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The Foundation for Community Associations Research invites applications for the Byron Hanke Graduate Fellowship for Graduate Research on Community Associations in fields including organizational behavior and economics. Within the field of community associations and common-interest communities, Hanke Fellowship projects may address management, institutions, organization and administration, public policy, architecture, as well as political, economic, social, and intellectual trends in community association housing. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Open. INQUIRIES: Shauna McLaughlin, 703/548-8600; EMAIL: smclaughlin@caionline.org; WEB LINK.
The National Science Foundation, Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences welcomes proposals for Archaeology Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research. This support is intended for doctoral students at US universities who are about to undertake their dissertation research. It also funds anthropologically significant archaeometric research and assists in preserving and increasing assess to systematic collections in all anthropological subfields. The proposal must be submitted through regular university channels by the dissertation advisor on behalf of the graduate student. The amount of the award is $8,000 for research in North America and $12,000 for work abroad. Electronic submission is required via FastLane, so please consult with your ORS contact one month prior to deadline. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: continuous. INQUIRIES: 703/292-8759, EMAIL: jyellen@nsf.gov; WEB LINK. The Organization of American Historians (OAH) sponsors or co-sponsors 22 different Awards, Prizes, Fellowships, and Grants in recognition of scholarly and professional achievements in the field of American history for scholars and historians at all levels. The award amounts vary. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadlines: varies (annual). INQUIRIES: 812/855-7311; EMAIL: oah@oah.org; WEB LINK.
The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences welcomes applications for Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants of the Decision, Risk, and Management Program (DRMS) on behalf of doctoral students at US universities who are about to undertake their dissertation research. DRMS supports research that explores fundamental issues in management science; risk analysis; societal and public policy decision making; behavioral decision making; and judgment, organizational design, and decision making under uncertainty. These grants are designed to cover expenses such as travel, special equipment, and participation fees. The dissertation advisor is the PI on these applications; the doctoral student is the co-PI. Electronic submission is required via FastLane, so please consult with your ORS contact to determine FastLane procedure. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: open. INQUIRIES: Jacqueline Meszaros or Robert O'Connor, 703/292-7261, EMAIL: jmeszaro@nsf.gov or roconnor@nsf.gov; WEB LINK. The Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) invites applications for the Fellowship Program, offering recent college graduates a unique opportunity to work side-by-side with senior PIRG staff learning the skills of field organizing, issue advocacy, and fundraising. Stipend is $19,000. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: continuous. INQUIRIES: State PIRGs Hiring Director 617/747-4360; EMAIL: jobs@pirg.org; WEB LINK. The Employee Benefit Research Institute invite applications for the Fellows Program which enables researchers in the employee benefits field to undertake projects on health, retirement, and other economic security issues. Citizenship: US Deadline: open. The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation offers the Young Artists Awards. The foundation awards are limited to candidates in the early stages of their careers who are working in a representational style in painting, drawing, sculpture, or printmaking who have already started or completed training in an established school of art or who are committed to making art a lifetime career. Grants are normally in the amount of $10,000 (Canadian). Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: continuous. INQUIRIES: Micheline Leduc, 514/937-9225, greenshields@bellnet.ca; WEB LINK. The Marketing Science Institute offers Standard Grants to support research with the potential for application by managers as well as more basic or exploratory work. Studies may be conceptual or empirical and may involve combinations of literature reviews, comparative studies, field or laboratory experiments, model building, and theory development. The institute encourages work dealing with global issues and cross-disciplinary work building on theories, research results, and methods from disciplines of relevance to marketing. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: continuous. INQUIRIES: 617/491-2060, msi@msi.org; WEB LINK. The Open Society Archives at Central European University in Hungary offers Research Grants to support visiting scholars pursuing research in its holdings. The three areas in which the Archives collects materials are: Communism and the Cold War, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, in the period after World War II; Human Rights Issues and Movements, with particular emphasis on the second half of the twentieth century; and the Soros Foundations, including records of the Soros Foundations and Open Society Institute organizations. The grants will provide travel to and from Budapest, a stipend, and free accommodation at the CEU Conference Center. Research periods are normally no more than two months. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadlines: open (reviews conducted in Mar., Jun., Sep. and Dec.). INQUIRIES: Selection Committee 36 1 327 3250; EMAIL: archives@ceu.hu;
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The US Army Center of Military History (CMH) accepts applications for Dissertation Fellowships. The CMH supports scholarly research and writing among qualified civilian graduate students preparing dissertations in the history of warfare. The fellowships carry a $10,000 stipend and access to the Center's facilities and technical expertise. Citizenship: US. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2006 (annual).
The American Philosophical Society accepts applications for the John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship. This fellowship, named in honor of a distinguished member of the American Philosophical Society, is designed to support an outstanding African-American graduate student attending any Ph.D. granting institution in the US, in any field of knowledge. The stipend for this fellowship is $25,000 for a twelve-month award period. Deadline: Apr. 1, 2006 (annual).
The National Science Foundation invites applications for the Science and Society program's Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants. S&S considers proposals that examine questions that arise in the interactions of engineering, science, technology, and society. There are four components: Ethics and Values in Science, Engineering and Technology; History and Philosophy of Science, Engineering and Technology; Social Studies of Science, Engineering and Technology; and Studies of Policy, Science, Engineering and Technology. Proposals are welcome from varied disciplinary perspectives, including history, philosophy, and the social sciences. S&S provides funds for dissertation research expenses not normally available through the student's university. The usual limits on a dissertation award are $8,000 for research in North America and $12,000 for international research. Electronic submission is required via FastLane, so please consult with your ORS contact to determine FastLane procedure. Citizenship: US. Deadline: Feb. 1 and Aug. 1 (annual). Iranian Studies Dissertation Award The Foundation for Iranian Studies invites applications for the Iranian Studies Dissertation Award. The annual prize of $1,000 for the best Ph.D. dissertation in the field of Iranian studies will be awarded. Dissertation must be nominated by the author's advisor and be accompanied by the Dissertation Committee's letter of acceptance. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Aug. 1, 2006. INQUIRIES: 301/657-1990; WEB: The Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH) and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians invite applications for the CCWH/Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Award to assist in the completion of dissertation work in any field of history. The Wells Award is given to a female student who is specializing in any field, but is currently working on a historical project. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Sep. 1, 2006. INQUIRIES: Prof. Ann Le Bar; EMAIL: alebar@mail.ewu.edu; WEB LINK. Educational Research Dissertation Grants The American Educational Research Association offers Dissertation Grants for advanced doctoral students and are intended to support the student while writing the dissertation. The program's goals are to stimulate research on US education policy and practice related issues using NSF and NCES data sets, to improve the educational research community's firsthand knowledge of the range of data available at the two agencies and how to use them, and to increase the number of educational researchers using the data sets. Citizenship: US (or permanent resident). Deadlines: Jan. 3, 2006, Mar. 1, 2006, Sep. 1, 2006. INQUIRIES: Ms. Jeanie Murdock, 805/964-5264, jmurdock@aera.net; WEB LINK. Doctoral Dissertations in Psychology The American Psychological Association (APA) Foundation welcomes applications for the Dissertation Research Award which assists science-oriented psychology doctoral students with research costs in any area of psychological research. Approximately 50 awards will be granted to students and each will receive a $1,000 award. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Sep. 15, 2006. (annual). National Institute of Justice Fellowships The National Institute of Justice offers the Graduate Research Fellowship Program, which provides dissertation research support to outstanding doctoral students undertaking independent research on issues in crime and justice. Applicants from any academic discipline are encouraged to apply. Research must focus on a topic relevant to filling key gaps in scientific knowledge, especially those relevant to criminal justice or to the concerns of criminal justice agencies and other agencies focusing on crime and justice problems. NIJ seeks applicants who have completed all doctoral degree requirements except the research , writing, and defense of a dissertation. Approximately 15 awards will be made with stipends of $20,000 each. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Sep. 15, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: Cynthia Mamalian 202/307-5981; WEB LINK. The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) offers several fellowships, including the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship Program in American Art, the Dissertation Fellowships in East European Studies, and the East European Language Training Grants for IndividualsThe ACLS Fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to 12 continuous months to full-time research and writing. Citizenship: U.S. Deadlines: Nov. 10, 2005 (Luce, East European Dissertation); Jan. 13, 2006 (Language Training). INQUIRIES: grants@acls.org; WEB LINK. The Harry S. Truman Library Institute invites applications for Research Grants and Dissertation Fellowships. Research Grants enable graduate students to come to the Library for one to three weeks to use its archival facilities. Awards are up to $2,500 for travel and living expenses. Through Dissertation Fellowships encouraging historical scholarship in the Truman era, the Institute will give financial support annually to two graduate students who have completed their dissertation research and are ready to write their dissertations. The annual stipend award is $16,000. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadlines: Apr. 1 and Oct. 1, 2006 for research grants, Feb. 1, 2006 for dissertation fellowships (annual). INQUIRIES: 816/833-0425; EMAIL: lisa.sullivan@nara.gov; WEB LINK. The Department of Education invites applications for the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program for eligible students of superior ability, selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise to undertake graduate study leading to a doctoral degree or a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at accredited institutions of higher education in selected fields of the arts, humanities, or social sciences. Eligible applicants are students who, at the time of application, have not yet completed their first year of graduate study or will be entering graduate school in academic year 2006-07. Citizenship: US. Deadline: Oct. 3, 2005 (annual). WEB LINK. FedGrants, June 14, 2005. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation provides Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants in Women's Studies to encourage original and significant research about women on such topics as the evolution of women's role in society, women in history, the psychology of women, and women as seen in literature and art. Special grants are also available for dissertations regarding women's or children's health. Applicants must be doctoral students who have completed all pre-dissertation requirements in any field of study at graduate schools in the US. Ten awards will be announced. The stipend amount is $3,000. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Oct. 11, 2005. INQUIRIES: 609/452-7007; EMAIL: wswh@woodrow.org WEB: http://www.woodrow.org/womens-studies/ The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies offers the Academy Scholars Program to identify and support outstanding scholars who are at the start of their careers and whose work combines disciplinary excellence in the social sciences and history with an in-depth grounding in particular countries or regions outside the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. Those who are selected as Academy scholars are given time, guidance, and access to Harvard facilities, and substantial financial assistance as they work for two years conducting either dissertation or post-doctoral research in their chosen fields and areas. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Oct. 14, 2005. INQUIRIES: 617/495-2137; EMAIL: bbaiter@wcfia.harvard.edu WEB LINK. The Deloitte & Touche Foundation offers
the Doctoral Fellowship Program to provide support
to outstanding doctoral students in accounting as they complete their
coursework and dissertations. Fellows are expected to teach or prepare
themselves for teaching careers while participating in the fellowship
program. Any graduate student enrolled in and successfully pursuing a
doctoral program in accounting at an accredited university who has completed
two or more semesters (or the equivalent) of that program is eligible
to apply. Limited applications accepted. Applications are to be submitted
to the chairperson of the applicant's accounting program. Each Fellow
receives a grant of $25,000, disbursed in four payments over two INQUIRIES: Kathy Shoztic 203/761-3424; EMAIL: kshoztic@dttus.com; WEB: link The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (CCKF) invites applications for two programs in support of research in Chinese studies: Doctoral Fellowships for Ph.D. Dissertations and Post-doctoral grants. The Doctoral Fellowships for Ph.D. dissertations supports doctoral candidates for the writing of their dissertations. The Post-doctoral Fellowship supports primarily research focusing on contemporary Chinese studies. The scope of the foundation's programs includes, but is not limited to, Chinese cultural heritage, Classical studies, Taiwan area studies, and China-related comparative studies. Stipend for Ph.D. dissertations is $15,000 and for post-doctoral grants is $30,000. Citizenship: US (CCK Fellowships); unrestricted (Post-doctoral Fellowship). Deadline: Oct. 15, 2006. INQUIRIES: 703/903-7460; EMAIL: CCKFNAO@aol.com; WEB: http://www.cckf.org/e-americaDF.htm The German Historical Institute, a center of advanced academic research in German history and political science, offers Dissertation Scholarships to German and American doctoral students researching topics in the field of German and American history and the role of Germany and the US in international relations. Students should be working on topics of German history for which they need to evaluate source material located in the US. The duration is up to six months. Citizenship: US and German. Deadline: May 20, 2006 and Oct. 15, 2006 (annual). WEB: http://www.ghi-dc.org/scholarship_doc.html
Dumbarton Oaks offers the Bliss Prize Fellowships to provide encouragement, assistance, and training to outstanding college seniors who plan to enter the field of Byzantine Studies. Candidates must be seniors or have a recently awarded B.A., have completed at least one year of ancient or medieval Greek by January 2003, and must be applicants to graduate school in a field of Byzantine Studies. The fellowship covers graduate school tuition and living expenses for two academic years; the second year fellowship is contingent upon successful completion of the first. Summer travel funds are available up to a maximum of $5,000. Students who have successfully completed two years as Bliss Prize Fellows, have fulfilled all preliminary requirements for a higher degree, and are working on a dissertation will be offered a Junior Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadlines: Oct. 15 (nominations) and Nov. 1 (applications), 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 202/342-3232, DumbartonOaks@doaks.org; WEB: http://www.doaks.org/Blissprize.html Minority Fellowships in Political Science The American Political Science Association (APSA) offers the Minority Fellows Program to increase the number of minority Ph.D.s in political science. The fellows program identifies and aids prospective African American, Latino(a), and Native American political science graduate students. The stipend amount is $4,000. Citizenship: US Deadline: Oct. 25, 2005. INQUIRIES: 202/483-2512; EMAIL: apsa@apsanet.org; WEB: http://www.apsanet.org/section_427.cfm The Hagley Museum and Library welcomes applications for the Grant-in-Aid Program, designed to assist researchers with travel and living expenses while conducting scholarly research in the imprint, manuscript, pictorial, and artifact collections. The collections are strong in the areas of American business, economic history, industrial, and technological history. Stipends are for a minimum of two weeks and a maximum of two months at no more than $1,400 per month. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadlines: Mar. 31, June 30, and Oct. 31, 2006 (annual). WEB: http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/grants.html Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation offers a program of Residential Fellowships and Travel Grants for use at Monticello's International Center for Jefferson Studies. Travel Grants are available on a limited basis for scholars and teachers wishing to make short-term visits to Monticello to pursue research or educational projects. Short-Term Fellowships are awarded for periods of one to three months' residency at the Center. The fellowship stipends are $1,500 for United States and Canadian fellows plus pre-approved round-trip airfare, and $2,000 for overseas fellows plus airfare. The travel grant amount is unspecified. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadlines: Apr. 1, and Nov. 1, 2006 (annual). INQUIRIES: 434/984-7500; EMAIL: icjs@ The Japan Foundation solicits applications for the Doctoral Fellowship Program. The Japan Foundation is a semigovernmental organizational whose objective is to promote international cultural exchange and mutual understanding between Japan and other countries. Fellowships give doctoral candidates in the humanities and social sciences, including comparative research projects, the opportunity to conduct research in Japan for periods ranging from 4 to 12 months. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Nov. 1, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 212/489-0299; EMAIL: info@jfny.org; WEB: http://jfny.org/
The Getty Research Institute offers Residential grants to scholars through its theme-year scholar programs, library research grants, and conservation guest scholars program. Residence periods vary from a few weeks to two years; stipends and provisions of additional resources to facilitate research also vary. Also provided by the Getty are nonresidential grants that enable scholars to pursue their research wherever necessary to complete their projects. Although grantees are welcome to use the Getty library if their projects bring them to Los Angeles, residence at the Getty Center is not required or provided. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadlines: Nov. 1, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 310/440-7374, researchgrants@getty.edu; WEB: http://www.getty.edu/ Byzantine Studies, Pre-Columbian Studies, and Landscape Architecture Dumbarton Oaks offers Residential Junior Fellowships and Summer Fellowships for research in Byzantine Studies, Pre-Columbian Studies, and Landscape Architecture. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Nov. 1, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: DumbartonOaks@doaks.org;
WEB LINK. History of German-Speaking Jewry The Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) offers several Fellowships for research and study in the social, communal, and intellectual history of German-speaking Jewry. Stipends range from $2,000 to $3,000. Citizenship: US Deadline: Nov. 1, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 212/744-6400; EMAIL: emusso@lbi.cjh.org;
WEB: http://www.lbi.com/fellowships.html Psychological Study of Social Issues The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) offers three awards for graduate students in psychology or social science. The Social Issues Dissertation Awards ($750 and $550) are for a doctoral dissertations in psychology or social science with psychological subject matter. The Clara Mayo Grants provide four awards of $1,000 each to support master's theses or pre-dissertation research on aspects of sexism, racism, or prejudice. The Grants-in-Aid Program provides up to $2,000 for scientific research in social problem areas related to the basic interests and goals of SPSSI. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadlines: Oct. 1, 2005 and May 1, 2006. WEB: http://www.spssi.org/awards.html The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research provides Dissertation Fieldwork Grants (formerly called predoctoral grants) to support research in all branches of anthropology, including cultural/social anthropology, ethnology, biological/physical anthropology, archeology, and anthropological linguistics, and in closely related disciplines concerned with human origins, development and variation. Award is up to $25,000. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: May 1 and Nov. 1, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 212/683-5000; EMAIL: inquiries@wennergren.org ; WEB: http://www.wennergren.org/ The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities seeks applications for the Internship Program for highly motivated graduate students, as well as recent graduates, for paid internships in the following areas: communications; federal legislation; health policy; housing policy; income security policy; international budget project; job creation; national budget and tax policy; nonprofit fundraising; nonprofit management; outreach campaigns; special supplemental nutrition programs for women, infants, and children (WIC); state budget and tax policy; and state low-income initiatives. Salary varies depending on degree and experience. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadlines: Feb. 15 (summer), July 15 (fall), Nov. 6 (spring) (annual deadlines). INQUIRIES: 202/408-1095 x386; EMAIL: internship@center.cbpp.org; WEB: http://www.cbpp.org/internship.html Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) Fellowships The Social Science Research Council offer the following fellowship opportunity:
Citizenship: US. INQUIRIES: info@ssrc.org; WEB LINK. Dissertation Research in Education The Spencer Foundation invites nominations for the Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowships Program to encourage a new generation of scholars from a variety of fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. 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, and are intended to support the final analysis of the research topic and the writing of the dissertation. Approximately $20,000 for up 30 fellowships will be awarded for up to two years long. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Nov. 1, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 312/274-6526; EMAIL: fellows@spencer.org; WEB: http://www.spencer.org/programs/index.htm The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) offers Dissertation Fellowships in Southeast European Studies. The stipend will be for $16,000 for fellowships beginning between June 1 and September 1, 2004 and continuing through the 2004-2005 academic year. Citizenship: US Deadline: Nov. 10, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: grants@acls.org; WEB LINK. The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship Program in American Art which support any stage of Ph.D. dissertation work in the art history of the United States in any period. The dissertation topic should be object-oriented. Ten fellowships will be awarded. Students receive a non-renewable stipend of $20,000 for one year. Citizenship: US Deadline: Nov. 10, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: Donna Heiland 212/697-1505 x124; EMAIL: grants@acls.org;
WEB: Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies Effective 1 August 2005, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has decided to suspend funding for the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies. There will be no competition in the coming 2006 academic year. WEB: http://www.woodrow.org/mellon The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) offer fellowships funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for dissertation research in the humanities in original sources. The program offers ten competitively awarded fellowships. Each provides a stipend of $1,600 per month for up to 12 months. Each fellow will receive an additional $800 upon participating in a symposium on research in original sources and submitting an acceptable report to CLIR on the research experience. Thus the maximum award will be $20,000. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Nov. 15, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 202/939-4750, sperry@mtholyoke.edu;
WEB: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/fellowships.html Fellowships for Chinese Students The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) offers the American Research in Humanities in the People's Republic of China and Chinese Fellowships for Scholarly Development (Graduate Student Fellowships) to support US and Chinese graduate students in the humanities. US universities may nominate one of their first-year graduate students from the People's Republic of China. The fellowship provides a stipend to support living expenses. Citizenship: U.S. and China. Deadline: Nov. 15, 2005. INQUIRIES: 212/697-1505 x 134; EMAIL: grants@acls.org; WEB: http://www.acls.org/csccguid.htm#fellow Visual Arts Dissertation Research Fellowships The National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts offers ten Predoctoral Fellowships to support doctoral dissertation research in the history, theory, and criticism of art, architecture, and urbanism. Application for these fellowships may be made only through the chair of graduate departments of art history and other appropriate departments, who should act as sponsors for applicants from their respective schools. Awards are $24,000 for 12 months for up to three years. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Nov. 15, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 202/842-6482; EMAIL: advstudy@nga.gov; WEB: http://www.nga.gov/resources/casvapre.htm The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) invites applications for several advanced fellowships. ARIT directly supports and administers a variety of programs of fellowships for scholarly research and for language study in Turkey. Programs for U.S. –based scholars and graduate students include the ARIT, Kress, Erim, NEH, and the ARIT-Princeton Summer Language Program at Bogazici University in Istanbul. ARIT Fellows come from all regions of the country and represent many fields of the humanities and social sciences. ARIT fellowships support individual research projects in ancient, historical, and modern times in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, that must be carried out in Turkey. Stipends range from $4,000 to $40,000. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Nov. 1, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 215/898-3474; leinwand@sas.upenn.edu; WEB: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/
The Kress Foundation offers four pre-doctoral Fellowships in the History of Art for the completion of dissertation research. Fellowships are held in association with institutes in Florence, Jerusalem, Leiden, Munich, Nicosia, Paris, Rome and Zurich. The stipend is $22,500. The Foundation also offers approximately 15-20 Kress Travel Fellowships each year for the completion of dissertation research on European art. Awards range from $3,500 to $10,000. For both awards, interested individuals must be nominated by their art history department (maximum of one nomination per department). Citizenship: US. Deadline: Nov. 30, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 212/861-4993; WEB: http://www.kressfoundation.org/kressorg/
The Organization of American Historians sponsors the La Pietra Dissertation Travel Fellowship. This fellowship provides financial assistance to graduate students whose dissertation topics deal with aspects of American history that extend beyond U.S. borders. The fellowship may be used for international travel to collections vital to dissertation research. Applicants must be currently enrolled in a U.S. or foreign graduate program. One $1,500 fellowship will be awarded annually. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Dec. 1, 2005. INQUIRIES: 812/855-7311; WEB LINK.
The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) invites applications for its annual Short-term Fellowship Program, which supports bibliographical inquiry as well as research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history. Research may concentrate on books and documents in any field, but should focus on the book or manuscript (the physical object) as historical evidence. Fellowships may be held for one or two months and include a stipend of up to $2,000 per month in support of travel, living, and research expenses. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Dec. 1, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: David L. Gants; EMAIL: dgants@rogers.com; WEB: http://www.bibsocamer.org/fellows.htm.
The Hagley Museum and Library Foundation offers the following fellowship opportunities:
Fellows receive a stipend, make use of the rich research collections of the Winterthur Museum and Gardens and the Hagley Museum and Library, and participate in a seminar that meets at both sponsoring institutions. These grants are to support serious scholarly work. They are available to both degree candidates and senior scholars and writers working independently as well as college and university teachers, librarians, archivists, museum curators, and scholars from fields other than humanities.Stipends are for a minimum of one month and a maximum of six months at no more than $1,400 per month. Citizenship: unspecified. INQUIRIES: Dr. Philip Scranton 302/658-2400, EMAIL: crl@udel.edu; WEB: http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/grants.html Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center offers the Research Scholarship Program by awarding stipends to historians in the fields of art, architecture & design, literature, music, and photography and to museum or other professionals who wish to organize an exhibition. The Research Center offers six stipends annually, one to a qualified individual in each historical discipline as well as one to a qualified individual in each historical discipline as well as one to a scholar or museum curator interested in organizing an exhibition on American Modernism at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Stipends will be awarded for research periods of 3-12 months, and award amounts will be determined individually. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Nov. 28, 2005. INQUIRIES: 505/946-1002; EMAIL: center@ Echoing Green offers Fellowships to Social Entrepreneurs and supports projects in all public service areas including, but not limited to the environment, health, youth service and development, civil and human rights, and community and economic development. Applicants must be 18 years of age or older and must commit to lead their project for at least 2 years. The fellowship includes a two-year, $60,000 stipend and health care benefits. The stipend serves as seed money to start a new public service organization or an independent project. International applicants must locate their project and its work outside the US. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadlines: Dec. 1, 2005. INQUIRIES: 212/689-1165; EMAIL: info@echoinggreen.org; WEB: Echoing Green The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation seeks applicants for the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. Approximately 28 non-renewable fellowships will be awarded. Winners will receive $18,000 for 12 months of full-time dissertation writing. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Nov. 7, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 609/452-7007; EMAIL: Urban Planning & Community Livability The American Planning Association announces Congressional Fellowships for Urban Planning & Community Livability. The Association will award six-month fellowships to two graduate or post-graduate students in urban planning or public policy to work with members of Congress on issues of planning, livability, and smart growth. Each fellow will receive a stipend of $4,000. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Nov. 1, 2004. INQUIRIES: 202/872-0611, EMAIL: Fellowships@planning.org; WEB: http://www.planning.org/fellowships/fellowship.htm
The Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI) invites applications for Dissertation Series Award and Doctoral Grants. The grants are aimed at providing Latino/a junior scholars with a venue for publishing work on the religion of U.S. Hispanics, highlighting our awardees' work, strengthening the prospective of tenure, encouraging scholarly reflection on the religious experience of U.S. Hispanics, and disseminating that knowledge. The overall goal of the Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI) is to help identify and support talented women and men in the development of intellectual and scholarly tools for teaching and research. Recipients must be committed to serving the Latino faith communities in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadlines: Dec. 7, 2005 (Doctoral Grants); Jan. 11, 2006 (Dissertation Year Grant). INQUIRIES: 800/575-5522, EMAIL: hti@ptsem.edu; WEB: http://www.htiprogram.org/ The Brookings Institution is currently inviting nominations of advanced predoctoral students to be candidates for Brookings Institution Fellowships in Foreign Policy Studies for 2004-2005. The fellowships are designed for students whose dissertation topics are related to public policy issues and whose research will benefit from residence in Washington, DC at the Brookings Institution. The fellowships carry a stipend of $20,500 payable on a 12 month basis, for eleven months of research in residence at Brookings and one month of vacation. The institution will provide supplementary assistance for copying and other essential research requirements in an amount not to exceed $1,500 for research related travel, plus the use of a personal computer. The fellows chosen will be expected to pursue their research at the Brookings Institution beginning on or about Sept 1 through August 31. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Dec. 15, 2005 for nominations, Feb. 15, 2006 for applications. INQUIRIES: 202/797-6016; EMAIL: jlindsay@brookings.edu; WEB: http://brookings.edu/admin/fellowships.htm British and American History and Culture The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens offer a wide variety of Fellowships for scholars to be in residence at the Huntington and to participate in its intellectual life. The Huntington is an independent research center with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, the history of science, and medicine. Fellowships last from one to nine months. Stipends vary depending on scholar's experience and length of residency. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Dec. 15, 2005 (annual). Minority Dissertation Research in Mental Health The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) announce the availability of Dissertation Research Grants (NIH small grant R03) to support minority doctoral dissertation research in any area relevant to mental health and/or mental disorders. Grant support is designed to attract larger numbers of underrepresented minority students as mental health investigators and to assist in providing a positive and constructive research experience that will stimulate them to pursue research careers in this field. The award period is usually one year, but may be extended without additional funds for up to 24 months. Grants will provide no more than $25,000 for one year in direct costs. Citizenship: US Deadline: Apr. 22, Aug. 22, and Dec. 22, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: Mark Chavez, Ph.D. 301/443-3563; EMAIL: mchavez1@mail.nih.gov; WEB: http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-03-110.html Plossl Doctoral Dissertation Competition The APICS Educational and Research Foundation offers the Plossl Doctoral Dissertation Competition to provide an opportunity for students to receive recognition for timely dissertations in the resource management industry. Entrants must be doctoral candidates in production and operations management (or a closely related field). Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Dec. 31 , 2005. INQUIRIES: 703/354-8794; EMAIL: foundation@apicshq.org; WEB LINK. NSF Cultural Anthropology Dissertation Improvement Grants The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation offers Dissertation Improvement Grants. The program promotes basic scientific research on the causes and consequences of human social and cultural variation. The program solicits research proposals of theoretical importance in all substantive and theoretical subfields within the discipline of Cultural Anthropology. The maximum project duration is 12 months and the maximum project budget is $12,000. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadlines: Jan. 1 and Aug. 1, 2005. (annual). INQUIRIES: Stuart M. Plattner, 703/292-7315, splattne@nsf.gov; WEB: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/anthro/suppdiss.jsp. Human Origins, Behavior, and Survival The Leakey Foundation provides General Research Grants to support research into human origins. Recent priorities include research into the environments, archaeology, and human paleontology of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene; into the behavior, morphology, and ecology of the great apes and other primate species; and into the behavioral ecology of contemporary hunter-gatherers. Advanced doctoral students are eligible. The stipend ranges from $3,000 to $12,000 for doctoral students. Larger grants of up to $20,000 are occasionally awarded, most often to postdoctoral students and senior researchers. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadlines: Jul. 14, 2005 (fall granting session) and Dec. 14, 2005 (spring granting session). INQUIRIES: 415/561-4646; EMAIL: grants@leakeyfoundation.org;
WEB LINK. The American Educational Research Association offers the Dissertation Grants Program to stimulate research on US education policy and practice related issues, with a priority on mathematics and science education. AERA invites educational policy-related research using the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), National Science Foundation (NSF), or other national datasets. The awards are up to $15,000 for one-year projects. Also, the Research Fellows Program provides valuable experience in the design, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of policy research. They also provide opportunities for researchers to attack important research/policy issues through a significant data base at either NSF or NCES while collaborating with agency personnel. Stipends are commensurate with a beginning assistant professor salary for a nine month fellowship plus $1,000 in travel funds. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadlines: Mar. 10, 2005 and Sept. 1, 2005, and Jan. 5, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: Jeanie Murdock 805/964-5264; EMAIL: jmurdock@aera.net; WEB: http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/index.html Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowships The US Institute of Peace, through its Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace, invites applications for Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowships. These fellowships are intended to support the research and writing of dissertations addressing the sources and nature of international conflict and the full range of ways to prevent or end conflict and to sustain peace. Dissertation projects from all disciplines are welcome. Priority will be given to projects that contribute knowledge relevant to the formulation of policy on international peace and conflict issues. The stipend amount is $17,000. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Jan. 10, 2006 (annual). INQUIRIES: 202/457-1700, fellows@usip.org; WEB: http://www.usip.org/fellows/scholars.html The Newberry Library offers Short-term and Long-term Fellowships to researchers who wish to use the library's collections but who cannot finance a visit on their own. Short-term fellowships are two weeks to three months and are restricted to individuals from outside the metropolitan Chicago area. Long-term fellowships are six to eleven months, and are available without regard to an applicant's place of residence and are intended to support significant works of scholarship that draw on the Newberry's collections. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Jan. 10, 2006 (Long-term); Mar. 1, 2006 (Short-term). INQUIRIES: 312/255-3666, research@newberry.org; WEB: http://www.newberry.org The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies offers the Ecole Nationale des Chartes Exchange Fellowship and the Annette Kade Fellowship in French or German Studies in the Middle Ages or Renaissance for graduate students. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Jan. 10, 2005. INQUIRIES: 312/255-3700; renaissance@newberry.org; WEB: http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/L3rrenaissance.html Colonial History of the Americas The John Carter Brown Library accepts applications for Research Fellowships in history and the humanities at Brown University. Sponsorship of research at the JCB Library is reserved exclusively for scholars whose work is centered on the colonial history of the Americas, including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American involvement. Approximately twenty-five Research Fellowships will be awarded for the period June 1 - May 31. Short-Term Fellowships are available for periods of two to four months and carry a stipend of $1,600/month. Long-Term Fellowships are for five to nine months with a stipend of $4,000/month. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Jan 10, 2006 (annual). INQUIRIES: 401/863-2725, JCBL_Fellowships@Brown.edu;
WEB: http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/ The National Science Foundation's Division of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research awards grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research in the Law and Social Science Program. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. These grants also allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their home campus that would not otherwise be possible. Electronic submission is required via FastLane, so please consult with your ORS contact to determine FastLane procedure. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Aug. 15, 2005 and Jan. 15, 2006 (annual). The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences awards Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants in Political Science. The program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Electronic submission is required via FastLane, so please consult with your ORS contact one month prior to deadline. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2006 (annual). WEB: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/ses/polisci/ddrip.jsp
The American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS) offers the Title VIII Research Scholar Program. Funded by the U.S. Department of State, Program for the Study of Eastern Europe and The Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII), the American Councils Research Scholar program provides full support for graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars seeking to conduct research for three months to nine months in Belarus, Central Asia, Russia, the South Caucasus, Ukraine, and Moldova. Scholar fellowships ranges from $5,000 to $25,000. Citizenship: US Deadline: Oct. 1, 2005. INQUIRIES: 202/833-7522; EMAIL: general@actr.org; WEB: http://www.americancouncils.org/program_list.asp?PageID=30
The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies will offer a number of Visiting Research Fellowships to be held in residence during the 2003-04 academic year. These awards will support advanced research and writing on any aspect of international migration and refugee flows, in any of the social sciences, history, law, and comparative literature. The duration of the fellowship can be from 3-12 months, depending on the requirements of the project, but full academic year projects are preferred. Stipends for predoctoral Fellowships are approximately $2,400 per month. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2005. INQUIRIES: Carmen Rodgriguez 858/822-4447; EMAIL: carodriguez@ucsd.edu; WEB: http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/Programs/fellowships.htm The American Musicological Society (AMS) offers the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship. The Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship was created to increase the presence of minority scholars and teachers in musicology. The fellowship offers a one-time, twelve-month stipend of $14,000. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2005. INQUIRIES: eharris@mit.edu; WEB: http://www.ams-net.org/awards.html The Lewis Walpole Library of the Yale University Library invites applications for Visiting Fellowships. The Library has significant holdings of eighteenth-century British prints, drawings, manuscripts, books and paintings, and is able to support advanced research in most aspects of British eighteenth-century studies. The Library offers one-month visiting fellowships to students pursuing advanced degrees and scholars engaged in postdoctoral or equivalent research. Note for 2005-2006: The visiting research fellowships have been postponed for the academic year 2005--2006 due to library renovations. The next available fellowships are targeted for the 2006-2007 academic year.Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Jan. 15 (annual). INQUIRIES: 860/677-2140; EMAIL: walpole@yale.edu; WEB: Walpole Library . Phi Beta Kappa offers the Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship alternately in the fields of Greek and French. Areas of study include language, literature, history, or archaeology of Greece, and language and literature of France. The award is made for French studies in even years and Greek studies in odd years. Candidates must be unmarried women between 25 and 35 years of age, holding the doctorate or having fulfilled all the requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation. Eligibility is not restricted to members of Phi Beta Kappa. Award amount is $20,000. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 202/265-3808; WEB: http://www.pbk.org/scholarships/sibley.htm
The Charles Babbage Institute invites applications for the Adele and Erwin Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information Processing to support dissertation research or writing on topics such as: the technical history of hardware or software; economic or business aspects of the information processing industry; or other topics in the social, institutional, or legal history of computing. $10,000 stipend plus $2,000 for tuition, fees, and travel for one year. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 612/624-5050; EMAIL: yostx003@tc.umn.edu;
WEB: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/research/index.html Minority Fellowships in Psychology The American Psychological Association offers the Minority Fellowship Program for students beginning or continuing study leading to the doctoral degree in psychology. Both clinical training and research training fellowships are available. The MFP's objectives are to increase the number of well trained ethnic minorities entering the field of psychology, to increase the knowledge of issues related to ethnic minority mental health, and to improve the quality of mental health treatment delivered to ethnic minority populations. Citizenship: US and permanent resident. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: (202) 336-6027; EMAIL: mfp@apa.org; WEB: http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/fellows.html The Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library invites applications for research in the library and museum collections. Lois F. McNeil Dissertation Fellowships to support one or two semesters of dissertation research at $7000/semester. Winterthur Research Fellowships are also available to support research for one to three months at $1,500/month. Applications are welcome in the following fields of study: anthropology, archaeology, architectural history, art history, cultural history, decorative arts, African American material culture, folklore, historic preservation, history of technology, material culture, social history, urban studies, and women's studies. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 302/888-4649, pelliott@winterthur.org;
WEB: http://www.winterthur.org/research/ The American Antiquarian Society awards Fellowships to scholars for resident research in all fields of American history and culture through 1876, including the history of the book, art, music, science, African American history, and women's history. Stipends range from $1,000 for short-term and up to $35,000 for long-term fellowships. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: James Moran 508/363-1131; EMAIL: Jmoran@moran.org; WEB: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/fellowships.htm. The American Musicological Society (AMS) offers 50 Dissertation Fellowships to encourage advancement of research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship. Eligible candidates must be registered for a doctorate at a North American university, and must have completed all formal degree requirements except the dissertation at the time of full application. The award is $14,000 for twelve months and is not renewable. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: Anne Robertson, Chair, University of Chicago, Department of Music, AMS 50, 1010 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637; WEB: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/music/ams/ams50.html
The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), with support from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), announces the program: Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions. Dissertation Grants are made to assist students in the acquisition, analysis, and reporting of data from the NCES and NSF data sets. Funds of up to $15,000 annually are available. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2005 (annual) INQUIRIES: Youlanda Green 850/644-6387; EMAIL: ygreen@mailer.fsu.edu; WEB: http://www.airweb.org/page.asp?page=40 ISI Fellowships for Future College Educators The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) offers the following fellowships: The ISI Richard M. Weaver Fellowship pays tuition at the school attended by the recipient, and a stipend of $5,000; The ISI Western Civilization Fellowship awards each recipient $20,000 for graduate work related to Western Civilization studies. ISI's Salvatori Fellowship provides $10,000 to each awardee for graduate work related to the American Founding. ISI's Bache Renshaw Fellowship provides full tuition and a living stipend of $12,000 for doctoral study in education at Virginia's Curry School of Education. In order to qualify for an ISI fellowship, an applicant must engage in graduate studies for the purpose of teaching at the college level. Those attending pre-professional (medical, law) schools are ineligible. Citizenship: US. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2005. INQUIRIES: 800/526-7022, EMAIL: awards@isi.org. WEB: http://www.isi.org/ Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in Linguistics The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) invites applications for Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in Linguistics. The program supports scientific research of all types that focus on natural human language as an object of investigation. These grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their home campus that would not otherwise be possible. The maximum allowable budget is $12,000. Electronic submission is required via FastLane, so please consult with your ORS contact one month prior to deadline. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadlines: July 15, 2005 and Jan. 15, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: Catherine Ball 703/292-8731, Blakemore Foundation Grants for Advanced Study of Asian Languages The Blakemore Foundation accepts applications for Advanced Study of Asian Languages grants. Grants fund a year of advanced language study in East or Southeast Asia in structured language programs or private tutorial programs where the primary focus is on study of the modern language. Blakemore Freeman Fellowships are awarded for study of the principal modern languages of East and Southeast Asia such as Chinese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, Japanese, Indonesian, Thai, Korean, Khmer, Burmese, and Malaysian. Consideration will be given to other East or Southeast Asian languages on an individual basis. Grants will not be made for the study of classical forms of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, or other languages not in current use in Asia that are studied primarily for academic purposes. If there is no appropriate advanced-level language program available in the country, an applicant may submit a proposal for a full-time study program of private tutorials. Grants are not intended for part-time study or research; applicants must be able to devote their time exclusively to the language study during the term of the grant. The foundation expects fellows to remain in their study country during the entire year of study. Citizenship: US citizen or permanent resident. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2005. INQUIRIES: 202/359-8778, EMAIL: blakemore@perkinscoie.com, WEB: http://www.blakemorefoundation.org/language.htm. NSF Perception, Action, and Cognition Dissertation Improvement Grants The Social, Behavioral, and Econimic Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation offers Perception, Action, and Cognition Dissertation Research Improvement Grants. The program supports research on perception, action and cognition including the development of these capacities. Emphasis is on research strongly grounded in theory. Research topics include vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and spoken discourse, motor control, and developmental issues in all topic areas. The program encompasses a wide range of theoretical perspectives, such as symbolic computation, connectionism, ecological, nonlinear dynamics, and complex systems, and a variety of methodologies including both experimental studies and modeling. Research involving acquired or developmental deficits is appropriate if the results speak to basic issues of perception, action, and cognition. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadlines: Jan. 15 and Jul. 15, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: Guy Van Orden, 703/292-8732, gvanorde@nsf.gov; WEB LINK. Economics Dissertation Research The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences welcomes applications for the Economics Program Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research on behalf of doctoral students at US universities. The Economics Program supports dissertation research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the US economy and of the world system of which it is a part. The program strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. Electronic submission is required via FastLane, so please consult with your ORS contact to determine FastLane procedure. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Jan. 18 and Aug. 18, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: Daniel Newlon 703/292-7276, dnewlon@nsf.gov; WEB LINK. The National Foundation for Jewish Culture (NFJC) accepts applications for Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Jewish Studies. The program is intended to encourage scholarly research, publication and teaching in the various disciplines of Jewish Studies. Preference is given to individuals preparing for academic careers in Jewish Studies, although occasional grants are awarded to students in other fields of the humanities or social sciences who demonstrate a career commitment to Jewish scholarship. Additionally, the applicant must give evidence of proficiency in a Jewish language adequate for pursuing an academic career in their chosen field. The stipends range from $8,000 to $10,000 for one academic year. Citizenship: US and permanent residents. Deadline: Jan. 20, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: Micah Smith 212/629-0500 x215; EMAIL: Grants@JewishCulture.org; WEB: http://www.Jewishculture.org The National Security Education Program offers the David L. Boren graduate fellowships to communicate and compete globally by knowing the languages and cultures of other countries. All Boren fellowship recipients agree to work either for a U.S. government agency involved in national security affairs, or in U.S. higher education, in that order of precedence. Citizenship: US Deadline: Jan. 29, 2005. INQUIRIES: 800/498-9360; nsep@aed.org; WEB: http://www.aed.org/nsep Minority Fellowships in Sociology of Mental Health The American Sociological Association (ASA) invite applications for the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) to support the development and training of minority sociologists in mental health. The MFP is primarily designed for minority students entering a doctoral program in sociology for the first time or for those who are in the early stages of their graduate programs. MFP applicants must be applying to or enrolled in sociology departments which have strong mental health research programs and/or faculty who are currently engaged in research focusing on mental health issues. Applicants must be members of one of the following racial/ethnic groups: Blacks/African Americans, Latinos, American Indians, Alaskan Natives, Asians, and Pacific Islanders. The stipend amount of $19,968 is provided. The fellowship is awarded for 12 months. Citizenship: US or permanent resident. Deadline: Jan. 31, 2005. INQUIRIES: 202/383-9005 x323; EMAIL: minority.affairs@asanet.org; WEB: http://www.asanet.org/student/mfp.html.
The College Art Association (CAA) offers the Professional Development Fellowships to provide assistance to M.F.A., Ph.D., and terminal M.A. students who have been underrepresented because of race, religion, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or history of economic disadvantage. The purpose of the fellowship is to bridge the gap between graduate study and professional careers. A stipend of $5,000 is provided for the final year of study. CAA then helps each fellow secure employment or an internship at a museum, art center, college, or university, and subsidizes part of the salary. The CAA offers the Terra Foundation Pre-1940 American Art Fellowship for Ph.D. candidates studying pre-1940 American art. A stipend of $10,000 is provided for the final year of study. Winning applicants will receive a stipend to spend a period of training at the Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago. Citizenship: US Deadline: Jan. 31, 2005. INQUIRIES: 212/691-1051, ext. 242, EMAIL: fellowship@collegeart.org; WEB: http://www.collegeart.org/caa/career/fellowship.html Native American Congressional Internship The Morris K. Udall Foundation accepts applications for the Native American Congressional Internship Program to give Native American students an opportunity to learn about the federal government from the inside. Each year, twelve candidates are selected for a ten-week intensive internship in Washington, D.C. Interns work full-time in congressional offices, fulfilling a variety of tasks ranging from general support work to special research and writing projects. Award includes airfare, dormitory lodging, daily allowance, and a $1,200 educational stipend. Citizenship: US Deadline: Jan. 31, 2005. INQUIRIES: Monica Nuvamsa 520/670-5529; EMAIL: nuvamsa@udall.gov; WEB: http://www.udall.gov/p_int_guide.htm. Summer Graduate Research Fellowships The Institute for Humane Studies offers the Charles Koch Summer Research Fellowships, a non-residential research and writing program. The program is open to advanced graduate students intending academic or research careers who are conducting research germane to the classical liberal intellectual tradition. Fellowship winners receive a $1,500 stipend, a travel allowance, and shared accommodations during the two conferences that they will attend. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Jan. 31, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 800/697-8799; EMAIL: ihs@gmu.edu;
WEB: http://www.theihs.org/subcategory.php/ Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship Program invites applications from college graduates to apply for full-time, six-to-nine month Scoville Peace Fellowships in Washington, DC. Outstanding individuals will be selected to work with nonprofit, public-interest organizations addressing peace and security issues. The Fellows will receive a stipend of $1,800/month plus health insurance and travel expenses to Washington, D.C. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadlines: Feb. 1 for fall semester and Oct. 15, 2005 for spring semester (annual). INQUIRIES: 202/543-4100; EMAIL: scoville@clw.org; WEB: http://www.clw.org/pub/clw/scoville/
The Fund for Theological Education offers several Fellowships for African-American and other racial and ethnic minority students in Ph.D. or Th.D. programs in religious or theological studies. The Dissertation Fellows Program provides a $15,000 stipend for African-American students in their final year of dissertation work. The Doctoral Fellows Program provides a $30,000 stipend for African-Americans students entering their program of studies. The North American Doctoral Fellows Program provides a stipend of up to $7,500 for racial and ethnic minority students (from the Canada as well as the US). Citizenship: US Deadline: Feb. 1, 2005 (Dissertation) and Mar. 1, 2005 (Doctoral and North American). INQUIRIES: 404/727-1450; EMAIL: fte@thefund.org;
WEB: http://www.thefund.org/programs/ The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia invites applications for the Fellowships in Public Affairs which promote and disseminate scholarship in contemporary politics, public policy and political history. The Miller Center funds up to ten fellowships for Ph.D. candidates and other scholars who are completing dissertation or books on Twentieth-century politics and governance in the United States. The Miller Center welcomes applicants from a broad range of disciplines, including, but not limited to, history, political science, policy studies, law, political economy and sociology. The fellowships provide a stipend of up to $18,000 to support one year of research and writing. Citizenship: U.S. Deadline: Feb. 1, 2005. INQUIRIES: Chi Lam ckl2q@virginia.edu WEB: http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/ Alexia Foundation Photojournalism Student Award The Alexia Foundation for Peace announces the Alexia Competition -- Student Award, which helps to provide the financial ability for students to improve their knowledge and skills of photojournalism and to increase their own knowledge and understanding of other cultures. The award also provides grants to enable student photographers to produce a picture story that furthers the foundation's goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding. The Alexia Competition was not created with the purpose of rewarding the best picture takers -- this is not a portfolio competition. The awards go to students who can further cultural understanding by conceiving concise, focused, and meaningful story proposals. The first place winner will receive a $9,000 scholarship toward tuition, fees, and living expenses to study photojournalism in London in the fall semester through the Syracuse University Division of International Programs Abroad; a grant of $1,000 toward completing the proposed picture story; and an additional $500 to be awarded to the sponsoring academic department. The second place winner will receive a $6,000 scholarship toward tuition, fees, and living expenses to study photojournalism in London this fall through the Syracuse University Division of International Programs Abroad, and a grant of $500 toward completing the proposed picture story. Three special recognition winners will receive $1,600 toward tuition, fees, and living expenses to study photojournalism in London this fall through the Syracuse University Division of International Programs Abroad, and $500 toward completing the proposed picture stories. Citizenship: Unrestricted. Deadline: Feb. 1, 2005. INQUIRIES: David Sutherland, 315/443-2304. EMAIL: dcsuther@syr.edu. WEB: http://www.alexiafoundation.org Causes, Manifestations and Control of Violence, Aggression and Dominance The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation offers Dissertation Fellowships to support research in the natural and social sciences and humanities that promises to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Applicants must be planning to finish the dissertation during the fellowship year. $15,000 stipend. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Feb. 1, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 212/644-4907; WEB: http://www.hfg.org
The UCLA Center for 17th and 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library support postdoctoral, predoctoral, and undergraduate research in areas of interest to the Center and the Clark Library. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Feb. 1, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 310/206-8552; EMAIL: c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu; WEB: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/Postd.htm Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship The Society of Architectural Historians invite applications for the Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship. The Fellowship is intended to permit an architectural history student to work as a summer intern on a Historical American Buildings Survey project for twelve weeks. The award is $10,000. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Feb. 1, 2005. INQUIRIES: Lisa Pfueller Davidson, 202/354-2179; lisa_davidson@nps.gov; WEB: SAH Democratic Governance in South America The Consortium in Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina and Duke University announces a joint competition for Ford Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowships in the areas of Democratic Governance and Human Welfare in South America. The fellowship period is for 9 months, and the maximum award amount is $10,000. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Feb. 17, 2006. INQUIRIES: Natalie Hartman, 919/681-3980; njh@duke.edu; WEB: http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/funding/ gradstudents.htm Udall Environmental Policy and Conflict Resolution Fellowships The Morris K. Udall Foundation invites applications for the Udall Environmental Public Policy and Conflict Resolution Dissertation Fellowships for doctoral candidates in the area of environmental public policy, environmental studies, Native American tribal health policy, and conflict resolution. Applicants must be full-time candidates in the final year of writing their dissertation and anticipate receiving their doctoral degree at the end of the fellowship year. Up to two Fellowships will be awarded. Fellows will receive a maximum of $24,000 for one year. Citizenship: US Deadline: Feb. 3, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: Jane Curlin, 520/670-5609, curlin@udall.gov; WEB: http://www.udall.gov/p_fell_guide.htm.
The Government Finance Officers Association seeks applicants for various Scholarships for graduate students preparing for careers in state and local government finance. Stipends range from $3,000-5,000 Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Mar. 18, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 312/977-9700; WEB LINK. NSF Physical Anthropology Dissertation Research Improvement Grants The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation offers Physical Anthropology Dissertation Research Improvement Grants. The program supports basic research in areas related to human evolution and contemporary human biological variation. Research areas supported by the program include, but are not limited to, human genetic variation, human adaptation, human osteology and bone biology, human and nonhuman primate paleontology, functional anatomy, and primate socioecology. Grants supported in these areas are united by an underlying evolutionary framework, and often a consideration of adaptation as a central theoretical theme. Many proposals also have a biocultural orientation. The program frequently serves as a bridge within NSF between the social and behavioral sciences and the natural and physical sciences, and proposals are commonly jointly reviewed and funded with other programs. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadlines: Feb. 9 and Aug. 16, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: Mark Weiss, 703/292-7321,
mweiss@nsf.gov; WEB: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/phys/suppdiss.jsp ACUNS Dissertation Award Program The Academic Council of the United Nations System
accepts applications for the ACUNS Dissertation Award Program
allows students working on UN-related issues to support the actual writing
of a dissertation or the equivalent. This award is designed to free-up
an individual at the final stage of graduate work from teaching commitments
in order to complete his or her dissertation expeditiously. The individual
may be from any university and spend the award wherever would be the most
profitable. The intention is to invite the winner to present their preliminary
work at the ACUNS annual meeting and encourage him or her to submit some
written product to the journal, Global Governance, for consideration.
The awardee will be required to submit a final written report to the ACUNS
secretariat at the end of the award period. Citizenship: Unrestricted.
Deadline: Feb. 11, 2005. The Library of Congress invites applications for the Swann Foundation Fellowship to assist ongoing scholarly research and writing projects in the field of caricature and cartoon. Since the fund encourages research in a variety of academic disciplines, there is no restriction upon the university department in which this work is being done, provided the subject pertains to caricature or cartoon art. Citizenship: Canada, Mexico, U.S. Deadline: Feb. 13, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 202/707-9115, swann@loc.gov; WEB LINK. The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) announces its annual competition for Research Fellowships in Palestinian Studies. Fields of study and historical time period are open. Fellowships will be granted for tenures of typically three to four months, and for amounts ranging from $4,500 to $6,000, with up to $1,000 for travel expenses. Citizenship: unspecified. Deadline: Feb. 15, 2005. INQUIRIES: 610/519-7712, EMAIL: parc@villanova.edu; WEB: http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/parc/ The Medieval Academy of America offers the Dissertation Grants to support advanced graduate students writing dissertations on medieval topics. The stipend is $2,000. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Feb. 15, 2005. INQUIRIES: 617/491-1622, EMAIL: Speculum@MedievalAcademy.org; WEB: http://www.medievalacademy.org/ The National Women's Studies Association will award the Graduate Scholarship Award to a student engaged in the research or writing stages of a master's thesis or Ph.D. dissertation in the interdisciplinary field of women's studies. Preference will be given to NWSA members. Scholarship award is $1,000. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Feb. 15, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: 301/403-0525; EMAIL: nwsa@umal.umd.edu; WEB: http://www.nwsa.org/scholarship.htm History of Europe, Asia, and Africa The American Historical Association (AHA) offers the following grant opportunities for graduate students:
Grants are intended to further research in progress. Grants are only available to eligible AHA members. Funds may be used for, but are not limited to, travel to a library or archive; microfilming, photography, or photocopying; borrowing or access fees; and similar research expenses.Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Feb. 15, 2005. INQUIRIES: 202/544-2422; WEB: http://www.historians.org/prizes/Grants.htm NSF Geography and Regional Science Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation offers the Geography and Regional Science Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants. The program sponsors research on the geographic distributions and interactions of human, physical, and biotic systems on the Earth's surface. Investigations are encouraged into the nature, causes, and consequences of human activity and natural environmental processes across a range of scales. Projects on a variety of topics (both domestic and international) qualify for support if they offer promise of contributing to scholarship by enhancing geographical knowledge, concepts, theories, methods, and their application to societal problems and concerns. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadlines: Feb. 15 and Oct. 15, 2005 (annual). INQUIRIES: Thomas J. Baerwald, 703/292-8754, tbaerwal@nsf.gov; WEB: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/grs/suppdiss.jsp. NSF Sociology Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation offers Sociology Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants. The program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization -- societies, institutions, groups and demography -- and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology. The Program supports both original data collections and secondary data analysis that use the full range of quantitative and qualitative methodological tools. Theoretically grounded projects that offer methodological innovations and improvements for data collection and ana |
