Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF-Sociology: August 15, 2013
NSF-Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM): August 13, 2013
NSF-Economics: August 18, 2013
NSF-Political Science: August 15, 2013
NSF-Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics: August 16, 2013
NEH-Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants: September 12, 2013
NEH-Summer Stipends: Internal: September 1, 2013
Foundation
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation: August 1 2013
ACLS Fellowships: September 26, 2013
Food and Farm Communications Fund: Letter of Intent: September 1, 2013
Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship: September 19, 2013
Student
Fulbright U.S. Student Program (Fulbright IIE): Internal: September 23, 2013
Federal
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Sociology
Program: The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization -- societies, institutions, groups and demography -- and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology. The Program supports both original data collections and secondary data analysis that use the full range of quantitative and qualitative methodological tools. Theoretically grounded projects that offer methodological innovations and improvements for data collection and analysis are also welcomed.
Deadline: August 15, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5369&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Funding Source: NSF
Title: NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (S-STEM)
Program: This program makes grants to institutions of higher education to support scholarships for academically talented students demonstrating financial need, enabling them to enter the STEM workforce or STEM graduate school following completion of an associate, baccalaureate, or graduate-level degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics disciplines. Grantee institutions are responsible for selecting scholarship recipients, reporting demographic information about student scholars, and managing the S-STEM project at the institution.
Deadline: August 13, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5257&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Economics
Program: The Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. This program also strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. It supports research in almost every area of economics, including econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, finance, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics, and public finance. The Economics program welcomes proposals for individual or multi-investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation improvement awards, conferences, workshops, symposia, experimental research, data collection and dissemination, computer equipment and other instrumentation, and research experience for undergraduates. The program places a high priority on interdisciplinary research. Investigators are encouraged to submit proposals of joint interest to the Economics Program and other NSF programs and NSF initiative areas. The program places a high priority on broadening participation and encourages proposals from junior faculty, women, other underrepresented minorities, Research Undergraduate Institutions, and EPSCoR states.
Deadline: August 18, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5437
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Political Science
Program: The Political Science Program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include, but are not limited to, American government and politics, comparative government and politics, international relations, political behavior, political economy, and political institutions. The Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013 (P.L. 113-6, enacted on March 26, 2013) contains a provision that places restrictions on the types of research projects that can be funded through the Political Science Program. Specifically, Division B, Title III, Sec. 543 reads:
*None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to carry out the functions of the Political Science Program in the Division of Social and Economic Sciences of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation, except for research projects that the Director of the National Science Foundation certifies as promoting national security or the economic interests of the United States.
*The Director of the National Science Foundation shall publish a statement of the reason for each certification made pursuant to subsection (a) on the public website of the National Science Foundation.
*Any unobligated balances for the Political Science Program described in subsection (a) may be provided for other scientific research and studies that do not duplicate those being funded by other Federal agencies.
Deadline: August 15, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5418&utm_source=Campus+Alert+July+2013&utm_campaign=Campus+Alerts&utm_medium=email
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)
Program: The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple fields within the social and behavioral sciences. As part of its larger portfolio, the MMS Program partners with a consortium of federal statistical agencies to support research proposals that further the development of new and innovative approaches to surveys and to the analysis of survey data.
Deadline: August 16, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5421&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Funding Source: NEH
Title: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
Program: The Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program awards relatively small grants to support the planning stages of innovative projects that promise to benefit the humanities. Proposals should be for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in any area of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may involve
*research that brings new approaches or documents best practices in the study of the digital humanities;
*planning and developing prototypes of new digital tools for preserving, analyzing, and making accessible digital resources, including libraries’ and museums’ digital assets;
*scholarship that focuses on the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society;
*scholarship or studies that examine the philosophical or practical implications and impact of the use of emerging technologies in specific fields or disciplines of the humanities, or in interdisciplinary collaborations involving several fields or disciplines;
*innovative uses of technology for public programming and education utilizing both traditional and new media; and
*new digital modes of publication that facilitate the dissemination of humanities scholarship in advanced academic as well as informal or formal educational settings at all academic levels.
Deadline: September 12, 2013
Link: http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/digital-humanities-start-grants
Funding Source: NEH
Title: Summer Stipends
Program: Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months. Summer Stipends support projects at any stage of development. Summer Stipends are awarded to individual scholars. Organizations are not eligible to apply. Internal Guidelines: The campus may submit up to two nominations. Interested applicants should prepare a project description (no longer than 3 pages) and email it as .pdf to ihr@ucsc.edu by September 1, 2013. A committee composed of three members of the participating divisions (Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences) will select the top two projects and send their recommendations to the Humanities Dean, the campus nominating official. The nominees will be notified by September 10, 2013 and have until September 26, 2013 to complete and submit their NEH applications.
Deadline: Internal: September 1, 2013
Link: http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends
Foundations
Funding Source: Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Title: Research Grants
Program: The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world. Questions that interest the foundation concern violence and aggression in relation to social change, intergroup conflict, war, terrorism, crime, and family relationships, among other subjects. Research with no relevance to understanding human problems will not be supported, nor will proposals to investigate urgent social problems where the foundation cannot be assured that useful, sound research can be done. Priority will also be given to areas and methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other funding sources.
Deadline: August 1, 2013
Link: http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm?utm_source=Campus+Alert+July+2013&utm_campaign=Campus+Alerts&utm_medium=email
Funding Source: ACLS
Title: ACLS Fellowships
Program: The ACLS Fellowship program invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.
The ACLS Fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing. ACLS Fellowships are portable and are tenable at the fellow's home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for research. (1) An ACLS Fellowship may be held concurrently with other fellowships and grants and any sabbatical pay, up to an amount equal to the candidate's current academic year salary. Tenure of the fellowship may begin no earlier than July 1, 2014 and no later than February 1, 2015.
Deadline: September 26, 2013
Link: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=380
Funding Source: Food and Farm Communications Fund
Title: Sustainable Agriculture Campaign
Program: The Food and Farm Communications Fund was established in 2012 to help facilitate and expand the sustainable agriculture movement's strategic communications capacity. In 2013, the fund awarded grants totaling $349,000 in support of projects hat help the media to better understand and report on the movement, media and advertising training for farmers, and the creation of television and online news and documentary programming. The fund — a collaboration between the Grace Communications Foundation, the 11th Hour Project, and the McKnight Foundation — has announced a call for Letters of Inquiry for a second round of funding to expand the communications capacity of sustainable food and agriculture education and public policy organizations. Grants of up to $100,000 will be awarded for projects that advance a specifically targeted innovative media/communications effort, assist in removing the "roadblocks" to better communications efforts aimed at affecting consumers and public opinion, and/or that focus on media and communications campaigns that address specific public policy issues.
Deadline: Letter of Inquiry: September 1, 2013
Link: http://www.foodandfarmcommunications.org/applying.html
Funding Source: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Title: Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship
Program: The University of California, Santa Cruz has been invited to nominate one candidate for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's New Directions Fellowship. This is an invitation-only submission process. It is a very prestigious award that covers salary for approximately one academic year and two summers of additional support (including release time from teaching, if required). Candidates for this program should be highly qualified scholars pursuing innovative research. New Directions Fellowship assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who received their doctorate between six and twelve years ago and who wish to acquire systematic training outside their own disciplines. The fellowships are looking to assist faculty whose research interests cross-disciplinary boundaries and call for formal training in a discipline other than the one in which they are expert. The nominee will be decided by a committee of Social Science and Humanities faculty members.
Internal deadline: September 19, 2013
Contact: ashleeac@ucsc.edu
Student
Funding Source: Fulbright
Title: Fulbright U.S. Student Program (Fulbright IIE)
Program: Established in 1946 by the U.S. Congress to "enable the government of the United States to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries", Fulbright is the largest U.S. international exchange program offering opportunities for students, scholars, and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide.
Internal Deadline: September 23, 2013, please contact Marlene Robinson for the internal deadline: marobins@ucsc.edu
Link: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/applicants/getting-started
