Research, Funding and Awards -
Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences - American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Ethics and Religion
- Confucius China Studies Joint Research Ph.D. Fellowship
- Duke Fellowships for Promotion of Child Well-Being
- Henry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowships
- International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)
- James Madison Memorial Fellowships
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
- Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources
- NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program
- Newberry Fellowships
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award The Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association sponsors an annual competition for dissertation research funding. The purpose of the Dissertation Research Award program is to assist science-oriented doctoral students of psychology with research costs. The current program includes 30-40 grants of $1,000 each, along with several larger grants of up to $5,000 to students whose dissertation research reflects excellence in scientific psychology. Citizenship: Unspecified Deadline: September 1, 2017 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Ethics and Religion The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, and particularly to help Ph.D. candidates in these fields complete their dissertation work in a timely manner. In addition to topics in religious studies or in ethics (philosophical or religious), dissertations appropriate to the Newcombe Fellowship competition might explore the ethical implications of foreign policy, the values influencing political decisions, the moral codes of other cultures, and religious or ethical issues reflected in history or literature. Citizenship: Unspecified Deadline: November 15, 2017 Confucius China Studies Joint Research Ph.D. Fellowship The Confucius China Studies Program (CCSP) Fellowship offers generous funding to students in doctoral programs at U.S. institutions who are pursuing China-related research across a broad range of fields in the arts, education, humanities and social sciences. Successful applicants will be supported for a period of at least six months to up to two years as they pursue research at one of 15 designated universities in China. Citizenship: Must not be a citizen of China or Taiwan Deadline: See website Duke Fellowships for Promotion of Child Well-Being The $25,000 fellowships are designed to develop a new generation of leaders capable of creating practice and policy initiatives that will enhance child development and improve the nation's ability to prevent child maltreatment. Fellows can be based at any academic institution in the US and are selected from a range of academic disciplines, including but not limited to social work, public health, medicine, public policy, education, economics, psychology, and epidemiology. Fellows receive an annual stipend of $25,000 for up to two years to support the completion of their dissertation and related research at their academic institution. Deadline: December 1, 2017 Henry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowships These fellowships of $20,000 each are designed to contribute to the support of the doctoral candidate to enable him or her to complete the thesis in a timely manner and are only appropriate for students approaching the final year of their Ph.D. work. Questions that interest the foundation concern violence and aggression in relation to social change, intergroup conflict, war, terrorism, crime, and family relationships, among other subjects. Dissertations with no relevance to understanding human violence and aggression will not be supported. Priority will also be given to areas and methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other funding sources. Citizenship: Not specified Deadline: February 1 International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) The Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) offers nine to twelve months of support to graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who are enrolled in PhD programs in the United States and conducting dissertation research on non-US topics. Eighty fellowships are awarded annually. Fellowship amounts vary depending on the research plan, with a per-fellowship average of $20,000. The fellowship includes participation in an SSRC-funded interdisciplinary workshop upon the completion of IDRF-funded research. Citizenship: Unrestricted Deadline: November 7, 2017 James Madison Memorial Fellowships The James Madison Memorial Fellowships are awarded to U.S. citizens who demonstrate a commitment to civic responsibilities and to professional and collegial activities and who qualify for admission with graduate standing at an accredited U.S. university that offers a qualifying master's degree program. Applicants must be committed to teaching American history, American government, and/or social studies full time in grades 7–12. Citizenship: U.S. citizen or national Deadline: March 1, 2018 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships ACLS invites applications for the annual competition for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships, which support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. The program encourages timely completion of the Ph.D. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2017. A grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program. Citizenship: Unrestricted Deadline: October 25, 2017 Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to offer fellowships generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for dissertation research in the humanities or related social sciences in original sources. The purposes of this fellowship program are to: Help junior scholars in the humanities and related social science fields gain skill and creativity in developing knowledge from original sources; enable dissertation writers to do research wherever relevant sources may be, rather than just where financial support is available; encourage more extensive and innovative uses of original sources in libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and related repositories in the U.S. and abroad; and provide insight from the viewpoint of doctoral candidates into how scholarly resources can be developed for access most helpfully in the future. The program offers about fifteen competitively awarded fellowships a year. Each provides a stipend of $2,000 per month for periods ranging from 9-12 months. Citizenship: Unrestricted Deadline: TBD (Around December 2) NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program 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 $27,500 fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, analysis, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world. Citizenship: Unrestricted Deadline: October 5, 2017 Newberry Fellowships Fellowships at the Newberry provide support for researchers who wish to use the collection. The Newberry administers annual competitions for both Short-Term Fellowships of one to two months and Long-Term Fellowships of four to twelve months. Citizenship: Unrestricted Deadline: Varied - see website
For more information, contact: ONSF at onsf@uconn.edu
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