Other Funding

Current Funding Opportunities Outside ASEH

Summer Fellowships 2010, Environmental History and Policy Program, Chemical Heritage Foundation

The Center for Contemporary History and Policy at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, PA seeks proposals for summer fellows in the Environmental History and Policy Program. While in residence, 2010 fellows will pursue research projects contributing to the program’s core project, “Controlling Chemicals.” The main outcome is the completion of a white paper suitable for publication in the program’s series, Studies in Sustainability.  Fellows are expected to consider audiences which can benefit from their work, as well as an alternative distribution method to complement CHF’s efforts. For example, options may include conference participation or a contribution to an external publication.
 
 
Project background
 
Chemicals provide the material backdrop of our everyday lives. The Environmental History and Policy Program’s “Controlling Chemicals” explores the dynamic ways in which governments, industries, scientists, and citizens all play an essential role in developing processes to create a balance in our chemical society.
 
The Studies in Sustainability series serves as a forum for discussion about the unique challenges and opportunities that exist in transforming chemistry into a tool for sustainability. The series, which highlights the intersecting roles played by emerging science, innovation, regulation, standards, and civil action, aims to publish and make immediately available dynamic new research.  Forthcoming published reports from the 2009 fellows include research on pesticide policies in the 1970s, the regulation of emerging nanotechnologies, and the role of NGOs in supporting chemical and nanomaterial regulatory reform.
 
 
Research and Proposals
 
Summer fellows are tasked with developing materials appropriate for the “Controlling Chemicals” project.  Each fellow will create a white paper (5000-7500 words) on a topic related to his/her own work, with consideration for how the topic can reach non-academic audiences and address existing research gaps/opportunities in the field.  Of specific interest are proposals for projects which build on materials available at CHF, which contribute to an ongoing project, or which extend our research into new areas of interest.
 
Suggested themes and topics
Chemical regulations (International, Federal, State)
Natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale
Climate change and energy
The role of standards and standards making organizations
Green chemistry
Emerging science and health (e.g., endocrine disruption, human biomonitoring, and environmental basis of disease)
 
We welcome applications/project proposals from researchers at all stages of their careers and from a diversity of fields: STS, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, environmental or science policy, science and engineering. Because the fellowship is limited to 10 weeks, preference will be given to proposals suggesting projects which are already underway by the applicant and which provide a loose timeline for how proposed research can be completed during the residency.
 
 
Additional Details
 
Fellowship outcomes
Each fellow’s research should result in a paper suitable for publication in the Studies in Sustainability series after the 10 week term. Both print and electronic versions will be produced and fellows retain the copyright to their materials.
 
Duration, Community, and Support
In an effort to foster an atmosphere of collaboration and community, summer fellows serve in residence for the 10 weeks, with access to working space, a flexible schedule, and CHF research libraries and tools.  Fellows are also welcomed into the broader CHF community of short- and long-term fellows and scholars, providing valuable networking opportunities.
 
Fellows receive a modest stipend to support individual expenses. No other support (e.g., travel) is available.
While CHF cannot guarantee housing for fellows, we offer support in searching for appropriate accommodations, as well as insider tips about living in Philadelphia.
 
Application
To apply, please send 1) a two page cover letter, to include: a description of the proposed project, its fit within your current research activities, and a brief description of how the project addresses current research gaps or opportunities, attracts interested audiences, etc; and 2) a one page CV. For graduate students, please arrange to have one letter of recommendation sent directly to the CHF.
 
Proposals (and recommendations) should be submitted electronically to Elizabeth McDonnell (emcdonnell@chemheritage.org). Please direct questions to Jody Roberts, program manager (jroberts@chemheritage.org). All materials should be submitted by 1 March 2010. Decisions will be made no later than 15 March 2010.

Graduate Research Assistantship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

Comparative ecology and environmental history of natural and anthropogenic meadows in the Tatra Mountains (Poland and Slovakia) and Rocky Mountains (USA)

A graduate research assistantship is available to compare meadows in the Tatra Mountains of Poland and Slovakia with those in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S.  Meadows are critical ecosystems for supporting biodiversity, hydrologic processes, and producing forage for native and domestic animals.  Meadows also provide scenic vistas of landscapes, mountain peaks, and floral displays, and support historic cabins and other structures.  Some meadows are natural and created by hydrologic and ecological processes that limit tree establishment and forest development.  Other meadows have been created by human activities, including tree cutting, periodic or annual mowing, grazing of domestic livestock, irrigation and burning. 

Natural and anthropogenic meadows occur in both central Europe and the Rocky Mountains, but little is known about their hydrologic or ecological similarities and differences, or their environmental histories on short or long time scales.  These comparisons will be used to provide insights into climate change monitoring.  This project provides support for one MS/MA or Ph.D. graduate student from Poland or Slovakia, or a US citizen fluent in either Polish or Slovakian, to work with us at Colorado State University comparing mountain meadows in the Tatra Mountains and in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.  The student would analyze the environmental histories of each landscape and meadow, as well as water table depth, timing of snow melt, soil water content, soil organic matter content, carbon flux, grazing animal forage utilization, flora and vegetation composition, and current and recent land uses. 

The research will inform our collective understanding of how meadows in parks (Rocky Mountain National Park, and Tatra National Parks in Poland and Slovakia) may respond to climate change.  Park meadow management policies will be summarized, and a comparative analysis of anticipated climate change consequences (working hypotheses) will be provided. 

The student will be enrolled in either the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology or Department of History at Colorado State University.  Applicants must possess a Bachelors or Masters degree in a suitable field (hydrology, wetland ecology, plant ecology, soils, environmental history), be physically capable of working in high elevation sites and performing demanding work.  Student will be provided with a monthly stipend. Tuition and field expenses are provided.  Send letter of interest, CV and list of references to Dr. David J. Cooper at: David.Cooper@colostate.edu and Dr. Mark Fiege at: Mark.Fiege@colostate.edu

John H. Daniels Fellowship at the National Sporting Library in Middleburg, Virginia

The National Sporting Library, a research institution specializing in horse and field sports, invites applications for research fellowships from university faculty in the humanities and social sciences, museum and library professionals, journalists, and independent scholars.  Research disciplines include history, art history, literature, American studies, and area studies.  Past and current projects include the history of ethics in fly fishing, hunting imagery in 18th-century French portraiture, and Early Modern horsemanship manuals.  Located 42 miles west of Washington, D.C., the Library holds an extensive collection of over 17,000 books, periodicals, manuscripts, and sporting art.  In 2011, the Library will open the National Sporting Art Museum next door in the historic Vine Hill Federal mansion, which will feature 11 galleries displaying the permanent collection of art and temporary exhibits.

The collection covers many aspects of outdoor sports, including fly fishing and angling, shooting sports [including upland game shooting and big game], game birds and wildlife, and hunting dogs.  The F. Ambrose Rare Book Room contains over 4,000 rare volumes from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries in several languages.  The Library contains a wealth of rare angling, hunting, and shooting literature, including 90 editions of Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler; Joseph Seccombe’s Business and Diversion Inoffensive to God (1739) (the first angling text printed in America); Johannes Stradanus’ Venationes (1578) illustrated with engravings of hunting, fishing, and shooting; a first edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America; Ten Days on the Plains, a rare text by Gen. Henry E. Davis describing a hunt led by Buffalo Bill Cody in the western U.S. in 1871; and Abraham Markland’s Pterplegia or the Art of Shooting-Flying (1767).

The fellowship covers approved projects of 12 months or less, and applicants must demonstrate their need to use specific works in the collections.  A monthly stipend, workspace, and complimentary housing (for those outside of the immediate area) are provided.  Applications must be postmarked by February 1, 2010.  For more information, visit our website at http://www.nsl.org/fellowship.html or contact the Director of Communications and Research at 540-687-6542 x 11 or fellowship@nsl.org.

Visiting Scholars Program at Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, University of Oklahoma

The Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma seeks applicants for its Visiting Scholars Program.  The purpose of this program is to assist researchers by providing financial awards for on-campus work in the Center's archives.  Awards are normally from $500 to $1000 to defray the cost of travel and lodging.

The Center's holdings include the papers of 53 former members of Congress, but topics cover more than just the history of that legislative body.  Included in the Center's collections is information on government agriculture programs, flood control activities, water and soil conservation projects, federal-Native American relations, drought relief, and rural development and electrification.  The states best represented are Oklahoma and other western states, such as California, during the twentieth century.  One collection covers Kansas during the nineteenth century.  The Center’s collections are described on the World Wide Web at http://www.ou.edu/special/albertctr/archives/ and in the publication titled A Guide to the Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives (Norman, Okla.: The Carl Albert Center, 1995) by Judy Day, et al., available at many U. S. academic libraries.  Additional information can be obtained from the Center.

The Visiting Scholars Program is open to any applicant.  Emphasis is given to those doing postdoctoral research in history, political science, and other fields.  Graduate students involved in research for publication, thesis, or dissertation are encouraged to apply.  Professional researchers and writers are also invited to apply.   The Center evaluates each research proposal based upon its merits, and funding for a variety of topics is expected.

No standardized form is needed for application.  Instead, a series of documents should be sent to the Center, including: (1) a description of the research proposal in fewer than 1000 words; (2) a personal vita; (3) an explanation of how the Center's resources will assist the researcher; (4) a budget proposal; and (5) a letter of reference from an established scholar in the discipline attesting to the significance of the research.  Applications are accepted at any time.

To obtain more information, please contact Archivist, Carl Albert Center, 630 Parrington Oval, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK  73019.  Telephone: (405) 325-5835.   FAX: (405) 325-6419.  E-mail: channeman@ou.edu.

Georgetown Fellowship in Env. History

Georgetown University announces a graduate fellowship for Ph.D. students in environmental history.  Each year the History Department and Graduate School will provide a renewable, five-year fellowship (covering tuition, living stipend, and health insurance) to an entering Ph.D. student in any area of environmental history.  Interested students should contact John McNeill at: mcneillj@georgetown.edu.   Details concerning Georegtown’s History Ph.D. program may be found at: http://www3.georgetown.edu/departments/history

National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation offers grants through its Science and Society Program:

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5324&org=SES

National Endowment for the Humanities

The National Endowment for the Humanities offers Summer Stipend Awards:

http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends/html

American Council of Learned Societies

The American Council of Learned Societies offers fellowships: http://www.acls.org/fellows.htm

Fulbright Scholar Awards

The Fulbright Scholar Program offers U.S. faculty, administrators and professionals grants to lecture or do research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields, or to participate in seminars. For information on Fulbright Scholar Awards, consult our website at www.cies.org for descriptions of awards and new eligibility requirements.  If you are interested in more information, please write to scholars@cies.iie.org

The Environmental Fellows Program at Harvard University

The Harvard University Center for the Environment will name six new Environmental Fellows in April 2009. Their two-year post-doctoral program will start in September 2009. The fellows will join a group of remarkable scholars who will be beginning the second year of their fellowships. Together, the Environmental Fellows at Harvard will form a community of researchers with diverse backgrounds united by intellectual curiosity, top-quality scholarship, and a drive to understand some of the most important environmental challenges facing society.
The Harvard University Center for the Environment awarded six fellowships in 2008, and expects to award six fellowships in 2009 and six per year thereafter. The Center will organize a co-curricular program to ensure that the fellows get to know each other and each other's work. All fellows will attend biweekly dinners with their colleagues, faculty members, and guests.

Purpose: The Harvard University Center for the Environment created the Environmental Fellows program to enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand Harvard's extraordinary resources to tackle complex environmental problems. The Environmental Fellows will work for two years with Harvard faculty members in any school or department to create new knowledge while also strengthening connections across the University's academic disciplines.

The award: The fellowship will provide an annual stipend of $54,000 plus health insurance, a $5,000 allowance for travel and professional expenses, and other employee benefits.

Selection criteria:

    * Applicant's prior academic and professional success and his or her potential contribution to scholarship or practice
    * Project significance: the potential impact of the research project on scholarship at Harvard and on environmental problems
    * Host's commitment: the host faculty member's enthusiasm for the proposed project and fellow, the host's ability to mentor the fellow, and his or her ability to provide office space and a productive work environment.
     * Diversity: The selection committee will select a group of fellows in 2008 who will complement those selected last year, creating a group of approximately a dozen men and women with diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds and a diverse set of academic interests and skills. The ideal group would include fellows working with host faculty members at every one of Harvard's professional schools and many of the departments overseen by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Recipients-and hosts-may include people with degrees in the sciences, economics, law, government, public policy, public health, medicine, design, and the full array of humanities. Their research topics will be equally varied.

More information is available online at : www.environment.harvard.edu

Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy

For information on the Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy, see:

http://www.amacad.org/hellman.aspx