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Fellowships & Grants

Fellowships & Grants. in the humanities and related social sciences Suzy Beemer, PhD Associate Director, University Foundation Relations Stanford University. Fellowship or Grant: What’s the difference?. Funding organization’s goal Type of project Selection process. FELLOWSHIP.

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Fellowships & Grants

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  1. Fellowships & Grants in the humanities and related social sciences Suzy Beemer, PhD Associate Director, University Foundation Relations Stanford University

  2. Fellowship or Grant: What’s the difference? • Funding organization’s goal • Type of project • Selection process

  3. FELLOWSHIP • Funding organization’s goal: to promote academic scholarship in specified fields • Project: usually the type of academic research and writing you want to do anyway

  4. FOUNDATION GRANT • Funding organization’s goal: to advance the foundation’s SPECIFIC cause, through new knowledge or solutions • Project: NOT usually an article or book, but— • Specific & problem-based • Collaborative • Impact/result-driven

  5. GRANT (not fellowship) What foundation will fund my project? • RFP? Websites: Foundation priorities Application process: LOI (letter of inquiry)? Proposal components Program Officer

  6. GRANT BUDGETS • STARTING POINT, not last thing • specific $ items: staff, equipment, partial salary, meetings • IDC (indirect costs), ISC (infrastructure charge) • OSR (Office of Sponsored Research): 5 day review in advance of deadline

  7. GRANT REVIEW PROCESS Program officer usually recommends chosen projects to foundation’s board

  8. FELLOWSHIP: Basics • Think Ahead: Can you take the fellowship? • START EARLY • Requirements, materials, directions • Online application • Eligibility

  9. FELLOWSHIPS:In Humanities & Related Social Sciences Portable: The Big Three • ACLS (fall deadline) • Guggenheim (fall deadline) • NEH (spring deadline) * • Residential: Nat’l Humanities Ctr, Radcliffe IAS, IAS, CASBS, Stanford HC, Newberry, Huntington, LoC, American Acad in Rome, etc. * • Dissertation: ACLS, Smithsonian, etc.

  10. FELLOWSHIP:Application Components • Application form • Bibliography • CV or publication list • Letters of recommendation • Budget? • PROPOSAL

  11. FELLOWSHIP: Proposal Formula? No, but this is not creative writing. Consider audience and selection criteria. What wins?

  12. FELLOWSHIP: Review Process • Disciplinary or Multidisciplinary Panels? • Program Officer role

  13. The PROPOSAL: Fellowship • Know your audience • No jargon • Clear, simple language: precise and concrete • Find a reader outside your discipline

  14. The PROPOSAL: Fellowship • E.g. Review Criteria: • Significance & Clarity • Contribution to field • Work Plan • Training and qualifications relative to career stage

  15. The PROPOSAL: Fellowship • Demonstrate how your work contributes to what’s going on in field: convey significance (without overstating)

  16. The PROPOSAL: Fellowship Have a PROJECT, not an idea, (and not an academic essay): • Clearly defined problem/issue to study • Methodology • Work plan & time frame (varies w/ grant)

  17. The PROPOSAL: Fellowship PROVIDE ASSURANCES: • roadmap/hypotheses • previous work • inter- or multidisciplinarity capability • foreign cultures: languages? • archives

  18. The PROPOSAL: Fellowship • Don’t discuss personal benefits, but benefits to field • Don’t say much about personal life or teaching load

  19. The PROPOSAL • DON’T FORGET TO PROOFREAD!!!!

  20. MYTHS • Your only goal in applying is to win a fellowship or grant.

  21. MYTHS • You apply for money so that then you can start a project.

  22. MYTHS • If you don’t win, it means your work isn’t good enough. • Odds • Process of selection • Don’t read anything into rejection; make process automatic; reapply.

  23. FELLOWSHIPS:A QUICK LIST OF . . . DON’TS

  24. FINALLY. . . . GOOD LUCK!

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