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Grant Information

• American Association of University Women (AAUW)-AAUW offers several pre- and post-doctoral grants

• American Education Research Association

  The AERA Grants Program offers dissertation grants for quantitative education policy and practice research using large-scale, nationally- representative data sets such as those sponsored by NCES and NSF. Studies must include US education but may be comparative.

• Bancroft Library Study Awards for students working on Master's thesis and Doctoral Dissertation that will use the library's materials.

• Brookings Institute

• Dirksen Congressional Center

  The research awards competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, and journalists are among those eligible.

• Dorot Foundation Graduate research travel grant supports research in Israel

• Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship

• Fulbright Fellowship awarded for dissertation research

• Fulbright Border Program

  Three- to nine-month funding to teach graduate courses and/or conduct research in any discipline relevant to U.S.-Mexico border relations. Fluent Spanish is required. Candidates must have a Ph.D. and be from U.S. institutions located in any of the U.S. states on the border with Mexico. Affiliation must be with a university or research institution in any of the Mexican states on the border with the United States.

• Horowitz Foundation

  Horowitz supports sociological research with an emphasis on policy-oriented studies.

• MacArthur Foundation

  Global Migration and Human Mobility MacArthur will be providing a limited number of open grants in the following areas:

  • Governance of global migration

  • Migration and development

  • Re-conceptualizing global human mobility

• McNeil Center

  McNeil supports research related to early American studies

• Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships Supports dissertation research in the humanities and social sciences
• National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship

  These fellowships are designed to promote scholarship in the United States and abroad on matters relevant to the improvement of education in all its forms. NAE/Spencer will support one year of full-time research, or two years at half-time.

• National Institute of Health
• National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant Info
• Newcombe, Charlotte W., Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Supports research of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences
• Robert Bosch Foundation Work placement in European governments
• Social Science Research Council offers a variety of awards for research and workshops. Workshop topics change each year.
• Spencer Foundation Spencer funds education-related research.
• Switzer Foundation Switzer funds research related to the environment
• United States Department of Education
• The Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
• UC Berkeley-Stanford University John Gardner Fellow for Public Service
• UCSD Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and Center for US Mexican Studies
• UCSD The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) Summer Dissertation Research Fellowships In Chicana/Latino Studies and Ethnic Studies
• UC Pacific Rim Research Program
• UC Labor and Employment Research Fund
• UC Humanities Research Institute
• UC Institute for European Studies

  The Institute keeps a running list of pre- and post-doctoral opportunities for scholars studying Europe.

• UC Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship for language study
• UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Dissertation Fellowships and Travel and Research Awards
• US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

  HUD's Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant program is intended to stimulate policy-relevant urban research by encouraging doctoral candidates to pursue research topics in community, housing, and urban development.

• Woodrow Wilson, National Fellowship Foundation

  Supports research related to teaching, conservation, women and gender, religion and ethics, access and opportunities, and foreign affairs.