The Office of Research Services (ORS) promotes, facilitates, and supports research, scholarship, teaching, and creative activities that are conducted by DePaul University faculty, students, and staff that are consistent with the university's mission. ORS has compiled the following funding opportunities in Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences:
Arts and Humanities
- American Political Science Association | Centennial Center Visiting Scholar Program
Deadline: None
- Baylor University | John and JD Dowdy Memorial Congressional Research Endowed Fund
Deadline: None
- Henry Luce Foundation* | Higher Education Grants
Deadline: None (but LOI must be submitted first)
- Oak Foundation* | Issues Affecting Women’s Studies Grant
Deadline: None but LOI must be submitted first
- School for Advanced Research | Resident Scholars
Deadline: November 5, 2018
- National Endowment for the Humanities | Dialogues on the Experience of War
Deadline: November 8, 2018
- Newberry Library | Long Term Fellowships
Deadline: November 15, 2018
- National Science Foundation | Documenting Endangered Languages
Deadline: November 19, 2018
- Organization of American Historians | President’s Travel Fund
Deadline: December 1, 2018
- American Society for Legal History | J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History
Deadline: December 1, 2018
- Organization of American Historians | President’s Travel Fund
Deadline: December 3, 2018
- National Endowment for the Humanities | Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants
Deadline: December 5, 2018
- National Endowment for the Humanities | Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants
Deadline: December 5, 2018
- Newberry Library | Short-Term Fellowships
Deadline: December 15, 2018
- Newberry Library | Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Award
Deadline: December 15, 2018
- French-American Cultural Exchange Foundation* | Translation Grants
Deadline: December 15, 2018
- Codhill Press | Poetry Award
Deadline: December 20, 2018
- American Council of Learned Societies | Robert H. No Family Foundation New Professionals in Buddhist Studies
Deadline: January 9, 2019
- Samuel H. Kress Foundation* | History of Art: Grants Program
Deadline: January 15, 2019 (LOI Due)
- Clements Library at the University of Michigan | Earhart Fellowships in American History
Deadline: January 15, 2019
- University of Arizona | Harold Jones and Frances Murray Research Fellowship
Deadline: January 15, 2019
- Association for Asian Studies | AAS Council of Conferences Outreach Grants
Deadline: February 1, 2019
- Association for Asian Studies | AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) Japan Studies Grants
Deadline: February 1, 2019
- Schlesinger Library at Harvard University | Oral History Grants
Deadline: February 4, 2019
- Schlesinger Library at Harvard University | Research Support Grants
Deadline: February 4, 2019
- National Endowment for the Humanities | Summer Seminars and Institutes
Deadline: February 14, 2019
- American-Scandinavian Foundation* | Public Project Grants
Deadline: February 15, 2019
- American Historical Association | Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research in European, African, or Asian History
Deadline: February 15, 2019
- Society for the History of Technology | NASA Fellowship in the History of Space Technology
Deadline: April 1, 2019
- American-Scandinavian Foundation* | ASF Translation Awards
Deadline: June 15, 2019
Social Sciences
- The Pelino Charitable Foundation* | Grants
Deadline: January 1, 2019 (letter of intent due)
- Wellcome Trust* | Collaborative Awards in Humanities and Social Science
Deadline: January 9, 2019 (preliminary application due)
- National Science Foundation | Cyberlearning for Work at the Human-Technology Frontier
Deadline: January 14, 2019
- Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange* | American Region: Conference/Seminar/Workshop Grants
Deadline: January 15, 2019
- National Endowment for the Humanities | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
Deadline: January, 15, 2019
- National Science Foundation | Political Science
Deadline: January 15, 2019 (target date)
- National Science Foundation | Sociology
Deadline: January 15, 2019 (target date)
- American Council of Learned Societies | ACLS Digital Extension Grants
Deadline: January 16, 2019
- National Science Foundation | Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS)
Deadline: January 18, 2019 (target date)
- National Science Foundation | Economics
Deadline: January 18, 2019 (target date)
- University of Notre Dame | Grants to Support Faculty Fellows' Research
Deadline: January 28, 2019
- Center for Retirement Research at Boston College | Steven H. Sandell Grant Program in Retirement Research
Deadline: January 31, 2019
- National Science Foundation | Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)
Deadline: January 31, 2019
- University of Louisville | Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order
Deadline: January 31, 2019
- Washington Center for Equitable Growth | Grant Program
Deadline: January 31, 2019 (Required letter of Inquiry due; Invited full proposals due April 30, 2019)
- Kessler Foundation* | Signature Employment Grants
Deadline: February, 22, 2019 (grant concept due; full proposal invited)
- American Psychological Foundation* | Wayne F. Placek Grants
Deadline: March 1, 2019
- Women's International Study Center | Individual Fellowship-in-Residence
Deadline: Open, but semi-annual review period begins March 1, 2019
- University of Chicago | Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowships - Summer 2019
Deadline: March 4, 2019
- National Science Foundation | Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research (FW-HTF)
Deadline: March 6, 2019
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund* | Career Guidance for Trainees
Deadline: March 7, 2019
- American Council of Learned Societies | Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Competition for Recent PhDs
Deadline: March 13, 2019
- Tinker Foundation* | Institutional Grants
Deadline: March 15, 2019
- Japanese Association of University Women | International Fellowships
Deadline: March 31, 2019
Opportunity Alert
Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)
Key Dates:
- October 3, 2018, 4pm: Synopsis to be considered as a DePaul applicant
- October 5, 2018: Internal notification to DePaul applicants
- November 7, 2018: Selected applications due to NSF
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Opportunities marked with an (*) require completion of a clearance form with DePaul's Development Office. Additional funding search tools are available on the ORS website.