Library of Congress Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies

by Jarrod Crockett | Feb 9, 2013 | Arts and Museums, Humanities, Libraries, Social Sciences

This fellowship invites qualified scholars to apply for a post-doctoral fellowship for advanced research based on the Alan Lomax Collection. The Lomax Collection is a major collection of ethnographic field audio recordings, motion pictures, photographs, manuscripts,...

Library of Congress David B. Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality

by Jarrod Crockett | Feb 9, 2013 | Health and Human Services, Humanities, Religion, Social Sciences

This fellowship seeks to promote research on the relation of religiousness and spirituality to physical, mental, and social health. The fellowship provides an opportunity for a period of six to twelve months of concentrated use of the collections of the Library of...

The Dirksen Center Congressional Research Awards

by Jarrod Crockett | Feb 6, 2013 | Humanities, Law, Political Science, Social Sciences

The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. Topics could include external factors shaping the exercise of congressional leadership, institutional conditions affecting it,...

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions

by Jarrod Crockett | Feb 6, 2013 | Arts and Museums, Humanities, Libraries

NEH Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions—such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities—improve their ability to preserve...

Seeking Creative Use Cases for Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge

by Jarrod Crockett | Feb 4, 2013 | Arts and Museums, Humanities, Political Science, Social Sciences, STEM, Technology

InnoCentive offers $10,000 for proposals that utilize Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge content, tools, and APIs (Application Programming Interface) and would enable users to engage in creative new behaviors, beyond what is currently possible with online research...

Harvard Business School Fellowships

by Jarrod Crockett | Jan 30, 2013 | Business, Economics, History, Humanities, Social Sciences

Harvard University’s Business School awards four different fellowships for the study of business history: The Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in Business History enables established scholars from around the world whose primary interest is the business and economic...