These grants support full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. Support is available for various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants, project-related travel, field work, applications of information technology, and technical support and services. All grantees are expected to communicate the results of their work to the appropriate scholarly and public audiences.

A project that has previously received NEH funding can apply for a grant to support a new stage in the project. These applications will be judged by the same criteria as other applications. The new proposal should be substantially updated. Applicants should explain the specific component of the project to be undertaken in the new grant period and how the previous grant met its goals. Applicants must demonstrate the need for additional Endowment support by justifying the project budget in relation to the proposed additional results.

Collaborative Research Grants cannot be used for:

Awards are made for one to three years and normally range from $25,000 to $100,000 per year. The use of federal matching funds is encouraged. Federal matching funds are released when a grantee secures gift funds from eligible third parties.

Eligible applicants for a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant are nonprofit, IRS tax-exempt institutions and organizations in the United States, state and local governmental agencies, U.S. citizens, or foreign nationals who have been living in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least three years prior to the time of application.

Sponsor:National Geographic Society
Deadline:Open

Objectives:
All proposed projects must have both a geographical dimension and relevance to other scientific fields. Applications are generally limited to the following disciplines: anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, biology, botany, geography, geology, oceanography, paleontology, and zoology. In addition, the sponsor is currently emphasizing multidisciplinary projects that address environmental issues (e.g. loss of biodiversity and habitat, effects of human-population pressures).

While grant amounts vary greatly, most range from U.S. $15,000 to $20,000. There is not set quantity of grants awarded, but budget constraints keep the number to approximately 250 per year. As sponser funds are intended to function as complementary support, the Committee strongly encourages applicants to seek additional, concurrent funding from other funding agencies. Sponsor grants tend to act as seed money and are given for one year's research. There may be an exceptional occasion that the sponsor will fund, at most, two years of research. If the principal investigator feels that there are distinctive and substantive reasons for submitting a two-year application, he/she must understand that competition is keen and awards for two years are scarce. Sponsor funds may be used for transportation, supplies, and daily subsistence. Capital equipment (generally defined as any item costin more than US $500) must be individually justified and in certain circumstances returned to the sponsor upon the project's conclusion. Only in unusual cases is funding allowed for computer equipment or vehicles. Laboratory expenses are acceptable, provided the laboratory work is a logical extension of the field research.

Eligibility:
Applicants are expected to have advanced degrees (Ph.D. or equivalent) and be associated with an educational organization or institution. Independent researchers or those pursuing a Ph.D.-level degree may apply, but competition is keen and awards to non-Ph.D. applicants are rare. As a general rule, all applicants are expected to have published a minimum of three articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Funding is not restricted to United States citizens. However, researchers planning to work in foreign countries should include at least one local collaborator as part of their research teams.

Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Deadline(s):Open

Objectives:
This program is designed to permit the submission of high-risk, exploratory proposals that can lead to significant new anthropological knowledge. In an effort to insure that both risky projects and projects that require a rapid decision have a possibility of success the sponsor offers three Anthropology Programs (Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology and Physical Anthropology) through which these may obtain funding. The program gives small awards that provide investigators with the opportunity to assess the feasibility of an anthropological research project. The information gathered may then be used as the basis for preparing a more fully developed research program. Projects which face severe time constraints because of transient phenomena or access to materials may also be considered.

Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are universities and colleges, nonprofit, non-academic organizations, for-profit organizations, state and local governments, and unaffiliated individuals.

Sponsor: International Research & Exchanges Board
Deadline(s):August 1, annually

Objectives:
The sponsor awards fellowships to provide opportunities for US citizens to conduct academic research in the NIS with the goal of contributing to the further development of higher education and scholarship in both their home and host countries. The purpose of the fellowships is to conduct research and analysis in the humanities and social sciences; write academic papers, articles, and books; deliver lectures; and collaborate with NIS colleagues. Research topics must demonstrate a relevance to the political, economic, social, legal, historical, educational, and philosophical challenges facing the NIS.

All research must contribute to the development of higher education and scholarship in the NIS and the US. Eligible topics are: area studies (including literature); art and architecture, cultural anthropology, business administration (including business and management and education), city planning and urban studies, civic education, conflict resolution, criminal justice, demography, economics (including international trade, finance, and investment), education (including university administration), environmental studies, ethics and philosophy, foreign policy and international relations, geography, government, history (twentieth century preferred), information technology (Internet and the application of new information technologies in higher education), journalism, labor relations, language and linguistics, law, library science, management, military science, philosophy, political science, public administration, religion, social work, sociology, and women's studies.

Applicants may wish to be affiliated with NIS universities and institutes appropriate to their research objectives and matched with a host advisor. Applicants should suggest possible placement institutions where they would prefer to conduct their research or where they may already have established NIS colleagues. The sponsor can help identify appropriate NIS institutions based on the applicant's preferences. Final affiliations will be decided by the sponsor.

Eligibility:
All applicants must be a US citizen; hold a degree of PhD or equivalent or be working towards a PhD degree at the time of application; have a research topic eligible for the program with demonstrated need for research in the NIS; be a PhD candidate, university faculty member, or independent scholar at the early stages of his/her career, or mid-level faculty member (associate professor) who has not had any recent opportunities to conduct research in the NIS; possess a high level of written and spoken proficiency in the language of the host country or countries necessary in order to conduct independent research in the NIS and engage colleagues; be able to receive and maintain a visa; and be able to conduct the fellowship during the 2002-2003 academic year. Preference will be given to scholars looking to conduct research outside of the Russian Federation.

Sponsor: Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI)
Deadline(s): March 1, annually

Objectives:
The Anthropologists' Fund for Urgent Anthropological Research has been established to support ethnographic research on currently threatened indigenous peoples, cultures, and languages. Funded research should, as a primary aim, contribute to anthropological knowledge through detailed ethnography, and also if possible, help such peoples in their struggle to survive. The fellowship makes it possible for a budgeted project to be carried out over about 18 months, with this period to include both field research and writing-up. The element of writing-up time paid for by the fellowship should be spent at the university hosting the fellowship.

Eligibility:
Applicants must have a doctoral degree or have completed the requirements for the degree.

Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Deadline(s): January 15 and August 15, annually

Objectives:
The program solicits research proposals of theoretical importance in all substantive and theoretical subfields within the discipline of Cultural Anthropology.

Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are universities and colleges, nonprofit, non-academic organizations, for-profit organizations, state and local governments, and unaffiliated individuals.

Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Deadline(s): (Target dates, not deadlines) July 1 and December 1, annually

Objectives:
The sponsor supports basic research in areas related to human evolution and contemporary human biological variation. Research areas supported by the program include, but are not limited to, human genetic variation, human adaptation, human osteology and bone biology, human and nonhuman primate paleontology, functional anatomy, and primate socioecology. Grants supported in these areas are united by an underlying evolutionary framework, and often a consideration of adaptation as a central theoretical theme. Many proposals also have a biocultural orientation. The program frequently serves as a bridge within NSF between the social and behavioral sciences and the natural and physical sciences, and proposals are commonly jointly reviewed and funded with other programs.

Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are universities and colleges, nonprofit, non-academic organizations, for-profit organizations, state and local governments, and unaffiliated individuals.

Sponsor:Spencer Foundation
Deadline:Open

Objectives:
The sponsor's mission is to fund activities, anywhere in the world, which foster new ideas in education and encourage creativity. The sponsor is committed to supporting high-quality investigation of education through its research programs and to strengthening and renewing the educational research community through its fellowship and training programs.

Eligibility:
The sponsor funds activities from educational researchers, from anywhere in the world, at different stages of their professional careers, providing resources to both beginning and senior researchers to pursue concentrated intellectual activity.

Sponsor: University of Oxford; School of Anthropology and Museum of Ethnography; Pitt Rivers Museum
Deadline(s): March 1, annually

Objectives:
Applications are invited for grants from the Swan Fund, which is administered by the Pitt Rivers Museum of the University of Oxford. Grants are awarded for archaeological and anthropological field research within the areas of the Later Stone Age prehistory of southern Africa and the study of the contemporary Bushman and Pygmy peoples of Africa. Research on museum collections relating to these fields may also be supported, as may the costs of publishing the results of fieldwork that has been aided by the fund.

Eligibility:
Applications are invited from graduate students and established researchers. Most of the successful applicants are graduates, but all applications that are clearly within the scope of the fund will be considered. The program is open to candidates not associated with the University of Oxford. No restrictions apply to nationality.

Sponsor: Radcliffe College; Murray Research Center, Henry A.
Deadline(s): See website for details

Objectives:
The Murray Research Center will appoint a number of fellows with an established record in research on gender and social change, the study of lives over time, or science, gender and society. Scholars from a wide range of fields including psychology, sociology, political science and anthropology are encouraged to apply. The fellowship offers an affiliation of one or more academic years with the Murray Research Center and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. During their tenure, fellows will have access to all of Harvard University's facilities and services and will have the opportunity to apply for student research assistance.

Eligibility:
All applicants must have received a doctoral degree or terminal professional degree prior to the time of application.

Sponsor:Wenner-Gren Foundation
Deadlines: June 1 and December 1, annually (preliminary inquiry due 1 month prior to deadline)

Objectives:
Generally smaller than conferences, workshops focus on defining or developing topics for further research. Priority is given to workshops focusing on what basic research in anthropology can say to important public issues.

Sponsor:Wenner-Gren Foundation
Deadline:Open

Objectives:
The sponsor supports a program to encourage the preservation of unpublished records and other materials of value for research on the history of anthropology. Grants are offered for two purposes: to assist individuals holding significant records and personal papers with the expenses of preparing and transferring them for archival deposit, and to aid oral-history interviews with senior anthropologists.

Sponsor:Wenner-Gren Foundation
Deadline:Open (at least 2 years before symposia)

Objectives:
Support is provided for a limited number of international symposia on topics of broad significance for anthropology. They must aim to make major theoretical or methodological interventions in current issues within anthropology, broadly construed. They must also advance the foundation's goal of fostering an international community of anthropologists by drawing participants from around the world. The objectives of the symposium should be to coalesce and advance knowledge on the issue, to present and address divergent viewpoints, and to mark out directions for future research.

Eligibility:
The sponsor therefore prefers two organizers for a symposium, ideally, from two different countries. The sponsor gives priority to symposia dealing with "anthropology in public".