Carter Manny Award in Architecture
Since the Carter Manny Award’s establishment in 1996, over $560,000 has been awarded in recognition of outstanding doctoral students whose work represents some of the most innovative and advanced scholarship on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Carter Manny Award supports dissertation research and writing by promising scholars whose projects focus on fields of inquiry supported by the Graham Foundation: architecture; architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; visual arts; and other related fields. The award is intended to assist students enrolled in graduate programs in architecture, art history, and other programs in the fine arts, humanities, and social sciences. The Graham Foundation offers two Carter Manny Awards: a research award for a student at the research stage of the doctoral dissertation and a writing award for a student at the writing stage of the doctoral dissertation. The research award is acknowledged with $15,000 and the writing award is acknowledged with $20,000
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: November 15, 2017
Website: http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grant_programs?mode=award
Donald M Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship
The Payne Program is designed to attract outstanding young people to careers in international development as USAID Foreign Service Officers. The Payne Fellowship Program provides benefits valued at up to $93,000 over two years toward a two-year master’s degree, arranges internships in Washington D.C. and at USAID missions overseas, and provides professional development and support activities. Fellows who successfully complete the program become USAID Foreign Service Officers. Fellows may use the fellowship to attend a two-year master’s program in a U.S. institution to study an area of relevance to the USAID Foreign Service, including international development, international relations, public policy, business administration, foreign languages, economics, agriculture, environmental sciences, health, or urban planning at a graduate or professional school approved by the Payne Program.
Citizenship: U.S. Citizen
Deadline: January 29, 2018
Website: http://www.paynefellows.org
Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship Dissertation Program
The Jennings Randolph (JR) Peace scholarship Dissertation Program awards scholarships to students at U.S. universities who are writing doctoral dissertations with clear relevance for policy and practice in the field of international peacebuilding and conflict management. Peace Scholar Awards are currently set at $20,000 for 10 months.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: November 20, 2017
Website: https://www.usip.org/grants-fellowships/fellowships/jennings-randolph-peace-dissertation-program-introduction
Louisville Institute Dissertation Fellowship on North American Christianity
The Dissertation Fellowship program is designed to support the final year Ph.D. or Th.D. dissertation writing for students engaged in research pertaining to North American Christianity, especially projects with the potential to strengthen the religious life of North American Christians and their institutions, including seminaries, while simultaneously advancing American religious and theological scholarship. Proposed projects may employ a variety of methodological perspectives, including, but not limited to, history, ethics, the social sciences, biblical studies, and historical, systematic, and practical theology. They may also be interdisciplinary in nature.
Citizenship: Unspecified
Deadline: February 1 (annually)
Website: http://www.louisville-institute.org/Fellowships/dfdetail.aspx
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture-International Fellowships in Jewish Studies
The purpose of the Foundation’s Fellowship program is to assist well-qualified
individuals in carrying out an independent scholarly, literary or art project, in a field of
Jewish specialization, which makes a significant contribution to the understanding,
preservation, enhancement or transmission of Jewish culture. The Fellowship is open to applications from a qualified scholar, researcher or artist who possesses the knowledge and experience to formulate and implement a project in a field of Jewish specialization can apply for
support. The amount of the grant varies in accordance with the cost of living in the country in
which the fellowship recipient resides to formulate and implement a project in a field of Jewish specialization can apply for, grants range up to $10,000 per year.
Citizenship: Unspecified
Deadline: July 15th- October 31st, 2018
Website: http://www.mfjc.org/support/howto.html
Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowships for Conservation and Scientific Research
The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers junior- and senior-level fellowships in conservation and scientific research. Junior fellowships are intended for those who have recently completed graduate-level training. All fellowships must take place between September 1, 2017 and August 31, 2018. Fellowships generally begin in September.
Citizenship: Unspecified
Deadline: December 1, 2017
Website: www.metmuseum.org/research/internships-and-fellowships/fellowships/conservation-and-scientific-research-fellowships
National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: NIJ is seeking proposals for funding under the Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program in social and behavioral sciences. This program provides awards for research on crime, violence, and other criminal justice-related topics to accredited universities that offer research-based doctoral degrees. NIJ invests in doctoral education by supporting universities that sponsor students who demonstrate the potential to successfully complete doctoral degree programs in disciplines relevant to the mission of NIJ, and who are in the final stages of graduate study. Applicants sponsoring doctoral students are eligible to apply only if the doctoral research dissertation has direct implications for criminal justice policy and practice in the United States.
Citizenship: Unrestricted (university is the applicant)
Deadline: see website
Website: https://nij.gov/funding/fellowships/graduate-research-fellowship/Pages/grf-sbs.aspx#faqs
NSF Biological Anthropology Program-Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (BA-DDRIG)
The Biological Anthropology Program supports multifaceted research to advance scientific knowledge of human biology and ecology, including understanding of our evolutionary history and mechanisms that have shaped human and nonhuman primate biological diversity. This solicitation specifically addresses the preparation and evaluation of proposals for such Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grants. Dissertation research projects in all of the subareas of biological anthropology are eligible for support through these grants. These awards are intended to enhance and improve the conduct of dissertation research by doctoral students who are pursuing research in biological anthropology that enhances basic scientific knowledge.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: January 24, 2018
Website: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18504/nsf18504.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Olympic Studies Centre (OSC) PhD Research Grant
The Olympic Studies Centre (OSC) organizes an annual grant program intended for PhD students engaged in scholarly research on the Olympic Movement, its history and ideals, and the impact of the Olympic Games on the various aspects of contemporary society and culture. Applicants should be preparing a PhD thesis in one or more of disciplines within humanities and social sciences perspectives (e.g. anthropology; arts; communications; economics/management; history; law; linguistics; pedagogy; philosophy; political sciences; sociology; sport sciences and urban, cultural, religious or literature studies) and have Olympism, Olympic sports or the Olympic Games as one of the research topics.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: TBD
Website: https://www.olympic.org/olympic-studies-centre/research-grant-programmes
Texas State Historical Association: Research Fellowships
The Texas State Historical Association has a number of small fellowships for research relating to the history of Texas. These include awards for study of Latino history, arts and material culture, and Civil War history.
Citizenship: Unspecified
Deadline: December 28, 2017
Website: http://www.tshaonline.org/awards-and-fellowships
For more information, contact: ONSF at onsf@uconn.edu