2009-10 Fellowship/Grant Notices
Check often for updates.
For information about fellowships, scroll down or click on a name.
- Boren Awards
- Fulbright-Hays Fellowships
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
- Newcombe Fellowship
You can take a look at last year's version of this page -- it may list funders that are still active but that we we didn't hear from this year.
American-Scandinavian Foundation
The ASF is the leading cultural and educational link between the U.S. and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. ASF offers competitvely-awarded fellowships and grants and is now accepting applications for its 2010/11 award competition. Fellowships of up to $23,000 are inteded to support an academic year-long stay and grants beginning at $5,000 are considered more suitable for shorter research visits. Funding is available to candidates in all fields.
Deadline: November 2, 2009
American Association on Health and Disability Scholarship Program
The AAHD Scholarship Program was created to support students with disabilities who are pursuing higher education. Preference will be given to students who plan to pursue undergraduate/graduate studies in the field of public health, health promotion or disability studies.
Deadline: October 15, 2009 (postmark)
AMS Centennial Fellowship Program
The AMS Centennial Fellowship Program makes awards annually to outstanding mathematicians to help further their careers in research. One Fellowship will be awarded for the 2010/11 academic year. Preference will be given to candidates who have not had extensive fellowship support in the past. Recipients may not hold the Fellowship concurrently with another research fellowship such as a Sloan or NSF Postdoctoral fellowship. Applications will be accepted from those currently holding a tenured, tenure-track, postdoctoral or comparable positions at a North American institution.
Deadline: December 1, 2009
AMS Centennial Fellowship Program website
Boren Awards
Boren fellowships provide up to $30,000 to U.S. graduate students to add an important international and language component to their graduate education through specialization in area study, language study, or increased language proficiency. Deadline: January 28, 2010
Canadian Studies Grant Program
The Canadian Government, through its Embassy and Consulates in the U.S., supports research, conferences, teaching, and program activity related to Canada and/or Canada-U.S. relations. The Program is particularly interested in projects that focus on the diverse aspects of Canada-U.S. relations. Priority topics include bilateral trade, border issues, security cooperation, environmental and natural resources issues, and cultural relations. The Program offers research grants and doctoral student research awards.
Deadline: November 2, 2009 (research grants); December 1, 2009 (doctoral student research awards)
Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities
The Society was founded to encourage interdisciplinary teaching and research. The Society offers one-year fellowships, renewable for up to two additional years, during which Fellows teach undergraduate courses, complete scholarly work, present projects to other Fellows and University faculty, and plan and participate in conferences on areas of research interest. The annual stipend for 2010-2011 is $55,000 and each Fellow will receive a research stipend of $5,000 per annum. Candidates who received their Ph.Ds between January 2006 and July 2010 are eligible to apply. Deadline: October 5, 2009
Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities website
DAAD Research Grants
DAAD offers 10-month grants to graduate student researchers in all fields who have a well-defined project that requires research in Germany. Deadline: October 21 (on-campus), November 15 (to DAAD)
Emory can nominate an application as a priority application, which almost ensures that it will be funded by DAAD. To be considered for this nomination, follow these instructions:
DAAD offers a number of other grants, including grants for intensive language training and short-term research. More information at this page.
ETS R&D Fellowship and Internship Programs
ETS programs encourage research in areas such as measurement theory, validity, natural language processing and computational linguistics, cognitive psychology, learning theory, teaching and classroom research, statistics and international large-scale assessments. ETS strongly encourages scholars from diverse backgrounds, especially underrepresented groups such as African Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans, and American Indians, to apply. Several fellowship opportunities are available. Deadlines to apply vary. Application process opens: November 1, 2009
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships are designed to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diveristy, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. The Foundation offers stipends and allowances for predoctoral, dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships for those planning a career in teaching and research at the college or university level.
Deadline: November 2, 2009 (predoctoral); November 9, 2009 (dissertation and postdoctoral)
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships website
Fulbright-Hays Fellowships
This program provides grants to colleges and universities to fund individual doctoral students to conduct research in other countries in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of six to 12 months. Deadline: November 17, 2009
The application must be submitted online and to the Laney Gradaute School -- the processing is a bit complicated. Follow instructions in the document below:
George C. Marshall/Baruch Fellowship
This Fellowship offers maximum grants of $7,500 for doctoral or postdoctoral research in 20th century U.S. Militrary or diplomatic history and related fields. Fellows will be expected to produce some tangible evidence of scholarly accomplishments within a year of receiving the grant. Deadline: October 26, 2009
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
The HFGF welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations and control of violence, aggression and dominance. Ten or more dissertaton fellowships of $15,000 each are awarded each year to individuals who will complete the writing of the dissertation within the award year.
Deadline: February 1, 2010
Human Rights Consortium Graduate Fellowships
The Human Rights Consortium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, is inviting applications for Graduate Fellowship Awards for doctoral students undertaking research in the area of neighborly violence and/or post-conflict repair. The award is for a 12-month period. Recipients will be expected to contribute to the organization of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series entitled, "Fratricide and Fraternite: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Atrocity." Candiates for the award will be doctoral students working in the humanities, social sciences or law on a relevant topic.
Deadline: September 11, 2009
Human Rights Consortium website
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Assist graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. This program aims to encourage 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, 2011.
Deadline: November 11, 2009; internal deadline October 29
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships website
Applications for his fellowship requires an institutional statement. To obtain this, complete your application by October 29, and follow the instructions in the document below.
Michigan Society of Fellows
Post-doctoral fellowships for those who have received a Ph.D. or comparable artistic or professional degree between June 2007 and September 2010. Fellows are appointed as Assistant Professors or Research Scientists in appropriate departments and as Postdoctoral Scholars in the Michigan Society of Fellows. Eight Fellows will be selected for three-year terms to begin September 2010.
Deadline: September 30, 2009
Newcombe Fellowship
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is accepting applications for its 2010 dissertation fellowship. The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship supports the final year of dissertation work for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences. Eligible proposals have religious or ethical values as a central concern and are relevant to the solution of contemporary religious, cultural or human rights questions. The stipend for this fellowship has been raised to $25,000 for a twelve-month period.
Deadline: November 15, 2009
Nordic Research Opportunity
This opportunity is available as a Supplementary Award for NSF Graduate Research Fellows to gain international research experience with counterparts at Norwegian, Fininsh or Danish research institutions. Deadline: December 15, 2009
Northeast Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellowships
The goal of the Consortium is to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties. The Consortium is now accepting applications for the 2010-11 dissertation-year visiting diversity fellowships for advanced graduate students in ALL fields. Students may apply to more than one host campus if they wish. $25-32,000 provided by the host campus for each of its visiting scholars for September 2010 - August 2011. The host campus will also provide computer and library privileges, office space, possibly health insurance and a faculty liaison. Deadline: January 1, 2010
NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes
The Summer Institutes are hosted by foreign counterparts committed to increasing opportunities for U.S. researchers to work in research facilities abroad. Fellows are supported to participate in eight-week research experiences at host laboratories in Australia, China, Japan (10 weeks), Korea, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan from June to August. A $5,000 stipend is provided along with round-trip airfare, and abroad living expenses. Deadline: December 8, 2009
Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program
The 2010 fellowship program offers in-residence appointments for research and study using its facilities and the advice and guidance of its staff members in fields that are actively pursued by the museums and research organizations of the Institution. At present, fields from the social sciences, humanities and natural and behavioral sciences are represented. Predoctoral, postdoctoral and graduate student fellowships are offered for various terms at various stipends. Deadline: January 15, 2010
Spencer Foundation
The Spencer Foundation is accepting applications for the 2010 Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education. The dissertation topic must be concern education but graduate study may be in any academic field. Additionally, applicants must be candidates for a doctoral degree at a graduate school in the U.S., but they need not be U.S. citizens. Deadline: October 21, 2009
U.S. DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship
The DOE has established this program to provide support for outstanding students to puruse graduate training in basic research in areas of physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, computational science, and environmental sciences relevant to the Office of Science. Fellows will receive a $35,000 yearly stipend for living expenses, $10,500 per year for tuition and fees and a $5,000 research stipend supplment for research materials and travel expenses. Deadline: November 30, 2009
What's this?
This page collects notices we receive at the Laney Graduate School about fellowship or grant opportunities that may be of interest to Emory graduate students.
Do not use this page in lieu of a systematic search. This is simply a list of the ones that happen to come our way.
For help in searching for other opportunities, see Finding Funding Sources on the Resources page.