Want to find other opportunities? We have included a lists of grants and fellowships from non-AIA sources. Click here to view.
The AIA’s mission includes supporting and promoting archaeological research and its dissemination. To that end, the AIA offers a variety of scholarships, fellowships, and grants for excavation, research, publication, and site preservation. Scroll down for a list of our grants, application requirements, and deadlines.
Each year, the Institute also presents a number of awards to archaeologists, educators, authors, and others whose work has had a positive impact on the field of archaeology.
Want to find other opportunities? We have included a lists of grants and fellowships from non-AIA sources. Click here to view.
Deadline: March 15, 2025
The award committee will recommend a report on fieldwork (e.g. excavation and/or survey) that it deems most worthy of recognition each year.
Deadline: September 15, 2025
Deadline: September 15, 2024
Deadline: June 1, 2024
Deadline: February 1, 2025
Deadline: November 15, 2024
Deadline: December 1, 2024
Deadline: March 15, 2025
Deadline: September 15, 2024
Granted to those AIA members who, through their sustained and exceptional volunteer efforts, have furthered the work of the Institute and increased public awareness regarding its mission
Deadline: April 1, 2024
Deadline: September 15, 2025
Deadline: December 15, 2024
To support study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Deadline: December 15, 2024
To support a project relating to Aegean Bronze Age archaeology.
Deadline: November 1, 2023
To support a Rome Prize Fellowship for the study of archaeology or classical studies every other year.
Deadline: November 1, 2024
To honor the memory of John R. Coleman by supporting travel and study in Italy, the western Mediterranean, or North Africa.
Deadline: November 1, 2024
For travel and study in Greece, Cyprus, the Aegean Islands, Sicily, southern Italy, Asia Minor, and Mesopotamia.
Deadline: November 1, 2024
To support projects relating to the archaeology of Portugal
Deadline: November 1, 2024
Deadline: November 30, 2024
The Archaeological Institute of America and the German Archaeological Institute (Deutsches Archeologisches Institut) offer reciprocal study fellowships. The program encourages and supports scholarship on various aspects of archaeology and promotes contact between North American and German archaeologists.
Multiple small grants to support post-fieldwork activities including research and publication preparation
Deadline: November 1, 2024
The Steinmetz Fund will support innovative uses of technology in archaeological research.
Deadline: November 1, 2024
The Herzig Desnick Fund provides grants specifically dedicated to exploratory archaeological field surveys, especially for early stage work.
Deadline: November 1, 2024
The Boochever Fund will support field and laboratory research.
Deadline: November 1, 2024
This grant will be awarded to projects that support research in regions that supply context to the study of Troy and generally help elucidate the Trojan War and its impact on ancient Mediterranean civilization. This can include but is not limited to Anatolia (modern Turkey), southeastern Europe, the Aegean and Crete during the third to first millennia B.C.E.
Deadline: November 1, 2024
The Site Preservation Program provides grants of up to $15,000 to support innovative projects that aid in the preservation of threatened archaeological sites.
These grants fund publication preparation, or research leading to publication, undertaken by professional members of the AIA.
Deadline: March 1, 2025
This program offers subventions from the AIA's von Bothmer Publication Fund in support of new book-length publications in the field of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan archaeology and art history.
Deadline: November 15, 2024
These grants are meant to assist undergraduate or graduate students who qualify under the category of “underrepresented minority” with their travel expenses to attend the AIA Annual Meeting.
Deadline: April 1, 2025
A scholarship established in honor of AIA Honorary President Elizabeth Bartman to assist students or those who have recently completed a master's degree with the expenses associated with participating in a museum internship either in the United States or abroad.
Deadline: December 1, 2024
These grants are to assist graduate students presenting papers at the AIA Annual Meeting with their travel expenses.
Deadline: March 1, 2025
A scholarship established in honor of AIA Honorary President Jane C. Waldbaum to assist students with the expenses associated with participation in archaeological field schools
Deadline: December 2, 2024
This award recognizes dedicated members who provide years of service in multiple capacities at the Local Society level.
Deadline: July 1, 2024
The Golden Trowel Award honors the society whose membership proportionally increases the most during the past fiscal year (July 1st to June 30th).
Deadline: December 2, 2024
Every year the AIA rewards the societies that produce the best flyer and website, as communicating information to the public about upcoming events is one of the main goals of each society.
Deadline: December 2, 2024
This award recognizes those individuals who persevere and show that even when things go wrong, it can all work out right!
Deadline: October 14, 2024
The AIA Society Outreach Grant encourages AIA societies to undertake activities such as a teachers' workshop, a kids' archaeology fair, a symposium or event in a local library, or other project that promotes archaeology and the AIA's objectives for local community outreach.
Deadline: September 30, 2024
Grants for AIA Local Societies for International Archaeology Day
The AIA is North America's largest and oldest nonprofit organization dedicated to archaeology. The Institute advances awareness, education, fieldwork, preservation, publication, and research of archaeological sites and cultural heritage throughout the world. Your contribution makes a difference.