Funding
Get a quick glance at upcoming deadlines for summer and a head start for the fall. Various opportunities listed to include a sampling of postdoctoral announcements, dissertation fellowships, research funding, and awards competitions.
The summer is a perfect time to prepare for funding opportunities announced in the Fall! Also, you can be ready by updating typical fellowship application materials: personal statement, research statement, and CV. Be sure to make the most of summer and occasionally review funding postings, repostings, or extended deadline for any awards still active. As usual, below is only a sample list for the next three months. But it may be your starting point for learning about types of external funding!
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UPCOMING DEADLINES
Jul 1 NASA Postdoctoral Program
Jul 3 Whitney Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (biological or medical research)
Aug 1 National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate Program
Aug 1 Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowships in all fields to research in Israel
Aug 6 SENS Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (regenerative medicine)
Aug 6 Princeton University Society of Fellows (SF) Humanities and Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship
Aug 15 American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowships
Aug 29 Postdoc Junior Research Fellowships at Trinity College in Cambridge UK
Sep 1 PhRMA Foundation Announces Postdoctoral Fellowships in Pharmaceutics
Sep 1 Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Abe Postdoc Fellowship
Sep 16 Fulbright Postdoctoral and Early Career Awards
Sep 16 Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowships in Israel for U.S. Citizens 2020/2021
Sep. TBD Pasteur Foundation and Institut Pasteur Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellowship
Sep. TBD Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS) Postdoctoral Fellowship
Sep. TBD Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship
Sep TBD University of Toronto Postdoctoral Fellowships
Oct. 1 Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Postdoctoral Social Science Fellowship
Oct. 1 German Historical Institute (GHI) Postdoctoral Fellowships
Oct 15 NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships
Oct 15 American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowships
Oct 16 NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Oct. 15 The Harvard Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business History
Nov 1 Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellowship
Nov 1 Wenner-Gren Foundation Post-PhD Research Grants (anthropology)
Nov. 4 School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar Fellowships
Nov 8 Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of British Columbia (open to "most fields of research")
Nov 15 AAUW Postdoctoral Fellowship for International Women
Nov 15 American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowships
Dec 1 International IGB Fellowship Programme for Research in Freshwater Science, Germany
Dec 10 Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship
TBD University of Wisconsin-Madison Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in humanities and humanistic social sciences
TBD Postdoctoral Diversity and Innovation Scholars program, University of New Hampshire
TBD Global Religion Postdoctoral Fellowships
TBD Tobacco-Related Disease Research Postdoctoral Program
TBD Wenner-Gren Foundation Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships
TBD American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowships
Various deadlines - Postdoctoral Positions at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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
Various deadlines - Special Programs for Postdoctoral Fellows - via National Science Foundation
Various deadlines - Post-doctoral Opportunities List - from the National Institute of Health
DISSERTATION GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS
Jun 30 The National Tax Association's Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (finance and taxation)
Jul 1 Margery Morgan Lowens Dissertation Research Fellowship (music)
Jul 15 Linguistics Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement - grant application must be submitted with your advisor and through Office of Research
Jul 22 Biological Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement - grant application must be submitted with your advisor and through Office of Research
Jul 31 Dissertation Award in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Aug 1 Grants for Health Services Dissertation Program (R36)
Aug 1 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation Program (R36)
Aug 2 Doctoral Dissertation Fellows Award, Society for Social Work and Research
Aug 15 Sociology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement - grant application must be submitted with your advisor and through Office of Research
Aug 15 Cultural Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement - grant application must be submitted with your advisor and through Office of Research
Aug 19 Alden G. Clayton Dissertation Proposal Competition, Marketing Science Institute
Sep 9 Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement - grant application must be submitted with your advisor and through Office of Research
Oct 1 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Dissertation Fellowship
Oct 3 National Academy of Education Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
Oct 7 World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship, Smith Richardson Foundation
Oct 15 Sociology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement - grant application must be submitted with your advisor and through Office of Research
Oct 16 Drug Abuse Dissertation Research
Oct TBD Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies
Nov 1 Robert Walser and Susan McClary Fellowship - two-year dissertation research support in music for underrepresented
Nov 1 Grants for Health Services Dissertation Program (R36)
Nov 1 Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grants
Nov 1 AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research
Nov 4 School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar Dissertation Fellowships
Nov 15 American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowships
Nov 30 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Dissertation Fellowship
Nov TBD Doctoral Dissertation Grant Program (Fahs-Beck Scholars)
Nov TBD Charlotte Newcomb Dissertation Fellowship
Dec. 1 AAUW Graduate Fellowship for International Women
Dec 1 Center for Engaged Scholarship Dissertation Fellowship
Dec 10 Ford Dissertation Diversity Fellowship
Dec 16 Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowships (musicology)
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
On-going Geography and Spatial Sciences Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (GSS-DDRI), National Science Foundation (NSF)
TBD Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) Herb York Dissertation Fellowship
TBD Global Religion Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
GRADUATE, PREDOCTORAL or DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
Jul 15 The Robert J. Stevenson Scholarship for teachers pursuing an advanced degree https://ate1.org/robert-j-stevenson-memorial-scholarship
Jul 31 Novus Biological Scholarships (life sciences) https://www.novusbio.com/scholarship-program.html
Jul TBD African Humanities Program Fellowship
Aug 1 Patsy Takemoto Mink Education Foundation for Low-Income Women and Children Education Award
Aug 8 California Sea Grant's Graduate Research Fellowship
Aug 14 American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowships
Aug 31 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts
Aug TBD Florence P. Kendall Doctoral Scholarship (physical therapy)
Sep 16 University of California Natural Reserve System Mathias Graduate Student Research Fellowship
Sep TBD Women Techmakers Scholars Program / Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Program
Oct 1 Craft Research and Artist Fellowship (creativity and design)
Oct 1 Craft Research Fund Project Grant (creativity and design)
Oct. 1 German Historical Institute (GHI) Doctoral Fellowships
Oct. 1 Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Doctoral Social Science Fellowship
Oct 10 National Humanities Center Fellowships
Oct TBD NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Grant (Pre or Early Doctoral)
Oct TBD IBM Doctoral Fellowship Program
Nov 1 Google North America and Europe PhD Fellowships
Nov 12 National GEM Consortium Graduate Fellowships in Science, Engineering, and STEM fields
Nov 15 National Gallery of Art Predoctoral Fellowships
Nov TBD Amelia Earhart Fellowship
Dec 17 Ford Predoctoral Fellowship
On-going Gerda Henkel Foundation Ph.D. Scholarships in the Historical Humanities
TBD NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships (NSTRF)
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 Dr. Adawia Alousi STEM Scholarship Fund for Muslim Women (undergrad and grad)
Jul 1 American Institute of Indian Studies Research Fellowships
Jul 1 Spencer Foundation Small Research Grants on Education
Jul 10 National Geographic Exploration Grants
Jul 10 National Geographic's Documenting Human Migrations Grant
Jul 15 Leakey Foundation Research Grants Related to Human Origins (no citizenship restrictions)
Jul 15 Kluge Fellowships (humanities and social science research)
Jul TBD Lung Cancer Research Grants
Jul TBD Dr. Philip Kayal Fund for Arab American Social Science Research
Aug 1 NRC Research Associateship Programs (RAP)
Aug 9 Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety Research Grants
Aug TBD Merck KGaA Research Grant Competition
Aug TBD The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Research Grant
Aug TBD Frank W. Putnam Trauma Research Scholars Program (for traumatic stress research)
Sep 1 Romance Writers of America (RWA) Academic Research Grant
Sep 6 Mirzayan Science Tech Policy Fellowship
Sep 15 National Association of School Psychologists Graduate Student Research Grant
Sep 15 German Chancellor Research Fellowship
Sep 16 Fulbright Canada-American Scholars Awards
Sep TBD Wiedemann Research Fellowships for Enlightenment Studies
Sep TBD Kentucky Historical Research Fellowships
Oct 1 Craft Fund Graduate Research Grant (creativity and design)
Oct 1 Tinker Field Research Grants (pre-dissertation or thesis research in Latin America)
Oct 1 Harry S. Truman Library Institute Research Grants Program
Oct 15 Small Grants for Doctoral Research In Second or Foreign Language Assessment
Oct TBD Getty Library Research Grants
Oct TBD American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grants
Nov 1 Deutsches Akademisches Austaauschdienst (DAAD) Research Grants (for research in Germany)
Nov 1 NRC Research Associateship Programs (RAP)
Nov 1 Virgil Thompson Research Fellowship -research support in music
Nov 1 The Hampsong Education Fellowship in American Song
Nov 1 Paul Charosh Independent Scholar Fellowship - independent research in music
Nov 1 Hemingway Research Grants
Dec 6 Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies
On-going Dirksen Congressional Research Grant
On-going The Spalding Trust Grants for the Comparative Study of Religions
On-going Statistics Fellowship with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
On-going OCS ORISE Fellowship with the Food and Drug Administration
On-going Digital/New Media Fellowships with Dept of Health and Human Services
On-going Dept of Energy Opportunity in Fuel Cell Research
On-going National Institute of Health Individual Graduate Partnerships Program
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
OTHER (AWARDS, TRAVEL, BOOK PRIZE, or TRAINING)
Jul 8 SACNAS Travel Fellowships
Jul TBD Jubilation Foundation Grant
Aug TBD National Association of Student Anthropologists Carrie Hunter-Tate Award
Aug TBD Association for Women Geoscientists Award and Scholarships
Sep 25 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer 2020 Stipends
Oct 1 Samuel H. Kress Foundation History of Art Grant Program
Oct 1 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Art History Digital Resources Grants Programs
Oct 1 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Conservation Grants Programs
Nov 1 Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
Nov TBD Presidential Management Fellows Program US Office of Personnel Management
Dec 1 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowships
Rolling Deadline - Veteran Research Supplement with the Center for Integrated Access Networks
TBD AAAS Community Engagement Fellows Program
TBD Leshner Leadership Institute for Public Engagement with Science
TBD Civil Service Foreign Affairs (FA) Fellowship Program
TBD Veterans Innovation Partnership (VIP)
TBD Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American Music
TBD Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps Fellows