College of Liberal and Fine Arts

• Tarleton University Organized Research (ORG) Grants
  Objectives: develop the university's research efforts, improve its research accomplishments, and enhance the university's and faculty's visibility within the academic community. Funding is from September 1 through August 31 of the following year.
  2007 Application Deadline: 5:00 p.m., Monday, July 16, in the Mathematics Office, Room 142, Mathematics Building
  
  
• Humanities Summer Seminars and Institutes
  CFDA Number: 45.163                             RFA Number:
  Grants to support national faculty development programs in the humanities for school teachers and for college and university teachers. Seminars and institutes may be as short as two weeks or as long as six weeks.  Program formats: 1) Seminar for school teachers where 15 participants explore a topic or set of readings under the guidance of a scholar; 2) Institute for school teachers where 25 to 30 participants are given the best available scholarship on important humanities issues; 3) Seminar for college and university teachers where 15 participants conduct scholarly research or focused study under an expert's direction; and 4) Institute for college and university teachers where 25 to 30 participants focus on a topic of major importance in understanding undergraduate curricula.
  Application: March 1, 2007 for Summer, 2008 projects
  
  
• Humanities Texas Grant Program
  Funds forums, lectures, panel discussions, conferences, teacher institutes and workshops, reading- or film-discussion groups, site interpretations, development and fabrication of interpretive exhibits, television/radio programming and film production, and interactive multi-media programming. Program must be firmly grounded in the humanities, and humanities scholars must play an active role in their conception, design and execution. Program must encourage participants to think critically about enduring questions of value, purpose and meaning and must promote a better understanding of ourselves and others. Program must involve partnerships between community organizations, cultural institutions and humanities scholars. And, finally, the program must be directed primarily to the general public outside of the regular school or college classroom. Three types of grants are offered: mini-grants of up to $1,500 to cover the cost of a public program; community project grants to fund comprehensive public programs such as lectures, seminars, conferences, interpretive exhibits and materials, town forums and civic discussions, and teacher workshops; and media project grants.
  Letter of Intent: August 15 and February 15
  Application Deadline: September 15 and March 15
  
  
• NSF - Geography and Regional Science
  Funding Opportunity Number: 98-1352
  The Geography and Regional Science Program sponsors research on the geographic distributions and interactions of human, physical and biotic systems on the Earth's surface. Investigators are encouraged into the nature, causes, and consequences of human activity and natural environmental processes across a range of scales. Projects on a variety of topics (both domestic and international) qualify for support if they offer promise of contributing to scholarship by enhancing geographical knowledge, concepts, theories, methods, and their application to societal problems and concerns. Support also is provided for projects that explicitly integrate undergraduate and graduate education into the overall research agenda.
  Application Deadline (Regular Proposals): January 15, 2008; August 15, 2007.
  
  
• NSF - Law and Social Sciences
  Funding Opportunity Number: 98-1372
  The Law and Social Science Program supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors. These can include, but are not limited to, research designed to enhance the scientific understanding of the impact of law; human behavior and interactions as these relate to law; the dynamics of legal decision making; and the nature, sources, and consequences of variations and changes in legal institutions. For example, research on social control, crime causation, violence, victimization, legal and social change, patterns of discretion, procedural justice, compliance and deterrence, and regulatory enforcement are among the many areas that have recently received program support.
  Application Deadline: January 15, 2008; August 15, 2008.
  
  
• NSF - Political Science
  CFDA Number: n/a                                            Funding Opportunity Number: NSF PD 98-1371
  The Political Science Program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include, but are not limited to, American government and politics, comparative government and politics, international relations, political behavior, political economy and political institutions. In recent years, program awards have supported research projects on bargaining processes; campaigns and elections, electoral choice, and electoral systems; citizen support in emerging and established democracies; democratization, political change, and regime transitions; domestic and international conflict; international political economy; party activism; political psychology and political tolerance.
  Application Deadlines: January 15, 2008; August 15, 2008.
  
  
• NSF - Social Psychology
  CFDA Number: 47.075                                     Funding Opportunity Number: NSF PD 98-1332
  NSF's Social Psychology program supports basic research on human social behavior, including cultural differences and development over the life span.  Among the many research topics supported are: attitude formation and change, social cognition, personality processes, interpersonal relations and group processes, the self, emotion, social comparison and social influence, and the psycho physiological and neurophysiological bases of social behavior.
  Application Due: January 15, 2008; July 15, 2008.
  
  
• NSF - Sociology
  Funding Opportunity Number: NSF PD 98-1331
  Supports basic research on all forms of human social organizations -- societies, institutions, groups and demography -- and processes of individual and institutional change. Encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology. Supports both original data collections and secondary data analysis that use the full range of quantitative and qualitative methodological tools. Theoretically grounded projects that offer methodological innovations and improvements for data collection and analysis are also welcomed.
  Applications Due: Regular Research - January 15, 2008; August 15, 2008.
  
  
• NSF - Methodology, Measurement and Statistics (MMS)
  The MMS Program is an interdisciplinary program that supports the development of innovative methods and models for the social and behavioral sciences. The MMS program interacts with the other programs in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), as well as other programs in the Foundation, most notably the Statistics and Probability Program in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences. In general, MMS seeks proposals that are interdisciplinary in nature, methodologically innnovative, and grounded in theory. The MMS Program welcomes proposals in the following areas: general research and infrastructure activities; mid-career research fellowships; research on survey and statistical methodology; and doctoral dissertation research.
  Applications Due: January 16, 2008 and August 16, 2008
  
  
• National Endowment for the Humanities Implementation Grants for Special Projects
  CFDA Number: 45.164                                 Funding Opportunity Number: none
  Special projects grants support a variety of public humanities program formats, including public discussion forums, hands-on learning experiences, discussion series based on reading or film-viewing, multi-faceted conferences, or symposia. Applicants already should have identified their project's key humanities themes, relevant scholarship and program formats. NEH strongly encourages Special Projects that take place at multiple venues regionally or nationally. Public humanities programs support lifelong learning in history, literature, comparative religion, philosophy and other fields of the humanities for broad public audiences.
  Applications Due: typically January; specific 2008 deadline pending
  
  
• Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin Research Fellowships.
  Approximately 50 fellowships are awarded annually to support scholarly research projects in all areas of the humanities. Priority will be given to those proposals that concentrate on the Center's collections and that require substantial on-site use of them. Potential research areas include: 18th century studies; British literary and historical subjects; 20th century art, women's studies and general literature and culture; Jewish authors; rare book and print collections, with emphasis given to work with illustrated books; photography collections; and general literary and cultural studies. Fellowships are $3,000 for one month. $1,000 travel stipends also are available for projects that require less than one month of research at the center, but a stipdend can't be combined with a fellowship.
  Application Due: February 1, 2008.
  
  
• NSF - Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC)
  Funding Opportunity Number: NSF 06-610                                         CFDA Number: 47.075
  IOC supports scientific research directed at advancing understanding of innovation and organizational phenomena. Levels of analysis may include (but are not limited to) individuals, groups and/or institutional arrangements. Research may involve industrial, educational, service, government, not-for-profits, voluntary organizations or interorganizational arrangements. IOC-supported research should ordinarily combine theory with empirical validation. IOC research might draw on theories and findings from fields including, but not limited to, organization theory, organizational behavior, industrial engineering, industrial/organizational psychology, organizational sociology, risk management, public administration, computer science, information science, and management science. Research methods may span a broad variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including but not limited to archival analyses, surveys, simulation studies, comparative case studies, and network analyses.
  Application Deadline: February 2 annually
  
  
• Texas Council for the Humanities
  Working in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Humanities Texas provides financial support to nonprofit organizations and institutions for humanities programs aimed at the general public, both adults and young people, outside of the regular school or college classroom. Programs targeting special audiences such as K-12 teachers, ethnic and community groups, or professional groups are also welcome. Mini-grants cover up to $1,500 of the costs associated with public programs such as funding a speaker, renting a traveling exhibit (including those provided by Humanities Texas), and/or developing public programming related to an unexpected local, national or international event. Community project grants fund comprehensive public programs such as lectures, seminars and conferences; book and film discussions; interpretive exhibits and materials; town forums and civic discussions; and teacher workshops. Media project grants fund film, radio, or interactive programming related to the humanities.
  Letter of Intent/Draft Application: February 15, 2007 and August 15, 2007
  Application Deadline: March 15, 2007 and September 15, 2007
  
  
• Research on Social Work Practice and Concepts in Health (R01) - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  CFDA Number: various                            Funding Opportunity Number: PA-07-292
  Goal is to encourage the development of empirical research on social work practice, concepts and theory as those relate to the NIH public health goal of improving health outcomes for persons with medical and behavioral disorders and conditions. Areas of interest include studies that characterize the usual and/or "best" practices of social workers and how these relate to health outcomes, studies establishing the efficacy and effectiveness of health-related interventions and services delivered by social workers, aspects of health-related social work services that are unique to specialty health care settings (e.g. clinics, hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, etc.) and non-specialty health care settings (e.g. social service agencies, schools, jails, prisons, etc.), the nature and impact of routine prevention or clinical practice, and factors related to successful dissemination and implementation of social work services and interventions with proven effectiveness.
  Application Deadlines: February 5, June 5, and October 5 [closes May 9, 2009]
  
  
• Parenting Capabilities and Health Outcomes in Youths and Adolescents - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  CFDA Number: various                             Funding Opportunity Number: PA-06-098
  Applications aimed at increasing the parenting capacities while simultaneously focusing on the reduction, elimination or prevention of one or more high-risk health behaviors or poor health habits in youth and adolescent children. Investigators are required to target two or more ineffective parenting practices or behaviors (e.g., lack of appropriate parental monitoring, supervision, and communication; high family conflict and disorganization; parental stress and depression; lack of parent-child bonding; and negative discipline methods) and two or more youth/adolescent high-risk behaviors (e.g., unhealthy dietary behaviors; inadequate physical activity; tobacco use; alcohol and other drug use; sexual behaviors; etc.). These behaviors are frequently established during childhood and adolescent years, continue on to the adult years, and are potentially amendable to a variety of health promotion and prevention efforts.
  Application Due: March 16, July 16 and November 16
  
  
• Sociobehavioral Data Analysis and Archiving in Aging - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  CFDA Number: 93.866                             Funding Opportunity Number: PA-04-123
  Small grant applications to 1) stimulate and facilitate data archiving and secondary analyses of data related to care giving,cognition, demography, economics, epidemiology, behavioral genetics, and other behavioral research on aging; 2) provide support for preliminary projects using secondary analysis that could lead to subsequent applications for other research project grant award mechanisms; 3) provide support for rapid analyses of new databases and experimental modules for purposes such as informing the design and content of future study waves; 4) provide support for the development, enhancement and assembly of new databases from existing data; and 5) provide support for pilot research on under-utilized databases.
  Application Due: March 16; July 16; November 16
  
  
• AHRQ Small Research Grant Program (R03) - Department of Health and Human Services
  CFDA Number: 93.226                             Funding Opportunity Number: PAR-06-448
  Supports pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. Research priorities: translating research into policy, patient safety and quality, patient-centered care, and health care payment and organization structures.
  Application Deadlines: February 16, June 16, and October 16
  
  
• NIH Small Research Grant Program (R03) - Department of Health and Human Services
  CFDA Number: various                       Funding Opportunity Number: PA-06-180
  Funds small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources, including pilot or feasibility studies, secondary analysis of existing data, and development of new research methodology or technology. Goals are to advance understanding of biological systems, improve the control of disease, and enhance health.
  Application Deadlines: February 16, June 16, and October 16
  
  
• NIH - Retirement Economics (R03)
  CFDA Number: 93.866                       Funding Opportunity Number: PA-06-235
  The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites applications for research on retirement economics. Research objectives include, but are not limited to: (1) the determinants of retirement behavior, (2) the variation in work patterns in later life, (3) the evolution of health and economic circumstances of individuals through retirement and into later life, (4) time use and life satisfaction before and during retirement, (5) the implications of retirement trends, (6) retirement expectations, (7) international comparisons of retirement, and (8) the development of innovative retirement modeling techniques.
  Application Due: February 16, June 16 and October 16