Office of Graduate Affairs

Office of Graduate Affairs Funding

• GSA Travel and Research Grants: These grants provide funds to conduct research, primarily for a thesis or the “major project” required by some graduate programs. Learn more about the GSA Travel and Research Grants.
• Master's Student Research and Conference Awards: Provides master's students from any former GSAS program funding for conference presentation expenses or to help cover research expenses associated with the thesis or capstone project. Learn more about master's student research and conference awards.
• PhD Student Research and Conference Awards: Provides PhD students from any former GSAS program funding for conference presentation expenses or to help cover research expenses associated with the dissertation project. Learn more about PhD student research and conference awards.

• Adventures in American Music(s) Fellowship: Research fellowship to support research into music(s) in the Americas, broadly constructed. Applications are due by March 15 each year. Learn more about the Adventures in American Music(s) Fellowship.
• Center for German and European Studies German Studies Travel Grants: Awards for projects related or connected to Germany, German-speaking countries, German culture, language, history, and politics. Learn more about the German Studies Travel Grants.
• Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies Research and Study Grants: Awards for research expenses, supporting an internship, study of a Middle Eastern Language or relevant Middle East topics. Learn more about the Crown Center Research and Study Grants.
• Department of Anthropology Departmental Grants: Funds available to support Anthropology graduate student research and other professional activities. Learn more about the Department of Anthropology Departmental Grants for Anthropology graduate students.
• Hadassah Brandeis Institute HBI Research Awards: Junior grants awarded to graduate students enrolled in recognized PhD programs and new scholars — generally within two years of receiving a PhD. Senior grants are awarded to established scholars and professionals. Learn more about the Hadassah Brandeis Institute HBI Research Awards.
• International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life Maurice J. and Fay B. Karpf and Ari Hahn Peace Awards: Typically, no more than one award per year for a graduate student, in the fields of peace, conflict resolution, and coexistence. Learn more about the Maurice J. and Fay B. Karpf and Ari Hahn Peace Awards.
• The Mandel Center for the Humanities: The Mandel Center for the Humanities funding page lists up-to-date funding opportunities for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Learn more about funding opportunities through the Mandel Center for the Humanities.
• Schusterman Center for Israel Studies Research and Study Grants: Awards for pre-dissertation and dissertation research in Israel Studies. Schusterman Center doctoral students will be eligible for up to a total of $5000 in research support from the Schusterman Center during the course of their five-year fellowship. Learn more about the Schusterman Center Research Grants.
• Tauber Center Micro-Grants for Social Justice: Time-sensitive micro-grants which may be used to support academic research, creative projects, and educational initiatives. Learn more about the Tauber Center Micro-Grants for Social Justice.

Early Stage

• DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Autausch Dienst): This program, sponsored by the German government, provides a fellowship for research in the Federal Republic of Germany.
• German Historical Society Fellowships at the Horner Library: Together with the German Society of Pennsylvania, the German Historical Institute will sponsors two to four fellowships of up to four weeks for research at the Joseph Horner Memorial Library in Philadelphia. The Joseph Horner Memorial Library houses 70,000 volumes and is the largest German American collection outside of a university. The collection offers rich materials from the 17th to the 20th centuries to historians of German American immigration culture, especially in Pennsylvania, as well as historians of German fictional and non-fictional literature, including travel and popular literature.
• Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans: The Fellowship awards two-year grants to New Americans (immigrants or children of immigrants) who are poised to make significant contributions to US society, US culture, or their academic field.
• Platzman Memorial Fellowships: The Platzman Memorial Fellowships provide funding for visiting researchers working on projects that require on-site consultation of University of Chicago Library collections, primarily archives, manuscripts or printed materials in the Special Collections Research Center. Special consideration will be given to applications in the fields of late 19th or early 20th-century physics or physical chemistry, or 19th-century classical opera.
• Rose & Sigmund Strochlitz Travel Grants: Archives and Special Collections of the UConn Library supports the research of scholars throughout the United States and from abroad. The Rose and Sigmund Strochlitz Travel Grants are intended to encourage use of these unique collections and to provide partial support to outstanding scholars who must travel long distances to consult them.

Dissertation

• American Antiquarian Society Short-Term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships: The American Antiquarian Society offers a range of short-term visiting academic research fellowships for scholars. Doctoral candidates engaged in dissertation research are eligible for many of the fellowships. 
• American Educational Research Association (AERA) Minority Dissertation Research Fellowship: The AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research aims to provide support for doctoral dissertation research, to advance education research by outstanding minority graduate students, and to enhance these students competitiveness for academic appointments at major research universities. It supports fellows conducting education research and provides mentoring, capacity building activities, and guidance toward the completion of their doctoral studies. Applicants can come from graduate programs and departments in education research, the humanities, or social or behavioral science disciplinary or interdisciplinary fields, such as economics, history, political science, psychology, public policy, or sociology.

• American Institute of Indian Studies: The American Institute of Indian Studies offers fellowships for scholars, professionals, and artists from all disciplines who wish to conduct research or carry out artistic projects in India. Junior Research Fellowships are available to doctoral candidates at U.S. universities in all fields of study. These grants are specifically designed to enable doctoral candidates to pursue their dissertation research in India. Junior Research Fellows establish formal affiliation with Indian universities and Indian research supervisors. Awards are available for up to 11 months.
• American-Scandinavian Foundation: The Foundation awards funding to support research or study in one or more Scandinavian countries.
• Asian Cultural Council Fellowships: The Asian Cultural Council supports cultural exchange between Asia and the United States in the performing and visual arts, primarily by providing individual fellowship grants to artists, scholars, students, and specialists from Asia for study, research, travel and creative work in the United States.
• Association for Jewish Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship: The Dissertation Completion Fellowships encourage the timely completion of doctorates by the most promising graduate students in the field of Jewish Studies.
• The Awesome Foundation: The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe. Each fully autonomous chapter supports awesome projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. These micro-grants come out of pockets of the chapter's "trustees" and are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on awesome projects. Every chapter interprets "awesome" for itself. As such, awesome projects include initiatives in a wide range of areas including arts, technology, community development, and more. 
• Bancroft Library Meylan Fellowship: The Edward F. and Marianne E. Meylan Fellowship Fund provides one year-long fellowship to graduate students from any recognized institution of higher education in the United States or abroad who are conducting research that would benefit from the use of source materials in The Bancroft Library at the University of California - Berkeley. The holders of the fellowships, designated as Bancroft Fellows, will conduct their research in The Bancroft Library during the fellowship and must therefore be registered during the academic year at Berkeley or their home campus under the inter-campus exchange program. Students must be beyond the first year of graduate study; in the past, awards have generally gone to students who have passed their qualifying examinations, have exhausted other forms of support, and are engaged in dissertation research.
• Boren Fellowship — National Security Education Program: The National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Fellowships provides a unique funding opportunity for U.S. Students to study world regions critical to U.S. interests.
• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Doctoral Fellowships: This foundation supports the international scholarly exchange to enhance the understanding of Chinese culture and society overseas.
• The Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship: The purpose of this fellowship is to fund graduate students studying and conducting research in the U.S. who have demonstrated a need for financial assistance.
• Fulbright, Institute of International Education (IIE): The Fulbright is awarded for study or research abroad, and is administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE) on behalf of the U.S. Information Agency.
• Huntington Library Fellowship: The Huntington is a collections-based research institute, which promotes humanities scholarship on the basis of its library holdings and art collections and awards over 150 research fellowships annually.
• John Carter Brown Library Fellowships: The John Carter Brown Library awards fellowships to scholars in engaged in research on the early Americas in order to pursue research in the library's collections.
• Laura Bassi Scholarship: The Laura Bassi Scholarship provides funding for editorial support to junior scholars working on neglected topics within their disciplines.
• Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Innovation Fellowship: This program assists graduate students in the humanities or related social sciences who are preparing to embark on innovative dissertation projects.
• Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Scholarships: The purpose of the MFJC’s Doctoral Scholarship Program is to help train qualified individuals for careers in Jewish scholarship and research. Grantees must attend seminars with fellow scholars.
• Nadia and Nicholas Nahmuck Fellowship: The Society for Ethnomusicology awards the Nahmuck Fellowship to support research on a dance-related topic. Established scholars, recent PhDs or PhD candidates who have completed all degree program requirements except dissertation research are eligible. 
• New England Regional Fellowship Consortium: The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC), a collaboration of 30 major cultural agencies, offers grants providing a stipend for a minimum of eight weeks of research at participating institutions. Awards are open to U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who hold the necessary U.S. government documents. Grants are designed to encourage projects that draw on the resources of several agencies, be a minimum of eight weeks, include at least three different member institutions, and include at least two weeks at each of these institutions. NERFC grants support work in a broad array of fields, including but not limited to: history, literature, art history, African American studies, American studies, women’s and gender studies, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, religious studies, environmental studies, oceanography, and the histories of law, medicine, and technology. 
• The Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies: Fellowships are awarded to outstanding PhD candidates who exhibit strong personal commitment to Holocaust memory, demonstrate excellence in academic achievement, and possess the potential to provide outstanding professional leadership that will shape the future of Shoah scholarship.
• Smithsonian Fellowships: The Smithsonian administers a variety of in-residence fellowships at museums, research institutes, and offices of the Smithsonian Institution.
• Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowships: This fellowship awards funding for analysis and dissertation writing for research on education in a range of disciplines and professional fields.

Final Year Writing

• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS): The mission of the ACLS is the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences, and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies. They offer a range of funding opportunities, including dissertation completion fellowships.
• American Research Center in Egypt: ARCE administers fellowships for study in Egypt by students enrolled in doctoral programs (humanities, fine arts, social sciences) at North American universities and for postdoctoral scholars and professionals affiliated with North American universities and research institutions.
• Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies: The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies supports anthropologists, economists, political scientists, sociologists, and all scholars in germane social science and cultural studies fields, including historians researching the period after the mid-19th century.
• Boston College African and African Diaspora Studies Dissertation Fellowship : Scholars working in any discipline in the Social Sciences or Humanities, with projects focusing on any topic within African and/or African Diaspora Studies, are eligible to apply for the Boston College AADSD Dissertation Fellowship. The fellowship includes a stipend; access to highly subsidized health insurance through Boston College; a research budget; a moving expense allotment; and a fully equipped, shared office. The fellow must remain in residence for the 9-month academic year, deliver one public lecture, and teach one seminar course. The fellow will also receive compensation for teaching the course. Eligible applicants must be ABD by the start of the fellowship year.
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships: The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, and particularly to help PhD candidates in these fields complete their dissertation work in a timely manner.
• Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowships: The Dumbarton Oaks awards grants for residential dissertation research in Byzantine or pre-Columbian studies or studies in landscape architecture.
• Getty Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellowships: Getty Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships are intended for emerging scholars to complete work on projects related to the Getty Research Institute's annual theme, related to art history.
• Graduate Research Fellowship at the Center for Jewish History: The Center for Jewish History offers ten-month fellowships to doctoral candidates to support original research using 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.
• Katrin H. Lamon Fellowship: The School for Advanced Research makes available one nine-month residential fellowship for a Native scholar working in the humanities or the social sciences. Scholars with doctorates who plan to write their books and PhD candidates who plan to write their dissertations are eligible. Fellows receive a stipend in addition to low-cost housing and free office space on the SAR campus. 
• Paloheimo Foundation Fellowship: The School for Advanced Research makes available one nine-month residential fellowship created to honor the legacy of the three women of the Acequia Madre House, for scholars working in the humanities or social sciences. PhD candidates who plan to write their dissertations are eligible. Fellows receive a stipend in addition to low-cost housing and free office space on the SAR campus.
• Weatherhead Fellowship: Two Weatherhead Fellowships for resident scholars are awarded annually by the School for Advanced Research (SAR) to scholars working in the humanities or social sciences. PhD-level candidates who plan to write their dissertations receive a stipend in addition to low-cost housing and free office space on the SAR campus.

Postdoctoral

• Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica: The Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies invites applications each academic year for the Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica. Applicants may come from any discipline in the humanities or social sciences associated with studies in Judaica; a PhD is required. The Starr Fellowship covers travel expenses and a stipend for a group of scholars from around the world to gather at Harvard to engage in full-time research in a designated subject area in Judaica.  
• Humboldt Research Fellowship Program: The Humboldt Research Fellowship Program offers postdoctoral fellowship opportunities in support of research in Germany in any discipline. 
• The Michigan Society Fellowship: The Michigan Society Fellowship offers awards across academic fields for a three-year term. Fellows are appointed as assistant professors in appropriate departments and as postdoctoral scholars in the Michigan Society of Fellows.
• Postdoctoral Fellowships for Academic Diversity at the University of Pennsylvania: The Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania seeks to attract promising scholars and educators from all backgrounds, races, ethnic groups, and other diverse groups whose life experience, research experience and employment background will contribute significantly to their academic mission. The fellowships are available for postdoctoral training in all areas of study at the University.
• Society of Fellows in the Humanities: Columbia University's Society of Fellows in the Humanities is one of the oldest and most established postdoctoral fellowship programs in the United States. They award one-year fellowships, renewable for up to two additional years.

Early Stage

• American Political Science Association (APSA): The American Political Science Association is the leading professional organization for the study of political science. Funding opportunities include: Congressional Fellowship Program, Diversity Fellowship Program.
• The American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program: The ASA Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) supports new or continuing graduate students of color who are enrolled in a sociology PhD program.
• Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellowship in the History of Medicine and Public Health: The Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellowship in the History of Medicine and Public Health supports research using the New York Academic of Medicine's Library's resources for scholarly study of the history of medicine and public health with an emphasis on visual culture.
• Congressional Fellowships on Women and Public Policy (WCPI Fellowships): These fellowships are designed to train potential leaders in public policy formation to examine issues from the perspective, experiences, and needs of women.
• DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Autausch Dienst): This program, sponsored by the German government, provides a fellowship for research in the Federal Republic of Germany.
• German Historical Society Fellowships at the Horner Library: Together with the German Society of Pennsylvania, the German Historical Institute will sponsors two to four fellowships of up to four weeks for research at the Joseph Horner Memorial Library in Philadelphia. The Joseph Horner Memorial Library houses 70,000 volumes and is the largest German American collection outside of a university. The collection offers rich materials from the 17th to the 20th centuries to historians of German American immigration culture, especially in Pennsylvania, as well as historians of German fictional and non-fictional literature, including travel and popular literature.
• Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans: The Fellowship awards two-year grants to New Americans (immigrants or children of immigrants) who are poised to make significant contributions to US society, US culture, or their academic field.
• Platzman Memorial Fellowships: The Platzman Memorial Fellowships provide funding for visiting researchers working on projects that require on-site consultation of University of Chicago Library collections, primarily archives, manuscripts or printed materials in the Special Collections Research Center. Special consideration will be given to applications in the fields of late 19th or early 20th-century physics or physical chemistry, or 19th-century classical opera.
• Rose & Sigmund Strochlitz Travel Grants: Archives & Special Collections of the UConn Library supports the research of scholars throughout the United States and from abroad. The Rose and Sigmund Strochlitz Travel Grants are intended to encourage use of these unique collections and to provide partial support to outstanding scholars who must travel long distances to consult them. 
• Social Science Research Council (SSRC): The Social Science Research Council brings necessary knowledge to public issues and offers a range of funding opportunities.

Dissertation

• American Association of University Women (AAUW) fellowships: Exclusively for graduate women, the AAUW Educational Foundation supports aspiring scholars around the globe, teachers and activists in local communities, women at critical stages of their careers, and those pursuing professions where women are underrepresented.
• American Educational Research Association (AERA) Minority Dissertation Research Fellowship: The AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research aims to provide support for doctoral dissertation research, to advance education research by outstanding minority graduate students, and to enhance these students competitiveness for academic appointments at major research universities. It supports fellows conducting education research and provides mentoring, capacity building activities, and guidance toward the completion of their doctoral studies. Applicants can come from graduate programs and departments in education research, the humanities, or social or behavioral science disciplinary or interdisciplinary fields, such as economics, history, political science, psychology, public policy, or sociology.
• American Institute of Indian Studies: The American Institute of Indian Studies offers fellowships for scholars, professionals, and artists from all disciplines who wish to conduct research or carry out artistic projects in India. Junior Research Fellowships are available to doctoral candidates at U.S. universities in all fields of study. These grants are specifically designed to enable doctoral candidates to pursue their dissertation research in India. Junior Research Fellows establish formal affiliation with Indian universities and Indian research supervisors. Awards are available for up to 11 months.
• American Philosophical Society: The American Philosophical Society Library & Museum's collections make it among the premier institutions for documenting and exhibiting the history of the American Revolution and founding, the history of science from Newton to NASA, Native American languages and culture, and the development of American anthropology. They award a range of grants, including Digital Humanities Fellowships, Short-Term Resident Research Fellowships, and the John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship.
• American-Scandinavian Foundation: The Foundation awards funding to support research or study in one or more Scandinavian countries.
• Association for the Sociology of Religion Joseph H. Fichter Research Grant: Fichter Research Grants are awarded annually by the Association for the Society of Religion to members involved in promising sociological research on women in religion or on the intersection between religion and gender or religion and sexualities. Funding is usually distributed among several of the leading applications in the year’s competition. Dissertation research qualifies for funding, as does postdoctoral research by junior and senior scholars. Although these grants are open to scholars who are pursuing or currently have a PhD in a range of disciplines, the proposed research must be sociological in nature. Applicants must also be members of the Association for the Sociology of Religion at the time of application.
• The Awesome Foundation: The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe. Each fully autonomous chapter supports awesome projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. These micro-grants come out of pockets of the chapter's "trustees" and are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on awesome projects. Every chapter interprets "awesome" for itself. As such, awesome projects include initiatives in a wide range of areas including arts, technology, community development, and more. 
• Bancroft Library Meylan Fellowship: The Edward F. and Marianne E. Meylan Fellowship Fund provides one year-long fellowship to graduate students from any recognized institution of higher education in the United States or abroad who are conducting research that would benefit from the use of source materials in The Bancroft Library at the University of California - Berkeley. The holders of the fellowships, designated as Bancroft Fellows, will conduct their research in The Bancroft Library during the fellowship and must therefore be registered during the academic year at Berkeley or their home campus under the inter-campus exchange program. Students must be beyond the first year of graduate study; in the past, awards have generally gone to students who have passed their qualifying examinations, have exhausted other forms of support, and are engaged in dissertation research.
• Boren Fellowship — National Security Education Program: The National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Fellowships provides a unique funding opportunity for U.S. Students to study world regions critical to U.S. interests. The emphasis is on language learning.
• Brandywine Dissertation Fellowships: Brandywine Dissertation Fellowships from the Hagley Library are designed for graduate students who are conducting research on their dissertation.  This is a residential fellowship for three to four months and requires participation in events at Hagley's Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society.
• Center for Engaged Scholarship: The Center for Engaged Scholarship is an organization, created by and for social scientists, who want the United States to be a more democratic, more egalitarian, and more environmentally sustainable society.
• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Doctoral Fellowships: This foundation supports international scholarly exchange to enhance the understanding of Chinese culture and society overseas.
• Council For European Studies: The CES Fellowship Program serves as the leading source for pre-dissertation fellowships that fund students' first major research projects in Europe.
• The Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship: The purpose of this fellowship is to fund graduate students studying and conducting research in the U.S. who have demonstrated a need for financial assistance.
• Economic History Association Dissertation Grants: The Economic History Association (EHA) awards doctoral research grants; they also award early stage grants for doctoral students writing a dissertation in economic history, which provide funding for specific research purposes (for example, visiting archives, data transcription, or purchase of microfilm or CD-ROMs).
• Fulbright, Institute of International Education (IIE): The Fulbright is awarded for study or research abroad, and is administered by the Institute of International Education: (IIE) on behalf of the U.S. Information Agency.
• Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships: The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation awards grants for one full academic year of traveling to and residing in Venice and the Veneto to support historical/contemporary research on Venice and the former Venetian empire. Applicants must have completed all coursework.
• Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards: The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards recognize promising researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence.
• Laura Bassi Scholarship: The Laura Bassi Scholarship provides funding for editorial support to junior scholars working on neglected topics within their disciplines.
• New England Regional Fellowship Consortium: The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC), a collaboration of 30 major cultural agencies, offers grants for a minimum of eight weeks of research at participating institutions. Awards are open to U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who hold the necessary U.S. government documents. Grants are designed to encourage projects that draw on the resources of several agencies, be a minimum of eight weeks, include at least three different member institutions, and include at least two weeks at each of these institutions. NERFC grants support work in a broad array of fields, including but not limited to: history, literature, art history, African American studies, American studies, women’s and gender studies, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, religious studies, environmental studies, oceanography, and the histories of law, medicine, and technology. 
• Smithsonian Fellowships. The Smithsonian administers a variety of in-residence fellowships at museums, research institutes, and offices of the Smithsonian Institution.
• Switzer Fellowship: The Switzer Environmental Fellowship Program supports highly talented graduate students in New England and California whose studies are directed toward improving environmental quality and who demonstrate the potential for leadership in their field.
• Virginia Military Institute John A. Adams '71 Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis Dissertation Grant: The Adams Center awards a grant to a graduate student in history or a related field working on a dissertation in the area of Cold War history. The award promotes innovative scholarship on Cold War topics. The Center invites proposals in all subject areas - including international security affairs, military strategy, leadership, and operations. All periods of Cold War history are welcome.
• Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant: Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grants are awarded to aid doctoral or thesis research in Anthropology. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that can generate innovative approaches or ideas and/or integrate two or more subfields. 

Final Year Writing

• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS): The mission of the ACLS is the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences, and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies. They offer a range of funding opportunities, including dissertation innovation fellowships.
• American Research Center in Egypt: ARCE administers fellowships for study in Egypt by students enrolled in doctoral programs (humanities, fine arts, social sciences) at North American universities and for postdoctoral scholars and professionals affiliated with North American universities and research institutions.
• Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies: The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies supports anthropologists, economists, political scientists, sociologists, and all scholars in germane social science and cultural studies fields, including historians researching the period after the mid-19th century.
• Boston College African and African Diaspora Studies Dissertation Fellowship : Scholars working in any discipline in the Social Sciences or Humanities, with projects focusing on any topic within African and/or African Diaspora Studies, are eligible to apply for the Boston College AADSD Dissertation Fellowship. The fellowship includes a stipend; access to highly subsidized health insurance through Boston College; a research budget; a moving expense allotment; and a fully equipped, shared office. The fellow must remain in residence for the 9-month academic year, deliver one public lecture, and teach one seminar course. The fellow will also receive compensation for teaching the course. Eligible applicants must be ABD by the start of the fellowship year.
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships: The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences and particularly to help PhD candidates in these fields complete their dissertation work in a timely manner.
• Council For European Studies: The CES Fellowship Program serves as the leading source for pre-dissertation fellowships that fund students' first major research projects in Europe.
• Graduate Research Fellowship at the Center for Jewish History: The Center for Jewish History offers ten-month fellowships to doctoral candidates to support original research using 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. Preference is given to those candidates who draw on the library and archival resources of more than one partner institution.
• Katrin H. Lamon Fellowship: The School for Advanced Research makes available one nine-month residential fellowship for a Native scholar working in the humanities or the social sciences. Scholars with doctorates who plan to write their books and PhD candidates who plan to write their dissertations are eligible. Fellows receive a stipend in addition to low-cost housing and free office space on the SAR campus. 
• National Institute of Social Sciences (NISS) Dissertation Grant Program: These grants are designed to support PhD students completing doctoral work that promises to significantly advance their fields of study. The university may update up to two students in the fields of Anthropology, Economics, History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology.
• Paloheimo Foundation Fellowship: The School for Advanced Research makes available one nine-month residential fellowship created to honor the legacy of the three women of the Acequia Madre House, for scholars working in the humanities or social sciences. PhD candidates who plan to write their dissertations are eligible. Fellows receive a stipend in addition to low-cost housing and free office space on the SAR campus.
• Weatherhead Fellowship: Two Weatherhead Fellowships for resident scholars are awarded annually by the School for Advanced Research (SAR) to scholars working in the humanities or social sciences. PhD-level candidates who plan to write their dissertations receive a stipend in addition to low-cost housing and free office space on the SAR campus.

Postdoctoral

• American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grants: The American Academy of Religion (AAR) each year grants awards to support important aspects of research such as travel to archives and libraries and field work. Applicants must have completed a doctorate.
• Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica: The Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies invites applications each academic year for the Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica. Applicants may come from any discipline in the humanities or social sciences associated with studies in Judaica; a PhD is required. The Starr Fellowship covers travel expenses and a stipend for a group of scholars from around the world to gather at Harvard to engage in full-time research in a designated subject area in Judaica.  
• Humboldt Research Fellowship Program: The Humboldt Research Fellowship Program offers postdoctoral fellowship opportunities in support of research in Germany in any discipline. 
• The Michigan Society Fellowship: The Michigan Society Fellowship offers awards across academic fields for a three-year term. Fellows are appointed as assistant professors  in appropriate departments and as postdoctoral scholars in the Michigan Society of Fellows.
• Postdoctoral Fellowships for Academic Diversity at the University of Pennsylvania: The Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania seeks to attract promising scholars and educators from all backgrounds, races, ethnic groups, and other diverse groups whose life experience, research experience and employment background will contribute significantly to their academic mission. The fellowships are available for postdoctoral training in all areas of study at the University.
• Supreme Court Fellowship Program: The Supreme Court Fellowship is open to doctoral degree holders in political science, along with mid-career professionals, recent law school graduates, and doctoral degree holders in law. Fellows spend one year in Washington, D.C. based at the Supreme Court, the Federal Judicial Center, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, or the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

Early Stage

• American Psychological Association: The American Psychological Association offers a range of fellowships for graduate students, including their Minority Fellowship Program.
• The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program: This fellowship is designed to engage its Fellows in the analytical process that informs U.S. science and technology policy.
• The Frannie and Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship: The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program supports students in the applied physical or biological sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Eligibility: first year in the PhD.
• Google Research Fellowship: This award is for graduate students doing research in computer science or related fields. Eligibility: all enrolled PhD students. Students must be nominated by their university.
• Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity (GFSD): GFSD awards fellowships for graduate study in a range of science fields for graduate study at participating GFSD institutions. Students can apply at any point in their graduate careers.
• The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program (NDSEG): The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program (NDSEG) of the US Department of Defense is intended for students at or near the beginning of graduate study for doctoral degrees in mathematical, physical, biological, computer, and engineering sciences.
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF): The NSF Graduate Research Fellowships are for students in the fields of mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, and behavioral and social sciences, including the history and philosophy of science. Eligibility: first- and second-year PhD students and master's students.
• Platzman Memorial Fellowships: The Platzman Memorial Fellowships provide funding for visiting researchers working on projects that require on-site consultation of University of Chicago Library collections, primarily archives, manuscripts or printed materials in the Special Collections Research Center. Special consideration will be given to applications in the fields of late 19th or early 20th-century physics or physical chemistry, or 19th-century classical opera.
• Porter Physiology Development Fellowship: The goal of the Porter Physiology Development Fellowship is to encourage diversity among students pursuing full-time studies towards a PhD in the physiological sciences
• Selected Professions Fellowships-American Association of University Women: Selected Professions Fellowships are awarded to women who intend to pursue a full-time course of study at accredited U.S. institutions during the fellowship year in one of the designated degree programs where women’s participation traditionally has been low.
• US Department of Energy Computational Science Fellowship: The fellowship welcomes applications from students in fields that use high-performance computing to solve complex science and engineering problems. Fellows also participate in a 12-week research experience at a DOE laboratory. Master's students and first-year PhD students are eligible to apply; fellows must be enrolled as full-time doctoral students during the time of the fellowship.

Dissertation

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowships: The AAAS provides opportunities for those in the sciences to learn first-hand about federal policymaking while using their knowledge and skills to address today’s most pressing societal challenges.
• American Fellowship- American Association of University Women: For final year of dissertation research.
• The Awesome Foundation: The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe. Each fully autonomous chapter supports awesome projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. These micro-grants come out of pockets of the chapter's "trustees" and are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on awesome projects. Every chapter interprets "awesome" for itself. As such, awesome projects include initiatives in a wide range of areas including arts, technology, community development, and more. 
• Gilliam Fellowships: This award is jointly for students and their dissertation advisors; the students must be from populations which are historically underrepresented in science. Eligibility: faculty-student pairs in the biomedical, life, or biological sciences.
• Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards: The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards recognize promising researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence.
• Laura Bassi Scholarship: The Laura Bassi Scholarship provides funding for editorial support to junior scholars working on neglected topics within their disciplines.
• National Institute of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein Research Service Award: This award supports doctoral students in receiving mentored research training while conducting dissertation research in scientific health-related fields.
• Switzer Fellowship: The Switzer Environmental Fellowship Program supports highly talented graduate students in New England and California whose studies are directed toward improving environmental quality and who demonstrate the potential for leadership in their field.

Postdoctoral

• Humboldt Research Fellowship Program: The Humboldt Research Fellowship Program offers postdoctoral fellowship opportunities in support of research in Germany in any discipline. 
• The Michigan Society Fellowship: The Michigan Society Fellowship offers awards across academic fields for a three-year term. Fellows are appointed as assistant professors  in appropriate departments and as postdoctoral scholars in the Michigan Society of Fellows.
• Mortimer B. Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program: The Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program attracts high-achieving postdoctoral scholars from premier universities in the United States and Canada to do research in STEM areas in Israel. Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholarships will be awarded for up to two years. Candidates may apply to STEM departments in more than one of the participating Israeli universities.
• Postdoctoral Fellowships for Academic Diversity at the University of Pennsylvania: The Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania seeks to attract promising scholars and educators from all backgrounds, races, ethnic groups, and other diverse groups whose life experience, research experience and employment background will contribute significantly to their academic mission. The fellowships are available for postdoctoral training in all areas of study at the University.