The following funding opportunities notice is being sent to department chairs and administrators in the Arts & Humanities.  Please distribute as appropriate.
FAS Research Development
Opportunities in the Arts and Humanities
July, 2013

Unless otherwise noted, full proposals must be submitted to OSP for review five business days in advance of the sponsor deadline.  For questions regarding any of the opportunities listed below, please contact Erin Cromack, Research Development Officer, at cromack@fas.harvard.edu or 617-496-5252

hiltsparkHauser Fund Spark Grants
Deadline: July 22, 2013 (OSP review not required)
Award Amount: $5,000-$15,000 over one year
Eligible Candidates: Harvard University benefits-eligible faculty, students, staff, and postdoctoral researchers in all disciplines

The Hauser Fund Grants Program supports the cultivation of pedagogical innovations across Harvard's schools. These grants are designed to act as a catalyst for new, innovative ideas while at the same time finding ways to scale, sustain, and institutionalize successful innovations. Spark Grants are designed to help "spark" promising teaching and learning projects from idea to reality and position innovations for future success. Awardees will receive the resources, feedback, and community support needed to develop their ideas into prototypes, pilots, and small-scale innovations. Funding can be used to pay for a research assistant, hire a graduate student with academic technology expertise, and convene collaborative groups. Candidates may apply for funding individually or in groups.

For more information, see here.

neheqNational Endowment for the Humanities
Enduring Questions
Deadline: September 12, 2013
Award Amount: $22,000-$38,000 (dependent on number of project directors)
Eligible Disciplines: languages; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; social sciences with humanistic content and methods

The NEH Enduring Questions grant program supports faculty members in the teaching and development of a new course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. This question-driven course will encourage undergraduates and teachers to grapple with a fundamental concern of human life addressed by the humanities, and to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day.

For more information, see here.

nehdhNational Endowment for the Humanities
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
Deadline: September 12, 2013
Award Amount: up to $60,000
Eligible Disciplines: languages; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; social sciences with humanistic content and methods

The Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program awards relatively small grants to support the planning stages of innovative projects that promise to benefit the humanities.  Proposals should be for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in any area of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may involve:

  • research that brings new approaches or documents best practices in the study of the digital humanities;
  • planning and developing prototypes of new digital tools for preserving, analyzing, and making accessible digital resources, including libraries' and museums' digital assets;
  • scholarship that focuses on the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society;
  • scholarship or studies that examine the philosophical or practical implications and impact of the use of emerging technologies in specific fields or disciplines of the humanities, or in interdisciplinary collaborations involving several fields or disciplines;
  • innovative uses of technology for public programming and education utilizing both traditional and new media; and
  • new digital modes of publication that facilitate the dissemination of humanities scholarship in advanced academic as well as informal or formal educational settings at all academic levels.

For more information, see here.  

nehnsfNational Endowment for the Humanities/
National Science Foundation
Documenting Endangered Languages
Deadline: September 16, 2013
Grant Amount: up to $150,000/year for one to three years
Fellowship  Amount: $4,200 per month for six to twelve months
Eligible Disciplines: Linguistics

The Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) program is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages.  Awards support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. DEL funding is available in the form of one- to three-year project grants as well as fellowships for six to twelve months.

For more information, see here.

grahamGraham Foundation for the Fine Arts
Grants for Individuals
Inquiry Deadline: September 15, 2013 (initial inquiry does not require review by OSP)
Award Amount: Up to $20,000
Eligible Disciplines: Architecture; architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; visual arts; and related fields of inquiry such as the fine arts, humanities, and sciences that expand the boundaries of thinking about architecture and space.

The Graham Foundation supports projects that investigate the contemporary condition, expand historical perspectives, or explore the future of architecture and the designed environment.  The foundation offers two types of grants to individuals: Production and Presentation Grants and Research and Development Grants.

Production and Presentation Grants assist individuals with the production-related expenses that are necessary to take a project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation. These projects include, but are not limited to, publications, exhibitions, installations, films, new media projects, and other public programs.

Research and Development Grants assist individuals with seed money for research-related expenses such as travel, documentation, materials, supplies, and other development costs.

For more information, see here.

aclsfellowAmerican Council of Learned Societies
Fellowships
Deadline: September 26, 2013 (OSP review not required)
Award Amount: $65,000 (full Professors), $45,000 (Associate Professors), $35,000 (Assistant Professors)
Eligible Disciplines: All disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences

The ACLS Fellowship program invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences.  The fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing, to be initiated between July 1, 2014 and February 1, 2015.  The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant.

For more information, see here.

For additional upcoming ACLS fellowship opportunities, see also the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships (for advanced assistant professors and untenured associate professors) and the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars (for long-term, unusually ambitious projects to take place in residence at any one of the 13 national residential research centers participating in the program).

aclsdigAmerican Council of Learned Societies
Digital Innovation Fellowships
Deadline: September 26, 2013
Award Amount: $60,000 stipend plus $25,000 for project costs
Eligible Disciplines: All disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences

This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating such works.  ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital form. Projects may:
  • Address a consequential scholarly question through new research methods, new ways of representing the knowledge produced by research, or both;
  • Create new digital research resources;
  • Increase the scholarly utility of existing digital resources by developing new means of aggregating, navigating, searching, or analyzing those resources;
  • Propose to analyze and reflect upon the new forms of knowledge creation and representation made possible by the digital transformation of scholarship.

For more information, see here. 
Contact
Erin Cromack
Research Development Officer
617-496-5252

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Unless otherwise noted, all applications must be submitted to OSP for review five business days in advance of the sponsor deadline.