External Funding

Job Guides

• H-Net Job Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences (also lists fellowships)
• The American Historical Association
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• jobs.ac.uk (UK)
• Times Higher Education Supplement Jobs (UK)
• Educational Vacancies Website (UK)

General Sources for Research or Study

• Art of Writing Proposals (SSRC)
• Institute of Historical Research's Grants for History
• The Foundation Center, advice and information on resources.
• Funders Online, European sources.
• Cornell Graduate Fellowship Notebook, a variety of fellowships and scholarships for graduate study.
• FastWeb, a scholarship database that requires registration.
• Financial Aid Guide, lists mostly portable, private-sector, non-need-based aid.
• Grant Advisor, through institutional subscriptions.
• U.S. Department of Education, information on a variety of financial aid sources
• Grants Register for US, the old-fashioned annual, in print only (though see Grants.gov).
• Guide to the Major Trusts for the UK, the old-fashioned version in print

Graduate Study

• English Speaking Union of the United States
• Fulbright Grants for Study Abroad for US citizens
• Gates Cambridge Scholarships for study at Cambridge University
• Javits Fellowships for the arts, humanities, and social sciences
• Marshall Scholarships for study in Britain
• Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Study
• Mitchell Scholarships for study in Ireland or Northern Ireland
• National Academies Fellowships including Ford fellowships for minorities
• Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford
• Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarships
• Soros Fellowships for New Americans for recently naturalized US citizens

Dissertation Research

• American Association of University Women
• Brookings Institution Fellowships (DC)
• Clark Library, UCLA (CA)
• Council for European Studies Pre-Dissertation Fellowship
• Du Pont Dissertation Fellowship at the Hagley Museum (DE)
• E. P. Thompson Memorial Bursary (Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Library)
• Fulbright Grants for Graduate Study, and the UK Fulbright Commission
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (foreign language and area studies)
• Harvard University (MA)
  • James Bryant Conant Fellowships in German and European Studies
  • John M. Olin Fellowships in National Security
  • Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
• Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Walter L. Arnstein Prize for Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies
• NACBS Dissertation Year Fellowship
• NACBS/Huntington Library Fellowships (CA)
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowships
• Richard III Society
• Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (for Canadians)
• Spencer Foundation
• United States Institute of Peace (DC)
• Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants in Women's Studies

Post-doctoral Fellowships (early stages of career) also see others below

• American Historical Association, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grants
• Aerospace History Fellowship
• Berlin Program in Advanced German and European Studies
• British Academy Visiting Fellowships
• Brown University, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women (RI)
• Brown University, Watson Institute for International Studies (RI)
• University of California, Humanities Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowships (CA), for UC Ph.D.s
• University of California, Los Angeles, Humanities Consortium Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships (CA)
• University of California, President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (CA)
• Cambridge University, Junior Research Fellowships (UK), search the Reporter
• University of Chicago Society of Fellows (IL)
• Columbia Society of Fellows (NY)
• Cornell University, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships (NY)
• Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology and Burndy Library (MA)
• Harvard Academy Scholars Program (MA) international and area studies
• Harvard Society of Fellows (MA)
• Harvard University, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (MA)
• Harvard University, John M. Olin Fellowships in National Security (MA)
• Institute of Historical Research, Fellowships (UK)
• Michigan Society of Fellows (MI)
• Newton International Fellowships
• Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture (VA)
• Oxford University Junior Research Fellowships (UK), or search the Gazette
• University of Pennsylvania, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships (PA)
• Princeton Society of Fellows (NJ)
• Rhodes University (South Africa)
• Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Academy of Education
• Stanford Center for International Security and Arms Control (CA)
• Wesleyan University, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships (CT)
• Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities (at various institutions)
• Yale University, Olin Fellowship in Military and Strategic History International Security Studies (CT)

Post-doctoral Fellowships (any stage)

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy Film Scholars Program
• American Council of Learned Societies
• American Institute of Indian Studies
• American Philosophical Society
• Bibliographical Society of America
• Council of American Overseas Research Centers
• Fulbright Scholars Program(for faculty); see also
  • CIES
  • IIE
  • US-UK Fulbright Commission, including
    • Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor in British History
• Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
• Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, for studies of violence, aggression and dominance
• HASTAC Initiative: Digital Media and Learning
• JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants
• John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, for senior scholars
• International Research and Exchanges Board, IREX
• Macarthur Foundation
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship and Summer Stipends
• National Science Foundation
• Open Society/Soros Fellowships
• Rotary Grants for University Teachers
• Social Science Research Council
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for Canadians.
• Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

Library Fellowships (all levels of research)

• American Antiquarian Society (MA)
• American Jewish Archives (OH)
• American Trust for the British Library (ATBL) Transatlantic Fellowship Program (USA / UK)
• British Library, Hellen Wallis Fellowship (UK)
• John Carter Brown Library (RI)
• William Andrews Clark Library, UCLA (CA)
• Cornell University Library (NY)
• Dibner Library of History of Science and Technology (DC)
• Dunbarton Oaks (DC)
• Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellowships (DC)
• Hagley Museum and Library Fellowship in Business, Technology and Science (DE)
• Harvard University, Houghton Library (MA)
• Harvard University, Schlesinger Library (MA)
• Huntington Library (CA)
• Indiana University, Lily Library (IN)
• Kanner Fellowship in British Studies at the Clark Library, UCLA (CA)
• University of Kansas, Spencer Research Library (KS)
• Library of Congress (DC)
• University of Michigan, The Bentley Historical Library (MI)
• National Sporting Library (VA)
• Newberry Library (IL)
• Peabody and Essex Museum (MA)
• Princeton University Library (NJ)
• Ransom Humanities Research Center (TX)
• Rockefeller Center Archive (NY)
• Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (NY)
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries (DC)
• University of Southampton, Hartley Institute Visiting Fellowships (UK)
• Winterthur Library (DE)
• Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship Program (FL)
• Yale University, Lewis Walpole Library (CT)
• Yale University, Beinecke Library (CT)

Residential Fellowships and Humanities Centers

• Consortium of Humanities Centers
• American Academy in Rome (Italy)
• American Research Center in Egypt (Egypt)
• Australian National University, Humanities Research Centre (Australia)
• Australian National University, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research (Australia)
• University Calgary Institute for the Humanities (Canada)
• University of California, Berkeley, Townsend Center for the Humanities (CA)
• University of California, Davis, Davis Humanities Institute (CA)
• University of California, (Irvine) Humanities Research Institute (CA)
• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Humanities Consortium (CA)
• University of California, Riverside, Center for Ideas and Society (CA)
• University of California, Santa Barbara, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (CA)
• University of California, Santa Cruz, Center for Cultural Studies (CA)
• Cambridge University, for Visiting Fellowships, check individual college webpages, such as: Clare Hall, Churchill College, Corpus Christi College, Darwin College, Wolfson College, or search the Cambridge University Reporter (UK)
• University of Chicago, Franke Institute for the Humanities (IL)
• Cornell University, Society for the Humanities (NY)
• Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology (MA)
• East-West Center (HI)
• University of Edinburgh, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Scotland)
• European University Institute, Jean Monnet Fellowships (Italy)
• Getty Research Institute, Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (CA)
• Harvard University, Center for European Studies (MA)
• Harvard University, Charles Warren Center for Studies of American History (MA)
• Harvard University, Humanities Center (MA)
• Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (MA)
• Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (MA)
• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (CA)
• Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies (NJ)
• Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Sciences (NJ)
• Institute of Historical Research (UK)
• University of London, School of Advanced Study (UK)
• University of Michigan, Institute for the Humanities (MI)
• University of Minnesota, Humanities Institute (MN)
• National Humanities Center (NC)
• New York Public Library, Center for Scholars and Writers (NY)
• New York University, Center for Media, Culture and History (NY)
• New York University, International Center for Advanced Studies (NY)
• University of North Carolina, Center for International Studies (NC)
• Northwestern University, Kaplan Center for the Humanities (IL)
• Ohio State University, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities (OH)
• Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (VA)
• Oxford University for Visiting Fellowships, check individual college webpages, such as: Christ Church, Nuffield College, St. Antony's College, St. Catherine's College, Wolfson College, or search the Oxford University Gazette (UK)
• Princeton University, Center for Human Values, Laurance Rockefeller Fellowships (NJ)
• Princeton University, Center of International Studies, Visiting Fellowships (NJ)
• Princeton University, Council for the Humanities (NJ)
• Princeton University Shelby Cullom Davis Center (NJ)
• Rutgers University, Center for Historical Analysis (NJ)
• Rutgers University, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, (NJ)
• School of American Research (NM)
• Smithsonian Institution (DC)
• Stanford Humanities Center (CA)
• SUNY, Stony Brook, Humanities Institute (NY)
• Texas A&M University, Center for Humanities Research (TX)
• University of Texas, Austin, Institute for Historical Studies (TX)
• University of Toronto, Centre for Medieval Studies (Canada)
• University of Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Canada)
• United States Institute of Peace (DC)
• University of Utah, Tanner Humanities Center (UT)
• Vanderbilt University, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities (TN)
• University of Virginia, Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies (VA)
• University of Virginia, Foundation for the Humanties (VA)
• University of Warwick (UK)
• Wesleyan University, Center for the Humanities (CT)
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (DC)
• University of Windsor, Humanities Research Group (Canada)
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for 21st Century Studies (WI)
• Yale Center for British Art (CT)
• Yale University, Agrarian Studies (CT)
• Yale University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion (CT)
• Yale University, International Security Studies (CT)
• Yale University, Whitney Humanities Center (CT)
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (NY)

Fellowships for UK residents

• Arts and Humanities Research Board
• British Academy
• British Council
• Economic and Social Research Council
• Leverhulme Trust
• The Nuffield Foundation
• The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
• US-UK Fulbright Commission
• The Wellcome Trust

Prizes for Research and Writing

• John Nichols Prize, Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester
• Twentieth Century British History Essay Prize