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American Indian Graduate Center Fellowship

Main Purpose: To support American Indian and Alaskan Native graduate students.

Benefits: $1,000-$5,000 per academic year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Pursuing a graduate degree at an institution in The United States
  • Demonstrated financial need
  • Enrolled member of a federally recognized American Indian or Alaskan Native group or able to provide documentation of descent (one-fourth degree verifiable federally recognized Indian blood) by submitting a Tribal Eligibility Certificate

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: Check back early Spring 2016

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Behavioral Sciences Counseling Psychology Psychology- Adult Development and Aging Psychology- Organizational Social Sciences Sociology Urban Studies and Public Affairs

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

Main Purpose: To support doctoral candidates and allow dissertations to be completed in a timely manner. Research must be connected to understanding human violence and aggression.

Benefits:

  • $20,000 fellowship
  • Not meant for the support of the doctoral research, but to support the student during the writing phase

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Ph.D. candidate entering dissertation stage
  • Must be approaching final year of Ph.D. work and confident that dissertation will be finished in the next year
  • Typically fieldwork and other research has been completed and writing has begun

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Deadline: February 1, 2016

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Behavioral Sciences Counseling Education Law Psychology Psychology- Adult Development and Aging Social Sciences Sociology

Law and Social Sciences (LSS) Research Grant

Main Purpose: To support “research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between law or legal processes and human behavior.”

Research topics may include but are not limited to:

  • Crime, Violence and Punishment
  • Economic Issues
  • Governance
  • Legal Decision Making
  • Legal Mobilization and Conceptions of Justice
  • Litigation and the Legal Profession

Benefits:

  • Dissertation Grant, maximum $20,000
  • Funding for maximum of 12 months
  • Funding intended to cover costs not covered by the students’ university and is not intended to cover the full cost of the dissertation. Funding is only to cover costs directly associated with research such as:
    • Conducting field research in settings away from campus that would not otherwise be possible
    • Data collection and sample survey costs
    • Payments to subjects or informants
    • Specialized research equipment
    • Data transcription, analysis and services not otherwise available
    • Supplies
    • Travel to archives, special collections or seminars, and facilities or field research locations, and partial living expenses for conducting necessary research away from the student’s university

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Doctoral Student enrolled in U.S. academic institution, not required to be a U.S. citizen
  • Proposal must be submitted by the institution on behalf of the student

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Deadline: January 15, 2016

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Social Sciences Sociology

Sociology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards

Main Purpose: To support doctoral dissertation research in all areas of sociology including societies, institutions, groups, and demography. “The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on:

  • Organizations and organizational behavior
  • Population dynamics
  • Social movements
  • Social groups
  • Labor force participation
  • Stratification and mobility
  • Family and social networks
  • Socialization and gender roles
  • The sociology of science and technology.

Benefits: Financial support for doctoral dissertation research. Funding can be used for data gathering, statistical or methodological training, meeting with other scholars, and field work away from student’s main campus.

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Doctoral student in sociology
  • Four Key Components of the Research Proposal
    • Based on theoretically grounded issues
    • Based on empirical observation or be subject to empirical validation or illustration
    • Research design that is appropriate for the research question
    • Research must advance understanding of social processes, structures, and methods

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Deadline: October 15, 2015