The institute offers support to The College’s Division of Humanities at ASU as well as internal funding recipients in developing and crafting humanities-based projects for external funding applications.
Check out the external funding opportunities and resources listed below to help fuel your research.
Support includes identifying funding sources as well as providing assistance with all aspects of an external application, with no regard to the size, scope, funding level or experience of the researcher(s).
Need assistance with applying for grants, at any point in the process? Contact the Humanities Institute research advancement administrator Courtney Berg at [email protected].
External funding opportunities with rolling deadlines
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| ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants | American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) |
This program addresses the inequities in the distribution of access to tools and support for digital work among scholars across various fields, those working with under-utilized or understudied source materials, and those in institutions with less support for digital projects. |
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| ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grants | The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) |
This program addresses the inequities in the distribution of access to tools and support for digital work among scholars across various fields, those working with under-utilized or understudied source materials, and those in institutions with less support for digital projects. |
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| ACLS Fellowships | American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) |
ACLS invites research proposals from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and interpretive social sciences. |
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| Advocacy for Liberal Arts, Civil Discourse on Campus, Purpose-Oriented Education | Arthur Vining Davis Foundation |
See website for specifics |
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| Arizona Humanities Grants | Arizona Humanities |
Arizona Humanities supports innovative, community-based projects that use humanities disciplines to connect Arizonans to the cultures, peoples, and histories of the state and beyond. |
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| Division of Research Programs | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research Programs is accepting applications for the Awards for Faculty program. |
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| Evidence for Action: Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
Evidence for Action prioritizes research to evaluate specific interventions that have the potential to contribute to dismantling and counteracting the harms of structural and systemic racism and improving health, wellbeing, and equity outcomes. |
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| Franklin Research Grants | American Philosophical Society |
The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses. |
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| Higher Learning Grant Program | Mellon Foundation |
Working with colleges, universities, and other organizations that nurture advanced humanistic inquiry and social justice, Mellon makes grants through its Higher Learning program that broaden our understanding of American history and culture; develop the interpretive tools and methods scholars use |
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| Humanities in Place | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
Humanities in Place supports a fuller, more complex telling of American histories and lived experiences by deepening the range of how and where our stories are told and by bringing a wider variety of voices into the public dialogue. |
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| John Templeton Foundation | John Templeton Foundation |
The Foundation offers grants in support of research and public engagement in our major Funding Areas. We invest in bold ideas from contrarian thinkers — ideas that cross disciplinary boundaries and challenge conventional assumptions. |
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| NEH Public Humanities Projects | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Public Programs is accepting applications for the Public Humanities Projects program. |
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| NEH Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research Programs is accepting applications for the Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations program. |
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| Programs for Organizations | Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation |
The Foundation intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic i |
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| Small Research Grants | The Spencer Foundation |
The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education. |
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