| Funder | Program | Description | Deadline(s) | Projects recently funded through this program | Questions? Contact: | Recent grants in Maxwell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSF | Science of Organizations | Funds research that advances our fundamental understanding of how organizations develop, form, and operate. | Sep 3, 2021 Feb 2, 20222021-09-03 2022-02-02 | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | |
| NSF/NEH | Dynamic Language Infrastructure — Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) | Supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning dynamic language infrastructure in the context of endangered human languages — languages that are both understudied and at risk of falling out of use. | Sep 15, 2021 Feb 15, 20212021-09-15 2021-02-15 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| NEH | Summer Stipends | Aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication by providing awards for advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars. | Sep 22, 2021 | Assistant Director of Research Development, Humanities | ||
| NEH | Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations | Supports the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts of value to the humanities that are currently inaccessible or available only in inaccurate editions or transcriptions. | Sep 24, 2021 | Assistant Director of Research Development, Humanities | ||
| NEH | Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants | Aims to strengthen the institutional base of the humanities by enabling infrastructure development and capacity building. | Sep 28, 2021 | Assistant Director of Research Development, Humanities | ||
| DOD | Minerva Research Initiative | Aims to promote research in specific areas of social science and to promote a candid and constructive relationship between DoD and the social science academic community. | Sep 29, 2021 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| NEH | Archeological and Ethnographic Field Research | Funding to conduct empirical research in the United States or abroad in order to answer questions of importance to the humanities. | Sep 29, 2021 | Assistant Director of Research Development, Humanities | ||
| FDN | American Philosophical Society: Franklin Research Grants | Provides humanities scholars with grants to cover the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes, the purchase of research materials, or the costs of fieldwork or laboratory expenses. | Oct 1, 2021 Dec 1, 2021 | |||
| NARA | Access to Historical Records: Archival Projects | Supports projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections, especially projects centered on collections of America's early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation's legal history. | Oct 7, 2021 | |||
| NARA | Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions | Funding to publish documentary editions of historical records, focusing on broad historical movements in U.S. history, such as law, politics, social reform, business, military, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience. | Oct 7, 2021 | |||
| NARA | Public Engagement with Historical Records | Supports projects that encourage public engagement with historical records, including the development of new tools that enable people to engage online. | Oct 7, 2021 | |||
| NEH | Dialogues on the Experience of War | Supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others think more deeply about the issues raised by war and military service. | Oct 14, 2021 | Assistant Director of Research Development, Humanities | ||
| NEH | Collaborative Research | Encourages collaboration that proposed diverse approaches to topics, incorporates multiple points of view, and explores new avenues of inquiry. | Dec 1, 2021 | Assistant Director of Research Development, Humanities | ||
| NEH | Public Scholars | Supports the creation of well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership. | Dec 15, 2021 | Assistant Director of Research Development, Humanities | ||
| FDN | American Council of Learned Societies — Digital Humanities Grants | Grants to advance humanistic scholarship by enhancing established digital projects, extending their reach to new communities of users, and supporting teams of scholars at all career stages as they participate in digital research. | Jan 11, 2022 | Assistant Director of Research Development, Humanities | ||
| NEH | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Supports digital humanities projects at different stages throughout their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and sustainability. | Jan 14, 2022 | Assistant Director of Research Development, Humanities | ||
| NSF | Law & Science | Considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, as well as studies of how science and technology are applied in legal contexts. | Jan 17, 2022 Aug 1, 2022 | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | 2020 - Sebastian Karcher (Moynihan, Political Science) - Collaborative Research: Empowering Open Law and Science |
| NSF | Social Psychology | Supports research and research infrastructure to advance basic knowledge in social psychology, including topics such as: social cognition, attitudes, social and cultural influence, stereotypes, motivation, decision making, group dynamics, aggression, close relationships, social and affective neuroscience, social psychophysiology, emotions, prosocial behavior, health-related behavior, and personality and individual differences. Investigators are encouraged to contact a Social Psychology Program Director before submitting a proposal to confirm its fit with the scope and priorities of the Social Psychology Program. Such contact will be most productive by sending a one-page (maximum) summary with an overview of the planned proposal, which includes a description of intellectual merit and broader impacts. | Jan 17, 2022 Jul 15, 2022 | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | |
| NSF | Linguistics | Basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages and of natural language in general. | Jan 17, 2022 Jul 15, 2022 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| NSF | Sociology | Supports basic research on all forms of human social organization — societies, institutions, groups, and demography — and processes of individual and institutional change. | Jan 17, 2022 Aug 15, 2022 | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | 2020 - Amy Lutz (CPR, Sociology) - RAPID: Working and Teaching from Home in New York State amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| NSF | Human-Environmental & Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) | Supports basic scientific research about the nature, causes, and/or consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and/or environmental processes across a range of scales. | Jan 18, 2022 Aug 16, 2022 | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | 2021 - Ethan Coffel (Geography and the Environment) - The Crop-Climate Feedback Cycle and its Implications for Global Food Production |
| FDN | Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation | Supports work in the social and natural sciences and aligned disciplines to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence in the contemporary world. Notable programs include Distinguished Scholar, Emerging Scholar, and African Fellows Program. | Feb 1, Mar 1, Aug 1 (varies by program) | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| NEH | Public Humanities Projects | Supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person programming. | Aug 2022* (prior deadline: Aug 11, 2021) | Assistant Director of Research Development, Humanities | ||
| DOD | Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences BAA for Basic Scientific Research, Foundational Science Research Unit (2021-2022) | Supports research on fundamental theories and new domain areas in behavioral and social sciences with high potential impact on Army issues. | Aug 7, 2022 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| FDN | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Aims to strengthen, promote and defend the contributions of the humanities and arts through four primary programs: Higher Learning; Arts and Culture; Public Knowledge; and Humanities in Place. | Rolling | Assistant Director of Research Development, Humanities | ||
| FDN | Carnegie Corporation of New York | Supports relevant grants in the areas of Education, Democracy, and International Peace and Security. | Rolling | Nora K. Heaphy Director, Foundation Relations | ||
| FDN | Ford Foundation | Through the Creative and Free Expression program, supports work that explores how cultural narratives affect and shape our reality and how the arts, journalism, and film can contribute to fairer and more just societies. | Rolling | Nora K. Heaphy Director, Foundation Relations | ||
| FDN | Henry Luce Foundation | Offers funding through separate programs for American Art, Religion in International Affairs, Religion & Theology, and others. | Rolling | Nora K. Heaphy Director, Foundation Relations | ||
| NSF | Archaeology and Archaeometry | Funds research which furthers anthropologically relevant archaeological knowledge. | Rolling | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| NSF | Accountable Institutions and Behaviors (AIB) | Jan 17, 2022 Aug 15, 2022 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | |||
| NSF | Anthropology, Biological | Jan 20, 2022 July 20, 2022 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | |||
| NSF | Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, High-Risk Research in | Rolling | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | |||
| NSF | Anthropology, Cultural | Jan 17, 2022 Aug 15, 2022 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | |||
| NSF | Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS) | Jan 17, 2022 Aug 18, 2022 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | 2019 - Saba Siddiki (CPR, PAIA) - RCN: Coordinating and Advancing Analytical Approaches for Policy Design (co-funded with Political Science) | ||
| NSF | Economics | Jan 18, 2022 Aug 18, 2022 | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| NSF | Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) | Supports multi-disciplinary research to sustain economic competitiveness, to promote worker well-being, lifelong and pervasive learning, and quality of life, and to illuminate the emerging social and economic context and drivers of innovations that are shaping the future of jobs and work. | None currently | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | |
| NSF | Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) | Jul 25, 2022 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | |||
| NSF | Growing Convergence Research (GCR) | Feb 7, 2022 | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| NSF | Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS) | Feb 3, 2022 | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| NSF | Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) | Mar 3, 2022 | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| NSF | Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) | Feb 7, 2022 | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| NSF | Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) | Jan 27, 2022 Aug 25, 2022 | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| NSF | Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) | Supports research projects that address cybersecurity and privacy and draw on expertise in one or more of these areas: computing, communication and information sciences; engineering; education; mathematics; statistics; and social, behavioral, and economic sciences. | Sept 30, 2021 | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | |
| NSF | Security and Preparedness (SAP) | Jan 17, 2022 Aug 15, 2022 | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| NSF | Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) | TBD for FY 2022 | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| NSF | Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) | TBD | Recent Grants | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| NIH | Varies by program; see Standard Application Due Dates | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||||
| FDN - W.T. Grant | Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence | Seeks studies about how to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth. | TBD prior deadline (LOI): Aug 4, 2021 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| FDN - W.T. Grant | Research Grants on Reducing Inequality | Seeks studies to build, test, and increase understanding of responses to inequality in youth outcomes. | TBD prior deadline (LOI): Aug 4, 2021 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | 2020 - Sarah Hamersma (CPR, PAIA) - Keeping the 'Great Equalizer' Fed: SNAP Access and Young Adults’ Educational Engagement | |
| FDN - W.T. Grant | William T. Grant Scholars | Career development program supporting promising early-career researchers with interests in reducing inequality or understanding the use of research evidence. | TBD prior deadline: Jul 7, 2021 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| FDN - W.T. Grant | Institutional Challenge Grant | Encourages research institutions to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Applications are welcome from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, child welfare, mental health, immigration, and workforce development. | Sep 14, 2021 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| FDN - Russell Sage | Research Grants | Supports research in four principal programs: Behavioral Economics; the Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social, Political and Economic Inequality. | Nov 10, 2021 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | 2020 - Madonna Harrington Meyer (CPR, Sociology) and Colleen Heflin (CPR, PAIA): Hunger Snaps: Food Insecurity Among Older Adults (qualitative study and quantitative study, respectively) | |
| FDN - Russell Sage | Pipeline Grants Competition | Seeks to promote diversity in the social sciences broadly, including racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity. | Nov 4, 2021 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | 2020 - Ying Shi (CPR, PAIA) - Examining Underrepresented Students’ Access to and Gains from Selective Public High School Education | |
| FDN - Russell Sage | Improving Education and Reducing Inequality in the United States (Targeted Competition) | TBD prior deadline: Apr 29, 2021 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | |||
| FDN - RWJ | Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program | TBD prior deadline: May 5, 2021 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | |||
| FDN - RWJ | Evidence for Action: Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health | Supports research that yields findings about the population health, well-being and equity impacts of specific policies, programs and practices. Also see Upcoming Funding Opportunities, which have varying deadlines. | Rolling | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | ||
| NSF | SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) | Nov 1, 2021 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | |||
| NSF | Science and Technology Studies (STS) | Feb 2, 2022 Aug 3, 2022 | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School | |||
| NSF | Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) | TBD prior deadline: Feb 24, 2021 | ||||
| NSF | Trans-Atlantic Platform Recovery, Renewal, and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World (T-AP RRR) | TBD | Director of Research Development, Maxwell School |
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