Funding Opportunities

for Social Science Faculty & Graduate Students

Please see below for a curated list of upcoming funding opportunities. If you are working on a particular project and would like additional assistance in finding funding opportunities, please email: socialscience@umbc.edu.

Program: Fellowships and Internships

Agency: American Philosophical Society

Next Deadline: February 1, 2019

The American Philosophical Society invites applications for predoctoral, postdoctoral, and short-term research fellowships from scholars at all stages of their careers, especially Native American scholars in training, tribal college and university faculty members, and other scholars working closely with Native communities on projects in Native American and Indigenous Studies and related fields and disciplines. These funding opportunities are supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI). Fellows will be associated with the APS’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR), which promotes greater collaboration among scholars, archives, and Indigenous communities.

Seefor details: https://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellowscomp/

Email: libfellows@amphilsoc.org


Program: Fellowship for Recent PhDs (Postdoc)

Agency: Mellon

Next Deadline: February 8, 2019

The Department of Anthropology and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College invite applications for a full-time non-continuing faculty position as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences Appointment to this position will be for a term of two years, beginning Fall 2019 and will carry the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor. The fellow will be housed in the Department of Anthropology. The position is suported by an endowment grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The incumbent will teach courses in the general area of anthropology (cultural and/or linguistic), environment, and East Asia. The fellow will be expected to teach a 1-1 course load per year, including courses at the introductory, intermediate and advanced level, and to participate in programming through Oberlin College’s implementation grant through the Henry Luce Foundation’s Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (http://languages.oberlin.edu/blogs/liase/).

Seefor details: http://careercenter.americananthro.org/jobs/11860367/mellon-postdoctoral-fellow-in-anthropology-and-environmental-east-asian-studies

Email: erhoffman@oberlin.edu

Contact: Erika Hoffman-Dilloway, Chair of Anthropology, Oberlin College


Program: Research Fellowship

Agency: Center for Social Science Scholarship/CAHASS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship

Next Deadline: February 15, 2019

The purpose of this fellowship is to support significant social science research in CAHSS, resulting in a submittable product by December 2019. Applications are welcome from any tenured or tenure-track faculty doing social science research in any CAHSS department. Fellows will receive a $6,000 stipend during the summer of 2019. By December 2019, each Fellow is expected to complete an external grant or fellowship proposal OR an article, policy paper, book, or book chapter. Fellows who are preparing an external grant or fellowship proposal agree to work with MIPAR for pre-award and post-grant management assistance.

Seefor details: https://socialscience.umbc.edu/summer-faculty-research-fellowship/

Email: mallinson@umbc.edu

Contact: Christine Mallinson, Director, Center for Social Science Scholarship


Program: Research Grant

Agency: Vice President of Research, UMBC

Next Deadline: February 15, 2019

The Strategic Awards for Research Transitions (START) provides funding for UMBC faculty to advance their scholarly and research endeavors, to compete more effectively for external support, and to pursue new areas of inquiry. Maximum START award is $25,000. Approximately 10 proposals will be awarded. Proposals selected for an award will be funded for the full amount proposed. Faculty may include a variety of costs in their proposed budget including costs associated with buying-out teaching time and travel expenses. See the following START Proposal Instructions & Guidelines for more information on allowable costs. Proposals with costs for buying-out teaching time must be approved by the applicant’s department chair/center director.

Seefor details: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdvj_e8v3K5wIk8AuEKQ_kVuUan2IB5w0qSBJU5GA0kxOvX7w/viewform

Email: donengel@umbc.edu

Contact: Don Engel, Assistant Vice President for Research


Program: Research Grant

Agency: Vice President of Research, UMBC

Next Deadline: February 22, 2019

The Summer Research Faculty Fellowship (SURFF) program supports non-tenured, tenure-track UMBC faculty pursuing research and scholarly projects during the summer, including projects in all departments. Fellowships may not be used to complete research leading to the Ph.D. or another terminal degree and are intended primarily as salary support.

Seefor details: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepKI-Tviyhh_98XV9ujlEyn6GlDDZiQCzlgm3Edyo78gjFAw/viewform

Email: donengel@umbc.edu

Contact: Don Engel, Assistant Vice President for Research


Program: Research Fellowship

Agency: Institute for Humane Studies

Next Deadline: March 1, 2019

The Institute for Humane Studies is offering to fund four semester-long sabbaticals for the study, research, and teaching of classical liberal ideas.

Areas of interest include free/open markets, individual rights, private property, peace, prosperity, self-determination/autonomy, decentralization, limited government, privacy, free speech, the cultural drivers and consequences of classical liberal ideas, and related themes.

IHS traditionally works with academics in the fields of economics, political science, philosophy, history, and law. Scholars in other disciplines are welcome to apply. The awards (of $42,000 each) will be offered in the 2018-2020 academic years and sabbaticals must be taken during the prescribed time periods.

Awards are not limited to tenured faculty. Faculty at any stage of their career may apply.

Seefor details: https://theihs.org/ihs-sabbaticals-research-fellowships/?utm_source=chronicle-for-higher-education&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=sabbatical-fellowship

Email: questions@ihs.org  

Contact: Leigh McAfee, Director of Donor Relations


Program: Research Grant

Agency: National Science Foundation

Next Deadline: March 6, 2019

The Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF), one of the Big Ideas, is one mechanism by which NSF is responding to the challenges and opportunities for the future of jobs and work. The overarching vision is to support convergent research to understand and develop the human-technology partnership, design new technologies to augment human performance, illuminate the emerging socio-technological landscape, understand the risks and benefits of new technologies, understand and influence the impact of artificial intelligence on workers and work, and foster lifelong and pervasive learning.

Seefor details: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19541/nsf19541.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click

Email: saugust@nsf.gov

Contact: Stephanie E. August, Program Director


Program: Fellowship for Recent PhDs

Agency: Mellon/ACLS

Next Deadline: March 13, 2019

ACLS invites applications for the ninth competition of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program. This year, the program will place up to 21 recent PhDs from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year term staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Fellows will participate in the substantive work of these organizations and receive professional mentoring. Fellows receive a stipend of $68,000 per year and have access to individual health insurance, a relocation allowance, and up to $3,000 to be used toward professional development activities over the course of the fellowship term.

Seefor details: https://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellowscomp/

Email: publicfellows@acls.org

Contact: Matthew Goldfeder, Director of Fellowship Programs


Program: Research Grant

Agency: CAHSS Dean’s Research Fund

Next Deadline: April 8, 2019

The CAHSS Dean’s Research Fund (CDRF) provides a biannual competitive funding opportunity for up to $5,000 to support the research endeavors of CAHSS tenured and tenure-track faculty and lecturers. Funds will support developing or established scholarly and creative projects. Faculty on visiting or short-term appointments are not eligible to apply. Awarded funds will be available through the end of the following fiscal year. Items that are eligible for CDRF funding include: travel, equipment, supplies, books, research participant costs, UMBC undergraduate or graduate student support, and other items necessary for research endeavors. No faculty salary support or course releases may be funded through this initiative.

Seefor details: https://cahss.umbc.edu/cahss-deans-research-fund/

Email: dhart@umbc.edu

Contact: Donna Hart, Business Services Manager

 

Program: Fellowship

Agency: The Data Incubator  

Next Deadline: April 1, 2019

The Data Incubator is a Cornell-funded data science training organization. We run a free advanced 8-week fellowship (think data science bootcamp) for PhDs looking to enter industry. A variety of innovative companies partner with The Data Incubator for their hiring and training needs, including LinkedIn, Genentech, Capital One, Pfizer, and many others. The program is free for admitted Fellows.

Fellows have the option to participate in the program either in person in New York, San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Washington DC, or online.

Seefor details: https://www.thedataincubator.com/fellowship.html

Contact Form: https://www.thedataincubator.com/contact-us.html

***Humanities Scholars please contact Rachel Brubaker (rbruba1@umbc.edu) for additional funding opportunities.***

Posted: January 18, 2019, 11:48 AM