Humane Studies Grants and Fellowship offer grant support for graduate 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, book publication expenses (e.g. copy editing, indexing), purchase of data sets, journal submission fees, research collaboration and hiring a research assistant
- Event Support: Graduate 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 $5,000 to support students completing major research projects, presenting their work at top conferences, and publishing their work in major journals. (rolling)
- Graduate Sabbatical Grants provide up to $15,000 to PhD candidates (ABD) to buy out teaching or research assistance responsibilities for a semester so that they may develop dissertation chapters or other work into publishable paper drafts within six months. (rolling)
- Academic Mentorship Grants provide up to $5,000 to work with exceptional faculty to produce impactful research over the course of a year. (Deadline: May 2)
- 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)
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/