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Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships

This award opportunity is made available through the Ford Foundation Fellowships administered by the Fellowships Office .

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships provide one year of support for individuals working to complete a research-based, dissertation-required Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) or Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree that will prepare them for the pursuit of a career in academic teaching or research. Practice-oriented degree programs are not eligible for support. The fellowship is intended to support the final year of writing and defense of the dissertation.

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Description

Scope of the award.

Dissertation Fellowships provide one year of support for individuals working to complete a research-based, dissertation-required Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) or Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree that will prepare them for the pursuit of a career in academic teaching or research. Practice-oriented degree programs are not eligible for support. The fellowship is intended to support the final year of writing and defense of the dissertation.  

Award Details

Fellowships can be held at any fully accredited not for profit U.S. institution of higher education offering a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree in an eligible discipline. A limited number of dissertation fellowships will be awarded for the 2024-2025 academic year and will include these benefits:

• One-year stipend: $28,000 
• An invitation to attend the 2024 Conference of Ford Fellows, a unique national conference of a select group of high-achieving scholars committed to diversifying the professoriate and using diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students
• Access to Ford Fellow Regional Liaisons  (PDF, 132 KB) , a network of former Ford Fellows who have volunteered to provide mentoring and support to current Fellows
• Access to other networking and mentoring resources   
• Application deadline:  December 12, 2023 at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) 
• Supplementary materials deadline: January 9, 2024 at 5:00 PM EST

Application and supplementary materials deadlines: The online application system will close promptly on the deadlines stated above. All required materials must be successfully submitted online by these deadlines in order for an application to be considered for review. Applicants should take the time zone into account if they or their letter writers will be submitting materials from a different time zone. It is strongly recommended that applicants and letter writers submit their materials well in advance of the deadline. Out of fairness to all applicants, we regret that we cannot consider requests for extensions for any circumstances for anyone (applicants or letter writers) who is unable to successfully submit their materials by the stated deadlines.

• Notification of 2024 awards: March 2024
• Expected fellowship tenure start date: June 1, 2024 (for 12 months) or September 1, 2024 (for 9 or 12 months)  

Eligibility

All applicants must:

• Confirm holding a previous Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship;
• U.S. citizen or U.S. national
• U.S. permanent resident (holder of a Permanent Resident Card)
• Individual granted deferred action status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, 1 Indigenous individual exercising rights associated with the Jay Treaty of 1794, individual granted Temporary Protected Status, asylee, or refugee
• Demonstrate an intent to pursue a career that includes teaching and research at a U.S. institution of higher education; 
• Be enrolled in a research-based Ph.D. or Sc.D. program at a not for profit U.S. institution of higher education.
• Expect to complete the Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree in a period of 9-12 months during the 2024-2025 academic year; 2
• Have completed all departmental and institutional requirements for their degree, except for writing and defense of the dissertation by December 12, 2023;
• Upload a signed Verification of Doctoral Status Form  (PDF, 92 KB) by the January 9, 2023 Supplementary Materials deadline ;
• Provide evidence of superior academic achievement (such as grade point average, class rank, honors, or other designations); and
• Not have already earned a prior doctoral degree at any time, in any field.

Receipt of the fellowship award is conditioned upon each awardee providing satisfactory documentation that they meet all the eligibility requirements.  

Dissertation fellowship awards will not be made for work leading to terminal master’s degrees, the Ed.D. degree, the degrees of Doctor of Fine Arts (D.F.A.) or Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), or professional degrees in such areas as medicine, law, and public health, or for study in joint degree programs such as the M.D./Ph.D., J.D./Ph.D., and M.F.A./Ph.D. This program does not support the Ph.D. portion of a joint/concurrent/articulated program.

[1] Eligibility includes individuals with current status under the DACA Program, as well as individuals whose status may have lapsed but who continue to meet all the USCIS guidelines for DACA. 

[2] Dissertation Fellows are expected to spend the majority of their time working on the writing and defense of the dissertation. Applicants enrolled in a program that requires an internship in addition to completion of a dissertation are not eligible for the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship if they plan to participate in a full-time paid or unpaid internship during the fellowship year . Applicants who undertake internships required for degree completion  after  completion of the dissertation are eligible to apply. On the Eligibility page of the online application, applicants should enter the date they expect to complete all requirements for the dissertation, and in the Proposed Plan essay, they should clarify, for the reviewers’ benefit, the timeline for their dissertation work during the fellowship year and the subsequent requirement for an internship.  

Conditions of the Fellowship

Dissertation Fellows are expected to be enrolled in a full-time program leading to a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree in an eligible discipline. Dissertation awards are intended to support Fellows who will be spending the majority of their time writing and defending the dissertation during the fellowship year. Participation in full-time paid or unpaid internships or other paid activities, even if required for degree completion, should not be undertaken during the fellowship year.

Those who accept a dissertation fellowship must agree to the stipulations in the Terms of Appointment for Ford Foundation Fellows that accompany the award notification.  

How to Apply

Application process  .

The deadline for online application submissions is December 12, 2023 at 5 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST).

• To ensure a complete application, applicants should carefully follow the  Application Instructions  (PDF, 202 KB) .
• Applicants can also follow step-by-step instructions for navigating the online application (PDF, 435 KB) .
• Applicants will receive a confirmation e-mail once their application has been successfully submitted.  

Required Supplementary Materials

The deadline for the online submission of required supplementary materials is January 9, 2024 at 5 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST).

• Applicants will be able to upload transcripts and the  verification form  (PDF, 92 KB)   only after they have submitted the main portion of their online application . Letter writers will be able to upload letters as soon as they have received the notification link sent by the applicant up until the Supplementary Materials deadline.
• To ensure their application will be considered for review, applicants should carefully follow the instructions for required supplementary materials  (PDF, 168 KB) .
• Applicants may share the instructions for the expected content of letters  (PDF, 171 KB)  with their letter writers. These instructions will also be available to letter writers once they gain access to the online application. Applicants must send request notifications to their letter writers through the online application.
• Applicants will not be required to re-submit their application by the Supplementary Materials deadline. After the deadline has passed, applications will be checked for completeness to determine if they can be forwarded to the review panel.

All application materials become the property of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and will not be returned. Applicants should retain copies of all submitted application materials for their personal records.

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Selection process.

Applications will be evaluated by review panels of distinguished scholars selected by the National Academies. The review panels will use all materials included in the application as the basis for determining the extent to which applicants meet the eligibility requirements and the selection criteria.  

Selection Criteria

The following will be considered in choosing successful applicants: 

• Evidence of superior academic achievement
• Degree of promise of continuing achievement as scholars and teachers 
• Capacity to respond in pedagogically productive ways to the learning needs of students from diverse backgrounds 
• Sustained personal engagement with communities that are underrepresented in the academy and an ability to bring this asset to learning, teaching, and scholarship at the college and university level 
• Likelihood of using the diversity of human experience as an educational resource in teaching and scholarship 
• If applicable, how experience as a member of an underrepresented group through discrimination, inspiration, resilience, etc. may inform participation in the fellowship
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Dissertation Completion Fellowships support Harvard doctoral students in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and MIT doctoral students in the social sciences as they complete their dissertations. The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) considers applications by doctoral students in law, design, government, and education in exceptional circumstances, and proposals must have the support of a CES Resident Faculty member or Faculty Associate .

Four graduate students from Harvard University and MIT were awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year. For a list of recipients, see here .

How to Apply

Applications for graduate students seeking funding for the 2024-2025 academic year have now closed.

Application Overview

• The fellowship allows students to spend a final year dedicated to writing. The dissertation must focus on modern or contemporary Europe (1750 – present).
• Students must have completed two draft dissertation chapters and submitted them to the dissertation advisor at the time of application (or for students in fields where the dissertation consists of three articles, the existence of one article in draft).
• Applications will be judged by their overall merit, the importance of the topic, the clarity of the proposal, the potential for scholarly contribution, and the likelihood of timely completion.
• CES matches its stipend levels to the GSAS standard annual Dissertation Completion Fellowship stipend. The fellowship cannot be deferred and must be used within the ten-month period for which it is awarded. During the Dissertation Completion Fellowship, recipients are expected not to teach, hold other employment, or pursue other projects during this time, as students are expected to complete their dissertations during the period of the award. Students who have previously received writing/completion grants from other sources are not eligible.
• The fellowship also covers Harvard facilities fees and individual health insurance (HUSHP Basic and Supplemental) fees; MIT students will be issued the equivalent funds and may apply them to their institutional tuition and fees.
• Students must apply via the Harvard University Common Application for Research and Travel (CARAT) .
• Download the Faculty Confirmation Form.

Before applying, applicants are encouraged to:

• Download the Application Guidelines .

Past Dissertation Completion Fellowship Recipients (2013-2022)

Four graduate students were awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship by CES for the 2022-2023 academic year. Unless otherwise noted, students are enrolled at Harvard University. See here for a listing of recipients .

In addition, 14 graduate students were recipients of a new grant introduced by CES to help them resume travel and access important resources when their research plans were disrupted during the pandemic. See here for a listing of the 2022 Disrupted Dissertation Grant recipients.

Four graduate students were awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship by CES for the 2020-2021 academic year. Unless otherwise noted, students are enrolled at Harvard University. See here for a listing of recipients .

Five graduate students were awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship by CES for the 2019-2020 academic year. Unless otherwise noted, students are enrolled at Harvard University. See here for a listing of recipients .

Four graduate students were awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship by CES for the 2019-2020 academic year. Unless otherwise noted, students are enrolled at Harvard University.

• Hayley Fenn (Music) – "Breath, Gravity, Giants, and Death: Towards a Theory of Puppetry and Music" 
• Ben Goossen (History) – "The Year of the Earth (1957-1958): Cold War Science and the Making of Planetary Consciousness" 
• Ian Kumekawa (History) – "The Imperialization of the British State, 1914-1948" 
• Joseph LaHausse de Lalouviere (History) – "Enslavement and Empire in the French Caribbean, 1793-1851"

Four graduate students were awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship by CES for the 2018-2019 academic year. Unless otherwise noted, students are enrolled at Harvard University.

• Stefan Beljean (Sociology) – “Social Reproduction, College Admissions, and the Schooling Experiences of Upper-Middle-Class Adolescents in Germany and the United States” 
• Elissa Berwick (Political Science, MIT) – “Sub-state Nationalism in the United Kingdom and Spain” 
• Charles Clavey (History) – “Of Happiness and Despair We Have No Measure: Quantifying Alienation in German Thought, 1920-1970” 
• Dominika Kruszewska (Government) – “Dissident Successor Parties: Pro-democracy Movements and Party Formation in New Democracies”

Four graduate students were awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship by CES for the 2017-2018 academic year. Unless otherwise noted, students are enrolled at Harvard University.

• Brandon Bloch (History) – “Faith for This World: Protestantism and the Reconstruction of Constitutional Democracy in Germany, 1933-1968”
• Lulie El-Ashry (Religion) – “Crossing Continents: A European Sufi Muslim Convert Communities Journey of Geographic Relocation and Identity Renegotiation”
• James McSpadden (History) – “In League with Rivals: Parliamentary Networks and Backroom Politics in Interwar Europe”
• Liat Spiro (History) – “Drawing Capital: Depiction, Machine Tools, and the Political Economy of Industrial Knowledge, 1824-1914”

Four graduate students were awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship by CES for the 2016-2017 academic year. Unless otherwise noted, students are enrolled at Harvard University.

• Elizabeth Cross (History) – “The French East India Company and the Politics of Commerce in the Revolutionary Era”
• James Conran (Political Science, MIT) – “The Comparative Political Economy of Working Time and Inequality”
• Tomasz Blusiewicz (History) – “Return of the Hanseatic League of how the Baltic Sea Trade Washed Away the Iron Curtain”
• Jessica Tollette (Sociology) – “Noticeably Invisible: A Study of Race, Policy and Immigrant Incorporation in Present-Day Spain”

Five graduate students were awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship by CES for the 2015-2016 academic year. Unless otherwise noted, students are enrolled at Harvard University.

• James Martin (History; honorary) – “Governing the World Economy: Economic Expertise and the Reshaping of Global Order, 1914-1948”
• Aline-Florence Manent (History) – “The Intellectual Origins of the German Model: Rethinking Democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany”
• Noam Gidron (Government) – “The Transformation of the European Center-Right, 1980-2015”
• Jasmine Samara (Anthropology) – “The Social Afterlife of an International Treaty: Debating Law, Coercion and Violence in a Greek Borderland”
• Carolin Roeder (History) – “Horizontal Networks and Vertical Pursuits: A Transnational History of Mountaineering, 1865-1974”

Five graduate students were awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship by CES for the 2014-2015 academic year. Unless otherwise noted, students are enrolled at Harvard University.

• Dzavid Dzanic (History) – “The Civilizing Sea: Indigenous Networks, Napoleanic Offers, and the Origins of the French Mediterranean Empire, 1792-1848”
• Megan Formato (History of Science) – “Writing the Atom: Niels Bohr and the Communication of Quantum Theory, 1911-1927”
• Seth Peabody (Germanic Languages and Literatures) – “Environmental Fantasies: Mountains, Cities, and Heimat in German Cinema”
• Sarah Shortall (History) – “Soldiers of God in a Secular World: French Catholic Political Theologies, 1905-1962”
• Jacob Stulberg (English) – “The Unstaging of the Air: BBC Radio and Modern British Drama”

Four graduate students were awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship by CES for the 2013-2014 academic year. Unless otherwise noted, students are enrolled at Harvard University.

• Hannah Callaway (History) – Liberty, Equality, Property: The Seizure of Private Property in Paris during the French Revolution
• Charlotte Cavaille (Social Policy/Government) – The Demand for Government Provided Income Protection in the Age of Permanent Austerity (1970s-2012)
• Yascha Mounk (Government) – Luck, Choice and Responsibility in Philosophy and the Popular Imagination
• Stephen Walsh (History) – Austria on Ice: Polar Exploration, Liberalism & Habsburg Central Europe, 1865-1948

Northeastern University Dissertation Completion Fellowships

Submit your application by 5:00 pm on October 31, 2023!

Dissertation Completion Fellowships provide a one-semester stipend to outstanding PhD candidates who would benefit from the financial security and the freedom to focus on their final semester writing (Spring 2024). The award is one semester of support.  Awardees are expected to graduate at the end of the semester in which they hold the DCF.  Application materials should attest to the dissertation being near completion rather than a gap in funding.

A committee of Provost Office and college representatives reviews materials according to the overall strength of the candidate’s application and with regard to the likelihood of timely completion of a quality dissertation.  Students’ funding history and dissertation committee’s expectations are taken into consideration as well.  Application packages that are not complete or are late will not be considered and it is the applicant’s responsibility to make sure all required materials are received by the deadline.

Submission Requirements: A complete application contains the following materials:

• Letter of application for the fellowship from the student that includes a) the expected date of dissertation defense, b) detailed information about past and current funding for every year of the PhD, c) a timeline for completion that takes into account all research and writing that remains to be done.
• Curriculum vitae
• Letter of recommendation from the dissertation advisor that describes the importance of the work and indicates the reasonable expectation of completion, defense, and submission.

The applicant must submit the letter of application and the curriculum vitae in a single PDF attached to the Dissertation Completion Fellowship form at the bottom of this page. The advisor indicated in the form will be contacted to submit a letter of recommendation.

The stipend for one semester will be the standard semester stipend rate for the program where the student’s primary affiliation resides. In addition, the student’s one-credit registration fee will be remitted and health insurance will be covered by the award for the semester in which the student holds the fellowship. The award must be used during the semester for which it is awarded and may not be deferred. Students are expected to complete their dissertation during the period of the award and may not hold any employment, internal or external, or other awards during that term including outside fellowships, research assistant appointments, or teaching assistant appointments. For students on federal loan, a concurrent DCF award may result in an adjusted loan amount. Please consult the Student Financial Services Offices ( [email protected] ) for additional information.

Submit your Spring 2024 DCF Application here before the deadline:

One semester, must complete dissertation during the term of the fellowship.

One semester of stipend, tuition, and health insurance.

Currently enrolled Ph.D. students at Northeastern who have been in their research doctoral programs for at least 4 years and completed all course requirements including comprehensive exams and dissertation proposal defense (if required) may apply. The fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis.

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Stanford Dissertation Fellowships

The Stanford Humanities Center and the School of Humanities and Sciences collaborate to administer two Stanford humanities dissertation fellowships: the Stanford Humanities Center Dissertation Prize and Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowships. Stanford students submit one application to be considered for one or both of these fellowships. Applicants for these fellowships are typically in the 5th or 6th year of their doctoral program.

(You can find more information about the Stanford Humanities Center Next Generation Scholar fellowships, which are open to students in year 7 or above only,  linked here .)

Applications for 2024–2025 fellowships are now closed.

Eligible applicants may apply to the SHC Dissertation Prize/Mellon Dissertation fellowships  or  Next Generation Scholar fellowship, but not  both  NGS and DP/Mellon in the same application cycle. 

Fellowship Opportunities

The SHC Dissertation Prize Fellowships, endowed by Theodore and Frances Geballe, are awarded to doctoral students whose work is of the highest distinction and promise. The fellowship stipend includes three academic quarters of funding (fall/winter/spring). In 2023-24 the funding amount was $38,700; the exact amount for 2024-25 will be announced pending final budget confirmation by January 2024. The recipients of these fellowships have offices at the Humanities Center and take part with other graduate as well as undergraduate and faculty fellows in the Center's programs, promoting humanistic research and education at Stanford. The SHC Dissertation Prize Fellowships also provide an additional $2,000 in research funding.

The Mellon Dissertation Fellowships, which are generously funded by the Mellon Foundation, are awarded to advanced doctoral students whose work is of the highest quality and whose academic record to date indicates a timely progression toward completion of the degree. The fellowship stipend includes three academic quarters of funding (fall/winter/spring). In 2023-24 the funding amount was $38,700; the exact amount for 2024-25 will be announced pending budget confirmation in January 2024.

Frequently Asked Questions

The SHC Dissertation Prize and Mellon Dissertation Fellowships are awarded to advanced graduate students, based on accomplished work of the highest distinction, and on the promise of further outstanding achievements in the humanities. Applicants must have:

• advanced to candidacy;
• completed all requirements for the doctoral degree with the exception of the dissertation and the University Oral Examination (when a defense of the dissertation);
• an approved dissertation reading committee;
• a dissertation proposal approved by their committee;
• a strong likelihood of completing the degree within the tenure of the fellowship;
• reached TGR status by the beginning of autumn quarter of the fellowship year;
• completed supervised teaching, if required by their department, before the tenure of the fellowship.
• Outside employment must be aligned with university policy and approved by the home department (including the Humanities Center for SHC fellowships). Please be in close contact with your home department, H&S office, and/or the SHC before confirming any teaching assistantships or accepting other employment or fellowships.
• SHC DP fellows are expected to take part in the daily life of the Center for the duration of their fellowship (i.e. attend lunches and weekly seminars). Next Generation fellows are encouraged but not required to be in regular physical residence at the Center.
• Mellon fellowship: there is no on-campus requirement akin to the expectations for SHC fellows. However, Mellon dissertation fellows are subject to University residency expectations and departmental residency requirements—i.e., having a Mellon does not exempt a student from these residency expectations.
• Applicants who have previously held one of these fellowships are not eligible to reapply for that same fellowship.
• Applicants who have not previously held a Stanford dissertation fellowship will be given the most serious consideration.
• SHC Dissertation Prize Fellowships are open to applicants from the School of Education.
• The fellowships provides tuition support at the TGR rate regardless of whether a student has moved to TGR status. If the student is not yet TGR at the start of the fellowship, the department may provide supplemental funds to cover tuition shortfall.
• Students who are TGR or in a graduation quarter status must enroll in the appropriate zero unit TGR course.
• These fellowships awards are not deferrable to future years or to the summer quarter  

Applications must be submitted via our online application system and must be in English. Access to the system opens in the fall quarter and closes on February 4, 2024, 11:59 PM Pacific time. We discourage the submission of additional materials with the application and cannot circulate these to the committee or return such materials.

Applicants will be notified when their applications have been received, and will be notified of the fellowship competition outcome in late March/early April.

• Contact and biographical information about the applicant
• A curriculum vitae (C.V.)
• Current unofficial transcript (download from AXESS)
• Detailed timetable for the completion of the degree (e.g. dissertation outline detailing status of each chapter)
• Statement of the dissertation’s scholarly significance: Provide a concise explanation of the ways in which the project is a significant contribution to its area of study. Assume the audience to be academics who are not specialists in the field. (250 word maximum)
• A brief description (no more than 1,000 words) of the dissertation
• Two reference letters - one should be from the applicant’s advisor: Please ensure that faculty recommenders have reviewed the proposal and timetable (including status of chapters) in advance and are well prepared to discuss this in their letters. Referees are encouraged to submit letters through our online application system. Referees who wish to submit their letter of reference via email may send them to  [email protected] . Reference letters must be received at the Center by the application deadline - consideration of letters received after that date cannot be guaranteed.

A selection committee representing humanities departments and programs will review and rank the applications on the basis of the following criteria:

• the evidence of intellectual distinction;
• the quality and precision of the dissertation proposal;
• the applicant's timely progress toward the degree;
• the likelihood of completing the degree within the tenure of the fellowship;
• in the case of SHC applicants, the likelihood of the applicant contributing to, as well as benefiting from, the programs of the Humanities Center.

For more information contact  Kelda Jamison , the Humanities Center fellowship program manager.

The application deadline for 2024-25 will be 11:59 pm Pacific time, February 4, 2024.

For more frequently asked questions, click  here .

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A dissertation completion fellowship (DCF) is assured to all eligible candidates in the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in fields in the humanities and social sciences. Before following these instructions, students must review information on the dissertation completion fellowships  page and dissertation completion fellowships  policy.

Purpose and Eligibility

Please see the dissertation completion fellowship requirements on the Policies website for complete eligibility requirements. 

Students are not eligible for a Harvard Griffin GSAS dissertation completion fellowship if they have already received a dissertation completion fellowship, whether from Harvard Griffin GSAS or an alternative late-stage writing fellowship from any other source, internal or external to Harvard.

Application Instructions for Students

Please note that the instructions for Harvard Griffin GSAS completion fellowships are also required for Graduate Prize Fellows, Presidential Scholars, and Ashford Fellows. The research centers and Harvard Griffin GSAS share a single application deadline of February 10, 2023, and a standard CARAT application form; application materials for individual centers and Harvard Griffin GSAS will vary. For instructions for the participating research centers, be sure to consult the entries for the individual centers to which you are applying on the DCF webpage . All instructions and accompanying forms are available on the  dissertation completion fellowships  page.

The following application materials must be submitted in CARAT by the Harvard Griffin GSAS deadline:

• Application form (automatically generated by CARAT).
• Two faculty confirmation forms noting receipt of two dissertation chapter drafts or the equivalent; one form to be completed by the principal dissertation advisor and the second by an additional advisor. The form is also to be signed by the student applicant, who will upload the two signed evaluation forms into CARAT. Note that this form replaces the formerly required letters of recommendation. 
• Dissertation abstract (one-page double-spaced) along with a Table of Contents indicating progress status for each chapter or article.

Conditions and Terms of the Award

• All registered students in Harvard Griffin GSAS, in fields in the humanities and social sciences, who meet the eligibility requirements will receive dissertation completion funding, with specific funding sources to be named as a final step.
• Awards are intended to be held for the entire academic year and to be confined within a single academic year. Students are expected to complete the dissertation during the completion fellowship year; this will be the final year of Harvard Griffin GSAS funding even for students who do not finish during the fellowship year. In addition, after holding a dissertation completion fellowship, students will be limited to no more than one additional academic year of registration in Harvard Griffin GSAS.
• Since this guaranteed fellowship is intended for students who are truly at the completion stage, students who apply for a research fellowship are expected to withdraw from the completion pool at the time of applying for the research fellowship; otherwise, receipt of a research fellowship may be counted as supporting the completion year, regardless of the stated purpose of the fellowship, and students will be ineligible to re-enter the completion pool the following year.
• The dissertation completion fellowships ordinarily may not be combined with grants from other sources, although exceptions are made for smaller grants. Also as noted, they are intended to be held for the entire academic year and must be confined within a single academic year.
• During the dissertation year, no concurrent teaching is permitted; other forms of employment are also excluded.

Please Note: Students who enter the Harvard Griffin GSAS dissertation completion fellowship pool must apply for all other internal and external completion fellowships for which they are eligible, either from a Harvard source such as a research center or departmental fellowship, or an external funding source. Students must accept the alternative non-Harvard Griffin GSAS award. In the event that the alternative award is less than the standard Harvard Griffin GSAS stipend and tuition and health fees, Harvard Griffin GSAS will supplement to make up the difference. Over and above a possible top-up, a possible bonus may be offered for receiving an alternative award. Presidential Scholars, Graduate Prize Fellows, and Ashford Fellows need not take the step of applying for alternative funding.

Instructions for Departments

We ask department administrators to submit to Harvard Griffin GSAS a list of department applicants in alphabetical order. This is to be compiled within five days after the standard deadline of February 10, 2023,  and emailed to [email protected] .   The department administrator can log in to CARAT to access their department’s list of applicants and completed applications. The list should also be circulated to the department chair and DGS. This will ensure that Harvard Griffin GSAS and the departments are all on the same page as to who is applying for the dissertation completion fellowship.

Additional Considerations

Students at times have difficulty deciding on readiness for a completion fellowship. They let the DCF deadline go by, putting off producing the required chapter or article drafts, only to discover at a later date that they would in fact be ready to complete the dissertation during the upcoming academic year. Making an assessment of readiness is something that should entail close consultation between the student and the dissertation advisor. We, therefore, urge advanced students and their departments to make sure that this consultation takes place, doing so well in advance of the Harvard Griffin GSAS February deadline, perhaps in December or January. At that time, students and advisors should also plan a strategy for having the required two chapter or article drafts ready by the deadline.

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Dissertation Completion Fellowships

Types of fellowships, eligibility, selection criteria, award amount, how to apply, application guidelines.

Dissertation Completion Fellowships support final-year doctoral students. These non-service fellowships allow students to focus exclusively on their research and writing without service obligations. Fellows are expected to defend their dissertation by the end of the academic year.

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General Dissertation Completion Fellowships

• Non-service fellowship
• Supports dissertation research and writing

Royster Society of Fellows (SOF) Dissertation Completion Fellowships

• Supports interdisciplinary learning and engagement
• Opportunities for mentoring, leadership, and professional development

Royster SOF Dissertation Completion Fellowships are endowed through the generous gifts of many friends of the University, most notably Dr. Thomas S. and Mrs. Caroline Royster Jr.

Royster SOF Special Purpose Dissertation Completion Fellowships:

• Membership in the Royster Society of Fellows
• Includes the Jessie Ball duPont Fellowship for Adolescent Studies

Submit only one application. Select the fellowship(s) you are interested in being considered for on the application form and submit the required supporting materials as appropriate. You will be considered for all fellowships that you select on your application.

Eligibility criteria apply to all Dissertation Completion Fellowships. You may not combine the Dissertation Completion Fellowship with other funding without permission from The Graduate School.

You are eligible if:

• You are a fully-enrolled, degree-seeking doctoral student in a residential program administered by The Graduate School.
• You are engaged full-time with writing your dissertation.
• You are able to complete your dissertation within the fellowship term.

Royster SOF 5-Year Fellows are NOT eligible to apply for continued support through a Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

Before applying, you must:

• Complete course requirements
• Pass written and oral preliminary exams
• Have your Dissertation Prospectus formally approved

You cannot apply for both a Dissertation Completion Fellowship and an Off-Campus Dissertation Research Fellowship at the same time.

Your application will be reviewed according to the following criteria:

• You have a strong graduate academic record.
• Your application materials are understandable to a general audience outside of your field.
• Your research design is clearly outlined and appropriate.
• Your research will contribute to and advance the scholarship within your field.
• There is confidence you will be able to complete your dissertation by the end of the fellowship term.
• Your program has minimal resources to support you during the fellowship term.
• You will be an involved and contributing member of the Royster Society of Fellows (for Royster SOF applicants only).

View an in-depth description of the review and selection process.

The fellowship provides a stipend, tuition, fees, and health insurance for one academic year (fall and spring semesters only). Royster SOF fellowships may also provide funds for professional travel.

Depending on funding, this award may change from year to year.

Each program may nominate up to three students for consideration.

Deadline The nomination deadline each year is in late February . -->

Check with your department for an internal deadline. You must submit your application early enough for your department to submit their nomination to The Graduate School by the nomination deadline. Deadlines are posted on the funding deadlines calendar.

• View Frequently Asked Questions about the online award application .
• Prepare an abstract, research description, research workplan, statement of research significance, and curriculum vitae . If appropriate, prepare a Royster SOF interest statement . Arrange for a letter of recommendation from your dissertation advisor. Be sure to follow the application guidelines .
• Before submitting your application, we suggest you get feedback on your materials from a person outside of your field.
• Submit your materials to The Graduate School Award Online Application .
• Once you submit your application, your recommender will receive an email notice to submit a letter of recommendation through the online system.
• Once your letter of recommendation is submitted, the fellowship and award approver(s) for your department will receive an email notifying them that your application is eligible for nomination.
• Your department must nominate you to The Graduate School by the deadline .
• We will notify awardees in April.

We will not consider your application if you exceed any of the page limits and/or you do not follow the proper format.

In addition to the online application, a complete application includes the following:

Format: No more than ½ page. Double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins, numbered pages, your name on each page.

• Briefly summarize your research

Research Description

Briefly describe your dissertation research and your progress toward completion.

Address your research description to an audience of intelligent reviewers who may not be familiar with your field. Clearly explain the importance of your research to a lay audience. Do not use jargon or technical, field-specific terminology.

Format: No more than 3 pages. Double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins, numbered pages, your name on each page.

Depending on your field of study, include:

• A summary of key literature
• General concepts
• Frame of reference for your study
• Your research questions
• Description of the data or other materials which will be/have been collected and analyzed
• Methods of collection and analysis
• Design considerations
• Description of any necessary approvals, such as Human Subjects Review

Research Progress, Work Plan, and Timetable:

Format: No more than 1 page. Double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins, numbered pages, your name on each page.

• Describe your research progress to date and your planned sequence of tasks to be completed, with estimated timetable.

Significance of your Research:

• Explain the significance of your research to your field of study

Curriculum Vitae

Format: No more than 2 pages. 12-point font, 1-inch margins, numbered pages, and your name on each page.

• Include recent professional activities, awards, honors, courses you have taught, and research publications/presentations.
• Departmental funding received
• External funding (please note if received or pending)
• Because University funding is limited, we encourage you to apply for external funding, and such efforts will be viewed positively by the reviewers.

Citations (optional):

• May be included for important references
• Can be either footnotes or endnotes
• Can be single-spaced
• Must be within the three-page limit of the Research Description

Royster Society of Fellows Interest Statement:

*Required only if you are interested in being considered for the Royster Society of Fellows*

• Include a statement addressing your interest and ability to contribute as an active member of the Society of Fellows.

Letter of Recommendation from your Dissertation Advisor

Indicate the email address of your recommender in your application. Please note that only a single recommendation letter will be accepted. If you have joint advisors, they must submit a joint letter of recommendation.

Once you submit your application, your advisor will receive an email notice to submit the letter of recommendation. We can only accept letters of recommendation through the online system. Recommenders cannot submit letters directly to The Graduate School or to your department.

Instructions for recommenders: Each letter of recommendation should be no more than 4,000 characters (spaces included), which is approximately 600 words or one single-spaced page.

Address the letter of recommendation “To the Fellowship Committee.” Include:

• The quality of the student's research
• A rating of the student’s overall ability and potential based on the your knowledge of other students in the field
• The likelihood that the student will complete the dissertation during the award period
• The likely contributions of the student's research to the field
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Dissertation Completion Fellowships (DCF)

Dissertation Completion Fellowships are funded by the Graduate School at Michigan State University and are intended to expedite the completion of strong dissertations by providing students additional funding and thus time to dedicate to the completion of their dissertations. The College may provide a small number of additional College-funded DCFs.

Eligibility

• Students must be positioned to submit the final versions of their dissertations to the Graduate School within one year of receiving the fellowship (for a Spring 2024 DCF, the dissertation must be submitted by Spring 2025).
• Students must have their “comprehensive exam passed date” entered in Grad Plan by Friday, November 10, 2023 at noon to be eligible for a spring or summer DCF via this competition.
• The deadlines for proposal defense are new this year. Please note we are sharing these deadlines well in advance so that all are aware. If a student is not going to be eligible for a DCF, these deadlines allow them time to make arrangements for other funding and allow the College to repurpose the DCF to a student not originally funded. They also allow funds to be disbursed on the timeline required by the Graduate School.
• Students must be writing a solo-authored dissertation, not a collaborative dissertation.
• Students who have already defended their dissertation and are engaged in revisions at this time are not eligible for a DCF.
• Students who plan to defend their dissertation in late spring and complete revisions during summer are only eligible for a DCF in spring, not a summer DCF. Summer 2021 was the last summer where that practice was permissible.

Terms of award

• Spring DCF: $9,000 fellowship.
• Summer DCF: $7,000 fellowship.
• Both Spring and Summer fellowships are funded and disbursed by the Graduate School (or possibly the College) in Spring or Summer semester. The funding differential between Spring and Summer reflects length of time for work.
• Under federal law, a student must be enrolled in at least one credit during the semester they receive the fellowship. 1
• While receiving a DCF, a student may not hold more than a quarter-time assistantship or other appointment consisting of more than 10 hours of work/week. Additionally, a student who works full-time, whether at MSU or elsewhere, is welcome to explain how this funding will create additional release time for them from their full-time employment, during which they will focus on their dissertation.
• A student may receive only one DCF during their time at MSU.

1 If a student plans to receive the fellowship during summer semester, the student must be enrolled during summer semester. If a student will not be enrolled during summer, then the fellowship will be initiated in late spring for use during the summer. If and only if issuing the fellowship during the spring would have an adverse impact on the student’s financial aid, the College will pay for 1 credit of summer enrollment so that the fellowship may be disbursed during summer.

Submission, selection, and key dates

• Students submit applications to their department by a deadline announced by the department.
• Departments may require students to submit the dissertation director’s statement, or may allow the dissertation director to submit the statements directly to the department.
• Departments review and rank the applications; departments submit these rankings to the College by Friday, December 1, 2023, at noon.
• The Office of the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs selects recipients based on departmental ranking and allocation of fellowships across the College.
• By mid-December, the Office of the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs notifies recipients and departments/programs of decisions.
• By mid-December, the Office of the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs notifies the Graduate School of the recipients; the Graduate School makes the award in Spring or Summer (if College-funded, the College makes the award).

Application requirements

• Discuss the dissertation research, overall 
• Include a timeline for completion with major benchmarks
• MSU transcript for all PhD program coursework.
• Reaffirm (a) the proposal and (b) the timeline for completion
• Summarize the dissertation’s strengths

Selection Criteria

• Please inquire with your department for more information used in ranking decisions.
• The Office of the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs reviews select applications to confirm their completeness as indicated above in “Application Requirements.”
• The Office of the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs allocates awards roughly proportionally to the number of full-time doctoral students in each department; the Office defers to departments’ rankings of nominees within departments.

Additional Information

• During summer 2021, students beginning their dissertation writing process became eligible for DCFs for the first time. Students cannot be simultaneously eligible for a DCF and an SRF.

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The Dissertation Fellowship is intended to support recipients in their final year of writing and defending their dissertations, without the obligation of a teaching, research, or graduate assignment. The Dissertation Fellowship is awarded to Ph.D./Ed.D./D.M.A. students who have been admitted to candidacy.

Eligibility Criteria

• Student must be nominated by the Graduate Program Director
• Student must expect degree conferral by the end of the summer 2024 semester (Please note: Students in the Counseling Psychology and Clinical Psychology Ph.D. programs may apply for 2023-2024 Fellowship support the year before internship.)
• Student must not be beyond year five of the doctoral program at the start of the Fall 2023 semester
• Student must have a minimum 3.7 graduate cumulative GPA

Terms of the Award

Students may not hold a paid assignment (TA/RA/GA) or any other paid fellowship or scholarship during the Dissertation Fellowship award period. Students must be enrolled as full-time students at the University of Miami in an eligible program during the Fellowship award period. It is expected that the Fellowship recipients will complete and defend the dissertation at the end of the fellowship year. 

Application due date: July 1st

Number of Fellowship awards per Academic Year: 5

Fellowship award amount: $35,000 if students  are enrolled August-May .The Fellowship will be paid out in monthly installments spread evenly across the Fellowship award period.  Fellowship payments will end in December 2023 for students who graduate in the fall semester.

Fellowship award period: 2023-2024 Academic Year ( August-May )

How to Apply

Click on the button below to initiate the application. The application consists of the following components:

• Signed nomination letter from the Graduate Program Director
• Signed support letter from mentor/advisor (If the student's mentor/advisor is also the Graduate Program Director, then this support letter must be submitted by a different UM faculty member.)
• Student's CV
• Research description with evidence of significant progress (half-page, 12 point Times New Roman font, single-spaced, may include figures) 
• Dissertation completion timeline with an explanation of how this fellowship would assist in completion

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Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship

The Graduate College Dean's Fellowship typically awards five fellowships annually to doctoral students in the final year of degree work to support superior scholarship that enhances the reputation of their program, college, and the University of Cincinnati.

The recipients of this award are recommended by a faculty committee and sanctioned by the dean of the Graduate College. The awards are presented spring semester, and each award includes a $20,000 fellowship and a full one-year tuition scholarship.

Please read the dissertation completion fellowship program description (PDF) for more information about selection criteria, award process and structure, and fellowship responsibilities. (To view this document, you will need  Adobe Acrobat Reader , a free download.)

Current Award Cycle (for 2024-25 AY Funding)

Eligible students are those with dissertation committees established, who will have all coursework completed by the beginning of the fall 2024 semester, and who are sufficiently advanced in their dissertation research and writing to be able to commit credibly to graduating by the end of the fellowship year. The competition is for funding during academic year 2024–25 (fall 2024 and spring 2025). At this time, programs may apply for funding for fall semester only, or for both fall and spring semester.  

The purpose of this award is to support students in their final year of study. Therefore, awardees, their mentors, and their graduate program directors must sign an acknowledgement that (1) affirms their shared commitment to graduate by the conclusion of the fellowship year, and (2) signals that their acceptance of this award precludes the student from receiving any further university (UGA or Graduate Scholarship) funding for this degree program in the future, in the event that the student does not graduate during the academic year.

Nominations should not include those who are ineligible for funding in fall 2024 or spring 2025 due to the 174 graduate credit rule . Nominations are limited to one from each doctoral program and are made by the graduate program director in consultation with program faculty. 

The expectation is that recipients will produce superior scholarship that enhances the reputations of their programs, academic units, and the University of Cincinnati, and that enables them to finish all graduation requirements and receive their degrees by the end of the award term.

Nominations will be due to the Graduate College by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, December 19 , 2023. Submit fellowship applications and supporting documents identified with authorship via the fellowship submission form . The form is to be submitted by the program director or program staff member

The programs and nominators are responsible for submitting all requested materials for the fellowship. Programs will NOT be notified if materials are missing or the wrong file is uploaded, and the nominator/nominee will NOT be allowed to add anything missing or update materials after the deadline.

Announcement of awardees will be made by February 1, 2024. Please direct questions to [email protected] .  

Submission Requirements

• Program name
• Name and email for submitter
• Student’s name, ID (M-number or empl ID), and UC email 
• Confirmation that the student is proceeding on schedule for graduation by the summer 2025 term
• Term(s) for funding (fall semester only, or fall and spring semester) 
• List of funds are currently supporting the nominated student (text box)
• Date nominated student passed the qualifying exam
• The student’s total earned graduate credit hours (as of the end of the current semester, 23FS) and the number of credit hours the student is planning to take for the 2024 spring and summer semesters.
• Uploaded documents, as outlined below in items 2-7.  
• A recommendation letter from the student’s dissertation chair, providing context for the significance/impact of student’s dissertation work. (Upload to submission form)  
• Student’s curriculum vitae. (Upload to submission form) 
• Dissertation abstract or summary. (Upload to submission form) 
• Student’s dissertation statement: How does the student’s research/scholarship inform or advance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and/or Belonging in the field? 1-3 pages if written, no more than 3 minutes if filmed as an elevator pitch/3MT-style video. (Upload or provide link in submission form)
• Student’s statement of goals for use of the fellowship support during the fellowship year, including an anticipated timeline for dissertation work and graduation during the 24-25 academic year. (2-3 pages, upload to submission form) 
• A completed, signed agreement (DOCX) in which the student, mentor/chair, and graduate program director acknowledge the fellowship requirement to complete the degree by the end of the fellowship year, along with the understanding of loss of eligibility for any future university (including departmental/divisional) funding should the recipient not achieve this goal. (Upload to submission form). The agreement form is also available as a PDF form . (To view this PDF document, you will need  Adobe Acrobat Reader , a free download.)

By 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec.  19 , 2023, submit fellowship applications and supporting documents identified with authorship via the fellowship submission form . 

Fellowship Responsibilities

• Register full-time (12 credits or more) for fall 2024 and (if being funded during the term) spring 2025.
• No teaching or research employment at UC or elsewhere.
• Support Graduate College programming as a panelist or speaker 
• Participate in Preparing Future Faculty events 
• Create a professional development workshop in collaboration with Graduate College staff
• Participation in the annual UC Graduate College Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition as a competitor, preliminary round judge, or trainer/coach for students
• Serve on a Graduate College committee  
• Other professional development activity, as approved by the Graduate College program director
• Acknowledgement of the Graduate College Dean's Completion Fellowship in publications resulting from work done during the fellowship year.

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Semester Dissertation Fellowships (Wylie and Lee Thonton)

The Graduate School's Semester Dissertation Fellowship program includes the  Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship  and the  Lee Thornton Endowed Fellowship . Dissertation fellowships provide full-time support to University of Maryland doctoral candidates who are in the latter stages of writing their dissertations.  Awarded students for AY 24-25 can choose to use the fellowship in either Fall 2024 or Spring 2025. Fellowship benefits include a $15,000 Stipend, a Candidacy Tuition award (899 only), a credit for mandatory fees associated with 899 registration, and reimbursement for the purchase of an individual student health insurance plan for the semester.  

Eligibility:  Eligible candidates are current UMD doctoral students who will have advanced to candidacy by June 1, 2024, and expect to graduate by August 2025.  

Nomination Process :  Doctoral programs are eligible to nominate candidates for the Semester Dissertation Fellowship. Please see the Nomination Allocation Schedule in the Guidelines. Programs must submit nominations by  noon, Wednesday, February 5, 2025.   Students:   Please write your abstract for a non-specialist audience and submit your materials to your program according to their internal deadline.  

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Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Social Professions

2024-25 nomination deadline: tuesday, april 16, 2024 at noon (12 p.m. pt). .

The Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship assists Ph.D. candidates in the final stages of writing their dissertations. The 2024–25 Dissertation Fellowship is offered with the support of the University President and includes one quarter of UW state tuition and fees, GAIP insurance, and a stipend at the  Predoctoral TA II rate  (currently $3,076 per month). Each unit listed at the end of this announcement may submit ONE nominee.  

Eligibility

• Must have passed the General Examination and attained Ph.D. candidate status  at the time of nomination.
• Must have demonstrated progress on the dissertation that indicates completion by the end of Summer Quarter 2025 or sooner.
• Must be in a tuition-based program; students in fee-based programs are not eligible.
• Must not have received another dissertation fellowship from the Graduate School (e.g., Gatzert, GSEE)

Application Process

Award requests are made to the Graduate School by departments. Students wishing to be considered for this opportunity should contact their Graduate Program Adviser.

Eligible programs for the Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship competition:

Contact the  Office of Fellowships & Awards .

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2023-2024 Doctoral Dissertation Fellows

The graduate school is pleased to announce the 2023-2024 ddf fellowship recipients.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2023-2024 DDF Fellowship! The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) gives the University's most accomplished Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and write a dissertation during the fellowship year.

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thomas Hasenzagl

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matthew Hausladen

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andrew mann

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dawn Michaelson

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Jacob myers

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BRES Doctoral Fellowship Program, AY 2024-2025

Applications due Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 5 p.m.

Awards will be announced on Monday, July 1, 2024.

The Provost’s Office and the BRES Collaboration Hub are pleased to announce the following fellowship program, supporting early-career doctoral student research.

Established in Spring 2023, the BRES Collaboration Hub is an intellectual home for faculty and doctoral students interested in interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research in BRES across CUNY. The Hub is a component of BRESI—a CUNY-wide initiative with the overarching goal of reimagining and transforming University programs in Black, Race, and Ethnic studies. In 2024, the BRES Collaboration Hub was awarded funding from the Chancellor’s Strategic Investment Initiative Fund. BRES anticipates supporting up to ten BRES Doctoral Fellows with awards in the amount of $4,000 each for AY 2024-2025. This payment will be made at the end of Fall 2024.

The BRES Doctoral Fellowship Program provides funding to doctoral students from any department or program in the Humanities and Social Sciences. They seek to support innovative research focusing on one or more of the six major BRES research themes below.

•Race, gender, sexuality, and intersectionality •Race, ethnicity, and migration studies •Race, diasporas, and transnationalism •Race, equality, and social justice •Race, indigeneity, and decolonial studies •Race, representations, and cultural studies

Eligibility •Current first-year Ph.D. students in the Humanities or Social Sciences (AY 2023-2024)

Requirements •Attend a weekly BRES Seminar Series on Mondays from 11:45 to 1:45 p.m. in AY 2024-2025. •Students who complete selected readings for the Seminar can choose to receive academic credit.

Application •A cover sheet (attached). •A curriculum vitae. (4-page max) •A current transcript. Students may submit the unofficial student copy from CUNYFirst. •A description of your research, including its relevance to the six thematic areas. (1-page max) •A personal statement on what you hope to gain from this fellowship experience. (1-page max)

Submission Instructions •Combine cover sheet, CV, transcript, research, and personal statement into a single PDF file. •Use the following format when naming your document: Last Name, First Name, Program. •Submit the PDF via Formstack: link here .

If you have questions, please contact Allen Hillery at Allen.Hillery23@login.cuny.edu .

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Dissertation and Thesis Improvement Fellowship

2024-25 Dissertation and Thesis Improvement Fellowship

PLEASE NOTE that there is a restriction of no more than 2 students per PI.

The NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC) plans to award Master’s Thesis and Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Fellowships in areas of space science and engineering. Proposals must align with the topics of interest to NASA. These grants provide partial support of Master’s Thesis and Doctoral Dissertation research for improvement beyond the already existing project.

Proposals whose focus falls within topics of interest to NASA would be considered for evaluation. The duration cannot be more than 1 year and the maximum fellowship amount is $5000. There are no indirect costs.

These awards are intended to provide supplemental funds for items not normally available from the student’s university or other sources. They are not intended to provide the total costs of a student’s dissertation research. Allowable items include travel to specialized facilities or field research locations and professional meetings, use of specialized research equipment, purchase of laboratory supplies and services not otherwise available, the hiring of field or laboratory assistants, fees for software licenses (valid for the duration of the fellowship period only), and rental of environmental chambers or other research facilities.

Funds also may be used for textbooks, journal subscription (valid for the duration of the fellowship), or dissertation preparation or reproduction. Funds cannot be used for salaries or tuition .

• Notice of intent (not binding): Email the title of the research and abstract (250 words) to   [email protected] by February 29, 2024 .
• Electronic submission of Proposals due by March 29, 2024.
• Anticipated award announcement: April 30, 2024 (subject to availability of the 2024 NASA funds)

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Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship

The Social Science Research Council offers fellowships to support the completion of doctoral degrees and to promote next generation social science research in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. The fellowships support dissertation research on peace, security, and development topics. 

The doctoral dissertation research fellowship  supports 6-12 months of dissertation research costs of up to US$15,000 on a topic related to peace, security, and development. This program also offers two workshops each year to help fellows to further develop and strengthen their research, engage key literature in their fields, embark on fieldwork-based research, and develop their capacity for scholarly writing, including academic publications.

Eligibility:

All applicants must:

• be citizens of any sub-Saharan African country
• be enrolled and working towards a PhD in an accredited university, or affiliated to an institution in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda
• have a fully developed doctoral dissertation research proposal approved by a graduate school/program at an accredited university in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania or Uganda.

The program prioritizes applicants holding a faculty position or demonstrating a durable commitment to higher education in Africa, but does not restrict eligibility to such individuals.  The program seeks to promote diversity and encourages women to apply.

Thematic Priorities:

The program features a thematic focus on  peace ,  security,  and  development  in order to renew basic research agendas and strengthen interdisciplinary social science research capacity addressing these issues.  The program encourages innovative research on peace, security, and development topics, moving the boundaries of scholarship and research by exploring concrete linkages between these themes. We envision supporting a diverse set of projects seeking to shed light on a range of economic, political, social, conflict and peacebuilding processes using evidence-based research. Some projects, we hope, will examine large-scale phenomena and others small-scale social processes. The strongest projects typically will explore connections across these scales. Some research projects will rigorously explore elements of governance, civil society, human rights, peacebuilding mechanisms/institutions and processes, and rule of law. Others will explore root causes of conflict, human insecurity, emerging trajectories and forms of conflict, insecurities, and human mobilities. Above all projects should advance important fields of study and social science knowledge. For additional on information on previously supported projects, please visit our  fellows’ pages .  Please see the following list of prospective issues that are considered relevant to Next Gen fellowships:

• Causes and drivers of conflict
• Institutional and local approaches to conflict prevention, management, and resolution
• National and Regional approaches to peace, security, and development
• Identity and conflict
• Gender, youth, conflict, and peacebuilding
• Conflict, peace and human mobilities
• Histories, Arts and Cultures of conflict and peace
• State-Society relations
• Economic and Humanitarian perspectives to conflict and peace
• Democracy, human rights, and development
• Post-conflict development, governance and reconstruction
• Peace agreements,  transitional justice and reconciliation
• International justice, war crimes, peace, and development
• Law and constitutionalism
• Climate change adaptation and mitigation practices and peace
• Natural resource governance, conflict, peace and development
• Climate Change, conflict, peace, and security
• Globalization and emerging insecurities
• Peace education and African literatures
• Media, digital technology AI,  peace, and security

Application Process:

All applications must be submitted using the  online application portal .

Strong proposals will offer clear and concise descriptions of the project and its significance. Proposals should display thorough knowledge of the relevant social science literature that applicants will engage in and the methodologies relevant to the project. In addition, applicants must demonstrate that all proposed activities are feasible and can be completed in a timely manner. All proposals will be evaluated for these criteria by an independent, international committee of leading scholars from a range of social science and related disciplines.  Fellows must be willing to attend two workshops sponsored by the SSRC each year that are intended to help early-career faculty engage in scholarly reflections, research, and writing. We will award up to 36 fellowships in total across all categories each year.

Additional information on eligibility, the application process, and award details can be found in our Answers to  Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) . For inquiries or technical questions pertaining to the online application portal, please contact SSRC staff from the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program:  [email protected]

This program is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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