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This is a non-exhaustive list of some major fellowships and postdocs available to humanities Ph.D. students or recent graduates. Positions are for one year unless noted otherwise. Funding opportunities specific to a particular field will be added later. Please send any suggestions for additions or updates to Claire Waters (cmwaters@ucdavis.edu) and Janie Guhin (jsguhin@ucdavis.edu).

NOTE: Newest listings are shown in blue.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholars Program for postdocs and junior faculty. Deadline mid-October.
http://www.amacad.org/visiting.aspx

American Association of University Women American Fellowships, Dissertation and Postdoctoral. Deadline mid-November.
http://www.aauw.org/education/fga/fellowships_grants/american.cfm

Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship. Deadline early November.
http://www.woodrow.org/newcombe/index.php

Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships (some teaching). Deadline early October.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows/fellowship.html

Cornell University Society for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships (some teaching). Eligible fields vary by year (2008–09 not relevant to scholars of English/American lit.). Deadline late September.
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/mellon_post-d_fellowships.html

Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program  in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists. Deadline mid-February.
http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/postdoc.html

Getty Research Grants for pre- and postdoctoral scholars. Deadline late October.
http://www.getty.edu/grants/research/scholars/

Michigan Society of Fellows: 3-year postdoctoral positions (some teaching). Deadline Sept.30.
http://www.rackham.umich.edu/faculty_staff/sof

Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships (some teaching). Deadline mid-October.
http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/mellon_description.shtml

Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts: 3-year postdoctoral positions (some teaching). Deadline early October.
http://www.princeton.edu/~sf/new_fellowships.shtml

Rice University Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships (some teaching). Deadline early December.
http://hrc.rice.edu/fellowships_mellon.html

UC Davis Graduate Studies Travel Award Application. Deadline: November 13th to English Graduate Office.
http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/ssupport/internal_travel.html

UC DAVIS 2009-10 Internal Fellowship Application for continuing UCD graduate students. Deadline: January 15th. Must apply on-line. http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/ssupport/internal_fellowships.html

UC Humanities Research Institute (at Irvine): various pre-and postdoctoral fellowships. Deadlines December/January depending on program.
http://www.uchri.org/main.php?page_id=3
(follow links under Institute Programs in lefthand frame)

UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Academic Diversity. Deadline mid-November.
http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/ppfp/

University of Chicago Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts: 4-year postdoctoral positions (some teaching). Deadline mid-October.
https://fellows.uchicago.edu/

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity. Deadline early January.
http://research.unc.edu/red/postdoc.php

Wesleyan University Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships. Deadline late October.
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chum/mellon.html

up-dated 1/10/08