Funding Opportunity Websites

American Association of University Women (AAUW)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (H SS PS)
• Short-term Research Publication Grant (H SS PS)

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

• Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship (H SS)
• Fellowships (H SS)
• Fredrick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship (H SS)

American Philosophical Society (APS)

• Franklin Research Grant (H)
• Lewis and Clark Fund (SS PS)
• Sabbatical Fellowship (H SS)

US Department of Education (DOE)

• Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship (H SS)

Fulbright: Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)

• Traditional Fulbright Scholar Program (H SS PS)

International Research and Exchange Board (IREX)

• Individual Advanced Research Opportunity (IARO) Grant (H SS)
• Short-term Travel Grant (H SS)

National Academy of Education

• Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship (H SS)

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

• Collaborative Research Grant (H SS)
• Fellowship (H SS)
• Summer Stipend (H SS)

New York Council for the Humanities

• Major Grant (H)
• Mini Grant (H)

Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

• Abe Fellowship (H SS)

Sociological Initiatives Foundation

• Community-based Research Grant (H SS)

The Spencer Foundation

• Major and Small Research Grants (H SS)

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

• Senior Fellowship (H SS)

KEY

H = Opportunity for disciplines in the Humanities*
SS = Opportunity for disciplines in the Social Sciences
PS= Opportunity for disciplines in the Physical Sciences
A = Opportunity for disciplines in the Arts

* What are the Humanities? According to the 1965 National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, the term "humanities" includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following:

• The history, criticism, and theory of The Arts
• Comparative Religion
• Ethics
• History
• Jurisprudence
• Language, both modern and classical
• Linguistics
• Literature
• Philosophy
• Those aspects of social sciences (e.g., Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, Women's Studies) which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods.