External Funding Sources

This page is organized by grant type. Most of these grants are available to individuals; others are specifically focused on collaborative work.  Some grants may appear in more than one category.

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Contact Information

UMass Office of Research Affairs

Bruce McCandless, Director

(413) 545-5283
mccandless@ora.umass.edu

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Small Travel and Research Grants

These programs typically offer grants under $6000.

• J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History (American Historical Association)
• Franklin Research Grants (American Philosophical Society)
• The Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research (American Philosophical Society)
• Library Resident Research Fellowship (American Philosophical Society)
• Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research (American Philosophical Society)
• Travel Grants, East European Studies Program (American Council of Learned Societies)
• Language Grants to Individuals for Summer Study, East European Studies Program (American Council of Learned Societies)
• Local Cultural Council Grants (Massachusetts Cultural Council)
• Summer Seminars and Institutes (National Endowment for the Humanities)
• Summer Stipends (National Endowment for the Humanities)
• Folger Shakespeare Library Short-Term Research Fellowships (Folger Shakespeare Library)
• Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Visiting Senior Fellowship Program (National Gallery of Art)
• Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Authors (Foundation for Jewish Culture)
• Gantz Zahler Grant for Jewish Nonfiction Publishing (Foundation for Jewish Culture)
• Sidney and Hadassah Musher Subvention Grant for First Book in Jewish Studies (Foundation for Jewish Culture)
• Friends of the Longfellow House Fellowship (H.W. Longfellow National Historic Site)
• John Carter Brown Library Short-Term Fellowship (Brown University)
• The Everett Helm Visiting Fellowships (Lilly Library, Indiana University)

Postdoctoral Fellowships

These programs fund researchers in the first few years after receiving the doctorate; check individual programs for eligibility information.

• Mellon/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowships  (American Council of Learned Societies)
• Early-Career Postdoctoral Fellowships in East European Studies (American Council of Learned Societies)
• African Humanities Program (American Council of Learned Societies)
• Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (National Gallery of Art)
• Jewish Studies Expansion Project (Foundation for Jewish Culture)

Larger Research Fellowships for Individual Scholars

Check individual programs for eligibility information.

• Sabbatical Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences (American Philosophical Society)
• ACLS Fellowships  (American Council of Learned Societies)
• Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships (American Council of Learned Societies)
• Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars (American Council of Learned Societies)
• ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships (American Council of Learned Societies)
• Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Grants to Individuals in East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History (American Council of Learned Societies)
• American Research in the Humanities in China (American Council of Learned Societies)
• Chinese Fellowships for Scholarly Development (American Council of Learned Societies)
• African Humanities Program (American Council of Learned Societies)
• Artist Fellowships (Massachusetts Cultural Council)
• Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants (National Endowment for the Humanities)
• NEH Fellowships (National Endowment for the Humanities)
• Folger Shakespeare Library Long-Term Research Fellowships (Folger Shakespeare Library, Mellon Fdtn., NEH)
• Mid-Career Fellowship (James Marsden Fitch Foundation)
• Woodrow Wilson Center Residential Fellowships (The Woodrow Wilson Center)
• Woodrow Wilson Regional Center Fellowships (The Woodrow Wilson Center)
• Lady Davis Fellowships (Hebrew University)
• Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships--US/Canada (Guggenheim Foundation)
• Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships--Latin America/Caribbean (Guggenheim Foundation)
• Remarque Institute Fellowships (New York University)
• Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Senior Fellowship Program (National Gallery of Art)
• Residential Fellowship Program (American Academy in Berlin)
• Rome Prize Fellowships (American Academy in Rome)
• International Fellowships in Jewish Studies (Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture)
• John Carter Brown Library Long-Term Fellowship (Brown University)
• Mendel Fellowships (Lilly Library, Indiana University)

Grants and Fellowships focused on Teaching

These programs involve some scholarship but are specifically focused on developing courses or pedagogical methods.

• Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants (National Endowment for the Humanities)
• Teaching Development Fellowships (National Endowment for the Humanities)

Fellowships and Grants for Collaborative Research or Other Scholarly Work

• Collaborative Research Grants (National Endowment for the Humanities)
• ACLS Collaborative Research Awards (American Council of Learned Societies)
• New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society (American Council of Learned Societies)
• Conference Grants, East European Studies Program (American Council of Learned Societies)
• Mass Humanities Project Grants (Massachusetts Humanities)
• Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants (National Endowment for the Humanities)
• JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants (National Endowment for the Humanities)
• Scholarly Editions Grants (National Endowment for the Humanities)

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