Fellowships
Fellowships ranging from six months to two years in the following disciplines: Architecture; Design Arts; Historic Preservation and Conservation; Landscape Architecture; Literature; Musical Composition; Visual Arts; Classical Studies and Archaeology; History of Art; Modern Italian Studies; and Post-Classical Humanistic Studies. Projects must be conducted at the American Academy of Rome facilities.
Deadline: See Website

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) - Fellowships
The ACLS Fellowship Program welcomes applications from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. Proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies are welcome, as are proposals focused on any geographic region or on any cultural or linguistic group. Stipends range from $30,000 to $60,000 and are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing.
Deadline: See Website

Arrowhead Regional Arts Council - Fellowships
Twelve-month fellowships of $4,000 each. Designed for artists at various stages in their careers; can support a broad range of activities. Provides support for artists who are primary and secondary creators in the visual, literary, and performing arts.
Deadline: See Website

Bush Foundation - Artist Fellows Program
Fellowships of $48,000 to each artist. Applicants propose a fellowship plan that lasts between 12 and 18 continuous months; must be completed within three years. Supports artists whose work reflects any of the region's diverse geographic, racial, and aesthetic communities.
Deadlines: See Website.

Getty Grant Program - Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Fellowships provide $40,000 stipends for a 12-month period. Provides support for outstanding scholars in the early stages of their careers to pursue interpretive research projects that make a substantial and original contribution to the understanding of art and its history.
Deadline: See Website

Michigan Society of Fellows
Candidates should be near the beginning of their professional careers. Those selected for fellowships must have received the Ph.D. degree or comparable artistic or professional degree between June 1, 2005, and September 1, 2008. Fellows are appointed as Assistant Professors or Research Scientists in appropriate departments and as Postdoctoral Scholars in the Michigan Society of Fellows. They are expected to be in residence in Ann Arbor during the academic years of the fellowship, to teach for the equivalent of one academic year, to participate in the informal intellectual life of the Society, and to devote time to their independent research or artistic projects. Than annual stipend will be $50,000.
Deadline: See Website

National Endowment for the Humanities - Fellowships
Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research in the humanities that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. Applicants may be faculty or staff members of colleges or universities, or of primary or secondary schools, or independent scholars or writers. Fellowships cover an uninterrupted period lasting from six to twelve months. An award of $4,200/month supports a six to eight-month full-time tenure; an award of $50,400 supports a nine to twelve-month full-time tenure.
Deadline: New deadlines and guidelines will be posted in Winter 2008.

National Humanities Center - Fellowships
Advanced study in history, languages and literature, philosophy, and other fields of the humanities. Fellowships to scholars of demonstrated achievement and to promising younger scholars. Applicants must hold doctorate or have equivalent professional accomplishments. Younger scholars should be engaged in work significantly beyond the revision of a doctoral dissertation. In addition to scholars from fields normally associated with the humanities, representatives of the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life may be awarded fellowships if their work has humanistic dimensions.
Annual Deadline: See Website

Spencer Foundation - National Academy of Education Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Administered by the National Academy of Education, the postdoctoral fellowships are designed to promote scholarship in the United States and abroad on matters relevant to the improvement of education in all its forms. Scholars anywhere in the world who have completed their doctorates within the last five years, and who wish to conduct research related to education, may apply.
Annual Deadline: See Website

Wesleyan University - Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cultural Studies
Awarded to promote interdisciplinary interests among younger scholars, to further their scholarship by providing free time and participation in a research group, and to associate them with a distinguished teaching and research faculty. The stipend is $40,000.
Annual Deadline: See Website

American Council on Education (ACE) - ACE Fellows Program
Year-long internships designed for senior faculty and mid-level administrators provide comprehensive preparation for senior-level administrative positions in education. Award amounts vary.
Annual Deadline: See Website

Bush Foundation - Leadership Fellows Program
Awards for periods of mid-career study for persons likely to advance to leading positions within their professions and communities. Fellowship grants include monthly stipends for living expenses, an allowance for instructional expenses, and reimbursement for travel expenses. Awards are 2-18 months in duration and are given for full-time study to pursue academic degrees, organized non-degree-granting professional development programs, self-designed independent or directed studies, or internships.
Deadline: Mid-October

Cornell University - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships
Three or four postdoctoral teaching-research fellowships ($45,000 stipends), each awarded for the one-year period beginning in July. While in residence at Cornell, postdoctoral fellows hold department affiliation, and have limited teaching duties and the opportunity for scholarly work. Areas of specialization: Anthropology; Classics; and Music.
Deadline: See Website

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
To be eligible for these fellowships you must be a U.S. citizen or national and you must be Native American Indian, Mexican American/Chicana/Chicano, Alaska Native (Eskimo or Aleut), Native Pacific Islander (Polynesian or Micronesian), Black/African American, or Puerto Rican. You also must be planning a career in teaching and research at the college or university level. Normally, there are approximately 60 predoctoral, 40 dissertation, and 30 postdoctoral fellowships available.
Deadlines: See Website.

Fulbright - U.S. Scholars Program
The Fulbright Program, the U.S. government's flagship program in international educational exchange, was created to provide a much-needed vehicle for promoting mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries of the world. Fulbright grants are made to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries for a variety of educational activities, primarily university lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and teaching in elementary and secondary schools. The U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 scholars and professionals each year to more than 140 countries, where they lecture or conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. For more information regarding the U.S. Scholars Program and other Fulbright initiatives, please visit their website.
Deadline: See Website

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - Guggenheim Fellowships
One-year appointments with an average grant of $40,211; selection of recipients is offered in any field of knowledge or artistic creation, based on "unusually productive" past performance in one's chosen field.
Deadline: See Website

Mellon Fellowships for Assistant Professors
This is a program of one year memberships for assistant professors at universities and colleges to support promising young scholars who have embarked on professional careers. Appointments will be for one full year and will carry all the privileges of Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study. The stipend will match the combined salary and benefits at the Member's home institution.
Deadline: See Website

International Research and Exchange Board - Research Opportunities
For over 30 years IREX has supported the highest quality research in the social sciences and humanities. IREX research programs (fellowships and small grants) provide individuals and teams of researchers with the support and resources they need to achieve their personal and professional goals.
Deadlines: See Website

Spencer Foundation - Fellowship Programs
The Foundation's fellowship programs support scholars engaged in educational research at different stages of their professional lives. A fellowship program, the Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program, is administered directly by the Foundation. The National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowships, the American Educational Research Association/Spencer Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowships, and the Spencer Fellows at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences are administered by outside agencies on behalf of the Foundation.
Deadlines: See Website

United States Institute of Peace - Senior Fellow and Peace Scholar Awards
Fellowships support practitioners and scholars working on projects concerning the sources and nature of international conflict and ways of managing conflict and sustaining peace.
Deadlines: See Website

US Dept of Education - Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program
This program provides grants to colleges and universities to fund individual doctoral students to conduct research in other countries in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of 6 to 12 months. Proposals focusing on Western Europe are not eligible.
Deadlines: See Website

Women's Research and Educational Institute - Congressional Fellowships on Women and Public Policy
WREI awards annual fellowships to a select number of graduate students with a proven commitment to equity for women. WREI Fellows gain practical policymaking experience and graduate credit as they work from January to August as Congressional legislative aides in Washington, D.C. Fellows receive stipends for tuition and living expenses.
Deadline: See Website
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