Category: Funding Opportunities

[Internal] Graduate Center Dissertation Fellowship  

Posted on October 29, 2019 by - Funding Opportunities, Funding Opportunities - Internal

Deadline: Wednesday, January 15th 2020, no later than 12:00pm 

Synopsis of Program: 

The GC Dissertation Fellowship competition is a yearly competition for level III students who plan to be at the writing stage during the following academic year.  Students can apply for a number of different dissertation fellowships (both general and specialized) using the same application. 

Onile application components: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_Lf-j3J1w30nmT7-7thEx5arqShyqmCl144HzOmAfwfvzTQ/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1

Additional information contact Rachel Sponzo, [email protected], and view last year’s application guidelines: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/PDF/Provost/Form%20Documents/2019-20-GC-Dissertation-Fellowship-Application-Guidelines-and-Instructions_1.pdf

[Internal] The Duberman-Zal Fellowship 

Posted on October 29, 2019 by - Funding Opportunities, Funding Opportunities - Internal

Deadline: November 15, 2019, 7:00pm

Amount: $2,500

Synopsis of Program: 

An endowed fellowship named for CLAGS founder and first executive director, Martin Duberman, and partner, Eli Zal, this fellowship is awarded to a graduate student, an independent scholar, or an adjunct from any country doing scholarly research on the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer (LGBTQ) experience.

University affiliation is not necessary. The award is adjudicated by the CLAGS fellowships committee.

The winner of the fellowship may be asked to participate in CLAGS’s programming the following academic year to present their research project.

For additional information: http://clags.org/fellowships-and-awards3/#Duberman-Zal

[External] The Horowitz Foundation – Social Policy Research Grants

Posted on October 4, 2019 by - Funding Opportunities, Funding Opportunities - External

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