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Length: One year
Comments: In order to encourage such scholars to consider college rather than university teaching, Kenyon College offers the Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship. The program is for scholars in the final stages of their doctoral work who need only to finish the dissertation to complete requirements for the Ph.D.
Kenyon will provide a stipend of $32,500, plus health benefits, housing, and a small moving allowance. The College will also provide some allowance to cover research, travel to conferences and professional expenses. The Fellow is expected to write the dissertation and to teach one course each semester, usually in the Fellow's general research area. Eligibility to apply for the Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship is limited to those meeting all of the following four criteria who are citizens or nationals of the United States:
- Members of underrepresented groups (e.g., ethnic minorities; women in fields that attract mostly men, or men in fields that attract mostly women; and persons who are first-generation college attendees).
- Individuals who are enrolled in a research-based Ph.D. program in one of the following fields: African and African American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Art, Art History, Asian Studies, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Classics, Dance, Drama, Economics, English, Environmental Studies, History, Humanities, International Studies, Legal Studies, Mathematics, Modern Languages and Literature, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Public Policy, Psychology, Religious Studies, Scientific Computing, Sociology, and Women's and Gender Studies.
- Individuals who aspire to a teaching and research career.
Length: one year
Comments: The American Council of Learned Societies offers support for writing dissertations in East European studies in all disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences.Funding is offered for two types of support:
- Research Fellowships for use in Eastern Europe to conduct fieldwork or archival investigations.
- Writing Fellowships for use outside of Eastern Europe, after all research is complete, to write the dissertation.
Applications should be for work on Eastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo/a, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Applicants may propose comparative work considering more than one country of Eastern Europe or relating East European societies of those of other parts of the world.
Fellowships will be granted on the basis of the scholarly potential of the applicant, the quality and scholarly importance of the proposed work, and its importance to the development of scholarship on Eastern Europe. ACLS selection committees consider language competence essential to research. Therefore, applicants will be asked to describe their command of the language(s) required for their proposed projects.
The stipend will be up to $18,000. As a condition of the award, the
applicant's home university will be required (consistent with its
policies and regulations) to provide or to waive normal academic year
tuition payments or to provide alternative cost-sharing support.
Deadline: November 15, 2010 (note date change!)
Length: One academic year
Comments: Two overall goals exist: (1) to enable two outstanding African American doctoral candidates (at the ABD level) to devote their full energies to the completion of the dissertation; and (2) to provide an opportunity for African American scholars at the beginning of their academic careers to experience life at a major Catholic research university. The fellowship carries with it a $30,000 stipend and $2000 research budget. Fellows have access to all university facilities and are provided office space, use of a personal computer, an official academic home in the department of the Fellow's specialization, and access to a faculty mentor in the fellow's discipline. Fellows also participate in professional development workshops focused on employment strategies and career development.
Length: 9 months
Comments:
The School for Advanced Research (SAR) awards approximately six Resident Scholar Fellowships each year to scholars who have completed their research and analysis and who need time to think and write about topics important to the understanding of humankind. Resident scholars (PhD candidates and post-doctoral scholars) may approach their research from anthropology or from related fields such as history, sociology, art, and philosophy. Both humanistically and scientifically oriented scholars are encouraged to apply. SAR provides Resident Scholars with low-cost housing and office space on campus, a stipend up to $40,000, library assistance, and other benefits during a nine-month tenure, from September 1 through May 31. A six-month fellowship is also available for a female scholar from a developing nation, whose research promotes women's empowerment. SAR Press may consider books written by resident scholars for publication in its Resident Scholar Series.
URL: http://sarweb.org/index.php?resident_scholars
Length: One year
Comments: Fellowships support graduate students conducting dissertation research in areas that complement the programs and resources of the institute. Fellows are expected to be in residence at the Getty Research Institute. Stipend is $25,000 per academic year plus a housing subsidy, office space, research assistance, travel funds, and health benefits.
URL: http://getty.edu/foundation/funding/residential/getty_pre_postdoctoral_fellowships.html
Length: One year
Comments: Dumbarton Oaks offers residential fellowships in three areas of study: Byzantine Studies, Pre-Columbian Studies, and Garden and Landscape Studies. Fellowships are normally awarded for the academic year in which during this time recipients are expected to be in residence at Dumbarton Oaks and devote full time to their study projects without undertaking any other major activities. Fellowships are not renewable and may not be extended. Support includes a stipend of $15,500 for a Junior Fellow (finishing a dissertation) or $28,000 for a Post-Doctoral Fellow for the full academic year.
URL: www.doaks.org
Length: One year
Comments: Doctoral candidates who are non-ROC citizens and who are enrolled in an accredited university in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, or South America may apply for financial support for writing dissertations in the field of Chinese Studies in the humanities and social sciences. Citizens of the ROC should apply for Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad. Grants are available only to doctoral candidates who are neither employed nor receiving grants from other sources. Applicants should have completed all other requirements for their Ph.D. degree, and must be in the last stage of their doctoral program. The maximum amount of each award is $15,000, which is given for a period extending to one year. Successful candidates are expected to complete their dissertations by the end of the grant period. Funding for successful applications will be provided in two installments (July and January). The completed thesis should be submitted to the Foundation when the project is finished.Applications for Doctoral Fellowships will be evaluated according to the following criteria: 1)The significance of the contribution that the proposed project will make to the advancement of research in the field of Chinese Studies; 2)The quality or potential quality of the applicant's work, including its originality in the field of Chinese Studies; 3) The likelihood that the applicant can successfully complete the entire project during the grant period.
URL: http://www.cckf.org.tw/e-americaDF.htm
Length: One Year
Comments: The Dan David Prize laureates annually donate twenty scholarships of US$15,000 each to outstanding doctoral and post-doctoral students of exceptional promise in the chosen fields.Ten scholarships are awarded to doctoral and post-doctoral students at universities throughout the world and ten scholarships at Tel Aviv University. Applicant's research must be in one of the selected fields for the year.Each year, fields are chosen within
the three Time Dimensions - Past, Present, and Future. This year's fields are Past: Evolution; Present: Cinema and Society; and Future: Ageing-Facing the Challenge.
URL: http://www.dandavidprize.org/index.php/scholarship-applications/scholarship-applications.html
Length: Two years
Comments: The Academy Scholars Program identifies and supports outstanding scholars at the start of their careers whose work combines disciplinary excellence in the social sciences (including history and law) with a command of the language, history, or culture of non-Western countries or regions.
Academy Scholars are appointed for 2 years by the Harvard Academy for
International and Area Studies and are provided time, guidance, and
access to Harvard facilities. The competition for these awards is open only to recent Ph.D. (or
comparable professional school degree) recipients and doctoral
candidates. Those still pursuing a Ph.D. should have completed their
routine training and be well along in the writing of their theses before
becoming Scholars; those in possession of a Ph.D. longer than 3 years
are ineligible. Post-doctoral Scholars will receive an annual stipend of $48,000, and
pre-doctoral Scholars will receive an annual stipend of $28,000. This
stipend is supplemented by funding for conference and research travel,
research assistants, and health insurance coverage. Some teaching is
permitted but not required.
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