Non-Residential Fellowship Opportunities
Below is a selective list of non-residential fellowships. Additional opportunities can be found on the popular funding opportunities list.
American Association for University Women (AAUW) American Fellowships
Short-Term Research Publication Grant & Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship
- Who may apply: Non-tenured scholars; may be tenure-track or part-time faculty, for new or established researchers.
- Category: All disciplines of the humanities and interpretive social sciences
- Due: November 30, 2024
American Council of Learned Societies
ACLS Fellowships
- Who may apply: Scholars working on or off the tenure track who have earned a PhD in the humanities or humanistic social sciences. See solicitation for additional criteria.
- Category: All fields
- Due: September 25, 2024
American Political Science Association
Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grants
- Whom may apply: Early career faculty
- Category: Social sciences
- Due: May 6, 2024
The Fund for Latino Scholarship
- Who may apply: Contingent, junior level, tenure-track faculty, and other positions are eligible to apply for Latino Fund grants for teaching, research or publishing activities. Also open to individuals conducting research on Latino politics.
- Category: Social sciences
- Due: June 15, 2024
Association for Psychological Science
James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowship
- Who may apply: Tenured faculty (or confirmed tenured by March 1)
- Category: Social sciences
- Due: January 15, 2025 (anticipated deadline)
Brown University
George A. and Eliza Howard Foundation Fellowship
- Who may apply: Early mid-career faculty (MFA or PhD within past 5-15 years, generally not open to faculty members who have already obtained tenure)
- Category: Humanities: 2025-2026 Academic Year Fellowships will be focused on: Object Based Arts and Installation Based Arts and Art History, Architecture, and Visual Culture.
- Due: November 1, 2024 (Anticipated deadline)
Flamboyan Foundation and Mellon Foundation
Letras Boricuas Fellowship
- Who may apply: Writers identifying as Puerto Rican
- Category: Literary Genres including playwriting, fiction, creative nonfiction, children's literature in Spanish, poetry (written) and spoken word.
- Due: April 30, 2024
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
- Who may apply: Mid-career faculty
- Category: All fields
- Due: September 16, 2024 (anticipated deadline - application portal opens in mid-August). Visit Resources For Specific Funders for tips and insight on the application process.
Harvard University
Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship
- Who may apply: Faculty and junior faculty
- Category: Arts and Humanities; Classical Studies
- Due: November 3, 2024 (anticipated deadline)
Institute for Citizens & Scholars
Career Enhancement Fellowship
- Who may apply: Underrepresented tenure-track faculty committed to campus diversity and innovative research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Faculty should be in their third year of the tenure-track teaching appointment at the time of application.
- Category: Humanities and Social Sciences
- Due: November 13, 2024 (anticipated deadline)
Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award
- Who may apply: Tenure-track faculty in fourth or fifth year of appointment (must have passed third-year/mid-point review)
- Category: Contemporary American History, Politics, Culture, and Society
- Due: December 1, 2024 (anticipated deadline)
Leo Baeck Institute
Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship
- Who may apply: Early career faculty
- Category: Humanities; supports work dealing with historical or cultural issues of the Jewish experience in German-speaking lands
- Due: March 1, 2024
National Endowment for the Humanities
NEH Fellowships
- Who may apply: Faculty and junior faculty
- Category: Humanities
- Due: April 9, 2025 (anticipated deadline)
Fellowship for Digital Publication
- Who may apply: Faculty and junior faculty
- Category: Humanities
- Due: April 17, 2024
Public Scholars
- Who may apply: Faculty and junior faculty
- Category: Humanities
- Due: August 28, 2024
Summer Stipends
- Who may apply: Tenured and tenure-track faculty members must apply through internal competition. Amherst College may nominate one tenured or tenure-track faculty member. Non-tenure-track faculty, visitors, and staff who will not be teaching during the 2025–2026 academic year are eligible to apply directly to NEH without nomination.
- Category: Humanities
- Due: Tenured or tenure-track faculty must submit their application to Janet Tobin by the internal 8/30/24 deadline. For those selected to apply--and for those eligible to submit without nomination--full applications are due to NEH on 9/18/2024.
New Foundation for Art History
Non-Residential Fellowships
- Who may apply: Mid-career, tenure-track faculty
- Categories: History of Art
- Due: January 10, 2025
Fellowships for Contingent Faculty
- Who may apply: Non-tenure-track faculty
- Categories: History of Art
- Due: October 15, 2024
Wenner-Gren Foundation
Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Who may apply: Faculty and junior faculty
- Categories: Anthropology
- Due: May 1, 2024
Last updated July 2024.