Finding funding beyond CIAMS

Current Cornell undergraduates can find various funding opportunities at these sites to support undergraduate research at Cornell and beyond:

• Off-campus Opportunities Fund (OCOF): A central place to look for support for living expenses during the summer 
• College of Arts and Sciences: options to support undergraduate research
• College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Undergraduate Student Grants: for research and research-related travel, including travel to present at conferences
• Human Ecology summer research stipends (both the student and faculty member must be in CHE)
• College of Engineering Student Grant Program 
• The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has a wide range of funding opportunities for undergraduates:
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships
  • Global Summer Internships - some of these are available to provide funding for fieldwork for senior thesis research 
  • Asian Studies Study, Research and Service Travel Grants  
• Near Eastern Studies Department: Kroll Travel Awards (Near Eastern Studies): for travel to Israel or the Palestinian Territories
• David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement grants

Microgrants 

For students and scholars from "working-class and historically looted communities"

• Black Trowel Collective Microgrants: for students and scholars in archaeology
• The Sportula: for students and scholars in Classics and related fields

Other funding sources

• Archaeological Institute of America: a range of grants, fellowships, and awards for archaeological research and travel as well as conference travel, museum internship funding, and field school funding
• Dumbarton Oaks fellowships and awards: residential fellowships and non-residential awards in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian Studies
• HASTAC Scholars fellowship program: 2-year program "building a community of students working at the intersection of technology and the arts, humanities, and sciences." 
• Society for American Archaeology
  • Native American Scholarships
  • Historically Underrepresented Groups Scholarship (HUGS)

​Cornell University Graduate School grants: 

• Conference Travel Grant: Supports graduate students traveling to present their work at a conference
• Research Travel Grant : Supports graduate students traveling to conduct thesis/dissertation research
• Intercampus Travel Grant: Supports doctoral students traveling between Cornell's Ithaca and NYC campuses to advance their dissertation research
• Summer Foreign Language Grant: Supports travel to a summer language intensive program outside the U.S.
• President's Travel Fund for the Humanities: Supports travel for graduate students who have already received a Graduate School Conference Travel Grant and will be presenting at a second conference.

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies grants

• Global PhD Research Grants 
• Global Racial Justice Graduate Fellowships
• International Research Travel Grants
• Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships
• Institute for European Studies Graduate Research Grant
• A range of other region-specific conference and research grants - check the Einaudi Center's list to explore options

Society for the Humanities fellowships and grants:

• Timothy Murray Graduate Travel Grants from the Society of the Humanities: For humanities PhD students 
• Mellon Graduate Fellowships: 1-year residential fellowship, theme changes annually
• Community Partnership Grants: collaborative public humanities projects in which Cornell students work with regional organizations – libraries, museums, community centers, etc.
• Humanities Centers Initiative Public Humanities Grant: for advanced graduate students conducting public-facing projects
• Public Humanities Fellowships: 1-year fellowship to develop a public-facing project based on one’s own research 
• Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities: sponsored by Cornell University Library and The Society for the Humanities. Offers workshops and collaboration on topics in digital scholarship, including an annual summer fellowship.
• HWW National Predoctoral Career Diversity Residential Summer Workshop: for PhD students interested in careers outside the academy
• Small grants for graduate student working groups: Dissertation writing groups, media studies, translation, etc.

Other grants:

• Kroll Travel Awards (Near Eastern Studies): for travel to Israel
• David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement grants

Useful fellowship database on the grad school website: https://gradschool.cornell.edu/policies/fellowships/. Includes both internal and external grants 

Many external grants are open to early-career scholars and senior scholars as well as to graduate students. 

Microgrants 

For students and scholars from "working-class and historically looted communities"

• Black Trowel Collective Microgrants: for students and scholars in archaeology
• The Sportula: for students and scholars in Classics and related fields

Research and travel grants for multiple fields and regions:

• American Association of University Women (AAUW): Fellowships and grants for women in higher education, including dissertation completion grants.  
• American Philosophical Society: A range of fellowships and grants, including fellowships for archival and museum research, and research grants, including a dissertation completion fellowship. 
• Archaeological Institute of America: a range of grants, fellowships, and awards for archaeological research and travel as well as conference travel, museum internship funding, and field school funding
• CAORC (Council of American Research Centers):
  • Multi-Country Research Fellowship: for ABD ("all but dissertation") PhD students and early career scholars, involving research in 2+ countries
  • CAORC-NEH Senior Research Fellowship: In partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities 
  • List of fellowships offered by Council of American Overseas Research Centers member institutions
• Dumbarton Oaks fellowships and awards: residential fellowships and non-residential awards in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian Studies
• The Getty Foundation Residential Grants and Fellowships for research "in the history of art, collecting, and conservation," including grants for senior scholars and artists, pre-doctoral fellowships, and library research grants
• HASTAC Scholars fellowship program: 2-year program "building a community of students working at the intersection of technology and the arts, humanities, and sciences."
• Herb Society of America Research Grant: "supports the research of the horticultural, scientific, and/or social use of herbs throughout history;" for archaeo- and ethnobotany.
• The Fulbright Program: 
  • Fulbright U.S. Student Program: for U.S. students doing research abroad for 6 months or longer; varies by country
  • Fulbright Foreign Student Program: for foreign students to study, teach, or do research in the U.S.
  • Fulbright-Hayes Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program
• Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships: for doctoral students in the final year of their dissertation
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants 
• National Geographic Explorers grants: open to graduate students and early career scholars (Level I) and senior scholars (Level II) 
• National Science Foundation (NSF):
  • Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP): for students in their first or second year of graduate school
  • Archaeology Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Awards (Arch-DDRI): for dissertation-stage PhD students; supports research and travel for the dissertation
  • Archaeology NSF funding for faculty/senior scholars, including Senior Archaeology proposals, Archaeometry proposals, and High-Risk Research in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (HRRBAA)
  • Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES): full proposals from seniors scholars
• Rust Family Foundation Archaeology Grants Program: Funds archaeological fieldwork, labwork, conservation, and anything else that the foundation considers to constitute “the development of primary archaeological evidence.”  
• Society for American Archaeology (SAA): 
  • Native American Scholarships Fund
  • Historically Underrepresented Groups Scholarship (HUGS)
• Social Science Research Council
  • International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF): for doctoral students
  • A range of other fellowship and grant opportunities
• Templeton Foundation grants 
• Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research: STEM-oriented program; categories relevant to archaeologists include anthropology, geosciences, climate science, etc.  
• Visiting student or visiting researcher positions: for students or faculty who receive funding to work for an extended stretch (>4mo) at an overseas institution. Examples: Oxford or Cambridge
• Wenner-Gren Foundation:
  • Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
  • Other grants and programs 

Regional research centers and grants

• American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC): http://www.arisc.org/ (go to Resources menu, then Research Links)
• ASOR (American Society of Overseas Research), which offers grants/fellowships for student travel/research and other things: http://www.asor.org/fellowships/dig-fellowships/ and lists some other potentially relevant fellowship sources (some not above) of interest at: http://www.asor.org/fellowships/dig-fellowships/ and also lists other fellowships/grants available via CAARI (Cyprus), ACOR (Jordan), AIAR (Israel) and Baghdad Committee (Mesopotamia) at: http://www.asor.org/fellowships/dig-fellowships/

Research and travel funding within specific countries or regions:

• Africa:
  • Egypt: American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)
  • North Africa (Maghreb): American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) - Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia
  • West Africa: West African Research Association 
• Americas:
  • American Philosophical Society
    • Phillips Fund for Native American Research
    • APS Short-Term Resident Research Fellowships: for 1-3 months of research at the APS Library and Museum in Philadelphia, which has collections in the history of science, Native American languages and culture, and early colonial and revolutionary history in North America
  • H. and T. King Grants for Archaeology of the Ancient Americas (Society for American Archaeology)
  • American Southwest and South American Andes: Mathew Tobin Cappetta Scholarship (Society for American Archaeology)
  • Mexico and South America: Several grants offered by The Americas Research Network 
  • North America Historic and Cultural Resource Preservation: a directory of grants and funding sources for historic archaeology and cultural resource preservation and related work in the USA.
  • African American Art History Initiative Fellowships (2022-2023)
• Eurasia
  • Bangladesh: American Institute of Bangladesh Studies
  • Bulgaria: American Research Center in Sophia Foundation 
  • Cambodia: Center for Khmer Studies (Cambodia)
  • Cyprus: Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute 
  • France: Chateaubriand Fellowship Program
  • Germany: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
  • Greece: 
    • American School of Classical Studies at Athens 
    • British School at Athens 
    • Institute for Aegean Prehistory 
  • Indonesia: American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS):
  • India: American Institute of Indian Studies
  • Iran: American Institute of Iranian Studies
  • Iraq: The Academic Research Institute in Iraq
  • Israel: Albright Institute
  • Italy
    • American Academy in Rome: Rome Prize, fellowships for Italian and American scholars and artists
    • Lemmermann Foundation
  • Jordan: American Center of Research
  • Mongolia: American Center for Mongolian Studies
  • Myanmar (Burma): Inya Institute
  • Near East: American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
  • Nepal: The Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
  • Pakistan: American Institute of Pakistan Studies
  • Palestine: Palestinian American Research Center
  • South Caucasus: American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC)
  • Sri Lanka
  • Turkey: 
    • ARIT (American Research Institute in Turkey): 
    • ANAMED, Koç University
  • Yemen: American Institute for Yemeni Studies

• Cornell support for planning, managing, and closing a project as well as resources to find funding opportunities
• Cornell University Library LibGuide for grants and scholarships
• HistoricFunding.com: a database of funding resources for historic preservation, cultural resources, and the arts
• GRAPES database from UCLA Graduate Education
• Academic Jobs Wiki: check the table of contents for the most recent year's Dissertation Fellowships list