Funding Opportunities

The American Council of Learned Societies

Digital Justice Grants: The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program is designed to promote and provide resources for projects at various stages of development that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues. 

ACLS Fellowship Program: The longest running program in the Council’s portfolio, the ACLS Fellowship program supports outstanding scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.

American Association of University Women

Individual Fellowships and Grants: Opportunities in include American Dissertation Fellowships, American Short-Term Research Publication Grants, American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships, and Career Development Grants.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Various Grant Programs: Mellon is deeply immersed in the areas in which they invest, supporting ideas and organizations that contribute to a more connected, creative, and just society through these core grantmaking areas and signature Presidential Initiatives. Grantmaking areas include Arts & Culture, Higher Learning, Humanities in Place, and Higher Learning.

Fulbright Scholar Program

Various Awards: Programs include Fulbright Scholar Awards, Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Awards, and Fulbright Postdoctoral Awards.

Huntington Library

Multiple Fellowships: The Huntington is a collections-based research institute, which promotes humanities scholarship on the basis of its library holdings and art collections. 

Institute for Advanced Study

Membership Program: Members are selected by the Faculty of each School, and come to the Institute for periods as short as one term or as long as several years. Schools include Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science.

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

Grants for Arts Projects: Activities funded through Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) enable Americans throughout the nation to experience the arts, foster and celebrate America’s artistic heritage and cultural legacy, and benefit from arts education at all stages of life. 

Research Awards: Research Grants in the Arts support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts in American life; NEA Research Labs funds long-term research agendas that include multiple empirical studies and the dissemination of various products or services for promoting public knowledge about the arts and their contributions to American life.

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

Media Projects: Development and Production Grants: The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series  that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways.

Preservation and Access Education and Training: This program supports projects that develop and implement educational programs for professionals who preserve and provide access to humanities collections. 

Public Humanities Projects: Community Conversations, Exhibitions, Historic Places: The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming.

Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants: The Scholarly Editions and Translations program provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to generating new scholarship but are inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations.

Institutes for Higher Education Faculty: NEH-funded institutes are professional development programs that convene higher education faculty from across the nation to deepen their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching.

Collaborative Research: The Collaborative Research program aims to advance humanistic knowledge by supporting teams of scholars working on a joint project leading to a tangible interpretive product.

Fellowships: NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing.

National Humanities Center

NHC Residential Fellowship: Conceived with the needs of humanists in mind, the National Humanities Center provides scholars with an environment and resources conducive to generating new knowledge and furthering understanding of the human experience.

The Newberry Library

Multiple Awards: Offering Long-Term Fellowships, Short-Term Fellowships, and Publication Subvention awards.

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Radcliffe Fellow: Radcliffe fellows are exceptional scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists whose work is making a difference in their professional fields and in the larger world.

Stanford Humanities Center

Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities: The Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities program is a unique opportunity for recent PhD recipients in the humanities to develop as scholars and teachers.

Fellowships for External Faculty: Sponsoring research in the traditional and emergent disciplines of the humanities and the interpretive social sciences.

COLA Co-Sponsored External Fellowships: Liberal Arts, for faculty who are awarded prestigious external fellowships may apply for supplemental funding from the College of Liberal Arts to support their fellowship award.

OVPR Subvention Grants: The Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors (OVPR) Subvention Grants program is designed to assist tenured and tenure-track faculty authors in the publication of scholarly books. Frequently university and other scholarly presses demand that authors provide funds to underwrite the publication of scholarly monographs and books.

Environmental Health Grants: Center for Health & Environment, Education & Research (CHEER), open to any faculty with primary appointment at UT Austin.

Faculty Development Award (FDA): Provost with review by Liberal Arts, the Faculty Development Award (FDA) is intended to recognize excellence in professional track faculty and to provide resources to support professional development of mid-career and senior professional track faculty. 

Faculty Development Leave (FDL): Provost with review by Liberal Arts, the faculty member must have served as a full-time faculty member of UT Austin for at least two consecutive full academic years at some point before the start of the FDL.

Faculty Travel Planning Grants: Texas Global, open to UT Austin faculty.

Faculty-Led Education Abroad Programs: Texas Global, open to UT Austin faculty.

Global Career Launch: Texas Global, open to UT Austin faculty with 3 years of experience.

Global Virtual Exchange: Texas Global, open to UT Austin faculty.

Internationalization Event Fund: Texas Global, open to UT Austin faculty.

Littlefield and Ransom Faculty Fellows: Liberal Arts, all tenured and tenure-track faculty in COLA are eligible to apply.

OVPR/COLA Partnership to Support Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Liberal Arts/OVPRSCE, all tenure-track and professional-track faculty with Principal Investigator status and with primary appointments in COLA are eligible to apply.

President's Award for Global Learning: Texas Global, open to UT Austin faculty and 3-4 student teams.

Research Intensive Awards: Liberal Arts, open to COLA tenured and tenure-track faculty.

Texas Global Publication Fund: Texas Global, open to UT Austin faculty with 5 years of experience.

Teaching Innovation Grants: Center for Teaching & Learning, open to UT Austin instructors.

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American Antiquarian Society

Long-term, dissertation, and research fellowships: AAS fellowships are designed to enable awardees to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library collections. 

American Association of University Women (AAUW)

The American Dissertation Fellowship: American Dissertation Fellowships carry a stipend of $25,000.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Various dissertation fellowships: The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program is designed to support emerging scholars as they pursue bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. 

Center for Engaged Scholarship

Dissertation Fellowship: Our focus is on “engaged scholarship” by which we mean research projects that address pressing social problems or injustices and whose findings can contribute to making the United States a more just, a more equal, and a more environmentally sustainable nation. 

Fulbright Program

Fulbright U.S. Student Program: The Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers research, study and teaching opportunities in over 140 countries to recent graduates, graduate students, young professionals and artists. 

Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars Award

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards: The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards (formerly the Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowships) recognize promising researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence.

Institute for Citizens and Scholars Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s and Gender Studies

Fellowship in Women’s and Gender Studies: Fellows are late-stage Ph.D. candidates completing original, interesting, and interdisciplinary dissertations that address issues involving women and gender.

National Academy of Education Spencer Dissertation Fellowship

The NAEd/Spencer Fellowship: The NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship encourages a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education.

Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

The Newcombe Fellowship: This Fellowship supports doctoral candidates in their final year of writing, who are working in areas of religion, ethics, values, or morals.

Providence College Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges Fellowship

Providence College: 1) The dissertation fellowship is intended for scholars in the final stage of their dissertation and aims, above all, to help the fellow complete the final requirements for the degree during the year of residency. 2) The postdoctoral fellowship is intended for scholars who have been awarded the terminal degree (PhD; MFA; JD; EdD; MBA; MD; ….) no later than the beginning of the fellowship year and no earlier than five years before the beginning of the fellowship year. 

Tinker Field Research Grant

Offered via LLILAS: Tinker Field Research Collaborative Grants are for graduate students with little or no previous field experience to enable them to conduct pre-dissertation field research in Latin America or the Caribbean, including territories. 

US Department of Education

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) (CREES): The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships program provides allocations of academic year and summer fellowships to institutions of higher education to assist meritorious undergraduate students and graduate students undergoing training in modern foreign languages and related area or international studies. 

 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) (SAI): The highly competitive Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship is funded by the U.S. Department of Education through its Title VI grant. 

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

Dissertation Fieldwork Grants: Our goal is to support vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of what it means to be human. 

COLA Graduate Student External Award Supplement Fund: The College of Liberal Arts (COLA) has created a fund to support COLA graduate students who obtain large (usually $15,000 or more), competitive, prestigious external fellowships to support their degree work and dissertations in the broad areas of the humanities and social sciences.

Humanities Research Awards: The Humanities Research Awards (HRA) are designed for UT graduate students who have advanced to doctoral candidacy and are working on humanities-focused projects.

Swedish Excellence Endowment: College of Liberal Arts. For study in Sweden. Open to all University students, graduate and undergraduate, based on scholastic aptitude: UT-Austin GPA of 3.0 (for undergraduate students) and UT-Austin GPA of 3.5 (for graduate students). 

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Hook Fellowships

St. Edward's University: Funding for student projects at Wild Basin or other lands in the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve system. 

Liberal Arts College Study Abroad: College of Liberal Arts, for undergraduate students currently enrolled in COLA.  

Liberal Arts Study Abroad Scholarships for Exchange Programs: College of Liberal Arts, for undergraduate students currently enrolled in COLA with at least one semester completed. 

Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Awards: College of Liberal Arts, for undergraduate students currently enrolled in COLA with at least one semester completed. 

McReynolds and Kirkpatrick Memorial Awards in Pre-Medical Studies: College of Liberal Arts, for undergraduate students currently enrolled in COLA with at least one semester completed.

Randy Diehl Prize in Liberal Arts: College of Liberal Arts, graduating seniors in COLA. 

Rapoport Service Scholarship Program: College of Liberal Arts, first year undergraduate student in Liberal Arts.

Swedish Excellence Endowment: College of Liberal Arts, for study in Sweden. 

Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP): Students who engage in research as undergraduates gain insight into the professional world, enhance their knowledge base and critical thinking skills, and better prepare themselves for graduate school. Research is a hands-on method to learn new ways to solve problems and thoroughly explore different subject areas. With faculty mentors, students receive guidance on research methods, resources, and issues common in different fields.

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