Funding
Still hibernating or feeling dormant after the break? Don't forget to stay updated on upcoming fellowship opportunities. Our Funding Peer has compiled a list of over 175 funding opportunities with deadlines in the next three to four months -- all organized by type and stage for your convenience! Check out the full list and be sure to sign up for an upcoming funding workshop to create customized funding searches that work for you.
The Winter Funding Forecast is a sampling of opportunities with deadlines scheduled during the next three to four months. Scroll all the way through this list to see announcements for postdoctoral, doctoral, graduate, research, and other short-term awards or travel grants. As always, go directly to the website link for the most updated information on important dates and application processes. Good luck!
NOTE: Please report any broken links to Funding Peer Noreen Balos.
Jan 15 Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (MHSAS) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Jan 23 UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
Jan 31 Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Jan 31 University of Southern California Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowships
Feb 15 Markets, Ethics, and the Law Post-Doctorate Fellowship
Feb 15 Albert Ellis Institute Clinical Postdoctoral Fellowship
Feb 25 UC MEXUS - CONACYT Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Mar 1 NASA Postdoctoral Program
Mar TBD Newton International Postdoctoral Fellowships
Apr 1 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Aerospace History
Apr 15 BHW Group Women in STEM Scholarship
Apr 30 The APA-IUPsyS Global Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellowship
May 1 Wenner-Gren Foundation Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships - in anthropology research
May 28 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Graduate Scholar Program
May TBD UC Davis MIND Institute's Postdoctoral Interdisciplinary Autism Research Training Program
Jun 1 International IGB Fellowship Programme for Research in Freshwater Science, Germany
Jun 15 Institute of Current World Affairs (ICWA) Two Year Postdoctoral Fellowship
On-going Facebook Postdoctoral Research Positions
On-going Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Postdoctoral Fellowship - (to do research at national laboratories and federal research facilities nationwide)
TBD Consortium for Faculty Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges Dissertation & Postdoctoral Fellowships
TBD Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Postdoctoral Research Award
TBD Tobacco-Related Disease Research Postdoctoral Program
TBD American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowships
Various deadlines Funding Opportunities for Postdoctoral Scholars - list via Harvard website
Various deadlines Postdoctoral opportunities in medical research - via Stanford website
Various deadlines Minority Postdoctoral Opportunities List
Various deadlines Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Postdoctoral Fellowships https://orise.orau.gov/stem/internships-fellowships-research-opportunities/postdocs.html
Various deadlines Special Programs for Postdoctoral Fellows - via National Science Foundation
Various deadlines Post-doctoral Opportunities List - from the National Institute of Health
Various deadlines University of California Humanities Research Institute - various opportunities
Various deadlines Postdoctoral opportunities in medical research - via Stanford website
Various deadlines Minority Postdoctoral Opportunities List
DISSERTATION GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS
Jan 15 Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships in European Studies
Jan 15 Center of Military History, US Army Dissertation Fellowship in Military History
Jan 15 American Bar Foundation (ABF) Doctoral Fellowship Program in Law and Inequality
Jan 21 IGCC Dissertation Completion Fellowship (US citizenship not required)
Feb 1 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Program
Feb 1 Jefferson Scholars Foundation's National Dissertation Fellowship
Feb 1 Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (research on understanding human violence and aggression: social change, intergroup conflict, war, terrorism, crime, and family relationships, among other subjects)
Feb 4 McNeil Center for Early American Studies Dissertation Fellowships
Feb 5 Haynes Lindley Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship - supports social science students with dissertation research dealing with the Los Angeles region
Feb TBD American Heart Association (AHA) Research Grants - various awards
Feb TBD Joseph L Fisher Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships - Resource for the Future (RFF)
Mar 1 Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation In-Residence Fellowship
Mar 1 African American History Mellon Scholar Dissertation Fellowship
Mar 1 Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Dissertation Fellowship
Mar 1 W. Turrentine Jackson Dissertation Award - history
Mar 29 Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) Dissertation Writing Grants
Mar 31 Gerald R. Ford Scholar Dissertation Award - for research related to United States political process and public policy
Apr 1 Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment Dissertation Research Awards
Apr 5 History Dissertation Grant in Cold War history
Apr TBD Microsoft Dissertation Grant Program
Apr TBD Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Dissertation Research Grants
TBD Global Religion Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
TBD UNCF Merck Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowships
On-going Research Opportunities at the US Forest Service Research and Development
On-going Archaeology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (Arch-DDRI) - grant application must be submitted with your advisor and through Office of Research
On-going Documenting Endangered Languages Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants - grant application must be submitted with your advisor and through Office of Research
GRADUATE, PREDOCTORAL or DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
Jan 15 The Garden Club of America and the Royal Horticultural Society Interchange Fellowships
Jan 15 Center for Cyber Safety and Education Graduate Scholarship Program
Jan 15 Predoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (MHSAS)
Jan 18 Girard Miller Foundation Government Finance Officers Association Scholarship
Jan 28 Point Foundation Scholarship for LGBTQ Leaders
Jan 31 American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship
Feb 1 Frederick Douglass Teaching Scholars Fellowship
Feb 1 California State University Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program
Feb 5 Hispanic Scholarship Fund General College Scholarships (Undergrad & Grad)
Feb 7 Boren Fellowship (National Deadline: Feb 7; Ask about campus deadline before Jan!)
Feb 15 The Leakey Foundation Baldwinn Fellowships - for citizens of a developing country studying evolution and human origins
Feb 28 Society of American Archivists Josephine Forman Scholarship
Mar 1 James Madison Graduate Fellowships
Mar 1 Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Doctoral Scholarships
Mar 1 John L Carey Scholarship, American Certified Public Accountants
Apr 15 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Graduate Fellowships
TBD Tobacco-Related Disease Research Predoctoral Program
TBD PEO International Peace Scholarship (IPS) - also open to international students studying in the US
TBD Department of State Civil Service STEM Fellowship Program
Various Deadlines Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Fellowships and Grants
TBD NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships (NSTRF)
On-going Gerda Henkel Foundation Ph.D. Scholarships in the Historical Humanities
Jan 7 Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship Program
Jan 15 Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) Research Fellowship
Jan 15 Harvard Belfer Center for International Affairs Research Fellowship
Jan 15 APA Graduate Research Grants (psychology)
Jan 15 Center for Jewish History Graduate Research Fellowship - Jewish and Christian studies
Jan 15 Winterthur Museum and Gardens Research Fellowships
Feb 1 Oral Histories Research Grants and Awards
Feb 1 American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) - overseas research
Feb 10 Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) PhD Scholarship
Feb 15 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics 10-week Research Fellowship
Feb 15 Henry David Psychology Research Grant
Feb 15 Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) Research Fellowship Awards
Feb 15 Summer Applied Biotechnology Research Experience at UCSB (for undergrad or master's students)
Feb 15 Sepmeyer Research Grant Program, International Education Research Foundation
Feb 15 Loring Fellowship in Boston - researching the Civil War, origins, and consequences
Feb 28 Pat Tillman Scholars Program for veterans and spouses of veterans
Mar 1 Neotropical Grassland Conservancy Student Grant Program (SGP)
Mar 1 German Historical Institute Research Fellowship - at DC Horner Library archives
Mar 1 Social Security Administration's (SSA's) Analyzing Relationships between Disability, Rehabilitation and Work (ARDRAW) Small Grant Program - one-year $10K stipend for new analysis of work, rehabilitation, and disability issues
Mar 1 American Philosophy Society (APS) Phillips Fund for North Native American Research Grants
Mar 1 Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies Fellowship
Mar 7 Institute of Education Sciences Grants
Mar 15 Bernard L. Majewski Research Fellowship - in economic geology
Mar 15 Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
Mar 15 Early American Industries Association Research Grants
Mar TBD Rosenberry Graduate Research Fellowship - forest and conservation research
Mar TBD Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) announces its 2018 Research Grants Competition
Apr 1 Research Fellowships in Aerospace History
Apr 20 G. Rollie Adams Research Fellowships on play and other play-related artifacts, including but not limited to toys, dolls, board games, video games, and other electronic games
Apr TBD International Foundation for Ethical Research (IFER) Graduate Fellowship Program
May 1 APA Graduate Research Grants (psychology)
Jul TBD University of California Natural Reserve System Mathias Graduate Student Research Fellowship
TBD New York State Senate Legislative Fellowships - perform in-depth policy research
TBD National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grants and Fellowships
TBD Disability Research Summer Fellowships Program
TBD American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation Research Grants and Scholarships
TBD NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships (NSTRF)
TBD Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships - for study in Australia
Various Deadlines New York Public Library Research Fellowships
Various Deadlines Smithsonian Institute Fellowships
Various Deadlines Metropolitan Museum of Art Research Fellowships
Various Deadlines Deutsches Akademisches Austauschdienst (DAAD) Research Grants
On-going Dirksen Congressional Research Grant
On-going Facebook Research Scientist PhD Internships
On-going Statistics Fellowship with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
On-going OCS ORISE Fellowship and Internships (various locations: with the Food and Drug Administration, Dept of Health and Human Services, Dept of Energy, National Institute of Health etc.)
On-going Title VIII Research Scholar Program American Councils - in-country, independent research for three consecutive months to nine consecutive months in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe
On-going The Spalding Trust Grants for the Comparative Study of Religions
On-going Gerda Henkel Foundation PhD Scholarship - for research in the Historical Humanities
On-going Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill research fellowships
On-going National Institute of Health Individual Graduate Partnerships Program
OTHER (AWARDS, TRAVEL, BOOK PRIZE, or TRAINING)
Jan. 7 Switzer Environmental Fellowship Program (academics and environmental training)
Jan 13 Oxford Center for Islamic Studies Visiting and Research Fellowships
Jan 15 Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) 9-month Public Policy Fellowship
Jan 15 American Heritage Center Teaching and Research Grants
Jan 21 Heritage Foundation Young Leaders Program
Jan 28 Freelance Fellowship for Freelance Journalists
Jan 31 Native American Congressional Internship (undergrad or grad)
Jan TBD School for Advanced Research (SAR) Indigenous Writer-in-Residence Fellowship
Jan TBD Interfaces Graduate Training Program at UCSD - in biological, engineering, physical and health sciences
Feb 1 Psi Chi National Honor Society Albert Bandura Graduate Research Award (psychology)
Feb 11 Atlanta University Center Research Travel Award - on African American and African Diaspora
Feb 11 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) Summer Internship Program
Feb 15 Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards - recognizes outstanding translations into English of modern Italian poetry
Feb 15 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Summer Fellowship
Feb 28 CCST Science and Technology Policy Fellows Program
Feb TBD Congressional Budget Office 10-week Summer Internship for graduate students
Mar 1 Pacific Coast Branch Book Award
Mar 1 James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation - for teachers in a master's program
Mar 1 Library Company of Philadelphia Short-Term Research Grants
Mar 1 American Museum of Natural History Anthropology Internship Program
Mar 3 Human Rights Campaign HIV 360 Fellowship Program
Mar 4 UC Research and Innovation Fellowship for Agriculture (RIFA) - short-term in-country projects
Mar TBD National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships
Apr 1 PSA/Journal of Postcolonial Writing Postgraduate Essay Competition
Apr 3 MidAtlantic Arts Foundation USArtists International Grants
Apr 19 LGBT Studies One-Month Research Fellowship at Yale University
Apr 30 PCB-AHA Presidents' Graduate Student Travel Award
May 20 Freelance Fellowship for Freelance Journalists
Various Deadlines American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) Research Fellowships
Rolling Deadline - Veteran Research Supplement with the Center for Integrated Access Networks
TBD Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security
TBD Mission Continues Fellowship - for military veterans
TBD School for Advanced Research Staley Book Prize
TBD AAAS Community Engagement Fellows Program
TBD Civil Service Foreign Affairs (FA) Fellowship Program