Grants & Other Funding

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 10, 2024
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. Deadline: October 16
Humanities Research Grants Grants of up to $5,000 for Cornell faculty members holding regular appointments in humanities departments. Deadline: October 16
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 18-20, 2024. 
Society for the Humanities Faculty Writing Retreat Award includes lodging and all meals for a two-night unstructured writing residency in the Adirondacks (May 10-12, 2024).

Funding Opportunities for Cornell Graduate Students

President's Travel Fund for the Humanities Grants of up to $1,000 to support conference travel. 
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. 
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