Deadline: May 01, 2008. Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research in the humanities that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools. Fellowships support full-time work on a humanities project for a period of 6-12 months. Award is up to $50,400 over 12 months. Endowment also offers Digital Humanities Fellowships & Fellowships for Adv. Research on Japan. http://www.neh.gov/grants/grants.html
Deadline: November 1, 2008. The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C., offers research fellowships to encourage access to its exceptional collections and to encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars of the early modern period. Each year, scholars may compete for a limited number of long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (one to three months) fellowships. Two long-term Mellon Research Fellowships will be awarded and carry stipends of $50,000 and $40,000. Three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships will be awarded and carry maximum stipends of $40,000.
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies invites applications for six fellowships of five weeks duration to conduct research in the collections of the Vatican Film Library or in the rare book and manuscript collections of Pius XII Memorial Library at Saint Louis University. The Vatican Film Library holds extensive portions of the Vatican Library's medieval and Renaissance manuscripts on microfilm. In addition, it has one of the largest collections of microfilmed Jesuit historical documents from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Stipends will be awarded at $1,750 per five-week period, plus accommodation and domestic and international travel subsidies. There is no formal deadline, but review of applications will begin on April 1. See http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/cmrs/index.html for further details.
Deadline: May 23, 2008. Creativity and Aging in America is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to actively engage older Americans in qulaity arts programs. Through this initiative, the Arts Endowment will support projects in the disciplines of literature and music. Projects must be conducted by professional artists and engage older adults as students, artists, and/or teachers. NEA defines 'older adults' as adults age 65 and above. Generally, a grant period of up to one year is allowed. Grants are for $15,000 or $25,000. All grants require a nonfederal match of at least 1 to 1. See http://arts.endow.gov/grants/apply/CreativityAging.html or more information.
Deadline: May 30, 2008. The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library (MARBL) of Emory University in Atlanta offers short-term fellowships (normally one month) to support scholarly use of the Library's collections. There are two kinds of fellowships available: (1) Fellowships in Literature: MARBL has extensive holdings in the Irish literary renaissance, contemporary Irish poetry, and the literary archive of the late Ted Hughes; (2) Fellowships in African American Studies: MARBL houses extensive collections focusing on black print culture, the civil rights and post-civil rights movements, communism and the Left, and African American religion, literature, music and culture. Fellowships have a value of up to $2,000. See http://marbl.library.emory.edu/ for further details.