Category: Funding Opportunities

[External] Robert J. McNamara Student Paper Award (deadline: 6/1/2020)

Posted on February 24, 2020 by - Funding Opportunities, Funding Opportunities - External

Deadline: June 1, 2020
Amount: $500

Synopsis of Award:
The Association for the Sociology of Religion invites submissions for the Robert J McNamara student paper
award. This recognizes a paper on the sociology of religion conducted by a currently enrolled graduate student.
Papers may be unpublished, accepted for publication, or already published as an article. Applicants must be
members of the association who have not yet defended their doctoral dissertation. Co-authored submissions are
eligible.

For more information:
https://www.sociologyofreligion.com/lectures-papers/robert-j-mcnamara-student-paper-award/

[Internal] Paul Monette-Roger Horwitz Dissertation Prize (deadline: 6/1/2020)

Posted on January 24, 2020 by - Funding Opportunities, Funding Opportunities - Internal

Deadline: June 1, 2020, 11:59 p.m

Amount: $1,000

Synopsis of Program:
This award, which honors the memories of Monette, a poet and author, and his partner, Horwitz, an attorney,
will be given for the best dissertation in LGTBQ Studies, broadly defined, by a PhD candidate within the City
University of New York system. The dissertation should have been defended in the previous year. Adjudicated
by the CLAGS fellowships committee.
For additional information: http://clags.org/fellowships-and-awards3/#PaulMonette

[External] Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards, NSF (deadline: 2/28/2019)

Posted on November 15, 2019 by - Funding Opportunities, Funding Opportunities - External

Deadline: February 28, 2020

Synopsis of Program: As part of its effort to encourage and support projects that explicitly integrate education and basic research, the Sociology Program provides support to improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation projects undertaken by doctoral students enrolled in U.S. Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) when the dissertation research is conducted in a scientifically sound manner and it offers strong potential for enhancing more general scientific knowledge. The Sociology Program funds doctoral dissertation research to defray direct costs associated with conducting research, for example, dataset acquisition, additional statistical or methodological training, meeting with scholars associated with original datasets, and fieldwork away from the student’s home campus. Projects are evaluated using the two Foundation-wide criteria, intellectual merit and broader impacts. 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 more information: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505118&org=NSF