Dissertation/Thesis Fellowships
(see also GC and National
Fellowships and Awards)
- American
Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowships
are available to women who will complete their dissertation
writing between July 1, 2007, and June 30, 2008. To qualify,
applicants must have completed all course work, passed all required
preliminary examinations, and received approval for their research
proposal or plan by Nov. 15, 2006. Open to applicants in
all fields of study, except engineering. (For engineering, see
the following.)
Award: $20,000
www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/american.cfm
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) Engineering
Dissertation Fellowships are awarded to women doctoral candidates
in engineering entering the final stages of writing their dissertations.
Special consideration is given to applicants who show professional
promise in innovative or neglected areas of research or practice in
areas of public interest.
Award: $20,000
www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/selected.cfm
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowships assist graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences* in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing.
Award: $25,000, plus funds for research costs of up to $3,000 and for university fees of up to $5,000
www.acls.org/ecfguide.htm
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Dissertation Fellowships in Southeast European Studies support the writing of dissertations in Southeast European
studies in all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. Applications should be for work on Southeast Europe.
Award: up to $17,000
www.acls.org/seguide.htm#dis
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art assist graduate students in any
stage of Ph.D. dissertation research or writing. Candidate's dissertation must be focused on a topic in the
history of the visual arts of the United States.
Award: $25,000
www.acls.org/luceguid.htm
- The American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Dissertation Grants Program invites education policy- and practice-related dissertation proposals
using NCES, NSF, and other national data bases.
Award: $15,000
www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/diss_grants/DGFly.html
- ASU/Spencer
Discipline-Based Scholarship in Education Program
brings together students and faculty in the College of Education
with their counterparts in such disciplines as Psychology, Sociology,
Anthropology, Justice and Social Inquiry, Linguistics, Family
Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, History, and Speech
& Hearing. The program is presently organized around three areas
of inquiry: Educational Linguistics; Socio-Cultural Perspectives
on Education Equity; and Social and Cognitive Development. coe.asu.edu/dbse
- Association for Institutional Research (AIR) / National Postsecondary Education
Cooperative (NPEC) Focused Grant Program supports research on student success in postsecondary education.
Award: $15,000 for dissertation fellowships; up to $30,000 for research grant proposals
www.airweb.org/?page=39
- Canon Parks Science Scholars Program is a collaboration among Canon U.S.A., Inc. (www.canon.com), the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (www.aaas.org), and the U.S. National Park Service (www.nature.nps.gov).
The program awards scholarships to Ph.D. students throughout the
Americas to conduct research critical to conserving the national parks
of the region.
Award: $80,000
www.nature.nps.gov/canonscholarships
- Carnegie Fellowships in Local Dimensions of Global Change
how the pre-migration political experiences and connections and the political
and economic impetuses for migration of particular immigrant groups affect how
they become involved in local politics and contribute to both the vitality of
civil society and policy formation in the U.S. and in home countries.
Award: In-state tuition for five years, $15,000 stipend for the first, $5,000 stipend in the second year.
web.gc.cuny.edu/ralphbuncheinstitute/carnegie
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
/ National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)
is soliciting investigator-initiated research from doctoral students
that will help expand and advance our understanding of violence, its
causes, and prevention strategies in minority communities. The proposed
research must address one of the research priorities listed in the
following chapters from NCIPC's research agenda: Preventing Intimate
Partner Violence, Sexual Violence, and Child Maltreatment, Preventing
Suicidal Behavior, or Preventing Youth Violence.
Award: up to $25,000 (including both direct and indirect costs)
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CE-06-002.html
- Dirksen Congressional Center's Congressional
Research Awards fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. 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.
Award: a few hundred dollars to $3,500
www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRAs.htm
- Graduate College Completion Fellowships
reward academic excellence, aid completion of the doctoral or MFA
degree, and allow the student to complete his/her dissertation/project.
Award: $9,500 one-semester stipend
graduate.asu.edu/completion.html
- Graduate College Dissertation Fellowships
are
competitive university-wide fellowships designed to support
highly meritorious doctoral students who are in the final stages
of post-candidacy doctoral work.
Award: $17,000 for one year plus waiver of
resident tuition and health insurance
graduate.asu.edu/dissfellowship.html
- Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (SSGF)
provides outstanding benefits and opportunities to students pursuing a
PhD in areas of interest to stewardship science, such as
high-energy-density physics, low-energy nuclear science, or properties
of materials under extreme conditions. Fellows also participate in
research at a DOE laboratory.
Award: $32,400 yearly stipend for up to four years, tuition and fees, and yearly academic allowance of $1,000
www.krellinst.org/ssgf
- Elderhostel K. Patricia Cross Doctoral Research Grant aids doctoral students researching topics
relevant to aging and lifelong and/or later-life learning.
Award: $5,000
www.elderhostel.org/grants
- Ford
Foundation Dissertation Diversity Fellowships are designed
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. Individuals
may apply who are working to complete a dissertation leading
to a Ph.D. or Sc.D.
Award: $21,000 one-year stipend
www7.nationalacademies.org/FORDfellowships/forddiss.html
- Hartford Doctoral Fellows Program in Geriatric Social Work
is for recruiting, sustaining, and training a cadre of talented doctoral students in geriatric social work.
www.gswi.org/programs/hdf.html
- Hartford Predissertation Award Program in Geriatric Social Work
is for recruiting, sustaining, and training a cadre of talented doctoral students in geriatric social work.
Award: please see website
www.gswi.org/programs/predissertation.html
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowships
are awarded for proposals from any of the natural and social
sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding
of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression,
and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can
increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of
violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world. Applicants
may be citizens of any country.
Award: $15,000
www.hfg.org
- Fannie and John Hertz Foundation's Graduate Fellowship
award is based on merit (not need) for students of the applied
physical sciences who are citizens or permanent residents of
the U.S., and who are willing to morally commit to make their
skills available to the United States in time of national emergency.
Award (Five-Year Hertz, Option 1): $28,000/9-month
personal stipend; full tuition equivalent; renewable for up
to 5 years.
Award (Five-Year Coordinated, Option 2): Hertz
Period-two years; $33,000/9-month personal stipend; full
tuition equivalent. Other Fellowship Period-up to three
years; $3,000/year supplemental stipend from Hertz; requires
awardee to accept a 3-year Fellowship from another source.
www.hertzfoundation.org
- The Institute of Historical Research Fellowships in History
are for Ph.D. candidates who have already completed at least two years'
research on their chosen topic. The Fellowships offered by the Royal
Historical Society are open to candidates without regard to nationality
or academic affiliation.
www.history.ac.uk/awards/#ihrfel
- Institute of Historical Research/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Dissertation Research in the
Humanities
are for those who wish to spend time in the U.K. carrying out archival
research for their dissertations. These fellowships are open to
candidates registered for a doctoral degree in a graduate school in the
U.S. or Canada. Candidates for these awards must be working on a
dissertation, which has already been formally approved. They are not
grants to help defray the cost of writing up previous work. These
fellowships will last for one year and will run concurrently with the
academic year, i.e., from October 1, 2006 to September 30, 2007.
Award: $20,000; fellowships will not be renewable or extendable.
www.history.ac.uk/awards/#mellon
- Institute of Historical Research/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Pre-Dissertation Research in the
Humanities
are offered to candidates who wish to spend time in the U.K. for
preliminary examinations of primary sources and archival material in
order to draw up and refine a dissertation proposal. These fellowships
are open to candidates registered for a doctoral degree in a graduate
school in the U.S. or Canada. Candidates for these awards must have
completed their coursework and oral examinations by the time the
research visit is undertaken.
Award: $3,000; fellowships will not be renewable or extendable.
www.history.ac.uk/awards/#mellon
- The
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program
awards dissertation fellowship grants to Ph.D., D.B.A., or other
doctoral students.
Award: $15,000
kdfp.kauffman.org/dissertationfellowship
- Harry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship
Program in American Art provides year-long fellowships
to doctoral candidates doing dissertations in the art history
of the United States.
Award: $22,000
www.acls.org/luceguid.htm
- Lumina Foundation for Education and the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Fellowship Program
supports doctoral dissertation research on financial aid, student retention and success, or adult learners and learning.
Award: $14,000
foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=163000062
- National
Huguenot Society Award
is awarded in the spring of each odd numbered year to the author
of what is judged to be the best original work of scholarship
covering any aspect of the Huguenot movement.
Award: $1,000
www.huguenot.netnation.com/general/award.htm
- National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship
Program provides dissertation research support to outstanding
doctoral candidates undertaking independent research on issues
in crime and justice. Students from any academic discipline
are encouraged to apply and propose original research that has
direct implications for criminal justice. NIJ encourages diversity
in approaches and perspectives in its research programs and
awards these fellowships to encourage doctoral students to contribute
critical and innovative thinking to pressing justice problems.
Award: $20,000 per year.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/whats-new/welcome.htm
- National
Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants
provide partial support of doctoral dissertation research in
selected areas of the biological sciences in order to improve
the overall quality of the research, to allow doctoral candidates
to conduct research in specialized facilities or field settings
away from the home campus, and to provide opportunities for
greater diversity in collecting and creativity in analyzing
data than would otherwise be possible using only locally available
resources.
www.nsf.gov/funding/browse_all_funding.jsp
- The
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
support original and significant study of ethical or religious
values in all areas of human endeavor. Applicants must be PhD
or ThD candidates enrolled in a U.S. doctoral program in the
humanities and social sciences and have completed all doctoral
requirements, including approval of the dissertation proposal,
which should be completed by August 2007. Electronic applications
only.
Award: $18,500 for 12 months
www.woodrow.org/newcombe
- Northeast
Consortium for Faculty Diversity Visiting Scholar Program
enables graduate students (U.S. citizens) from underrepresented
minority groups, who are approaching their dissertation-writing
stage or already in this stage, to spend a year-in-residence
at the host campuses and have opportunities to build community
with all other Scholars in the program. The program director
coaches the Scholars on dissertation-completion, the academic
job search, and preparation for succeeding in the professoriate.
Award: $25,000-$32,000 from Sept. 2007-Aug. 2008
www.diversityoncampus.com/id2.html
- Phi Beta Kappa Society: Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship for French Studies supports a scholar over the
course of one year for French studies.
Award: $20,000
www.pbk.org
- Semiconductor Research Corporation Doctoral Fellowships in Graduate Fellowship Program
are open to U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Award: Full tuition and fees for up to five years of doctoral study; competitive stipend;
annual gift of $2,000 to the department in which the student is enrolled;
travel expenses for the Graduate Fellowship Program Annual conference;
Internship opportunities.
www.src.org
- Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Eurasia Dissertation
Write-Up Fellowship
is intended for graduate students near the completion of their
doctoral programs in the social sciences and related humanities.
These fellowships are intended for applicants who have completed
all formal components of their dissertation field research or
data collection, and who have made significant progress in outlining
emergent, innovative contributions to scholarship.
Award: $15,000 for one academic year
www.ssrc.org/programs/eurasia/fellowships
- Social Science Research Counsil (SSRC) International
Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF)
program supports full-time graduate students in the humanities and
social sciences who are enrolled in doctoral programs in the United
States, regardless of citizenship, conducting dissertation research
outside the United States. Fellowship funds are provided by the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation (www.mellon.org). The program is administered by the Social Science Research Council (www.ssrc.org) in partnership with the American Council of Learned Societies (www.acls.org).
Award: 50 fellowships of approximately $20,000 each will be awarded in 2007
www.ssrc.org/programs/idrf
- Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program
seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of
disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to
the improvement of education. The fellowships support individuals whose
dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive
perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal
education anywhere in the world. Although the dissertation topic must
concern education, graduate study may be in any academic discipline or
professional field. Candidates should be interested in pursuing further
research in education once the doctorate is attained. Applicants need
not be citizens of the United States; however, they must be candidates
for the doctoral degree at a graduate school within the United States.
Award: $25,000 stipend
http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/dissertation-fellowship-program
- State Farm Companies Foundation Doctoral Dissertation
Award is designed to stimulate research and development
of new knowledge in the fields of insurance and business, and
to increase the number of qualified teachers of insurance and
business at U.S. colleges and universities.
Award: $10,000 research grant; institution
also receives a grant of $3,000.
www.statefarm.com/foundati/doctoral.htm
- The Morris K. Udall Foundation Environmental Public Policy and Conflict Resolution Dissertation Fellowships
are available to doctoral candidates in the U.S. whose research
concerns environmental public policy and/or environmental conflict
resolution and who are entering their final year of writing their
dissertation.
Award: up to $24,000
www.ecr.gov/fm_udall.htm
- Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grants
are available for individuals enrolled for a doctoral degree
to aid doctoral dissertation or thesis research in all branches
of anthropology. Grants are made to seed innovative approaches
and ideas, to cover specific expenses or phases of a project,
and/or to encourage aid from other funding agencies.
Award: up to $25,000
http://www.wennergren.org/programs/programs_show.htm?doc_id=367834
- Woodrow
Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women's Studies
encourage original and significant research about women that
crosses disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries. Applicants
must be enrolled in a U.S. doctoral program and have completed
all pre-dissertation requirements, including approval of the
dissertation proposal their dissertations completed by the summer
of 2007. Electronic applications only.
Award: $3,000 to be used for expenses connected with
the dissertation including travel, books, microfilming, taping,
and computer services.
www.woodrow.org/womens-studies
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