Dissertation Write-Up: 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: 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: November 2010 (review begins 11/15)
Length: 9 months
Comments: Trinity College invites applications for a one-year pre-doctoral fellowship to promote diversity at our nationally recognized liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Pre-doctoral fellows will teach one course during the year. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents who will contribute to enhancing diversity at Trinity College by increasing ethnic and racial diversity, maximizing the educational benefits of diversity, and/or increasing the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of students. Date of fellowship: September 1, 2011 to May 31, 2012. Stipend: Mid-$40,000 plus health benefits, office space, computer, conference travel expenses, and assistance in finding housing near campus.
URL: http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/DeanOfFaculty/AnnPlatoFellowship.htm
Deadline: December 1, 2010
Length: 2 years
Comments: The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia invites scholars whose work focuses on Africa and/or the African Diaspora to apply for a two-year predoctoral research fellowship, beginning August 25, 2011. Predoctoral fellowships carry an annual stipend of $20,000, plus health insurance. The predoctoral fellow must be in residence at the University of Virginia for the duration of the award period. Fellows are expected to participate in the series of workshops held during the academic year and to present their work periodically to the larger academic community.
URL: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/woodson/fellowship/predoc.htmlDeadline: November 2010 (date not yet announced)
Length: One Year
Comments: The Eurasia Dissertation Support Fellowships provide financial and academic support to graduate students near completion of their doctoral programs in the social sciences and related humanities. The program provides fellowship awards of up to $25,000 for the academic year, designed to allow advanced graduate students concentrated time to devote to the intellectual development of their projects and to write up the results of their research. Proposals and research must pertain to one or more of the regions and countries currently supported by the program: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
URL: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/eurasia-fellowship/Deadline: 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/
Deadline: October 27, 2010
Length: 9 months - 2 years
Comments: The 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. These $25,000 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. This highly competitive program aims to identify the most talented researchers conducting dissertation research related to education. Candidates should be interested in pursuing further research on education once the doctorate is attained.
URL: http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/dissertation-fellowships-in-education-program
Deadline: November 15, 2010
Length: One Year
Comments: Dissertation Fellowships are available to women who will complete their dissertation writing between April 15, 2012 and June 30, 2012. Degree conferral must be between April 1 and September 15, 2012. 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, 2010. Students holding any fellowship for writing a dissertation in the year prior to the AAUW fellowship year are not eligible. Open to applicants in all fields of study. Scholars engaged in science, technology, engineering and math and also researching gender issues are especially encouraged to apply. Grants are for $20,000.
URL: http://www.aauw.org/learn/fellowships_grants/american.cfm
