Support Opportunities for Humanities Scholars

Funding/Support Opportunities for Humanities Scholars

If you are interested in applying for a grant or have any questions, please contact Eve Ali Boles, OSSR Director, at eali@uic.edu at least 4 weeks before the fellowship deadline. The LAS Office of Social Science Research (OSSR) is a shared service unit that manages all pre-award and post-award activities for 15 Social Science and Humanities departments within LAS. Please visit the OSSR website for more information.

Assistant Director of Faculty Research Activities Anna Brailovsky provides robust research development support to all LAS faculty. Please do not hesitate to reach out with questions or to book a consultation to discuss funding strategies. Find more resources at the LAS Research Development Office.

Please note: this is not a complete or comprehensive list.  Please also search sites, such as this one, for additional listings

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UIC Institute for the Humanities
All full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago in humanities and related disciplines are eligible to apply for Faculty Fellowships.

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EXTERNAL

ACLS Fellowships
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) offers programs that promote research across all fields of the humanities and social sciences and invites research applications from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. ACLS is pleased to announce its 2025-26 fellowship and grant competitions.

Application deadlines vary by program. ACLS is now accepting applications for select fellowship and grant programs with deadlines on throughout November. Other programs, including the Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies, and ACLS Digital Justice Grants will begin accepting applications in the coming months. For specifics see here.

American Academy in Berlin Prize Fellowships
The American Academy in Berlin is a nonprofit institute for advanced study in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and public policy. Its primary mission is to enhance the cultural and intellectual ties between the United States and Germany. The Berlin Prize is now accepting applications for 2026-27 Berlin Prize Fellowships. The deadline for this has passed.

American Academy in Rome Prize
For one hundred thirty years, the American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Each year, the Rome Prize is given to about thirty artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence.

American Antiquarian Society Fellowships
The American Antiquarian Society offers visiting research fellowships, designed to enable academic and independent scholars and advanced graduate students to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library. Discussing this work with staff and other readers is a hallmark of an AAS fellowship. Tenures range from four weeks to twelve months. More information about how to apply and application deadlines here.

American Center of Oriental Research (Amman) Fellowship
The American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan, is a private, international, non-profit academic institution dedicated to promoting research and publication in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, ancient through modern history, art history, conservation and preservation studies, Arabic and other Near Eastern languages, Islamic studies, and many other fields related to Near Eastern studies. The 2025 ACOR-NEH application cycle has been completed and the award granted, and the ACOR-NEH Fellowship will not be offered during the 2025–2026 application cycle.

American Philosophical Society
Since 1933 the American Philosophical Society has awarded research grants to more than 15,000 scholars and encourages all eligible candidates to apply for grants and fellowships. Apply here.

The deadlines for the 2025-2026 cycle are:

• Blumberg Grants in Astrobiology: This deadline has passed
• Daland Fellowships: The deadline for this has passed
• Franklin Research Grants: The deadlines have passed
• Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research: These deadlines have passed
• Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology: this deadline has passed; notification in March 2026
• Phillips Fund Grants: March 2, 2026; notification in May 2026

The APS's Library & Museum invites applications for fellowships supporting research in the collections. Fellowships are offered for short-term and long-term opportunities, for subject-specific research, digital humanities projects, and more. Please visit the Fellowships portion of the website for information on and application deadlines for the resident Library and Museum Fellowships.

Clark Art Institute Research and Academic Program
Caribbean Art and Its Diasporas Fellowships. The Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program (RAP) awards funded residential fellowships to established and promising scholars with the aim of fostering a critical commitment to inquiry in the theory, history, and interpretation of art and visual culture. Fellowship applications for July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027. This deadline has passed Details and guidelines to apply for a fellowship.

Carmago Core Program
The Carmago Foundation, located in Cassis, France, in a residential center offering programming in the arts and humanities. The residencies are programmed either by the Foundation, as in the case of the Camargo Core Program, or in partnership. The residency programs vary in purpose (production, research, or experimentation), duration (a few weeks to several months), and selection process (open call or by invitation). The deadline has passed. View and submit to open applications for Carmago Foundation programs here.

Chateaubriand Fellowship – Humanities and Social Science (HSS)
The Chateaubriand Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) targets outstanding Ph.D. students from American universities who seek to engage in research in France, in any discipline of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The 2026-2027 applications are due January 25th, 2026, at 11:59 pm EST; notifications will be in May

Clark Library
The Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies offers both short- and long-term fellowships for research stays at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Learn more about Fellowships. Contact eali@uic.edu with questions. Applications are due February 1, 2026.

Cornell University Society for the Humanities
The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University invites applications for year-long residencies from scholars whose interdisciplinary research projects reflect on the 2026-27 theme of Survival. Fellows will receive a $64,000 stipend. The deadline for this has passed. Awards will be announced by the end of December 2025.

Philips Library Fellowships

The Phillips Library offers opportunities for individuals to conduct financially-supported research in our collections and share the results of their work.

Read about the two types of fellowships below:

Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship - The Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship supports research in the library’s archives and manuscripts collections. It is awarded to one recipient each year to perform independent scholarly research. Fellowships awarded may be taken in the calendar year following an accepted application. The recipient receives a $5,500 award, payable in two equal installments, at the middle and conclusion of their residency.

Applications  for the Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship. This deadline has passed. Application materials must be submitted via PEM's application platform by midnight on the last Sunday in October. Questions? Email research@pem.org.

New England Regional Fellowship - As a member of the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC), the Phillips Library supports collaborative fellowships that draw on multiple regional institutions. NERFC is a collaboration of over 30 major cultural agencies. NERFC grants support work in a broad array of fields, and member institutions hold collections that offer a historical perspective on these subjects and more. NERFC offers multiple grants each year. Each grant provides a stipend of $5,000 for a minimum of eight weeks of research at participating institutions. Grants are designed to encourage projects that draw on the resources of several agencies. For a complete list of consortium members and a brief description of each institution, please view the Participants page.

The 2025-2026 NERFC call for applications is now closed.

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships

The Guggenheim Fellowship is an annual competition celebrating exceptional achievements in the arts, sciences, and humanities. Roughly 190 Fellowships are awarded each year. Please note that all prospective applicants must first register and create an account. If you created an account in a previous competition, that account information has not been imported into our new system; you must create a new account. The deadline for this has passed. Apply here. 

Humane Studies Fellowship, offered by the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University
The Humane Studies Fellowship is a non-residency, renewable award of up to $5,000 per year to assist students enrolled or planning to enroll in full-time PhD programs. Apply here.

Huntington Library Fellowships
The Huntington's Library is an independent research center for the humanities that welcomes advanced researchers from all over the world. The Huntington Library awards over 150 research fellowships annually.

Applicants for long-term (9-11 month academic year or 4-5 month academic term) fellowships must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. at the time of application. Short-term fellowships (one to three months) are open to graduate students; faculty members; postdoctoral scholars; and independent researchers. Travel grants/exchange fellowships (for study abroad) are open to doctoral candidates who have advanced to candidacy (ABD) at the time of the application deadline, to faculty members, and other postdoctoral scholars. For more information check out the Available Fellowships and Application FAQ. 

This deadline has passed 

Institute for Citizens & Scholars Fellowships
Citizens & Scholars fosters future generations of informed, engaged, hopeful citizens who reflect the diversity of our democracy. Each Fellowship program is a part of a long tradition of Citizens & Scholars investing in the best and brightest people and ideas. Each program has its own eligibility requirements. Fellowship programs typically recruit once a year and provide funding to individuals, institutions, or organizations: sign up for Fellowship Alerts here. Additionally, check out the guide to applying for higher education fellowships.

Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Fellowships
The IRH awards some 40-45 stipendary and non-stipendary fellowships to internal and external applicants each year. The College of Letters & Science and generous gifts to the Institute fund these fellowships, which are open to applicants in any discipline or field whose project has clear significance for the humanities. Most IRH fellowships are not limited by theme or research area, with the exception of the external Solmsen Fellowship for projects on pre-1700 Europe, the external Kingdon Fellowship on Judeo-Christian religious traditions, the Biruté Ciplijauskaité Fellowship for Iberian Spanish Literature, and the internal Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellowships.

Information about Internal Fellowships at bottom of page with different deadlines for the 2025-2026 cycle. The application cycle for 2026–2027 fellowships is now open. 

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
NEH offers a variety of grant programs to individuals and organizations that do the highest quality work to promote the humanities. See website listing for deadlines and details. There are always Fellowships and Grants applications.

• NEH Summer Stipends
Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research. The application is available here. The deadline for this has passed. Expected notification date: April 15, 2026

• NEH Division of Education Professional Development Programs
NEH Summer Institutes and Landmarks of American History and Culture for Higher Education Faculty. Applications open December 8, 2025 and close March 6, 2026; notifications come out April 6, 2026

National Humanities Center Fellowship
The National Humanities Center will offer up to 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities. This deadline has passed. Please read our Frequently Asked Questions and watch our informational video for more details.

Newberry Library
The Newberry’s long-standing fellowship program provides outstanding scholars with the time, space, and community required to pursue innovative and ground-breaking scholarship. In addition to the library's collections, fellows are supported by a collegial interdisciplinary community of researchers, curators, and librarians. An array of scholarly and public programs also contributes to an engaging intellectual environment. For application details see here.

• Long-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars for continuous residence at the Newberry for periods of 4 to 9 months; the stipend is $5,000 per month. Applicants must hold a PhD by the application deadline in order to be eligible. Long-Term Fellowships are intended to support individual scholarly research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the fellowship program. This deadline has passed.

• Short-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars, PhD candidates, and those who hold other terminal degrees. Short-Term Fellowships are generally awarded for 1 to 2 months; unless otherwise noted the stipend is $3,000 per month. These fellowships support individual scholarly research for those who have a specific need for the Newberry's collection. Applications for the 2026-2027 positions close December 8.

New York Historical Society Fellowships
Leveraging its rich collections of documents, artifacts, and works of art detailing American history from the perspective of New York City, New York Historical Society Fellowships provide scholars with material resources and an intellectual community to develop new research and publications that illuminate complex issues of the past. 

Available Positions:

• Curatorial Fellowship: The New York Historical is offering a curatorial fellowship funded by the Terra Foundation for an aspiring or early-career Haudenosaunee museum professional. The Fellow in this position will be tasked with project research, as well as developing and leading community engagement strategies for an upcoming exhibition which will focus on Gayë́twahgeh (Cornplanter), Sagoyewatha (Red Jacket), and the early North American visual and material culture of diplomacy in which they engaged. The fellowship will run from September 1, 2025 to July 31, 2026 and carries a salary of $60,000, plus benefits. The position is hybrid in-office and remote. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis. Apply here.

New York Public Library Fellowships
The Library’s research centers provide a wide array of fellowship opportunities and other resources for scholars and writers. Please see a full listing of the many Fellowships and Institutes here.

Princeton Society of Fellows
The Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts seeks to support innovative interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship and teaching in the humanities and humanities-related social and natural sciences. For the 2025-2028 fellowship competition, applications may be submitted for the following fellowship categories:

1. Two or Three Open Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences

2. One Fellowship in Humanistic Studies

3. One Fellowship in LGBT Studies

Application deadline for the 2026-29 fellowships has passed, application is now closed. 

Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowships
The Stanford Humanities Center invites applications for the external faculty fellowship program. Applications for the 2025–2026 fellowship year are now closed. Applications for 2026-2027 are now open. Apply online.

Syracuse Engaged Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Applications are preferred by December 10, but will remain open until positions are filled. Fellows will join a vibrant scholarly and public engagement community at the Humanities Center, University, and in Central New York. This two-year appointment (July 16, 2026 – July  15, 2028) combines publicly engaged research, teaching, programming, and creative work: it is not remote/virtual and the residency period may not be deferred.

Texas Tech University Humanities Center

• The Humanities Center is calling for applications from candidates external to the university to be considered for the Scholar-in-Residence program. The Center is particularly interested in nominees actively engaged in interdisciplinary research that addresses academic questions beyond the scholar’s primary field of study. This position is full-time and benefits eligible. The application deadline has passed.

The Emily Winfree Fellowship for African and African American History in Virginia
The Emily Winfree Fellowship for African and African American History in Virginia will promote the study and interpretation of Black history in Virginia and provide access to the Virginia Museum of History & Culture’s vast collections. The Winfree Fellowship carries a stipend of $8,000 for a minimum of six weeks in residence at the VMHC.

Eligibility: Undergraduates, master’s students, and graduate students not yet admitted to Ph.D. candidacy are not eligible. Applications from doctoral candidates and independent researchers are welcome.

The deadline for this has passed.

UCHRI
UCHRI's grant calls include funding to support faculty and graduate student working groups, an expanded manuscript workshop and research development program, an intercampus mentorship program, engaging humanities, and more. We especially encourage proposals that address our theme of Entanglement (artwork by Sunaura Taylor). Applications close January 19, 2026

Wallenberg Academy Fellows, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
The Foundation’s aim is to benefit Sweden by supporting Swedish basic research and education, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences. This is achieved through long-term grants to excellent researchers and to projects. The Foundation can also initiate grants to strategic projects and scholarship programs. There are multiple Fellowships happening, check the website to see the eligibility requirements and deadlines.

Warren Center Faculty Fellowship

The 2026-27 Warren Center Faculty Fellowship will be on the theme of Commemorative Acts led by Tiya Miles (History) and Robin Bernstein (African and African American Studies and Women, Gender, & Sexuality).

The Warren Center, Harvard’s research center for United States history, invites applications for a seminar on Commemorative Acts. Commemorations will abound in 2026 as the United States recognizes the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the beginning of the American Revolution. This timing provides a rich occasion and context for examining commemoration as a national endeavor. Who is remembering what, and how? What is being erased, and why? What are the stakes of commemoration in the present? This Warren Center seminar aims to inspire new questions, highlight key issues, structure constructive dialogue across diverse viewpoints, and support wide-ranging works-in-progress at a consequential moment for national memory and history.

Fellows will present their work in a seminar led by Tiya Miles (History) and Robin Bernstein (African and African American Studies and Women, Gender, & Sexuality). Applicants may not be degree candidates and should have a Ph.D. or equivalent. Fellows have library privileges and an office for the 9-month academic year. The Center encourages applications consistent with the seminar theme and qualified applicants who can contribute, through their research and service, to the excellence of the community. Stipends: individually determined according to fellow needs and Center resources, up to a maximum of $66,000. Note that recent average stipends have been in the range of $50,000.

Apply no later than January 7, 2026 with recommendation letters due January 9, 2026. For more information, see here.

2026-27 Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellowship

The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) at the University of Toronto invites applications for a Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellowship (VPH) to be held in 2026-27. The JHI VPH Faculty Fellowship is intended to foster knowledge exchange between the academy and the public. The JHI VPH will be a mid-career, tenured faculty member from another institution who has a demonstrated track record of bringing humanities research out of the classroom and university press, and into the broader public realm for discussion, debate and examination across multiple media platforms, and who is experienced in addressing audiences outside the academy. The Fellowship provides funding of $50,000 CAD plus benefits. This fellowship is most suitable for faculty members who will be on leave during their residency.

Eligibility requirements include:

• Applicants must have achieved tenure by the beginning of the fellowship (July 1, 2026). Any award will be conditional on a successful promotion.
• Faculty members employed by the University of Toronto are not eligible.
• This fellowship is open to citizens of all countries. Application for appropriate visa documents is the responsibility of the Fellow.
• The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may further expand the range of ideas and perspectives.
• The Jackman Humanities Institute interprets “Humanities” as a broad category, including political theory, interpretive social science, music, and the arts.

This deadline has passed. For more information, see here.