*All Funding Opportunities: February 2012 Archives

Deadline: Nominations due to the Dean of Students Office by April 13. Students should consult with their departments for departmental procedures and deadlines.

Length: One Year

Comments: The Division of the Social Sciences is pleased to invite nominations for the Hanna Holborn Gray Advanced Fellowships in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. This award, established in 2005-2006, is made possible by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is designated to support our very best graduate students in the second half of their graduate program at the University. The grant is made in honor of Mrs. Gray and is given in recognition of her dedicated efforts to improve and sustain graduate education at the University and beyond and of her own notable achievements as a scholar.

One fellowship will be awarded each year in the Humanities Division and one in the Social Sciences Division with the latter selected from the humanistic Social Sciences departments (Anthropology, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, Comparative Human Development, History, Political Science, Social Thought, and Sociology).

Each department may nominate one student who is currently in the fourth year of study. Departments set internal deadline and procedures individually. Nominations should be submitted by Friday, April 13. Announcements of the winners will be made in mid-May.

URL: http://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/pdf/ssddos/Gray_Announcement_2012.pdf
Deadline: Nominations due to the Dean of Students Office by April 13. Students should consult with their departments for departmental procedures and deadlines.

Length: One Year

Comments: The Markovitz Dissertation Fellowship provides up to two annual awards for dissertation write-up in the amount of $20,000 (plus tuition, required fees, and university student health insurance, Basic option) to a student whose dissertation topic explores some aspect of the linkages and influences between social and economic behavior. The research should consider from a disciplinary perspective the connection between the social/cultural and commercial spheres of life. Ph.D. candidates in any of the Social Sciences programs are eligible. Each department should determine its own internal deadline and review procedure, and submit one nomination by April 13, 2012.

URL: http://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/pdf/ssddos/Markovitz%20Announcement%202012-13.pdf
Deadline: Nominations due to the Dean of Students Office by April 13. Students should consult with their departments for departmental procedures and deadlines.

Length: One Year

Comments: The University will provide funding for one Harper Dissertation-Year Fellowship in the Division of the Social Sciences in 2012-13. Harper fellowships constitute one of the highest honors given to our graduate students and the competition for this single award will be rigorous. The nominees should be truly outstanding. Nominations should be submitted only for those students who are most likely to complete the degree within the period of fellowship tenure. Harper dissertation fellowships will provide tuition, fees, and University Basic student health insurance plus an academic-year stipend of $20,000.

URL: http://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/pdf/ssddos/Harper%20Announcement%202012-2013.pdf
Deadline: Nominations due to the Dean of Students Office by April 13. Students should consult with their departments for departmental procedures and deadlines.

Length: One Year

Comments: A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in combination with matching funds from individual donors provides endowment support for dissertation-year fellowships in the Division of the Social Sciences. Up to eight fellowships may be awarded in academic year 2012-2013. In accord with conditions set by the Mellon Foundation, this program is designed to increase completion rates and promote reductions in time-to-degree in the humanistic social sciences: Anthropology; Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science; Comparative Human Development; History; Political Science; Social Thought; and Sociology. Mellon dissertation fellowships will provide tuition, fees, and University Basic student health insurance plus an academic-year stipend of $20,000.

URL: http://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/pdf/ssddos/Mellon%20Announcement%202012-13.pdf
Deadline: Nominations due to the Dean of Students Office by April 13. Students should consult with their departments for departmental procedures and deadlines.

Length: One Year

Comments: In 2012-2013 the Benjamin Bloom Fellowship will provide one dissertation write-up fellowship in the amount of $20,000, plus tuition, required fees, and University basic student health insurance. The fellowship seeks to support dissertation research on education that is carried out in any social sciences discipline. Ph.D. candidates in the Division of the Social Sciences are eligible. Employment, including teaching, is not permitted during the tenure of the award.

URL: http://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/pdf/ssddos/Bloom%20Announcement%202012-13.pdf