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Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
for Graduate Students

Humanities and Social Sciences

Deadlines: November 2009 – march 2010

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

DISSERTATION RESEARCH AND WRITING

(by deadline)

 
Social Science Research Council

International Dissertation Research Fellowship Program
DEADLINE: November 3, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: The program is open to full-time graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, regardless of citizenship, enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States. Applicants must complete all Ph.D. requirements except on-site research by the time the fellowship begins or by December 2010, whichever comes first. Students enrolled in Ph.D. programs in public policy, public health, and education may be eligible to apply if their research projects engage directly with broader theoretical and analytical issues in the humanities and social sciences.
ABSTRACT: The International Dissertation Research Fellowship program supports distinguished graduate students in the humanities and social sciences conducting dissertation research outside the United States. The IDRF program is committed to empirical and site-specific research that advances knowledge about non-U.S. cultures and societies (involving fieldwork, research in archival or manuscript collections, or quantitative data collection). The program promotes research that is situated in a specific discipline and geographical region and is engaged with interdisciplinary and cross-regional perspectives. The program will consider applications for dissertation research grounded in a single site, informed by broader cross-regional and interdisciplinary perspectives, as well as applications for multi-site, comparative, and transregional research. Proposals that identify the U.S. as a case for comparative inquiry are welcome; however, proposals that focus predominantly or exclusively on the United States are not eligible. Proposals may cover all periods in history, but must address topics that have relevance to contemporary issues and debates.
URL: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/idrf/

National Academies of the National Research Council

Ford Foundation Diversity Dissertation Fellowships
DEADLINE: November 9, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: The following are eligible to apply for a dissertation fellowship:
1. All citizens or nationals of the United States regardless of race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation (must have become a U.S. citizen by November 28, 2008);
2. Individuals with evidence of superior academic achievement (such as grade point average, class rank, honors or other designations);
3. Individuals committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level;
4. Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree candidates studying in an eligible research-based discipline at a U.S. educational institution;
5. Individuals who have not earned a doctoral degree at any time, in any field.
Membership in one or more of the following ethnicities and races will be considered a positive factor: 1. Alaska Natives (Eskimo/Aleut); 2. Black/African Americans; 3. Mexican American/Chicanas/Chicanos; 4. Native American Indians; 5. Native Pacific Islanders (Polynesian/Micronesian); 6. Puerto Ricans.
ABSTRACT: Through its program of Diversity Fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Awards will be made for study in research-based Ph.D. or Sc.D. programs in most major disciplines and related interdisciplinary fields.
URL: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/FORDfellowships/forddiss.html

American Council of Learned Societies

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
DEADLINE: November 11, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be Ph.D. candidates in a humanities or social science department in the United States. Applicants from other departments may be eligible if their project is in the humanities or related social sciences, and their principal dissertation supervisor holds an appointment in a humanities field or related social science field. Applicants must have all requirements for the Ph.D. except the dissertation completed before beginning fellowship tenure and must be no more than six years in the degree program; awardees can hold this fellowship no later than their seventh year.
ABSTRACT: This program aims to encourage timely completion of the Ph.D. The fellowship tenure may be carried out in residence at the fellow's home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the research. Appropriate fields of specialization include, but are not limited to, American studies; anthropology; archaeology; art and architectural history; classics; economics; film; geography; history; languages and literatures; legal studies; linguistics; musicology; philosophy; political science; psychology; religious studies; rhetoric, communication, and media studies; science, technology, and medicine studies; sociology; and theater, dance, and performance studies. Proposals in the social science fields listed above are eligible only if they employ predominantly humanistic approaches (e.g., economic history, law and literature, political theory). Proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies are welcome, as are proposals focused on any geographic region or on any cultural or linguistic group.
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=512

American Council of Learned Societies

Dissertation Fellowships in East European Studies
DEADLINE: November 11, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Currently enrolled graduate students who will have completed all requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation by June 2010 may apply for one-year support to complete the dissertation. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States.
ABSTRACT: ACLS will offer support for writing dissertations in East European studies in all disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences. Applicants may apply for one of two categories of support: 1. Research Fellowships for use in Eastern Europe to conduct fieldwork or archival investigations.2. Writing Fellowships for use in the United States, after all research is complete, to write the dissertation. Applications should be for work on Eastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo/a, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Applicants may propose comparative work considering more than one country of Eastern Europe or relating East European societies to those of other parts of the world. Fellowships will be granted on the basis of the scholarly potential of the applicant, the quality and scholarly importance of the proposed work, and its importance to the development of scholarship on Eastern Europe. Research and Writing Fellowships are intended as sequenced support for completion of a dissertation. Recipients are therefore invited to apply the following year for the next level of funding.
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=532

American Council of Learned Societies

Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Grants to Individuals in East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History
Grants for Applicants From the United States and Canada
Dissertation Fellowships
DEADLINE: November 13, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be residents of the United States or Canada and have their primary professional affiliation at an institution in this region. Applicants must be nearing completion of an advanced degree in a relevant discipline such as archaeology, anthropology, art history, literature, or history. Linguistic ability sufficient to conduct the work proposed is required.
ABSTRACT: The ACLS offers grants to individuals in the archaeology and early history of East and Southeast Asia for study of the peoples and cultures of early East and Southeast Asia. For the purposes of this program, "East and Southeast Asia" refers to Brunei, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Comparative projects and those that build scholarly networks are especially encouraged. Proposals may cover prehistoric or historical periods, but must focus on research or training that involves excavations and/or excavated materials.
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=522

Council on Library and Information Resources

Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in the Humanities in Original Sources
DEADLINE: November 13, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible, an applicant will
- be enrolled in a doctoral program in a graduate school in the U.S. (master's thesis research is not eligible);
- complete all doctoral requirements except the dissertation and be ready to start research for it as early as June 1 and no later than September 1, 2010, with approval of the dissertation proposal six months before the starting date;
- plan to do dissertation research primarily in original source material in the holdings of archives, libraries, historical societies, museums, related repositories, or a combination; and
- write the dissertation and receive the Ph.D. degree in a field of the humanities or in a related element of the social sciences.
ABSTRACT: CLIR is pleased to offer fellowships funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for dissertation research in the humanities in original sources. The purposes of this fellowship program are to help junior scholars in the humanities and related social-science fields gain skill and creativity in developing knowledge from original sources; enable dissertation writers to do research wherever relevant sources may be, rather than just where financial support is available; encourage more extensive and innovative uses of original sources in libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and related repositories in the United States and abroad; and provide insight from the viewpoint of doctoral candidates into how scholarly resources can be developed for access most helpfully in the future.
URL: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellon.html

Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University

Visiting Scholars Program
DEADLINE: November 15, 2009 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: Applications are welcome from political scientists and scholars in related social science disciplines at any career stage from "all but dissertation" to senior faculty.
ABSTRACT: The Center supports empirical research on democratic political processes and institutions, with a particular focus on the relationship between democratic theory and democratic practice. Applications are welcome from political scientists and scholars in related social science disciplines at any career stage from "all but dissertation" to senior faculty. Each visitor will pursue research and contribute to the intellectual life of the Center, the Department of Politics, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
URL: http://web.princeton.edu/sites/wws/csdp/application.html

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
DEADLINE: November 15, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants for the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship must
- be candidates for Ph.D. or Th.D. degrees in doctoral programs at graduate schools in the United States: Candidates working on D.Min., law, and other professional degrees are not eligible;
- be able to fulfill all pre-dissertation requirements by the application deadline, including approval of the dissertation proposal, and expect to submit completed dissertations by summer 2010;
- be in the writing stage of the dissertation: Usually, this means that fieldwork or other research is complete and writing has begun by the time of the award;
- have never held a similar national award for the final year of dissertation writing: Applicants who have won such awards as the ACLS, AAUW, Ford, MacArthur, Mellon, Pew, Spencer, or Whiting fellowship are not eligible;
- plan to write on topics where ethical or religious values are a central concern; and
- have never applied for the fellowship before. Previous applicants may not apply.
ABSTRACT: The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, and particularly to help Ph.D. candidates in these fields complete their dissertation work in a timely manner. In addition to topics in religious studies or in ethics (philosophical or religious), dissertations appropriate to the Newcombe Fellowship competition might explore the ethical implications of foreign policy, the values influencing political decisions, the moral codes of other cultures, and religious or ethical issues reflected in history or literature.
URL: http://www.woodrow.org/fellowships/religion_ethics/index.php

American Association of University Women

American Dissertation Fellowships
DEADLINE: November 16, 2009. Applications must be submitted online by the deadline.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be female U.S. citizens or permanent residents as of November 15, 2009. Applicants must have completed all coursework, passed all preliminary exams, and had the dissertation research proposal or plan approved by November 15, 2009. Students already holding a fellowship for the purpose of writing the dissertation the year before the fellowship year are not eligible to apply. Applicants may apply up to two times for a fellowship for the same dissertation project.
CITIZENSHIP: U.S. citizens are eligible.
ABSTRACT: Dissertation Fellowships offset a scholar's living expenses while she completes her dissertation. The fellowship must be used for the final year of writing the dissertation. Dissertation Fellows are not required to work in the USA. Funds may not be used for extended field research. American Fellowships are open to scholars in all fields of study.
URL: http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/american.cfm

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
Visiting Scholar Programs
DEADLINE: November 24, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Doctoral candidates working on their dissertations are eligible.
ABSTRACT: The Center awards fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. The Center welcomes proposals from scholars in all relevant disciplines including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, psychology, comparative genocide studies, law, and others.
URL: http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/application

University of Notre Dame Department of Africana Studies

Dissertation Year Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame
DEADLINE: November 30, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: The program invites applications from African-American doctoral candidates in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and theological disciplines who have completed all degree requirements with the exception of the dissertation.
ABSTRACT: Fellows are expected to be in residence at the university and to devote most of their time to the completion of the dissertation. In addition, fellows participate in a public forum discussing a variety of aspects related to African American and African Diasporan life, culture, and traditions. Many fellows make guest lecture appearances in courses related to their disciplines and participate in short-term mutual learning events for faculty and students (e.g., brown bag series, roundtable discussion, etc.).
URL: http://africana.nd.edu/erskine/

American Bar Foundation

Law and Social Science Dissertation Fellowship and Mentoring Program
DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Third-, fourth, and fifth year graduate students who specialize in the field of law and social science and whose research interests include law and inequality are invited to apply. Fellowship applicants should be students in a Ph.D. program in a social science department or an interdisciplinary program. Humanities students pursuing empirically based social science dissertations are welcome to apply.
CITIZENSHIP: U.S. citizens and permanent residents are eligible.
ABSTRACT: The Law and Society Association, in collaboration with the American Bar Foundation and the National Science Foundation , seeks applications for the Law and Social Science Dissertation Fellowship and Mentoring Program. Fellowships are held in residence at the ABF in Chicago, IL, where fellows are expected to participate in the intellectual life of the ABF, including participation in a weekly seminar series.
URL: http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/fellowships/Call_for_Doctoral_Fellows.html

American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies

Dissertation Planning Grant
DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants will normally be enrolled in a Ph.D. program (or equivalent) in a U.S. university. There are no citizenship requirements, but some of the funds available for this program may only be spent on awards for U.S. citizens. Applicants should have completed most of their graduate coursework by the time they take up their grant.
ABSTRACT: AISLS dissertation planning grants are designed to enable graduate students intending to do dissertation research in Sri Lanka to make a pre-dissertation visit to Sri Lanka to investigate the feasibility of their topic, to sharpen their research design, or to make other practical arrangements for future research. The grant is especially intended for students who are in the process of completing their dissertation proposals and preparing applications for funds to support their dissertation research, but other purposes may be proposed. Although language instruction is not the primary focus of these awards, successful applicants may simultaneously hold an AISLS language instruction grant.
URL: http://www.aisls.org/diss-plan.html

Canadian Embassy—Washington, D.C.

Canadian Studies Grant Program
Doctoral Student Research Award / Graduate Student Fellowship Program
DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: This program is intended for doctoral students at accredited U.S. and Canadian four-year colleges and universities whose dissertations are related in substantial part to the study of Canada or Canada-U.S. relations. Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States and should have completed all doctoral requirements except the dissertation when they apply for a grant.
ABSTRACT: The award promotes research that contributes to a better knowledge and understanding of Canada, its relationship with the United States, and its international affairs. The award is designed to give doctoral students an opportunity to conduct part of their research in Canada. The program welcomes submissions from all fields in the social sciences and humanities. The Canadian Embassy is particularly interested in projects that have policy relevance for Canada-U.S. relations. Topics that are highly relevant to Canada-U.S. relations include smart and secure borders; North American economic competitiveness; regulatory cooperation; Canada-U.S. trade and investment partnership; energy security and sustainability; environmental sustainability; emergency planning and management; Canada-U.S. security and defense cooperation; Canada in Afghanistan; global health policy; and changing demographics in North America. The program strongly encourages projects that include collaboration with researchers at Canadian institutions.
URL: http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/washington/studies-etudes

Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia

Predoctoral Residential Research and Teaching Fellowships
DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: The competition for the Woodson Institute fellowship is open to qualified candidates without restriction as to citizenship or current residence. Applicants for the predoctoral fellowships must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. except the dissertation prior to August 1, 2010.
ABSTRACT: The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia invites scholars whose work focuses on Africa and/or the African Diaspora to apply for a predoctoral research fellowship. The predoctoral fellow must be in residence at the University of Virginia for the duration of the award period. Fellows are expected to make periodic presentations of their work to the Woodson fellows and the larger academic community.
URL: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/woodson/fellowship/predoc.html

Freie Universitat Berlin

Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies
DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: The program accepts applications from U.S. and Canadian nationals or permanent residents. Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be full-time graduate students who have completed all coursework required for the Ph.D. and must have achieved ABD (all but dissertation) status by the time the proposed research stay in Berlin begins. Applicants should show German fluency adequate to complete the project and participate in the seminar at the Freie Universitat Berlin, which is conducted in German.
ABSTRACT: The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies was established at the Freie Universitat Berlin to provide a new generation of young North American scholars with specialized knowledge of modern and contemporary German and European affairs. The program supports scholars in the social and political sciences and economics, modern and contemporary historians, as well as Germanists interested in similar questions. The Berlin Program is a residential program offering a stimulating academic environment that integrates research opportunities with intellectual and cultural interaction. Fellows have access to Berlin's broader intellectual community and extensive libraries.
URL: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/

German Historical Institute

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar
DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: GHI accepts applications from doctoral students whose dissertations are at an advanced stage but who will be granted their degrees after June in the year of the seminar.
CITIZENSHIP: Europe; United States
ABSTRACT: The seminar brings together young scholars from Europe and North America who are nearing completion of their doctoral degrees. The institute plans to invite eight doctoral students from each side of the Atlantic to discuss their research projects. The organizers welcome proposals on any aspect of German history from 1945 to 1990. Doctoral students working in related disciplines, such as art history, legal history or the history of science, are also encouraged to apply, as are students working on comparative projects or on the history of Austria or German-speaking Switzerland. The discussions will be based on papers (in German or English) submitted in advance of the conference. The seminar will be conducted bilingually, in German and English.
URL: http://www.ghi-dc.org/index.php

Williams College

Gaius Charles Bolin Fellowship for Minority Graduate Students
DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: The Bolin Fellowships are awarded to applicants from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, those who are first-generation college graduates, women in predominantly male fields, or disabled scholars. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents who intend to pursue a professorial career in the U.S.A., and who have completed all doctoral work except the dissertation by the end of the current academic year. MFA candidates who will receive their degrees in 2009 are also eligible to apply.
ABSTRACT: The fellowships are designed to promote diversity on college faculties by encouraging students from underrepresented groups to complete a terminal graduate degree and to pursue careers in college teaching. Fellows devote the bulk of the first year to the completion of dissertation work - or in the case of MFA applicants, building their professional portfolios - while also teaching one course as a faculty member in one of the college's academic departments or programs. The second year of residency (ideally with degree in hand) is spent on academic career development while again teaching just one course. During the period of residence at Williams, the Bolin Fellows will be affiliated with an appropriate department or program, and will be expected to teach one one-semester course each year, normally in the fall semester of year one and the spring semester of year two.
URL: http://www.williams.edu/admin/deanfac/fellowships/bolin.php

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Eastern European Studies Short-Term Grants
DEADLINE: December 1, 2009; March 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: These grants are available to American academic experts and practitioners, including advanced graduate students, engaged in specialized research requiring access to Washington, DC and its research institutions.
ABSTRACT: With funding provided by Title VIII (the Act for Research and Training for Eastern Europe and Independent States of Former Soviet Union), EES offers short-term grants to scholars working on policy relevant projects on East Europe. Special consideration will be given to projects on Southeast Europe, or projects that can be credibly linked to issues in the Western Balkans. Projects should focus on fields in the social sciences and humanities including, but not limited to, anthropology, history, political science, Slavic languages and literatures, and sociology. All projects should aim to highlight their potential policy relevance.
URL: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm

Marquette University

Mitchem Dissertation Fellowships
DEADLINE: January 5,  2010 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: Persons are eligible to apply who have not earned a doctoral degree at any time or in any field; are U.S. citizens; 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. Consult the web site for a listing of eligible fields for 2010-2011.
URL: http://www.marquette.edu/as/graduate_mitchem.shtml

United States Institute of Peace

Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship Dissertation Program
DEADLINE: January 5, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Fellowships are open to citizens of any country. Applicants must be enrolled in recognized doctoral programs (for example, Ph.D., S.J.D., Ed.D., Th.D.) in accredited universities in the United States. Successful candidates must have completed all course work and examinations towards their doctoral degrees by the time their fellowships begin.
ABSTRACT: The Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace awards these nonresidential scholarships to students enrolled in U.S. universities who are researching and writing doctoral dissertations on topics related to peace, conflict, and international security. Dissertation proposals from all disciplines are welcome. Proposals should be consistent with the Institute's mandate and present a research agenda with clear relevance to policy issues. Historical topics are appropriate if they promise to shed light on contemporary issues. Area studies projects and single case studies will be competitive if they focus on conflict and its resolution, apply to other regions and cases, or both. Peace Scholars carry out their fellowship work at their universities or other sites appropriate to their research. They are expected to devote full attention to their work and provide periodic reports to the institute.
URL: http://www.usip.org/grants-fellowships

Winterthur Museum

Lois F. McNeil Dissertation Research Fellowships
DEADLINE: January 5, 2010 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: The McNeil Dissertation Fellowships are specifically for doctoral candidates conducting dissertation research.
ABSTRACT: McNeil Dissertation Fellowships are one- or two-semester 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.
URL: http://www.winterthur.org/research/fellowship.asp?sub=fellowships_avail

John Carter Brown Library at Brown University

Short-Term Fellowships
DEADLINE: January 10, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: These fellowships are open to Americans and foreign nationals who are engaged in pre- or postdoctoral, or independent, research. Graduate students must have passed their preliminary or general examinations at the time of application.
ABSTRACT: The John Carter Brown Library is an independently administered and funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities located on the campus of Brown University. Sponsorship of research at the JCB is reserved exclusively for scholars whose work is centered on the colonial history of the Americas, North and South, including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American involvement. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to relocate to Providence and to be in continuous residence at the JCB for the entire term of the award.
URL: http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/

Hispanic Theological Initiative

Dissertation Year Grant
DEADLINE: January 11, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be citizens of the U.S. or Canada, or legal immigrants.
ABSTRACT: The institute will award six dissertation fellowships per year throughout the life of the program to applicants who are "all but dissertation." The purpose of the award is to help the awardee devote as much time as possible to writing. It is expected that the applicant will complete the dissertation by the end of the award year. The institute will also provide the dissertation year awardee with skilled editorial support in order to facilitate a timely completion of the dissertation; and a mid-year workshop to monitor and encourage the writing process, to provide a time for discussion of dissertation, and to provide collegial support.
URL: http://www2.ptsem.edu/hti/index.aspx

American Antiquarian Society

Short-Term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships
Peterson Fellowships
DEADLINE: January 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Doctoral candidates may apply.
ABSTRACT: The fellowships are for research on any topic supported by the collections. They are awarded to individuals engaged in scholarly research and writing, including doctoral dissertations, in any field of American history and culture through 1876.
URL: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/acafellowship.htm

American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Jacob Hirsch Fellowship
DEADLINE: January 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applications will be accepted from students in the U.S. or Israel, who are Ph.D. candidates writing their dissertations in archaeology or recent Ph.D.s completing a project, such as the revision of a dissertation for publication, which requires a lengthy residence in Greece. Application for admission to the ASCSA should be made in conjunction with application for the Hirsch Fellowship.
ABSTRACT: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens offers the Jacob Hirsch Fellowship to American and Israeli scholars who are completing a project that requires a lengthy residence in Greece.
URL: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/admission-membership/grants/

Economic History Association

Graduate Dissertation Fellowships
DEADLINE: January 15, 2010
ABSTRACT: The Economic History Association announces a dissertation awards program that is intended to foster graduate student research in economic history. The dissertation award is intended to be the equivalent of a fellowship and is designed for students whose thesis topic has been approved and who have made some progress towards writing their dissertation.
URL: http://eh.net/eha/grants/dissertation-fellowships

Walpole Library at Yale University

Visiting Fellowships
DEADLINE: January 15, 2010 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ABSTRACT: The Lewis Walpole Library, a department of the Yale University Library, has significant holdings of eighteenth-century British prints, drawings, manuscripts, books, and paintings. It is able to support advanced research in most aspects of British eighteenth-century studies. The library offers visiting fellowships, normally for four weeks, as well as travel grants of lesser duration, to scholars engaged in postdoctoral or equivalent research and to doctoral candidates at the dissertation stage.
URL: http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/information/fellowships.html

Frederick Douglass Institute at the University of Rochester

Predoctoral Fellowships
DEADLINE: January 31, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: To qualify for this one-year residential fellowship in the 2010-2011 academic year, an applicant will need to have completed and passed the following before the end of this (2009-2010) academic year: (1) all required courses; (2) qualifying oral and/or written exams; (3) written at least one chapter of the dissertation (the chapter becomes part of the application package).
ABSTRACT: The Predoctoral Fellowship is awarded annually to a graduate student of any university who studies aspects of the African and African-American experience. This fellowship does not come with any teaching obligation, but will require the fellow to work with the institute's director in organizing colloquiua, lectures, and other events. The principal aim of this award is to expedite the completion of the fellow's dissertation. All fellows receive opportunities to interact and collaborate with scholars of their respective disciplines within the university. Fellows must be in full-time residence during the tenure of their awards and are expected to be engaged in scholarly activity on a full-time basis. They must, for example, be available for consultation with students and professional colleagues; make at least two formal presentations based upon their research; and contribute generally to the intellectual discourse on African and African-American studies.
URL: http://www.rochester.edu/college/AAS

American Institute of Pakistan Studies

Fellowship Program
DEADLINE: February 1, 2010 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be U.S. citizens or be enrolled in an institution of higher education in the USA. Predoctoral applicants should have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. except the dissertation.
ABSTRACT: Applications are invited for research fellowships at the predoctoral or postdoctoral level for short-term research projects. Funds may be used for research on materials relating to the history and culture of Pakistan in any country except Pakistan and the USA.
URL: http://www.pakistanstudies-a ips.org/English/fellowships.htm

Association for Asian Studies

Northeast Asia Council
Japan Studies Grants
Research travel within the USA
DEADLINE: February 1, 2010 for spring/summer awards
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents who have not received funds in this category within the past five years. Ph.D. candidates are also eligible to receive support for doctoral dissertation research at appropriate collections.
ABSTRACT: The NEAC, 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 USA.
URL: http://www.aasianst.org/grants/main.htm

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

Program in Research for Understanding and Reducing Violence, Aggression, and Dominance
Dissertation Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
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 dissertation 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.
URL: http://www.hfg.org/df/guidelines.htm

Louisville Institute

Dissertation Fellowship Program
DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: The dissertation fellowship program is designed to support the final year of Ph.D. or Th.D. dissertation writing for students engaged in research pertaining to North American Christianity, especially projects related to Christian faith and life, religious institutions, and pastoral leadership.
URL: http://www.louisville-institute.org/Grants/programs/dfdetail.aspx

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Dissertation Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 1, 2010 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
Nominations and supporting materials must be received by the deadline.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be actively working on dissertations dealing with some aspect of U.S. foreign relations history. Applicants must have satisfactorily completed all requirements for the doctoral degree except the dissertation or must hold the Ph.D. Membership in the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations is not required.
ABSTRACT: The grants are intended to promote research by doctoral candidates. A limited number of grants of varying amounts will be awarded annually to help defray the costs of domestic or international travel necessary to conduct research on significant scholarly projects.
URL: http://www.shafr.org/members/prizes-and-fellowships/#travel

Stanford University

Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Predoctoral Fellowships in International Security
DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Fellowships are available to Ph.D. candidates who have made substantial progress toward the completion of their dissertation. The center invites applications from a variety of areas of expertise, including anthropology, economics, history, law, political science, sociology, medicine, and the natural and physical sciences. Stanford University encourages women and minority applicants.
ABSTRACT: CISAC offers predoctoral fellowships for concentrated study in a multidisciplinary environment. Fellows spend the academic year at Stanford University, where they participate in seminars and interact with each other as well as faculty and researchers. They are expected to produce a research product (e.g., dissertation chapters, draft articles, a book manuscript). The center considers applicants working within a broad range of topics related to peace and international security.
URL: http://cisac.stanford.edu/fellowships/

UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies

ASECS/Clark Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
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 postdoctoral scholars and to all-but-dissertation graduate students with projects in the Restoration or the eighteenth century.
URL: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/content/postdoc-sup.htm

UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies

Kanner Fellowship in British Studies
DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: The fellowship is open to both postdoctoral and predoctoral scholars.
ABSTRACT: The Kanner Fellowship is available to support research at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in any area pertaining to British history and culture. The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library is part of the University of California, Los Angeles library system. It is a rare books and manuscripts collection, with particular strengths in English literature and history (1641 to 1800), Oscar Wilde, and fine printing. It is administered by UCLA's Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies.
URL: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/content/postdoc-sup.htm

University of Texas, Austin

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Dissertation Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Fellowships are designated for graduate students who are working on doctoral dissertations. United States citizens and foreign nationals are eligible to apply.
ABSTRACT: The Harry Ransom Center announces its 2010-2011 Research Fellowship program. The Ransom Center awards fellowships to support scholarly research projects in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history. Six fellowships jointly sponsored by the Ransom Center and The University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies are designated for graduate students who are working on doctoral dissertations.
URL: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fellowships/application/

George Mason University Institute for Humane Studies

Summer Graduate Research Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 2, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: The fellowship is open to law and Ph.D. students.
ABSTRACT: The Summer Graduate Research Fellowship is a non-residential research and writing program sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies. It is open to advanced graduate students (doctoral or law), intending academic or research careers and conducting research germane to the classical liberal intellectual tradition. The fellowship provides an opportunity to work on a thesis chapter or a publishable paper and to participate in interdisciplinary seminars under the guidance of a faculty supervisor.
URL: http://www.theihs.org/ContentDetails.aspx?id=499

Harvard University Law School

Program on Negotiations
Graduate Research Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 12, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Doctoral candidates must have completed all degree requirements except for the dissertation.
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 available at the Program on Negotiations. Doctoral candidates in the fields of economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, international relations, public policy, urban planning, business, and law are encouraged to apply.
URL: http://www.pon.harvard.edu/research/fellowship.php

American Anthropological Association

Minority Dissertation Fellowship
DEADLINE: February 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: An applicant must be a U.S. citizen who (1) is a member of an 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; (2) is and has been a member of the AAA at least one month prior to submitting materials for this fellowship; (3) has a record of outstanding academic achievement; (4) is enrolled in a full-time academic program leading to a doctoral degree in anthropology; and (5) will be admitted to degree candidacy before the dissertation fellowship is awarded. The recipient of the fellowship must be in need of a fellowship to complete the dissertation.
ABSTRACT: The AAA invites minority doctoral candidates in anthropology who require financial assistance to complete the write-up phase of the dissertation to apply for a dissertation writing fellowship. The fellowship is intended to encourage members of ethnic minorities to complete doctoral degrees in anthropology, thereby increasing diversity in the discipline and/or promoting research on issues of concern among minority populations. Dissertation topics in all areas of the discipline are welcome.
URL: http://www.aaanet.org/about/Prizes-Awards/Minority-Dissertation-Fellowship.cfm

American Center for Mongolian Studies

Research Fellowship Program
DEADLINE: February 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: All applicants must be current members of the ACMS to be considered for the program. All applicants must be citizens of the United States or Canada. All applicants for dissertation fellowships must be able to demonstrate that they have completed required coursework for their programs and will have an accepted dissertation proposal prior to the start of their fellowship program. All postdoctoral fellows must have completed their Ph.D. within seven years of the start of their fellowship program.
ABSTRACT: The program annually supports fellows conducting doctoral dissertation or postdoctoral research in Mongolia on topics in the social sciences or humanities. The program seeks to promote research opportunities in Mongolia among scholars who have not included the country in their previous research, and to broaden the knowledge base of scholars already working in the country. Previous Mongolian Studies experience is not required, but projects should enhance knowledge of Mongolia and the Mongols within relevant academic disciplines or fields of study. Projects that link research conducted in Mongolia to research in other parts of Asia or across academic fields are especially encouraged. Fellowship recipients must be based in Mongolia for the duration of their fellowship, but research travel in the broader region is encouraged.
URL: http://www.mongoliacenter.org/index.php

American Philosophical Society

Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
DEADLINE: February 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Grants will be available to doctoral students. The competition is open to U.S. residents wishing to carry out research anywhere in the world. Foreign applicants must either be based at a U.S. institution or plan to carry out their work in the United States.
ABSTRACT: The fund encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation. Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, and paleontology, but grants will not be restricted to these fields.
URL: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewisandclark

Filson Historical Society

Filson Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicant must be a Ph.D. or equivalent or a doctoral candidate at the dissertation stage.
ABSTRACT: The society is pleased to announce the continuation of the Filson Fellowships, which encourage the scholarly use of its nationally significant collections by providing support for travel and lodging. The Society's collections are especially strong for the frontier, antebellum, and Civil War eras of Kentucky history. It is anticipated that fellows will publish the results of their research in Ohio Valley History, a peer-reviewed journal published jointly by The Filson, the Cincinnati Museum Center, and the University of Cincinnati.
URL: http://www.filsonhistorical.org/fellowships.html

American Philosophical Society

Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research
DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
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 fund provides grants for research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans, in the continental United States and Canada. Grants are not made for projects in archaeology, ethnography, psycholinguistics, or for the preparation of pedagogical materials. The committee distinguishes ethnohistory from contemporary ethnography as the study of cultures and culture change through time.
URL: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/phillips

David Library of the American Revolution

Research Fellowships
DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Predoctoral applicants must have passed their department's Ph.D. comprehensive or qualifying exams before applying.
ABSTRACT: The David Library 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. The library’s resources include documentation on virtually every aspect of the era of the American Revolution.
URL: http://www.dlar.org/#Research_Fellowships

Library Company of Philadelphia

Dissertation Fellowship
DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: The Library Company of Philadelphia's new Program in Early American Economy and Society is designed to promote scholarship in early American economy and society, broadly defined, from its colonial beginnings to roughly the 1850s. The fellowship will provide a scholar with the opportunity to use the extensive print and manuscript collections related to the history of commerce, finance, technology, manufacturing, agriculture, internal improvements, and political economy that are held by the Library Company and by numerous other institutions in its vicinity. The fellow will also have many opportunities to participate in the intellectual life of the program at the Library Company and in the community of scholars in the area.
URL: http://www.librarycompany.org/Economics/EFellowships.htm

University of Pennsylvania

McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Barra Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
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: The Barra Foundation Fellowship is designed primarily for candidates specializing in Early American art or material culture. 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.
URL: http://www.mceas.org/dissertationfellowships.htm

University of Pennsylvania

McNeil Center for Early American Studies
E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Fellowship in Early American Religious Studies
DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
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: The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Fellowship in Early American Religious Studies is open to Ph.D. candidates in any discipline who are in the research or writing phase of a dissertation on any aspect of religion in North America in the Atlantic world before 1850. 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.
URL: http://www.mceas.org/dissertationfellowships.htm

Pennsylvania State University College of Communications

Arthur W. Page Center
Page and Johnson Legacy Scholars Grants
DEADLINE: March 5, 2010 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: Page and Johnson Legacy Scholars may come from a variety of academic disciplines and professional fields, including scholars and researchers, either university-based, think-tank, or independent; doctoral candidates, who will have completed their coursework and examinations and are at the dissertation-writing stage during the year of the award.
ABSTRACT: The Arthur W. Page Center is a research center at the Penn State College of Communications dedicated to the study and advancement of ethics and responsibility in corporate communication and other forms of public communication. Recipients of Page and Johnson Legacy Scholars Grants will be designated either a Page Legacy Scholar or Robert Wood Johnson Legacy Scholar.
URL: http://pagecenter.comm.psu.edu/

Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives

Fellowship Program
DEADLINE: March 18, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be conducting serious research in some area relating to the history of North American Jewry. Typically, fellowships will be awarded to postdoctoral candidates, Ph.D. candidates who are completing dissertations, and senior or independent scholars.
ABSTRACT: The fellowship program supports research and writing at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, located on the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. The program will support serious research in some area relating to the history of North American jewry.
URL: http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/programs_fellowship.php

Georgetown University Institute of Turkish Studies

Dissertation Writing Grants
DEADLINE: March 19, 2010 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible for a dissertation writing grant, applicants should be
- graduate students in any field of the social sciences or humanities;
- U.S. citizens or permanent residents at the time of the application;
- currently enrolled in a Ph.D. degree program in the United States; and
- have completed all Ph.D. requirements except their dissertation by March 2009.
CITIZENSHIP: United States citizens and permanent residents are eligible.
ABSTRACT: The 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.
URL: http://www.turkishstudies.org/index.php?s=grants_about