Support for Humanities Events
| Humanities Events Co-sponsorship | Funds, event space, and/or lodging to support humanities events on the Ithaca campus |
Funding Opportunities for Cornell Undergraduates
| Joseph E. Connolly '72 Memorial Prizes | Prizes for undergraduate essays on the intersection of religion and politics or society. Deadline: April 18, 2025 |
| HASTAC Scholars | Students working across the areas of technology, the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. Deadline: November 15, 2025 |
Society Funding Opportunities for Cornell Faculty
| Humanities | Impact Grants | Grants of up to $10,000 for Cornell faculty members to support research projects that engage in broader public conversations with a social impact in mind. Deadline: March 20, 2026 Beginning 2026-27, there will only be one application cycle. We will no longer offer a fall application cycle. |
| Humanities Research Grants | Grants of up to $5,000 for Cornell faculty members holding regular appointments doing work in the humanities. Deadline: March 20, 2026 Beginning 2026-27, there will only be one application cycle. We will no longer offer a fall application cycle. |
| Interdisciplinary Monograph Writing Group | Funding for activities related to writing monographs by a group of Cornell faculty in the humanities. Deadline: March 20, 2026 |
| Brett de Bary Interdisciplinary Writing Groups | Up to $5,000 in funding for activities related to writing and publication by groups of faculty and graduate students in the humanities. Deadline: March 20, 2026 |
| Society for the Humanities Faculty Writing Retreat | Award includes lodging and all meals for a two-night unstructured writing residency in the Adirondacks (May 9-11, 2025). Deadline: February 19, 2025 |
Additional Funding Opportunities for Cornell Faculty
| Humanities Corridor Working Groups | Funding for collaborative regional working groups. Deadline: March 23, 2026 |
| Central NY Humanities Corridor Writing Retreat | Annual writing retreat in the Adirondacks with two nights' lodging, meals, and tuition, scheduled November 6-8, 2026. Opens: November 24, 2025 Deadline: January 21, 2026 |
| NEH Summer Stipends | Grants of $6,000 for two consecutive months of research and writing, awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Paused for 2025 |
Society Funding Opportunities for Cornell Graduate Students
| Timothy Murray Graduate Travel Grants | Grants of up to $2,000 to support travel for doctoral research. Deadline: March 20, 2026 |
| Dissertation Writing Groups | Funding for writing groups of graduate students with a common interdisciplinary focus. Deadline: March 20, 2026 |
Additional Funding Opportunities for Cornell Graduate Students
| Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities | Graduate student digital scholarship summer internship program. Deadline: Monday, March 23, 9am ET |
| HCI Public Humanities Grant | Grants of up to $4,000 for public-facing graduate student projects. Paused for 2026 |
| HASTAC Scholars | Students working across the areas of technology, the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. Deadline: December 5, 2025 |
| Media Studies Graduate Working Groups | Funding for working groups of graduate students with an interdisciplinary media studies focus. (Deadline TBD) |