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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.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS FOR MEMBERS OF UNDERREPRENSENTED GROUPS

(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 Musicological Society
Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship
DEADLINE: January 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Candidates normally should be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or Canada who are members of historically underrepresented minority groups. Students are eligible who have completed at least one year of graduate work, intend to pursue a Ph.D., and are in good standing at their home institution. Applications may come directly from the student, or the student may be nominated by a faculty member of the institution at which the student is enrolled or from a member of the AMS at another institution.
CITIZENSHIP: Canada; United States
ABSTRACT: The American Musicological Society's Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship is intended to increase the presence of minority scholars and teachers in musicology. The fellowship will support one year of graduate work for a student at a North American university who is a member of a group historically underrepresented in the discipline of musicology. The fellowship is not restricted to dissertation work.
http://www.ams-net.org/hmb.php

American Sociological Association
Minority Fellowship Program
DEADLINE: January 31, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be members of one of the following underrepresented minority groups in the United States: Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics and Latinos/as, Asians or Pacific Islanders, or American Indians or Alaskan Natives. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, noncitizen nationals of the United States, or have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence and have in their possession an Alien Registration Card. The fellowship program is primarily, but not solely, designed for minority students sufficiently advanced in their Ph.D. program to demonstrate their commitment to a research career focusing on topics relevant to NIMH and NIDA research. Applicants for the MFP General Fellowship may be in earlier stages in their graduate careers, but must be accepted into a Ph.D. program in sociology at the time the MFP Fellowship begins.
CITIZENSHIP: US citizens are eligible.
ABSTRACT: Through its Minority Fellowship Program, the American Sociological Association supports the development and training of sociologists of color in mental health and drug abuse research; this fellowship is open to graduate students pursuing a Ph.D. in any area of sociology.
http://www.asanet.org/cs/root/leftnav/funding/minority_fellowship_program

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

Educational Testing Service
Summer Internship Program for Graduate Students
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The program is open to graduate students who are currently enrolled in a doctoral program and have completed a minimum of two years of full-time graduate study in a program emphasizing one of the areas specified.
ABSTRACT: The goals of the Summer Internship Program for Graduate Students are to provide research opportunities to individuals enrolled in a doctoral program in the fields described above and to increase the number of women and underrepresented minority professionals conducting research in educational measurement and related fields. Interns in this two-month program participate in research under the guidance of a senior ETS staff member in one of these areas: 1. Measurement theory 2. Validity 3. Natural language processing and computational linguistics 4. Cognitive psychology 5. Learning theory 6.Linguistics 7. Speech recognition and processing 8. Teaching and classroom research 9. Statistics 10. International large scale assessments. Interns also participate in seminars and workshops on a variety of topics.
http://www.ets.org/

Smithsonian Institution Office of Research Training and Services
Minority Internships
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008 for Summer 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be minority beginning graduate students.
ABSTRACT: The Office of Fellowships and Grants offers a number of opportunities to increase minority participation in Smithsonian Institution scholarly programs. Stipend awards are available for interns to participate in supervised ongoing research or museum-related activities for periods of 10 weeks.
http://www.si.edu/ofg/intern.htm#iofg

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 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

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Dalmas A. Taylor Summer Minority Policy Fellowship
DEADLINE: March 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible, an applicant must be a graduate student in good standing who is a member of an ethnic minority group (including, but not limited to, African American, Alaskan Native, American Indian, Asian American, Hispanic, and Pacific Islander) and who has demonstrated a commitment to a career in psychology or a related field with a focus on ethnic minority issues.
CITIZENSHIP: Unspecified
ABSTRACT: The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues established this award to honor the memory of Dr. Dalmas Taylor, who was instrumental in establishing the Minority Fellowships at the American Psychological Association and in increasing the profession's attention to inclusion of people of color. The fellowship will be administered in conjunction with the APA's Minority Fellowship Office and will provide an opportunity for a graduate student to work on public policy issues in Washington, DC.
http://www.spssi.org

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow Travel & Research Grants
DEADLINE: March 23, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be former Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows who are now candidates for the Ph.D. degree in fields recognized under the terms of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program. Candidates must have passed all comprehensive examinations, completed all course work for the degree, and selected a dissertation topic that has been approved by the dissertation advisor.
CITIZENSHIP: United States
ABSTRACT: The MMUF Travel & Research Grants are available to graduate students who participated in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Program. The grants provide eligible students the financial means to complete their research prior to the start of dissertation writing. Awards are based on the scholarly merit of individual applications received.
http://www.woodrow.org/mmuf/MMUFTRindex.php

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