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
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 In addition, it has one of the largest collections of microfilmed Jesuit historical documents from the 16th to the 19th centuries.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.