DEADLINE: March 1, 2008

The Folger Shakespeare Library offers short-term research fellowships to encourage access to its exceptional collections and to encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars of the early modern period.

DEADLINE: March 1, 2008

The Newberry Library offers short-term fellowships (varying from one week to two months) to support research at the Library (located in Chicago) for those who live beyond commuting distance.

DEADLINE: March 1, 2008

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts grants are made on a project basis to curatorial programs at museums, artists' organizations and other culture institutions to originate innovative and scholarly presentations of contemporary visual arts.

DEADLINE: March 3, 2008

The NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes grants support national faculty development programs in the humanities for school teachers and for college and university teachers. Seminars and institutes may be as short as two weeks or as long as six weeks.

DEADLINE: March 1, 2008

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City has generously renewed funding of postdoctoral Fellowships at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for the academic years 2006–2009. The grant provides for up to four Fellowships each year, to be used for research at the Institute in the medieval field of the holder’s choice. Mellon Fellows will also participate in the interdisciplinary Research Seminar.

DEADLINE: March 1, 2008

The Edward F. Albee Foundation maintains the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center (better known as "The Barn") in Montauk, on Long Island in New York. Month-long residencies for painters, sculptors, playwrights, poets, writers, and composers are offered from June 1st through September 30.

DEADLINE: March 1, 2008

The Library Company of Philadelphia and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania will jointly award approximately thirty one-month fellowships for research in residence in either or both collections during the academic year 2008-2009.

DEADLINE: Varies

The National Endowment of the Arts fosters and preserves excellence in the arts and provides access to the arts for all Americans. New guidelines for Grants for Arts Projects (GAP), the Arts Endowment's major support categories for organizations are now available.

DEADLINE: March 21, 2008 (Visiting Senior Fellowship)

The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts announces its program for Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellowships. Fellowships are for full-time research, and scholars are expected to reside in Washington and to participate in the activities of the Center throughout the fellowship period. Lectures, colloquia, and informal discussions complement the fellowship program. Visiting senior fellows are provided with studies. They have access to the notable resources represented by the collections, the library, and the photographic archives of the National Gallery of Art, as well as to the Library of Congress and other specialized research libraries and collections in the Washington area.

DEADLINES: March 31, 2008, June 30 and October 31

Grants-in-aid:
Short-term grants-in-aid support visits to the Hagley Museum and Library for scholarly research in the imprint, manuscript, pictorial, and artifact collections. They are designed to assist researchers with travel and living expenses while using the research collections. Scholars receive a stipend, make use of the research holdings, and participate in the programs of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society. These grants are to support serious scholarly work.

DEADLINE: April 1, 2008

Advanced Seminars:
Advanced seminars at the School of American Research (SAR) promote in-depth communication among scholars who are at a critical stage of research on a shared topic and whose interaction has the potential to move the discipline of anthropology forward with new insights into human evolution, behavior, culture, or society, including critical contemporary issues. SAR generally funds two or three traditional advanced seminars per year.

DEADLINE: April 2, 2008

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invite applications to the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. This program is designed to encourage innovations in the digital humanities. By awarding relatively low-dollar grants during the planning stages, the goal is to identify projects that are particularly innovative and have the potential to make a positive impact on the humanities.

DEADLINE: April 8, 2008

As part of the Endowment-wide Digital Humanities Initiative, these grants support national or regional (multi-state) research and training programs on approaches in humanities computing. Through these programs, the NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology applications relevant to the humanities. The projects may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences, although the duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic.

DEADLINE: April 25, 2008 (September through December)

The MacDowell Colony is the nation’s leading artist colony located in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Nurturing the arts, The Colony offers residencies to artists of the highest talent for up to eight weeks, providing time and space in an inspiring environment where they can produce enduring works of the imagination.

DEADLINE: April 15, 2008

The Hambidge Residency Program provides setting, solitude and time for creative individuals working in a wide variety of creative disciplines. Fellowships are offered for two to eight week residencies, year round, except for the month of January.