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Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
for Graduate Students

Humanities and Social Sciences

Deadlines: January, 2008-May, 2008

NOTE: Many deadlines are anticipated deadlines, based on prior application cycles. Please check deadlines with the funding sources.

DISSERTATION RESEARCH AND WRITING

(by deadline)


American Bar Foundation
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Law and Social Science
DEADLINE: January 8, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: 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, 2007. Minority students are especially encouraged to apply.
ABSTRACT: The purpose of the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Law and Social Science is to encourage original and significant research on law, the legal profession, and legal institutions. Proposed dissertation research must be in the general area of sociolegal studies or in social scientific approaches to law, the legal profession, or legal institutions. The dissertation must address significant issues in the field and show promise of a major contribution to social scientific understanding of law and legal process. The fellowships are held in residence at the ABF. Fellows are expected to participate fully in the academic life of the ABF so that they may develop close collegial ties with other scholars in residence.
http://www.abf-sociolegal.org/abffellow.html

Hispanic Theological Initiative
Dissertation Year Grant
DEADLINE: January 11, 2008
CITIZENSHIP: US or Canadian citizens or legal immigrants
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be in a school accredited by an agency recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and must be all but dissertation.
ABSTRACT: The overall goal of the Hispanic Theological Initiative is to help identify and support talented women and men in the development of intellectual and scholarly tools for teaching and research. In addition to monetary support to help the awardee devote as much time as possible to writing, the HTI will also provide the dissertation year awardee with skilled editorial support in order to facilitate a timely completion of the dissertation; a mid-year workshop to monitor and encourage the writing process to provide a time for discussion of dissertation; and to provide collegial support.
http://www.htiprogram.org/scholarships/dissertation.htm

Marquette University
Mitchem Dissertation Fellowships
DEADLINE: January 14, 2008
CITIZENSHIP: US citizenship required
ELIGIBILITY: Persons are eligible to apply who
- have not earned a doctoral degree at any time or in any field;
- have completed all other requirements for the Ph.D.;
- are well into the writing stage of their dissertation work; and
- belong to a racial-cultural group historically underrepresented in the U.S. professoriate: African American, Native American, and Hispanic American candidates are especially encouraged to apply.
ABSTRACT: The primary goal of the Arnold L. Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship Program is to help increase the presence of currently underrepresented racial and cultural groups in the U.S. professoriate by supporting doctoral candidates in completing the final academic requirement, the dissertation. Mitchem Fellowships provide one year of support for two students with advanced candidacy in their doctoral programs in other U.S. universities. Fellows are to be in residence at Marquette University for the academic year during which they teach one course in their area of specialization, interact with faculty and undergraduate students, and devote their primary energies to the completion of their dissertations. During their residence, Mitchem Fellows will participate in a mentoring process, collaborating with a senior faculty mentor in the fellow's discipline, who is appointed by the Dean. Applications for the 2008-2009 Fellowships are invited for the following academic areas: 1. Education 2. English 3. Foreign languages and literatures 4. History 5. Mathematics and Mathematics education 6. Statistics 7. Computer science 8. Philosophy 9. Political science 10. Psychology 11. Social and cultural sciences 12. Theology or Religious studies.
http://www.marquette.edu/as/graduate/mitchem.shtml

American Antiquarian Society
Various Short-Term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships
DEADLINE: January 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Fellowships are available 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.
ABSTRACT: The American Antiquarian Society offers fellowships to support research on any topic supported by the society's collections. Fellowships are awarded to individuals engaged in scholarly research and writing - including doctoral dissertations - in any field of American history and culture through 1876. The fellowships are tenable at the AAS library in Worcester, Massachusetts.
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/acafellowship.htm

American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Various Fellowship Programs
DEADLINE: January 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D.s are eligible. Applicants must demonstrate their need to work in the Gennadius Library.
CITIZENSHIP: Some fellowship opportunities have citizenship restrictions.
ABSTRACT: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens’ fellowship programs support research in the fields represented by the Gennadius Library in Athens: late antiquity, Byzantine studies, post-Byzantine studies, or modern Greek studies. Fellows are expected to be in residence at the school for the full term of the fellowship.
http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/fellowship/fellowships.htm

American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Research Fellowship in Environmental Studies
DEADLINE: January 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Scholars with the Ph.D. and graduate students working on a doctoral dissertation are eligible to apply.
ABSTRACT: The Wiener Laboratory at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens offers the Research Fellowship in Environmental Studies to allow individuals with a well-defined project, working either alone or in collaboration with local research institutions, to pursue environmental studies from archaeological contexts in Greece (e.g., archaeobotanical studies; the study of seeds, charcoal, phytoliths, pollen, etc.). Projects must be carefully planned for completion during the school's academic year.
http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/Wiener/fellowship.htm

Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism and American Culture
Dissertation Fellowship Program
DEADLINE: January 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be candidates for the Ph.D. or Th.D. degree who have fulfilled all pre-dissertation requirements, including approval of the dissertation proposal by December prior to the award year and expect to complete the dissertation by the end of the following academic year.
ABSTRACT: The fellowships are intended to support the final year of dissertation writing. Preference will be given to proposals that attempt to describe more fully how the Christian faith is actually lived by contemporary persons and to bring the resources of the Christian faith into closer relation to their daily lives, and help those to understand more adequately the institutional reconfiguration of American religion. All fellows are expected to participate in the Louisville Institute's two-day winter seminar.
http://www.louisville-institute.org/secondary/DFdetail.asp

Smithsonian Institution American Art Museum
Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
DEADLINE: January 15, 2008
CITIZENSHIP: Unrestricted
ABSTRACT: The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery invite applications for research fellowships in art and visual culture of the United States. The Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship is awarded for the advancement and completion of a doctoral dissertation that concerns the traditions of American art.
http://www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm#fsaam

Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Lois F. McNeil Dissertation Research Fellowships
DEADLINE: January 15, 2008
ABSTRACT: McNeil Dissertation Fellowships are one or two semester long fellowships for doctoral candidates conducting dissertation research. Winterthur Library is a recognized center for advanced study and is dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of America's artistic, cultural, social, and intellectual history from colonial times into the twentieth century. Fellows have conducted research in the areas of material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden and landscape studies, Shaker studies, travel and tourism, the Atlantic World, childhood, sentimental literary culture, and many other areas of social and cultural history. Winterthur's museum and library collections are rich and diverse, and Winterthur welcomes applications that offer fresh approaches to the resources.
http://www.winterthur.org/research/fellowship.asp?sub=fellowships_avail

Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
John M. Olin Fellowships in National Security
DEADLINE: January 16, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Preference is given to graduate students who have made progress on their dissertations and are likely to complete them during their fellowship, and recent Ph.D. recipients.
ABSTRACT: The Olin Fellowships in National Security are designed to promote basic research in the broad area of security and strategic affairs. Of particular interest is research into the causes and conduct of war, military strategy and history, defense policy and institutions, and the ways that the United States and other societies can provide for their security in a dangerous world. The Olin fellows spend an academic year at the institute, working on a project of their choosing. It is expected that dissertation fellows will make substantial progress toward the completion of their thesis. In addition fellows will be expected to participate actively in the intellectual life of the institute, taking part in seminars, presenting papers, and discussing the work of their colleagues.
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/olin/fellowshipinformation/index.htm

Stanford University Center on Adolescence
Youth Purpose Research Awards
DEADLINE: January 17, 2008
CITIZENSHIP: US citizens and permanent residents may apply.
ELIGIBILITY: Doctoral candidates whose dissertation proposals have been approved. Applicants may be from any field that may inform youth purpose scholarship, including psychology, sociology, history, human development or education.
ABSTRACT: The Stanford Center on Adolescence supports young scholars pursuing research related to youth purpose, defined as “a stable and generalized intention to accomplish something that is at once meaningful to the self and of intended consequence beyond the self.”
http://www.stanford.edu/group/adolescent.ctr/Grants/researchawards.html

Social Science Research Council
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship
DEADLINE: January 30, 2008-- Online student application opens December 3, 2007 and ends January 30, 2008.
ELIGIBILITY: Students in the humanities and social sciences undertaking doctoral dissertation research may apply. The program is designed for second and third year students who have not yet had their dissertation proposals approved by their thesis directors and their home institutions. Scholars who have applied this year or in previous years for SSRC's IDRF program, or for any major funding grant for dissertation research, are not eligible for a DPDF. Scholars who have already received funding and have completed predissertation research before applying will not be eligible.
CITIZENSHIP: Unrestricted
ABSTRACT: The Social Science Research Council is an independent, nonprofit organization that seeks to advance social science throughout the world and supports research, education, and scholarly exchange on every continent. The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship is a strategic fellowship program designed to help graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate doctoral dissertation proposals that are intellectually pointed, amenable to completion in a reasonable time frame, and competitive in fellowship competitions. Graduate students in the early phase of their research, generally second and third years, apply to one of five research fields led by the two directors; each group is made up of 10 to 12 graduate students. Fellows participate in two workshops, one in the late spring that helps prepare them to undertake predissertation research on their topics; and one in the early fall, designed to help them synthesize their summer research and to draft proposals for dissertation funding. The spring workshop will be held May 28-June 1, 2008, in Saint Louis, Missouri. The fall workshop will be held September 10-14, 2008, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf/

Harvard University Law School Program on Negotiations
Graduate Research Fellowships
DEADLINE: January 31, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Doctoral candidates must have completed all degree requirements except for the dissertation. Graduate law students are eligible in connection with scholarly research undertaken to satisfy their SJD thesis requirements.
ABSTRACT: The Program on Negotiation Graduate Research Fellowships are designed to encourage young scholars from the social sciences and professional disciplines to pursue theoretical, empirical, or applied research in negotiation and dispute resolution. Consistent with the goal of fostering the development of the next generation of scholars, this program provides support for one year of dissertation research and writing in negotiation and related topics in alternative dispute resolution, as well as giving fellows an opportunity to immerse themselves in the diverse array of resources. The Graduate Research Fellowships allow doctoral students who are writing their dissertations to be part of the community for one year. Doctoral candidates in the fields of economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, international relations, public policy, urban planning, business, and law are encouraged to apply.
http://www.pon.harvard.edu/education/fellowship.php

American Sociological Association Section on Mathematical Sociology
Mathematical Sociology Dissertation Grant
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The application must be supported by the applicant's department chair and thesis chair, including testimony about her or his ability to complete the work satisfactorily and the department's assurances that they can make all necessary resources available. An applicant must be a member of ASA and of the Mathematical Sociology Section at time of application and during the period covered by the grant.
ABSTRACT: The Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) offers the Mathematical Sociology Dissertation Grant to support a dissertation proposal what will contain some significant original work in mathematical sociology, applied to sociological theory or methodology.
http://www.asanet.org/cs/root/leftnav/awards/call_for_section_award_nominations

Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council
AAS NEAC Japan Studies Grants
Grants for Research Travel within the USA
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008
CITIZENSHIP: US citizens and permanent residents are eligible.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must have not received funds in this category within the past five years. Although these grants are primarily intended to support postdoctoral research on Japan, Ph.D. candidates are also eligible to receive support for doctoral dissertation research at appropriate collections. The review committee strongly encourages applications from graduate students to include a letter of recommendation from an advisor.
ABSTRACT: The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, supports a variety of grant programs in Japanese studies designed to facilitate the research of individual scholars, to improve the quality of teaching about Japan on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Japan into the major academic disciplines. Under the Research Travel within the USA category, grants are offered to persons who are engaged in scholarly research on Japan and wish to use museum, library, or other archival materials located in the United States.
http://www.aasianst.org/grants/main.htm

Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council
Korean Studies Grants
Research Travel - North America Awards
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008 –for spring/summer awards
ELIGIBILITY: Predoctoral dissertation work will be considered.
ABSTRACT: The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Korea Foundation, offers a grant program in Korean studies designed to assist the research of individual scholars based in North America, to improve the quality of teaching about Korea on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Korea into the major academic disciplines. The Research Travel - North America Awards are available to scholars who are engaged in research on Korea and wish to use museum, library, or other archival materials located in the United States and Canada. http://www.aasianst.org/grants/main.htm

Dirksen Congressional Center
Congressional Research Awards
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, and journalists are among those eligible. The center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply and awards a significant portion of the funds for dissertation research.
ABSTRACT: The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The center's first interest is to fund the study of the leadership in the Congress, both House and Senate. Topics could include external factors shaping the exercise of congressional leadership, institutional conditions affecting it, resources and techniques used by leaders, or the prospects for change or continuity in the patterns of leadership. In addition, the center invites proposals about congressional procedures, such as committee operation or mechanisms for institutional change, and Congress and the electoral process. The center also encourages proposals that link Congress and congressional leadership with the creation, implementation, and oversight of public policy. Proposals must demonstrate that Congress, not the specific policy, is the central research interest. The research for which assistance is sought must be original, culminating in new findings or new interpretation, or both.
http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRAs.htm

Fund for Theological Education, Inc.
Dissertation Fellows Program
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008
CITIZENSHIP: US citizenship required
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be African American Ph.D. or Th.D. students at the final writing stage of their graduate work in religious or theological studies. The applicant's dissertation committee must have approved the dissertation research proposal and writing plan and given the student permission to proceed prior to submission of an application for the Dissertation Fellows Program. Applicants must be able to write full time during the fellowship year.
ABSTRACT: The Dissertation Fellows Program provides support and enhancement to African American Ph.D. or Th.D. students in their final year of dissertation work in religious or theological studies. The goal of this program is to increase completion rates and shorten time-to-degree periods for African-American doctoral students who intend to teach or do research in theological schools.
http://www.thefund.org/programs/africanamerican_dissertation.phtml

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Dissertation Fellowships for Research on Aggression and Violence
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Grants are made to Ph.D. candidates who are in the writing stage of the dissertation. Usually, this means that fieldwork or other research is complete and writing has begun. Both the applicant and the applicant's advisor are asked to assure the foundation that the thesis will be complete within the grant year.
ABSTRACT: Dissertation fellowships are awarded each year to individuals who will complete the writing of the dissertation within the award year. These fellowships are designed to contribute to the support of the doctoral candidate to enable him or her to complete the thesis in a timely manner. Applications are evaluated in comparison with each other and not in competition with the postdoctoral research proposals. 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. Priority will also be given to areas and methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other funding sources.
http://www.hfg.org/df/guidelines.htm

Harry Ransom Humanities Center, University of Texas, Austin
Dissertation Fellowships
February 1, 2008
ABSTRACT: The Harry Ransom Center awards research fellowships to support scholarly research projects in all areas of the humanities. Priority will be given to those proposals that concentrate on the Center's collections and that require substantial on-site use of them. In addition, a number of fellowships in this year's competition will be dedicated to proposals which focus on integrating and finding points of convergence between the literary and visual collections housed at the Ransom Center.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/about/fellowships/application/

Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
Dissertation Year Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants should have substantially completed their research and be prepared to devote full-time to writing their dissertation. There is no requirement that applicants conduct further research at the Truman Library.
ABSTRACT: Grants will be given to support graduate students working on some aspect of the life and career of Harry S. Truman or of the public and foreign policy issues which were prominent during the Truman years. One or two dissertation year fellowships will normally be awarded each year. Preference will be given to projects based on extensive research at the Truman Library.
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/grants/#diss

Stanford University Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies: Center for International Security and Cooperation
Predoctoral Fellowships in International Security
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Fellowships are available to Ph.D. candidates who have made substantial progress toward the completion of their dissertations. The center is also interested in applications from journalists interested in arms control and international security issues. Fellowships provide opportunities for concentrated study in a multidisciplinary environment.
ABSTRACT: The Center, part of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, serves as a collegial forum for scholars, government officials, military officers, and business leaders to explore innovative solutions to complex international problems. Visiting fellows spend the academic year at Stanford University, where they will participate in seminars, interact with each other and faculty and researchers, and will be expected to produce a research product (e.g., dissertation chapters, draft articles, a book manuscript. Suitable topics may include, but are not limited to regional and global security relationships; proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons; the United Nations and global governance; causes and prevention of deadly conflict; causes and prevention of terrorism; norms of use and nonuse of weapons; the interaction of science, politics, and policy; and organizational success and failure in avoiding or responding to disaster.
http://cisac.stanford.edu/fellowships

UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
Clark Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Fellowship holders must be members in good standing of the ASECS.
ABSTRACT: Fellowships jointly sponsored by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Clark Library are available to all-but-dissertation graduate students with projects in the Restoration or the eighteenth century. Fellowships support one-month residencies.
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/Postd.htm#asecs-clark

University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs
Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Ph.D. candidates who expect to complete their dissertations by the conclusion of the fellowship year.
ABSTRACT: The Miller Center Fellowship program is a competitive program for individuals completing their dissertations on American politics, foreign policy and world politics, or the impact of global affairs on the United States. Along with the fellowship grant, the Miller Center assists the fellow in choosing a senior scholar as fellowship "mentor" who will make suggestions on the literature in which the fellow should frame the project, read the fellow’s work, and give general advice on research. The Miller Center encourages applicants from a broad range of disciplines, including, but not limited to, history, political science, policy studies, law, political economy, and sociology. Residence is strongly encouraged but is not required. All fellows are expected to participate in and contribute to the intellectual discourse at the center.
http://millercenter.virginia.edu/programs/apd/fellowships/index.html

Morris K. Udall Foundation
Environmental Public Policy and Conflict Resolution Dissertation Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 3, 2008
CITIZENSHIP: US citizens, permanent residents or nationals are eligible.
ELIGIBILITY: Each applicant must
- have completed all Ph.D. coursework and passed all preliminary exams;
- have approval for the dissertation research proposal by February 21, 2008;
- be entering the final year of writing the dissertation.
- the primary focus of dissertation research should be U.S. environmental policy or environmental conflict resolution.
Ph.D. candidates who hold a fellowship for the purpose of writing the dissertation during the year preceding or coinciding with the Udall Fellowship are not eligible.
ABSTRACT: The Udall Foundation awards fellowships to doctoral candidates whose research concerns U.S. environmental public policy or environmental conflict resolution and who are entering their final year of writing the dissertation. Dissertation fellowships are open to scholars in all fields of study whose dissertation topic has significant relevance to U.S. environmental public policy or environmental conflict resolution. It is the foundation's intent that work conducted during the fellowship year be done in the United States.
http://www.udall.gov/udall.asp?link=400

American Anthropological Association
AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008
CITIZENSHIP: US citizens only
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must
- be members of a historically underrepresented ethnic minority group, including, but not limited to, African Americans, Alaskan Natives, American Indians or Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latino/as, Chicano/as, and Pacific Islanders;
- have a record of outstanding academic achievement;
- be enrolled in a full-time academic program leading to a doctoral degree in anthropology at the time of application;
- be admitted to degree candidacy before the dissertation fellowship is awarded;
- be members of the AAA at least one month prior to submitting materials for the AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship Program; and
- have had their dissertation proposals approved by their dissertation committees prior to application.
The recipient of the fellowship must be in need of a fellowship to complete the dissertation.
ABSTRACT: The American Anthropological Association offers the AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship to minority doctoral candidates in anthropology who require financial assistance to complete the write-up phase of the dissertation. The dissertation research must be in an area of anthropological research. Dissertation topics in all areas of the discipline are welcome.
http://www.aaanet.org/committees/minority/minordis.htm

American Historical Association
Albert J. Beveridge Grants for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Only AHA members are eligible. Preference will be given to Ph.D. candidates and junior scholars.
ABSTRACT: The American Historical Association offers the Albert J. Beveridge Grants for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere to support research in the history of the Western hemisphere (United States, Canada, and Latin America). The grants are intended to further research in progress and may be used, for example, for travel to a library or archive, for microfilms, for photographs, or for photocopying (other expenses, such as child care, can be included).
http://www.historians.org/prizes/BeveridgeGrantInfo.htm

American Historical Association
Michael Kraus Research Grant in American Colonial History
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Only AHA members are eligible. Preference will be given to Ph.D. candidates and junior scholars.
ABSTRACT: The American Historical Association offers the Michael Kraus Research Grant in American Colonial History to recognize the most deserving proposal relating to work in progress on a research project in American colonial history, with particular reference to the inter-cultural aspects of American and European relations. The grants are intended to further research in progress and may be used, for example, for travel to a library or archive, for microfilms, for photographs, or for photocopying (other expenses, such as child care, can be included).
http://www.historians.org/prizes/KrausGrantInfo.htm

American Historical Association
Littleton-Griswold Research Grant for Research in U.S. Legal History
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Only members of the AHA are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to Ph.D. candidates and junior scholars.
ABSTRACT: The American Historical Association is accepting applications for the Littleton-Griswold Research Grant for research in U.S. legal history and in the general field of law and society. The grants are intended to further research in progress and may be used for travel to a library or archive, for microfilms, photographs, or photocopying - a list of purposes that is meant to be merely illustrative, not exhaustive (other expenses, such as child care, can be included).
http://www.historians.org/prizes/Littleton-GriswaldGrantInfo.htm

American Historical Association
Schmitt Grants for Research in European, African, or Asian History
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Only AHA members are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to Ph.D. candidates and junior scholars.
ABSTRACT: The American Historical Association’s Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grants support research in the history of Europe, Africa, and Asia. The grants are intended to further research in progress and may be used, for example, for travel to a library or archive, for microfilms, photographs, or photocopying (other expenses, such as child care, can be included).
http://www.historians.org/prizes/SchmittGrantInfo.htm

Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
Dissertation Fellowships for Republic of China Students Abroad
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Doctoral candidates who are ROC citizens and who are completing the last stage of their Ph.D. research at an accredited university in the American Region (the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, or South America) may apply. Only students who have graduated from an accredited university or college in the ROC, and who do not have foreign permanent residence status or citizenship, are eligible to apply.
Grants are available only to doctoral candidates who are neither employed nor receiving grants from other sources.
CITIZENSHIP: China
ABSTRACT: The Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange provides grants for Republic of China (ROC) students abroad to help finance the completion of dissertations in the humanities and social sciences.
http://www.cckf.org/e-americaDG.htm

Medieval Academy of America
Dissertation Grants
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: All graduate students whose primary research focuses on an aspect of medieval studies are eligible. Applicants must have received approval from their dissertation committee for their projects and must be members of the Medieval Academy.
ABSTRACT: Medieval Academy Dissertation Grants support advanced graduate students who are writing Ph.D. dissertations on medieval topics.
http://www.medievalacademy.org/grants/gradstudent_grants_madis.htm

American Educational Research Association
Dissertation Grants Program
DEADLINE: February 22, 2008
Proposals for Dissertation Grants will be reviewed three times a year, with funding decisions made within a month of the review date.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be advanced doctoral students. Underrepresented minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply.
ABSTRACT: With support from the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Education Statistics of the Institute of Education Sciences, the American Educational Research Association Grants Program announces its Dissertation Grants Program. The program's goals are (1) to stimulate research on U.S. education policy- and practice-related issues using NCES and NSF data sets; (2) 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 (3) to increase the number of educational researchers using the data sets. AERA invites education policy- and practice-related dissertation proposals using NCES, NSF, and other national data bases. Dissertation Grants are intended to support advanced doctoral students while writing the doctoral dissertation. Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such as but not limited to, education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics. Researchers must include the analysis of data from at least one NSF or NCES data set in the dissertation. Additional large-scale nationally representative data sets may be used in conjunction with the obligatory NSF or NCES data set. If international data sets are used, the study must include U.S. education.
http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/diss_grants/DGFly.html

Resources for the Future
Joseph L. Fisher Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 29, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Fellowship candidates must have completed the preliminary examinations for the doctorate no later than February 1 prior to the application deadline.
ABSTRACT: RFF will award fellowships in support of doctoral dissertation research on issues related to the environment, natural resources, or energy. RFF's primary research disciplines are economics and other social sciences. Proposals originating in these fields will have the greatest likelihood of success. Proposals from the physical or biological sciences must have an immediate and obvious link to environmental policy matters to be considered. This fellowship is intended to be the principal source of support for graduate students in the final year of their dissertation research.
http://www.rff.org/rff/About/Fellowships_and_Internships/Fisher/Application-Process.cfm

Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation
Research Grants for Young Scholars
DEADLINE: March 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants should not be older than 30 years and must have been awarded their last academic degrees (master's degree or diploma degree) within the last year.
ABSTRACT: The Gottlieb Daimler und Karl Benz Stiftung awards fellowships to young Germans pursuing a Ph.D. thesis in foreign countries as well as to foreign Ph.D. students undertaking research in German institutions. The program is open to all disciplines, subjects, and countries. Applicants must have a clearly defined research project of their own, that must be embedded in a program of the cooperating host institution. The foundation organizes an annual meeting for all fellowship recipients to promote interdisciplinary exchange. The foundation also supports initiatives of fellows, e.g., the establishment of multidisciplinary workshops. Postdoctoral research, diploma theses, study visits, practical training, etc. will not be supported.
http://www.daimler-benz-stiftung.de/home/fellowship/de/start.html

Newberry Library
Short-Term Resident Fellowships for Individual Research
DEADLINE: March 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Ph.D. candidates from outside of the Chicago area
The library's holdings span the history and culture of western Europe from the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century and the Americas from the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans. Its strengths include European discovery, exploration, and settlement of the Americas; the American West; local history, family history, and genealogy; literature and history of the Midwest, especially the Chicago Renaissance; Native American history and literature; the Renaissance; the French Revolution; Portuguese and Brazilian history; British literature and history; the history of cartography; the history and theory of music; the history of printing; and early philology and linguistics. The collections number 1,500,000 printed titles, five million manuscript pages, and 300,000 historic maps.
http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/short-term.html

University of Pennsylvania; McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Dissertation Fellowship Program
Various MCEAS Dissertation Fellowships
DEADLINE: March 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Doctoral candidates from any Ph.D.-granting institution who are in the research or writing stage of the dissertation are eligible to compete for these fellowships.
ABSTRACT: MCEAS Dissertation Fellowships are open to candidates from any discipline working on projects dealing with the histories and cultures of North America in the Atlantic world before 1850. While no teaching is required for most fellowships, all McNeil Center fellows are expected to be in residence in Philadelphia during the academic year and to participate regularly in the center's program of seminars and other activities. Any project dealing with the histories and cultures of North America in the Atlantic world before 1850 will be considered. Proposals dependent on the use of Philadelphia-area archives and libraries are particularly welcome. Applications are encouraged from students of all relevant disciplines, including African American studies, American studies, anthropology, economics, folklore, gender studies, history, law, literature, music, political science, religion, urban studies, and women’s studies.
http://www.mceas.org/dissertationfellowships.htm

University of Virginia Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies
Albert Gallatin Fellowship in International Affairs
DEADLINE: March 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Candidates for the Ph.D. are eligible.
CITIZENSHIP: US citizenship is required.
ABSTRACT: The award for the coming academic year provides for study at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland by an American candidate for the Ph.D. who is actively engaged in dissertation research within the field of international relations.
http://minerva.acc.virginia.edu/crees/gallatin1.htm

David Library of the American Revolution
Research Fellowships
DEADLINE: March 2, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Predoctoral applicants must have passed their department's Ph.D. comprehensive or qualifying exams before applying.
ABSTRACT: The David Library in Washington Crossing, PA, offers research fellowships for the study of America in the last half of the eighteenth century to qualified doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers. The fellowship is intended primarily for researchers using the collections assembled at the David Library. Project descriptions must demonstrate how the collections will be utilized.
http://www.dlar.org/#Research_Fellowships

American Philosophical Society
Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research
DEADLINE: March 3, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The committee prefers to support the work of younger scholars who have received the doctorate. Applications are also accepted from graduate students for research on master's theses or doctoral dissertations.
ABSTRACT: The Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society provides grants for research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans in the continental United States and Canada. The committee distinguishes ethnohistory from contemporary ethnography as the study of cultures and culture change through time. Grants are not made for projects in archaeology, ethnography, psycholinguistics, or for the preparation of pedagogical materials. The grants are intended for such costs as travel, tapes, films, and consultants' fees but not for the purchase of books or permanent equipment.
http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/phillips.htm

Georgetown University Institute of Turkish Studies
Dissertation Writing Grants
DEADLINE: March 9, 2008
CITIZENSHIP: US citizens and permanent residents are eligible.
ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible for a dissertation writing grant, applicants should be
- graduate students in any field of the social sciences or humanities;
- currently enrolled in a Ph.D. degree program in the United States; and
- expecting to complete all Ph.D. requirements except their dissertation by March 2007.
ABSTRACT: The Dissertation Writing Grants are intended for advanced students who have finished the research stage of their dissertation, and they may not be used for dissertation research. The dissertation writing grants will be awarded only to applicants who certify that they will not be involved in teaching beyond the half time level. As a condition of acceptance, any grantee whose teaching load exceeds this level agrees to refund the grant to the Institute of Turkish Studies.
http://www.turkishstudies.org/grant.html

John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
Kennedy Research Grants
DEADLINE: Applications may be submitted at any time, but the postmark deadline is March 15 for spring grants and August 15 for fall grants. Applicants will be promptly notified of their project's eligibility. Awards are announced on April 20 and October 20. Applications received after one deadline will be held for consideration in the next cycle.
ELIGIBILITY: Preference is given to dissertation research by Ph.D. candidates working in newly opened or relatively unused collections, and to the work of recent Ph.D. recipients who are expanding or revising their dissertations for publication.
ABSTRACT: The purpose of these grants is to help defray living, travel, and related costs incurred while doing research in the textual and non-textual holdings of the library in Boston, Massachusetts. Grant applications are evaluated on the basis of expected utilization of available holdings of the Library, the degree to which they address research needs in Kennedy period studies, and the qualifications of applicants. Preference will be given to projects not supported by large grants from other institutions.
http://www.jfklibrary.org/

American Jewish Archives: Jacob Rader Marcus Center
Fellowship Program
DEADLINE: March 18, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be conducting serious research in some area relating to the history of North American Jewry. Typically, Marcus Center Fellowships will be awarded to postdoctoral candidates, Ph.D. candidates who are completing dissertations, and senior or independent scholars.
ABSTRACT: The annual Fellowship Program of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives provides recipients with month-long fellowships for research and writing at the Center, located on the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Marcus Center Fellows are teachers, students, scholars, and practitioners who, both individually and as a group, come to the AJA to study some aspect of the American Jewish past. The research proposal must detail the precise nature of the applicant's research interests. The proposal must demonstrate clearly how the resources and holdings of the AJA are vital to the applicant's research.
http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/programs/index.html

American Philosophical Society
John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship
DEADLINE: April 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Candidates must have completed all course work and examinations preliminary to the doctoral dissertation.
ABSTRACT: The American Philosophical Society's John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship is designed to support an outstanding doctoral student at an American university who is conducting dissertation research. The objective of the John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship is to help remedy the serious shortage of faculty of color in core fields in the arts and sciences, by supporting the Ph.D. projects of minority students of great promise (particularly African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Native Americans) as well as other talented students who have a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities and enlarging minority representation in academia. The John Hope Franklin Fellow is expected to spend a minimum of three months in residence at the APS Library in Philadelphia, with full encouragement to conduct research at other libraries and archives in and around the city. Therefore, all applicants should be pursuing dissertation topics in which the holdings of the APS Library are especially strong, such as quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, computer development, the history of genetics and eugenics, the history of medicine, Early American political and cultural history, natural history in the 18th and 19th centuries, the development of cultural anthropology, or American Indian linguistics and culture.
http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/johnhopefranklin.htm

Hudson Institute
Herman Kahn Resident Fellowship
DEADLINE: April 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The fellowships will be offered each year to support Ph.D. candidates who have completed their course work and have only their dissertation remaining. Applicants must have completed their course work within the last five years and provide evidence that they have been formally admitted to candidacy for a Ph.D.
ABSTRACT: The Hudson Institute announces the Herman Kahn Resident Fellowship Program. Selected fellows will be able to work on their doctorate 50 percent of the time, with the remainder devoted to policy-oriented research projects assigned by Hudson Institute in their general area of interest.
http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=position_details&pid=HermanKahn