Grants & Other Funding
Support for Humanities Events
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. |
HASTAC Scholars | Students working across the areas of technology, the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. |
Funding Opportunities for Cornell Faculty
NEH Summer Stipends | Grants of $6,000 for two consecutive months of research and writing, awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Internal deadline: September 1 |
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. |
Humanities Research Grants | Grants of up to $5,000 for Cornell faculty members holding regular appointments in humanities departments. |
Interdisciplinary Monograph Writing Group | Funding for activities related to writing monographs by a group of Cornell faculty in the humanities. |
Brett de Bary Interdisciplinary Writing Groups | Funding for activities related to writing and publication by groups of faculty and graduate students in the humanities. |
Translation Network | Funding to support and workshop translation projects by a group of faculty and graduate students in the humanities. |
Humanities Corridor Working Groups | Funding for collaborative regional working groups. |
Central NY Humanities Corridor Writing Retreat | Annual writing retreat in the Adirondacks with two nights' lodging, meals, and tuition, scheduled October 13-15, 2023. |
Society for the Humanities Faculty Writing Retreat | Award includes lodging and all meals for a two-night unstructured writing residency in the Adirondacks (May 21-23). |
Funding Opportunities for Cornell Graduate Students
President's Travel Fund for the Humanities | Grants of up to $1,000 to support conference travel. Deadline: rolling. |
Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities | Graduate student digital scholarship summer internship program. |
HCI Public Humanities Grant | Grants of up to $4,000 for public-facing graduate student projects. |
Timothy Murray Graduate Travel Grants | Grants of up to $1,000 to support travel for doctoral research. |
Dissertation Writing Groups | Funding for writing groups of graduate students with a common interdisciplinary focus. |
Translation Network | Funding to support and workshop translation projects by a group of faculty and graduate students in the humanities. |
HASTAC Scholars | Students working across the areas of technology, the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. |
HWW National Predoctoral Career Diversity Residential Summer Workshop | Summer workshop for doctoral students interested in learning about careers outside of the academy and/or the tenure track system. |
Mellon Urbanism Seminars | Seminars focused on the intersection of urbanism, design, and the humanities, with stipends to support a final project. |
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Workshops | Funding of $500 per semester for graduate student-led workshops related to a specific theme. |
Media Studies Graduate Working Groups | Funding for working groups of graduate students with an interdisciplinary media studies focus. |
Community Partnership Grants | Pairs Cornell graduate students with regional organizations to support a campus-community collaborative public humanities project |
Public Humanities Fellows | A year-long fellowship that explores the public dimensions of scholarship in partnership with a community organization. |