Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Upcoming Humanities Funding

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Universities and Humanistic Scholarship supports a wide range of initiatives to strengthen theinstitutions that sustain scholarship in the humanities and "humanistic"social sciences, primarily research universities but also a small numberof centers for advanced study and independent research libraries. The Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowships long-term fellowships are available to post-doctoral scholars for periods of six to eleven months. Applicants for post-doctoral awards must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application. These grants support individual research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the Library's scholarly activities, including a biweekly fellows' seminar. Bogliasco Foundation: Liguria Study Center for Arts and Humanities provides residential fellowships for qualified persons working on advanced creative or scholarly projects in the arts and humanities. John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowships: Approximately 25 short- and long-term fellowships awarded to scholars to pursue research at the John Carter Brown Library located on the campusof Brown University. Short-term fellowships are for periods of two tofour months and long-term fellowships are for five to ten months.

Deadlines vary

For more infomation visit:
http://www.mellon.org/grant_programs/programs/higher-education-and-scholarship/researchuniversities
http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/long-term.html
http://www.liguriastudycenter.org/english/fellowships.cfm
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/