Stephen Lieberman

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History

Historical scholarship on social work, social welfare, and the institutions they built.

32 opportunities · 21 traditional · 11 nontraditional

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Traditional (21)

Research and fellowship programsFellowshipNational Endowment for the HumanitiesArchival and interpretive scholarship, including the history of social welfare institutions, casework, and the profession itself — the federal home for the SSWR History cluster.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Apr, Sep, Nov
Research grants on educationFoundation grantSpencer FoundationEducation research at several scales, from small grants through large field-initiated studies, with a standing willingness to fund qualitative and historical work that federal panels find hard to score.$50k–$500k · Several times a year
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation FellowshipDissertation awardCharlotte W. Newcombe FoundationFunds the final year of dissertation writing for doctoral candidates whose work engages significant questions of religion, ethics, morals, and values. Social welfare and social work Ph.D. students working on moral dimensions of care, faith-based service delivery, or ethics of practice fit the frame.$34k stipend · Annual cycle · Nov
Radcliffe Institute FellowshipFellowshipHarvard Radcliffe InstituteA residential year in Cambridge for scholars to complete an individual project, with social sciences as one of the application categories. Fellows join a multidisciplinary cohort and have access to Harvard resources.$78k–$83k stipend · Annual cycle · Sep
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian ProgramTraining & capacityInstitute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)Supports building the library and archival workforce and the capacity of libraries, archives and LIS graduate programs. Includes Early Career Research and Applied Research grant categories of $75,000-$750,000.$25k–$1M · Annual cycle · Nov
Museum Grants for African American History and CultureTraining & capacityInstitute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)Builds the capacity of African American museums and HBCU collecting institutions and develops their professional workforce, including projects that increase access to museum and archival collections.$5k–$500k · Annual cycle · Mar, Nov
Public Humanities ProjectsFederal grantNational Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Division of Public ProgramsSupports public-audience humanities programming through exhibitions and historic-site interpretation, at planning (up to $75,000) and implementation (up to $750,000) levels.up to $750k · Annual cycle · Dec
National Leadership Grants for LibrariesFederal grantInstitute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)Funds projects that develop, test or adapt replicable practices, models and tools to strengthen library and archival services, including a dedicated Applied Research grant category ($75,000-$750,000).$25k–$1M · Annual cycle · Mar, Nov
Native American Library Services: Enhancement GrantsTraining & capacityInstitute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)Supports Federally recognized Native Communities in enhancing library and archival services, including oral history documentation, digitisation, language and cultural materials, and staff training.$50k–$150k · Annual cycle · Apr, Nov
Collections Stewardship (Humanities Collections and Reference Resources)Federal grantNational Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Division of Collections and InfrastructureFunds preservation of and access to humanities collections: archival arrangement and description, cataloguing, digitisation, transcription and indexing of primary sources, and staff training in collections care.up to $500k · Several times a year · May, Dec
Museums for AmericaFederal grantInstitute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)Project grants for museums in three categories: Lifelong Learning, Community Engagement, and Collections Stewardship and Access. Community Engagement projects can include community-partnered documentation and evaluation work.$5k–$350k · Annual cycle · Nov
Cushwa Center Research Grants and AwardsFoundation grantCushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre DameSix funding programmes for scholarly research, open to scholars outside Notre Dame. The Gustavo Gutierrez Research Awards support projects in theology, history and the social sciences engaging the preferential option for the poor; the Cyprian Davis Award recognises research on the Black Catholic experience; the Mother Theodore Guerin grants support research on Catholic women including oral history interviews. Relevant to social work historians and researchers on poverty, race and gender in faith-based service systems.Not a cash award · Annual cycle · Dec
NEXT – 'Dual Use' of Ideas and Concepts from the Humanities and Social SciencesFoundation grantVolkswagenStiftung (Volkswagen Foundation)Germany's largest private research funder is asking how concepts generated inside the social sciences get lifted out of context and repurposed for anti-liberal, anti-scientific or anti-democratic ends — the classic example being 'knowledge is socially constructed' flattened into 'all truth is opinion' and used to delegitimise research. For social work this is unusually close to home: trauma, resilience, safeguarding, empowerment and vulnerability are all discipline-born concepts that circulate in politics and media in mutated form. Grants fund small interdisciplinary teams to trace that transfAmount not published · Periodic calls · Oct
NEH FellowshipsFederal fellowshipNational Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)Individual stipends of up to $60,000 ($5,000/month for six to twelve months) for scholars to complete humanities books, articles, critical editions or digital scholarship. Paid directly to the applicant, not the institution.up to $60k stipend · Annual cycle · Apr
Native American Library Services: Enhancement GrantsTraining & capacityInstitute of Museum and Library ServicesCompetitive grants to federally recognized Native Communities for library and archival projects, including oral history documentation, digitization, institutional planning, professional training, and language and cultural material development.$50k–$150k · Annual cycle · Apr
DFG Individual Research Grants (Sachbeihilfe)Foundation grantDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG)The central bottom-up instrument of German research funding and the one most social work academics in Germany will use. Any qualified researcher at a German institution can propose a project with a clearly defined topic and duration, in any discipline, with no submission deadline at all — proposals go in when they are ready, via the elan portal. A distinctive sub-track matters for the field: 'long-term projects' in the humanities and social sciences carry continuous funding for seven to twelve years, which is what makes cohort studies, longitudinal welfare research and large corpora feasible.Amount not published · Rolling / open
Truman Library Institute Research GrantsFellowshipHarry S. Truman Library InstituteGrants of up to $2,500, awarded twice a year, to offset the cost of conducting research on the Truman era at the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.up to $3k · Several times a year · Apr, Oct
Rubenstein Library Research Travel Grants (incl. Mary Lily, Franklin Center, Human Rights Archive, History of Medicine)FellowshipDavid M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University LibrariesTravel grants of up to $1,500 for in-person research in Duke's designated collections, including women's history (Sallie Bingham Center), African American history (Franklin Center), the Human Rights Archive, LGBTQ+ history and history of medicine.up to $2k · Annual cycle · Feb
Schlesinger Library Dissertation GrantsDissertation awardArthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard Radcliffe InstituteCompetitive grants of up to $3,000 for doctoral candidates whose dissertation research requires the Schlesinger Library's collections on the history of women and gender in America, including women's social reform and welfare work.up to $3k · Annual cycle
Sam Fishman Travel GrantFellowshipWalter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State UniversityAwards of up to $1,000, reimbursing actual travel expenses, to support travel to the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University to access archival records related to the American labor movement.up to $1k · Annual cycle · Mar
Commonwealth Fund's Paul Engel Memorial Award (Rockefeller Archive Center research stipend)FellowshipRockefeller Archive Center (with the Commonwealth Fund)Stipends of up to $5,000 toward travel and accommodation for short-term research in the Commonwealth Fund's records held at the Rockefeller Archive Center, a source for the history of philanthropy, child guidance, public health and health policy.up to $5k · Rolling / open

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