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Grants
NEH Summer Programs for School and College Educators
Each year, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports tuition-free summer programs for school and college educators. Participants receive stipends to help cover travel and living expenses. These one-to-five week study opportunities focus on important topics, texts, and questions in the humanities; enhance the intellectual vitality and professional development of participants; build a community of inquiry and provide models of excellent scholarship and teaching; and promote connections between teaching and research in the humanities. The application deadline is March 4, 2013
Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grants
The Organization of American Historians is pleased to announce the inauguration of the Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grants. These grants, supported by a bequest from the Merrill Trust, will help sponsor the travel-related costs of graduate students who are confirmed as participants on the OAH conference program and who incur expenses traveling to the annual meeting. Five awards of $500 each will be awarded each year. Graduate students who are Ph.D. candidates and who are presenting a paper or serving as a commentator on a session or panel are eligible to apply. Priority will be given to dissertation-stage doctoral candidates with decreasing priority given to students based on the year of matriculation in their respective Ph.D. programs. Please email (to prizes@oah.org) your paper title or panel title, with an abstract and a CV (indicating your anticipated year of completion of the Ph.D.) to the Merrill Travel Grant Selection Committee c/o of the OAH. The first travel grants will be awarded for the 2013 annual meeting in San Francisco.
Deadline extended to January 18, 2012.
Enduring Questions
The National Endowment for the Humanities offers grants of up to $25,000 to support the development of a new course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. Courses may be developed by up to four faculty members from any department or discipline in the humanities or outside the humanities, provided humanities sources are central to the course. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/grants/education/enduring-questions.
NEH Invites Proposals on Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites proposals for projects that advance the role of the humanities at community colleges through curriculum and faculty development on a theme of “bridging cultures.” Proposals should provide support for community college faculty and administrators to create new courses on “bridging cultures” themes or topics; design new course sequences, concentrations, and core curricula; or conduct scholarly research that will improve faculty preparation and enrich teaching. Deadline for applications is August 14, 2012. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/BridgingCulturesCCRFP.html.
NEH Enduring Questions Course Development Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) offers grants of up to $25,000 to support the development of an undergraduate course on an enduring question. This course will encourage undergraduates and teachers to grapple with a fundamental question addressed by the humanities, and to join together in a sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day. The application deadline is September 15, 2011. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.
NEH Invites Proposals on Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites proposals for projects that advance the role of the humanities at community colleges through curriculum and faculty development on a theme of “bridging cultures.” Proposals should provide support for community college faculty and administrators to create new courses on “bridging cultures” themes or topics; design new course sequences, concentrations, and core curricula; or conduct scholarly research that will improve faculty preparation and enrich teaching. Deadline for applications is August 23, 2011. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/BridgingCulturesCCRFP.html.
State Historical Society of Iowa Research Grants
The State Historical Society of Iowa (SHSI) announces a grant program for the 2011-2012 academic year. SHSI will award up to ten stipends of $1,000 each to support original research and interpretive writing related to the history of Iowa or Iowa and the Midwest. Grant recipients will be expected to produce an annotated manuscript targeted for The Annals of Iowa, SHSI’s scholarly journal. Deadline for applications is April 15, 2011. For more information, visit: For more information, please visit www.iowahistory.org/publications/the-annals-of-iowa/research-grants-for-authors.html.
Congressional Research Awards
The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The Center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply and awards a significant portion of the funds for dissertation research. Deadline for proposals is March 1, 2011. For more information, please visit www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRAs.htm.
Grants available for Photographic Research
The Humboldt Area Foundation is now accepting grant applications for its Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research. The Fund supports the study of under-researched women photographers internationally, past and present, and under-researched Western American photographers before 1900. Individuals researching Western American photography before 1900 or women in photograph as well as nonprofit institutions conducting research in these fields, are eligible to apply. The deadline for applications is Monday, November 1, 2010. For more information, please visit www.hafoundation.org/haf/grants/haf-grants.html.
NEH Grant Opportunity Deadline September 15
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is offering grants of up to $25,000 for faculty to develop a new undergraduate course that fosters intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. The application deadline is September 15, 2010. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html.
Partnership-in-Scholarship Grants for African American Historic Places
Partnership-in-Scholarship grants of up to $5000 for collaboration between scholars and African American historic places Read more >
$2,500 research grant in U.S. naval history
The Naval History and Heritage Command is offering two research grants (of up to $2,500) for research in U. S. naval history. The grants are intended to help defray the costs of travel, living expenses, and document duplication related to the research or writing processes for books or articles. Application deadline is March 31, 2010. Read more >
European Union-United States Atlantis Program Grant Competition
Grants to support higher education and vocational training available through the European Union-United States Atlantis Program. For more information, please visit www.ed.gov/fipse.
Funding for collaborative research available through TransCoop Program
Funding for collaborative research in the humanities, social sciences, economics, and the law available through the Transatlantic Cooperation in Research Program. Application deadlines are April 30, 2010 and October 31, 2010. Read more >
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