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 

 

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.