Deadline: December 1, 2019

Aim and Mission​

• To support emerging scholars through small grants;​

• To promote scholarship with a social policy application; and​

• To encourage projects that address contemporary issues in the social sciences.

​Funding

Grants are based solely on merit. Each is worth a total of $7,500; $5,000 is awarded initially and $2,500 upon completion of the project. ​For grant recipients to be entitled to their second installment, they must show evidence of one of the following:

1. Acceptance and approval of their dissertation;

2. Acceptance of an article based on the research by a peer-reviewed journal; or

3. Invitation to write and publish a book chapter based on the research.

Grants are non-renewable and recipients have five years from announcement of the award to complete their project and claim their final payment.​

Eligibility

• Applicants must be current PhD (or DrPH) candidates who are working on their dissertation;​​

• Applicants must not have a PhD; those who do, are ineligible;​

• Applicants must have defended their dissertation proposal or had their topic approved by their department;​

• Applicants can be from any country and any university in the world. US citizenship or residency is not required.​​

 

For more info, visit https://www.horowitz-foundation.org/grant-info