Humane Studies Grants and Fellowship offer grant support for PhD students looking to build their academic careers and who want to spend more time focusing on publishing. These awards provide access to other IHS opportunities including mentorship, job market support, in-person and online events, and more.
- Expense Support: Typical awards range from $500 to $5,000. Higher funding awards will be considered for exceptional projects. Applications must be submitted at least six weeks before the expense is incurred. (rolling)
- Eligible expenses include: Travel for conference presentations and archival research, research collaboration and hiring a research assistant, journal submission fees, purchase of data sets, LLM subscriptions necessary for research, book publication expenses (e.g. copy editing, indexing)
- Event Support: PhD students and faculty can request funds for hosting in-person and online events. Applications must be submitted at least four weeks prior to the proposed event. (rolling)
- Eligible expenses include: book manuscript, single paper, and multiple paper workshops (honoraria for participants) and academic conferences
- Humane Studies Fellowships provide up to $10,000 to support students and postdoctoral fellows completing major research projects, presenting their work at top conferences, and publishing their work in major journals. (rolling)
- Graduate Sabbatical Grants provide up to $20,000 to PhD candidates (ABD) and postdoctoral fellows so that they can complete vital work toward the completion of their degrees, publications, or other milestones in their early academic careers. (rolling, at least 3 months before the semester begins)
- Academic Mentorship Grants provide up to $8,000 to work with exceptional faculty to produce impactful research over the course of a year. (Deadline: Spring)
- Residency Funding provides up to $10,000 to use toward embedding at an institution for a period of time ranging from a week to a month. (rolling)
Preference will be given to research directly tied to IHS initiatives, to projects that outline specific publishing goals, and to applicants from top research institutions. IHS will concentrate its activities and investments from 2022 to 2026 across seven focus areas.
- Liberalism, Pluralism, and Democracy
- Free Speech and Open Inquiry
- Equality and Prosperity
- Race in America
- Peace and International Cooperation
- Immigration and Freedom
- Business and the Good Society
Fellowship Website:
https://www.theihs.org/funding-opportunities/