Funds for Postdoctoral Research in Germany, Austria & Switzerland

Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. Humboldt Research Fellowship, Bundeskanzler Fellowships, post-doctoral fellowships for international cientists and scholars, summer research fellowships.
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) Robert Bosch Foundation Research Scholars in Comparative Public Policy & Institutions, DAAD/AICGS Research Fellowship Program.
American Academy in Berlin. The Berlin Prize Fellowships, for advanced study in the arts, culture and public affairs.
American Council on Germany. Dr. Guido Goldman Fellowship for the Study of German and European Economic and International Affairs (supports doctoral & postdoctoral research).
Austrian Academic Exchange Service. Internationale Mobilität und wissenschaftlicher Austausch Stipendium, Programm Graduiertenförderung Geistes-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften (GSK).
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Post-doctoral Fellows, Summer Research Fellows.
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM), Wien. Junior Visiting Fellowship Program, Jozef Tischner Fellowship for young Polish or Polish-American researchers.
Commission of the European Community. Research on European Integration Grants (for non-EC junior lecturers/young faculty interested in the European Community).
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). Short-Term Research Grants. Faculty language training grants, summer institute program for junior scholars, and more.
European Union Studies Association. prizes for best dissertation and best book on the EU.
Feuchtwanger Memorial Library. research grants for scholars, whose work would benefit from access to the library's German exile study materials.
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Postdoctoral/Young Scholar Fellowships
Fritz Thyssen Stipendienprogramm der Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle interdisciplinary research on 17th & 18th century piety, and on cultural contact w. Russia, America, India, the Netherlands, and Hungary (during same period).
Fulbright Program. Fulbright German Studies Seminar . Junior Research Awards, Germany. Other postdoctoral funding.
George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation.
Grants for Midcareer Research in Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy.
German Academic Exchange Service. Language Training & Research Grants.
German Historical Institute doctoral/postdoctoral fellowships for research in German-American studies, Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize.
German Marshall Fund. Transatlantic Fellowship Program, Marshall Memorial Grant, individual research grants.
German Studies Association/DAAD Book Prize a prize of $1000 will be awarded
in the broad humanistic area of literature, cultural studies, art history, etc. to a scholarly book published recently. GSA Sybil Halpern Milton Prize, for a book on the Holocaust or Third Reich.
Gilbert F. White Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Resources for the Future (RFF) offers two resident fellowships each year for social and natural scientists with a doctorate, who wish to devote a year to scholarly work in areas related to natural resources, energy, or the environment.
Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) Urban Fellowships, City of Vienna.
Institute of Current World Affairs John O. Crane Memorial and Target-Of-Opportunity Fellowships.
Institute For European Studies Summer Research Associate Program, Cornell University.
Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) Junior Visiting Fellowship Program.
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut im Wissenschaftszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (KWI). International Research Awards.
Lise Meitner-Postdoc-Programm des FWF. postdoc research in Austria.
Manitoba Research Grant. University of Winnipeg. two research grants every 6 mo. (up to $ 1,000.00), to support projects related to the past and present experiences of Manitoba German-speaking immigrants and their descendants. Open to academic researchers at all faculty and student levels, private researchers and collaborative projects.
Max Planck Research Award - postdoctoral stays at a Max Planck Institute, sponsored by the Humboldt Foundation.
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. James Bryant Conant Fellowships in German & European Studies.
Pan European Researcher's Mobility Portal
Researcher's Mobility Portal Austria
Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program
SSRC/Macarthur Postdoctoral Fellowships.
Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. research relavant to education.
Stiftung Luftbrückendank. Postgraduate Fellowships for Berlin
Stiftung zur Förderung der Archäologie im rheinischen Braunkohlenrevier. Funding for archaeological expeditions and publications in the Rhineland Ruhr district.
United States Information Agency. Grant for combined lecturing/research in Germany (preference for projects in eastern Germany).
University of Erfurt. Three Maria Sibylla Merian fellowships, for U.S. postdoctoral scholars. Three month fellowship, including a monthly stipend of EUR 1400 and travel expenses, up to EUR 1000.