PhD Funding Opportunities
This is a non-exhaustive list of some major fellowships and postdocs available to humanities Ph.D. students or recent graduates.
Positions are for one year unless noted otherwise. Funding opportunities specific to a particular field will be added later. Please send any suggestions for additions or updates to Claire Waters (
cmwaters@ucdavis.edu
) and Janie Guhin (
jsguhin@ucdavis.edu
).
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholars Program for postdocs and junior faculty. Deadline mid-October.
http://www.amacad.org/visiting.aspx
American Association of University Women American Fellowships, Dissertation and Postdoctoral. Deadline mid-November.
http://www.aauw.org/education/fga/fellowships_grants/american.cfm
Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship. Deadline early November.
http://www.woodrow.org/newcombe/index.php
Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships (some teaching). Deadline early October.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows/fellowship.html
Cornell University Society for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships (some teaching). Eligible fields vary by year (2008
–
09 not relevant to scholars of English/American lit.). Deadline late September.
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/mellon_post-d_fellowships.html
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists. Deadline mid-February.
http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/postdoc.html
Getty Research Grants for pre- and postdoctoral scholars. Deadline late October.
http://www.getty.edu/grants/research/scholars/
Michigan Society of Fellows: 3-year postdoctoral positions (some teaching). Deadline Oct. 1.
http://www.rackham.umich.edu/faculty_staff/sof
Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships (some teaching). Deadline mid-October.
http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/mellon_description.shtml
Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts: 3-year postdoctoral positions (some teaching). Deadline early October.
http://www.princeton.edu/~sf/new_fellowships.shtml
Rice University Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships (some teaching). Deadline early December.
http://hrc.rice.edu/fellowships_mellon.html
UC Davis Graduate Studies Travel Award Application. Deadline: November 13th to English Graduate Office.
http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/ssupport/internal_travel.html
UC DAVIS 2008-09 Internal Fellowship Application for continuing UCD graduate students. Deadline: January 15th. Must apply on-line.
http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/ssupport/internal_fellowships.html
UC Humanities Research Institute (at Irvine): various pre-and postdoctoral fellowships. Deadlines December/January depending on program.
http://www.uchri.org/main.php?page_id=3
(follow links under Institute Programs in lefthand frame)
UC President
’
s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Academic Diversity. Deadline mid-November.
http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/ppfp/
University of Chicago Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts: 4-year postdoctoral positions (some teaching). Deadline mid-October.
https://fellows.uchicago.edu/
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity. Deadline early January.
http://research.unc.edu/red/postdoc.php
Wesleyan University Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships. Deadline late October.
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chum/mellon.html