Other Funding

Current Funding Opportunities Outside ASEH

Georgetown Fellowship in Env. History

Georgetown University announces a graduate fellowship for Ph.D. students in environmental history.  Each year the History Department and Graduate School will provide a renewable, five-year fellowship (covering tuition, living stipend, and health insurance) to an entering Ph.D. student in any area of environmental history.  Interested students should contact John McNeill at: mcneillj@georgetown.edu.   Details concerning Georegtown’s History Ph.D. program may be found at: http://www3.georgetown.edu/departments/history

National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation offers grants through its Science and Society Program:

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5324&org=SES

National Endowment for the Humanities

The National Endowment for the Humanities offers Summer Stipend Awards:

http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends/html

American Council of Learned Societies

The American Council of Learned Societies offers fellowships: http://www.acls.org/fellows.htm

Fulbright Scholar Awards

The Fulbright Scholar Program offers U.S. faculty, administrators and professionals grants to lecture or do research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields, or to participate in seminars. For information on Fulbright Scholar Awards, consult our website at www.cies.org for descriptions of awards and new eligibility requirements.  If you are interested in more information, please write to scholars@cies.iie.org.

The Environmental Fellows Program at Harvard University

The Harvard University Center for the Environment will name six new Environmental Fellows in April 2009. Their two-year post-doctoral program will start in September 2009. The fellows will join a group of remarkable scholars who will be beginning the second year of their fellowships. Together, the Environmental Fellows at Harvard will form a community of researchers with diverse backgrounds united by intellectual curiosity, top-quality scholarship, and a drive to understand some of the most important environmental challenges facing society.
The Harvard University Center for the Environment awarded six fellowships in 2008, and expects to award six fellowships in 2009 and six per year thereafter. The Center will organize a co-curricular program to ensure that the fellows get to know each other and each other's work. All fellows will attend biweekly dinners with their colleagues, faculty members, and guests.

Purpose: The Harvard University Center for the Environment created the Environmental Fellows program to enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand Harvard's extraordinary resources to tackle complex environmental problems. The Environmental Fellows will work for two years with Harvard faculty members in any school or department to create new knowledge while also strengthening connections across the University's academic disciplines.

The award: The fellowship will provide an annual stipend of $54,000 plus health insurance, a $5,000 allowance for travel and professional expenses, and other employee benefits.

Selection criteria:

    * Applicant's prior academic and professional success and his or her potential contribution to scholarship or practice
    * Project significance: the potential impact of the research project on scholarship at Harvard and on environmental problems
    * Host's commitment: the host faculty member's enthusiasm for the proposed project and fellow, the host's ability to mentor the fellow, and his or her ability to provide office space and a productive work environment.
     * Diversity: The selection committee will select a group of fellows in 2008 who will complement those selected last year, creating a group of approximately a dozen men and women with diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds and a diverse set of academic interests and skills. The ideal group would include fellows working with host faculty members at every one of Harvard's professional schools and many of the departments overseen by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Recipients-and hosts-may include people with degrees in the sciences, economics, law, government, public policy, public health, medicine, design, and the full array of humanities. Their research topics will be equally varied.

More information is available online at : www.environment.harvard.edu

Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy

For information on the Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy, see:

http://www.amacad.org/hellman.aspx

Winterthur Fellowships Available

Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, a public museum, library, and garden supporting the advanced study of American art, culture, and history, announces its Research Fellowship Program for 2009-2010. Winterthur offers an extensive program of short and long-term fellowships open to academic, independent, and museum scholars, including advanced graduate students, to support research in material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden & landscape studies, Shaker studies, travel and tourism, the Atlantic World, childhood, literary culture, and many other areas of social and cultural history. Fellowships include 4-9 month NEH Fellowships, 1-2 semester McNeil Dissertation Fellowships, and 1-2 month short-term fellowships.

Fellows have full access to the library collections, including more than 87,000 volumes and one-half million manuscripts and images, searchable online at winterthur.org/research/library_resources.asp.  Resources for the 17th to the early 20th centuries include period trade catalogs, auction and exhibition catalogs, an extensive reference photograph collection of decorative arts, printed books, and ephemera. Fellows may conduct object-based research in the museum’s collections, which include 85,000 artifacts and works of art made or used in America to 1860, with a strong emphasis on domestic life.  Winterthur also supports a program of scholarly publications including Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture.

 Fellows may reside in a furnished stone farmhouse on the Winterthur grounds, and participate in the lively scholarly community at Winterthur, the nearby Hagley Museum and Library, the University of Delaware, and other area museums. Fellowship applications are due January 15, 2009. For more details and to apply visit winterthur.org/research/fellowship.asp or e-mail interim program director Anne Verplanck at averplanck@winterthur.org.