Graduate Student Funding Opportunities
Are you an anthropology grad student looking for research/travel/writing-up funding? Before you apply for departmental funds, note that we assess whether you've applied for other available funds as we consider your application.
External Funding Opportunities
General grants and fellowships
- Society for Psychological Anthropology
- Halperin Memorial Fund Awards
- Council of American Overseas Research Centers
- American Center for Mongolian Studies Field Research Fellowship
- Explorer's Club student grants
Click here for a more detailed list of Pre-Field, Field and Post-Field Grant Opportunities. The Brandeis Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website also has information on where to apply for external funding.
Area Studies Funding
- National Geographic Society-Waitt Foundation Grants
- American Institute of Bangladesh Studies
- Palestinian-American Research Center
- Center for Khmer Studies
- Spencer Research Grants in Education Studies
- American Research Institute in Turkey
- Chiang Chung-kuo Foundation Grants and Fellowships
- Japan Foundation Fellowships
- American-Scandinavian Foundation
- American Institute for Maghrib Studies
- American Institute of Iranian Studies
- Americas Research Network for South American Research
- Additional fellowships listed by the AAA
- And these AAA listings, which include links to more opportunities such as writing awards, travel grants, paper prizes, etc.
Funding for Dissertation Research and Writing
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Funding
- Mellon Grants Database
- Dumbarton Oaks Junior Research Fellowships (archaeology)
- Rust Family Foundation
- Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grants
- SSRC/IDRF
- NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
- Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
- AAA Minority Dissertation (writing) Fellowship
- Association for Feminist Anthropology Dissertation (writing) Award
- Provost's Research Award (IF your work at Brandeis has placed you in the category of "faculty or staff," which is occasionally the case for our doctoral students in particular)
- Ruth Landes Grant/Reed Foundation
- American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowships
- Fulbright Grants
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad and IIE Fellowships
- Toyota Foundation
Brandeis and Department Funding Resources
- GSA Travel and Research Grants
- WGS Graduate Grants
- Jane’s Travel Grant
- Brandeis-India Fellows Program
- Crown Center for Middle East Studies Research and Travel Grants
- Schusterman Center for Israel Studies Grants
- Center for German and European Studies Grants
- Brandeis GSAS Graduate funding
- COMPACT Community Engaged Research Fund
- Mandel Center for the Humanities Graduate Student Dissertation Innovation Grants
- Mandel Center for the Humanities Research Grants for Graduate Students
- Departmental GTR funds
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 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 Grantfor 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.