If your research requires travel to a specific location - an archive, institution, museum, or library - take a moment to consider applying for a travel grant. These modest awards are intended to support researchers and can be a great way to expand your field of inquiry to other locations. Below are some suggestions to get you started, but you can always do an internet search to find additional travel grants in your field.
Cornell University Research Grants:- Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies Fellowships, John Nolen Research Fund, The Phil Zwickler Memorial Research Grants, and additional opportunities at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives.
Harvard University: Houghton Library Visiting Fellowships: "Fellows in the 2024–2025 cohort will receive a $4,500 stipend and are expected to be in residence at Houghton for four weeks within their fellowship year (July through June), though these do not have to be consecutive weeks."
Friends of Princeton University Library Research Grants - Up to $6,000 plus transportation costs, "applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings in Special Collections, including Mudd Library; as well as rare books in Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, and in the East Asian Library (Gest Collection)." Approximately 40% of applicants are funded.
Stanford University - "The Hoover Institution Library & Archives Scholar Research Support grant provides an award of up to $10,000 to support research based on our collections," with a minimum of ten days on site.
Duke University - "Duke University’s Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library and its research centers provide travel grants of up to $1,000 for researchers whose work would benefit from access to the collections held at Duke. The Rubenstein Library also offers two fellowships of $1,500 for scholars interested in using our German Studies and Jewish Studies collections."
American Philosophical Society - Various opportunities
Rockefeller Archive Center - Located just outside of NYC, a repository for Foundation-related records and holdings.
There are many Fellowships to support different disciplines and with varying requirements. Here are a few with a broad focus:
Princeton University: The Hodder Fellowship: "The Hodder Fellowship will be given to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year. An $86,000 stipend is provided for this 10-month appointment as a Visiting Fellow; no formal teaching is involved."
Center for Fiction (NYC) Emerging Writers Fellowship: "The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships offer grants, editorial mentorship, and other opportunities to early-career New York City-based practitioners who are at a critical moment in their development as fiction writers."