Grant: NEH Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources

The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources. Grants support projects that preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture. Awards also support the creation of reference works and research tools of major importance to the humanities.

Due July 31, 2008

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2008-2009 Evans/Glasscock Digital Humanities Project Fellowship

2008-2009 Evans/Glasscock Digital Humanities Project Fellowship
Recipients Named

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and the Texas A&M University Libraries’ Sterling C. Evans Chair are pleased to announce Dr. B. Stephen Carpenter, II and Dr. Trina Davis as joint recipients of the 2008-2009 Evans/Glasscock Digital Humanities Project Fellowship. This fellowship provides $10,000 to support a project in digital humanities by faculty in any department in the university. The award aims to assist faculty projects that depend on or are fundamentally inflected by information technology, digitization, and computer-aided research.

Dr. Carpenter and Dr. Davis, both in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, received this year’s fellowship for their project “Establishing a TAMU Digital Humanities and Visual Culture Education and Research Island in Second Life.” The team will create an official presence for Texas A&M University in “Second Life,” a 3-D virtual world in which approximately 100 colleges and universities maintain a virtual campus. When completed, The Island will provide four types of spaces – for instruction, research-based exhibitions and symposia, office hours and meetings that support instruction, and public social life to sustain networking.

The Glasscock Center will make another call for this award in spring 2009. For further information contact James Rosenheim, Director, at 979-845-8328 or
j-rosenheim@tamu.edu, visit the Glasscock Center’s website.

American Council of Learned Societies - Digital Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowships for Humanities Scholars

Due Oct. 3
For more information visit
http://www.acls.org/fel-dead.htm

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for the second annual competition for the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating further such works. ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital form. Projects may involve development of new digital tools that further humanistic research (such as digital research archives or innovative databases), research that depends on or is greatly enhanced by the use of such tools, the representation of research that depends on or is greatly enhanced by the use of such tools, or some combination of these features.

Canadian Embassy - Canadian Studies Grant Program - Research Grants

Due Spet 15
For more information visit
http://geo.international.gc.ca/can-am/washington/studies/grantguide-en.asp

The Research Grant Program promotes research that contributes to a better knowledge and understanding of Canada, its relationship with the United States, and its international affairs. The grant is designed to assist individual scholars, or a team of scholars, in writing an article-length manuscript of publishable quality and reporting their findings in a scholarly publication and at scholarly conferences, thus contributing to the development of Canadian Studies in the United States. Grant proposals are welcome from all fields in the social sciences and humanities.

Tinker Foundation, Inc. - Institutional Grants (Latin America)

Due Spet. 1
For more information visit
http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/tinker/institu.html

The Tinker Foundation awards Institutional Grants to organizations and institutions that promote the interchange and exchange of information within the community of those concerned with the affairs of Spain, Portugal, Ibero-America, and Antarctica. (For the foundation's purposes, Ibero-America is defined as the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries of the Western Hemisphere.). Programmatically, the foundation funds projects addressing environmental policy, economic policy, or governance issues. Projects should have a strong public policy component, offer innovative solutions to problems facing these regions, and incorporate new mechanisms for addressing these programmatic areas. Activities may include, but are not limited to, research projects and conferences related to the foundation's areas of interest. The foundation encourages collaboration between organizations in the United States and Iberia or Latin America and among institutions in those regions.

The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)

Due Oct. 3
For more information visit
http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf/

The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) is a strategic fellowship program designed to help graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate doctoral dissertation proposals that are intellectually pointed, amenable to completion in a reasonable time frame, and competitive in fellowship competitions.

Abe Fellowship Program in the Social Sciences or Humanities

Due Spetember 1.
For more information visit
http://fellowships.ssrc.org/abe/

The Abe Fellowship supports professional research in the social sciences or humanities on contemporary policy-relevant issues, especially those which promote a new level of intellectual cooperation between Japan and America. Applicants must be citizens of the U.S. or Japan (or be able to demonstrate serious affiliations with research communities in the U.S. or Japan) and hold the terminal degree in their field by the start of their fellowship term.