Internal Funding Sources

External Funding Sources

American Council of Learned Societies
American Philosophical Society
Center for Hellenic Studies
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Houghton Library
Minnesota Humanities Commission
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Humanities Center

Specific Programs

• Delmas Foundation--Humanities Program
• Fulbright US Scholar Program
• Grants
• Hastings Center--Current Projects
• Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Visiting Fellowship
• Quick Grants and Project Grants
• Science, Techology, and Society (STS)
• SBE--SES/STS Grants for Collaborative Research
• SBE--SES/STS Professional Development Fellowships (PDF)
• SBE--SES/STS Scholars Awards
• Spencer Foundation Grants Program

Sponsor:Delmas (Gladys Krieble) Foundation
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The sponsor intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized.

Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy, ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.

The Humanities Program is primarily directed to institutions of higher education and humanistic enterprises such as learned societies, museums, and major editorial projects. The program may also consider, on a selective basis, projects that increase the exposure of those outside these institutions to the humanistic experience or that strengthen preparation for the humanistic disciplines in secondary education. The prime criterion remains that of Gladys and Jean Paul Delmas: a commitment to excellence, whether proven or promised.

Restrictions:
This program is primarily directed to institutions of higher education and humanistic enterprises such as learned societies, museums, and major editorial projects. No grants will be made for building campaigns. Endowment contributions will be considered only in cases where the purpose and benefit of the grants are clearly focused. The sponsor does not encourage proposals that include indirect costs. Applications are by invitation only. Letters of inquiry, within the scope of the programs outlined, should be addressed to the Secretary of the Board. Information and guidelines are available.

Sponsor:Minnesota Humanities Commission
Deadline: Open

Objectives:
Lifelong Learning Grants to support lifelong learning programs in greater Minnesota communities that do not receive financial support from other large educational institutions.

Indigenous Language and Culture Grants support the efforts of indigenous language programs in Minnesota.

Book Grants are grants that provide quality children's literature books for use in educational and literacy settings. Currently book grants are available from books produced as part of the Humanities Center's Somali Book Project and Hmong Translation Initiative.

Eligibility:

Applicants must be from not-for-profit groups or organizations. If the applicant organization does not have official non-profit status, it must designate another organization to serves as a fiscal agent. Projects must involve at least one other organization as co-sponser. College and University projects must involve at least one off-campus, non-academic co-sponser. Priority is given to the following applicants: senior citizen organizations, minority organizations, and greater Minnesota organizations.

Sponsor:Hastings Center
Deadline(s):Varies: see Website

Objectives:
Hastings Center projects aim to identify the ethical issues raised by health practices, health policy, and new technologies; create policy recommendations; or shift the language of debate and carve out common ground in controversial areas.

Restrictions:
Eligible applicants are researchers currently residing in the United States or Canada. Duration is from two to four weeks. Applicants must fully cover their own expenses, but the sponsor will assist in finding inexpensive housing in the area. Application forms and guidelines are available.

Sponsor:University of Utah; Tanner Humanities Center, Obert C. and Grace A.
Deadline: December (anticipated)

Objectives:
The Tanner Humanities Center will award up to two external fellowships for the academic year 2007-2008. Projects in any of the following fields are eligible for support:

• anthropology and archaeology
• communication
• history
• philosophy
• religious studies
• ethnic and cultural studies
• jurisprudence
• history/theory/criticism of the arts
• languages and linguistics
• literature
• women's studies
• historical or philosophical issues in the social and natural sciences, or the professions.

The center encourages projects which are interdisciplinary and which are likely to contribute to substantive intellectual exchange among a diverse group of scholars. External fellows may hold other support (sabbatical or other funding) during their fellowship but should note in their proposal if that is the case. Fellows are required to remain in residence for the nine-month academic fellowship year, August through April, to participate in center activities and to contribute to the intellectual life of the university community. The nature of this contribution will depend on fellows' own interests and will be determined in consultation with the center director prior to fellows' arrival in early August.

Fellows may direct a faculty research reading group or seminar or teach one course; each fellow will present an academic talk on his or her work in progress. Fellows will meet regularly with the center's academic director in informal weekly or bi-weekly sessions. Finally, fellows will submit a written report summarizing their progress, findings, and experiences during their fellowships.

Eligibility:
Applicants must have their Ph.D. in hand two years prior to August 1, 2007, or by August 1, 2005. Faculty affiliated with colleges and universities, as well as independent scholars, interested in humanistic issues are eligible to apply.

Sponsor:Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES); Fulbright Scholar Program; Grants for U.S. Faculty and Professionals
Deadline: Various, depending on destination

Objectives:
For over 50 years, the Fulbright Program has offered U.S. faculty, professionals, teachers, and students the opportunity to conduct research, teach, or study abroad and to make a major contribution to global understanding. The program also brings foreign nationals to the United States to study, teach, and pursue research. The Fulbright Scholar Program, the senior scholar component of the Fulbright Program, offers grants for college and university faculty, as well as for professionals and independent scholars.

Teach undergraduate and/or graduate courses in area of specialization. Consult on curriculum development, assist with thesis advising and give tutorials, seminars and public lectures, as requested. Conduct research in area of specialization. Specialization(s): Public administration, public and social policy, political science, international affairs, foreign policy, comparative politics, international security studies, constitutional law, criminal law, comparative trade law, commercial, property international law, jurisprudence, common law contracts English is sufficient for lecturing. Affiliation to be determined. The length of the grant is 5 or 9 months.

Eligibility:
Applicants should be at the assistant professor level or higher, and hold the Ph.D. and have the relevant years of university teaching experience in the appropriate field.

Applicants must meet all of the following eligibility requirements:

1. U.S. citizen at the time of application; status as a permanent resident is not sufficient.
2. A Ph.D. or equivalent professional or terminal degree at the time of application, unless otherwise stipulated in the award description.
3. College or university teaching experience is required at the level and in the field of the proposed lecturing activity for lecturing and lecturing or research awards, as specified in the award description.
4. Previous Fulbright scholar grantees are eligible to apply only if three years will have elapsed between the ending date of one award and the beginning date of the new award. This restriction does not apply to short-term grants.
5. Persons residing abroad for five or more consecutive years in the six-year period preceding the date of application are ineligible. Residing abroad is defined as living outside the United States for nine months or more during a calendar year.
6. Applicant must be in sound physical and mental health.
7. Prior conviction or current indictment for commission of a felony must be reported. Prior conviction or current indictment may disqualify.

Sponsor:National Science Foundation
Deadline(s): February 1 and August 1, annually

Objectives:

STS considers proposals that examine historical, philosophical, and sociological questions that arise in connection with science, engineering, and technology, and their respective interactions with society. STS has four components:

1. Ethics and Values in Science, Engineering and Technology (EVS),
2. History and Phil osophy of Science, Engineering and Technology (HPS),
3. Social Studies of Science, Engineering and Technology (SSS),
4. Studies of Policy, Science, Engineering and Technology (SPS).

The components overlap, but are distinguished by the different scientific and scholarly orientations they take to the subject matter, as well as by different focuses within the subject area. STS encourages the submission of hybrid proposals that strive to integrate research involving two or more of these core areas.

Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are investigators who are U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents carrying out their research and training at a U.S. institution.

Sponsor:National Science Foundation
Deadline(s): February 1 and August 1, annually

Objectives:
Standard and Collaborative awards include proposals for research, infrastructure or education projects. These proposals ordinarily do not require full-time investigator support like that for Scholars Awards. These grants can also support projects that require several investigators, advisors, or collaboration among Principal Investigators, including investigators at different institutions. They may also involve postdoctoral researchers, or graduate or undergraduate student assistants.

Infrastructure projects may involve a variety of activities to stimulate and provide resources for new or high priority research areas, and may include outreach efforts. Examples are the development and dissemination of appropriate databases, text retrieval systems, preparation of reference works, editions of scientific and personal papers, digital libraries, or resources for educational, or public use. Electronic dissemination of results from infrastructure projects is expected. STS program support of infrastructure projects should be directed to scholarly work, such as archival research and annotation, or special education and outreach activities, rather than administrative or logistical activities.

Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are U.S. institutions and individual researchers. Applicants may apply as groups of several investigators, investigators and advisors, or in collaboration with principal investigators.

Sponsor:National Science Foundation
Deadline(s): February 1 and August 1, annually

Objectives:
Professional Development Fellowships are available for researchers trained in all areas of Science, Technology, and Society who wish to improve and expand their skills in the areas of science or engineering, and conversely for physical and natural scientists and engineers who desire training in STS disciplines. For example, historians, philosophers, ethicists, and others in fields of the social, behavioral and economic sciences may use this award to work with a scientist or engineer to learn the technical aspects of research in their area. Alternatively, scientists or engineers may use this award to work with a historian, philosopher or social scientist to learn the research methods, analytical tools and approaches current in STS fields.

These Fellowship proposals must contain both a training and a research component, and should justify the choice of the venue and the host faculty member, in relation to the Fellow's training and research goals. Proposals must also include letters from the host faculty describing plans for working with the Fellow, and from the host institution agreeing to provide appropriate space and facilities. These should be submitted in the Supplementary Documentation section of the FastLane proposal. For Grants.gov users, supplementary documents should be attached in Field 11 of the R&R Other Project Information Form.

Eligibility:
Applicants must be U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents, and the host institution must be in the United States. Applicants are senior scholars.

Sponsor:National Science Foundation
Deadline(s): February 1 and August 1, annually

Objectives:
STS Scholars Awards are the usual awards for individual investigators who are undertaking research projects and need full- time release for an academic year or an academic year and a summer. Additional support may be requested through two more years (up to three years in total), although full-time support normally is provided for only one year.

Budget Guidelines for Scholars Awards

• Awards may provide support for full-time academic year (nine months) research, including salary, fringe benefits, and other direct costs, up to a ceiling that is ordinarily $90,000 for total direct costs.
• Proposals may also request support for full-time summer research, including salary, fringe benefits, and other direct costs, up to approximately $20,000 for total direct costs. Summer salary request may not exceed 2/9ths (two months) of academic year salary.
• Annual limit for project support in a 12-month period is normally $110,000, exclusive of indirect costs.
• Research assistance may also be requested but must be justified in the proposal's work plan. Normal limits for such support are $8,000 per year for an undergraduate research assistant, $18,000 per year for a graduate student and $50,000 per year (including fringe benefits) for a designated postdoctoral researcher.
• Indirect costs assessed by institutions will be added to these levels of support.
• Projects duration -- up to three years.
• The maximum award (indirect costs excluded) is normally $180,000. Proposals of longer duration or requesting larger amounts of support will be considered if extraordinarily well justified and merited.

Eligibility:
Awards are normally made to U.S. institutions. Investigators who cannot apply through an appropriate institution, however, may apply as individuals. In the latter case, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or national.

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 prefers to fund specific initiatives that conform to the mission statement.

Eligibility:
The sponsor funds activities from anywhere in the world.