Research News at the College of Liberal Arts

There are grant programs, and then there are grant programs... Some are highly contextual, meant to live only for a season of funding, while others have a long shelf life, aiming at programmatic, continuing impact. The CLA Office of Research would like to draw your attention to these latter, important opportunities, which reflect some broader and continuing funding interests in social sciences and humanities.

Private Foundations

Mellon Foundation Higher Learning – embracing of equity in higher learning with a focus on core humanities fields https://mellon.org/programs/higher-learning/

ACLS Digital Extension Grants focused on Digital Humanities and expansion to users who wouldn’t normally have access to collections if not digital. Due annually in December for $150,000 https://www.acls.org/Competitions-and-Deadlines/ACLS-Digital-Extension-Grants

Spencer Foundation small research grants focused on closing the education gap, Deadline: June 1 for $50,000

Henry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grants on the basis of violence for $40,000.  Deadline: August 1

National Geographic Exploration Grants for $30,000 (rolling deadline)

Humanities Without Walls for $150,000, Deadline: November 15 2021-HWW3-RFP.pdf (illinois.edu)

Andrew Mellon Foundation Higher Learning or the arts.  Rolling deadline

Carnegie Corporation of New York (Democracy / Education)  Rolling deadline

Federal: 

NEH Digital Projects for the Public for $400,000, Deadline: May 5

NSF Archaeology and Archaeometry, Deadline: July 1

NSF Linguistics, Deadline: July 15

NSF, Science, Technology and Society, $400,000 Deadline: August 3

The list was compiled by Martha Weise, our grant and funding expert, who is ready to assist you in your funding quest.

Purdue University is part of Humanities Without Walls, and as a special benefit, we are invited to compete in the limited submission competition for humanities research Grand Challenge grants.

Humanities Without Walls invites applications for interdisciplinary, collaborative, research-based projects in the humanities and arts that build a clearly communicated commitment to methodologies of reciprocity and redistribution into their project design and proposal narratives, regardless of the research topic or theme they focus on.

PI Eligibility: Tenure-line faculty in humanities or humanistic social sciences
Award amount: Up to $150,000
Project Period: January 1st, 2022–December 31st, 2024
Application Deadline: November 15th, 2021, Midnight, Central Time
How to Submit: Proposals should be emailed as a single PDF to HWWDirectorOps@illinois.edu.

In anticipation of the final proposal, the CLA Office of Research can support preparatory work through a local grant. The deadline is April 23, and should be submitted according to the outlined instructions.

If you have questions, please contact our office at cla-adr@purdue.edu or contact Jason Mierek, HWW Director of Operations, at the email address listed above. Thank you, and good luck!

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