Past Humanities Funding Opportunities
Browse funding opportunities with deadlines that have passed to identify upcoming application cycles and resources to keep an eye on.
2024
Organization |
Description |
Application Due Date |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the development, production and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films and series that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways | Jan 10. 2024 |
| Arts Midwest | Help bring communities together around the shared activity of reading and discussing the same book | Jan. 10, 2024 for LOI |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports innovative, experimental and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching and public programming in the humanities | Jan. 11, 2024 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Develop and assess environmentally sustainable preventive care strategies in collection spaces | Jan. 12, 2024 |
| Louisville Institute | Supports pre-tenured faculty members for research projects about Christian faith and life, the practice of ministry, religious trends and movements, Christian and other faith-based institutions and religion and social issues | Jan. 15, 2024 |
| Mid-America Arts Alliance | Improve the health, well-being and quality of life for military service members and veterans exposed to trauma as well as their families and caregivers through experiences of art or art making | Jan. 17, 2024 |
| Regional Arts Organization | ArtsHERE invests in organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to equity within their practices and programming, with the goal of increasing arts participation for underserved groups/communities | Jan. 19, 2024 |
| Japan - US Friendship Commission | Increases arts participation for underserved groups/communities | Jan. 19, 2024 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Invests in organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to equity within their practices and programming, with the goal of increasing arts participation for underserved groups/communities | Jan. 19, 2024 for LOI |
| Harvard University | Supports research in such areas as art and art history, Afro-Latin American research, design and the history of design, education, hiphop, African studies, the African diaspora, African American studies, literature, journalism and creative writing | Jan. 22, 2024 |
| National Library of Medicine | Solicits grant applications for the preparation of book-length manuscripts and other works of academic and/or public health importance to U.S. health professionals, public health officials, biomedical researchers and historians of the health sciences | Jan. 26, 2024 |
| Culture and Animals Foundation | Supports scholars and artists using their intellect, creativity and compassion to build a deeper understanding of human–animal relationships and a greater respect for animal rights | Jan. 31, 202 |
| Association for the Sociology of Religion | Supports promising sociological research on women in religion or on the intersection between religion and gender or religion and sexualities | Feb. 1, 2024 |
| Japan United States Friendship Commission | Contemporary and traditional artists from the United States apply for a unique collaborative artistic residency | Feb. 1, 2024 |
| New America | Supports journalists, scholars, filmmakers and public policy analysts who generate big, bold ideas that have an impact and spark new conversations about the most pressing issues of our day | Feb. 1, 2024 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Expandx participants’ knowledge of and approaches to teaching diverse histories, cultures and perspectives in the United States and its jurisdictions | Feb. 14, 2024 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Creates new humanities research centers on artificial intelligence | Feb. 14, 2024 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports training programs for scholars, humanities professionals and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities | Feb. 15, 2024 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Provides expansive funding opportunities to strengthen the nation’s arts and cultural ecosystem | Feb. 15, 2024 |
| MacDowell | Provides time, space and an inspiring residential environment to artists of exceptional talent | March 1, 2024 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Offers grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel and general career advancement | March 13, 2024 |
| ACLS | Places recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations committed to promoting social justice in their communities | March 13, 2024 |
| Cundill History Prize | Recognizes one book annually that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal | March 15, 2024 |
| J.M. Kaplan Fund | Supports the production and publishing of nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture and design; cultural history, the city and related public issues and conservation and preservation | March 15, 2024 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Supports research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecosystem or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life | March 25, 2024 |
| American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation | Supports efforts to advance knowledge, tools and techniques in communication sciences and disorders | April 17, 2024 |
| The Carter Center | Supports a diverse cohort of journalists that are deeply committed to exploring some of society’s biggest mental health challenges | April 24, 2024 |
| Poetry Foundation | Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships | April 30, 2024 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities presented by technology | Sept. 12, 2024 |
2020-2023
Organization |
Description |
Application Due Date |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Preserve nationally significant historic properties and collections that convey our nation’s rich heritage to future generations | Dec. 19, 2023 |
| ACLS | Provides funding and data training for up to five scholarly projects that draw upon the newly available College and Beyond II (CBII) database | Dec. 15, 2023 |
| ACLS | Supports projects that address inequities in access to tools and support for digital work among scholars across various fields, those working with under-utilized or understudied source materials, and those in institutions with less support for digital projects | Dec. 15, 2023 |
| Samuel H. Kress Foundation | Supports scholarly projects with the potential to enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century | Dec. 15, 2023 |
| Harvard University | Supports scholars interested in the systematic scrutiny of developments that have unfolded across national, regional and continental boundaries and who propose to analyze the interconnections—cultural, economic, ecological, political and demographic—among world societies | Dec. 1, 2023 |
| Teagle Foundation | Supports the incorporation of transformative texts into the general education curriculum | Dec. 1, 2023 |
| Wenner Gren Foundation | Supports meetings and events that promote the development of inclusive communities of anthropologists and advance significant and innovative research | Dec. 1, 2023 |
| Princeton University | Supports legal scholars actively engaged in research and writing on topics related to contemporary issues in law and public policy | Dec. 1, 2023 |
| Society for Classical Studies | Supports an American scholar who wishes to conduct lexicographical research at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) Institute in Munich | Dec. 1, 2023 |
| Institute for Citizens and Scholars | Supports early-career faculty whose research focuses on contemporary American history, politics, culture and society and are focused on building inclusive campus communities through their teaching, scholarship and service | Dec. 1, 2023 |
| Mellon Foundation | Supports humanities-grounded ideas for research and curricular projects focused on Cultures of US Democracy, Environmental Justice Studies and Social Justice and Disciplinary Knowledge | Nov. 30, 2024 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts | Nov. 29, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Aims to advance humanistic knowledge by supporting teams of scholars working on a joint endeavor | Nov. 29, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Offers grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel and other activities leading to the creation and publication of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities | Nov. 29, 2023 |
| ACLS | Provides stipends to PhD candidates for full time preparation of dissertations in Buddhist Studies | Nov. 16, 2023 |
| ACLS | Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies offers fellowships and grants to support research, writing, and publicly engaged and creative scholarship | Nov. 16, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Awards publishers a $5,500 grant to release open access digital editions of books whose underlying research was funded by an eligible NEH fellowship or grant | Nov. 15, 2023 |
| Washington College | Supports a significant project currently in progress (a book, film, oral history archive, podcast series, museum exhibition or similar work) which addresses the history and/or legacy of the U.S. founding era and/or the nation’s founding ideas | Nov. 15, 2023 |
| VIA Art | Supports the production and exhibition of new artistic commissions | Nov. 9, 2023 for LOI |
| Russell Sage Foundation | Supports innovative investigator-initiated research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, legal status —and their interactions with each other and other social categories—in the social, economic and political outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities and native-born whites | Nov. 7, 2023 |
| National Cancer Institute | Utilize health communication research to better understand the impact that messaging about the continuum of risk for tobacco products may have on various segments of the population | Nov. 6, 2023 |
| Russell Sage Foundation | Supports innovative investigator-initiated research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, legal status —and their interactions with each other and other social categories—in the social, economic and political outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities and native-born whites | Nov. 7, 2023 |
| National Archives and Records Administration | Seeks proposals to publish online editions of historical records | Nov. 2, 2023 |
| ACLS | Provides long-term and flexible research fellowships to support research, writing and curriculum development in China studies | Nov. 2, 2023 |
| Institute for Research in the Humanities | Supports scholars working in the humanities on European history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, art and culture in the classical, medieval and/or early modern periods before 1700 | Oct. 26, 2023 |
| Institute for Citizens and Scholars | Supports outstanding junior faculty committed to campus diversity and innovative research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences | Oct. 20, 2023 |
| Department of State | Supports the preservation of historic buildings, archaeological and other cultural sites, museum objects and collections and forms of traditional expression such as indigenous languages and music in participating countries | Oct. 19, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the exploration and development of small projects that would benefit underserved populations through the teaching and study of the humanities at small and medium-sized colleges and universities | Oct. 18, 2023 |
| Endangered Languages Documentation Programme | Supports the documentation of endangered languages | Oct. 15, 2023 |
| Institute for Advanced Study | Supports visiting scholars from a wide range of fields, notably political theory, economics, law, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy and literature | Oct. 15, 2023 |
| Dan David Prize | Recognizes early and mid career scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines, to acknowledge their outstanding achievements and support future work | Oct. 11, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities presented by technology | Oct. 11, 2023 |
| Modern Language Association | Supports individual faculty members or small, local teams developing ways to improve the recruitment, retention or career readiness of undergraduate students | Oct. 10, 2023 |
| National Humanities Center | Fellows are given the freedom to work on their projects while benefiting from the exceptional services of the Center | Oct. 5, 2023 |
| Getty Foundation | Supports efforts to advance the knowledge of the arts and humanities and producing cutting-edge scholarship that contributes to the understanding and preservation of cultural heritage, focused around 2023's theme of Extinction | Oct. 2, 2023 |
| Monument Lab | Supports teams of two or more individuals working together to create a new or expand an existing public-facing project with creative representation and interpretation of erased, suppressed or threatened stories and histories | Oct. 2, 2023 |
| Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study | Supports ethicists, humanities faculty, scientists, social scientists, policy scholars and artists with projects that advance our understanding of human flourishing | Oct. 2, 2023 |
| Getty Foundation | Supports researchers in advancing knowledge of the arts and humanities and producing cutting-edge scholarship that contributes to the understanding and preservation of cultural heritage | Oct. 2, 2023 |
| Department of State | Invites proposals for programs that strengthen cultural ties between the U.S. and Japan through cultural and exchange programming that highlights shared values and promotes bilateral cooperation | Sept. 30, 2023 |
| ACLS | Supports untenured scholars pursuing research on topics grounded in any period, world region, or humanistic methodology who are working towards a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant | Sept. 28, 2023 |
| Cornell University | Invites applications for residential fellowships from scholars and artists | Sept. 20, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | The Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication | Sept. 20, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports comprehensive assessment and strategic planning efforts by humanities organizations to mitigate physical and operational environmental impacts and adapt to a changing climate | Sept. 14, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Develop and advance scientific and scholarly knowledge concerning endangered human languages | Sept. 13, 2023 |
| Princeton University | Supports artists and writers of exceptional promise as they pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year | Sept. 12, 2023 |
| Department of State | Strengthen cultural ties between the U.S. and Hong Kong and the U.S. and Macau through cultural and exchange programming that highlight shared values and promote bilateral cooperation | Sept. 10, 2023 |
| Jewish Women's Foundation of Greater Pittsburgh | Supports initiatives that address the unique needs of self-identified women and girls through a ‘social change’ lens | Sept. 8, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the planning or implementation of curricular projects connecting the humanities to the physical and natural sciences; pre-service or professional programs, including law and business; computer science, data science and other technology-driven fields | Sept. 7, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war and military service, in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others think more deeply about the issues that they raise | Sept. 7, 2023 |
| Louisville Institute | Supports scholarly research projects about Christian faith and life, the practice of ministry, religious trends and movements, Christian and other faith-based institutions and religion and social issues | Sept. 1, 2023 |
| J.M. Kaplan Fund | Supports specific publication components as writing, research, editing, indexing, design, illustration, photography and printing and binding for nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture and design; cultural history, the city and related public issues; and conservation and preservation | Sept. 1, 2023 |
| ACLS | Recognizes and rewards the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative and open humanities scholarship | Sept. 1, 2023 |
| Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) | Supports projects that can contribute to or influence discussions about literacy and writing instruction in and out of formal education | Sept. 1, 2023 |
| Kress Foundation | Supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century | Sept. 1, 2023 |
| CCCC | Supports investigations of key challenges faced by literacy, communication, rhetoric and writing instructors and administrators in their classrooms and programs | Sept. 1, 2023 |
| ACLS | Inaugural open access book prizes, funded by Arcadia | Sept. 1, 2023 |
| Department of Justice | Conduct research and testing activities related to the development of new data collections that will measure persons’ access to justice for their civil legal needs and research on additional data sources to define and measure key indicators of access to justice for civil legal needs | Aug. 22, 2023 |
| National Science Foundation | Supports fundamental, systematic anthropological research and training to increase understanding of the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability | Aug. 15, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person, hybrid or virtual programming | Aug. 9, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports collaboration between media producers and scholars to develop content grounded in humanities scholarship and prepare documentary films, radio and podcasts | Aug. 9, 2023 |
| Department of State | Support Eastern European civil society organizations to enhance their ability to identify and respond to (including through publicly released analytical products) Kremlin disinformation in their local information environments | Aug. 9, 2023 |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | Provides opportunities for internships and fellowships at American Latino museums for students | Aug. 7, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Supports activities that integrate arts, culture and design into local efforts that strengthen communities over the long term | Aug. 3, 2023 |
| Wenner-Gren Foundation | Supports research partnerships that empower those who have historically been the subjects of anthropological research, rather than researchers themselves | Aug. 1, 2023 |
| Department of State | Help create a diverse, multi-stakeholder system for the arts that responds to the needs of different audiences across Ukraine and promotes cooperation between arts organizations, ministries, NGOs and private sector companies | July 31, 2023 |
| Department of State | Support Ukrainian performing arts by fostering Ukrainian – American collaborations and/or presenting American content in theatrical plays, musical, dance and literature performances | July 31, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | imited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books digitally available to a wide audience | July 14, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Offer literary arts programming and services that focus on local, regional, and/or national activities designed to promote and develop practitioners of, and audiences for, the literary arts | July 6, 2023 |
| Department of State | Supports initiatives that foster the development of civil society and democratic governance by improving the quality of English language education in Ukrainian schools | July 5, 2023 |
| Department of State | Assist in the preservation of Afghanistan’s diverse cultural heritage and brings attention to the cultural traditions that are shared among people in Afghanistan irrespective of linguistic or ethnic distinctions | July 3, 2023 |
| Department of State | Support regional investigative journalism in Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia | June 30, 2023 |
| American Philosophical Association | Supports projects designed to increase the presence and participation of women, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, people of low socioeconomic status and other underrepresented groups at all levels of philosophy | June 30, 2023 |
| Library of Congress | Develop digitally-enabled comprehensive, assessable teaching project-based creative arts driven curricula programs focused on using the digitized primary sources of the Library of Congress related to history, civics and democracy | June 30, 2023 |
| Sociological Initiatives Foundation | Supports research projects that investigate laws, policies, institutions, regulations and normative practices that may limit equality in the United States | June 30, 2023 |
| Department of State | Establishes a small grants mechanism that will provide funded support for independent media organizations serving populations in Ukraine, Belarus, and Eurasia | June 23, 2023 |
| Department of State | Support media literacy in Europe | June 19, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects | June 15, 2023 |
| Department of State | Issuing an award for a period of at least 12 months to teach English language and personal development skills to a diverse audience of Afghan youth | June 15, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats | June 14, 2023 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | Funds a research center to lead and support investigation of the needs of Hispanic populations served by ACF and promising approaches to promote social and economic well-being among Hispanic children and families with low-incomes | June 7, 2023 |
| National Endowment for Democracy | Supports proposals from independent organizations for nonpartisan programs that seek to promote and defend human rights and the rule of law | June 7, 2023 |
| National Archives and Records Administration | Seeks proposals for its planning grant program for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic America and Native American History and Ethnic Studies | June 7, 2023 |
| Department of State | Strengthen people-to-people ties between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, and increase local PRC audiences’ understanding of the United States’ foreign policy, values and culture through direct or virtual engagement | June 1, 2023 |
| GAIA | Supports projects that explore adaptations to accommodate the economic and social disruptions from re-alignments in generational cohorts and/or incentives which serve to moderate extreme consumerism in our culture | June 1, 2023 |
| Pen America | Supports literary works of nonfiction that use oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place or movement | June 1, 2023 |
| Wenner-Gren Foundation | Supports meetings and events that promote the development of inclusive communities of anthropologists and advance significant and innovative research | June 1, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Make a nomination for the Bess Lomax Hawes National Heritage Fellowship to recognize artistic excellence, lifetime achievement, and contributions to our nation's traditional arts heritage | May 30, 2023 |
| Department of State | Conduct research to adapt programs and policy engagement to emerging challenges and priorities for LGBTQI+ communities | May 29, 2023 |
| Department of State | Cooperative agreement to serve as an implementation partner for Foreign Press Centers' International Media Reporting Programs | May 22, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Aims to help institutions secure long-term support for their core activities and expand efforts to preserve and create access to outstanding humanities materials | May 17, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources | May 16, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports training programs that develop knowledge and skills among professionals responsible for preserving and establishing access to humanities collections | May 16, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports community-based efforts to mitigate climate change and COVID-19 pandemic impacts, safeguard cultural resources and foster cultural resilience through identifying, documenting and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experience | May 16, 2023 |
| Wilson Center | Supports scholars who have received their Ph.D. within the past 10 years who wish to conduct research on Russian history and culture | May 15, 2023 |
| Academy of American Poets | Recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year | May 15, 2023 |
| Department of Education | Conduct research, studies or surveys, or to develop specialized instructional materials, to improve and strengthen instruction and enrollment in modern foreign languages and related area studies | May 12, 2023 |
| Department of State | Supports students to advance and deepen their engagement in gender studies under the Tomorrow’s Leaders undergraduate program | May 10, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Accepting applications for the five Humanities Initiatives program | May 9, 2023 |
| Wenner-Gren Foundation | Supports emerging scholars in anthropology and related fields whose work has the potential to transform our understanding of what it means to be human | May 1, 2023 |
| Society for the History of Technology | Supports the work of postdoctoral scholars who hold a doctorate in the history of technology or a related field | Apr. 30, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Offers support primarily to small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the arts to groups/communities with rich and dynamic artistic and cultural contributions to share that are underserved | Apr. 28, 2023 |
| J.M. Kaplan Fund | Supports transformative early-stage projects in the fields of the environment, heritage conservation and social justice | Apr. 28, 2023 |
| Department of State | Open competition for projects that support Freedom of Expression in Central Asia | Apr. 27, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Accepting applications for the Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan program | Apr. 26, 2023 |
| Whiting Foundation | Supports original and ambitious non-fiction projects that require intense research | Apr. 25, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports individual scholars pursuing significant humanities projects that require digital expression and publication | Apr. 19, 2023 |
| Poetry Foundation | Supports exceptional US poets between 21 and 31 years of age | Apr. 14, 2023 |
| McGill University | Recognizes a book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal | Apr. 12, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis and clear writing | Apr. 12, 2023 |
| Department of Education | The Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship Program provides opportunities for doctoral students to engage in dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies | Apr. 11, 2023 |
| Department of Defense | Seeks applications that identify and implement evidence-based practices to meet the academic needs of the highly mobile military-connected students and establish, improve or expand world language programs targeting elementary and secondary students | Apr. 7, 2023 |
| Department of Justice | Supports high-quality arts programs for justice-involved youth to reduce juvenile delinquency, recidivism, and/or other problem and high-risk behaviors | Apr. 6, 2023 |
| National Museum of Asian Arts | Supports excellence in research and publication on the Japanese visual arts | Apr. 1, 2023 |
| J.M. Kaplan Fund | Supports a richly illustrated book that contributes to the arts, history and/or natural/built environment fields; and demonstrates high production standards | Apr. 1, 2023 |
| Cintas Foundation | Supports artists of Cuban citizenship or direct descent as they pursue excellence in architecture & design, creative writing, music composition and the visual arts | Apr. 1, 2023 |
| University of New Mexico | Supports scholarly use of the Latin American and Iberian collections, focusing on objectives with specific relevance to the UNM Library collections | Mar. 31, 2023 |
| Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation | Supports in-person and virtual performances by American artists at engagements at international festivals and global presenting arts marketplaces outside of the United States | Mar. 29, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Supports research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life | Mar. 27, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Funds transdisciplinary research teams grounded in the social and behavioral sciences, yielding empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts and non-arts sectors alike | Mar. 27, 2023 |
| Department of State | Supports projects that address the impact of climate change and environmental degradation on democracy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa region | Mar. 27, 2023 |
| Department of Education | Provides opportunities for faculty, teachers and undergraduate and graduate students to conduct group projects overseas in foreign languages | Mar. 27, 2023 |
| NDN Collective | Supports Indigenous artists and artist partnerships/cooperatives to imagine, design, and create projects that propose solutions to our most intractable societal problems | Mar. 21, 2023 |
| Montclair State University | Supports new civic science journalism collaborations and projects | Mar. 17, 2023 |
| Abelard Foundation | Supports progressive social change activities that expand and protect civil liberties and civil and human rights, and promote and strengthen community involvement in, and control over, the decisions that affect their lives, giving priority to projects with budgets of less than $300,000 | Mar. 15, 2023 |
| ACLS | Leading Edge Fellowships place recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations committed to promoting social justice in their communities | Mar 15, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Offers $25,000 grants in prose and poetry to published creative writers that enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel and general career advancement | Mar. 8, 2023 |
| Department of State | Supports projects that have the goal to provide LGBTQI+ communities with the tools to (1) empower local movements and communities; (2) prevent, mitigate, and recover from violence, discrimination, stigma, and human rights abuses; (3) promote full social inclusion or (4) address critical issues of justice | Mar. 1, 2023 |
| Kress Foundation | Supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century | Mar. 1, 2023 |
| J.M. Kaplan Fund | Supports writing, research, editing, design, indexing, photography, illustration, and printing and binding of nonfiction books about the city; natural and historic resources; art, architecture, and design; cultural history; and civil liberties | Mar. 1, 2023 |
| Department of State | Submit proposals for English teacher training projects to improve the communicative English language teaching skills of Japanese elementary school teachers in Japan | Feb. 19, 2023 |
| Department of State | Promotes U.S. graduate schools by providing informative sessions and workshops nationwide, creating links between prospective students and alumni, and, therefore, increasing the number of Japanese who pursue U.S. graduate studies to include PhD in hard sciences. | Feb. 19, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities | Feb. 15, 2023 |
| ACLS | Aims to deepen public understanding of religion by advancing innovative scholarship on religion in international contexts and equipping individual scholars and institutions of higher education with the capacities to connect their work to journalism and the media | Feb. 15, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Supports opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector | Feb. 9, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Seeks to publish and promote literary content by contemporary writers and translators in such genres as poetry, fiction, drama, and creative nonfiction | Feb. 9, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities | Feb. 2, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Professional development programs that convene higher education faculty or K-12 educators from across the nation to deepen and enrich their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching | Feb. 1, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops across the nation to enhance and strengthen how K-12 educators, higher education faculty, and humanities professionals incorporate place-based teaching and learning in the humanities | Feb. 1, 2023 |
| Department of State | Responds to critical gaps in refugee assistance in Ukraine by funding durable solutions to the problems refugees and other displaced persons face | Jan. 23, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Aims to make a difference in military-connected communities by supporting arts engagement programming designed to cultivate creative expression, increase social connectedness, strengthen resilience, and to support independence and successful adaptation to civilian life | Jan. 19, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Broaden our understanding of our world, our neighbors, and ourselves through the power of a shared reading experience | Jan. 18, 2023 |
| National Science Foundation | Supports basic scientific research on the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability | Jan. 17, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports comprehensive assessment and strategic planning efforts by humanities organizations to mitigate physical and operational environmental impacts and adapt to a changing climate | Jan. 17, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Produce and administer the 2024 Poetry Out Loud National Finals | Jan. 17, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry or drama from other languages into English | Jan. 12, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 from all 56 states and U.S. jurisdictions | Jan. 12, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports innovative, experimental and/or computationally challenging digital projects | Jan. 12, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports community-based efforts to mitigate climate change and COVID-19 pandemic impacts, safeguard cultural resources, and foster cultural resilience through identifying, documenting, and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experience | Jan. 12, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures | Jan. 12, 2023 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person, hybrid or virtual programming | Jan. 11, 2023 |
| ACLS | Places recent recipients of the PhD in professional positions at museums and publications that present and interpret knowledge of Buddhist traditions | Jan. 11, 2023 |
| CDC | Supports research to develop a predictive forecasting model that identifies new or reemerging misinformation narratives that are likely to disseminate widely and have a high potential for impact on vaccine confidence | Jan. 6, 2023 |
| National Park Service | Provide preservation and/or conservation assistance to nationally significant historic properties and collections | Dec. 20, 2022 |
| Department of State | Address stabilization challenges in northeast Syria as well as parts of the northern Aleppo countryside outside of the control of the Syrian regime | Dec. 20, 2022 |
| Department of State | Carry out an individual project to preserve cultural heritage in Brazil | Dec. 20, 2022 |
| National Archives and Records Administration | Advance inclusive participation, training, education, dialogue and collaborative exchange amongst a diverse and growing community of academic and non-academic practitioners in the editing and publishing of historical records | Dec. 8, 2022 |
| ACLS | Two-week residential fellowship, that provides scholars of Eastern Europe the opportunity to undertake local fieldwork in Bulgaria | Dec. 1, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Offers grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel and other activities leading to the creation and publication of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public | Nov. 30, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports groups of two or more scholars seeking to increase humanistic knowledge through convenings, manuscript preparation for collaborative publications and the creation of scholarly digital projects | Nov. 30, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports collaborative teams who are editing, annotating and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to scholarship but are currently inaccessible | Nov. 30, 2022 |
| ACLS | Fellowships in Buddhist Studies provide stipends to PhD candidates for full time preparation of dissertations | Nov. 16, 2022 |
| ACLS | Supports translations of important Buddhist texts for the benefit of contemporary audiences who currently do not have access to them in their own languages | Nov. 16, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Award publishers a $5,500 grant to release open access digital editions of books whose underlying research was funded by one of the NEH programs | Nov. 15, 2022 |
| ACLS | Aims to deepen public understanding of religion by advancing innovative scholarship in international contexts and equipping scholars with the capacities to connect their work to journalism and the media | Nov. 15, 2022 |
| National Park Service | Document, interpret, and preserve the sites and stories of the full history of the African American struggle to gain equal rights as citizens from the transatlantic slave trade forward | Nov. 8, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the exploration and development of small projects that would benefit underserved populations through the teaching and study of the humanities | Nov. 2, 2022 |
| ACLS | Fellowships (long-term and flexible research fellowships) support research, writing, and curriculum development in China studies | Nov. 2, 2022 |
| ACLS | Supports graduate students pursuing research on the history of art and visual culture of the United States, including all aspects of Native American art, and who are at any stage of PhD dissertation research or writing | Oct. 27, 2022 |
| National Science Foundation | Supports doctoral research focusing on building dynamic language infrastructure | Oct. 14, 2022 |
| National Science Foundation | Supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning dynamic language infrastructure in the context of endangered human languages | Oct. 14, 2022 |
| National Humanities Center | Fellows are given the freedom to work on their projects while benefiting from the exceptional services of the Center | Oct. 6, 2022 |
| National Archives and Records Administration | Seeks archival projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections | Oct. 6, 2022 |
| Library of Congress | Use LoC digital materials to create projects that center on the lives, experiences and perspectives of Black, Indigenous, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander and other communities of color in the US | Sept. 30, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Conduct archaeological and ethnographic field research to answer significant questions in the humanities | Sept. 28, 2022 |
| American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) | Fellowships are intended to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing | Sept. 28, 2022 |
| Department of State | Carry out a program to implement a 15-day exchange program to the United States for up to 10 participants representing digital content creators, targeting youth audiences from the Republic of Korea | Sept. 23, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Summer Stipends stimulate new research and publication in the humanities | Sept. 21, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports individuals who are junior or senior linguists, linguistic anthropologists and sociolinguists to conduct research on one or more endangered or moribund languages | Sept. 14, 2022 |
| Lewis Center for the Arts | Supports composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers or other kinds of artists or humanists who have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts" to spend one academic year at Princeton University engaged in "studious leisure" | Sept. 13, 2022 |
| Harvard University Radcliffe Institute | Supports scholars in the above disciplines proposing work relevant to the Institute's focus areas, including: law, education, and justice; climate change; legacies of slavery; and women, gender, and society | Sept. 8, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports innovative curricular approaches that foster partnerships among humanities faculty and their counterparts in the social and natural sciences and in pre-service or professional programs | Sept. 1, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war and military service | Sept. 1, 2022 |
| The Teagle Foundation | Supports statewide, regional, or consortial academic partnerships between public two-year and private four-year colleges to facilitate transfer and completion of the baccalaureate in the liberal arts | Aug. 26, 2022 |
| Department of State | Increase Palestinian groups' English language skills, understanding of American cultures, values, society and/or current issues through exposure to information on those topics | Aug. 22, 2022 |
| Department of State | Combat disinformation and malign narratives spread via social and traditional media in Ukraine | Aug. 19, 2022 |
| John Templeton Foundation | Address the spiritual yearnings, existential concerns and search for meaning of spiritually curious but nonreligious individuals and communities | Aug. 19, 2022 |
| Sociological Initiatives Foundation | Supports research projects that investigate laws, policies, institutions, regulations, and normative practices that may limit equality in the United States and its territories; and also supports research that furthers language learning and behavior and its intersection with social and policy questions | Aug. 16, 2022 |
| Department of State | Analyze how Mandarin language disinformation works on Youtube | Aug. 12, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports institutions that provide fellowships for advanced humanities research in the U.S. and abroad, foster communities of intellectual exchange among participating scholars and provide access to resources that might otherwise not be available to the participating scholars | Aug. 10, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports collaboration between media producers and scholars to develop humanities content and to prepare documentary films, radio and podcasts | Aug. 10, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Select a cooperator to administer the NEA's Independent Film and Media Arts Field-Building Initiative | Aug. 9, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Supports activities that integrate arts, culture and design into local efforts that strengthen communities | Aug. 4, 2022 |
| Development of State | Foster the development of online English language learning and teaching in Ukraine | Aug. 3, 2022 |
| Wenner-Gren Foundation | Supports partnerships that empower those who have historically been among those researched in anthropology, rather than researchers themselves | Aug. 1, 2022 |
| Library of Congress | Supports contemporary cultural documentation focusing on the culture and traditions of diverse, often underrepresented communities in the US | Aug. 1, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education and public programming in the humanities | July 19, 2022 |
| Sexual Violence Research Initiative | Supports innovative research on violence against women and violence against children in low- and middle-income countries and to encourage debate in the field | July 19, 2022 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | Identify and implement innovative strategies to enhance language access services in healthcare | July 15, 2022 |
| Department of State | Develop a global campaign to protect academic freedom and freedom of expression | July 15, 2022 |
| Department of Education | The Fulbright-Hays FRA Fellowship Program funds faculty members seeking to improve their area studies and foreign language skills by conducting research abroad | July 13, 2022 |
| Department of State | Administer a high-quality, coherent online professional development program for selected instructors at pedagogical colleges and universities in Ukraine | July 11, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation | July 7, 2022 |
| American Philosophical Society | Supports projects aiming to increase the presence and participation of women, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, people of low socioeconomic status, and other underrepresented groups at all levels of philosophy | June 30, 2022 |
| Holberg Prize | Recognizes outstanding individual contributions to humanities, social sciences, law, and theology | June 15, 2022 |
| Mellon Foundation | Supports emerging and established Puerto Rican writers of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and children’s literature | June 13, 2022 |
| National Archives and Records Administration | Seeks projects that will significantly improve public discovery and use of major historical records collections | June 8, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats | June 8, 2022 |
| Department of Justice | Develop a toolkit for the field that will inform organizations on how to better serve transgender people, in a culturally responsive and trauma-informed way | June 1, 2022 |
| Department of Education | Provides grants for planning, developing and carrying out projects to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages in the US | May 31, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Recognizes artistic excellence, lifetime achievement and contributions to our nation's traditional arts heritage | May 31, 2022 |
| Department of State | Provide program support for peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the form of administrative and logistics support and coordination of activities for the sustained dialogue | May 30, 2022 |
| Department of State | Better enable civil society and human rights defenders to promote and defend democracy and human rights through evidence-based advocacy | May 23, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the development of knowledge and skills among professionals responsible for preserving and establishing access to humanities collection | May 17, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the design, purchase, construction, restoration or renovation of facilities for humanities activities | May 17, 2022 |
| Department of State | Arts-based, international people-to-people exchanges that support and further U.S. Department of State foreign policy and the Interim National Security Strategy goals of strengthening democratic values around the globe by demonstrating the power of creative free expression | May 16, 2022 |
| Department of State | Carry out programs in support of activities that forge and/or strengthen connections between the people of China and the United States | May 16, 2022 |
| Academy of American Poets | Recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year | May 15, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new humanities programs | May 9, 2022 |
| Henry Luce Foundation | Supports scholarly loan exhibitions that significantly advance the study and understanding of art of the United States, including all facets of Native American art | April 30, 2022 |
| Department of State | Defend the online freedom of expression of anticorruption activists, whistleblowers and investigative journalists in Ukraine and Moldova | April 29, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Accepting applications for the Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan program | April 27, 2022 |
| Department of Education | Establish, strengthen and operate centers that serve as resources for improving the Nation's capacity for teaching and learning foreign languages | April 25, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Supports small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the arts to populations that are underserved | April 21, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports individual scholars pursuing significant humanities projects that require digital expression and digital publication | April 20, 2022 |
| Department of State | Supports a more resilient media ecosystem and builds capacity to mitigate the suppression of independent media and democratic values in select foreign countries | April 18, 2022 |
| Department of State | Awards several prominent U.S. - Japan Fullbrighters with an "Ambassador's Award" | April 15, 2022 |
| Department of State | Manage and administer programs designed to increase the number of Japanese students studying in U.S. undergraduate schools | April 15, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Supports activities that showcase US-based performing artists to arts presenters based outside of the US | April 15, 2022 |
| Department of State | Awarding grants to translate books by American authors for U.S. Mission to Georgia | April 13, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional humanistic research, rigorous analysis and clear writing | April 13, 2022 |
| Greater Good Science Center | Distributing grants to journalists and nonfiction media producers who approach the topic of intellectual humility from a variety of angles and across a range of media | Mar. 31, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Cultivates a series of transdisciplinary research partnerships to produce and report empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts practitioners | Mar. 28, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Supports research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts | Mar. 28, 2022 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Places recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations promoting social justice in their communities | Mar. 28, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Offers grant funding for longer-term research agendas | Mar. 28, 2022 |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | Supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice in these professions to strengthen library and archival services for the American publics | Mar. 25, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel and general career advancement in poetry | Mar. 10, 2022 |
| National Parks Service | Provides funding for the preservation of collections | Mar. 10, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports national or regional training programs for scholars, humanities professionals and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities | Mar. 2, 2022 |
| Open Society Foundations | Supports lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, researchers, and others with unique perspectives to undertake full-time criminal justice reform projects at the local, state, and national levels (Advocacy); or writers, print and broadcast journalists, artists, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinctive voices proposing to complete media projects that engage and inform, spur debate and conversation, and catalyze change on important U.S. criminal justice issues | Mar. 2, 2022 |
| JM Kaplan Fund | Supports writing, research, editing, design, indexing, photography, illustration, and printing and binding of nonfiction books about the city; natural and historic resources; art, architecture, and design; cultural history; and civil liberties and other public issues of the day | Mar. 1, 2022 |
| Samuel H. Kress Foundation | Supports efforts to integrate new technologies into the practice of art history and the creation of important online resources in art history, including both textual and visual resources | Mar. 1, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Accepting applications for professional development programs that convene higher education faculty from across the nation in order to deepen and enrich their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching | Feb. 22, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples and databases | Feb. 15, 2022 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Supports projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues | Feb. 15, 2022 |
| Department of Education | Establish, strengthen and operate comprehensive and undergraduate centers that will be national resources for the modern language field | Feb. 14, 2022 |
| Department of Education | Allocates academic year and summer fellowships to assist meritorious undergraduate and graduate students receiving modern foreign language training in combination with area studies, international studies or the international aspects of professional studies | Feb. 14, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Funds arts projects in a range of disciplines | Feb. 10, 2022 |
| Department of Education | Promotes, improves and develops the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States | Jan. 26, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports innovative, experimental and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching and public programming in the humanities | Jan. 14, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Help improve the ability to preserve and care for significant humanities collections |
Jan. 13, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 from all 56 states and U.S. jurisdictions | Jan. 13, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry or drama from other languages into English | Jan. 12, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming | Jan. 12, 2022 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Take up two-year positions at select institutions in ACLS's Research University Consortium for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 academic years | Jan. 12, 2022 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Offers an integrated set of fellowship and grant competitions supporting work that will expand the understanding and interpretation of Buddhist thought | Jan. 11, 2022 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the creation of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public |
Dec. 15, 2021 |
| Samuel H. Kress Foundation | Supports scholarly projects with the potential to enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture from antiquity to the early nineteenth century | Dec. 15, 2021 |
| Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation | Supports innovative projects and original ideas that have the potential to advance scholarship in the arts and provide promising insights into the fields of art that the foundation collects, including Art of the Spanish Americas, Digital & Media Art, Japanese Bamboo, and Post-War Painting & Sculpture | Dec. 15, 2021 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Repair the damage done to publicly engaged humanities projects and programs by the social and economic disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic | Dec. 7, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Aims to advance humanistic knowledge through sustained collaboration between two or more scholars |
Dec. 1, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports collaborative teams who are editing, annotating and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to learning and research but are currently inaccessible or are available only in inadequate editions or translations |
Dec. 1, 2021 |
| National Park Service | Will fund a broad range of preservation projects for historic sites including: architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans and physical preservation to structures | Dec. 1, 2021 |
| National Park Service | Will document, interpret and preserve the sites and stories related to the African American struggle to gain equal rights as citizens as well as the transatlantic slave trade | Dec. 1, 2021 |
| Library of Congress | The Library will fund an Artist in Residence or a Scholar in Residence in 2021, 2022 and 2023 | Nov. 22, 2021 |
| Department of State | Open competition for projects that support Religious Freedom and combat antisemitism | Nov. 22, 2021 |
| Wellcome Collection | Supports writers from underrepresented groups who have a big idea for a non-fiction book for general readers that engages with health and being human | Nov. 22, 2021 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | Supports an E-Learning community and peer learning platform that uses multiple communication channels to build and strengthen violence prevention systems for the Division of Violence Prevention's funded recipients, sub-recipients and prevention practitioners nationally | Nov. 17, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Program aims to award publishers a $5,500 grant to release open access digital editions of books whose underlying research was funded by one of the six NEH programs listed |
Nov. 15, 2021 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Supports interdisciplinary or cross-institutional collaborations that connect scholarship on religion to journalistic training and practice | Nov. 15, 2021 |
| Washington College | Supports outstanding writing on American history and culture by both scholars and nonacademic authors | Nov. 15, 2021 |
| Department of the Interior | Provides financial assistance to organizations and entities working preserve historic Japanese American confinement sites and their history | Nov. 9, 2021 |
| George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation | Supports early mid-career individuals, who have completed at least one major project and demonstrate potential to be future leaders in their fields as they focus on advancing new work in Film Studies or Photography | Nov. 1, 2021 |
| GRAMMY Foundation | Supports efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of North America, and research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition | Nov. 1, 2021 |
| Wenner-Gren Foundation | Supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas | Nov. 1, 2021 |
| Dan David Prize | Recognizes outstanding scholars and practitioners engaged in exploring any aspect of the human past | Nov. 1, 2021 |
| Henry Luce Foundation | Supports research, writing, and curriculum development in China studies | Nov. 1, 2021 |
| Institute for Research in the Humanities | Supports scholars working in the humanities on European history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, art and culture in the classical, medieval, and/or early modern periods before 1700 | Oct. 28, 2021 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Supports a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing | Oct. 27, 2021 |
| Institute for Citizens and Scholars | Supports the increase in presence of minority junior faculty members and other faculty members committed to eradicating racial disparities in core fields in the arts and humanities through 6 to 12 month sabbatical grants | Oct. 22, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war, in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others think more deeply about the issues raised by war and military service | Oct. 14, 2021 |
| National Archives and Records Administration | Seeks projects that encourage public engagement with historical records, including the development of new tools that enable people to engage online | Oct. 6, 2021 |
| National Archives and Records Administration | Seeks projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections | Oct. 6, 2021 |
| American Philosophical Society | Supports the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses | Oct. 1, 2021 |
| Pennsylvania Humanities Council | Supports the growth and recovery of the humanities in Pennsylvania through planning, capacity building and creative programming | Oct. 1, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Provides funding to conduct empirical research in the United States or abroad in order to answer questions of importance to the humanities | Sept. 29, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | The Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication |
Sept. 22, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples and databases |
Sept. 15, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports individual scholars for six to twelve months to pursue research on documentation and analysis of one or more endangered languages | Sept. 15, 2021 |
| Dedalus Foundation | Supports critical and historical studies related to painting, sculpture and allied arts from 1940-1991, with a preference shown to Abstract Expressionism | Sept. 15, 2021 |
| Graham Foundation | Supports production-related expenses that are necessary to take a Fine Arts project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation OR seed money for research-related expenses such as travel, documentation, materials, supplies, and other development costs | Sept. 15, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education at two- and four-year institutions | Sept. 14, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Selecting an organization to assist the Arts Endowment with the 2022 NEA National Heritage Fellowship Awards program | Sept. 3, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months |
Sept. 2, 2021 |
| Andy Warhol Foundation | Supports scholarly exhibitions at museums; curatorial research; visual arts programming at artist-centered organizations; artist residencies and commissions; arts writing and efforts to promote the health, welfare and first amendment rights of artists | Sept. 1, 2021 |
| Samuel H. Kress Foundation | Supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture | Sept. 1, 2021 |
| Department of Education | Identify or develop evidence-based literacy assessment tools and professional development activities for students at risk of not attaining full literacy skills due to a disability or developmental delay | Sept. 1, 2021 |
| Conference on College Composition and Communication | Supports proposals aimed at investigating key challenges that face literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing instructors and administrators in their classrooms and programs | Sept. 1, 2021 |
| Conference on College Communication and Composition | Supports the projects of early-career researchers with the potential to contribute to or affect discussions about literacy and writing instruction in and out of formal education | Sept. 1, 2021 |
| Department of Justice | Aims to develop a podcast that meets the corrections-specific information needs of state and local governments and their stakeholders | Aug. 23, 2021 |
| John Templeton Foundation | Invites submissions for proposals aimed at giving theologians, philosophers of religion and scholars in religious studies who work in Christian theology the opportunity to cross-train in psychological sciences | Aug. 20, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Intended to support day-to-day business expenses/operating costs, and not specific programmatic activities | Aug. 12, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports collaboration between media producers and scholars to develop humanities content and to prepare documentary films, radio and podcasts that engage public audiences with humanities ideas |
Aug. 11, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports documentary films up to 30 minutes that engage audiences with humanities ideas in appealing ways |
Aug. 11, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person programming | Aug. 11, 2021 |
| Department of State | Plan and carry out an English Lounge Series program at American Spaces in South Korea | Aug. 6, 2021 |
| Vaccine Confidence Fund | Supports proposals that address this primary research question: How can social media be best utilized to better understand and increase vaccination confidence and uptake? | Aug. 6, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Our Town projects lay the groundwork for systemic changes that sustain the integration of arts, culture and design into local strategies for strengthening communities | Aug. 5, 2021 |
| Library of Congress send email to limited-submissions @andrew.cmu.edu | Supports contemporary cultural documentation focusing on the culture and traditions of diverse, often underrepresented communities in the United States | Aug. 4, 2021 for Email of Intent |
| Department of State | Carry out a Journalism, Media Literacy and Countering Disinformation program to provide training to build journalist and blogger capacity in Niger through programs at the u.S. Embassy's American Spaces | Aug. 1, 2021 |
| The Pittsburgh Foundation | Supports BIPOC artists in southwestern Pennsylvania through operating dollars to be spent at the artist’s discretion | July 23, 2021 |
| Templeton Religion Trust | Supports conception and design of empirical and statistical studies of the cognitive significance of the arts with respect to spiritual realities and the discovery of new spiritual information |
July 19, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Strengthens efforts to extend the life of humanities collections and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology |
July 15, 2021 |
| National Science Foundation | Supports basic science in the domain of human language encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages, and of natural language in general |
July 15, 2021 |
| National Archives and Records Administration | Seeks projects that will significantly improve public discovery and use of major historical records collections |
July 13, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | FY2022 Grants for Arts Projects | July 8, 2021 |
| Mellon Foundation | Supports community-based archives that represent and serve marginalized communities | July 2, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports innovative, experimental and/or computationally challenging digital projects at different stages of their lifecycles |
June 24, 2021 |
| Department of State | Open competition to carry out media activities that support the current peace process and future reconciliation efforts in Kabul, Afghanistan |
June 22, 2021 |
| Mellon Foundation | Fellowship supporting exemplary emerging and established Puerto Rican writers of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and children's literature | June 20, 2021 |
| Department of State | Submit proposals to develop and implement a 10-day reporting tour to the United States for up to five program participants representing a UK-based journalism training organization | June 15, 2021 |
| Holberg Prize | Recognizes outstanding individual contributions to research in the arts and humanities, social sciences, law, and theology | June 15, 2021 |
| National Archives | Seeks proposals for its new program for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American and Native American History |
June 9, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats |
June 9, 2021 |
| Department of State | Open competition for projects that support Religious Freedom globally |
June 7, 2021 |
| Library of Congress | Seeks to use the Library of Congress collections to connect with those representing diverse communities, beliefs and endeavors to engage, inspire and inform Congress and the American people |
May 28, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Selects an organization to administer a program that brings U.S. mayors together with design professionals in workshops to assist mayors with urban design challenges, to promote design excellence and to enhance the livability of communities across the country |
May 24, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Accepting applications for the five Humanities Initiatives programs |
May 20, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the development of knowledge and skills among professionals responsible for preserving and establishing access to humanities collections |
May 18, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the design, purchase, construction, restoration or renovation of facilities for humanities activities, or the maintenance, modernization and sustainability of existing digital scholarly projects and platforms |
May 18, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Assist institutions and organizations working in the humanities that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic |
May 14, 2021 |
| Department of State | Seeking applications for promoting gender equality by addressing gender disparities in popular Indian films and the film industry |
May 4, 2021 |
| Whiting Foundation | Provides general operating support for organizations with established track records sparking robust engagement with the humanities among US high-school students |
May 3, 2021 |
| Department of State | Combat the scourge of fake news and disinformation for a secure Indo-Pacific region by promoting a robust and responsible media environment |
Apr. 30, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports individual scholars pursuing significant humanities projects that require digital expression and digital publication |
Apr. 28, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Accepting applications for the Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan program |
Apr. 28, 2021 |
| Department of State | Lead a series of workshop introducing Japanese participants to contemporary American online work environments |
Apr. 28, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Offers support primarily to small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the arts to populations that are underserved |
Apr. 22, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources |
Apr. 18, 2021 |
| Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh | Supports Black artists and Black-led organizations as they help create a vibrant cultural life in Pittsburgh and the region |
Apr. 16, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research |
Apr. 14, 2021 |
| Department of State | Open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for projects that support and strengthen independent media outlets in Moldova |
Apr. 5, 2021 |
| Department of Education | Provides opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies |
Apr. 5, 2021 |
| Department of State | Open competition for organizations to submit proposals for English teacher training projects to improve the communicative English language teaching skills of Japanese elementary and secondary school teachers |
Mar. 31, 2021 |
| Department of State | Manage and administer programs designed to increase the number of Japanese students studying in the United States and to foster English learning opportunities |
Mar. 31, 2021 |
| Department of State | Invites proposals for programs that strengthen cultural ties between the United States and Italy through cultural and exchange programming that highlight shared values and promote bilateral cooperation |
Mar. 31, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Invites applicants to engage with the agency's five-year research agenda through two funding opportunities for research projects |
Mar. 29, 2021 |
| Terra Foundation | Supports in-person exchanges such as workshops, symposia, and colloquia that advance scholarship in the field of American art (circa 1500–1980), with at least one third of the participants coming from outside the United States |
Mar. 16, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience |
Mar. 15, 2021 |
| Department of Education | Promote, improve and develop the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States |
Mar. 15, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Offers $25,000 grants in prose and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel and general career |
Mar. 10, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Accepting applications for professional development programs that convene higher education faculty from across the nation in order to deepen and enrich their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching |
Mar. 9, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports a series of one-week workshops for K-12 educators across the nation to enhance and strengthen humanities teaching at the K-12 level |
Mar. 9, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports national or regional (multi-state) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities |
Mar. 2, 2021 |
| Samuel H. Kress Foundation | Supports projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, the development of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogs and publications, and technical and scientific studies about European art and architecture, from antiquity to the early nineteenth century |
Mar. 1, 2021 |
| Samuel H. Kress Foundation | Supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-Modern era, including archival projects, the development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, exhibitions and publications focused on art conservation, scholarly publications, and technical and scientific studies |
Mar. 1, 2021 |
| J.M. Kaplan Fund | Supports writing, research, editing, design, indexing, photography, illustration, and/or printing and binding of nonfiction books about art, architecture, and design; cultural history, the city and related urban issues; and conservation and preservation |
Mar. 1, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation, the creation of excellent art, learning in the arts at all stages of life and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life |
Feb. 11, 2021 |
| Department of Justice | In a documentary film format, projects will take a historical look at interstate compact |
Jan. 21, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports innovative, experimental and/or computationally challenging digital projects at different stages of their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and sustainability |
Jan. 15, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1960 and 1963 from all the states and U.S. territories | Jan. 14, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Accepting applications for the Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections program | Jan. 14, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry or drama from other languages into English | Jan. 13, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the development, production and distribution of radio, podcast, television and long-form documentary film projects that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways |
Jan. 6, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the production and distribution of documentary films up to 30 minutes that engage audiences with humanities ideas in appealing ways |
Jan. 6, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person programming | Jan. 6, 2021 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Select an organization to establish and administer the National Folklife Network |
Dec. 17, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the creation of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public by offering grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel, and other activities leading to publication |
Dec. 16, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience - open to publishers who have published a book within the last three years whose research was supported by a one of the six designated NEH fellowship programs |
Dec. 15, 2020 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences by enhancing established digital projects, extending their reach to new communities of users, and supporting teams of scholars at all career stages as they participate in digital research projects |
Dec. 15, 2020 |
| Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation | Supports historical research on Venice and the former Venetian empire and/or for the study of contemporary Venetian society and culture |
Dec. 15, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports collaborative teams who are editing, annotating and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to learning and research but are currently inaccessible or are available only in inadequate editions or translations |
Dec. 2, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports groups of two or more scholars seeking to increase humanistic knowledge through convenings, research, manuscript preparation for collaborative publications and the creation of scholarly digital projects |
Dec. 2, 2020 |
| Modern Language Association | Graduate student MLA members, non-tenure-track faculty members and unemployed members are eligible to apply for grants that cover the full registration fee for the 2021 MLA convention |
Dec. 1, 2020 |
| Modern Language Association | $1,000 grants to part-time faculty members to help them pay for expenses associated with their professional development |
Nov. 16, 2020 |
| The School of Social Science | Become a member, pursue research and participate in seminars on "Political Mobilizations and Social Movements" |
Nov. 1, 2020 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Amplifies the broad potential of doctoral education in the humanities by supporting doctoral faculty as they pursue publicly engaged scholarship and advocate for diverse professional pathways for emerging PhDs |
Oct. 28, 2020 |
| The Henry Luce Foundation | Deepens public understanding of religion by advancing innovative scholarship on religion in international contexts and equipping individual scholars and institutions of higher education with the capacities to connect their work to journalism and the media and to engage audiences beyond the academy |
Oct. 28, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war, in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others think more deeply about the issues raised by war and military service |
Oct. 14, 2020 |
| National Humanities Center | Apply for a residential fellowship - fellows are given the freedom to work on projects while benefiting from the exceptional services of the Center |
Oct. 8, 2020 |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | Supports developing a diverse workforce of librarians to better meet the changing learning and information needs of the American public by enhancing the training/professional development of library and archives professionals; developing faculty and library leaders and recruiting, educating and retaining the next generation of library and archives professionals |
Oct. 2, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports individual scholars for six to twelve months to pursue research on documentation and analysis of one or more endangered languages | Sept. 30, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education at two- and four-year institutions | Sept. 30, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Provide funding to conduct empirical research in the United States or abroad in order to answer questions of importance to the humanities | Sept. 30, 2020 |
| American Academy in Berlin | The American Academy in Berlin invites applications for its residential fellowships for the academic year 2021/22 - they ask that candidates explain the relevance of a stay in Berlin to the development of their work. They will also award a Richard C. Holbrooke fellowship for a project that explores diplomatic approaches to resolving major global issues, from armed conflicts to environmental challenges to the impact of new technologies | Sept. 25, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication | Sept. 23, 2020 |
| Wyeth Foundation | Supports book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of American art, visual studies, and related subjects under contract for publication. NB: Applications must be made by publishers, not authors |
Sept. 15, 2020 |
| Fulbright | The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers more than 400 different opportunities to teach, research and conduct professional projects in over 135 countries |
Sept. 15, 2020 |
| National Institute of Corrections | Review, update, and revise the following publications incorporating contemporary information, relevant research and data, best and promising practices, and modern graphics to prepare for release on a web-based platform |
Sept. 3, 2020 |
| Kress Foundation | Supports scholarly projects that promote the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of European art from antiquity to the early 19th century |
Sept. 1, 2020 |
| Conference on College Composition & Communication | Supports projects that contribute to or affect discussions about literacy and writing instruction in and out of formal education |
Sept. 1, 2020 |
| Conference on College Composition & Communication | Supports investigation of key challenges faced by literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing instructors and administrators in their classrooms and programs |
Sept. 1, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person programming | Aug. 31, 2020 |
| Department of State | Open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to provide digital education to African journalists | Aug. 25, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Advance digital scholarship in cultural institutions such as museums, libraries, galleries, and archives | Aug. 18, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Competition to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience - open to publishers who have published within the last three years (or will publish during the period of performance) a book whose research was supported by one of six NEH fellowship programs | Aug. 17, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Support documentary films up to 30 minutes that engage audiences with humanities ideas in appealing ways | Aug. 12, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Development, production and distribution of radio, podcast, television, and long-form documentary film projects that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways | Aug. 12, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person programming, analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history | Aug. 12, 2020 |
| Department of Justice | Creation of video vignettes that focus on brilliance in several of the fundamental aspects of correctional work will highlight the "Expected Practices" that have profound implications on an agency's culture and professional climate | Aug. 4, 2020 |
| Department of Defense | Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, initiatives must be dignified and show a sensitivity and appreciation for the solemnity of war and the losses suffered by many | July 31, 2020 |
| Department of State | Proposals to produce innovative content at the intersection of public history and digital media, highlighting Ukrainians’ personal stories of the country’s recent history | July 17, 2020 |
| Department of State | Open competition for a cooperative agreement to manage and develop an online interactive platform for the FY 2020 Sudanese Folktale Project which supports English Language teaching through a series of short radio shows, and a series of complementary online activities | July 17, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new humanities programs, resources including those in digital format, or courses, or by enhancing existing ones | July 16, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities | July 15, 2020 |
| Department of State | Project that will build the capacity of journalists in South Asia | July 2, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging projects at different stages throughout their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and sustainability | June 30, 2020 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments | June 10, 2020 |