Grants and Fellowships for Doctoral Students in
Anthropology
This list is culled from a few places and it certainly
isn’t complete. Please email me if you find a grant
or fellowship that should be added to the list. In the
list, some fellowships are repeated in different sections
if they apply to more than one category, e.g. could give
money for both pre-field and fieldwork. My sources include
the University of Virginia’s
general list of fellowship opportunities for graduate
students,
the University of Chicago Anthropology
department’s list, and
the AAA’s page of
fellowships. UVA students should also check the
websites of the appropriate regional program or
department, for instance
the East Asia Center, Department of Middle Eastern Studies
and South Asian Languages and Cultures, Carter Woodson Institute for
African-American and African Studies, Department of French, or
Latin American Studies.
UVA Internal Programs
UVA’s Office of Research
Administration
Tomorrow’s Professor Today
Tomorrow's Professor Today (TPT) is a professional
development program for graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows. Designed to facilitate the transition from student
to academic professional, the program focuses on improving
preparedness in three key areas—teaching,
professional development, and adjustment to a university
career. Activities to support this endeavor include
participating in a pedagogy seminar, attending workshops,
observing and interviewing faculty/administrators,
preparing teaching documents, attending conferences,
presenting research, and peer-mentoring fellow
participants.
Clay Fellowships
Grants for summer support to graduate students at the
dissertation stage whose research contributes to the global
humanities, whether on-grounds, nationally, or abroad.
Students applying must have completed all exams. Awards up
to $3,500.
Research Support for the Arts,
Humanities, and Social Sciences
In collaboration with the College of Arts &
Sciences, the VPR also provides funding for the biannual
research support grants in the Arts, Humanities and Social
Sciences through a competitive grant program. Funding may
be requested for up to $3,000 for any activity or expense
associated with a scholarly or research project.
Raven Fellowship
The Raven Society endeavors to bring together
outstanding students, faculty, administrators, and alumni
of the various schools of the University that they may
derive the benefits of mutual acquaintance in pursuit of
diligent scholarship and intellectual activity beyond the
limits of systematic work in the classroom. As such, the
Raven Fellowships will be targeted towards innovative
research projects that cross disciplines in novel ways.
While all applications will be reviewed, special
consideration will be given to those projects with a
distinctly interdisciplinary focus. The Raven Society will
award research fellowships in support of 2013 summer or
fall independent research projects. Research may be related
to a dissertation or thesis, however, it is strongly
encouraged that the projects go above and beyond what is
for academic credit. Each fellowship will award up to
$2500.
Pre-fieldwork Programs
American Indian Graduate Center
The AIGC Fellowship program provides approximately
$1,200,000 in fellowships to over 400 American Indian and
Alaska Native graduate and professional students each
year. Graduate fellowships are monetary awards made
to American Indian and Alaska Native graduate or
professional degree-seeking students, who meet all
eligibility criteria. The fellowship amount is
typically between $1000 and $5000 per academic year (not
including summer), and varies from year to year, depending
on the number of qualified applicants, the availability of
funds and unmet financial need.
American Philosophical Society Lewis
and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
The Lewis and Clark Fund (initially supported by
the Stanford Ascherman/Baruch Blumberg Fund for Basic
Science, established by a benefaction from the late
Stanford Ascherman, MD, of San Francisco) 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 archeology, anthropology, biology, ecology,
geography, geology, linguistics, paleontology, and
population genetics, but grants will not be restricted to
these fields.
Grants will be available to doctoral students. Postdoctoral
fellows, master’s degree candidates, and
undergraduates are not eligible.
American Philosophical Society Phillips
Fund Grant for Native American Research
Grants of up to $3500 to support research in
Native American linguistics, ethnohistory and the history
of studies of Native Americas, in the continental US and
Canada. (Grants are NOT made for projects in archaeology,
ethnography, or psycholinguistics). Applications are
accepted from graduate students for research on masters
theses or doctoral dissertations.
American Institute for Yemeni Studies
Arabic Language Training Grants
Arabic language training grants for a 10-week
program at the Yemen Language Center, The Center for Arabic
Language and Eastern Studies or the Sana’a Institute
for Arabic Language - - only for students who intend to
conduct research in Yemen.
Blakemore Foundation: Blakemore Freeman
Fellowships for Advanced Study of Asian Languages
The Blakemore Foundation makes approximately 12
grants each year for the advanced study of modern Chinese,
Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian languages (Thai,
Vietnamese, Indonesian, Khmer, Burmese). Blakemore grants
are intended for individuals successfully pursuing careers
involving Asia who find that language study abroad at an
advanced level is essential to realize their goals. The
grants fund a year of language study at an institution in
Asia selected by the applicant and approved by the
Foundation. Where there is no structured language program
at an educational institution in the country, the grant may
provide for the financing of private tutorials under terms
set forth in the Grant Guidelines. The grants cover tuition
and related educational expenses, basic living costs and
transportation, but do not include dependent expenses.
Applicants must be at or near an advanced level in the
language of study, must be able to pursue full-time
language study during the term of the grant and must be US
citizens or permanent residents. Among the various
selection criteria, greater weight will be given to
applications where the regular use of the language is a key
part of the career program and where the applicant has had
prior experience in the country in question. Application
forms are on the Web
CASA (Center for Arabic Study
Abroad)
Summer and Full Year Programs. A limited number of
fellowships for advanced Arabic language study at the
American University in Cairo of the University of Damascus
for graduate and upper-division undergraduate students
committed to a career in Middle East Studies. Fellowships
applicants must be US citizens or Permanent Residents, have
had at least 3 years of Arabic language study, and pass a
written examination. Two programs are available: 1) a
two-month summer Institute concentrating on Colloquial
Egyptian Arabic and 2) a full-year program including
Colloquial but emphasizing literary Arabic. (The full-year
program is primarily open to graduate students.
Applications are available on the CASA website, at our
Middle East Center, and by contacting the following address
Council for European Studies (CES)
Pre-Dissertation Fellowships
Pre-dissertation fellowships of $4000 to fund a
first major research project in Europe (including Turkey
& Russia). Applicants are expected to have finished at
least a majority of their doctoral coursework, but this is
a fellowship for preliminary research and thus passage of
the qualifying exam and admission to candidacy are not a
prerequisite. (Those who have already engaged in extensive
field work and study in Europe related to their
dissertation are not eligible.) International students are
eligible to apply. Fellowships have three components: a) A
two-month stay abroad, during which time fellows pursue
original archival and field research; b) Fellows’
participation at the CES international Conference, where
they present their findings and receive feedback from
senior scholars; c) Publication of fellows’ research
reports in the CES journal, the European Studies Forum.
Critical Language Scholarship
Program
Scholarships (tuition, room, board, travel) for intensive
overseas study of critical-need languages such as Arabic,
Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese,
Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish and Urdu –
sponsored by the US Department of State Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Council of
American Overseas Research Centers. Recipients of these
scholarships will be expected to continue their language
study beyond the scholarship period and later apply their
critical language skills in their professional careers.
Open to graduate and undergraduate students, must be US
citizen.
Dissertation Proposal Development
Fellowship (DPDF) Program
The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship
(DPDF) program supports mid-stage graduate students in
formulating effective doctoral dissertation research
proposals that contribute to the development of
interdisciplinary fields of study in the humanities and
social sciences. Intended to help emerging scholars make
the transition from learners to producers of knowledge
within innovative areas of inquiry, the fellowship creates
a space for multidisciplinary faculty mentorship and opens
unique opportunities for both interdisciplinary and
international network building.
The fellowship cycle includes spring and fall workshops
designed and led by pairs of senior tenured faculty, which
provide a framework for pre-dissertation research and guide
proposal writing within the context of selected research
fields. In the summer months, student fellows carry out
exploratory field research on their topics to evaluate
issues of feasibility and methods of investigation. Now in
its seventh year, the program annually offers training in
five fields to sixty graduate students.
FLAS Fellowships
Fellowships for support of modern foreign language and area
studies (Latin America, South Asia, Middle East,
Russia/East Europe) cover all tuition and fees and provide
a $15,000 stipend. Summer fellowships for intensive
language study include up to $4000 tuition and $2500
stipend. In-residence grad students fill out application
from the Dean of Students Office. Open to incoming as well
as in-residence graduate students, US citizens or permanent
residents.
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
Predoctoral Awards
Predoctoral Fellowships for doctoral students regardless of
race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability or
sexual orientation (must have become a US citizen by
November of the year of application), with preference for
members of minority groups whose under representation in
the American professorate has been severe and longstanding
(Alaskan Natives [Eskimo or Aleut], Black/African-
Americans, Mexican Americans, Chicanas/Chicanos, Native
American Indians, Native Pacific Islanders
[Polynesian/Micronesian], Puerto Rican). Any eligible
student may apply who can provide evidence that they can
fully utilize 3 years of support including a year of course
work (i.e., 1st or 2nd year in the Chicago program). Award
includes stipend of $20,000 and tuition allowance and
provides up to 3 years of support. Applicants must be
committed to a career in teaching and research at the
college or university level and be well prepared to use
diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all
students.
Jacob K. Javits Graduate
Fellowships
Approx. 45 need-based awards for up to 4 years of study in
the social sciences, humanities, and fine arts. Covers
tuition and stipend of up to $30,000. US citizens or
permanent residents; open to college seniors and graduate
students who have not yet completed their first year of
graduate study.
Jacobs Research Fund, Whatcom Museum
Society
Grants of up to $3000 supporting anthropological
research (socio-cultural or linguistic in content) on the
indigenous peoples of Canada, Mexico, and the United
States, including Alaska, with a preference for the Pacific
Northwest. Grants are given for work on problems in:
language, social organization, political organization,
religion, mythology, other arts, psychology, and folk
science. No citizenship restrictions, open to students at
all levels of a degree program so long as the project is
relevant.
National Science Foundation Graduate
Research Fellowship Program
A three-year award; covers tuition and a stipend
of $30,000. Essentially college seniors and first- and
second-year graduate students are eligible to apply. All
applications must be submitted via NSF’s
“fastlane” on the Web. US citizens and
permanent residents.
National Security Education Program
(NSEP) David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships
Fellowships for the study of languages, cultures, and world
regions which are critical to U.S. national security other
than Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
NSEP embodies a recognition that the scope of national
security has expanded to include not only the traditional
concerns of protecting and promoting American well-being,
but the new challenges of global society, including
sustainable development, environmental degradation, global
disease and hunger, population growth and migration, and
economic competitiveness. NSEP Fellowships enable graduate
students to pursue specialization in area and language
study or to add an important international dimension to
their education. Applicants design their own programs and
may combine domestic language and cultural study with
overseas study. All fellowships must include study of a
modern language other than English and the study of an area
and culture. NSEP Fellowship awards are made for a minimum
of one and a maximum of six academic semesters (24 months).
The maximum level of support for a combined overseas and
domestic program is $30,000. A maximum of $12,000 per
semester for up to two semesters ($24,000) is available for
overseas study. A maximum of $12,000 is available for a
program of domestic only study. Support for domestic study
is limited to language or area studies that enhance a
degree program Applicants must be US citizens, and there is
a “service requirement” which stipulates that
an award recipient work in the Departments of Defense,
Homeland Security, State, or the Intelligence Community.
If, after making a full and good faith effort (according to
conditions and rules established by NSEP), an award
recipient demonstrates to NSEP that no appropriate position
is available in one of these agencies, he/she must seek a
position with national security responsibilities in any
federal department or agency. Approval of service outside
of a priority agency is contingent upon satisfactory
demonstration of a full and good faith effort in accordance
with conditions established by NSEP. (Beginning in 2008
this requirement was modified to allow recipients to
fulfill the service agreement in a “position in the
field of education in a discipline related to the study
supported by the program.”
Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for
New Americans
These fellowships (30 per year) provide an annual
stipend of $25,000 +half the cost of tuition for two years
of graduate study in any scholarly discipline or
professional field. Eligible "New Americans" are (1) US
Permanent Residents who have had more than one year of IRS
filings; (2) naturalized US citizens or (3) children of two
parents who are both naturalized citizens. Applicants may
be no older than 30 years of age as of November 1, 2010 and
may be no further advanced than the 2nd year of study in
the same graduate program; some preference is given to
candidates who have not yet begun their graduate studies
but are in the process of applying. Candidates must
demonstrate the relevance of graduate education to their
long-term career goals and potential in enhancing their
contributions to society. Fellowships are not solely
awarded on the basis of academic record. A successful
candidate will give evidence of at least two of the follow
three attributes or criteria for selection: (1) creativity,
originality, and initiative demonstrated in any area of
her/his live; (2) a commitment to and capacity of
accomplishment, demonstrated through activity that has
required drive and sustained effort; and (3) a commitment
to the values expressed in the US Constitution and the Bill
of Rights. The third criterion includes activity in support
of human rights and the rule of law, in opposition to
unwarranted encroachment on personal liberty, and in
advancing the responsibilities of citizenship in a free
society.
The Point Foundation. National LGBT
Scholarship Fund
Application process is open to all LGBT students
nationwide regardless of level of education.
Smithsonian Institution Graduate
Student Fellowships
Independent research done in-residence at the
Smithsonian in association with the research staff and
using the Institution’s resources. (See brochure for
possible areas of research.) Available to full-time
graduate students who have not yet been admitted to
candidacy. 10-week Graduate Student Fellowships of $6000.
Fieldwork Fellowships and Grants
* the fellowships most common for
Socio-Cultural Anthropology students are marked with a star
*
Fulbright IIE
This is
UVA’s information page about
IIE. The study/research grant category includes
projects in both academic and arts fields. The
study/research grants are available in approximately
140 countries. Applicants for these grants design
their own projects and will typically work with
advisers at foreign universities or other institutes
of higher education.
*
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation
Research Abroad Fellowships
This program provides grants to colleges and universities
to fund individual doctoral students who conduct research
in other countries, in modern foreign languages and area
studies for periods of six to 12 months. Projects deepen
research knowledge on and help the nation develop
capability in areas of the world not generally included in
U.S. curricula. Projects focusing on Western Europe are not
supported.
*
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
- International Dissertation Field Research
Fellowships [IDRF]
The program is open to graduate students in the
humanities and social sciences -- regardless of citizenship
-- enrolled in PhD programs in the United
States. Applicants to the 2013 IDRF competition must
complete all PhD requirements except on-site research by
the time the fellowship begins or by December 2013,
whichever comes first. The program invites proposals for
dissertation research conducted, in whole or in part,
outside the United States, about non-US topics. It
will consider applications for dissertation research
grounded in a single site, informed by broader
cross-regional and interdisciplinary perspectives, as well
as applications for multi-sited, comparative, and
transregional research. Proposals that identify the
United States as a case for comparative inquiry are
welcome; however, proposals which focus predominantly or
exclusively on the United States are not eligible.
*
Wenner-Gren Foundation for
Anthropological Research
Dissertation Fieldwork Grants are awarded to aid doctoral
or thesis research. The program contributes to the
Foundation's overall mission to support basic research in
anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to
be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers
our understanding of humanity's cultural and biological
origins, development, and variation. The Foundation
supports research that demonstrates a clear link to
anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a
solid contribution to advancing these ideas. There is no
preference for any methodology, research location, or
subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals
that employ a comparative perspective, can generate
innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or
more subfields.
*
National Science Foundation
Dissertation Improvement Grants
The National Science Foundation's Division of
Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social
and Economic Sciences (SES), National Center for Science
and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), and the SBE Office of
Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) award grants to doctoral
students to improve the quality of dissertation research.
These grants provide funds for items not normally available
through the student's university. Additionally, these
grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant
data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in
settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be
possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of their
scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of
the research question and the appropriateness of the
proposed data and methodology to be used in addressing the
question. Here is the
Cultural Anthropology fellowship
page, and here is the
Law and Social Science fellowship
page.
American Center for Mongolian Studies
(ACMS) Research Fellowships
The ACMS Research Fellowship Program will
annually support up to three fellows to conduct up to
12-months of doctoral dissertation or post-doctoral
research in Mongolia on topics in the Social Sciences or
Humanities. Natural Science research is not eligible,
unless there are clear areas in which the research furthers
social, cultural, political, or policy knowledge relevant
to Mongolia or the region. All applicants must be citizens
of the US or Canada, and must be attending or recently
graduated from a university in the US or Canada. The
program seeks to promote research opportunities in Mongolia
among scholars who have not included the country in their
previous research, and to broaden the knowledge base of
scholars already working in the country. Previous Mongolian
Studies experience is not required, but projects should
enhance knowledge of Mongolia and the Mongols within
relevant academic disciplines or fields of study. Projects
that link research conducted in Mongolia to research in
other parts of Asia or across academic fields are
especially encouraged.
American Center of Oriental Research,
Amman, Jordan
The American Center of Oriental Research ( ACOR )
in Amman , Jordan , is a private, non-profit academic
institution dedicated to promoting research and publication
in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, history,
languages, biblical studies, Arabic, Islamic studies and
other aspects of Middle Eastern studies.
American Councils for International
Education ACTR-ACCELS Programs
With funds from the U.S. Department of State
(Title VIII) and U.S. Department of Education (Fulbright
Hays), American Councils administers several major grants
for independent, overseas research in the humanities and
social sciences as well as language training. In recent
years, American Councils scholars have conducted
independent research in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro,
Romania, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and
Ukraine.
AIYS (American Institute for Yemeni
Studies)
The American Institute for Yemeni Studies is a
consortium of institutions of higher education whose
purpose is to promote scholarly research on Yemen.
The Institute provides essential resources for the
support of research in Yemen and the development of
academic ties between the Yemeni and American academic
communities.
American Institute for Maghrib
Studies
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) announces
its annual Grants Program for the academic year beginning
in May 2013. The program offers grants to US scholars
interested in conducting research on North Africa in any
Maghrib country, specifically Algeria, Libya, Mauritania,
Morocco, or Tunisia. AIMS sponsors three Overseas Research
Centers in the region in Oran, Tunis and Tangier and has
other institutional affiliations that support AIMS
scholars. AIMS only funds primary research conducted in the
Maghrib.
American Institute of Indian Studies
Junior Research Fellowships are available to
doctoral candidates at U.S. universities in all fields of
study. These grants are specifically designed to enable
doctoral candidates to pursue their dissertation research
in India. Junior Research Fellows establish formal
affiliation with Indian universities and Indian research
supervisors. Awards are available for up to 11 months.
American Research Center in Egypt
In addition to providing administrative support
and a reliable base for a wide array of expeditions and
scholarly research taking place in Egypt, ARCE also
provides funding, in the form of grants, for a significant
number of research and conservation projects each year.
American Research Institute in Turkey
The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT)
is a non-profit educational institution dedicated to
promoting North American and Turkish research and exchanges
related to Turkey in all fields of the humanities and
social sciences. ARIT provides support for these aims by
maintaining research centers in Istanbul and Ankara, and by
administering programs of fellowships to support research
in Turkey at doctoral and advanced research levels.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
– Schusterman Israel Scholar Awards
The Israel Scholar Development Fund of the
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise is pleased to offer
awards to encourage students to pursue academic careers in
fields related to the study of Israel. Awards will be
available to undergraduates and college graduates who have
already been accepted to a graduate program, graduate
students who have received master’s degrees in Middle
East related fields who wish to pursue a doctorate and
doctoral students who are writing dissertations related to
Israel.
American Philosophical Society Lewis
and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
The Lewis and Clark Fund (initially supported by
the Stanford Ascherman/Baruch Blumberg Fund for Basic
Science, established by a benefaction from the late
Stanford Ascherman, MD, of San Francisco) 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 archeology, anthropology, biology, ecology,
geography, geology, linguistics, paleontology, and
population genetics, but grants will not be restricted to
these fields.
American Philosophical Society Phillips
Fund Grant for Native American Research
Grants of up to $3500 to support research in
Native American linguistics, ethnohistory and the history
of studies of Native Americas, in the continental US and
Canada. (Grants are NOT made for projects in archaeology,
ethnography, or psycholinguistics). Applications are
accepted from graduate students for research on masters
theses or doctoral dissertations.
American Philosophical Society –
John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowships
The John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship,
named in honor of a distinguished member of the American
Philosophical Society, is designed to support an
outstanding doctoral student at an American university who
is conducting dissertation research.
American-Scandinavian Foundation
The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) offers
fellowships (up to $23,000) and grants (up to $5,000) to
individuals to pursue research or study in one or more
Scandinavian country for up to one year. The number of
awards varies each year according to total funds available.
Over $300,000 is available for the 2013-14 competition.
Awards are made in all fields.
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarships in
Migration Studies
The world is in motion: people and ideas,
products, technologies and diseases are travelling between
regions and continents. Cities and cultures as well as
family and labour market relations are changing in these
processes of globalization. Nation states are less capable
to regulate policy areas independently. The movement of
people is only one factor among others generating change,
but one whose importance will rise over the next years.
Migrants are settling into societies that are themselves
transforming. Integration thus becomes a moving target.
Everyone needs to be prepared to embrace change. Some
migrants will also keep multi-stranded relations with their
countries of origin, thereby building transnational spaces;
others will after little time move on to third countries.
All of them settle into motion. How can migrants and their
receiving and sending countries reap the benefits of this
movement of people? Which structural and procedural
conditions have to be in place to take advantage of
diversity? And what are the challenges for the individual,
the migrant family, the regions and countries migrants come
from as well as the places of reception? With its Bucerius
Ph.D. Scholarship Program “Settling Into
Motion”, the ZEIT-Stiftung seeks to address these
questions, each year focusing on a different topic.
Camargo Foundation
The Camargo Foundation maintains a study center
in Cassis, France, for the benefit of scholars who wish to
pursue projects in the humanities and social sciences
related to French and francophone cultures. The Foundation
also sponsors creative projects by writers, visual artists,
photographers, video artists, filmmakers, media artists and
composers. The Camargo fellowship is a residential grant.
Fellows who need additional funds for living or research
expenses should apply for them from other sources.
Chateaubriand Fellowships (Bourses
Chateaubriand en Sciences Sociales et Literature)
Chateaubriand Humanities & Social Sciences
(HSS) is a fellowship program offered by the Cultural
Services of the French Embassy in the US. It targets
outstanding Ph.D. students from American universities who
seek to engage in research in France, in any discipline of
the Humanities and Social Sciences. HSS Chateaubriand
fellows are selected through a merit-based competition,
through a binational collaborative process involving expert
evaluators from both countries.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for
International Scholarly Exchange
Doctoral candidates who are non-ROC citizens and
who are enrolled in an accredited university in the United
States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, or South America
may apply for financial support for writing dissertations
in the field of Chinese Studies in the humanities and
social sciences. Grants are available only to doctoral
candidates who are neither employed nor receiving grants
from other sources. Applicants should have completed all
other requirements for their Ph.D. degree, and must be in
the last stage of their doctoral program. The maximum
amount of each award is $15,000, which is given for a
period extending to one year. Successful candidates are
expected to complete their dissertations by the end of the
grant period. Funding for successful applications will be
provided in two installments (July and January). The
completed thesis should be submitted to the Foundation when
the project is finished.
CAORC (Council of American Overseas
Research Centers) Multi-Country Research Fellowship
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers
(CAORC) Multi-Country Fellowship Program supports advanced
regional or trans-regional research in the humanities,
social sciences, or allied natural sciences for U.S.
doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned
their Ph.D. Preference will be given to candidates
examining comparative and/or cross-regional research.
Applicants are eligible to apply as individuals or in
teams. Scholars must carry out research in two or more
countries outside the United States, at least one of which
hosts a participating American overseas research center.
Approximately nine awards of up to $10,500 each will be
given.
Dan David Prize Scholarship (Tel Aviv
University)
The Dan David Prize laureates annually donate
twenty scholarships of US$15,000 each to outstanding
doctoral and postdoctoral students of exceptional promise
in the chosen fields for the current year. Ten scholarships
are awarded to doctoral and post-doctoral students at
universities throughout the world and ten scholarships at
Tel Aviv University. The Dan David Prize is granted
according to merit, without discrimination based on gender,
race, religion, nationality, or political affiliation. In
order to ensure that your research is relevant to one of
this year's chosen fields, please read the field
definitions on our website carefully before filling out the
form.
Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks is a research institute of Harvard
University that exists to further and publish research in
the three areas of study supported by Robert Woods Bliss
and Mildred Barnes Bliss: Byzantine Studies, including
related aspects of late Roman, early Christian, western
Medieval, Slavic, and Near Eastern
Studies; Pre-Columbian Studies of Mexico, Central
America, and Andean South America; and Garden and Landscape
Studies, including garden history, landscape architecture,
and related disciplines. Residential fellowships for an
academic year, semester, or summer are awarded in all three
areas of study to scholars from around the world. In
addition, Dumbarton Oaks offers one-month non-residential
stipends to researchers and short-term pre-doctoral
residencies to advanced graduate students.
EPA-STAR (Environmental Protection
Agency-Science to Achieve Results) Fellowships for
Graduate Environmental Study
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program,
is offering Graduate Fellowships for master’s and
doctoral level students in environmental fields of study.
The deadline for submission of applications is November 27,
2012 at 11:59:59 PM. Subject to availability of funding and
other applicable considerations, the Agency plans to award
approximately 80 new fellowships in the late summer of
2013. Master's level students may receive support for a
maximum of two years. Doctoral students may be supported
for a maximum of three years, usable over a period of five
years. The fellowship program provides up to $42,000 per
year of support per fellowship.
Firebird Foundation Program for Oral
Literature
The unique oral literatures of indigenous peoples
are rapidly being lost through the death of the traditional
practitioners and through the schooling of the next
generation. The Program for Oral Literature of the Firebird
Foundation has initiated a project to fund the collection
of this body of rapidly disappearing literature. This
literature may consist of ritual texts, curative chants,
epic poems, musical genres, folk tales, songs, myths,
legends, historical accounts, life history narratives, word
games, and so on. Supplemental funds are available to
anthropologists and linguists going into the field to
support a collection of oral literature. Grants of up to
$10,000 will be made to applicants for purchasing recording
equipment and covering the expenses of collecting this
material. Applicants are encouraged, where possible, to
foster the development of local teams of collectors to
continue the work of recording these materials.
Transcriptions of the recordings are encouraged.
Foundation for the Advancement of
Mesoamerican Studies, Inc
The purpose of the Foundation Research Grants is
to support scholarly works with the potential for
significant contributions to the understanding of ancient
Mesoamerican cultures and continuities thereof among the
indigenous cultures in modern Mesoamerica (México, Belize,
Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador). The Foundation
supports projects in the disciplines of archaeology, art
history, epigraphy, linguistics, ethnohistory, ethnography,
and sociology. The Foundation encourages interdisciplinary
projects, especially those that combine disciplines in
novel and potentially productive ways. Click to view the
Summary of Grants Requested and Funded to Date.
Graham Foundation Carter Manny Award
Since the Carter Manny Award’s
establishment in 1996, over $600,000 has been awarded in
recognition of outstanding doctoral students whose work
represents some of the most innovative and advanced
scholarship on architecture and its role in the arts,
culture, and society. The Carter Manny Award supports
dissertation research and writing by promising scholars
whose projects have architecture as their primary concern
and focus and have the potential to shape contemporary
discourse about architecture and impact the field. Projects
may be drawn from the various fields of inquiry supported
by the Graham Foundation: architectural history,
theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape
architecture; urban planning; urban studies; the visual
arts; and other related fields.
Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy
The Foundation makes targeted grants for work in
major areas of the social sciences, including anthropology,
area studies, economics, political science, psychology,
sociology, and urban studies, as well as newer areas such
as evaluation research. Preference will be given to
projects that deal with contemporary issues in the social
sciences and issues of policy relevance. Awards are not
allocated so as to ensure a representative base of
disciplines, but are approved solely on merit. Applicants
are not required to be U.S. citizens or U.S. residents.
Candidates may propose new projects, and they may also
solicit support for research in progress, including final
work on a dissertation, supplementing research in progress,
or travel funds. Awards are only open to aspiring PhDs at
the dissertation level whose project has recieved approval
from their apporpriate department head/university.
HUD Doctoral Dissertation Research
Grant Program
The Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant program
is intended to stimulate policy-relevant urban research in
several ways: by encouraging doctoral candidates to pursue
research topics in community, housing, and urban
development; by assisting doctoral candidates in the timely
completion of the dissertation research; and by providing
an arena for new scholars to share their research findings.
Alexander von Humbolt Foundation German
Chancellor Fellowships
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s
German Chancellor Fellowship Programme is for university
graduates from the United States, the Russian Federation
and the People’s Republic of China with an interest
in international issues and demonstrated leadership
potential. The programme is targeted at accomplished young
professionals who are likely to become decision-makers,
thought leaders, and influential voices in their respective
fields. Fellows will be recruited from a broad range of
areas such as politics and public policy, law, media,
business, the non-governmental sector, and the arts. The
programme provides fellows the opportunity to spend one
year in Germany, where they will network with other
prospective leaders from abroad and explore new solutions
to the global issues of our times. This prestigious
programme builds on Germany’s established and growing
reputation as a favored destination for problem-focused
international dialogue and a meeting place for
tomorrow’s international leaders.
Institute for Money, Technology and
Financial Inclusion (IMTFI), UC Irvine
Welcome to the Institute for Money, Technology
and Financial Inclusion. Established in 2008, the Institute
is housed in the School of Social Sciences at the
University of California, Irvine. Its mission is to support
research on money and technology among the world's poorest
people: those who live on less than $1 per day. We seek to
create a community of practice and inquiry into the
everyday uses and meanings of money, as well as examining
the technological infrastructures being developed as
carriers of mainstream and alternative currencies
worldwide.
Institute of Turkish Studies
Since 1983, the Institute of Turkish Studies
(ITS) has sponsored an annual grant program that offers a
variety of awards to scholars, colleges and universities in
the United States. The principal purpose of the grant
program is to support and encourage the development of
research, scholarship, and learning in the field of Turkish
Studies in the U.S. All grant applications submitted to the
Institute are evaluated by committees comprised of the
academic members of the Board of Governors and Associate
Members of the ITS. These standing committees present their
recommendations to the Board of Governors for approval. The
Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) will offer grants and
fellowships in the field of Ottoman and Modern Turkish
Studies to graduate students, post-doctoral scholars,
universities, and other educational institutions through
its Grants Program for the 2013-2014 academic year. The
annual budget for the Grants Program has been significantly
expanded and ITS encourages qualified applicants to apply
for its grants. For detailed application guidelines and
downloadable application forms, please click on the grant
category of your choice. Please note the new application
guidelines for each grant category.
IREX-Individual Advanced Research
Opportunities (IARO)
The Individual Advanced Research Opportunities
Program (IARO) provides scholars and professionals with
long-term support to perform policy-relevant research in
the countries of Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
IARO provides research support in up to three countries for
a minimum of two months and a maximum of nine months.
Participants are provided with visa assistance,
international round-trip transportation, a monthly
allowance for housing and living expenses, as well as
emergency evacuation insurance. IARO fellows also have
access to resources available in any of IREX's field
offices.
Jacobs Research Fund, Whatcom Museum
Society
The Jacobs Research Funds, hosted by the Whatcom
Museum in Bellingham, Washington, provides grants for
anthropological and linguistic research working with Native
American (First Nations) peoples. Grants are given for work
on problems in language, social organization, political
organization, religion, mythology, music, other arts,
psychology and folk science. Priority is given to research
on the Pacific Northwest (the Pacific Coast from Northern
California to Alaska and the Columbia Plateau in British
Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Idaho). However, research
on other areas in Canada, the continental United States,
Alaska, Mexico, Central America and South America will be
funded if possible.
Japan Foundation
For research about Japan. Doctoral candidates in
the humanities or social sciences. Applicants must have
achieved ABD status by the time the fellowship begins.
Kobe College Corporation Japan
Education Exchange - Graduate Fellowships Program
The KCC Japan Education Exchange Graduate
Fellowships Program was established in 1996 to support
qualified graduate students for research or study in Japan.
The purpose of the fellowship is to support future American
educators who will teach more effectively about Japan. Up
to five travel grants for a maximum of $2000 each will be
awarded in 2012-2013.
Korea Foundation Fellowships for Korean
Studies (Field Research)
This fellowship support program is designed to
encourage Korean Studies research by doctorate-level
students and prominent scholars through the sponsorship of
their visit to Korea so that they can conduct onsite field
research, gather pertinent data, access resource materials,
and develop personal relations with Korean specialists.
Lady Davis Fellowship Trust
The Lady Davis Fellowship Trust was established 38 years
ago to provide the opportunity for leading scientists and
scholars, Post-doctoral Researchers and Doctoral Students
from abroad, regardless of nationality, gender or
field of scholarship to teach, study and participate in
research in Israel at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
and at the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Dissertation Fellowships
The Lincoln Institute's C. Lowell Harriss
Dissertation Fellowship Program assists Ph.D. students,
primarily at U.S. universities, whose research complements
the Institute's interests in land and tax policy. The
program provides an important link between the Institute's
educational mission and its research objectives by
supporting scholars early in their careers. Dissertation
fellowship applications are due February 1, 2013 (midnight
EST). The awards will be announced by April 30, 2013.
Guidelines for this fellowship program, named for the
Columbia University economist and longtime member of the
Lincoln Institute board, are available below.
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
The purpose of the Foundation's Doctoral
Scholarship Program is to help train qualified individuals
for careers in Jewish scholarship and research, and to help
Jewish educational, religious, and communal workers obtain
advanced training for leadership positions.
National Institute of Health - Ruth L.
Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for
Individual Predoctoral Fellowships
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will
award Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
(NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants (T32) to
eligible institutions as the primary means of supporting
predoctoral and postdoctoral research training to help
ensure that a diverse and highly trained workforce is
available to assume leadership roles related to the
Nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research
agenda. The objective of the T32 program is to
prepare qualified individuals for careers that have a
significant impact on the health-related research needs of
the Nation. This program supports predoctoral and
postdoctoral research training programs (including those
with short term research training) at domestic institutions
of higher education with the T32 funding mechanism.
Organization of American States/Regular
Training Program (PRA)
The OAS Academic Scholarship Program (Regular
Program), established in 1958, grants scholarships every
year for the pursuit of Master’s Degrees, Doctoral
Degrees and Research leading to a degree. The OAS Special
Caribbean Scholarships Program (SPECAF), established in
1983, grants scholarships for the last two years of
undergraduate studies to citizens and residents of the
English-speaking Caribbean OAS Member States. Both programs
follow the OAS Manual of Procedures for the Scholarship and
Training Program. In addition to these programs the OAS,
through its Partnerships Program for Education and Training
(PAEC), is able to offer other attractive scholarship
opportunities for academic studies with the support of its
partner institutions in the Americas and around the world.
PAEC is administered in accordance with the provision of
the respective corporation agreement and in line with the
principles set forth in the OAS Manual of Procedures for
the Scholarship and Training Program.
Palestinian American Research Center
The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC)
announces its first National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH) Fellowship Programs at Independent Research
Institutions (FPIRI) competition for post-doctoral
fellowships for research in Palestine. Important
information about the fellowship competition: Fields of
study include, but are not limited to, history, philosophy,
religious studies, literature, literary criticism, and
visual and performing arts. In addition, research that
embraces a humanistic approach and methods will be
considered. Applicants must be post-doctoral scholars.
Applicants must propose a minimum of four consecutive
months of research and a maximum of eight consecutive
months of research that takes place in the West Bank.
Selected fellows must work on their research full-time
during their period of funding. Fellowship recipients must
be U.S. citizens or have lived in the United States for a
minimum of three years immediately preceding the
application deadline.
Program for Cultural Cooperation
Support for research in Spain.
Virginia Foundation for the
Humanities
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities offers
residential fellowships to scholars and writers in the
humanities. We seek applications that are intellectually
stimulating, imaginative, and accessible to the public.
There are no restrictions on topic, and applications are
invited from across the broad spectrum of the humanities.
Post-fieldwork / Writing Fellowships
American Anthropological Association
Minority Dissertation Fellowship Program
The American Anthropological Association invites
minority doctoral candidates in anthropology to apply for a
dissertation writing fellowship of $10,000. The annual AAA
Minority Dissertation Fellowship is intended to encourage
members of ethnic minorities to complete doctoral degrees
in anthropology, thereby increasing diversity in the
discipline and/or promoting research on issues of concern
among minority populations. Dissertation topics in all
areas of the discipline are welcome. Doctoral students who
require financial assistance to complete the write-up phase
of the dissertation are urged to apply.
Academy Scholars Program, Harvard
Academy for International and Area Studies
The Academy Scholars Program identifies and supports
outstanding scholars at the start of their careers whose
work combines disciplinary excellence in the social
sciences (including history and law) with a command of the
language, history, or culture of non-Western countries or
regions. Their scholarship may elucidate domestic,
comparative, or transnational issues, past or present. The
Academy Scholars are a select community of individuals with
resourcefulness, initiative, curiosity, and originality,
whose work in non-Western cultures or regions shows promise
as a foundation for exceptional careers in major
universities or international institutions. Academy
Scholars are appointed for two years by the Harvard Academy
for International and Area Studies and are provided time,
guidance, and access to Harvard University facilities. They
receive substantial financial and research assistance to
undertake sustained projects of research and/or acquire
accessory training in their chosen fields and areas. The
Senior Scholars, a distinguished group of senior Harvard
University faculty members, act as mentors to the Academy
Scholars to help them achieve their intellectual potential.
ACLS / Mellon Dissertation Completion
Fellowships
ACLS invites applications for the seventh
annual competition for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation
Completion Fellowships, which support a year of research
and writing to help advanced graduate students in the
humanities and related social sciences in the last year of
Ph.D. dissertation writing. The program encourages timely
completion of the Ph.D. Applicants must be prepared to
complete their dissertations within the period of their
fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2014. A
grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this
program.
American Antiquarian Society
The American Antiquarian Society offers
short-term visiting academic research fellowships tenable
for one to three months each year.
The following short-term fellowships are available for
scholars holding the Ph.D. and for doctoral candidates
engaged in dissertation research. Candidates holding a
recognized terminal degree appropriate to the area of
proposed research, such as the master's degree in library
science or M.F.A., are also eligible to apply.
American Association of University
Women (AAUW)
Dissertation Fellowships are available to women
who will complete their dissertation writing between July
1, 2013, and June 30, 2014. Applicants must have completed
all course work, passed all preliminary examinations, and
received approval for their research proposals or plans by
the preceding November. Students holding fellowships for
writing a dissertation in the year prior to the AAUW
fellowships year are not eligible. Open to applicants in
all fields of study. Scholars engaged in science,
technology, engineering, and math fields or researching
gender issues are especially encouraged to apply.
American Bar Foundation Doctoral
Fellowships in Law and Social Science
For the Doctoral/Post-Doctoral Fellowships,
applications are invited from outstanding students who are
candidates for Ph.D. degrees in the social sciences.
Applicants must have completed all doctoral requirements
except the dissertation by September 1, 2013.
Applicants who will have completed the dissertation prior
to September 1, 2013 are also welcome to apply.
Doctoral and proposed research must be in the general area
of sociolegal studies or in social scientific approaches to
law, the legal profession, or legal institutions. The
research must address significant issues in the field and
show promise of a major contribution to social scientific
understanding of law and legal process. Minority
students are especially encouraged to apply.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
– Schusterman Israel Scholar Awards
The Israel Scholar Development Fund of the
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise is pleased to offer
awards to encourage students to pursue academic careers in
fields related to the study of Israel. Awards will be
available to undergraduates and college graduates who have
already been accepted to a graduate program, graduate
students who have received master’s degrees in Middle
East related fields who wish to pursue a doctorate and
doctoral students who are writing dissertations related to
Israel.
American Philosophical Society –
John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowships
The John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship,
named in honor of a distinguished member of the American
Philosophical Society, is designed to support an
outstanding doctoral student at an American university who
is conducting dissertation research.
Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarships in
Migration Studies
The world is in motion: people and ideas,
products, technologies and diseases are travelling between
regions and continents. Cities and cultures as well as
family and labour market relations are changing in these
processes of globalization. Nation states are less capable
to regulate policy areas independently. The movement of
people is only one factor among others generating change,
but one whose importance will rise over the next years.
Migrants are settling into societies that are themselves
transforming. Integration thus becomes a moving target.
Everyone needs to be prepared to embrace change. Some
migrants will also keep multi-stranded relations with their
countries of origin, thereby building transnational spaces;
others will after little time move on to third countries.
All of them settle into motion. How can migrants and their
receiving and sending countries reap the benefits of this
movement of people? Which structural and procedural
conditions have to be in place to take advantage of
diversity? And what are the challenges for the individual,
the migrant family, the regions and countries migrants come
from as well as the places of reception? With its Bucerius
Ph.D. Scholarship Program “Settling Into
Motion”, the ZEIT-Stiftung seeks to address these
questions, each year focusing on a different topic.
Center for Comparative Immigration
Studies UC-San Diego Visiting Research Fellowships
CCIS
offers a limited number of Visiting Research Fellowships at
both the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels each academic
year. These awards are to support advanced research and
writing on any aspect of international migration and
refugee flows, in any of the social sciences, history, and
law. Due to funding constraints, CCIS awards fellowships
only to scholars who have a current or former affiliation
with a University of California campus.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for
International Scholarly Exchange
Doctoral candidates who are non-ROC citizens and
who are enrolled in an accredited university in the United
States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, or South America
may apply for financial support for writing dissertations
in the field of Chinese Studies in the humanities and
social sciences. Grants are available only to doctoral
candidates who are neither employed nor receiving grants
from other sources. Applicants should have completed all
other requirements for their Ph.D. degree, and must be in
the last stage of their doctoral program. The maximum
amount of each award is $15,000, which is given for a
period extending to one year. Successful candidates are
expected to complete their dissertations by the end of the
grant period. Funding for successful applications will be
provided in two installments (July and January). The
completed thesis should be submitted to the Foundation when
the project is finished.
Collegium Budapest Junior Fellowships
Scholars interested in a stay at the Collegium,
and whose field of interest falls under the following
categories [which includes anthropology] are welcome to
apply. The institute focuses on the above-listed research
areas; however, researchers working in other fields are
also encouraged to apply. In fact, all academic disciplines
are eligible, but candidates should take into consideration
that the Collegium cannot provide laboratories. If you wish
to apply, please write a letter indicating your interest,
download the application form (junior, senior) and submit
it, together with a Curriculum Vitae (max. 2 pages), a
brief description of the research you would like to pursue
(max. 3 pages), and the names of two scholars willing to
write a short assessment of your qualifications (for senior
applicants), while two reference letters (for junior
applicants) to Zsuzsa Ágoston at info@colbud.hu.The
application material will be presented to the Academic
Advisory Board that considers all applications and makes
recommendations to the Rector, who will make the final
decision on the recipients of a Fellowship.Scholars may
apply or be recommended by others to become fellows either
for a period of one academic year (October through July)
(in general) or for one semester (October through February,
or March through July). If you wish to recommend someone
for Fellowship, write us a letter indicating briefly why
you think that scholar would be a suitable candidate for
Fellowship at the Collegium.
Consortium for Faculty Diversity in
Liberal Arts Colleges
The Consortium is committed to increasing the
diversity of students, faculty members and curricular
offerings at liberal arts colleges with a particular focus
on enhancing the diversity of faculty members and of
applicants for faculty positions.The Consortium was founded
as an association of liberal arts colleges committed to
strengthening the ethnic diversity of students and of
faculty members at liberal arts colleges. The early goals
of the Consortium with regard to faculty diversity included
encouraging U.S. citizens who are members of
under-represented minority groups to complete their
graduate programs and to consider faculty employment in
liberal arts colleges. The Consortium now invites
applications for dissertation fellowships and post-doctoral
fellowships from those who will contribute to increasing
the diversity of member colleges by increasing their ethnic
and racial diversity, maximizing the educational benefits
of diversity and/or increasing the number of professors who
can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the
education of students. Applicants must be able to provide
evidence of U.S. citizenship or unconditional permanent
resident status at the time of hire. Appointments to the
fellowships are made by the member institutions according
to local needs and local program guidelines under the
general framework for dissertation fellowships and
post-doctoral fellowships described by the
Consortium.
Dissertation Fellowships at Dartmouth
College
Dartmouth College invites applications for the
Cesar Chavez/Charles A. Eastman/Thurgood Marshall
Dissertation Fellowships from US citizens who plan careers
in college or university teaching. The goal of the
Chavez/Eastman/Marshall fellowship program is to
promote student and faculty diversity at Dartmouth, and
throughout higher education, by supporting completion of
the doctorate by underrepresented minority scholars
(including African-American, Latina/o, and Native American
scholars) and other graduate scholars with a demonstrated
commitment and ability to advance educational diversity.
Dan David Prize Scholarship (Tel Aviv
University)
The Dan David Prize laureates annually donate
twenty scholarships of US$15,000 each to outstanding
doctoral and postdoctoral students of exceptional promise
in the chosen fields for the current year. Ten scholarships
are awarded to doctoral and post-doctoral students at
universities throughout the world and ten scholarships at
Tel Aviv University. The Dan David Prize is granted
according to merit, without discrimination based on gender,
race, religion, nationality, or political affiliation. In
order to ensure that your research is relevant to one of
this year's chosen fields, please read the field
definitions on our website carefully before filling out the
form.
Eisenhower Institute/Clifford Roberts
Fellowships
The Eisenhower Institute is a nonpartisan
organization dedicating to perpetuating Dwight D.
Eisenhower's legacy by fostering integrity and trust in the
federal government, promoting broader understanding of
democracy, and supporting leadership in public service.
Through independent and collaborative programs, the
Eisenhower Institute pursues this mission by: education;
publications; conferences; scholarships; public policy
studies; and recognition of the leadership contributions of
individuals and organizations engaged in works carrying out
the Eisenhower legacy. Applicants should be at an advanced
stage of their doctoral candidacies, preferably at the
point of preparing their dissertations. The Institute will
consider, on written university recommendation in unique
circumstances, applications of less advanced graduate
students or of persons who have recently earned their
doctorates and wish to pursue studies in the Institute's
field of interest. Applicants are selected on merit and
must be receiving their graduate degree from one of the
following institutions: University of Chicago, Columbia
University, Harvard University, Cornell University, Kansas
University, Princeton University, University of Texas at
Austin, University of Virginia, and Washington University
at St. Louis, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University or
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts
University.
Frederick Douglass Institute for
African and African-American Studies, University
of Rochester
The Predoctoral Fellowship is awarded to a graduate student
of any university whose degree contributes to the
scholarship in the field of African and African-American
Studies. A principal aim of this fellowship is to provide a
different intellectual environment that will enrich and
expedite the completion of the Fellow's dissertation. The
Fellow will also gain valuable experience through work with
the Institute's director in organizing colloquia, lectures,
and other events. There is no teaching obligation. The
award carries an annual stipend of $26,000, and the
Institute offers research funds to support the fellow's
research. To qualify for this residential fellowship in the
2013-14 academic year, an applicant will need to have
successfully completed the following before the end of this
(2012-13) academic year: (1) all required courses; (2)
qualifying oral and/or written exams; (3) at least one
chapter of the dissertation (this chapter is a required
portion of the application package).
Ford Foundation Diversity
Fellowships
This year the program will award approximately 35
dissertation fellowships. The dissertation fellowships
provide one year of support for individuals working to
complete a dissertation leading to a Doctor of Philosophy
(Ph.D.) or Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree.
Dissertation fellowships will be awarded in a national
competition administered by the National Research Council
(NRC) on behalf of the Ford Foundation. The awards will be
made to individuals who, in the judgment of the review
panels, have demonstrated superior academic achievement,
are committed to a career in teaching and research at the
college or university level, show promise of future
achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared
to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education
of all students.
Graham Foundation Carter Manny Award
Since the Carter Manny Award’s
establishment in 1996, over $600,000 has been awarded in
recognition of outstanding doctoral students whose work
represents some of the most innovative and advanced
scholarship on architecture and its role in the arts,
culture, and society. The Carter Manny Award supports
dissertation research and writing by promising scholars
whose projects have architecture as their primary concern
and focus and have the potential to shape contemporary
discourse about architecture and impact the field. Projects
may be drawn from the various fields of inquiry supported
by the Graham Foundation: architectural history,
theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape
architecture; urban planning; urban studies; the visual
arts; and other related fields.
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Dissertation Fellowships
Dissertation fellowships of $15,000 to support work in any
of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that
promise to increase understanding of the causes,
manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and
dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can
increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems
of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.
Particular questions that interest the Foundation concern
violence, aggression and dominance in relation to social
change, the socialization of children, intergroup conflict,
drug trafficking and use, family relationships and
investigations of the control of aggression and violence.
Fellows are expected to complete the dissertation within
the award year.
Jacobs Research Fund, Whatcom Museum
Society
The Jacobs Research Funds, hosted by the Whatcom
Museum in Bellingham, Washington, provides grants for
anthropological and linguistic research working with Native
American (First Nations) peoples. Grants are given for work
on problems in language, social organization, political
organization, religion, mythology, music, other arts,
psychology and folk science. Priority is given to research
on the Pacific Northwest (the Pacific Coast from Northern
California to Alaska and the Columbia Plateau in British
Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Idaho). However, research
on other areas in Canada, the continental United States,
Alaska, Mexico, Central America and South America will be
funded if possible.
Josephine de Kármán Fellowships
DeKarman fellowships are open to students in any
discipline, including international students, who are
currently enrolled in a university or college located
within the United States. Only candidates for the PhD who
will defend their dissertation by June 2014 and
undergraduates entering their senior year (will receive
bachelors degree in June 2014) are eligible for
consideration. Postdoctoral and masters degree students are
not eligible for consideration. Special consideration will
be given to applicants in the Humanities.
Law & Society Association Law and
Social Science Dissertation Fellowship and Mentoring
Program
The LSA/ABF Law and Social Science Dissertation
and Mentoring Fellowship (LSS Fellowship) is a
collaborative effort of the Law and Society Association and
the American Bar Foundation with funding from the Law and
Social Science Program of the National Science Foundation.
The fellowship is designed for third and fourth year
graduate students who specialize in the field of law and
social science and whose research interests include law and
inequality. Fellowships are held in residence at the
American Bar Foundation in Chicago, IL, where Fellows
participate in the intellectual life of the ABF, including
participation in a weekly seminar series. In addition,
Fellows are partnered with an LSA mentor-at-large and a
mentor at the ABF to work closely with the Fellow and his
or her advisors at the home institution. Attendance at the
Law and Society Association Meetings and the Graduate
Student Workshop during the fellowship also are provided as
part of the fellowship.
Library Company of Philadelphia and The
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Visiting Research
Fellowships in Colonial and US History and Culture
The Library Company of Philadelphia and The
Historical Society of Pennsylvania will jointly award
approximately twenty-five one-month fellowships for
research in residence in either or both collections during
the academic year 2013-2014. These two independent research
libraries, adjacent to each other in Center City
Philadelphia, have complementary collections capable of
supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines
relating to the history of America and the Atlantic world
from the 17th through the 19th centuries, as well as
Mid-Atlantic regional history to the present.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Dissertation Fellowships
The Lincoln Institute's C. Lowell Harriss
Dissertation Fellowship Program assists Ph.D. students,
primarily at U.S. universities, whose research complements
the Institute's interests in land and tax policy. The
program provides an important link between the Institute's
educational mission and its research objectives by
supporting scholars early in their careers. Dissertation
fellowship applications are due February 1, 2013 (midnight
EST). The awards will be announced by April 30, 2013.
Guidelines for this fellowship program, named for the
Columbia University economist and longtime member of the
Lincoln Institute board, are available below.
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
The purpose of the Foundation's Doctoral
Scholarship Program is to help train qualified individuals
for careers in Jewish scholarship and research, and to help
Jewish educational, religious, and communal workers obtain
advanced training for leadership positions.
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral
Dissertation Fellowships
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation
Fellowships are designed to encourage original and
significant study of ethical or religious values in all
fields of the humanities and social sciences, and
particularly to help Ph.D. candidates in these fields
complete their dissertation work in a timely manner. In
addition to topics in religious studies or in ethics
(philosophical or religious), dissertations appropriate to
the Newcombe Fellowship competition might explore the
ethical implications of foreign policy, the values
influencing political decisions, the moral codes of other
cultures, and religious or ethical issues reflected in
history or literature.
Erskine A. Peters Dissertation Year
Fellowship at Notre Dame
The Peters Fellowship, as it was commonly called,
had two overall goals: 1) to enable outstanding
African American doctoral candidates in the social sciences
and humanities, at the ABD level, to devote their full
energies to the completion of the dissertation and 2) to
provide opportunities for African American scholars to
experience life at the University of Notre Dame, a major
Catholic research institution.
The Ann Plato Fellowship, Trinity
College, Hartford, CT
Trinity College invites applications for a
one-year pre- or post-doctoral fellowship to promote
diversity at our nationally recognized liberal arts college
in Hartford, Connecticut. Ann Plato Fellows will join the
faculty in one of our 30 academic departments or
interdisciplinary programs, interact regularly with
colleagues and students on campus, and work on their own
research. Pre-doctoral fellows will teach one course during
the year; post-doctoral fellows will teach two courses.
Eligibility: Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent
residents who will contribute to enhancing diversity at
Trinity College by increasing ethnic and racial diversity,
maximizing the educational benefits of diversity, and/or
increasing the number of professors who can and will use
diversity as a resource for enriching the education of
students. Pre-doctoral applicants must
demonstrate that they will complete all terminal degree
requirements (except the dissertation) before beginning the
fellowship year. Post-doctoral (or post-MFA) applicants
should have no more than five years of teaching or relevant
experience subsequent to earning their doctorate.
Spencer Foundation Dissertation
Fellowships for Research Related to Education
The Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to
encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of
disciplines and professional fields to undertake research
relevant to the improvement of education. These $25,000
fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show
potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives
to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal
education anywhere in the world. This highly competitive
program aims to identify the most talented researchers
conducting dissertation research related to education. Like
all Spencer Foundation programs, the Dissertation
Fellowship program receives many more applications than it
can fund. This year, up to 600 applications are anticipated
and up to 25 fellowships will be awarded.
SSRC Korean Studies Dissertation
Workshop
The SSRC
Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop seeks to create a
sustained network of advanced graduate students and faculty
by providing the opportunity to give and receive critical
feedback on dissertations in progress. The workshop is open
to participants from all fields in the social sciences and
humanities and from institutions throughout the US and
Canada. Individual students lead discussions of their
projects with mentor faculty and student peers from various
disciplines to receive creative and critical input on
improving their fieldwork plans or writing strategies.
Based on narrative project descriptions submitted as part
of the application packet, participants will prepare a
synthetic essay incorporating all projects, from which
broader methodological and thematic discussions will be
developed and incorporated into the four-day agenda.
UC Davis Chicana/Latina Dissertation
Fellowship
The Chicana/ Latina Research Center (C/LRC) at
the University of California, Davis, is dedicated to the
development and promotion of Chicana/ Latina scholars and
scholarship on Chicana/ Latina issues covering a broad
range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary interests. This
dissertation fellowship program supports emerging scholars
whose research focuses on questions of concern to Chicanas/
Latinas. We also invite comparative studies of
Chicanas/Latinas and indigenous women.
US Institute of Peace - Peace Scholar
Dissertation Fellowships
The Jennings Randolph (JR) Peace scholarship
Dissertation Program awards scholarships to students at
U.S. universities who are writing doctoral dissertations on
topics related to international peace, conflict, and
security.
Each year the program awards approximately ten Peace
Scholar Fellowships. The fellowships last for 10 months,
starting in September. Fellowships are open to citizens of
any country and dissertation projects in all disciplines
are welcome.
Williams College - Gaius Charles Bolin
Fellowships for Minority Graduate Students
The Gaius Charles Bolin Fellowships at Williams
College are designed to promote diversity on college
faculties by encouraging students from underrepresented
groups to complete a terminal graduate degree and to pursue
careers in college teaching.The Bolin Fellowships are
two-year residencies at Williams, and up to three scholars
or artists are appointed each year. Fellows devote the bulk
of the first year to the completion of dissertation
work—or in the case of MFA applicants, building their
professional portfolios—while also teaching one
course as a faculty member in one of the College’s
academic departments or programs. The second year of
residency (ideally with degree in hand) is spent on
academic career development while again teaching just one
course. Eligibility: The Bolin Fellowships are awarded to
applicants from underrepresented groups, including ethnic
minorities, those who are first-generation college
graduates, women in predominately male fields, or disabled
scholars.
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants in
Women’s Studies
The Women’s Studies Fellowships are
provided to Ph.D. candidates at institutions in the United
States who will complete their dissertations during the
fellowship year. The most competitive applications include
not only a clear, thorough, and compelling description of
the candidate’s work, but also evidence of an
enduring interest in and commitment to women’s issues
and scholarship on women.
The Women’s Studies competition is for projects in
the humanities and social sciences; projects in fields such
as management, the clinical and biological sciences, and
law are not eligible unless they have a demonstrable
academic grounding in the humanities and social sciences.
Applicants working on health-related issues in the social
sciences should consider carefully whether their work
demonstrably centers on the topic’s social, cultural,
and individual aspects.
Woodrow Wilson Center/East European
Studies Short Term Grants
EES offers short-term grants to scholars working
on policy relevant projects on East Europe. While Southeast
Europe remains a primary focus, projects on Central Europe
and the Baltic states are again eligible. Projects should
focus on fields in the social sciences and humanities
including, but not limited to: Anthropology, History,
Political Science, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and
Sociology. All projects should aim to highlight their
potential policy relevance.
Woodrow Wilson Center/East European
Studies/Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar
East European Studies of the Woodrow Wilson
Center and the National Council for Eurasian and East
European Research are soliciting applications for the
twenty fourth annual training seminar for junior scholars
in East European studies, to be held during August, 2013.
All domestic transportation, accommodation and meal costs
will be covered by the sponsors. Eligibility: These
scholarships are available to U.S. citizens. While
Southeast Europe remains a primary focus, projects on
Central Europe and the Baltic states are again eligible.
Projects should focus on fields in the social sciences and
humanities including, but not limited to: Anthropology,
History, Political Science, Slavic Languages and
Literatures, and Sociology. All projects should aim to
highlight their potential policy relevance. Disciplines
represented at JSTS 2012 included: anthropology; history;
political science; and sociology.
Carter G. Woodson Institute for
African-American and African Studies, Univ. of
Virginia
Since its inception in 1981, the Woodson
Institute’s Residential Fellowship Program has
attracted outstanding scholars in the humanities and social
sciences who work on a wide array of topics in
African-American and African Studies, as well as related
fields. These two-year fellowships—offered at the
pre-doctoral and post-doctoral levels—are designed to
facilitate the writing of dissertations or manuscripts and
provide successful applicants the opportunity to discuss
and exchange works-in-progress both with each other and the
larger intellectual community of the University. Preference
is given to applicants whose research is substantially
completed, thus providing them the maximum amount of time
to complete their manuscripts within the fellowship term.
Post-doctoral fellows are expected to teach one
upper-division seminar each year within the
African-American and African Studies Program on a topic
chosen in consultation with the Director of Undergraduate
Studies. Please see the guidelines in the Instructions and
Application sections for more information about the
fellowship program.