Scholarships for PhD Only

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program
                             Two awards are offered to assist young scholars in the humanities and social sciences.  The Dissertation Completion Fellowships assist students in their last year of dissertation writing, while the Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowships assist students in their first or second year following receipt of a PhD.
Contact Info

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program Website
   
   
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Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Research Fellowship in Regional Science
                        Offered by the North American Regional Science Council of the Regional Science Association International (NARSC-RSAI), this fellowship welcomes applications from students whose dissertation research addresses a question in regional science.  Eligible students should have completed all degree requirements except for their dissertation by the time the fellowship commences.
Contact Info

Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Research Fellowship Website
   
   
Name Brookings Institution Research Fellowships
  Fellowships are offered in four areas: Foreign Policy Studies, Governance Studies, Metropolitan Policy, and Global Economy and Development.  Students must be nominated by their department in order to compete for these fellowships.  If you would like to be nominated, please contact Beth Eck at least one month before the deadline.
Contact Info Brookings Institution Website
   
   
Name Cosmos Scholars Grant Program
  Small grants are provided to meet specific research needs not covered by other supporting funds. Examples of appropriate needs are small items of equipment (ordinarily expendable), special supplies, travel to research facilities or to attend relevant meetings, etc.
Contact Info Cosmos Club Foundation Website
   
   
Name Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship
  The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) is designed to aide students in developing and writing dissertation proposals. The DPDF program is open to second- and third-year full-time doctoral students in the social sciences and humanities. However, first- and fourth-year students may be eligible as well, but few exceptions will be made.

The DPDF is organized around two four-day workshops bracketing student summer research. Students apply to one of five research fields and attend two workshops in their chosen research field.

Chosen students that participate in the two summer workshops can apply for up to $5,000 to support summer research.

Contact Info

Social Science Research Council Website
email: dpdf@ssrc.org
   
   
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Economic Club of Washington Doctoral Research Fellowships
  Doctoral Research Fellowships are to support independent research in areas of interest to The Economic Club of Washington. Areas of concentration could include economics, finance, international trade, or business.
Contact Info Economic Club of Washington, D.C. Website
   
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Environmental Public Policy & Conflict Resolution Dissertation Fellowship
  The Udall Foundation is accepting applications for the 2010 Environmental Public Policy & Conflict Resolution Dissertation Fellowship.

The Udall Foundation awards two one-year fellowships to doctoral candidates whose research concerns U.S. environmental public policy and/or U.S. environmental conflict resolution, and who are entering their final year of writing the dissertation.
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Udall Foundation Website
If you have questions about the Udall Fellowship Program, please contact Jane Curlin, Senior Program Manager, at curlin@udall.gov.
   
Name Fulbright Scholar Program
  Fulbright grants enable recipients to expand their professional interests, enrich their teaching, and advance their scholarship in a wide variety of disciplines. Faculty and professionals in law are eligible to apply for lecturing, research, or combination lecturing/research grants through the Fulbright Scholar Program.
Contact Info Fulbright Scholar Program Website
   
   
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Heizer Doctoral Dissertation Award in New Enterprise Development
  The Heizer Award focuses on research that deals with the founding, management, growth, and development of high potential new ventures, with venture capital, or with corporate entrepreneurship. Dissertations dealing with small high-tech ventures and/or intermediate potential may also qualify for the Heizer Award. Specifically excluded from the Heizer Award are dissertations dealing primarily with small business, family business, minority business, and/or with the support systems (other than venture capital) that help facilitate the development of such businesses, since such content is the focus of the NFIB Award.
Contact Info Heizer Doctoral Dissertation Award Document
   
   
Name Inter-American Foundation (IAF) Fellowship
  IAF Fellowships support dissertation research in Latin America and the Caribbean undertaken by students who have advanced to PhD candidacy in a university in the United States. Fellows must be U.S. citizens or citizens of the independent Latin American or Caribbean countries. Proficiency in the language(s) appropriate to the research proposal is required.
Contact Info Inter-American Foundation (IAF) Fellowships
   
   
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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program Scholarship Awards
  The American Political Science Association Political Methodology Group and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) have established two scholarship awards to encourage women and minority graduate students to attend the four and/or eight-week Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. The Janet Box-Steffensmeier Award is a waiver of program scholar fees awarded to a limited number of women graduate students in Ph.D. programs and the John A. Garcia Award is a waiver of program scholar fees awarded to a limited number of minority graduate students in Ph.D. programs.
Contact Info ICPSR Summer Program website
   
   
Name Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship
  The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation supports doctoral students through the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program. The Foundation will award up to 15 Dissertation Fellowship grants of $20,000 each to PhD, DBA, or other doctoral students for the support of dissertations in the area of entrepreneurship. This competitive program is open to students seeking doctoral degrees from accredited U.S. institutions of higher education. This program is intended for students who are in the process of formulating their dissertation proposals as well as doctoral candidates with recently approved dissertation proposals.
Contact Info Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program Website
   
   
Name Lamfalussy Research Fellowship
  This fellowship promotes high-quality research on the structure, integration and performance of the European financial system.  Successful candidates will be required to write a research paper on one of the Network’s priority areas, which vary from year to year.
Contact Info

Lamfalussy Fellowship website
Lamfalussy Fellowship Call for Projects
   
   
Name NARSC Graduate Student Paper Competition
  This competition for student papers in regional science is open to current masters and PhD students, and/or recent graduates who have completed their degrees within twelve months preceding the submission date.
Contact Info NARSC Website
   
   
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National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Doctoral Dissertation Award in Entrepreneurship and Independent Business
  The NFIB award recognizes and honors outstanding doctoral research in the areas of Entrepreneurship & Independent Business.  The principal focus of the NFIB Award is on research that deals with entrepreneurs, and potential entrepreneurs, with the founding, management, growth and development of independent new ventures, with small business,  family business, and minority business, and/or with the support systems (other than venture capital) that help facilitate the development of such business.
Contact Info NFIB Award Document
   
   
Name National Poverty Center Postdoctoral Fellowship
  The Research and Training Program on Poverty and Public Policy provides underrepresented scholars in the social sciences the opportunity to spend one to two years conducting research and pursuing extensive training at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.  During the fellowship period, scholars will receive stipends of $50,000 per calendar year.
Contact Info National Poverty Center Website
   
   
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NSF Graduate Research Fellows, Nordic Research Opportunity in Finland
  Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation invites NSF Graduate Research Fellows to team up with leading Finnish research groups. Long-term investments in research and development have made Finland one of the most innovative and research-intensive countries in the world. Several top research groups in Finland have expressed their interest in the possibility of hosting NSF Graduate Research Fellows in their teams for periods of 3 to 12 months.
Contact Info Tekes website
   
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NSFC (National Science Foundation of China) International Young Scientists Research Fellowship
  This new NSFC Fellowship scheme was launched in 2009 to encourage excellent international young researchers to work for six or twelve months in a Chinese university or research institute. This is starting as a pilot project, with eligibility limited to universities or institutes in China affiliated to the Ministry of Education (MoE) or Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Contact Info National Science Foundation of China Website
   
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SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
  The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), and Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that may not otherwise be possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of their scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of the research question and the appropriateness of the proposed data and methodology to be used in addressing the question.
Contact Info National Science Foundation Website
   
   
Name Social Science Research Council
  The SSRC offers a wide variety of funding opportunities for graduate students and for recent PhDs.
Contact Info Social Science Research Council Website
   
Name The Economic Club of Washington, D.C.
  The Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area (CUWMA) and The Economic Club of Washington are pleased to announce that The Economic Club of Washington is offering its twentieth annual Doctoral Research Fellowships. Two 10,000 stipends will be awarded to doctoral-level students from Consortium institutions to support independent research in areas of interest to The Economic Club of Washington. Areas of concentration could include economics, finance, international trade or business. These awards are for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Contact Info The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. Website
   
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University of Munich Graduate School of Economics Postdoctoral Fellowship
  Applications to the postdoctoral fellowship program at MGSE are welcome from outstanding young researchers with a completed PhD in economics or a closely related field and proven ability to conduct independent research.
Contact Info
 
University of Munich Graduate School of Economics Website
   
   
 Name USCCIS Postdoctoral Fellowship
  The Center for International Studies invites junior scholars doing innovative research in Public Diplomacy and Soft Power to apply for this postdoctoral fellowship.
Contact Info  University of California Postdoctoral Website

 

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