In addition to funding through their program, graduate students are strongly encouraged to apply for fellowships from external federal agencies, professional organizations, and private foundations. UW–Madison graduate students can use the table below to identify external funding opportunities for which they may be eligible. Graduate programs and the UW–Madison Graduate School may supplement some externally-funded fellowships. Please talk to your program staff about the opportunity to receive tuition assistance and benefits if you are selected for an externally-funded fellowship.
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| Fellowship Name | Funder and Contact Email | Duration | Compensation (stipend plus other compensation) | Eligibility and Key Information | Application Deadline | Division | Division | Division | Division | Targeted to Underrepresented Students? | Available to Master's Students? | Available to International Students? |
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| NISS Dissertation Grant | National Institute of Social Sciences; president@socialsciencesinstitute.org | N/A | $2,500-$5,000 | Seeking nominations in the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology. Interdisciplinary projects that include one or more of these fields as a major component may also be considered. | 04/16/2021 | Social Sciences Division | ||||||
| Anna C. & Oliver C. Colburn Fellowships | Archaeological Institute of America; fellowships@archaeological.org | Up to 1 year | $5,500 | To support studies undertaken at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece for no more than a year. Must be citizen or permanent resident of USA or Canada and have been AIA member for at least 1 year. | 01/15/2022 | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | ||||
| American Bar Foundation/National Science Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Program in Law & Inequality | American Bar Foundation; fellows@abfn.org | up to 2 years | $35,000 per year plus research and travel expenses | Doctoral research must be in the general area of socio-legal studies or involve social scientific approaches to the law, legal institutions, or legal processes. | Social Sciences Division | Targeted to Underrepresented Students | ||||||
| Samvid Scholars | Samvid Ventures; gradscholarship@samvid.ventures | 2 years | Up to $50,000 in tuition and fees only (no stipend) | Master's, JD, or MD student, PhD students not eligible | 04/20/2021 | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | ||
| George Papaioannou Fellowship | American School of Classical Studies at Athens; application@ascsa.org | Not listed | $2,000 | Must be researching Greece in the 1940’s and the post-war period, civil wars and the history of the Second World War. | 01/15/2022 | Social Sciences Division | Available to International Students | |||||
| Carter Manny Award | Graham Foundation; info@grahamfoundation.org | 1 year | $15,000 (research award), $20,000 (writing award) | The Carter Manny Award supports the completion of outstanding doctoral dissertations on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. | 11/15/2021 | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | |||||
| Mellon Public Humanites Graduate Fellowship | UW-Madison Institute for the Humanities with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; applications@humanities.wisc.edu | 9 months | Not listed | Designed to provide advanced graduate students in the humanities with experience outside of academia. By placing fellows in partner organizations around Madison, the program facilitates the reciprocal sharing of resources and expertise, and highlights the significance of the humanities both on and off campus. | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | ||||||
| Abe Fellowship Program | Social Science Research Council; abe@ssrc.org | 3-12 months | Not listed | The Abe Fellowship Program Committee seeks applications for research explicitly focused on policy-relevant and contemporary issues with a comparative or transnational perspective that draw the study of the United States and Japan into wider disciplinary or theoretical debates. | 09/01/2021 | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | ||||
| Dissertation Fellowship for Historically Underrepresented Persons in Anthropology | American Anthropological Association; kpatschke@americananthro.org | 1 year | $10,000 | Must be a member of a historically underrepresented U.S. racialized minority group and a member of the American Anthropological Association. | Arts and Humanities Division | Targeted to Underrepresented Students | ||||||
| Chinese Language Fellowship | National Bureau of Asian Research; clfp@nbr.org | 1 year | $50,000, travel fees, visa fees, tuition | Fellows devote one year to intensive Chinese language training at an institution of the fellow’s choice, generally in China or Taiwan. Applicants should have intermediate Chinese language skills. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | |||||
| Louisville Institute Dissertation Fellowship | Louisville Institute; info@louisville-institute.org | 1 year | $25,000 | Preference given to students engaged in research pertaining to North American Christianity, especially projects related to Institute mission priorities. | 02/01/2022 | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | |||||
| MCEAS Dissertation Fellowship Program | McNeil Center for Early American Studies; mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu | 9 months | $25,000 | Must be studying histories and/or cultures of North America before 1850. Fellows are expected to be in residence at the Center in Philadelphia during their tenure. | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | ||||||
| Planetary Health Graduate Scholarship | UW Madison Global Health Institute; valerie.peterson@wisc.edu | 9 months | $3,500 + $500 for student's faculty advisor | The Planetary Health Graduate Scholarship program brings together graduate students and their faculty advisors from across disciplines who study how the health of the planet and the health of humans are interdependent. | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | Available to International Students | ||
| Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship | Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation; info@hfg.org | 1 year | $25,000 | Questions that interest the foundation concern violence and aggression in relation to social change, intergroup conflict, war, terrorism, crime, and family relationships, among other subjects. | 02/01/2022 | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | ||||
| ARIT Summer Fellowships for Intensive Advanced Turkish at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul | American Research Institute in Turkey; aritoffice@gmail.com | 6 weeks | Not listed | Must be conducting research in Turkey, high-intermediate level of Turkish proficiency. | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | |||
| Foreign Affairs IT Fellowship | US Department of State; FAITFellowship@twc.edu | 2 years | up to $37,500 annually | Must be enrolled in an undergraduate degree program relevant to Information Technology OR seeking admission in an IT-related master’s degree program; must be able to obtain and maintain medical and security clearances. | Social Sciences Division | Targeted to Underrepresented Students | Available to Master's Students | |||||
| Boren Fellowship | National Security Education Program; BOREN@IIE.ORG | 12-52 weeks | Up to $25,000 | Must be conducting research overseas outside of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand; must commit to at least one year of federal service; US military and veterans receive application preference. | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | |||
| Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Completion Fellowship | ASEEES/KAT Charitable Foundation; aseees.grants@pitt.edu | up to 12 months | up to $25,000 | Open to students in any discipline whose dissertation topics are within 19th - early 21st century Russian historical studies.; student member of ASEEES; dissertation topic that falls within the fellowship project scope; language proficiency to conduct research in Russia | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | ||||||
| ARCE Pre-dissertation Travel Grant | Amerian Research Center in Egypt; fellows@arce.org | 4-8 weeks | N/A | Must be conducting research in Egypt and in one of funded disciplines (see website for list). | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | ||||||
| ARCE-CAORC Research Fellowships | Amerian Research Center in Egypt and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers/National Endowment for the Humanities; fellows@arce.org | 3-12 months | $2,200-$5,000/month | Must be conducting research in Egypt and in one of funded disciplines (see website for list). | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | |||||
| Winterthur Dissertation Fellowship | Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library; academicprograms@winterthur.org | 2 weeks-9 months | $1,750 per month | Winterthur Research Fellowships are designed to support residencies, remote, and hybrid fellowships at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | ||||||
| American School of Classical Studies at Athens Fellowship | American School of Classical Studies at Athens; application@ascsa.org | 9 months | $11,500 | Students preparing for an advanced degree in classical and ancient Mediterranean studies, post-classical Greek studies, or a related field. Preference is given to those who have completed at least one year of graduate study. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | Available to International Students | ||||
| Cotsen Traveling Fellowship | American School of Classical Studies at Athens; application@ascsa.org | At least one month | $2,000 | Must be pursuing research topics that require the use of the Gennadeion collections. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | Available to International Students | ||||
| Harry Bikakis Fellowship | American School of Classical Studies at Athens; application@ascsa.org | Not listed | $1,875 | Research subject must be ancient Greek law and students need to work at ASCSA libraries. | Social Sciences Division | Available to Master's Students | Available to International Students | |||||
| Henry S. Robinson Corinth Research Fellowship | American School of Classical Studies at Athens; application@ascsa.org | Up to 3 months | Up to $4,000 | Must be conducting research requiring the use of the resources, archaeological site, and collections at the ASCSA excavations at Ancient Corinth in Greece. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | |||||
| Jacob Hirsch Fellowship | American School of Classical Studies at Athens; application@ascsa.org | 9 months | $11,500 | Must be an archaeology student or completing a project that requires a lengthy residence in Greece; must be a US or Israeli citizen. | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | |||
| M. Alison Frantz Fellowhip in Post-Classical Studies at the Gennadius Library | American School of Classical Studies at Athens; application@ascsa.org | 9 months | $11,500 | Must be researching Late Antique through Modern Greek Studies, including but not limited to the Byzantine, Frankish, Post-Byzantine, and Ottoman periods. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | |||||
| Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Urban Architecture | American School of Classical Studies at Athens; application@ascsa.org | 9 months | $11,500 plus room and board | Must be studying Architectural and Urban Design, History of Architecture, History of the City, Historical Geography, or related fields | 04/30/2021 | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | |||||
| Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Music | American School of Classical Studies at Athens; application@ascsa.org | 9 months | $11,500 plus room and board | Must be studying Musical composition; Music conducting; History of Music; Musicology; or related fields | 04/30/2021 | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | |||||
| Mellon - Council for European Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; awards@ces-europe.org | 1 year (June-June) | $27,500 | Dissertation topic must be within or substantially overlapping European Studies; must have exhausted all departmental funding normally provided by their institution. | Social Sciences Division | |||||||
| Wiener Laboratory Research Associate Appointment | American School of Classical Studies at Athens; TKarkanas@ascsa.edu.gr | Up to 9 months | Up to $7,000 | Wiener Laboratory facilities are especially well equipped to support the study of human skeletal biology, archaeobiological remains (faunal and botanical), environmental studies, and geoarchaeology. | 01/15/2022 | Biological Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | Available to International Students | ||
| DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship | Department of Energy and the Krell Institute; https://www.krellinst.org/csgf/contact | Up to 4 years | $38,000 per year | Available to students pursuing doctoral degrees in fields that use high-performance computing to solve complex science and engineering problems | Physical Sciences Division | |||||||
| Multi-Country Research Fellowship | US Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs ; fellowships@caorc.org | Minimun 90 days | $11,500 | Must carry out research in two or more countries outside the United States. | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | |||||
| Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry Dissertation Fellowship | The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry; fellowships@sciencehistory.org | 9 months | $26,000 | With around 20 scholars in residence each year, the Science History Institute is home to the largest private fellowship program in the historical study of science, medicine, and technology in the United States. | 09/01/2021 | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | |||||
| Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship | American Musicology Society'; ams@amsmusicology.org | 1 year | $23,000 | Must be a dissertator with an emphasis on musical scholarship. | 09/15/2021 | Arts and Humanities Division | ||||||
| Chateaubriand Fellowship | Embassy of France; admin@chateaubriand-fellowship.org | 4-9 months | monthly stipend of 1,400-1,500 euros | Must be conducting research in France | 01/15/2022 | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | |||
| Charles E. Lindblom Memorial Fellowship | Social Science Research Council; cuf@ssrc.org | 6-12 months | $7,500 | Must be dissertator in economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, and/or history. | 01/15/2022 | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | ||||
| World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship | Smith Richardson Foundation; worldpolitics@srf.org | n/a | $7,500 | Must be conducting research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies, and/or diplomatic and military history | 10/08/2021 | Social Sciences Division | Available to Master's Students | |||||
| Spencer Dissertation Fellowship | National Academy of Education; info@naeducation.org | 12 months | $27,500 | Research in any discipline that contributes to the understanding of the history, theory, or practice of education. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | ||||||
| USIP Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship | US Institute of Peace (USIP); Minerva Research Initiative; JenningsRandolphFellows@usip.org | 1 academic year | $20,000 | Research must be related to peacebuilding, conflict management, and related security studies. | Social Sciences Division | |||||||
| Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies | The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation/Institute for Citizens & Scholars; ws@woodrow.org | 1 year (September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2022) | $5,000 | Funds original and significant research about women that crosses disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | ||||||
| Graduate Research Fellowship Program | National Science Foundation; grfp@nsf.gov | 5 years (3 on tenure) | $34,000/year | Must be researching STEM or STEM education; applicants cannot have completed more than 1 year of graduate studies completed. | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Available to Master's Students | ||||
| Hertz Foundation Fellowship | The Hertz Foundation; fellowshipinfo@hertzfoundation.org | Up to 5 years | Up to $250,000 | Must have completed no more than one year of graduate studies completed; require that applicants make a nonbinding moral commitment to make their skills available to the United States in times of national emergency. | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | ||||||
| Veterans Innovation Partnership Fellowship | US Department of State; vipfellowship@state.gov | 12 months | Paid at GS-9 level ($56,233-$73,105) | The program aims to assist veterans, retirees and service members transition from defense to diplomacy and development careers through a yearlong, paid professional Fellowship at the U.S. Department of State | Arts and Humanities Division | |||||||
| Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art | Henry Luce Foundation; fellowships@acls.org | 1 year (beginning Summer 2021) | $38,000 | PhD candidate in Art History (MFA candidates are not eligible). | Arts and Humanities Division | |||||||
| ARIT Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Turkey | American Research Institute in Turkey; aritoffice@gmail.com | up to 9 months | Not listed | Must be conducting research in Turkey. ARIT offers research and study facilities as well as connections with colleagues, institutions, and authorities through its branch centers in Istanbul and Ankara. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | |||||
| BTAA/Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program | The Smithsonian Institution (SI) and the Big Ten Academic Alliance; sharon.lee@btaa.org | 1 year | $40,000 | Fellowship supports research in residence at Smithsonian Institution facilities; all fields of study that are actively pursued by the museums and research organizations of the Smithsonian Institution are eligible. | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | |||
| Rome Prize | American Academy in Rome; shawn.miller@aarome.org | One or two semesters | $16,000 (one semester), $28,000 (two semesters) | Fellows must be in residence in Rome; research in one of funded disciplines (see website for list). | 11/01/2021 | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | |||||
| William Sanders Scarborough Fellowship | American School of Classical Studies at Athens; application@ascsa.org | Up to 3 months | $1,500 per month | Funds graduate students whose geographic origin, diverse experiences, and socio- economic background are underrepresented at the School (including persons from the Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color communities) to be in residency in Athens. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Targeted to Underrepresented Students | Available to Master's Students | Available to International Students | |||
| National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program (NDSEG) | US Department of Defense; NDSEG.PMO@sysplus.com | 3 years | $38,400/year | Program intended to increase the number of United States citizens trained in science and engineering disciplines of military importance. | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Available to Master's Students | ||||
| Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; idrf@ssrc.org | 6-12 months | $23,000 average per-fellow stipend | All PhD requirements complete besides on-site research on US Indigenous or non-US topics; cannot be studyihng law, business, medicine, nursing, or journalism. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Targeted to Underrepresented Students | |||||
| Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program | Department of Energy; sc.scgsr@science.doe.gov | Between 3 and 12 months | Up to $3,000 per month | Research opportunity is expected to advance the graduate students’ overall doctoral thesis while providing access to the expertise, resources, and capabilities available at the DOE laboratories/facilities. | 05/05/2021 | Physical Sciences Division | ||||||
| GEM Fellowship | GEM National Consortium; info@gemfellowship.org | 5 years (1 year funded by GEM) | $4,000/semester for Engineering MS students, $16,000/year for Engineering and Science PhD students. | Targets underrepresented domestic minority students. Fellowships come with a paid summer internship at one of partner agencies. | 11/13/2021 | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Targeted to Underrepresented Students | Available to Master's Students | |||
| Center for Khmer Studies Dissertation Research Fellowship | Center for Khmer Studies; https://khmerstudies.org/contact/ | Up to 11 months | Not listed | Open to PhD candidates in the social sciences and humanities researching Cambodia alone or on Cambodia within a regional context. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | ||||||
| Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship | The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation/Institute for Citizens & Scholars; newcombe@woodrow.org | 1 year | $25,000 | Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | |||||
| Burning Questions Fellowship | Tiny Beam Fund; min@tinybeamfund.org | 4 months | $15,000-$25,000 | These fellowships focus on a set of “burning questions” collected from leaders of NGOs about the negative impacts of global industrial food animal production in low- and middle-income countries. | 05/14/2021 | Biological Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Available to International Students | ||||
| D. Kim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship | D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia; info@dkimfoundation.org | not listed | up to $25,000 | Should be researching the history of science and technology in modern East Asia, comparative studies of East Asia and the West, or related fields (mathematics, medicine and public health). | 12/01/2021 | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Available to International Students | ||||
| Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship | Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University; HSF@TheIHS.org | 9 months (1 academic year); summer term | $6,000-$15,000 | Research must contribute to the advancement of classical liberal scholarship. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | |||||
| Danielle Parks Memorial Fellowship | Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute; usa.office@caari.org.cy | N/A | $2,000 | Must be conducting research on a subject of relevance to Cypriot archaeology and culture, especially Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus; helps cover travel to and living expenses in Cyprus. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | Available to International Students | ||||
| Helena Wylde Swiny and Stuart Swiny Fellowship | Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute; usa.office@caari.org.cy | N/A | $2,000 | Funds a research project that is relevant to an ongoing field project in Cyprus or that requires work on Cyprus itself. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | Available to International Students | ||||
| Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship | The Ford Foundation; FordApplications@nas.edu | 1 year | $28,000 | Committed to a career in teaching and research at US college; Ph.D or Sc.D candidate in a research-based discipline. | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Targeted to Underrepresented Students | |||
| Graduate Fellowship for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Diversity (GFSD) | Not listed; gfsd@stemfellowships.org | 2-6 years | $20,000 annually + tuition and fees | Students are sponsored by an employer for the duration of their fellowship and conduct at least one paid summer internship with the employer. | 12/15/2021 | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Targeted to Underrepresented Students | Available to Master's Students | |||
| Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Scholars Program | Harvard University; applicationinquiries@wcfia.harvard.edu | Not listed | $31,000 for doctoral students; $70,000 for postdoctoral researchers | The Academy Scholars Program identifies and supports outstanding scholars at the start of their careers whose work combines disciplinary excellence in the social sciences or law with a command of the language and history or culture of countries or regions outside of the United States or Canada. Their scholarship may elucidate domestic, comparative, or transnational issues, past or present. | 10/01/2021 | Social Sciences Division | Available to International Students | |||||
| Department of Defense SMART Scholarship Program | US Department of Defense; smart@smartscholarship.org | 1.5-5 years | $25,000-$38,000 per year plus health insurance and miscellaneous allowances | Fellows must be willing to accept employment placement at the DoD post-graduation. | 12/01/2021 | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Available to Master's Students | ||||
| Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Award | US Department of Education; awards@iris.wisc.edu | Not listed | Not listed | You must apply through the UW's Institute for Regional and International Studies. Research cannot be on Western European topics. | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | ||||
| Social Data Research and Dissertation Fellowship | Social Science Research Council; socialdata@ssrc.org | Up to 12 months | Up to $15,000 | SSRC seeks to encourage multifaceted pathways for the collection and analysis of social data. In particular, they are interested in supporting research that makes creative use of available social data to investigate how social media interact with democracy and elections. | ||||||||
| Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowship | Social Science Research Council | Up to 12 months | Up to $15,000 | The RSDR fellowship program invites proposals for research at the intersection of religion, spirituality, and democracy in the United States. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | |||||
| National Gallery of Art Predoctoral Fellowships | National Gallery of Art; casva@nga.gov | Varies | $30,000 per year | Must be certified in 2 languages other than English. Most fellowships expect the student to conduct research abroad. | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | ||||||
| Amelia Earhart Fellowship | Zonta International; zontaintl@zonta.org | 1 year | $10,000 | Woman of any nationality pursuing a PhD conducting research in aerospace engineering or space sciences. | Physical Sciences Division | Targeted to Underrepresented Students | ||||||
| Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans | Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation; PDSoros@pdsorors.org | 1 or 2 years | 25,000 stipend plus 50% of tuition and fees | Must be an immigrant or child of immigrants, including students who were adopted from abroad or with refugee or DACA status. | 10/28/2021 | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | ||
| Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program | International Research and Exchanges | 2-9 months | Stipend, round trip airfare,visa support | Must be conducting policy-relevant research in Eastern European or Eurasian Countries. | 11/01/2021 | Social Sciences Division | Available to Master's Students | |||||
| HHMI Gilliam Fellowship | Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Gilliam@hhmi.org | Up to 3 years | $33,000 per year; $4,000 for professional, career, and personal development; Adviser allowance of $3,000 to support activities aimed at addressing challenges to diversity and inclusion at the graduate level. | Must be from populations excluded from science, or alumni of the HHMI EXROP; be at the appropriate stage of their PhD training (generally 2nd or 3rd year); not in a joint MD/PhD program. | Biological Sciences Division | Targeted to Underrepresented Students | ||||||
| AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship | American Association of University Women (AAUW); aauw@applyists.com | 1 year (July 1-June 30) | $20,000 | Must identify as woman and be in the final year of dissertation-writing. | 11/01/2021 | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Targeted to Underrepresented Students | ||
| ACLS-Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship | American Council of Learned Societies; fellowships@acls.org | 12 months | $35,000/year | Must be in the final year of a dissertation in the humanities or related social sciences | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | |||||
| ACLS-Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies Fellowship - Dissertation Fellowship | American Council of Learned Societies and The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation ; BuddhistStudies@acls.org | 10 consecutive months | $30,000 | Fellowship is for work that will expand the understanding and interpretation of Buddhist thought in scholarship and society, strengthen international networks of Buddhist studies, and increase the visibility of innovative currents in those studies. | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | |||||
| AERA Dissertation Grant | National Science Foundation; American Educational Research Association (AERA); grantsprogram@aera.net | 1 year | Up to $25,000 | The program supports rigorous quantitative methods to examine large-scale, education-related data. | 05/12/2021 | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Targeted to Underrepresented Students | ||||
| American Hearth Association Predoctoral Fellowship | American Heart Association; apply@heart.org | 1-2 years | $25,320 per year, plus $4,200 per year for health insurance | Enrolled full-time in a Ph.D., M.D., D.O., D.V.M., Pharm.D., D.D.S., DrPH, or Ph.D. in nursing or equivalent, who seeks research training with a sponsor prior to embarking upon a research career. | Biological Sciences Division | Available to International Students | ||||||
| American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship | American-Scandinavian Foundation; info@amscan.org | 1 year | up to $23,000 | Fellowships are to pursue research, study or creative arts projects in one or more Scandinavian country for up to one year. | 11/01/2021 | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | ||||
| Betty J. Meggers Grant Program | The Americas Research Network; info@arenet.org | N/A | $7,000 | On pause due to COVID-19. Will release more info January 2021. | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | Available to International Students | ||
| Center for Jewish History Graduate Research Fellowship | Center for Jewish History; fellowships@cjh.org | 10 months | $22,500 | Fellowship awards support research in the collections of the Center's partners - American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | |||||
| Goizueta Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship | The Goizueta Foundtion; chc@miami.edu | 1-3 months between June 1 of award year - May 31 of following year | $3,000/month | Supports students using the Cuban Heritage Collection at University of Miami for their research. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | ||||||
| John F. Richards Fellowship Program | American Institute of Afghanistan Studies; AIAS.KBL@gmail.com | N/A | up to $6,000 | Must be AIAS member; supports research on Afghanistan through utilization of resources outside of Afghanistan and the United States. | 04/15/2021 | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | |||
| Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholars | Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation; https://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/scholarships@trudeaufoundation.ca | 3 years | Up to $40,000 per year | Must be a Canandian citizen; doctoral work must relate to at least one of the Foundation’s Four Themes: Human Rights and Dignity, Responsible Citizenship, Canada and the World, People and their Natural Environment. | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | ||||||
| Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Scholars Program | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; hprs@jhu.edu | up to 4 years | $30,000 annually | Fellowship is for doctoral students in any discipline whose research has the potential to impact health and well-being. | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Targeted to Underrepresented Students | |||
| TARII’s U.S. Fellowship program | Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII); info@tarii.org | N/A | Up to $7,000 | Must be late stage doctoral student conducting Iraq-related research. | 05/28/2021 | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | |||
| Transnationalism Fellowships | The Americas Research Network; info@arenet.org | up to 8 weeks | $4,000 | Must develop a project in collaboration with faculty at a partnered Mexican university (see website for list). | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | |||
| Scott Kloeck-Jenson Pre-Dissertation Travel Fellowship | UW Madison Institute for International and Regional Studies (IRIS) skj@iris.wisc.edu | At least 8 weeks of international field work | Awards vary, but average $4,500 | Must be conducting preliminary dissertation field research abroad | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | |||
| Scott Kloeck-Jenson International Internship Fellowship | UW Madison Institute for International and Regional Studies (IRIS) skj@iris.wisc.edu | At least 8 weeks of international field work | Awards vary, but average $4,500 | Supports PhD track students undertaking practitioner internships | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | Available to International Students | ||
| IRIS Graduate Student Summer Fieldwork Award | UW Madison Institute for International and Regional Studies (IRIS) awards@iris.wisc.edu | At least 6 weeks of summer international field work | $3,000, additional | In collaboration with the Black Languages Arts and Culture Foundation (BLAC Foundation), IRIS is pleased to offer a $1,000 supplemental grant to students pursuing international field research in the global south on topics related to art, language, or culture. | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | Available to International Students | ||
| Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) banting@cihr-irsc.gc.ca | 2 years | $70,000 per year | Canadian citizenship/permanent residency, or host institution in Canada | Biological Sciences Division | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to International Students | |||
| Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship | Microsoft; msfellow@microsoft.com | 2 years | $42,000 plus tuition and fees for two academic years | Third year of PhD program at North American university | Physical Sciences Division | Social Sciences Division | Available to International Students | |||||
| Arnold L. Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship | Marquette University; mitchem.fellowship@marquette.edu | 1 year | $36,250 plus fringe benefits | To support writing stage of dissertation work, especially interested in applications from individuals whose research focuses on Race, Ethnic and Indigenous Studies | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | ||||||
| Hannah Beiter Graduate Student Research Grant | Children's Literature Association (ChLA); info@childlitassn.org | N/A | $500 to $1,500 | Support for research that may be related to the dissertation or master's thesis; used to purchase supplies and materials, underwrite travel to specific collections/libraries, or time release | 02/01/2022 | Social Sciences Division | Arts and Humanities Division | Available to Master's Students | ||||
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