Funding for linguistic fieldwork
Oswalt Endangered Language Grants
Deadline: late 2022 (TBA)
Award: typical grants will be no more than $6,000.
Berkeley graduate students (in any department) are invited to apply for funding for linguistic fieldwork on endangered languages. This funding comes through the Robert L. Oswalt Graduate Student Support Endowment for Endangered Language Documentation, given in memory of Robert L. Oswalt (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1961) by his widow and sons. It is restricted to Berkeley graduate students, for linguistic fieldwork on endangered languages (anywhere in the world).
For more details and how to apply, click here.
Other sources of funding
- Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP)
Deadline: TBA - Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) Senior Research Grants (NSF and NEH)
Deadline: February 15, 2022 - Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DLI-DDRIG) (NSF and NEH)
Deadline: January 15 and July 15 annually - Documenting Endangered Languages: Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DEL-DDRIG) (NSF and NEH)
Deadline: September 15 annually - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (Ling-DDRI) (NSF)
Deadline: January 15 and July 15 annually - Graduate Division Fellowships and Awards (UC Berkeley)
Deadline: Various - Institute of International Studies Pre-Dissertation Research Grant (UC Berkeley)
Deadline: March 15, 2022 - Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) Summer Field Research Grant (UC Berkeley)
Deadline: TBA (previously December 15, 2021) - Endangered Language Fund (ELF) Language Legacies Grants
Deadline: March 18, 2022 - Endangered Language Fund (ELF) Native Voices Endowment Grants
Deadline: TBA (previously October 1, 2021) - Foundation for Endangered Lanugages Grant
Deadline: TBA (previously December 31, 2021) - Fellowships for the Documentation of Oral Literature and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Deadline: Temporarily suspended due to COVID-19 - Royal Air Maroc-African Studies Association Student Travel Award
Deadline: TBA (previously April 30, 2019) - West African Research Association Grants and Fellowships (Boston University)
Deadline: Various - Early Career Grant (National Geographic Society)
Deadline: October 9, 2019 - Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research
Deadline: March 1, 2022 - Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
Deadline: TBA (previously November 15, 2021) - Jacobs Research Funds
Deadline: February 15, 2022 - Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grants
Deadline: Annual deadlines on November 1 and May 1 (Note: Does not support the preparation of dictionaries and/or grammars) - International Dissertation Research Fellowship (Social Science Research Council)
Deadline: TBA - Indigenous Languages of Latin America Travel Fund
Deadline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and are due at least 3 weeks before the conference date for travel within the US, and 2 months before the conference date for travel outside of the US.