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Upcoming Publication Support Grant Opportunities

The following grant opportunities may be of interest to faculty who are seeking support for planned publications in general and specific disciplines.

Some of these funders make awards to individual writers; some may require a fiscal sponsor. Emerson can serve as a fiscal sponsor many of those cases. Please contact us at orcs@emerson.edu for more details.

Funder Name

Support Offered and Eligible Topic(s)

Next Deadline

Supports the publication of book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of American art that are under contract for publication.

September 15, 2023

Provides funds to a scholar from a group that has experienced discrimination in support of a research and/or publication project. Monies may be used for any expenses integral to research or publication in ethnomusicology.

April 1, 2024

The AAS administers a program for AAS-member authors who require subventions to ensure publication of their first books. Manuscripts must be in English, must make a substantial contribution to the field of Asian Studies, and must be based on primary research in the appropriate languages.

October 1, 2023

Furthermore grants assist nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture, and design; cultural history, the city, and related public issues; and conservation and preservation.
Funds apply to such specific publication components as writing, research, editing, indexing, design, illustration, photography, and printing and binding. 

March 1, 2024

Fellowship awards may be used to fund travel to collections and other expenses associated with research, publication, or other scholarly outcomes related to biographical work.

October 2, 2023

Film & Media Funding: AY23–24

Many Emerson School of the Arts and VMA faculty have expressed interest in finding funding for narrative and documentary film, and media projects. ORCS has prepared a list of film and media funders to get you started.

Some of these funders make awards to individual artists; some may require a fiscal sponsor. Emerson can serve as a fiscal sponsor many of those cases. Please contact us at orcs@emerson.edu for more details.

Funder Name

Film Type/Topic

Next Deadline

narrative fiction feature film related to science, technology or economics in distribution phase

Application open: rolling deadline

documentary film, new works by New England filmmakers: all stages of production

August 31, 2023: Development/Pre-Production
January, 2024 (expected): Production/Post-production

public media film & television projects representing culture & experience of Native Americans

September 30, 2023
December 31, 2023
March 31, 2024
June 30, 2024

documentaries for public television about Asian Americans: production or post-production

October, 2023 (expected)

documentary; short film; feature film

October 31, 2023
March 31, 2024
June 30, 2024

documentary films related to California: Research & Development, Production

November 1, 2023

social issue documentary films highlighting Asian American narratives: research & development and early production

November, 2023 (expected)

feature-length documentaries addressing social issues: advanced development, production & post-production

November 15, 2023
May 15, 2024

small grants to individuals for independent film/media projects focused on environment or climate crisis

December, 2023 (expected)

short films, feature films, new media projects: development, production, post-production

January 1, 2024
June 1, 2024
August 1, 2024

documentary films, radio programs, podcasts that engage with humanities: development, production & distribution

January 10, 2024

non-fiction projects, priority to raising underrepresented voices

Early 2024

long form, shorts or episodic documentaries, podcasts, radio documentaries engaging in climate conversation

February, 2024 (expected)

narrative feature films that address social justice issues: screenwriting, development, or post-production

March, 2024 (expected)

documentaries & limited series on the Latino experience: production & post-production, limited research & development funds

June, 2024 (expected)

documentary producers with deep roots in southern states: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV. Projects in production only.

August, 2024 (expected)

Applicants of color working on standard-length non-fiction projects that have not begun production

August, 2024 (expected)

Faculty Fellowship Opportunities: Fall 2023

As the summer comes to a close, it’s a good time to start thinking ahead to the fall, when a lot of fellowship applications are due. Fellowships have deadlines all year, but a large majority are due in the fall (September through December) for the following academic year.

This post provides examples of some fellowships of interest to Emerson faculty that are due this fall.

For more information about fellowships, how they can supplement a pre-tenure or sabbatical leave, or when to apply for one, please contact us at orcs@emerson.edu.

Fellowship Name

Discipline/Topic

Deadline

Arts, humanities, sciences & social sciences

September 14, 2023

Research abroad, many countries

September 15, 2023

scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts

September 16, 2023

Humanities, theme-based. The 2024-25 theme is “Silence” (what is missing)

September 20, 2023

all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences

September 28, 2023

residential fellowship at Stanford Humanities Center

October 1, 2023

science, engineering, and mathematics

October 5, 2023

all fields of the humanities, natural and social sciences, and the arts; residential fellowship

October 5, 2023

Historical studies, social sciences, sciences, math; residential fellowship

October 15, 2023

minority faculty; commitment to racial justice

October 20, 2023

American history; theme-based. Check back for 2024 theme

November 28, 2023

Book for general public

November 29, 2023

junior faculty; funds projects that will make field/campus more inclusive

December 1, 2023

Limited Submission Funding Opportunity: NEH Summer Stipend

Provost Nomination Requests are Due August 25; Applications due September 20

The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced its annual Summer Stipends fellowship competition for 2023. The NEH deadline for eligible proposal submissions is Wednesday, September 20. The award amount is $6,000 beginning May 1, 2024. 

From the NEH web site: 
The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. The program works to accomplish this goal by:

  • Providing small awards to individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both
  • Supporting projects at any stage of development, but especially early-stage research and late-stage writing in which small awards are most effective
  • Furthering the NEH’s commitment to diversity and inclusion in the humanities by encouraging applications from independent scholars and faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and community colleges

Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months.  NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.


NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS

For those of you who may be considering applying, please note that Emerson may nominate two tenured and/or tenure-track faculty members to apply for the award. Because of this limitation, it is necessary for Emerson to review all potential submissions in an internal limited submission process. Applications submitted by tenured/tenure-track faculty without a nomination will automatically be rejected by the sponsor. 

THE LIMITED SUBMISSION PROCESS
On or before Friday, August 25, potential applicants must complete the Application Form for Provost’s Nomination via Google Forms.  Applicants must include a one-paragraph summary of their proposed project for review by the Provost.   

By September 1, after review by the Provost, nominations will be announced by the Office of Academic Affairs. The nominees will then have the opportunity to complete their proposals in time for submission to the NEH by its September 20 deadline.   


PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
: Applications to NEH are submitted via Grants.gov directly by the individual. ORCS will assist the nominees with this process. 

FURTHER INFORMATION: To find more information about the program, including a previously recorded webinar in which NEH staff answer questions from potential applicants, click on this link. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Eric Asetta or Diana Potter

2024 Creative Capital Award Cycle

Many Emerson faculty artists have been interested in The Creative Capital Foundation’s annual awards. The Foundation will open its 2024 individual grant program on March 1, with letters of inquiry due on March 31, 2023. The Creative Capital Foundation provides awards and advisory services to artists in 34 different disciplines, including visual art, performing arts, film, and literature.

In celebration of their 25th Anniversary, Creative Capital has announced one-time theme for the 2023/2024 grant cycles: “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact.” In the next grant cycle, Creative Capital is seeking proposals for new artistic work that address social, economic, and environmental justice, and advance the global dialogue around the sustainability of artists, our communities, our planet, and beyond.

This year, artists will be able to submit applications for their projects in

Visual Arts: including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture, design, multimedia, installation, video art, new genres, craft, and socially engaged and/or sustainable visual art-based practices

Film & Moving Image: including experimental film, short film, animation, documentary film, narrative film, and socially engaged and/or sustainable film/moving image-based practices

Creative Capital is one of the only non-profit organizations to offer awards to individual artists through an open application process; therefore, it is very competitive, with less than 1% of applicants receiving awards. Creative Capital provides each funded project with up to $50,000 in direct funding, and career development services valued at $45,000.

In recent years, more than 75% of awardees have been artists of color—including Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous artists—of all ages, abilities, and regions across the United States.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.
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External Funding Opportunities: Spring 2023

The Office of Research & Creative Scholarship would like to share the following funding opportunities with deadlines this spring that may be of interest to faculty in the School of the Arts, Marlboro Institute and School of Communication. If you are interested in any of these opportunities, please reach out to the ORCS office.

School of the Arts

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Applications due February 25, 2023
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.

NEA Creative Writing Fellowships
Applications due March 8, 2023
The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applications are reviewed for artistic excellence and artistic merit of the submitted manuscript. In 2023, the program is accepting applications for fellowships in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction). Fellowships in poetry will be accepted in March, 2024.

Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program
Applications due May 17, 2023
The Arts Writers grant supports writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. The foundation also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply.

Marlboro Institute

National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowships
Applications due April 12, 2023
NEH Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities. Award amount ranges from $30,000 to $60,000 for a 6-12 month project period. Faculty may not teach during the grant period.

Boston Athenaeum Fellowship
Applications due April 15, 2023
The Boston Athenaeum (next to campus at 10-1/2 Beacon St) offers short-term fellowships to support the use of Athenaeum collections for research, publication, curriculum and program development, or other creative projects. Each fellowship pays a stipend for a four-week residency and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenaeum. Scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, teaching faculty, and professionals in the humanities as well as teachers and librarians in secondary public, private, and parochial schools are eligible to apply.

NEH Humanities Initiative at Colleges and Universities
Applications due May 9, 2023
The NEH Humanities Initiative at Colleges & Universities strengthens the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new humanities programs, resources (including those in digital format), or courses, or by enhancing existing ones. Projects must be organized around a core topic or set of themes drawn from such areas of study in the humanities as history, philosophy, religion, literature, and composition and writing skills. The project period can be between 1-3 years and the total award is up to 150,000.

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Rolling Deadline
The Delmas foundation intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized. Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.

School of Communication

Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program
Applications due early April, 2023
The Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program is nurturing a new generation of serious and enterprising journalists. This year-long program allows writers early in their careers to pursue projects they otherwise would be unable to research and report. Applicants should have less than 10 years’ experience as professional journalists and must be U.S. citizens. There are three tiers to the program: Fellowships provide up to $35,000 in grant money and expense assistance. Full Fellowships, which require that recipients devote their full-time efforts to their project, provide up to $75,000. Alumni Fund Fellowships provide support for recipients to write one in-depth, major essay on their topic.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation Clinical Research Grant
Applications due April 19, 2023
The ASHA Clinical Research Grant advances knowledge of treatment efficacy and assessment practices.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Century Scholars Grant
Applications due April 19, 2023
The ASHA New Century Scholars Grants supports innovative studies that foster new research ideas and directions for investigators, and that will advance knowledge, tools, and techniques in communication sciences and disorders.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Investigators Research Grant
Applications due April 19, 2023
The ASHA New Investigators Research Grant supports new investigators by funding preliminary studies that could launch larger-scale research investigations.

The Society of Environmental Journalists Fund for Environmental Journalism
Applications due in May, 2023

The SEJ offers a small grant for journalism story projects on a particular environmental topic. Proposals that support multiple journalists are encouraged. Award includes a $2,000 stipend per journalist and other travel or project costs up to a total of $5,000.

Film & Media Funding

Many Emerson School of the Arts and VMA faculty have expressed interest in finding funding for narrative and documentary film, and media projects. ORCS has prepared a list of film and media funders to get you started.

Some of these funders make awards to individual artists; some may require a fiscal sponsor. Emerson can serve as a fiscal sponsor many of those cases. Please contact us at orcs@emerson.edu for more details.

Funder Name

Film Type/Topic

Next Deadline

narrative fiction feature film related to science, technology or economics in distribution phase

Application open: rolling deadline

long form, shorts or episodic documentaries, podcasts, radio documentaries engaging in climate conversation

February 1, 2023

narrative feature films that address social justice issues: screenwriting, development, or post-production

March 24, 2023

public media film & television projects representing culture & experience of Native Americans

March 31, 2023

documentary; short film; feature film

March 31, 2023

2023 call for new Visual Arts & Film/Moving Image projects that push boundaries

April 1, 2023

non-fiction projects, priority to raising underrepresented voices

April 17, 2023

feature-length documentaries addressing social issues: advanced development, production & post-production

May 15, 2023 November 15, 2023

short films, feature films, new media projects: development, production, post-production

June 1, 2023

documentaries & limited series on the Latino experience: production & post-production, limited research & development funds

June, 2023 (expected)

documentary producers with deep roots in southern states: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV. Projects in production only.

July, 2023 (expected)

documentary films, radio programs, podcasts that engage with humanities: development, production & distribution

August 9, 2023

documentary film, new works by New England filmmakers: all stages of production

August 31, 2023: Development/Pre-Production
January, 2024 (expected): Production/Post-production

Applicants of color working on standard-length non-fiction projects that have not begun production

September, 2023 (expected)

documentaries for public televison about Asian Americans: production or post-production

October, 2023 (expected)

social issue documentary films highlighting Asian American narratives: research & development and early production

November, 2023 (expected)

documentary films related to California: Research & Development, Production

November 1, 2023

small grants to individuals for independent film/media projects

December, 2023 (expected)

Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowships for Higher Education of Present and Prospective Teachers- Applications Due January 6, 2023

The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation recently issued its 2023 call for applications for Fellowships of Higher Education of Present and Prospective Teachers

The primary purpose of the fellowship is to enable teachers (with an emphasis on present teachers at the college or university level) to study abroad or at some location other than that with which they are most closely associated. The aim is to stimulate and broaden the minds of teachers so as to improve and enhance the quality of their instruction. Grants are primarily for travel and related expenses (salary, scholarships, and equipment are not allowable on these grants).

If you intend to apply, please complete and submit an ORCS pre-approval form (which can be accessed via your Emerson ID and PIN) no later than Friday, December 9 (instructions for using the pre-approval form can be found here). The final application documents must be delivered to ORCS at least three business days before the sponsor deadline of January 6, 2023.

Forms and templates for the program can be downloaded here. The application consists of the following:

  1. Project Description (three pages maximum)
  2. Curriculum Vitae showing the application to be a university or college teacher
  3. Detailed budget indicating the estimated travel expense to be incurred in carrying out the project
  4. Completed Candidate Information Form (see attached document)
  5. Two letters of recommendation from fellow faculty members or professors. One of these must be from your department chair The supporting letters must be on official letterhead.


Award winners will be notified by email on Monday, April 3, 2023. Grants typically do not exceed $6,000 and may begin as early as the Summer of 2023. Projects must be completed no later than May 31, 2025. Applications received after January 6, 2023 will not be considered by the Foundation.

If you have any questions about this opportunity or the application process, please contact Eric Asetta or Diana Potter.

Fellowship Opportunity: Radcliffe (due Sep 8)

The Radcliffe Fellowship is an opportunity to step away from usual routines and dive deeply into a project.  Based in Radcliffe Yard—a sanctuary in the heart of Harvard University—fellows join a uniquely interdisciplinary and creative community.  With access to Harvard’s unparalleled resources, Radcliffe fellows develop new tools and methods, challenge artistic and scholarly conventions, and illuminate our past and our present.
This fellowship is open to full and part-time faculty who have received a doctorate or terminal degree at least 2 years prior to the start of the fellowship, and who have published a monograph or at least two articles in refereed journals or edited collections.

Applications in humanities, social sciences, and creative arts (which includes film/video, visual arts, creative writing and journalism) are due by September 8, 2022, and applications in science, engineering, and mathematics are due by September 29, 2022

Radcliffe welcomes proposals relevant to the Institute’s focus areas, which include:

  • Law, education, and justice
  • Youth leadership and civic engagement
  • Legacies of slavery
  • Women, gender, and society

Applying for a Radcliffe Fellowship is a direct-to-sponsor proposal submission, meaning that an application does not require the signature of an authorized Emerson official. We nonetheless strongly encourage you to notify your department chair and/or school dean if you are thinking of applying.

While ORCS cannot submit a Radcliffe proposal on your behalf, we are happy. to proofread and provide feedback on your application. We will give feedback on any materials sent to us by Monday, August 29.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us!

2022 MIT & Black Public Media Visiting Artist Program

Black Public Media, MIT Open Documentary Lab, and MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology are seeking applicants for the MIT & Black Public Media Visiting Artist Program to support Black creatives who use emerging technology as their medium for documentary and nonfiction storytelling.

Typically participants are filmmakers, artists, journalists, or creative technologists, and the OpenDocLab and Black Public Media communities are primarily composed of storytellers. The mission of this joint program is to support and develop the emerging-tech storytelling skills of a maker who is underrepresented within creative technology industries and bring Visiting Artists into community with like-minded storytellers.

This is a 9-month independent study program from September 2022 to May 2023.  Recipients have the option to do the program remotely or in person at MIT. This is an individual application, and both full-time and part-time faculty are eligible to apply.  The deadline to apply is July 7, 2022. 

More information, including how to apply, can be found here:

https://submissions.blackpublicmedia.org/submit/9e043f44-e27c-467d-8682-51d7afc49729/2022-mit-black-public-media-visiting-artist-program

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