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Resources for Current Graduate Students
Information about the Program
Forms
Request to Schedule Qualifying Exam (prospectus defense) – must be filed two weeks ahead of time
Request to Appoint PhD Committee Form
Request to Schedule Dissertation Defense Form – must be filed two weeks ahead of time
Dissertation Defense Results Form
Intent to Graduate Form – must be filed about four months ahead of time
Travel Grants
Graduate Student Council Travel Grant
Funding Opportunities
Departmental Summer Training Awards
RIPS Small Grants for Experimental Research
College of Arts & Sciences Summer Research Awards (deadline in March), provides up to $2000 for graduate student projects
College of Arts & Sciences Social Sciences Dissertation Fellowships (deadline in February), provides one-year of service-free support plus a research budget to complete the dissertation
Robert Penn Warren Graduate Student Fellowship
Center for Latin American Studies
External Fellowships
For pre-candidates:
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
For PhD Candidates:
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
SSRC has several fellowships including the SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship and the SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowships
United States Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship Dissertation Program
External Dissertation Research Grants
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
American Council of Learned Societies
American Association of University Women
Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences
Charlotte W. Newcomb Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Additional Training Opportunities
PUC (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) exchange program
Free University of Berlin Exchange program
ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR organizes a variety of summer training opportunities in methodology ranging from 3-5 day workshops to 2-4 week courses.
EITM: Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models. There are two complementary training programs for this two-week training opportunity. One is held at Washington University. The other has been held at a variety of institutions, including the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, and UCLA, to name a few.
SIPP: Summer Institute for Political Psychology at Stanford. This three-week training opportunity provides students interested in political psychology with opportunities to attend lectures by prominent figures in the field.
University of Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis
FLAS: Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships
DAAD: German Academic Exchange Service
Additional Resources on Campus
Psychological and Counseling Center