Deadline: Tuesday, October 24th
Synopsis of Program:
The GRFP is a five year fellowship and provides three years of support. NSF provides a stipend of $34,000 to the Fellow and a cost-of-education allowance of $12,000 to the graduate degree-granting institution for each Fellow who uses the fellowship support in a fellowship year. Please note that you submit the applications yourself via Research.gov.

• For information on deadlines: https://www.nsfgrfp.org/applicants/important_dates
• For information on application components: https://www.nsfgrfp.org/applicants/application_components
• For general information about the program: https://www.nsfgrfp.org

Please remember to contact the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs for any internal or external funding related questions.

Deadline: Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Synopsis of Program:
The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization — societies, institutions, groups and demography — and processes of individual and institutional change. 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, social networks, socialization, gender, race and the sociology of science and technology. The Program supports both the collection of original data and secondary data analysis and is open to the full range of quantitative and qualitative methodological tools. Theoretically grounded projects that offer methodological innovations and improvements for data collection and analysis are also welcomed.

In assessing the intellectual merit of proposed research, four components are key to securing support from the Sociology Program: (1) the issues investigated must be theoretically grounded; (2) the research should be based on empirical observation or be subject to empirical validation or  illustration; (3) the research design must be appropriate to the questions asked; and (4) the proposed research must advance understanding of social processes, structures and methods.

For additional information: https://pivot.proquest.com/funding_opps/155072 and
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505118&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

Gotham Center for New York City History – new fellowship program: “Writing the History of Greater New York”

The Gotham Center for New York City History at CUNY’s Graduate School is now taking applications for its new fellowship program, awarding two scholars $40,000 each, for book manuscripts substantially near completion, that explore the history of 1) the “outer boroughs” (Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Bronx); 2) Long Island’s contributions to the development of the metropolitan region; or 3) Long Island and New York City with a metropolitan or regional lens. The award provides office space at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), as well as full access to the library consortium and its subscriptions. Benefits are not included. Favor will be given to independent and early-career professionals, but we invite all scholars to apply.

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Link: https://www.gothamcenter.org/grants-fellowships​

Writing the History of Greater New  York​

The Gotham Center is now taking applications for “Writing the History of Greater New York,” a fellowship program established with the generous support of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. Two yearlong grants of $40,000 will be awarded by March 15th, 2020 to scholars with book manuscripts substantially near completion that explore 1) the history of the “outer boroughs” (Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Bronx), 2) Long Island’s contributions to the development of the metropolitan region, or 3) that integrate the history of Long Island and New York City somehow, approaching the fields of urban / suburban history with a metropolitan / regional lens.

The award provides office space at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and full access to the library consortium and its subscriptions. Benefits are not included.

Applying & Timeline

Applications must include PDFs of the following: an abstract, a statement of need, and a progress report (no more than three pages); a writing sample of no more than ten pages (longer, published articles based on the research are permissible, too); a scholarly C.V. (no more than two pages); and three letters of reference. The applications should be emailed to GothamCenter@gc.cuny.edu with the subject line: ‘Gardiner application.’ The deadline is December 15th, 2019.

Favor will be given to independent and early-career professionals, but we invite all scholars to apply.

A selection committee will notify the successful applicants by March 15th, 2020. The fellowship will begin on September 1st, 2020, and terminate on the same date in 2021. Questions should be addressed to the Gotham Center’s Director, Peter-Christian Aigner: paigner@gc.cuny.edu

Terms of the Award

Gardiner fellows will be expected to submit an excerpt of no less than 50 pages of new material in late December 2020, and once more in early May 2021, for peer review by two experts in their subject area chosen by the Gotham Center. Fellows will also submit their manuscripts to Pulitzer-winning historian and Gotham Center board chairman / founder Mike Wallace, for editorial guidance at end-of-term. During the year, fellows will assist the Gotham Center in developing public programming based on their research at partnering institutions in the metropolitan region.