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

• GSAS financing, including Master’s research support, travel funds, dissertation year fellowships, and other research support

• GSA Travel and Research Grants

• WGS Graduate Grants (scroll down)

• Jane’s Travel Grant, Latin American & Latino Studies

• 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

• Society for Psychological Anthropology exploratory (pre-dissertation) research awards

• Halperin Memorial Fund Awards for preliminary dissertation fieldwork in Economic Anthropology

• Numerous grants in different countries listed at the Council of American Overseas Research Centers

Area Studies Funding

• Americas Research Network grants for South American research;

• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation American Region Research Grants and broader Grants and Fellowships;

• Japan Foundation Fellowships;

• American-Scandinavian Foundation;

• American Institute for Maghrib Studies;

• American Institute of Iranian Studies;

• American Center for Mongolian Studies Field Research Fellowship;

• American Institute of Bangladesh Studies;

• Palestinian-American Research Center;

• Center for Khmer Studies;

• American Research Institute in Turkey

• National Geographic Society-Waitt Foundation Grants

• The Explorer’s Club student grants

• Spencer Research Grants in Education Studies

• Generally, students should check out the listings in this GSAS page

• Additional fellowships listed by the AAA

• More fellowships, listed by Anthropology News

• ….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 Dissertation Research Grants -- **includes funding for exploratory, preliminary research!**

• Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship (or “DYF”; for writing up)

• Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grants

• SSRC/IDRF

• Fulbright Grants

• 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)

• American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowships

• Ruth Landes Grant/Reed Foundation

• Rust Family Foundation (for archaeology students)

• Dumbarton Oaks Junior Research Fellowships (archaeology)

This information is also available in PDF.