American Association of University Women Fellowships and Grants(link is external)
Open to all applicants in all fields, except engineering.
American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC) Fellowships(link is external)
Graduate fellowships are monetary awards made to American Indian and Alaska Native graduate or professional degree-seeking students, who meet all eligible criteria, including full-time student status at an accredited institution in the United States, ability to demonstrate financial need, and a member of a federally recognized American Indian or Alaska Native group, or provide documentation of descendency (possess one-fourth degree federally recognized Indian heritage).
American Jewish Archives Fellowship Program(link is external)
Thirteen fellowships for students working on some aspect of the history of North American Jewry.
American Scandinavian Foundation Fellowships and Grants(link is external)
Each year the ASF awards nearly $800,000 in fellowships and grants to individual students, scholars, professionals and artists for projects abroad.
American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) Graduate Study Award(link is external)
Several pre- and post-doctoral fellowships for graduate study in classics.
Bowling Green Center for Popular Culture Studies External Fellows(link is external)
Fellows pursue their own research while utilizing the resources of the Popular Culture Library and/or the Sound Recording Archive within the Jerome University Library. Generally there are no monetary awards, but fellows are afforded access to facilities.
Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) (link is external)
Through this program, the California State University (CSU) provides financial assistance in the form of a student loan to a limited number of individuals pursuing doctoral degrees. The program seeks to provide loans to doctoral students who are interested in applying and competing for CSU instructional faculty positions after completion of the doctoral degree. Loans available in amounts of up to $10,000 per year up to a total of $30,000. Loans obtained through this program are repayable over a 15-year period, commencing one year after completion of or withdrawal from full-time doctoral study. If a participant applies, competes for, and is hired in a CSU instructional faculty position after completion of the doctoral degree, 20 percent of the loan will be forgiven for each year of full-time postdoctoral teaching employment in the CSU. Part-time teaching in the CSU may also be considered for partial loan forgiveness, if the participant teaches at least half-time and has successfully completed the doctorate degree.
DAAD Study Fellowships(link is external)
DAAD offers a wide range of opportunities to students, scholars, and higher education institutions of the United States and Canada, from undergraduate students to faculty, for study and research in Germany.
Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship(link is external)
Liebmann Fellowships are awarded “to attract and support students with outstanding character and ability who hold promise for achievement and distinction in their chosen fields of study.” Candidates must be U.S. citizens with outstanding undergraduate records and demonstrated need for financial assistance. Eligible students include not only those in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, but also those in professional programs like law, medicine, engineering, and architecture.
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships(link is external)
The Ford Foundation offers approximately 35 dissertation fellowships annually, and seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for Musicians(link is external)
The Frank Huntington Beebe Fund provides fellowships for gifted young musicians, including performers and composers in classical disciplines, who wish to pursue advanced music study and performance abroad, usually in Europe.
Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Humanities Grants-in-Aid(link is external)
For research in the humanities in any field appropriate to the collections, which include the history of science, avant-garde Little Magazines, American women writers to 1920, Scandinavian and Germanic literatures, Dutch post-Reformation theology and church history, French political pamphlets of the 16th and 17th centuries, among others.
The Getty Research Institute for the Study of the History of Art and the Humanities Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships(link is external)
Provides 22-month residencies and stipends for emerging scholars to complete their dissertations or expand them for publication. Getty fellows are invited based on how their work relates to a specific theme chosen by the Research Institute.
Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship(link is external)
Intended to increase the presence of minority scholars and teachers in musicology, the fellowship supports one year of graduate work for a student at a North American University who is a member of a group historically underrepresented in the discipline, including, in the U.S., African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans, and, in Canada, visible minorities.
The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) Individual Advanced Research Opportunities(link is external)
Grants of one to twelve months to pre-doctoral and post-doctoral scholars for research at institutions in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. American scholars in policy research and development or cross-disciplinary studies are urged to apply.
Jacob K. Javits Fellowships(link is external)
Financial assistance to individuals who, at the time of their application, have not yet completed their first year of doctoral program or a master's degree program (terminal degree for the field of study) or are entering graduate school for the first time in the next academic year.
Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities(link is external)
Fellows make the library their research home for the duration of their fellowship period and work on projects for which they have received funding.
Smithsonian Fellowships(link is external)
Pre-doctoral (to conduct dissertation research) and ten-week graduate student fellowships are available. Also offers a Latino Studies Fellowship Program, Minority Awards Program and Native American Awards Program.
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans(link is external)
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The Program is established in recognition of the contributions New Americans have made to American life and in gratitude for the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors and their family.
University of Notre Dame(link is external)
The Medieval Institute offers a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for a junior scholar in medieval studies, made possible through the generous response of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to a challenge grant awarded to Notre Dame by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The fellowship will permit an outstanding young scholar in any field of medieval studies to continue his or her research while in residence at Notre Dame's Medieval Institute during the academic year.