Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research

The Lewis and Clark Fund encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation. Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archaeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, paleontology, and population genetics, but grants will not be restricted to these fields. The committee will consider proposals that involve a small amount of archival work. Projects heavily archival in nature or museum based will normally not be considered for an award. Amounts will depend on travel costs but will ordinarily be in the range of several hundred dollars up to about $5,000. Grants are payable to the individual applicant.

Discipline: Applied Arts, Business, Education, Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math (STEM), Visual and Performing Arts

Eligibility: Applicants must: be doctoral students; postdoctoral fellows, master's students, and undergraduates may not apply be U.S. citizens and residents wishing to carry out research anywhere in the world either be: based at a U.S. institution; or plan to carry out their work in the U.S. Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, paleontology, and population genetics, but grants will not be restricted to these fields.

Academic level: Doctoral

Citizenship: U.S. Citizen, Permanent Resident, International

Award amount: Up to $5,000

Award category: Research

Award cycle: Annual

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Contact: Linda Musumeci, Director of Grants and Fellowships 215.440.3429 LMusumeci@amphilsoc.org