AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & SCHOLARSHIPS
FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES & POLITICAL SCIENCES
Academy for Educational Development
The National Security Educational Program offers graduate
fellowships to enable students to pursue specialization in the study of
languages, cultures, and world regions that are critical to U.S. national
security.
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
ACLS provides fellowships and grants to postgraduate
individuals so they may devote a full year to research and writing in such
fields as Literatures and Languages, History, Anthropology, Political Theory,
Philosophy, Classics, Religion, the History of Art, Linguistics, Musicology,
and the study of diverse world civilizations and cultures. Also offers a
program for research in China.
Scholarships
in education, science, engineering, library science, or mathematics for
first-year college students enrolled in one of the 32 tribal colleges located
across the U.S.
American Philosophical Society
Offers
short-term fellowships for studies in the humanities and social sciences. The
Porter Physiology Fellowships/Scholarships are awarded to minority graduate
students working on their doctoral degree in the physiological sciences.
Offers
Congressional Postgraduate Science Fellowships to society members who will
assist members of Congress in understanding the technical and scientific issues
of global warming, energy policy, defense technologies, AIDS, pollution,
communications technologies, and more. Offers special awards for APS members
who are on the faculty in physics (and closely related) departments and to
those who have made significant and innovative contributions in the application
of physics to science and technology.
Awards
scholarships to students pursuing careers in the environmental sciences, public
administration, transportation, or urban studies and awards fellowships for
community development studies. Also has a minority
scholarship program.
American Political Science Association
Offers grants and congressional fellowships to minority students who are
political science majors entering their first year of doctoral studies in the
political science discipline.
American-Scandinavian Foundation
The
ASF promotes international understanding through educational and cultural
exchange between the United States and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and
Sweden in areas of art, business, and government.
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Offers
both graduate students and scholars the opportunity to study Greek civilization
first hand, in Greece.
American School of Oriental Research
Offers graduate fellowships to encourage and support research
into, and public understanding of, the peoples and cultures of the Near East
from the earliest times.
American Society of Criminology
Offers
financial assistance to minority students studying criminal justice.
Applications are accepted from current college seniors and graduate students
accepted into or enrolled in a program of doctoral studies in criminology.
American Sociological Association
The
Minority Fellowship Program is for new or continuing graduate students, with
preference for those entering a doctoral program in sociology.
Association of American Geographers
Offers
three different dissertation and research grant programs to support doctoral
dissertation research in geography.
Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship Program
Offers
substantial scholarships for the graduate education of young men and women of
exceptional promise pursuing careers in the arts, humanities, and social
sciences.
Offers
the Atlantic Fellowships in Public Policy that provides a unique opportunity
for outstanding mid-career professionals to study and gain practical experience
in a wide variety of public policy areas in the United Kingdom.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Offers
fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating college seniors to work as
research assistants to the Endowment's senior associates.
Center for Women in Government
Offers
graduate fellowships for women pursuing careers in public policy.
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
Offers
the short-term Public Health Fellowship to provide opportunities for minorities
to learn about public policy and the legislative process.
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI)
The CHCI Fellowship Program offers up to 20 promising Latinos from
across the country, Puerto Rico, and Guam the opportunity to gain hands-on
experience at the federal level in the public policy area of their choice
through the General Public Policy Fellowship.
Offers
the Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship that provides college graduates with
the opportunity to gain a Washington perspective on key issues of peace and
security.
Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
Offers
a doctoral fellowship to scholars who have already earned their PhD in fields
in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences and wish to
conduct research of regional significance.
Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships
Offers individualized fellowships, in varying
locations, to promote international
understanding and productivity through the exchange of information, ideas, and
perspectives among emerging leaders throughout the world.
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
Offers
two programs designed to increase the number of minority biomedical and
behavioral scientist.
German Academic Exchange Service
Offers
fellowships to assist doctoral students and recent Ph.D.s in their research on
the cultural, social, communal, and intellectual history of German-speaking
Jewry.
Goliard Scholarship for World Travel and International Understanding
The
Goliard Scholarship is aimed at Rice University students with a desire to
expand their horizons and challenge their worldview. It is unrivaled among
scholarships available to Rice students in that it is intended for those
students who wish to travel and might not have that opportunity in the normal
course of their academic studies.
Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada
Offers
undergraduate and graduate scholarships to minority students pursuing
economics, business administration, public administration, governmental
accounting, finance, or political science careers.
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Offers
fellowships for study in any of the natural and social sciences and the
humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes,
manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance.
Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
Offers
scholarships to college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are
committed to careers in government, the non-profit or advocacy sectors,
education or elsewhere in the public service.
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The
foundation offers an internship program designed for young minority journalists
interested in specializing in urban public health issues and obtaining a better
understanding of the national policy-making process. Kaiser Media Fellowships
in Health are offered for print or broadcast reporters, editors, and producers
who cover health issues.
The
Luce Scholars Program offers fellowships that provide
professional internships in Asia for young American leaders to work and live in
Asia.
Hispanic Heritage Awards Foundation
Hispanic
achievers receive awards in five areas: Leadership, Sports, Literature,
Education and the Arts, plus a lifetime achievement award.
Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR)
Offers
research fellowships, graduate fellowships, and summer internships for female
students to study public policy issues of critical importance to women and
their families.
Offers
graduate level fellowships to work in Latin America and the Caribbean to
promote equitable, responsive, and participatory self-help development.
Offers
scholarships and mentoring programs to African American students pursuing
careers in community development and leadership.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Offers
fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields of natural sciences, social
sciences, humanities, and creative arts.
Leadership Conference Education Fund
Offers
a graduate summer fellowship program designed to place contemporary and future social
justice struggles within a national and historical context.
Offers
four different postgraduate fellowship programs for the study of the history
and culture of German-speaking Jewry.
Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs
Offers
two-year fellowships to U.S. federal government employees to develop an
in-depth understanding of Japan’s government, business practices, and academic communities.
The
foundation awards scholarships to Native American and Alaska Natives in fields
related to health care or tribal policy. Also offers summer congressional internships.
National Academy of Social Insurance
Offers
several internships and dissertation awards for graduate research in the field
of social insurance.
The
Research and Development Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice offers
graduate students research fellowships on issues of crime and justice.
Fellowships
are open to scholars, non-academic research professionals, scientists engaged
in the humanities, and creative writers of demonstrated achievement, whose work
will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Humanities and Social
Sciences Library.
Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America Foundation
Offers
awards, fellowships, and grants to students pursuing careers in the
pharmaceutical industry.
Offers
three different graduate and postdoctoral fellowships in the areas of
biomedical, social science, and public health.
Offers
the Ambassadorial Scholarships program to further international understanding
and friendly relations among people of different countries There are several
types of scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students as well as qualified
professionals pursuing vocational studies.
Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives
Supports
excellence in research in the social sciences with graduate student fellowships
in Latino studies.
Social Science Research Council
Offers
programs that provide predissertation and dissertation fellowships,
postdoctoral fellowships, and advanced research grants in both the social
sciences and humanities.
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Offers
several different grant programs for graduates to pursue scientific research in
social problem areas.
State Farm Companies Foundation
The
foundation awards fifty $3,000 scholarships annually to students pursuing
careers in business-related areas. Offers achievement scholarships for minority
students. Offers scholarships to employees and their dependents.
Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education
The Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program
offers current public or private elementary and secondary mathematics,
technology, and science classroom teachers an opportunity to serve in the
national public policy arena.
U. S. Agency for International Development
The
Investigating in Women in Development (IWID) fellowship program offers a
hands-on development experience in an international setting for 12 months to
study democracy/governance, business and economic development, education for
young females, local environment, and population health and nutrition.
U. S. Centers for Disease Control Foundation
Offers
postdoctoral fellowships for professionals to explore the most effective ways
to stop the spread of HIV.
Offers
several different fellowships in the areas of fine arts, education, humanities,
environmental sciences, social sciences, neurosciences, and interdisciplinary
studies.
U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Offers
Urban Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowships to expand urban research important to
public policy.
U. S. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Offers
minority dissertation research grants in human communications and related
studies.
Offers
the White House Fellowships to professionals pursuing political science
careers. The highly competitive Fellowships allow for the opportunity to
participate in the day-to-day business of governing the nation. Also offers
special awards for engineering, mathematics, and science.
Offers
the HORIZONS foundation scholarship to encourage women to pursue careers
related to the national security interests of the United States and to provide
development opportunities to women already working in national security fields.
Yeager Scholars Program / Society of Yeager Scholars
Offers prestigious scholarships for postgraduates to continue their studies at Oxford University, England.
