The Mike Synar Research Fellowship
The IGS Grant for Public Affairs Research
See the Center for the Study of Representation grant webpage for details and application forms.
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants - Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
International Junior Faculty Research Grants
The Smith Richardson Foundation's International Security and Foreign Policy Program is pleased to announce its annual grant competition to support junior faculty research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to support tenure-track junior faculty engaged in the research and writing of a scholarly book on an issue or topic of interest to the policy community.
These grants are intended to buy-out up to one year of teaching time and to underwrite research costs (including research assistance and travel). Each grant will be paid directly to, and should be administered by, the academic institution at which the junior faculty member works. Projects in military and diplomatic history are especially encouraged. Group or collaborative projects will not be considered.
Deadline is June 30, 2009
To learn more, visit its website: http://www.srf.org/grants/international_junior_faculty.php
World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship Program
The Smith Richardson Foundation is pleased to announce a new annual grant competition to support Ph.D. dissertation research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies, and diplomatic and military history.
The fellowship's objective is to support the research and writing of policy-relevant dissertations through funding of fieldwork, archival research, and language training. In evaluating applications, the Foundation will accord preference to those projects that could directly inform U.S. policy debates and thinking, rather than dissertations that are principally focused on abstract theory or debates within a scholarly discipline.
The Foundation will award up to twenty grants of $7,500 each.
The deadline is October 15, 2009.
To learn more, visit its website: http://www.srf.org/grants/world_politics.php
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
Administered by the National Research Council, the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships seek to increase the diversity of U.S. college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
To facilitate these goals, NRC awards fellowships at the pre-doctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral levels to students who demonstrate excellence, a commitment to diversity and a desire to enter the professoriate.
The program makes the following annual awards: approximately sixty pre-doctoral awards of $20,000 per year for up to three years; approximately thirty-five dissertation awards of $21,000 for one year; and approximately twenty postdoctoral awards of $40,000 each for one year. Application deadlines are usually in November.
All citizens or nationals of the United States regardless of race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation are eligible to apply. Applicants should have evidence of superior academic achievement; be committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level; be enrolled in or planning to enroll in an eligible research-based program leading to a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree at a U.S. educational institution; and have not earned a doctoral degree at any time, in any field.
For complete program information and application procedures, visit the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships homepage.
Dirksen Congressional Center Congressional Research Awards
The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to the study of Congress and its leaders. Since 1978, the Congressional Research Awards (formerly the Congressional Research Grants) program has paid out $680,000 to support over 350 projects.
Further details, application materials, and descriptions of past winning applications are available at the Dirksen Congressional Center website.
Sustainable Products and Solutions Program
The Sustainable Products and Solutions program, created in collaboration with the Haas School of Business and the College of Chemistry, is looking for sustainability related pre-proposals for research, curriculum development and/or "case study" projects that will help elucidate and better understand the scientific, social and business principles of sustainability in the areas of chemistry, engineering, business, biology, health sciences, natural resources, and energy.
Further details are available at the Sustainable Products and Solutions Program website.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy annual Dissertation Fellowship Program invites applications from doctoral students who are writing theses in fields that address the Institute's primary interest areas in valuation and taxation, planning, and development. This fellowship program provides an important link between the Institute's educational mission and its research objectives by supporting scholars early in their careers.
Further details are available from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.