Grants and Fellowships

Opportunities for Grants at Brandeis

Brandeis University offers financial support to MA and PhD students conducting independent research in both sociocultural and archaeological anthropology. Brandeis anthropology graduate students have performed research in locations around the United States and abroad. Brandeis University grants to support MA and PhD research include:

• Anthropology Departmental Research Grants: A fall and spring cycle of awards provides support for student research conducted during the academic year and in the summer

• Brandeis-India Initiative Fellows Program

• Center for German and European Studies Travel Grants

• Crown Center for Middle East Studies Travel Grant to support pre-dissertation research

• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Travel Funds Request

• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Master's Research Fund

• Jane's Travel Grant (Latin American Studies)

• Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowships

• Mellon Dissertation Research Grants

• Provost Research Grants

• Schusterman Center for Israel Studies Grants and Fellowships

External Grants Received

Anthropology PhD students have received major grants to support dissertation research and writing from the following organizations:

• Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for one full year of dissertation write-up support

• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange for one full year of dissertation write-up support

• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad and Fulbright IIE Fellowships for fieldwork in China, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, and Swaziland

• Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine grant for dissertation research in Cuba

• Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship for fieldwork in Japan

• National Geographic Society-Waitt Foundation Grants to conduct archaeological research on a Maya site after the Classic Period collapse and on a Central Yucatan archaeological cave project

• National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants for fieldwork in China (two recent awards) and in Mexico

• Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship for fieldwork in Cuba

• Toyota Foundation grant to publish components of doctoral dissertation

• Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for fieldwork in Samoa and Cameroon

PhD students also recently received Fulbright-Hays Awards to study advanced Zulu and Samoa abroad, and an American Institute of Bangladesh Studies Fellowship to study Bengali at the South Asia Summer Language Institute.