Note: The current year's grant recipients can be found on the Faculty Accolades page of our website.
Brandeis faculty receive prestigious grants from many sources to support their scholarship, creative activity, and teaching. Additionally, Brandeis faculty can also review sample proposals from their colleagues, search related grant databases, and review profiles of Brandeis researchers and their research.
Art Matters considers applications by invitation only. Through our current program, Art Matters provides 7,500 USD fellowships to individual artists and collective teams working in contemporary art and performance. Priority is given to artists working with social issues and experimenting with form. Our funds can be used for any and all aspects of artistic practice – from early research and development of ideas, to travel costs, to production and presentation expenses, to day-to-day material or space needs.
2015: lauren woods, (Fine Arts)
Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) Arts and Culture Community Impact Grants help individuals and collaborative groups make their artistic visions a reality. Together, we can explore and appreciate the beauty of Jewish arts and culture.
2021: Ariel Frieberg (Fine Arts): “Love + Salt”
The German Academic Exchange Service, or DAAD, was founded in 1925 and is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation.
2022: Sabine von Mering (CGES): “Promoting German and European Studies in North America”
Mass Cultural Council receives an annual appropriation from the state Legislature and funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, and others. Details on our budget are available online. In turn, Mass Cultural Council makes thousands of grants directly to non-profit cultural organizations, schools, communities, and individual artists, through funding programs that use arts, science, and the humanities to build strong, diverse, livable communities. The beneficiaries of these programs comprise a cross-section of the population and citizens in each Massachusetts city and town.
2021: Tory Fair (Fine Arts)
2018: Tory Fair (Fine Arts)
2018: Susan Lichtman (Fine Arts)
2014: Sonia Almeida (Fine Arts)
2011: Joseph Wardwell (Fine Arts)
2009: Christopher Frost (Fine Arts)
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and we believe that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom to be found there. Through our grants, we seek to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive.
2022: Ulka Anjaria (English), "Re-Envisioning the Role of the Humanities Center in the 21st-Century University"
2021: Dorothy Kim (English), "Race before Race"
2021: The Lydian String Quartet (Mark Berger, Judith Eissenberg, Joshua Gordon, and Andrea Segar), Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant for new work by Kurt Rohde
2020: James Pustejovsky (Computer Science, Linguistics), “Transatlantic Collaboration Between the LAPPS Grid and CLARIN: Implementation of NLP-Ended Tools Using Smart Archives”
2017: James Pustejovsky (Computer Science, Linguistics), “Transatlantic Cooperation Between LAPPS and CLARIN: Semantic, Technical and Infrastructural Interoperability of Services”
2016-2018: Naghmeh Sohrabi (History) and Greg Childs (History)
2014: Naghmeh Sohrabi (History): “The Impossible and Inevitable Revolution in Iran”
2012-2014: Jane Kamensky (History) and Sue Lanser (English and WGS)
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States and regularly awards grants to Brandeis faculty Search here for a list of all current and past awards.
2021: Dorothy Kim (English): "Immersive Global Middle Ages"
& 2009-2013: Ralph Thaxton (Politics)
2019-2020: Wendy Cadge (Sociology)
2019-2020: Karen Desmond (Music)
2018-2019: Clementine Faure-Bellaich (International and Global Studies)
2015: Michael Willrich (History)
2014-2015: Harry Mairson (Computer Science)
2012: David Engerman (History)
2008-2009, 2004: Janet McIntosh (Anthropology)
2007-2015: Susan Birren (Biology)
2007-2015: Adam Jaffe (Economics)
2005-2007: ChaeRan Freeze (German, Russian, and Asian Languages)
The New England Humanities Consortium (NEHC) is a network of seventeen colleges and universities across New England that was established in 2018. NEHC promotes intellectual collaboration, interdisciplinary exchange, and innovative educational programming for faculty, students, and the regional, national, and global communities they serve.
2022: Amy Singer (History & NEJS), Ottoman Diasporas in New England
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation provides financial resources to emerging and established artists so they may focus on their work. Funding can be used to create new work, acquire supplies, rent studio space, prepare for exhibitions, attend a residency and offset living expenses.
2015: Sonia Almeida (Fine Arts)
2005: Tory Fair (Fine Arts)
The John Templeton Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the deepest and most perplexing questions facing humankind. They support research on subjects ranging from complexity, evolution, and emergence to creativity, forgiveness, and free will.
2022: Aaron Spevack (NEJS): “American Society of Islamic Philosophy and Theology’s Verification and Renewal Curriculum: Convening Scholars, Developing Solutions, Deploying Curricula”
2020: Aaron Spevack, (NEJS): "The American Society of Islamic Philosophy"
2016: Wendy Cadge, (Sociology): "Training Research-Literate Chaplains as Ambassadors for Spirituality and Health: Phases I and Phase II"
The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation provides targeted support for writers, scholars, and the stewards of humanity’s shared cultural heritage.
2020: Ben Pauling (Music), Manding Dance Drumming at the Gambia Academy
2019: Sonia Almeida (Fine Arts), Embodied Page
2019: Jonathan Anjaria (Anthropology), Creating Safe and Sustainable Streets in Mexico
2019: Carole Carlson (Heller School), Exploration of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in New Zealand
2018: Ulka Anjaria (English/American Literature), How Language Travels: An Exploration of Mexico’s Literary Culture
2016: Derron Wallace (Education), The Ministry of Education of Antigua and Barbuda
2014: Charles Golden (Anthropology), On-Site and Museum Visits to Early Human Archaeological Sites
2014: Talinn Gregor (Fine Arts), Modernism and Gender in California Architecture
2012: Judith Eissenberg (Music), Indonesian Encounters
2012: Lucia Reyes de Deu (Romance/Comparative Literature), Educated Women: Literacy, Literature, and the Issue of Education for Women in Early XX Century Argentina
2012: Dawn Skorczewski (English/American Literature), A Virtual Classroom for Writing the Holocaust
2011: Seth Fraden (Physics), Study of Protein Crystallization at Cambridge University
2007: Daniel Perlman (Biology), Madagascar Biodiversity Studies
2000: Ralph Thaxton (Politics), Beyond Redemption: Trauma, Memory and the Crisis of State
United States Artists is a national arts funding organization based in Chicago. USA is dedicated to supporting living artists and cultural practitioners across the United States by granting unrestricted awards.
2022: Chen Chen (ENG), When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
2022: Grace Talusan (ENG), The Book of Life and Death
The American Cancer Society has a mission to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families by combating cancer through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
2022: Shantanu Jadhav (PSYCH), Role of Physiological Patterns in Hippocampal-Prefrontal Interactions
2022: Kaushik Ragunathan (BIOL), Deciphering the Role of HP1 Associated Chromatin Complexes in Epigenetic Inheritance
2020: Rebecca Gieseking (CHEM)
Brain Research Foundation exists to accelerate discoveries of the human brain by funding pioneering neuroscience research.
2022: Gina G Turrigiano (BIO), "Homeostatic Maintenance of Neocortical Excitation-inhibition Balance by Ciliary Neuropeptidergic Signaling"
Brookhaven National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, Long Island with a mission to "advance fundamental research in nuclear and particle physics to gain a deeper understanding of matter, energy, space, and time; apply photon sciences and nanomaterials research to energy challenges of critical importance to the nation; and perform cross-disciplinary research on computation, sustainable energy, national security, and Earth’s ecosystems."
2022: Gabriella Sciolla (Physics), "ITk Strips Stave Assembly Phase 2 ATLAS Upgrade-Amendment"
2021: Gabriella Sciolla (Physics), "ATC Proposal: The Brandeis-BNL Collaboration on the ITk Stave Assembly and Measurements of VBF/VBS Phenomena in ATLAS"
The Harvard/MIT Joint Research Grants Program in Basic Neuroscience provides funding for a team of two basic neuroscience tenure-track investigators to work collaboratively to advance our understanding of brain development and function.
2021
Eve Marder (Biology): "Exploring Neural Robustness to Variation in Gene Expression"
Avital Rodal (Biology): "Roles for Liquid Phase Separation in Exo-endocytic Coupling at Synapses"
Piali Sengupta (Biology): "Exploring a Role for Experience-Dependent Alternative Splicing in the Regulation of Behavioral Plasticity"
Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a science philanthropy whose mission is to advance basic biomedical research and science education for the benefit of humanity.
2021: Irving Epstein (Chemistry)
The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) promotes international collaboration in basic research focused on the elucidation of the sophisticated and complex mechanisms of living organisms.
2021: Alexandre Bisson (Biology), "Multi-scale functional investigations into mechanosensing response in archaea"
MassVentures is a strategic venture capital team that finds, funds, and fosters early-stage deep tech that fuels economic growth across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
2021: Suzanne Paradis (Biology): "Sema4D Represents a New and Exciting Disease-modifying Therapeutic Strategy for the Treatment of Intractable Seizures"
The National Institute on Aging offers various grants and funding for research being done on aging.
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The National Institute of Health is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the nation’s medical research agency, making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science, to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare, and to secure the national defense. They are the funding source for approximately 25 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities."
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The Pew Charitable Trusts is an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization, founded in 1948. With over US$6 billion in assets, its stated mission is to serve the public interest by "improving public policy, informing the public, and invigorating civic life".
Raytheon Technologies accelerates ideas to solve some of the world's biggest challenges by bringing together the brightest, most innovative minds across aviation, space and defense.
2021: Nianwen Xue (Computer Science): "Excavator Covid: Extracting Events and Relations from Multilingual Text for Temporal and Causal Analysis for COVID-19 (BBN No. P20144)"
Grantmaking through the Simons Foundation focuses on mathematical and physical sciences, life sciences and autism research.
The U.S. Department of Energy supports many research through their Office of Science Funding Opportunities.
Alphawood Foundation is a Chicago-based, grant-making private foundation working for an equitable, just, and humane society. Each year we award grants to organizations, primarily in the areas of advocacy, architecture and preservation, the arts and arts education, promotion and protection of the rights of LGBTQ persons and people living with HIV/AIDS, and other human and civil rights.
2022: Charles Golden (ANTH): "Revealing Landscapes of the Upper Usumacinta: Lidar Data Collection and Ground Verification in Chiapas, Mexico and Peten, Guatemala"
Russell Berrie Foundation was created to express the values and passions of Russell Berrie through social investments in innovative ideas designed to: promote the continuity and enrichment of Jewish communal life; support advances in medicine, focusing on diabetes and humanism in medicine; foster the spirit of religious understanding and pluralism; recognize individuals who have made a significant difference in the lives of others; elevate the profession of sales.
2021: Wendy Cadge (Sociology): Caring for Inter-Faith Caregivers: Resilience and Support for Spiritual Care Providers in New Jersey
2021: Derron Wallace (Education): SY20-21 Boston Public Schools Data Analysis
The Center for Independent Documentary "is one of only a handful of organizations in the country committed to helping producers who work outside the industry mainstream. They have remained dedicated to the mission of helping filmmakers bring important and influential documentaries to audiences across the country."
2021: Wendy Cadge (Sociology) Received funding from the Center for Independent Documentary for Boston's Hidden Sacred Spaces
Cummings Foundation has awarded more than $320 million in grants to Greater Boston nonprofits alone. Its giving is concentrated in Middlesex, Essex, and Suffolk counties and benefits a broad range of causes, including human services, education, healthcare, and social justice.
2021: Neil Swidey (Journalism): "Reinventing Journalism"
The Fetzer Institute has a mission of "helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world." Inspired by founder John E. Fetzer, the Institute encourages discovery of new ways of knowing the sacred world and exploring each person's spiritual journey in working toward transformed communities and societies in which all people can flourish.
2022: Wendy Cadge (SOC): “Underserved Populations in Spiritual Care”
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life.
2020: Karen V. Hansen, (Sociology): “Cascading Lives: Stories of Loss, Resilience, & Resistance”
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression and dominance.
2013-2014: Raymond Knight (Psychology), “Protective Factors & Desistance from Sexual Offending”
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is a nonpartisan, private charitable foundation that supports efforts to advance education for all, preserve the environment, support vibrant performing arts, strengthen Bay Area communities, make the philanthropy sector more effective, and foster gender equity and responsive governance around the world.
2021: Siri Suh (Sociology): “In Women’s Hands: Misoprostol and the Politics of Reproduction in Burkina Faso and Senegal”
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science, to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare, and to secure the national defense. They are the funding source for approximately 25 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities."
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The Charles H. Revson Foundation operates grant programs in Urban Affairs, Jewish Life, Biomedical Research, and Education.
2022: Wendy Cadge (SOC), "Strengthening Jewish Chaplaincy: Demonstration Projects Based on Demand"
2020: Wendy Cadge (SOC), "Leading Where Life Happens: Mapping & Building the Field of Jewish Chaplaincy"
The Ruderman Family Foundation believes that inclusion and understanding of all people is essential to a fair and flourishing community. Guided by Jewish values, they advocate for and advance the inclusion of people with disabilities throughout society; strengthen the relationship between Israel and the American Jewish Community; and model the practice of strategic philanthropy worldwide. They operate as a non-partisan strategic catalyst in cooperation with government, private sectors, civil society, and philanthropies.
2020: Wendy Cadge (SOC)
The Russell Sage Foundation is dedicated to strengthening the methods, data, and theoretical core of the social sciences in order to better understand societal problems and develop informed responses.
2020: Amber Spry, (Politics)
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funds research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics. It supports high quality, impartial scientific research; fosters a robust, diverse scientific workforce; strengthens public understanding and engagement with science; and promotes the health of the institutions of scientific endeavor.
2021: Dorothy Kim (English)
2017: Margie Lachman (Psychology) and Adam Jaffe (Economics)
2016: Blake LeBaron (Economics)
2013: Eve Marder (Neuroscience)
2002-2004: George Hall (Economics, IBS)