Resources

External Opportunities: Non-Residential Grants / Virtual Groups

West

No current fellowships listed

Midwest

Illinois

Grants to Individuals
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, IL

The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham Foundation offers two types of grants to individuals: Production and Presentation Grants and Research and Development Grants.
Production and Presentation Grants to Individuals assist with the production-related expenses that are necessary to take a project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation. Projects must have clearly defined goals, work plans, budgets, production and dissemination plans, and a committed producer. Research and Development Grants assist individuals with seed money for research-related expenses such as travel, documentation, materials, supplies, and other development costs.
Production and Presentation Grants to individuals have a maximum stipend of $20,000 and must be completed within two years. Research and Development Grants to individuals have a maximum stipend of $10,000, must be completed within one year, and upon completion of research projects, recipients must complete a research report and provide documentation that can be archived at the Graham Foundation and/or presented on the Foundation web site. A recipient of a Research and Development Grant is eligible to apply for a Production and Presentation Grant for the same project once the first grant has been satisfied, however, future funding is not guaranteed.
The Inquiry Form for this deadline is available on the Graham Foundation website, www.grahamfoundation.org, and must be submitted online. The Inquiry Form is the first stage of a two-stage application process.
Deadline: September
Current Deadline: September 15, 2010

For more information, contact:
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 West Burton Place
Chicago, IL 60610
Tel: (312) 787-4071
E-mail:info@grahamfoundation.org
Website:
http://www.grahamfoundation.org/

Northeast

Maryland

Predoctoral Fellowships for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
National Gallery of Art

The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts offers up to six fellowships to doctoral students in art history who are studying aspects of art and architecture of the United States, including native and pre-Revolutionary America. This fellowship is for a period of four to six weeks of continuous travel abroad in areas such as Africa, Asia, or South America, as well as Europe, to sites of historical and cultural interest, including museums, exhibitions, collections, and monuments. The travel fellowship is intended to encourage a breadth of art-historical experience beyond the candidate's major field, not for the advancement of a dissertation. Preference will be accorded to those who have had little opportunity for research travel abroad. The amount of the award is dependent on the travel plan, with a maximum of $4,500. A narrative report at the conclusion of the travel period is required. Individuals currently affiliated with the National Gallery of Art are not eligible for this fellowship.

Application for a travel fellowship may be made only through nomination by the chair of a graduate department of art history or other appropriate department. Each department may support two candidates. The application should include a 500-word proposal outlining the objectives and feasibility of the travel plan; a separate, detailed itinerary including a budget; and a curriculum vitae. The curriculum vitae should list any previous scholarly or professional travel. In addition, the candidate must submit two letters of support from professors who can evaluate the importance of this travel for the student's professional and intellectual development. A letter of nomination from the chair, which is not considered a letter of recommendation, must accompany each application. Please send letter of nomination accompanied by seven sets of the collated application materials (proposal, itinerary, letters of recommendation, and curriculum vitae) to:

Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
National Gallery of Art
2000B South Club Drive
Landover, Maryland 20785

Applications must be received on or before February 15, 2011, for the period June 2011 through May 2012. They will be reviewed by a selection committee of scholars in American art. These fellowships may not be postponed or renewed.

For more information, contact:
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
National Gallery of Art
2000B South Club Drive
Landover, Maryland 20785
Tel: (202) 842-6482
Fax: (202) 789-3026
Website:
http://www.nga.gov/resources/casvatrv.shtm

New York

Grant Program on the Study of Prayer
Social Science Research Council

The Social Science Research Council <http://www.ssrc.org/> has announced the launch of a major new project and grants program entitled "New Directions in the Study of Prayer." Supported with funding from the John Templeton Foundation <http://www.templeton.org/> and developed in conjunction with the SSRC's program on Religion and the Public Sphere, the project aims to generate innovative research on practices of prayer and to foster the development of an interdisciplinary network of scholars engaged in the study of prayer.
The project invites proposals from scholars in all disciplines for studies that will enhance knowledge of the social, cultural, psychological, and cognitive dimensions of prayer, and of its origins, variations, and correlations in human life. Of special interest are proposals for research that will shed new light on the relationships between the practice of prayer and virtue, human flourishing, altruism, and creativity, or that examine the cognitive aspects of prayer, the embeddedness of prayer in religious and nonreligious institutions, the social dimensions of prayer, and cultural variations in prayer across societies and religious traditions.
Proposals will be especially encouraged from, but will not be restricted to, the disciplines of anthropology, cognitive science, history, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, and sociology. New Directions in the Study of Prayer will welcome proposals for projects that study any religious tradition(s) and milieu(s), and that focus on populations in any geographical region(s) of the world. Proposals must include a clearly articulated program of empirical research. Proposals may include a focus on theology but should not be restricted to theological inquiry. Historical topics are of interest only insofar as they specifically relate to practices and understandings of prayer in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Approximately twenty to twenty-five grants, ranging from $50,000 to $200,000, each with a duration of two years, will be awarded.
Both individual and collaborative projects will be considered, and a small number of grants will also be awarded to journalists. All grantees will be asked to participate in a series of interdisciplinary workshops, conferences, and online initiatives organized in conjunction with the project.
Detailed requests for proposals from both researchers and journalists will be available at the SSRC Web site. Visit the site for complete program information and application procedures.
Deadline: December 1
Current: Deadline: December 1, 2011 (Letters of Intent)

For more information, contact:
Link to Complete RFP <http://www.ssrc.org/programs/new-directions-in-the-study-of-prayer/>
Primary Subject: Social Science
Geographic Funding Area: Nationa

South

Virginia

Open Grants
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, University of Virginia

The Open Grant Program is open to proposals rooted in any humanities disciplines in any format. Most open grants fall within the $3-10,000 range; grants over $10,000 are rare. Any incorporated non-profit organization in Virginia is eligible to apply. Incorporated nonprofit organizations based outside of Virginia are also eligible if their project deals with a subject or subjects directly related to Virginia and a significant audience within the state is anticipated. Individuals are not eligible to apply for VFH Grants.
Specific grants are awarded for projects pertaining to: African American History and Virginia Indian Heritage.
Deadlines: February 1, May 1, October 1

For more information, contact:
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
University of Virginia
145 Ednam Drive
Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629
Tel: (804) 924-3296
Fax: (804) 296-4714
Email: vfhinfo@virginia.edu
Website:
http://www.virginiafoundation.org/grants/opportunities.html#open

Washington, D.C.

Grants and Fellowships
National Endowment for the Humanities

Bridging Cultures: Humanities Scholarship in Mexico and the United States

The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Humanities Department of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Coordinación de Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México [UNAM]) are cooperating to foster the exchange of information and advance research in the humanities. NEH is inviting applications for scholarly conferences through the Collaborative Research program. United States nonprofit institutions and organizations are encouraged to apply for funding for a conference that aims to further humanities scholarship and includes participation by scholars from the United States and UNAM. Participants may also include other scholars from Mexico and other countries who are conducting research pertinent to the topic. A conference application, for example, may focus on the current status of research in a particular humanities field or fields that are of interest to a wide scholarly audience or focus on a single issue of binational scholarly concern.

Prospective applicants are urged to discuss their ideas with the Collaborative Research program staff before proceeding to develop applications. Inquiries may be addressed to collaborative@neh.gov. The application deadline is October 28, 2010.

For more information about this initiative, visit the NEH website at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/BridgingCultures_Mexico-US.html.

NEH grant types and deadlines during July and August 2009: