2011 Deadlines: September 2010 Archives
Deadline: September 1, 2010; January 6, 2011; March 9, 2011
Length: 1 year
Comments: AERA invites education-related dissertation proposals using NCES, NSF, and other federal data bases. Dissertation Grants are available for advanced doctoral students and are intended to support the student 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. The research project must include the analysis of data from at least one of the large-scale, nationally or internationally representative data sets such as those supported by NCES, NSF, and the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the National Institutes of Health. Applicants should be advanced doctoral students at the dissertation writing stage. Underrepresented minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply. Awards for Dissertation Grants are up to $20,000 for 1-year projects. Grants are not renewable.
URL: http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/diss_grants/DGFly.html
Deadline: February 1, 2011
Length: 12 weeks - 24 months
Comments: Boren Fellowships provide American graduate students, both at the master's and the doctoral level, with the resources and encouragement they need to acquire skills and experiences in areas of the world critical to the future security of our nation, in exchange for their commitment to seek work in the federal government. Boren Fellowships provide support for overseas or domestic study, or a combination of both. The maximum level of support for a combined overseas and domestic program is $30,000 over 24 months. Boren Fellowships are awarded with preference for countries, languages, and fields of study critical to U.S. national security.
URL: http://www.borenawards.org/boren_fellowship
NOTE: Graduate Student Affairs will host a session on this fellowship on September 30.
Deadline: January 3, 2011
Length: 9 months
Comments: Five College Fellowships offer year-long residencies for doctoral students completing dissertations. The program supports scholars from under-represented groups, and/or scholars with unique interests and histories, whose engagement in the Academy will enrich scholarship and teaching. Each Fellow is hosted within an appropriate department or program at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College or Smith College. The fellowship includes a stipend of $30,000, a research grant, health benefits, office space, housing or housing assistance, and library privileges at all five campuses belonging to the consortium. While the award places primary emphasis on completion of the dissertation, most fellows teach at their hosting institution, but never more than a single one-semester course.
URL: http://www.fivecolleges.edu/academic_programs/academprog_fellowship.html
Deadline: January 15, 2011
Length: 10 weeks
Comments: These fellowships allow students to conduct research for ten-week periods in association with Smithsonian research staff members. Applicants must be formally enrolled in a graduate program of study, must have completed at least one semester, and must not yet have been advanced to candidacy in a doctoral program. Stipend = $6,000.
Deadline: January 15, 2011
Length: 3-12 months
Comments: These fellowships allow students to conduct research for periods of three to twelve months. Applicants must have completed coursework and preliminary examinations for the doctoral degree, and must be engaged in dissertation research. In addition, candidates must have the approval of their universities to conduct their doctoral research at the Smithsonian. Stipend = $27,000/year.
URL: http://www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm#fofgDeadline: October 1, 2010 and April 1, 2011
Length: 1-3 weeks
Comments: Grants of up to $2,500 are awarded biannually and are intended to enable graduate students, post-doctoral scholars and other researchers to come to the Harry S. Truman Library for one to three weeks to use its collections. Preference will be given to projects that have application to enduring public policy and foreign policy issues and that have a high probability of being published or publicly disseminated in some other way.
URL: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/grants/#ressDeadline: February 1, 2011
Length: One Year
Comments: Up to two Dissertation Year Fellowship grants of $16,000 are given annually to support graduate students working on some aspect of the life and career of Harry S. Truman or of the public and foreign policy issues which were prominent during the Truman years. Applicants should have substantially completed their research and be prepared to devote full time to writing their dissertation. Preference will be given to projects based on extensive research at the Truman Library.
Deadline: January 2011 (was 1/31 in 2009)
Length: One Year
Comments: DeKarman fellowships are open to students in any discipline, including international students, who are currently enrolled in a university or college located within the United States. Only candidates for the PhD who will defend their dissertations by June 2012 are eligible for consideration. Special consideration will be given to applicants in the Humanities. A minimum of ten (10) fellowships, $22,000 for graduate students will be awarded for the regular academic year, paid through the fellowship office of the university in which the recipient is enrolled for study in the United States. To be competitive, graduate applicants should have outstanding letters of recommendation, significant publications, and have completed several chapters of the dissertation at the time of application. Although the competition is open to students from any university or college, the vast majority of awards go to students at top-tier schools.
URL: http://www.dekarman.org/
