Category: Funding

Deadline: December 2, 2019

The Louis Pelzer Memorial Award Committee of the Organization of American Historians invites candidates for graduate degrees to submit essays for the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award competition. Essays may deal with any period or topic in the history of the United States. The winning essay will be published in the Journal of American History. Louis Pelzer was president of the OAH 1935–1936.

Essays, including footnotes, should not exceed 10,000 words. The electronic version of the essay should be sent to jahms@oah.org with “2020 Louis Pelzer Memorial Award Entry” noted in the subject line, and one hard copy should be submitted to the address below. Because manuscripts are judged anonymously, the author’s name and graduate program should appear only on a separate cover page.

The award will be presented at the 2020 OAH Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., April 2–5.

The winning essay will be published in the Journal of American History.

Deadline: December 2, 2019

Named for Benjamin Quarles and Nathan Huggins, two outstanding historians of the African American past, the Huggins-Quarles Award is given annually by the Organization of American Historians to one or two graduate students of color to assist them with expenses related to travel to research collections for the completion of the PhD dissertation. These awards were established to promote greater diversity in the historical profession.

Requirements of Applicants

• applicant must be ABD (all but dissertation)
• applicant must be ALANA (African American, Latino/a, Asian American, Native American) scholar
• applicant’s dissertation must focus on U.S. history
• U.S. residency is not required

Deadline: September 18, 2019

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior faculty positions in academia and equivalent positions at non-profit research institutions and expose them to Department of Defense (DoD) and National Security challenges and needs. In particular, this YFA will provide high-impact funding to elite researchers early in their careers to develop innovative new research directions in the context of enabling transformative DoD capabilities. The long-term goal of the program is to develop the next generation of scientists and engineers in the research community who will focus a significant portion of their future careers on DoD and National Security issues. DARPA is particularly interested in identifying outstanding researchers who have previously not been performers on DARPA programs, but the program is open to all qualified applicants with innovative research ideas.

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Deadline: September 30, 2019

IMPORTANT: Please note that the acdemic requirements for this grant have changed and the fellowship is now open to those holding an MA degree or higher.

The Kennan Institute is holding the next round of competition for its Title VIII Short-Term Grants. Detailed information about the grant is below, and more information about all opportunities can be found HERE.

Title VIII Short Term Grants – Deadline: September 30, 2019

The Kennan Institute offers Title VIII Short-Term Grants to scholars whose research in the social sciences or humanities focuses on Russia, Ukraine, and the countries of Eurasia, and who demonstrate a particular need to utilize the library, archival, and other specialized resources of the Washington, D.C. area. Policy-relevant research is preferred. Academic participants must an MA degree or higher, or demonstrate commensurate professional experience. Only U.S. citizens are eligible for Title VIII Short-Term Grants.

Please send all questions and application materials to kennan@wilsoncenter.org.

Deadline: August 31, 2019

The Diversity and Inclusion Travel Grant program is open to graduate as well as undergraduate students with no requirement to be presenting at the convention. For more information see: www.aseees.org/convention/grants/diversity-inclusion  Applications are due August 31.

Deadline: August 31, 2020

The University of Texas at Austin Subvention Grants program is designed to assist faculty authors in the publication of scholarly books. Frequently university and other scholarly presses demand that authors provide funds to underwrite the publication of scholarly monographs and books. Subvention awards provide financial assistance to faculty members when departments and deans are unable to provide needed support.

Qualifications:

• Requesting author must be sole or primary author and currently appointed at The University of Texas at Austin as a faculty member. Preference is given to tenured or tenure-track faculty members.
• Excluded from eligibility are temporary faculty or staff, individuals whose contracts will not be renewed the following year, or those who plan to resign in the current or subsequent academic year, and students.
• Individuals who will receive a cash advance from the publisher are not qualified.
• Subvention support of more than once in a three-year period is subject to availability of funds and the applicant pool.
• The author and publisher must agree to acknowledge the President’s Office of the University of Texas at Austin for the subvention grant in the acknowledgement section of the book.
• Funds are only paid directly to the publisher; authors may not be reimbursed from the account.
• Publications can be in any language and any discipline.
• Artwork, maps, photographs, permissions and other special production elements are allowed.
• Publication of textbooks, translations of previously published books or book reprints will not be supported.
• Routine author activities, such as indexing, or page and reprint costs of articles in professional journals are not covered.
• If the book is not published, the author is expected to return the subvention grant to the University.

Deadline: October 15, 2019

The National Endowment for the Humanities offers the Dialogues on the Experience of War (Dialogues) program as part of its current initiative, Standing Together: The Humanities and the Experience of War. The program supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war, in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others think more deeply about the issues raised by war and military service. Dialogues is primarily designed to reach military veterans; however, men and women in active service, military families, and interested members of the public may also participate.

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