External Humanities and Creative Arts Fellowships - Spring 2024

Dec. 4, 2023 · Sarah Workman

Below, you'll find a list of external fellowships and residences for humanities scholars and creative artists with deadlines in Spring 2024.

For further possibilities, scholars should also search Pivot, the most comprehensive online database of funding sources available. Access is free with SU email account. See the Office of Resource Presentations and Trainings Page under “Developing a targeted funding search with Pivot" (2/14/2021).

Finally, I would recommend browsing a comprehensive lists of individual and institutional funding opportunities in the humanities and creative works posted by the Hall Center for the Humanities (Kansas University).

Contact Sarah Workman for additional support.

Creative Capital Foundation [NON-RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: April 4, 2024 (Letter of Interest)

Creative Capital welcomes innovative and original new project proposals in visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms. The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants up to $50,000 which can be drawn down over a multi-year period, bespoke professional development services, and community-building opportunities .Grants are awarded via a democratic, national, open call, external review process. The first round of the application process consists of 6 questions. Creative Capital's goal is to fund approximately 50 individual artists creating conceptually, aesthetically, and formally challenging, risk-taking, and never-before-seen projects.

NEH Fellowships [NON-RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: April 10, 2024

NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH invites research applications from scholars in all disciplines, and it encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars. $5,000/month for 6-12 months.

NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication [NON-RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: April 17, 2024

Supports individual scholars pursuing interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. To be considered under this opportunity, an applicant’s plans for digital publication must be integral to the project’s research goals. That is, the project must be conceived as digital because the research topics being addressed and methods applied demand presentation beyond traditional print publication. Competitive submissions embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. All projects must be interpretive. That is, projects must advance a scholarly argument through digital means and tools. Stand-alone databases, documentary films, podcasts, and other projects that lack an explicit interpretive argument are not eligible. $5,000/month for 6-12 months.

Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant [NON-RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: April 25, 2024

The chief objective of the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant is to foster original, ambitious projects that bring writing to the highest possible standard. Up to eight grants will be awarded annually to writers in the process of completing book-length works of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction for a general readership. Projects must be under contract with a US publisher to be eligible. The grant is intended to support multiyear projects requiring large amounts of deep and focused research, thinking, and writing at a crucial point mid-process, after significant work has been done, but when an extra infusion of support can make a difference in the ultimate shape and quality of the work. Contracts with self-publishing companies are not eligible. Applicants must be US citizens or residents. The foundation particularly encourages applications from writers of color.

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society [RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: June 15, 2024 (anticipated)

The Carson Center functions primarily as a research think tank that contributes to public discussions about environmental issues and policies. It offers residential fellowships to both senior and postdoctoral scholars working on international, historical, and comparative environmental studies whose projects fall under one of the Center’s research themes. The length of fellowships is flexible. Fellowships are usually granted for six, nine or twelve months, but can also be granted for three months or broken up into individual three-month periods. Residencies are staggered for greater flexibility.

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NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship [NON-RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: December 13, 2023

The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is a $8,000 unrestricted cash grant available to artists living in New York State and/or one of the Indian Nations located therein.

This grant is awarded in fifteen different disciplines over a three-year period (five categories a year) and the application is free to complete. The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is not a project grant, but is intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, at all levels of their artistic development. For 2023, The following categories will be reviewed:

Fiction
Folk/Traditional Arts
Interdisciplinary Work
Painting
Video/Film

Yaddo Artist Residency [RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: January 10, 2024

Yaddo offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following disciplines: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. You may apply individually or as members of collaborative teams of up to three artists. Residencies last from two weeks to two months and include room, board and a studio. The January 10 deadline is for residencies starting May of the same year, through March of the following year.

Harvard University, Hutchins Center W.E.B. Dubois Fellowship [RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: January 22, 2024

The Fellowship Program is at the heart of the activities of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute. Started in 1975 as the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the Institute has annually appointed scholars who conduct individual research for a period of one to two semesters in a wide variety of fields related to African and African American Studies. With a record of supporting more than 300 Fellows since its founding, the Institute has arguably done more in its short existence to ensure the scholarly development of African and African American Studies than any other pre-doctoral or post-doctoral program in the United States.

Open Society Foundations – Soros Equality Fellowships [NON-RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: January 31, 2024

The Soros Equality Fellowship seeks to support individual leaders influencing and transforming the racial justice field. We understand the unique role an individual can play in rejecting old paradigms and presenting a new vision for the United States we hope to become. We invite applicants to be bold, innovative, and audacious in their submissions. The aim of the Fellowship is to be flexible and open—a space to incubate new ideas, promote risk-taking, and develop different ways of thinking that challenge and expand our existing assumptions. A successful project should identify a challenge and propose a critical intervention that will meaningfully address the systems that reinforce inequities and discrimination in the United States. Through this Fellowship, Open Society aims to provide a network of leaders, representing the diversity of experiences, with the resources to address racial inequality and the space they need to imagine a more equitable future.

Open Society Foundation: Soros Justice Fellowships [NON-RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: January 31, 2024

This program funds projects aimed at advancing reform, spurring debate, or catalyzing change on issues facing the US criminal justice system. Fellowships support creative writers as well as lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, researchers, print and broadcast journalists, bloggers, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinct voices. Stipends range from $94,500- $127,500 and fall into two categories: Advocacy Fellowships (18 months) and Media Fellowships (one year).

New America Fellowship [NON-RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: February 1, 2024

Invests in thinkers—journalists, scholars, filmmakers, and public policy analysts—who generate big, bold ideas that have an impact and spark new conversations about the most pressing issues of our day. New America fellows are selected on a highly competitive basis and serve—most on an adjunct basis, some full-time—for a one-year term. During that period, we aim to give them an intellectual home where they have the time, space, and resources to pursue their projects; a community where they can learn from one another; and opportunities to engage with others at New America and help shape the longer-term agenda and focus of our organization. The Fellows Program aims to support National Fellows in three primary areas: provide funding to support talented individuals to pursue ambitious endeavors; build a community grounded in cohort gatherings that take place throughout the year; and provide access to platforms and partners that can support their work.

New England Regional Fellowship Consortium [RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: February 1, 2024

NERF is a collection of 30 major cultural agencies. Projects may be in the fields of history, literature, art history, African American studies, American studies, women's and gender studies, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, religious studies, environmental studies, oceanography and the histories of law, medicine and technology. Each NERF itinerary must be a minimum of eight weeks; include at least three different member institutions, and include at least two weeks at each of these institutions. Each grant will provide a stipend of $5,000 for a minimum of eight weeks of research at participating institutions.

MacDowell Fellowship [RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: February 10, 2024

MacDowell accepts applications from artists working in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts for a 2 - 6 wk. residency. The sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence, which MacDowell defines in a pluralistic and inclusive way. The February 10th deadline is for residencies Sep 1, 2024 – Mar 1, 2025.

Roman J. Witt Residency Program at the University of Michigan
Deadline: February 15, 2024

The Roman J. Witt Residency Program supports the production of new work at the University of Michigan. The program awards one residency per academic year for a visiting artist/designer to develop a new work in collaboration with the Stamps School and University of Michigan community. A central tenet of the residency is to make visible the creative process through the creation of a defined work from concept to completion. The residency is expected to culminate in the realization of the proposed work, as well as its presentation. Witt Residents receive an honorarium of $20,000 for up to twelve weeks in residence served over an academic year. In addition to the honorarium, residents will be provided with housing, studio space, and up to $5,000 funding support for project materials. The Witt Residency is open to both established and emerging artists/designers.

American Philosophical Society – Philips Fund for Native American Research [NON-RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: March 1, 2024

Grants of up to $3,000 will be awarded in support of research in the areas of Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of Native Americans studies in the United States or Canada. Grants are intended to support travel, the cost of tape or film, and consultants' fees. Grants are not made for projects in archaeology, ethnography, or psycholinguistics; for the purchase of permanent equipment; or for the preparation of pedagogical materials. The organization prefers to support the work of younger scholars who have received their doctorate. Applications are also accepted from graduate students for research on master's theses or doctoral dissertations.

New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowships:

Deadline: March 4, 2024

Particularly tailored to those based outside the New York metropolitan area, this fellowship is intended to support projects that would significantly benefit from research drawing on collections accessible at The New York Public Library and conducted onsite at one of our three research centers: The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.

Bogliasco Foundation Arts and Humanities, Genoa, Italy [RESIDENTIAL]

Deadline: March 14, 2024

Semester-long residencies are available to both students and more senior individuals working in the arts and humanities. Applicants are expected to demonstrate significant achievement in their disciplines, commensurate with their age and experience. Projects should lead to the completion of an artistic, literary, or scholarly work, followed by publication, performance, exhibition, or other public presentation. In the arts, the Study Center welcomes persons doing both creative and scholarly work (such as art history, musicology, film *criticism, and so on). The Center does not have rehearsal studio space for persons wishing to work extensively in performance. $30 registration fee.