Internal Funding Sources

External Funding Sources

Fulbright Scholar Program
Minnesota Humanities Commission
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Humanities Center

Specific Programs

• CIES-Europe (Spain)
• CIES-Uruguay: University of Montevideo Lectureship
• CIES-Western Hemisphere (Peru, Trinidad/Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela)
• CIES-Western Hemisphere (Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Paraguay)
• CIES-Western Hemisphere (El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, and Jamaica)
• Hewlett(William and Flora) Foundation Grant Program-U.S.-Latin American Relations
• Humanities Fellowships-Religion in the Americas
• Spencer Foundation Grants Program
• Tinker Foundation-Institutional Grants

Sponsor: Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Deadline(s):August 1 annually

Objectives:
Opportunities are available as follows:

Spain--up to eight awards in the following fields: American studies/American literature and culture, Computer Science and Engineering, Education, Engineering, Greek Studies, and Human Geography. There is an additional category for "All Disciplines."

Eligibility:
College or university level teaching experience is expected for most awards. Foreign language proficiency is required as specified in the award description or as required for the completion of the proposed lecturing or research project. Professionals and artists outside academe must have recognized professional standing and substantial professional accomplishments. Previous grantees are eligible if three years will have elapsed between the ending date of one scholar award and the beginning date of the new scholar award (unless the previous grant was for less than two months).

Persons residing abroad for five or more consecutive years in the six-year period preceding the date of application are ineligible. Distinguished lecturing awards are targeted at those with outstanding reputations in their fields, and a national standing is normally required. Junior lecturing awards are targeted at recent Ph.D. recipients and scholars at an early stage in their careers, or, in some cases, where the doctorate is not required.

Sponsor: Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Deadline(s):August 1 annually

Objectives:
The scholar will collaborate with Uruguayan colleagues on research/program development, and strengthen links between U.S. institutions and the host university. The university seeks lecturers in the following subfields within the subject areas of law, business administration, engineering, and education. In law, lecture on U.S. legal methods, introduction to U.S. law, contracts and torts, trade contracts, international business transactions in Latin America, litigation and ADR, corporations, securities, and capital markets. In economics/business administration, lecture on management, arts administration, non-profit management, organizational behavior, and finance. In industrial engineering, lecture on logistics and production. In education, lecture on educational administration.

Eligibility:
Professional as well as academic candidates will be considered. Candidates should have at least four years of professional experience. Eligible applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent professional/terminal degree at the time of application. Professionals and artists outside academe must have recognized professional standing and substantial professional accomplishments. Previous grantees are eligible if three years will have elapsed between the ending date of one scholar award and the beginning date of the new scholar award (unless the previous grant was for less than two months). Persons residing abroad for five or more consecutive years in the six-year period preceding the date of application are ineligible. Language of instruction is English, but conversational to fluent Spanish is preferred. The award is tenable at the University of Montevideo in Uruguay.

Sponsor: Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Deadline(s):August 1 annually

Objectives:
Areas of interest are as follows:

Peru--up to eight lecturing/research awards in any field (preference for proposals includes but is not limited to: American studies (history, literature, politics, economics, education, philosophy), public administration, political science, natural resource conservation, education, evaluation of social projects, business, journalism, and agriculture and tourism.

Trinidad/Tobago--up to three lecturing and lecturing/research awards in any field; business administration (specializations sought are marketing, e-commerce, tourism and eco-tourism, management information systems or entrepreneurship); gender studies; linguistics; and sociology/anthropology.

Uruguay--up to five lecturing, lecturing/research or research awards in agriculture (any specialization will be considered, but there is special interest in irrigation applied to grain crops and biotechnology/plant breeding); and any field (preference for projects in alternative dispute resolution, architecture, business administration, computer science, economics, economic development, education, engineering, environmental studies, globalization, information technology, international studies, law (including judicial training), medicine, mining, political science, public administration, sociology and telecommunications).

Venezuela-lecturing/research awards in any field (projects in any discipline will be considered, but preference will be given to proposals in the following priority areas: political science (civic education, government, international relations, public policy, public administration, women's studies); administration of justice (including general law, court procedures, oral argument, constitutional law, labor law, taxation, criminal law and procedure, law of evidence, human rights and intellectual property rights); sustainable development (including economics, international trade and investment, environment and conservation of natural resources, environmental impact and disaster recovery); U.S. studies (politics, foreign relations, history, law, culture and society); education (curriculum development, planning at primary and secondary levels, distance education). Areas of particular interest include disaster recovery/hazard mitigation, distance education and U.S. studies.

Eligibility:
College or university level teaching experience is expected for most awards. Foreign language proficiency is required as specified in the award description or as required for the completion of the proposed lecturing or research project. Professionals and artists outside academe must have recognized professional standing and substantial professional accomplishments. Previous grantees are eligible if three years will have elapsed between the ending date of one scholar award and the beginning date of the new scholar award (unless the previous grant was for less than two months).

Persons residing abroad for five or more consecutive years in the six-year period preceding the date of application are ineligible. Distinguished lecturing awards are targeted at those with outstanding reputations in their fields, and a national standing is normally required. Junior lecturing awards are targeted at recent Ph.D. recipients and scholars at an early stage in their careers, or, in some cases, where the doctorate is not required.

Sponsor: Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Deadline(s):August 1 annually

Objectives:
Areas of interest are as follows:

Mexico--up twelve awards in any field, three TEFL awards and up to four awards to be distributed among the remaining field-specific announcements. Areas of interest are as follows:

Any field (specializations sought are social sciences, applied fields and the humanities with preference in the following fields: binational business, international trade/NAFTA, international relations, border studies, demography/migration studies, environmental sciences, communication, comparative law, criminology in an international context, economics, education, heritage studies, library science, public administration, public policy, political science, public health and urban planning.

In the arts and related fields: arts administration, art and architectural restoration and conservation, art education, crafts, dance, music and theater, film and television, graphics (computer-aided and industrial design), history of art or visual arts, computer science and telecommunications, engineering, (manufacturing, metallurgical, electronic and thermal engineering), agriculture (biological pest control and plant physiology) and international management and economics; communications; education; higher education issues; international business (specializations sought are international marketing, economic globalization, foreign investment and related areas; international relations; law; teaching English as a foreign language; and urban planning and design.

Nicaragua--up to three lecturing/research awards in any field, economics (specializations sought are finance and monetary policy); law (specializations sought are alternative dispute resolution and/or corporate law and finance); and teaching English as a foreign language (specialization sought is English for tourism).

Panama--up to three lecturing/research awards in any field; ecology; educational planning and methodology; and environmental studies and radionuclide technology (specializations sought are environmental engineering with experience in soil and water pollution).

Paraguay--up to two lecturing/research awards in any field (preference for projects in American literature, applied linguistics/TEFL, business administration/management, journalism, political science); applied linguistics (specializations sought are applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, bilingual education, methodology/pedagogy, American cultural studies); economics; journalism and communications (specializations sought are investigative journalism, civic journalism, communication sciences); and public policy.

Eligibility:
College or university level teaching experience is expected for most awards. Foreign language proficiency is required as specified in the award description or as required for the completion of the proposed lecturing or research project. Professionals and artists outside academe must have recognized professional standing and substantial professional accomplishments. Previous grantees are eligible if three years will have elapsed between the ending date of one scholar award and the beginning date of the new scholar award (unless the previous grant was for less than two months).

Persons residing abroad for five or more consecutive years in the six-year period preceding the date of application are ineligible. Distinguished lecturing awards are targeted at those with outstanding reputations in their fields, and a national standing is normally required. Junior lecturing awards are targeted at recent Ph.D. recipients and scholars at an early stage in their careers, or, in some cases, where the doctorate is not required.

Sponsor: Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Deadline(s):August 1 annually

Objectives:
Areas of interest are as follows:

El Salvador--up to six lecturing and lecturing/research awards, in the following fields: any field; education (specialization sought is educational technology); human resources (specializations sought are personnel recruitment and selection); legal education (topics of special interest include public law, ethics, consumer protection, mediation/conciliation techniques, jurisprudence and human rights); political science; and special education.

Guatemala--up to three lecturing or lecturing/research awards in any field (special interest in anthropology, archaeology, communications and journalism, history, law, linguistics, literature, Native American studies, peace studies and conflict resolution, political science, sociology and biology); art history (one or more of the following is preferred: Latin American art history, European art history (especially Spain), U.S. art history, research and teaching methods in the fine arts); literature (specializations sought are Latin American literature, cultural studies, gender studies); North American studies (specializations sought are political science, international relations, U.S. government and politics, history of diplomacy); sociolinguistics and education (specializations sought are bilingual/multicultural education, sociolinguistics, linguistic and educational policy and planning, research methods.

Haiti--up to three lecturing/research awards in any field.

Honduras--up to three lecturing or lecturing/research awards in any field; geography; law (specializations sought are criminal law, oral procedure); music; urban and settlement planning in post-Mitch Honduras (specializations sought are architecture, community planning, housing, structural design (concrete), construction engineering).

Jamaica--up to three lecturing and lecturing/research awards in any field; archaeology and heritage studies; and institutional development/technology education (specializations sought are pharmacy, geography, electrical engineering, research methods in education and technical/vocational education).

Eligibility:
College or university level teaching experience is expected for most awards. Foreign language proficiency is required as specified in the award description or as required for the completion of the proposed lecturing or research project. Professionals and artists outside academe must have recognized professional standing and substantial professional accomplishments. Previous grantees are eligible if three years will have elapsed between the ending date of one scholar award and the beginning date of the new scholar award (unless the previous grant was for less than two months).

Persons residing abroad for five or more consecutive years in the six-year period preceding the date of application are ineligible. Distinguished lecturing awards are targeted at those with outstanding reputations in their fields, and a national standing is normally required. Junior lecturing awards are targeted at recent Ph.D. recipients and scholars at an early stage in their careers, or, in some cases, where the doctorate is not required.

Sponsor: Hewlett (William & Flora) Foundation
Deadline(s):Open

Objectives:
The program works to redress four specific infrastructural problems in the field: key institutions (particularly in Latin America) are not optimally robust; human resources remain underdeveloped; essential information is poor or nonexistent; and there exists a pervasive lack of understanding about the societies and economies in Latin America region in the United States, along with a reciprocal lack of understanding about the United States in Latin America.

Grants in the U.S.- Latin American Relations program seek to overcome these obstacles primarily by building and strengthening human and social capital. specifically, the program focuses its efforts on providing grants of general support to increase institutional capacity, particularly in Latin America, for policy-relevant research, for the exchange of ideas and people, for advanced education and training, and for outreach to and interaction with the policymaking community. The program emphasizes collaboration among institutions -- most importantly between U.S. and Latin American institutions and among Latin American institutions -- with the aim of strengthening the institutional grassroots of current and future inter-American relations.

Eligibility:
The program makes grants to the following four types of institutions and programs: institutions that combine policy studies, exchange, fellowship and training activities; policy studies; programs that enhance human resources through graduate student and faculty exchange and visitor programs, through support of fellowships for foreign study and through specialized technical training; and organizations, especially professional associations, that advance or enhance U.S.-Latin American relations. Applicants must also be tax-exempt.

Sponsor:Rockefeller Foundation
Deadline(s): December 2006 (anticipated)

Objectives:
Support is provided for a three year program that explores the links between religion, civil society and globalization in Latin America and Latino communities in the United States. In 2002-2003 the theme is "Religion, Expressive Culture and Identity." This program will examine how the emergence, practice and diffusion of religiously based rituals, staged performances, commodified products, and other forms of artistic production and social processes shape identities in the Americas. The sponsor is interested in historic and contemporary manifestations of the staging of religion and, more specifically, how religious practice and expressive culture converge to define and redefine struggles for cultural self-determination, social mobilization, and individual and collective identities.

Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are junior and senior scholars in the humanities, the arts, performance studies, and social sciences, and nonacademic practitioners and artists. Joint and collaborative proposals that link scholars to specific artists as well as proposals in which new artistic work is created and staged during the fellowship residency are eligible.

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.

Sponsor:Tinker Foundation, Inc.
Deadline: March 1 and September 1, annually

Objectives:
The sponser seeks proposals submitted by an institutional entity that are geographically focused on Latin America, Iberia or Antarctica. Topically, the research project, workshop or conference should deal with environmental policy, goverance or economic policy.

Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are those from tax-exempt organizations.