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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.

RESEARCH ABROAD

(by deadline)


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

American Philosophical Society
Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Grants will be available to doctoral students; master's degree candidates are not eligible. Applicants who have received Lewis and Clark Fund grants may reapply after an interval of two years. 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. Student applicants should ask their academic advisor to write one of the two letters of recommendation, specifying the student's qualifications to carry out the proposed work and the educational content of the trip.
ABSTRACT: The American Philosophical Society's Lewis and Clark 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. Each grantee will submit a brief report on his or her trip for archiving in the APS Library.
http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewisandclark.htm

American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Predoctoral Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 21, 2008
CITIZENSHIP: Unrestricted
ABSTRACT: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens offers several predoctoral fellowships to students who have completed the Regular Program or one year as a Student Associate Member
http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/fellowship/fellowships.htm

American Musicological Society
Travel Grants for European Research
DEADLINE: March 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be students attending North American universities who have completed all requirements except the dissertation for the Ph.D. in any field of musical scholarship and who need to undertake research in Europe toward the dissertation.
ABSTRACT: The American Musicological Society (AMS) offers travel grants from the Eugene K. Wolf Travel Fund for European Research to encourage and assist Ph.D. candidates in all fields of musical scholarship to travel to Europe to carry out the necessary work for their dissertation on a topic in European music.
http://www.ams-net.org/awards/wolf.php

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

Columbia University Council for European Studies
Fellowship Program
DEADLINE: April 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: In order to be eligible for the award, applicants must fulfill four criteria. First, the fellowship is intended to fund students' first major research project in Europe. Students who have already engaged in extensive field work and study in Europe, related to their dissertation, are not eligible. Second, applicants must be in the exploratory, early stage of their research. Third, applicants are expected to have finished all or a majority of their doctoral coursework. Fourth, the applicant's home university must be a member of the council's academic consortium.
In 2007, CES opened some fellowships to students from around the world and therefore, encourages international students to apply. A few of the CES fellowships, funded by specific foundations, will continue to require that its fellows are U.S. citizens.
ABSTRACT: Established in 1971, the Council for European Studies fellowship program has played a crucial role in the early stages of many experts' careers. The program serves as the leading source for pre-dissertation fellowships that fund young scholars' first major research projects in Europe. By funding young scholar's first major research projects in Europe, the fellowship program encourages these scholars to develop the skills required to research, analyze, and teach European studies. Fellowships provide students with unique opportunities to conduct extensive library research, field-site investigations, and interviews with policymakers and government leaders and foster original and noteworthy research that crosses disciplinary, national, and cultural boundaries.
http://www.europanet.org/awards/awards.html