The Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award is an annual cash award, presented to the developing academic scholar who presents the best paper accepted by a juried academic conference on an aspect of bluegrass music. The recipient will receive a $500 honorarium plus admission to the next IBMA Business Conference and Awards Show. The annual deadline to apply is June 30.
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The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress invites applications for three competitive awards in 2023. The awards support ethnographic fieldwork with occupational groups; work with ethnographic collection materials at the Library of Congress; and ethnographic field research and documentation in the United States, especially by young scholars and documentarians. All three share the same deadline: March 1, 2023.
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is now accepting applications for ARSC Conference Grants for its Annual Conference, to be held May 17-20, 2023, in Pittsburgh, PA. All applications and supporting materials must be received by January 6, 2023.
The Jazz & Heritage Archive is now accepting Applications for their Competitive Two-year Fellowship. The deadline to apply is December 20, 2022.
The Institute for Citizens & Scholars, formerly the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, is still accepting applications for a number of programs for the month of November. Apply now.
The National Endowment for the Humanities invites applicants to the newest grant program of the National Endowment for the Humanities: Cultural and Community Resilience (CCR). The deadlines are January 12, 2023, and early May 2023.
The new AFS Gerald L. Davis Grant creates new pathways for engagement in the field to better support new and returning BIPOC members.
The committee organizing the Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award is inviting applications until June 30, 2022.
The Community Collections Grants from the American Folklife Center fund and support contemporary cultural field research and documentation within diverse communities. Available to individuals and organizations, the grants offer up to $50,000 each to support projects within their communities to produce ethnographic cultural documentation.
The Oral History Association (OHA) offers six annual awards whose winners are announced at its meeting in October. The deadlines for most are July 1, 2022.