Grants & Fellowships Database
This database, developed by the CLA grants team, lists over 400 funding opportunities in fields across the College of Liberal Arts. Please note that the Categories listed below are neither mutually exclusive nor comprehensive. Use a variety of subject matter and funding type keywords to search for opportunities in your area.
Warning: Deadline change. Be sure to check the deadlines of programs on the funders’ websites.
- http://www.aaanet.org/about/Prizes-Awards/Solon-Kimball-Award.cfm
- Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility
- Award: $1,000
- Deadline: 6/1/2010
- Details: This $1,000 award honors exemplary anthropologists for outstanding recent achievements that have contributed to the development of anthropology as an applied science and have had important impacts on public policy.
- Keywords: Anthropology, social science, exemplary anthropologist, public policy, award
NB: DEADLINE NOTE: This award is presented every other year.
- http://www.literal-latte.com/contests
- Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility
- Award: $1,000 (first prize)
- Deadline: 1/15/2010
- Details: The sponsor provides an award for the best fiction submission. Unpublished stories, 6,000 words maximum are eligible. All subjects and styles welcome. All entries considered for publication.
- Keywords: Fiction, literature, writing, award, competition, publication
- http://www.politicalhistory.org
- Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility; Doctoral students, junior scholars, and senior scholars will be eligible for support from this fund. Preference will be given to doctoral students and nontenured faculty.
- Award: $2,000
- Deadline: 11/2/2009
- Details: This fund will provide research stipends for graduate students and established scholars doing archival research in policy and political history.
- Keywords: Political science, Twentieth-Century American history, policy, politics, development, archival research
- http://www.williams.edu/resources/miller/fellowship.html
- Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility
- Award: $5,000
- Deadline:
- Details: The sponsor administers an essay prize to advance the study of the philosophy of John William Miller. A prize of $5,000 is offered for essays of high quality published in a recognized journal on some aspect of Miller's work.
- Keywords: Philosophy, John William Miller, essay prize
NB: Deadline note: no deadline indicated
- http://www.arnova.org/
- Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility; Books must have been published within the three calendar years preceding the current year. Entries must be published by a university press or commercial publishing house. Submissions from scholars representing any discipline are welcome. In addition, submissions are encouraged from young scholars, practitioners working in collaboration with university-based researchers, and scholars working on multi-disciplinary approaches.
- Award: Amount not indicated
- Deadline:
- Details: The Virginia Hodgkinson Research Prize is given annually to the best book on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector that informs policy and practice.
Deadline(s):
- Keywords: Book award, publication, nonprofit sector, philanthropy, policy, practice
NB: DEADLINE NOTE: Deadline for current year will be posted in spring/early summer.
- http://www.besttravelwriting.com
- Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility
- Award: $500-$1,000
- Deadline: 9/21/2009
- Details: The sponsor's program is intended to honor excellence in travel writing. The program provides cash awards to writers whose work inspires others to explore.
- Keywords: Travel writing, literature, award
NB: DEADLINE NOTE: Entries are accepted year-round. The current competition closes September 21, 2009.
- http://www.afti.org/award_berger.php
- Fund Type: Grant. Residential: . Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility; ATA member.
- Award: $1,000
- Deadline: 9/18/2009
- Details: This prize of $1,000 is offered to recognize excellence in scientific and technical translation by an ATA member.
- Keywords: Translation, scientific, technical, award
- http://www.literal-latte.com/contests
- Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility
- Award: $1,000 (first place)
- Deadline: 9/15/2009
- Details: The sponsor provides an award for the best essay submission. Unpublished essays, 6,000 words maximum are eligible. All subjects and styles welcome. All entries considered for publication.
- Keywords: Essay, literature, nonfiction, writing, award, competition, publication
- http://www.cgu.edu/pages/6056.asp
- Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility; The work submitted must be a first book published between September 15, 2008 and September 15, 2009. Work must be original poetry written originally in English by a poet who is a citizen or legal resident alien of the United States.
- Award: $10,000
- Deadline: 9/15/2009
- Details: Support is provided for a first book by a poet of genuine promise.
- Keywords: Poetry, poet, writing, book, publication, award
- http://www.cgu.edu/pages/6056.asp
- Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility; The work submitted must be a book published between September 15, 2008 and September 15, 2009. Work must be original poetry written originally in English by a poet who is a citizen or legal resident alien of the United States.
- Award: $100,000
- Deadline: 9/15/2009
- Details: Support is provided to an emerging poet who is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career. The Kingsley Tufts award the world’s largest monetary prize for a single collection of poetry.
- Keywords: Poetry, poet, writing, book, publication, award
- http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07544/nsf07544.htm
- Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: See Full Program Announcement
- Award: $50,000
- Deadline: 8/16/2009
- Details: The National Science Foundation announces an opportunity for methodological training by cultural anthropologists who are active researchers. The purpose is to help cultural anthropologists upgrade their methodological skills by learning a specific analytical technique which will improve their research abilities.
- Keywords: Anthropology, cultural anthropologists, methodological training
- http://www.ams-net.org/awards/greenberg.php
- Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility
- Award: $2,000
- Deadline: 8/15/2009
- Details: An award is available as a grant-in-aid to stimulate active cooperation between scholars and performers by recognizing and fostering outstanding contributions to historical performing practices.
- Keywords: Music, musicology, historical performance
- http://www.collegeart.org/awards
- Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: See Full Program Announcement; Varies by award
- Award: Varies by award
- Deadline: 7/31/2009
- Details: With these annual awards, CAA seeks to honor individual artists, art historians, authors, curators, and critics whose accomplishments transcend their individual disciplines and contribute to the profession as a whole and to the world at large. For more information about a particular award, see website.
- Keywords: Arts, art history, criticism, book prize, teaching, feminist, theory, publication, award
- http://www.literal-latte.com/contests
- Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility
- Award: $1,000 (first prize)
- Deadline: 7/15/2009
- Details: The sponsor provides an award for the best poetry submission. Unpublished poems, 2,000 words maximum are eligible. All subjects and styles welcome. All entries considered for publication.
- Keywords: Poetry, poem, literature, writing, award, competition, publication
