Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research supports doctoral students’ field travel and equipment to collect specimens and data through firsthand observation for dissertation research.
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Funder: American Philosophical Society
Due Dates: November 13, 2026 (Letters of support) | November 16, 2026 (Application)
Funding Amounts: Ordinarily several hundred dollars to about $5,400 for travel and related field expenses
Summary: Supports doctoral students’ exploratory field studies that collect specimens and data through direct observation.
Key Information: Only doctoral students are eligible, with citizenship, institutional affiliation, or research-location requirements.
Description
The American Philosophical Society’s Lewis and Clark Fund supports exploratory field studies that collect specimens and data and provide the imaginative stimulus of direct observation. It invites applications from disciplines that depend heavily on fieldwork, including archaeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, paleontology, and population genetics, without restricting awards to those fields.
The program supports doctoral students’ travel and related field expenses, including personal field equipment. Proposed work should be dissertation directed as far as possible given the applicant’s year in the doctoral program. The emphasis is on exploration and firsthand observation: a small amount of archival research may be included, but heavily archival or museum-based projects will not normally be considered.
