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The Endangered Language Fund is now accepting applications for the Native Voices Endowment for eligible languages. Please follow the link for more information:
http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/uploads/7/2/8/7/72876547/nve_2024_rfp_final.pdf
The deadline is November 1, 2024. If you have any questions, please email them to elf@endangeredlanguagefund.org.
NEH is accepting applications for The Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) Fellowships for the 2024-deadline, which is on September 11. The fellowships are offered as part of a joint, multi-year funding program of NEH and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and advance scientific and scholarly knowledge concerning endangered human languages. DLI-DEL Fellowships support individuals (not institutional or collaborative teams) who are junior or senior linguists, linguistic anthropologists, and sociolinguists who conduct research on endangered or moribund languages. DLI-DEL Fellowships prioritize scholarly analysis and publication, including but not limited to lexicons, grammars, databases, peer-reviewed articles, and monographs. Awards also support fieldwork and other activities relevant to digital recording, documenting, and sustainable archiving of endangered languages.
Eligibility:
American citizens who live and work anywhere in the world and are linguists, linguistic anthropologists, or sociolinguists who specialize in documenting endangered languages.
US residents who live in the US and who specialize in the above fields are eligible to apply.
Applicants must not be enrolled in degree programs. DLI-DEL fellowships do not fund graduate students. However, if applicants have completed all their degree requirements and the only remaining step is degree conferral, they can apply provided they submit a letter from their dean or department chair that attests to those facts. If the letter is missing from the application, the proposal will be considered unresponsive.
Adjuncts, independent scholars, tribal linguists, retired faculty members, non-tenured and tenure-track faculty members, and contractual teaching-staff are welcome to apply.
Deadlines:
Deadline to submit applications is September 11, 2024; submitted through grants.gov.
Applicants are notified of the results of their applications after April 30, 2025.
Period of Performance:
The shortest period of performance is 6 months, and the maximum period of funding is 12 months, part-time equivalent, or a combination of both. The amount of funding is $5,000 per month, or the pro-rated equivalent for half time:
The program supports individuals who work between half time and full time on their projects. You may combine part- and full-time work, but you must work at least half time (50%), and you can split your term into two separate active periods. The active periods must be at least three months each.
If you work full time on your project, you must forgo teaching and other major activities. If you combine a part-time award with teaching or another job, you must carry a reduced teaching or work load during the period of performance. Awards will be reduced to reflect the smaller time commitment when you work part time or for fewer than the equivalent of 12 full-time months on the NEH project.
Please check the posted Notice of Funding Opportunity Page , where you can find the pre-recorded webinars, the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document, the list of recently funded projects, and posted sample narratives on the DLI-DEL Fellowship landing page (see under Samples Application Narratives, on the left hand-side of the page) for more information.
If you have any questions, please e-mail them to delfel@neh.gov and staff will be happy to help you.
Friends of SSILA,
It’s hard to imagine, but our last in-person meeting was in New Orleans in 2020! Last January at our online Business Meeting we discussed future meeting formats. There was broad support for gathering in person and celebrating the LSA’s centennial celebration in New York in January, 2024.
That meeting will be financially challenging for many. SSILA has offered Travel Awards in the past based in part on financial need, but we generally receive requests totaling $13,000 to $17,000 and have had a total budget of just $3,000 to give out. This year I am very happy to report that Stephen R. Anderson and Janine Anderson-Bays have pledged up to $5,000 in matching funds to SSILA. To take advantage of their offer, we are currently seeking donations of any amount for travel assistance or for our general fund: the matching funds will be used specifically to assist with travel to the LSA.
SSILA is a non-profit 501(c)3 charitable organization. Donations may be deductible for U.S. federal income tax purposes. For donations of more than $295.00, or amounts not listed on the donation form, please contact our Secretary-Treasurer Mary Linn at secretary@ssila.org.
The call has already gone out for session proposals. In a few weeks we’ll send a call out for abstracts. Please also make a note of the different awards SSILA gives. In addition to travel awards, we give the Best Student Presentation Award, the Mary R. Haas Book Award, the Victor Golla Prize, the Ken Hale Prize, and the Archiving Award.
Thank you for your continued support of SSILA!
Jack B. Martin
SSILA President
Project: Breathing new life into legacy materials: Research and repatriation for a Sáliba collection
Principal Investigator (PI): Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (website with contact information)
Two fully-funded Master’s student positions are available as part of the SSHRC Insight Grant “Breathing new life into legacy materials: Research and repatriation for a Sáliba collection”, with a start date of September 2023 and for a two-year duration.
Desired qualifications:
BA in Linguistics or Anthropology (w/ strong linguistics foundation)
Conversational competency in Spanish
Some experience with language documentation software (e.g., ELAN, SayMore and/or FLEx)
What the project offers:
Funding: Both students will be funded for a period of 2 years, starting September 2023. The Master’s funding comes from a combination of research/teaching assistant duties (max. 12 hours per week) and a stipend. Read more on departmental graduate funding here. Additional funding (travel and living expenses) for fieldwork is available through the project.
Fieldwork experience: Both students will conduct fieldwork with the PI in Colombia. Training in documentation methodology, ethics and audiovisual recordings will be provided through coursework and one-on-one mentoring as part of the project.
Conference participation: The project will fund both students to attend a conference in North America to present their master’s projects in their second year. Potential master’s project topics are verbal person marking (morphosyntax) and the Sáliba vowel system (phonetics)—or other topic of interest to the student after consultation with the PI.
If interested, please send the following to jrosesla@ualberta.ca by November 30, 2022:
one-page statement of interest (including description of qualifications / prior experience)
CV
writing sample (if available — e.g., an undergraduate thesis or research paper)
The Dictionary Society of North America will award small grants in support of practical or scholarly lexicographic projects by independent researchers, dictionary makers, and early-career scholars. The awards aim to support existing projects for which a small grant would make a substantial difference in bringing the project to a more advanced stage or to completion. The grants may be used to support purchase of necessary resources, including travel to sites to gather data from libraries or native speakers. While awards are not limited as to language, projects related to Indigenous languages of the Americas are encouraged. DSNA will make one or two awards, not exceeding $2,500 each.
Applications comprise three items: 1) a description (not to exceed 1,200 words) of the overall project, indicating what has been accomplished to date, what remains to be completed, and what the award funds would cover or enable; 2) a list of other sources of support for the project that have been secured or are on request, if any; 3) the applicant’s curriculum vitae or resumé.
Applications must be received by June 17, 2022, and a successful applicant must be a member of DSNA before receiving the award. Announcement of awards will be made before the end of July 2022. Award winners must furnish a brief report on the progress of the project within one year of the award and must remain a DSNA member through completion of the award period and submission of a report.
A second round of award applications will be announced in late summer, 2022.
Applications should be submitted by email attachment, with the subject line DSNA AWARD APPLICATION and sent to:
Edward Finegan, DSNA President
The call for nominations for the next DELAMAN Award is now open at http://www.delaman.org/delaman-award/ and the link to the nomination form can be found there. Please note that the name of the award has changed slightly (from the Franz Boas Award to the DELAMAN Award) and so has the definition of "early-career documenter".
The Kinkade Language and Culture Fund (KLF) and the Jacobs Research Funds (JRF) provide support for projects involving fieldwork with living peoples of North, Central and South America which result in publication or other dissemination of information about the fieldwork. Priority is given to research on endangered cultures and languages, and to research on the Pacific Northwest. Projects focusing on archival research have low priority, but we welcome proposals to digitize, transcribe and translate old materials that might otherwise be lost or become inaccessible. Relevance of the project to contemporary theoretical issues in anthropology and linguistics is also a criterion used in evaluating proposals.
The AlbertaLanguage Technology Lab (ALTLab) at the Department of Linguistics, Universityof Alberta is offering two graduate student positions at the PhD (4 years) orMA (2 years) level in its graduate program, to start September 2020 under theresearch project: 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages,funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) PartnershipGrant in 2019 – 2026, see: http://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/21c.
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019, offers funded MSc and PhD positions for prospective graduate students interested to learn and conduct research with our vibrant team of faculty members, graduate students, and other academics in state-of-the-art research facilities.
The Foundation for Endangered Languages has just opened its 2020 grant round for projects that will support, enable or assist the use of one or more endangered languages. See complete details about this funding opportunity here.
The British Museum’s Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP) and SOAS’ Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) are delighted to announce a joint call for grant applications. Funded by Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – EMKP and ELDP jointly offer grants for collaborative projects that combine language and material knowledge documentation.
The Native Voices Endowment (NVE) 2019 Request for Proposals is now available on the Endangered Language Fund website. The NVE program was created within ELF for the purpose of revitalizing and maintaining the Indigenous languages of the American Indian Nations whose ancestors encountered the 1803-1806 Lewis & Clark expedition. For details about eligibility, please see our website.
Nominations for SSILA's Archiving Award are due October 15! This award highlights the importance of creating long-term archival materials that are accessible to all communities concerned, including heritage and language communities as well as scholarly communities. It is meant to encourage others in academia to value such work as more comparable to analytic research.
Read more about the Archiving Award and the nomination guidelines here.
The Native Voices Endowment (NVE) 2018 Request for Proposals is now available on the Endangered Language Fund (ELF) website.
Click here to view the Request for Proposals.
The NVE program was created within ELF for the purpose of revitalizing and maintaining the Indigenous Languages of the American Indian Nations whose ancestors encountered the 1803–1806 Lewis & Clark expedition. For details about eligibility, please visit the Native Voices Endowment page.
If you have any questions, please email ELF at elf@yale.edu.
Monica Macaulay, President
Kristine Hildebrandt, Vice President
Endangered Language Fund
