External Funding Opportunities
It would be impossible to list all support opportunities available for humanities scholars. Funding agency priorities, guidelines, and budgets vary from year to year. We encourage you to utilize the resources available on these pages and through ASU’s Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development (OKED).
A list of current opportunities will be posted on this page regularly during the academic year. If you would like an individual consultation to discuss your specific project please contact the CLAS Humanities Research Advancement Team.
Grant Opportunities
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The Wenner-Gren Foundation - Post-Ph.D. Research Grants
Deadline(s): May 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $25,000Supports basic research in anthropology to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields.
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Trust for Mutual Understanding - Grants
Deadline(s): May 1st, 2013Supports the international travel component of cultural and environmental exchanges conducted in partnership with institutions and individuals in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe. Priority consideration is given to projects that involve direct, in-depth professional interaction, with the potential for sustained collaboration; that show evidence of professional accomplishment and innovation; and/or that respond to social contexts and engage local communities.
Note that the deadline of May 1 is for the required initial inquiry. Proposals invited for further consideration will be due August 1.
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Department of State - Protecting Transgender Persons Program
Deadline(s): May 2nd, 2013 Maximum Award: $450,000This fund aims to increase protection of transgender persons who face acute forms of violence and harassment. The overall goal is to ensure that incidents of violence are documented and investigated and that victims receive appropriate legal redress through domestic, regional, or international human rights mechanisms. DRL seeks proposals that will: (1) strengthen civil society organizations’ efforts to both document incidents of violence and the investigation process (or lack thereof); (2) ensure transgender persons have adequate legal representation; (3) support local civil society organizations to seek redress through regional and international human rights mechanisms; and (4)where feasible/appropriate, sensitivity training for law enforcement agencies. Proposals are encouraged to include components that focus activity at the local and/or community level, and should include sub-grants to local transgender organizations. Other activities which support the goals noted above may also be considered.
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U.S. Consulate Chennai - Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program
Deadline(s): May 5th, 2013 Maximum Award: $10,000The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Consulate Chennai is soliciting proposals for public diplomacy grants from individuals, non-governmental organizations, and other legally-recognized non-profit institutions that meet Indian and U.S. technical and legal requirements to develop and implement public diplomacy programs.
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U.S. Department of State - Creative Arts Exchange
Deadline(s): May 6th, 2013 Maximum Award: $800,000Creative Arts Exchange initiatives are arts-based international people-to-people exchanges that support and further U.S. Department of State foreign policy objectives. This year’s competition seeks proposals under the following themes: Economic Statecraft and the Arts, Arts in Collaboration, Community Engagement through the Arts, and Professional Development in the Arts. The goals of the Creative Arts Exchange are to promote mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries; provide unique opportunities for artistic collaboration, engagement and/or performance between American artists and international participants; convey the diversity and high artistic merit of the arts in America as well as increasing awareness and understanding of American art, culture, values and society for international participants and audiences; foster opportunities for educational outreach and community engagement with diverse and underserved communities, especially youth, women, and persons with disabilities; engage participants in instructive and informative experiences in their art form; and create opportunities for sustaining relationships and collaboration between U.S. and international artists and institutions that endure beyond program duration.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Grand Challenges Brazil: Reducing the Burden of Preterm Birth
Deadline(s): May 7th, 2013 Maximum Award: $1,000,000This program seeks to develop new ways to prevent preterm birth; to improve the survival, health, and development of preterm infants; and to scale-up known effective prevention and treatment options.Grants will be to Brazilian researchers, but partnerships including those with researchers in other countries are encouraged.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Grand Challenges Explorations Grants
Deadline(s): May 7th, 2013 Maximum Award: $100,000Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions, is now accepting grant proposals. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for profit companies. Proposals will be accepted on the following topics: The “One Health” Concept: Bringing Together Human and Animal Health for New Solutions; Increasing Interoperability of Social Good Data; Develop the Next Generation of Condom; New Approaches for Detection, Treatment, and Control of Selected Neglected Tropical Diseases; Labor Saving Strategies and Innovations for Women Smallholder Farmers. Projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to $1 million.
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Arizona Humanities Council - Project Grant
Deadline(s): May 10th, 2013 Maximum Award: $10,000Supports innovative, community-based projects and partnerships that connect Arizonans to humanities scholarship through public programming.
NB must have already submitted letter of intent for this funding cycle to be eligible.
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National Endowment for the Humanities et al. - Digging into Data Challenge
Deadline(s): May 15th, 2013 Maximum Award: $175,000The Digging into Data Challenge aims to address how 'big data' changes the research landscape for the humanities and social sciences. Now that we have massive databases of materials available for research in the humanities and the social sciences--ranging from digitized books, newspapers, and music to information generated by Internet-based activities and mobile communications, administrative data from public agencies, and customer databases from private sector organizations--what new, computationally-based research methods might we apply? Digging into Data challenges the research community to help create the new research infrastructure for 21st-century scholarship. Applicants will form international teams from at least two of the participating countries (US, UK, Canada, Netherlands).
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New Paths to Purpose Project - Human Fulfillment Research
Deadline(s): May 15th, 2013 Maximum Award: $250,000Purpose has long been considered among the most powerful and productive human forces. Accordingly, this RFP aims to support researchers in revealing hidden (e.g., unrecognized, counterintuitive, or underutilized) connections between behavioral science insights and the human experience of purpose. The two foci of this RFP are 1) Applied research demonstrating how basic behavioral science insights can be used in previously unrecognized or underutilized ways to create tools, interventions, etc. that help people more effectively experience (e.g., sense, adopt, pursue, fulfill) purpose, and 2) Basic research illustrating previously unrecognized or counterintuitive ways in which behavioral science phenomena (e.g., motivation and goal pursuit, attitudes and beliefs, understandings of the self and others, perception and judgment, happiness and well-being) can help to explain the ways in which people experience (e.g., sense, adopt, pursue, fulfill) purpose, or vice versa.
Application Information. Please note the May 15 deadline is for a Letter of Intent only.
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Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation - Research Grants
Deadline(s): May 17th, 2013 Maximum Award: $5,000Supports research in the humanities and social sciences which pertains to establishing international relationships based on global perspectives, solving various issues existing between Japan and other countries, or proposing various measures to promote mutual understanding.
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Department of State - Women’s Advancement in Iraq
Deadline(s): May 27th, 2013 Maximum Award: $1,200,000Supports projects that promote women's political, economic and social advancement in Iraq. 1. Women, Peace and Security: Advancing Women as Elected Government Representatives. The objective is to advance women's political participation in anticipation of the 2014 national elections and through post-election support for elected women representatives. The program should enhance the competitiveness of women candidates registered with the Independent High Electoral Commission of Iraq. 2. Women, Peace and Security: Advancing Women in the Workforce in Iraq. This program will connect 400 women to mid to high-level employment opportunities in the banking, hospitality and/or other industries.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development - Sustainable Communities Research Grant Program
Deadline(s): May 29th, 2013 Maximum Award: $125,000This program is designed to fill key data and information gaps, and to begin to develop and evaluate policy alternatives that communities can adopt to facilitate decision making about various community investments in sustainability initiatives. For this round of sustainability research grants, HUD is primarily interested in sponsoring cutting edge research in quality, equitable affordable housing development and preservation; transportation and infrastructure planning; and “green,” energy-efficient practices.
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Alliance for Global Good - Innovation Fund: Changing Our World
Deadline(s): May 31st, 2013 Maximum Award: $90,000Supporting work addressing global problems, the Fund represents late stage financing to move best-in-class plans into operation. The Innovation Fund seeks neither to create new organizations nor to speculate about innovation. For this reason, the Request for Proposals specifies that applicants must have a mature strategy for concrete initiatives that will be implemented by Fund grants, and demonstrated in traditional business models.
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Daesan Foundation - Translation, Research and Publication Grants
Deadline(s): May 31st, 2013The foundation's Translation Grant selects, translates, and researches quality literary works worthy enough to globalize Korean literature through the distribution of these works. The target literary works for translation include Korean literary works the translator wishes to translate and prize-winning works from the 18th Annual Daesan Literary Awards. Target languages include English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Turkish, and Eastern European languages.
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MVAT - Grants
Deadline(s): May 31st, 2013Grants made by MVAT are for military and veterans groups who support or provide services to promote and enrich the lives of active and retired military and their families. Included are educational and research programs that directly benefit veterans or who educate the public about veterans.
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Russkiy Mir Foundation - Grants
Deadline(s): May 31st, 2013Supports 1) projects aimed at popularizing the Russian language and culture and 2) Russian language study programs. Priorities include, but are not limited to, projects promoting translations of the works of Russian authors into foreign languages; identification, organization, preservation and popularization of Russian works of art, historical legacies and events that contribute to the restoration of unity between Russian culture at home and abroad; interaction with the diasporas, promoting a climate of inter-ethnic respect and peace.
Fellowships
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National Endowment for the Humanities - Fellowships
Deadline(s): May 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $50,400Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities. Projects may be at any stage of development.
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National Endowment for the Humanities - Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan
Deadline(s): May 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $50,000Awards support research on modern Japanese society and political economy, Japan's international relations, and U.S.-Japan relations. The fellowships are designed for researchers with advanced language skills whose research will require use of data, sources, and documents in their original languages or whose research requires interviews onsite in direct one-on-one contact. Fellows may undertake their projects in Japan, the United States, or both, and may include work in other countries for comparative purposes.
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The Wenner-Gren Foundation - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline(s): May 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $40,000Supports the writing-up of already completed research. The fellowship is awarded to scholars in the earlier stages of their careers, with a Ph.D. in hand for no more than ten years from the application deadline. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields.
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University of California, Berkeley - John A. Sproul Research Fellowship in Canadian Studies
Deadline(s): May 15th, 2013 Maximum Award: $8,000The Canadian Studies Program invites applications for the John A. Sproul Fellowship for academic year 2013-2014. One or more Fellows will be selected, with an award in the range of $7000 - 8000 U.S each for an academic year, or a smaller amount for a shorter period of time. This is intended as a supplement to other support the scholar may have. Most Sproul fellows recently have been Visiting Scholars, either with Canadian Studies or with another unit on campus. The Fellow will be expected to attend Program activities and to give at least one presentation on a Canadian topic while in residence.
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Other Opportunities
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Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminars on the Comparative Study of Cultures
Support for comparative research on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments. The seminars bring together faculty, foreign visitors, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from a variety of fields mainly in the humanities and social sciences, for intensive study of subjects chosen by the participants. This program aims to engage productive scholars in comparative inquiry that would (in ordinary university circumstances) be difficult to pursue, while at the same time avoiding the institutionalization of such work in new centers, departments, or programs. Sawyer Seminars are, in effect, temporary research centers; each seminar normally meets for one year.
Grant Opportunities
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Ambrose Monell Foundation Grants
The mission of the Ambrose Monell Foundation is to voluntarily aid and contribute to religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational uses and purposes in the United States and throughout the world.
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Arizona Humanities Council - Opportunity Grants
Maximum Award: $1,000Opportunity grants support the program costs of smaller public humanities projects through a simplified application process. Opportunity Grants are available for the purpose of implementing humanities-based public programs in Arizona whose funding request is below the limit for a Project Grant.
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Ford Foundation: JustFilms
The Ford Foundation is investing $10 million a year over five years in documentary projects that address urgent social issues and help us understand our past, explore our present and build our future. Their goal is to expand the community of emerging and established filmmakers who often lack funding, and help them to realize their visions and reach audiences.
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Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation: Humanities Program
The Foundation intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized. Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.
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Mellon Foundation Scholarly Communications and Information Technology Grant
Covers a broad range of activities, including the discovery, collection, organization, evaluation, interpretation, and preservation of primary and other sources of information, and the publication and dissemination of scholarly research.
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Nathan Cummings Foundation
The Nathan Cummings Foundation is rooted in the Jewish tradition and committed to democratic values and social justice, including fairness, diversity, and community. We seek to build a socially and economically just society that values nature and protects the ecological balance for future generations; promotes humane health care; and fosters arts and culture that enriches communities.
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National Geographic Society: Conservation Grants
Maximum Award: $20,000The objective of the Conservation Trust is to support conservation activities around the world as they fit within the mission of the National Geographic Society. The trust will fund projects that contribute significantly to the preservation and sustainable use of the Earth's biological, cultural, and historical resources. The Conservation Trust's strength lies in supporting cutting edge programs that might be overlooked by other organizations, due to the risk involved in working with new investigators and in new fields.
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National Geographic Society: Expeditions Council Grant
Maximum Award: $35,000The Expeditions Council consists of representatives from National Geographic editorial divisions (magazines, television, books, and so on) who review and vote on grant applications and an advisory board of external consultants. The Expeditions Council is editorially driven; projects must have the potential to yield compelling stories and images. Applications are also judged on the qualifications of applicants and their teams and on the merit and uniqueness of the project.
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National Science Foundation - Cultural Anthropology RAPID and EAGER Grants
Maximum Award: $25,000The RAPID funding mechanism is used for proposals having a severe urgency with regard to availability of, or access to data, facilities or specialized equipment, including quick-response research on natural or anthropogenic disasters and similar unanticipated events. The EAGER funding mechanism may be used to support exploratory work in its early stages on untested, but potentially transformative, research ideas or approaches. This work may be considered especially "high risk-high payoff" in the sense that it, for example, involves radically different approaches, applies new expertise, or engages novel disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives.
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National Science Foundation - High-Risk Research in Anthropology
Anthropological research may be conducted under unusual circumstances, often in distant locations. As a result the ability to conduct potentially important research may hinge on factors that are impossible to assess from a distance and some projects with potentially great payoffs may face difficulties in securing funding. This program gives small awards that provide investigators with the opportunity to assess the feasibility of an anthropological research project. The information gathered may then be used as the basis for preparing a more fully developed research program. Projects which face severe time constraints because of transient phenomena or access to materials may also be considered.
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Ray C. Anderson Foundation - Grants to Environmental Initiatives and Nonprofits
Maximum Award: $25,000The Foundation funds innovative, educational and project-based initiatives that advance the revolution in sustainability environmentally, economically, and socially. Past ventures have included think tanks; environmental conservation, preservation, education, and restoration initiatives; urban agriculture programs; clean water and air initiatives; and grassroots programs that education and encourage people to coordinate and be environmentally responsible.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Funding priorities include Childhood Obesity; Coverage; Human Capital; Pioneer; Public Health; Quality/Equality; Vulnerable Populations. All seven program areas issue CFPs from time to time. Unsolicited proposals accepted at any time.
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University of Notre Dame, Medieval Institute - Stipends for Short-term Postdoctoral Research
Maximum Award: $6,800Stipends available for three- to four-month periods for postdoctoral scholars who wish to conduct research in the Medieval Institute Library. Such temporary, residential visitors to the Institute form a lively complement to the permanent faculty and student community and benefit greatly from the opportunities for professional interaction.
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Wallace Genetic Foundation - Grants
Maximum Award: $40,000Provides grants to projects promoting long-term conservation of the soil and of the environment, rather than exploitation of natural resources for temporary profits. The Foundation supports humanities-related efforts.
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Wallace Global Fund - Grants for Progressive Social and Environmental Issues
The mission of the Wallace Global Fund is to promote an informed and engaged citizenry, to fight injustice, and to protect the diversity of nature and the natural systems upon which all life depends. The Fund seeks to further its mission through fundamental public policy and systemic change. Grants are provided for initiatives at the national and global levels, as well as for significant local or regional initiatives offering the potential to leverage broader impact. The focus is on funding programs that address environmental resource depletion and system collapse, corporate abuses and the concentration of corporate power, planetary carrying capacity, sustainable human population, women’s human rights, civic engagement, civil liberties, equal justice, independent media, and media policy. Letters of inquiry may be submitted at any time; invited applications are reviewed quarterly.
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Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research: International Symposia Program
Symposia topics are either initiated by the Foundation or selected from submitted proposals on the basis of the importance and timeliness of the topic, the promise of meaningful exchange among scholars representing diverse perspectives and fields, and the potential for opening up new approaches to significant problems. Symposia are administered and fully supported (both financially and logistically) by the Foundation. Proposals should be submitted no less than two years before the proposed date for the symposium.
Fellowships
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Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowships
(By invitation)
New Directions Fellowships assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who are between 5 and 15 years from receiving their PhDs and who wish to acquire systematic training outside their own disciplines.
Other Opportunities
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French-American Cultural Exchange - Tournées Festival Program
Deadline(s): June 30th, 2013 Maximum Award: $2,300The Tournées Festival is a program of FACE, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, which aims to bring contemporary French cinema to American college and university campuses. The films span generational and geographic borders, offer a range of genres and subjects, and showcase innovations in both style and storytelling. There are films by first-time directors alongside those from respected and revered figures in French cinema.
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National Science Foundation - Cultural Anthropology Workshops
Deadline(s): August 15th, 2012, January 15th, 2013, August 15th, 2013, January 15th, 2014Workshops are sometimes needed to allow researchers to work together. Proposals for workshops with research goals may be submitted in the normal grant cycle (target dates: January 15 and August 15). Under exceptional circumstances and with prior permission from the Program Officer, workshop proposals may be considered out of cycle, as well.
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National Science Foundation - Cultural Anthropology Scholars
Deadline(s): August 16th, 2012, January 16th, 2013, August 16th, 2013, January 16th, 2014 Maximum Award: $50,000Supports methodological training for cultural anthropologists who wish to learn new skills that are needed as part of an ongoing research program. For example, support may be requested to learn new methods of cross-cultural research, demography, remote sensing and GIS, ecological field survey, linguistics, or modeling. Support may be requested to learn any methodological skill that is necessary to advance the scholar's research agenda
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French-American Cultural Exchange - Tournées Festival Program
Deadline(s): October 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $2,300The Tournées Festival is a program of FACE, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, which aims to bring contemporary French cinema to American college and university campuses. The films span generational and geographic borders, offer a range of genres and subjects, and showcase innovations in both style and storytelling. There are films by first-time directors alongside those from respected and revered figures in French cinema.
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National Science Foundation - Cultural Anthropology Workshops
Deadline(s): August 15th, 2012, January 15th, 2013, August 15th, 2013, January 15th, 2014Workshops are sometimes needed to allow researchers to work together. Proposals for workshops with research goals may be submitted in the normal grant cycle (target dates: January 15 and August 15). Under exceptional circumstances and with prior permission from the Program Officer, workshop proposals may be considered out of cycle, as well.
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National Science Foundation - Cultural Anthropology Scholars
Deadline(s): August 16th, 2012, January 16th, 2013, August 16th, 2013, January 16th, 2014 Maximum Award: $50,000Supports methodological training for cultural anthropologists who wish to learn new skills that are needed as part of an ongoing research program. For example, support may be requested to learn new methods of cross-cultural research, demography, remote sensing and GIS, ecological field survey, linguistics, or modeling. Support may be requested to learn any methodological skill that is necessary to advance the scholar's research agenda
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Grant Opportunities
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Department of State - Women’s Advancement in Iraq
Deadline(s): May 27th, 2013 Maximum Award: $1,200,000Supports projects that promote women's political, economic and social advancement in Iraq. 1. Women, Peace and Security: Advancing Women as Elected Government Representatives. The objective is to advance women's political participation in anticipation of the 2014 national elections and through post-election support for elected women representatives. The program should enhance the competitiveness of women candidates registered with the Independent High Electoral Commission of Iraq. 2. Women, Peace and Security: Advancing Women in the Workforce in Iraq. This program will connect 400 women to mid to high-level employment opportunities in the banking, hospitality and/or other industries.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development - Sustainable Communities Research Grant Program
Deadline(s): May 29th, 2013 Maximum Award: $125,000This program is designed to fill key data and information gaps, and to begin to develop and evaluate policy alternatives that communities can adopt to facilitate decision making about various community investments in sustainability initiatives. For this round of sustainability research grants, HUD is primarily interested in sponsoring cutting edge research in quality, equitable affordable housing development and preservation; transportation and infrastructure planning; and “green,” energy-efficient practices.
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Alliance for Global Good - Innovation Fund: Changing Our World
Deadline(s): May 31st, 2013 Maximum Award: $90,000Supporting work addressing global problems, the Fund represents late stage financing to move best-in-class plans into operation. The Innovation Fund seeks neither to create new organizations nor to speculate about innovation. For this reason, the Request for Proposals specifies that applicants must have a mature strategy for concrete initiatives that will be implemented by Fund grants, and demonstrated in traditional business models.
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Daesan Foundation - Translation, Research and Publication Grants
Deadline(s): May 31st, 2013The foundation's Translation Grant selects, translates, and researches quality literary works worthy enough to globalize Korean literature through the distribution of these works. The target literary works for translation include Korean literary works the translator wishes to translate and prize-winning works from the 18th Annual Daesan Literary Awards. Target languages include English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Turkish, and Eastern European languages.
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MVAT - Grants
Deadline(s): May 31st, 2013Grants made by MVAT are for military and veterans groups who support or provide services to promote and enrich the lives of active and retired military and their families. Included are educational and research programs that directly benefit veterans or who educate the public about veterans.
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Russkiy Mir Foundation - Grants
Deadline(s): May 31st, 2013Supports 1) projects aimed at popularizing the Russian language and culture and 2) Russian language study programs. Priorities include, but are not limited to, projects promoting translations of the works of Russian authors into foreign languages; identification, organization, preservation and popularization of Russian works of art, historical legacies and events that contribute to the restoration of unity between Russian culture at home and abroad; interaction with the diasporas, promoting a climate of inter-ethnic respect and peace.
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The Wenner-Gren Foundation - Conference and Workshop Grants
Deadline(s): June 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $20,000For the purposes of this grant, conferences are defined as public events that are comprised primarily of oral and poster presentations to a larger audience of anthropologists. Priority is given to major conferences sponsored by large international anthropological organizations. Workshops are defined as working meetings that focus on developing and debating topical issues in theoretical anthropology. Workshops involve a small group of scholars who meet for a sufficient period of time to deal intensively with the topic.
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The Wenner-Gren Foundation - International Collaborative Research Grants
Deadline(s): June 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $35,000Supports international research collaborations between two or more qualified scholars, where the principal investigators bring different and complementary perspectives, knowledge, and/or skills to the project. Supplemental funds are also available to provide essential training for academic research participants in ICRG-funded projects (co-applicants, students, as well as other professional colleagues). By encouraging international collaborations, the grant contributes to the development of an international anthropology that values and incorporates different national perspectives and resources. By providing training funds, the grant helps to build capacity in countries were anthropology may be under-resourced.
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DHHS - Native American Language Preservation and Maintenance
Deadline(s): June 6th, 2013 Maximum Award: $150,000Supports Native communities to be self-determining, healthy, culturally and linguistically vibrant and economically self-sufficient. Native American communities include American Indian tribes (federally-recognized and non-federally recognized), Native Hawaiians, Alaskan Natives, and Native American Pacific Islanders. ANA also funds tribal and native-based organizations that serve these populations. The Native Language Preservation and Maintenance program provides funding for projects to support assessments of the status of the native languages in an established community, as well as the planning, designing, and implementing of native language curriculum and education projects to support a community's language preservation goals.
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National Archives & Records Administration - Publishing Historical Records: Colonial and Early National Period
Deadline(s): June 6th, 2013 Maximum Award: $250,000The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals to publish historical records of national significance. Projects may focus on the papers of major figures from American life or cover broad historical movements in politics, military, business, social reform, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience primarliy before 1820. Grants are awarded for collecting, describing, preserving, compiling, editing, and publishing documentary source materials. Projects may be renewed for a total of three years.
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U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - Extramural Research Grants
Deadline(s): June 10th, 2013 Maximum Award: $30,000Fosters research on research integrity in areas that have been inadequately explored. Successful applications will evaluate existing paradigms critically, be developed around an innovative hypothesis or address critical barriers to progress in understanding the multiple factors that underlie deviation from integrity in research, or conversely, that promote research integrity. The application should address the societal, organizational, group, or individual factors that affect integrity in research, both positively and negatively.
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National Archives - Digitalizing Historical Records
Deadline(s): June 11th, 2013 Maximum Award: $700,000Funds cost-effective methods to digitize nationally significant historical record collections and make the digital versions freely available online. Projects must make use of existing holdings of historical repositories and consist of entire collections or series. The materials should already be available to the public at the archives and described so that projects can re-use existing information to serve as metadata for the digitized collection. To make these projects as widely useful as possible for archives, historical repositories, and researchers, the applications must demonstrate: the national significance of the collections or records; an effective work flow that repurposes existing descriptive material; reasonable costs and standards for the project and sustainable preservation plans for the resulting digital records; and well-designed plans that evaluate the use of the digitized materials.
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Department of Education - Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program: Short-Term Projects
Deadline(s): June 13th, 2013 Maximum Award: $125,000The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (Fulbright-Hays GPA) Program supports overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies for groups of teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor. Short-term projects may include seminars, curriculum development, or group research or study. This year's Absolute Priority is 'Specific Geographic Regions of the World', and Competitive Preference Priorities are 'Training and Focus on Priority Languages' and 'Inclusion of K-12 Educators'.
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Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) - INET Research Grant Program
Deadline(s): June 13th, 2013 Maximum Award: $250,000The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and the Canadian Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) are accepting research proposals for their joint Grant Program. The sponsors seek to create an environment nourished by open discourse and to empower the next generation of scholars with the necessary support to accelerate and advance new and important thinking on economic issues. They encourage scholars worldwide, in economics as well as in related fields such as political science, sociology, anthropology, history, and the physical sciences, to submit grant proposals.
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CDC - National Innovative Partnerships for Addressing Obesity through Environmental Supports for Nutrition and Physical Activity
Deadline(s): June 24th, 2013 Maximum Award: $200,000The CDC seeks to create or enhance national innovative collaborations to raise awareness, engage in collective action, and facilitate environmental and system improvements that promote healthy eating and physical activity in places where individuals live, learn, and work (e.g., child care centers, hospital and medical care facilities, workplaces, communities, and schools). Organizations will receive funding to increase awareness and promote implementation of environmental and system supports across states to create healthier places and lead to improvements in healthy eating and physical activity behaviors across the U.S.
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Environmental Protection Agency - Science for Sustainable and Healthy Tribes
Deadline(s): June 25th, 2013 Maximum Award: $920,000Supports research to develop sustainable solutions to environmental problems that affect tribes. The objectives of the awards are to improve understanding of: 1) the health impacts of climate change on tribal populations, and 2) the health impacts of indoor air pollution exposures that derive from or are directly affecting traditional tribal life-ways and cultural practices. In both cases, projects should focus on impacts to vulnerable sub-populations of the Tribal communities. Proposals should also consider sustainable, culturally appropriate and acceptable pollution prevention, and adaptation/mitigation strategies.
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Film Festival Grants
Deadline(s): June 26th, 2013 Maximum Award: $30,000While the grants are awarded for a variety of programs, film festivals are encouraged to submit proposals that make festival events more accessible to the general public, provide greater access to minority and less visible filmmakers, and help strengthen the connection between the filmmaker and the public.
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Allyn Family Foundation - Grants
Deadline(s): June 30th, 2013 Maximum Award: $5,000The Foundation continues to be interested in organizations concerned with health, education, and welfare in the communities in which each individual trustee resides. Of special concern to the trustees are the status, condition and treatment of women, children, minorities and the underprivileged. High priority is given to requests for grants in Maricopa County, Arizona, Cook County Illinois, and Morris County, New Jersey, as well as to programs and activities of special interest to the trustees.
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Cardinals Charities - Grants
Deadline(s): July 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $5,000Supports programs designed to improve the quality of life and enhance opportunities for children, women, and minorities in the state of Arizona.
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Mazda Foundation - Grants
Deadline(s): July 1st, 2013Supports programs promoting Education and literacy; Environmental conservation; Cross-cultural understanding; Social welfare; and Scientific research.
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Sundance Institute - Sundance Documentary Fund Grants
Deadline(s): July 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $50,000The Documentary Fund provides grants to filmmakers worldwide for projects that display artful and innovative storytelling techniques, global relevance, contemporary social issues, and potential for social engagement. Funding is available at Development and Production/Post-Production levels.
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University of North Carolina at Asheville - Center for Craft, Creativity and Design -- Craft Research Fund
Deadline(s): July 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $15,000The mission of the fund is to advance, expand and support research about craft in the United States. The goals of the fund are to support innovative research on critical issues in craft theory and history; to explore the inter-relationship among craft, art, design and contemporary culture; to foster new cross-disciplinary approaches to scholarship in the craft field in the United States; and to advance investigation of neglected questions on craft history and criticism in the United States. Funding categories include Project Grants, Exhibition Research Grants, Graduate Research Grants, and Travel Grants.
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DHHS - Community Economic Development Projects
Deadline(s): July 2nd, 2013 Maximum Award: $800,000The CED program seeks to fund projects that address the personal and community barriers that must be overcome to help low-income individuals become self-sufficient. Funds can be used for costs associated with business start-up or business expansion activities.
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Foundation for Jewish Culture - Fund for Jewish Documentary Film Grants
Deadline(s): July 16th, 2013 Maximum Award: $35,000Since 1996, the Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film has supported the completion of over 80 original documentaries that explore the Jewish experience in all its complexity. The priority of the fund is to support projects that address significant subjects; offer fresh, challenging perspectives; engage diverse audiences; and expand the understanding of Jewish experiences.
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National Endowment for the Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Deadline(s): July 18th, 2013 Maximum Award: $350,000Supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from this program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Funding is offered at planning and implementation levels.
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National Science Foundation - Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
Deadline(s): July 24th, 2013 Maximum Award: $500,000This program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards for faculty members beginning their independent careers. The intent of the program is to provide stable support at a sufficient level and duration to enable awardees to develop careers as outstanding researchers and educators who effectively integrate teaching, learning and discovery. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from eligible junior faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations, especially women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities.
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NEH - Summer Stipends (Internal deadline)
Deadline(s): July 25th, 2013 Maximum Award: $6,000Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months.
** Please note: this is a limited submission opportunity. July 25th is the internal deadline for proposals to be considered for nomination (if nominated, proposals will be due to NEH by September 26. Please contact humanitiesra@asu.edu for assistance with this process.**
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National Science Foundation - Science, Technology, and Society
Deadline(s): July 31st, 2013 Maximum Award: $180,000STS considers proposals for scientific research into the interface between science (including engineering) or technology, and society. STS researchers use diverse methods including social science, historical, and philosophical methods. Successful proposals will be transferrable (i.e., generate results that provide insights for other scientific contexts that are suitably similar). They will produce outcomes that address pertinent problems and issues at the interface of science, technology and society, such as those having to do with practices and assumptions, ethics, values, governance, and policy.
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Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs - Community Improvement in Islamabad Grants
Deadline(s): August 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $500,000Supports the expansion of media engagement, strengthening of people-to-people ties, an increase in community engagement, and the establishment of local partners in Islamabad. Funding is available for projects that address the priority areas and focus on Public Affair’s key audiences, including: Pakistan civil society organizations, entrepreneurs/innovators, journalists, women, and youth (14-25 years old). Grant proposals should aim to create or extend the community of reform-minded individuals and groups, and should address one or more of the five Public Affairs priority areas: strengthening civil society, supporting economic empowerment and entrepreneurship, fostering regional stability, countering extremism by encouraging accurate messaging, and supporting public sector institutions.
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Department of State - Fulbright Scholar Program (Traditional) - Grants for U.S. Faculty and Professionals
Deadline(s): August 1st, 2013The traditional Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
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National Science Foundation - Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
Deadline(s): August 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $500,000STS considers proposals for scientific research into the interface between science (including engineering) or technology, and society. STS researchers use diverse methods including social science, historical, and philosophical methods. Successful proposals will be transferrable (i.e., generate results that provide insights for other scientific contexts that are suitably similar). They will produce outcomes that address pertinent problems and issues at the interface of science, technology and society, such as those having to do with practices and assumptions, ethics, values, governance, and policy.
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National Institutes of Health - Stigma Research Grants
Deadline(s): August 2nd, 2013 Maximum Award: $100,000Supports basic research on behavioral and social mechanisms underlying stigma. For this initiative, projects may focus on stigma processes and mechanisms from the perspective of stigmatized individuals or groups and/or of individuals or groups holding stigmatizing beliefs. Projects may examine stigma in the context of specific health conditions; however, the focus of the work must be on the underlying mechanisms of stigma rather than on condition-specific manifestations of stigma.
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National Endowment for the Arts - Art Works Grants
Deadline(s): August 8th, 2013 Maximum Award: $100,000The National Endowment for the Arts aims to create livable communities with strong arts that inspire creation, lifelong learning, and public engagement. Art Works grants support projects that offer distinctive insights and new value, have the potential to cause meaningful change and can be shared and/or emulated.
Note that ASU may submit only one proposal; please contact humanitiesra@asu.edu for information about internal deadlines.
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National Endowment for the Humanities - American’s Cultural and Historical Organizations Implementation Grants
Deadline(s): August 14th, 2013 Maximum Award: $400,000Grants will support the final stages of the preparation of a museum or library exhibition, interpretive Web site, a reading or discussion group, or other projects that engage people in reflection upon culture, identity, and history.
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National Science Foundation - Cultural Anthropology Senior Research Grants
Deadline(s): August 15th, 2012, January 15th, 2013, August 15th, 2013, January 15th, 2014 Maximum Award: $100,000The Cultural Anthropology Program accepts proposals for Senior Research proposals (proposals from scholars with PhDs or equivalent degree). Research in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology is eligible.
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NEH - Summer Stipends
Deadline(s): September 26th, 2013 Maximum Award: $6,000Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months.
** Please note: this is a limited submission opportunity. All applications must be screened internally to be considered for nomination. The internal ASU deadline is July 25th. Please contact humanitiesra@asu.edu for assistance with this process.**
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American Philosophical Society - Franklin Research Grants
Deadline(s): October 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $6,000Supports the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.
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John Templeton Foundation - Gods in Minds: The Science of Religious Cognition
Deadline(s): October 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $250,000Sir John Templeton was enthusiastic about using the tools of scientific inquiry to help us understand the nature of religious belief. At present, however, scientific descriptions of how people think about God and gods are fragmented across subdisciplines of the psychological, cognitive, and social sciences. Although there is obvious overlap in research interests, scholars in these areas have tended to remain isolated within their own disciplines. As a result, our understanding of how current findings fit together is impoverished, and there is little sense of an integrated and global conception of how God or gods are represented in mind. This funding competition is designed to promote integration of existing lines of research and to generate and test new hypotheses emerging from such integration.
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National Archives & Records Administration - Publishing Historical Records: Colonial and Early National Period: New Republic through the Modern Era
Deadline(s): October 3rd, 2013 Maximum Award: $250,000The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals to publish historical records of national significance. Projects may focus on the papers of major figures from American life or cover broad historical movements in politics, military, business, social reform, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience primarliy after 1820. Grants are awarded for collecting, describing, preserving, compiling, editing, and publishing documentary source materials. Projects may be renewed for a total of three years.
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MVAT - Grants
Deadline(s): October 31st, 2013Grants made by MVAT are for military and veterans groups who support or provide services to promote and enrich the lives of active and retired military and their families. Included are educational and research programs that directly benefit veterans or who educate the public about veterans.
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The Wenner-Gren Foundation - Post-Ph.D. Research Grants
Deadline(s): November 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $25,000Supports basic research in anthropology to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields.
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Russkiy Mir Foundation - Grants
Deadline(s): November 30th, 2013Supports 1) projects aimed at popularizing the Russian language and culture and 2) Russian language study programs. Priorities include, but are not limited to, projects promoting translations of the works of Russian authors into foreign languages; identification, organization, preservation and popularization of Russian works of art, historical legacies and events that contribute to the restoration of unity between Russian culture at home and abroad; interaction with the diasporas, promoting a climate of inter-ethnic respect and peace.
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The Wenner-Gren Foundation - Conference and Workshop Grants
Deadline(s): December 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $20,000For the purposes of this grant, conferences are defined as public events that are comprised primarily of oral and poster presentations to a larger audience of anthropologists. Priority is given to major conferences sponsored by large international anthropological organizations. Workshops are defined as working meetings that focus on developing and debating topical issues in theoretical anthropology. Workshops involve a small group of scholars who meet for a sufficient period of time to deal intensively with the topic.
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The Wenner-Gren Foundation - International Collaborative Research Grants
Deadline(s): December 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $35,000Supports international research collaborations between two or more qualified scholars, where the principal investigators bring different and complementary perspectives, knowledge, and/or skills to the project. Supplemental funds are also available to provide essential training for academic research participants in ICRG-funded projects (co-applicants, students, as well as other professional colleagues). By encouraging international collaborations, the grant contributes to the development of an international anthropology that values and incorporates different national perspectives and resources. By providing training funds, the grant helps to build capacity in countries were anthropology may be under-resourced.
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National Science Foundation - Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research
Deadline(s): December 3rd, 2013 Maximum Award: $1,000,000Supports the conduct of interdisciplinary research by teams of investigators in the social and behavioral sciences. Emphasis is placed on support for research that involves researchers from multiple disciplinary fields, that integrates scientific theoretical approaches and methodologies from multiple disciplinary fields, and that is likely to yield generalizable insights and information that will advance basic knowledge and capabilities across multiple disciplinary fields.
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National Science Foundation - Cultural Anthropology Senior Research Grants
Deadline(s): August 15th, 2012, January 15th, 2013, August 15th, 2013, January 15th, 2014 Maximum Award: $100,000The Cultural Anthropology Program accepts proposals for Senior Research proposals (proposals from scholars with PhDs or equivalent degree). Research in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology is eligible.
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National Science Foundation - Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
Deadline(s): February 1st, 2014 Maximum Award: $500,000STS considers proposals for scientific research into the interface between science (including engineering) or technology, and society. STS researchers use diverse methods including social science, historical, and philosophical methods. Successful proposals will be transferrable (i.e., generate results that provide insights for other scientific contexts that are suitably similar). They will produce outcomes that address pertinent problems and issues at the interface of science, technology and society, such as those having to do with practices and assumptions, ethics, values, governance, and policy.
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National Science Foundation - Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research
Deadline(s): December 2nd, 2014 Maximum Award: $1,000,000Supports the conduct of interdisciplinary research by teams of investigators in the social and behavioral sciences. Emphasis is placed on support for research that involves researchers from multiple disciplinary fields, that integrates scientific theoretical approaches and methodologies from multiple disciplinary fields, and that is likely to yield generalizable insights and information that will advance basic knowledge and capabilities across multiple disciplinary fields.
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Fellowships
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Durham University - Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme
Deadline(s): June 9th, 2013Fellowships are offered to talented researchers, both junior and senior, from across the globe, who share a passion for the deepest theoretical questions and most pressing practical problems facing humanity. This year's competition addresses the theme of 'Emergence', interpreted in its broadest sense to be of potential interest to those working in a wide range of disciplines.
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Kennedy Library and Museum - Fellowships
Deadline(s): August 15th, 2013The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation offers competitive research fellowships every year to scholars and students who wish to make use of the archival holdings (including audiovisual materials) of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Possible topics include foreign intelligence and the presidency, refugee policy, political journalism, and beyond.
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The Wenner-Gren Foundation - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline(s): November 1st, 2013 Maximum Award: $40,000Supports the writing-up of already completed research. The fellowship is awarded to scholars in the earlier stages of their careers, with a Ph.D. in hand for no more than ten years from the application deadline. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields.
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National Endowment for the Humanities - Bridging Cultures Through Film: International Topics
Deadline(s): June 12th, 2013 Maximum Award: $800,000Supports documentary films that examine international and transnational themes in the humanities. These projects are meant to spark Americans’ engagement with the broader world by exploring one or more countries and cultures outside of the United States. Proposed documentaries must be analytical and deeply grounded in humanities scholarship. Two levels of support are available: development grants ($75,000) and production ($800,000).
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Funding Opportunities
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