GSAS encourages students to seek and apply for funding opportunities.
Fellowships are listed alphabetically by funding source/organization name.
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
http://www.aauw.org/
Application deadlines vary; students should check website for fellowships offered.
AAUW's mission is to advance equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research.
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
http://www.acls.org
Application deadlines vary; students should check website for fellowships offered.
Organized as a private, nonprofit federation of 69 national scholarly organizations, ACLS was founded to advance humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and related social sciences.
Andrew W. Mellon Institute of Historical Research (IHR) Mellon Fellowships
http://www.hisotry.ac.uk/awards/#mellon
Application deadline: Monday, January 14, 2008
Fellowships are available for pre-dissertation and dissertation research using original source materials in the humanities in the UK.
Association for Institutional Research (AIR)
http://www.airweb.org/grants.html
Application deadlines vary; students should check website for fellowships offered.
AIR is a professional organization providing programs for learning, mutual intellectual exchange, and professional development for individuals who participate in higher education decision making through management research, policy analysis and planning.
Business and Professional Women's Clubs of New York State (BPW/NYS) Grace LeGendre Endowment Fund
http://www.gracelegendre.org
Application deadline: Thursday, February 28, 2008
Fellowships are awarded to women who are registered in graduate studies and within two years of completing degree program requirements at an accredited college or university in the state of New York.
Central Europe Summer Research Institute (CESRI)
http://www.iie.org//Content/NavigationMenu/Programs7/CESRI/CESRI.htm
Application deadline: Monday, February 4, 2008
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), CESRI is a fellowship opportunity for U.S. graduate students in science and engineering who are seeking a quality hands-on international research experience. CESRI's objectives are:
-to improve the expertise of the awardees as scientists and help them think and analyze on a broader, global level and
-to build individual and institutional partnerships, as well as dialogue between the scientific community in the U.S. and Central Europe.
Council for European Studies (CES) Fellowship Program
http://www.ces.columbia.edu/awards/awards.html
Application deadline: Friday, February 1, 2008
The CES Fellowship Program serves as the leading resource for pre-dissertation fellowships, intended to fund young scholars’ first major research projects in Europe.
East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for US Graduate Students (EAPSI)
http://www.nsf.gov/eapsi
Application deadline: Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes provide U.S. graduate students in science and engineering first-hand research experience in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, or Taiwan, an introduction to the science and science policy infrastructure of the respective location, and orientation to the society, culture, and language.
Educational Testing Service (ETS) Fellowship and Internship Programs in Research and Development
http://www.ets.org/research/fellowships.html
Application deadlines: Friday, February 1, 2008 but some may have preliminary materials deadline.
The ETS Fellowship and Internship programs seek scholars who either hold a doctoral degree or who are enrolled in a doctoral program in the field of educational research and who are interested in research opportunities.
International Foundation for Science (IFS)
http://www.ifs.se/
Application deadlines: Monday, December 31, 2007
IFS is a research council with international operations and the mission to build the scientific capacity of developing countries in sciences related to the sustainable management of biological and water resources.
International Reseach and Exhanges Board (IREX)
http://www.irex.org/
Application deadlines vary; students should check website for fellowships offered.
IREX is an international nonprofit organization providing leadership and innovative programs to improve the quality of education, strengthen independent media, and foster pluralistic civil society development.
New York University Global Fellowship Program
http://www.nyu.edu/global/fellowships
Application deadline: Friday, February 29, 2008
Designed to support teaching, academic research, artistic endeavors and other scholarly activities related to, or involving a residency at an NYU Global Site, the Program is open to all NYU faculty members, faculty affiliated with an NYU Global Site, and NYU Ph.D. students. Fellowships are intended to support short visits of up to one semester with limited funds available for partial support, for example, to augment a sabbatical leave, or to help offset travel, living expenses or similar costs associated with a residency. Ideally, all funded projects will also include meaningful activities that are of benefit to students and resident faculty at the Global Site.
New York University Tamiment Library Fellowships
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/
Application deadline: Friday, February 1, 2008
The Center for the United States and the Cold War offers a dissertation and post-doctoral fellowship as well as several travel grants for the 2008-2009 academic year. The mission is to support research on the Cold War at home and the ways in which this ideological and geopolitical conflict with the Soviet Union affected American politics, culture, and society.
The Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center offers a nine-month residential fellowship for projects relating to academic freedom and its history. Proposals that seek to explore the ways that fear of enemies abroad, and anxieties over perceived threats at home have jeopardized academic freedom are encouraged. Projects that focus on the public schools and the changing nature of university governance are of particular interest.
School for Advanced Research (SAR) Programs For Scholars
http://www.sarweb.org
Summer Scholar Program
Application deadline: Saturday, December 15, 2007
Fellowships for scholars in anthropology and related disciplines to pursue research or writing projects during a two-month tenure, from June 15-August 10, 2008. Scholars whose projects relate to the history of anthropology are especially encouraged to apply.
Advanced Seminar Program
Application deadline: Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Each seminar consists of ten scholars will meet at the SAR's Santa Fe campus for five days of intense discussion on a topic that provides new insights into human evolution, behavior, society, or culture.
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
http://www.ssrc.org/
Application deadlines vary; students should check website for fellowships offered.
SSRC is an independent, not-for-profit research organization that mobilizes researchers, policy makers, professionals, activists, and other experts from the private and public sectors to develop innovative approaches to issues of critical social importance.
The National Academies
http://www.national-academies.org/rap
Annual application deadlines: February 1, May 1, August 1, November 1
Competitive awards are available for scientists and engineers to conduct independent research in federal laboratories.
The Robert A. Levy Fellowship in Law and Liberty
http://www.law.gmu.edu
Application deadline: Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Program was created to encourage emerging scholars to pursue a juris doctor degree at George Mason University and to encourage program participants to better understand the institutions of a free society and that they will develop into productive scholars whose writings reflect the importance of private property, the rule of law, and the market process to the preservation of individual liberty.
The Newbury Library 2008 Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography for July 7-August 1, 2008
http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/currentgrants/2008paleo.html
Application deadline: Monday, March 3, 2008
Aimed at students and scholars with a special interest in French literature, history and art history, the course will consist of a summary outline of the history of handwriting in France, followed by intensive training in reading from facsimiles, both in class and at home, which should result in greater familiarity not only with the development of handwriting but also with further aspects of written communication in the late-mediaeval and early-modern period.
ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship
http://www.swissemb.org/scitech
Application deadline: Sunday, April 20, 2008
Scholarship program supports highly motivated and qualified US undergraduate and graduate students to live and to do research at a Swiss university for two to three months.
Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program
http://www.whitaker.org/home.html
Application deadline: Monday, February 11, 2008
Program allows the opportunity for biomedical engineers to conduct a study, research, or internship opportunity abroad.
