Graduate Student Funding Opportunities
Are you an anthropology grad student looking for research/travel/writing-up funding? Before you apply for departmental GTR funds, please know that as we look at these applications we are also assessing whether you’ve applied for other available funds.
Provisional List of Funding Sources
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GSAS financing, including Master’s research support, travel funds, dissertation year fellowships, and other research support
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WGS Graduate Grants (scroll down)
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Jane’s Travel Grant, Latin American & Latino Studies
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Crown Center for Middle East Studies Research and Travel Grants
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Society for Psychological Anthropology exploratory (pre-dissertation) research awards
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Halperin Memorial Fund Awards for preliminary dissertation fieldwork in Economic Anthropology
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Numerous grants in different countries listed at the Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Area Studies Funding
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Americas Research Network grants for South American research;
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Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation American Region Research Grants and broader Grants and Fellowships;
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American Center for Mongolian Studies Field Research Fellowship;
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Generally, students should check out the listings in this GSAS page
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More fellowships, listed by Anthropology News
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….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
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Mellon Dissertation Research Grants -- **includes funding for exploratory, preliminary research!**
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Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship (or “DYF”; for writing up)
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Association for Feminist Anthropology Dissertation (writing) Award
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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)
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Rust Family Foundation (for archaeology students)
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Dumbarton Oaks Junior Research Fellowships (archaeology)
This information is also available in PDF.