Scholarships/Grants
National Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships
Fulbright ScholarshipThe Fulbright Scholarship is designed to give graduating seniors, graduate students, faculty, developing professionals and artists opportunities for personal enrichment and international experience. These student grants (covering up to one year) are awarded through a merit-based competition to men and women who create a plan to conduct career-launching study and research abroad.
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External Scholarships
- The American Antiquarian Society Visiting Research Fellowships: A number of short- and long term
Visiting Research Fellowships are available to scholars needing to work in the AAS library collections of American history and culture through 1876.
(http://www.americanantiquarian.org/fellowships.htm)
American Association of University Women Fellowships and Grants: Open to all applicants in all fields, except engineering. (http://www.aauw.org/fga/index.cfm)
American Council of Learned Societies: ACLS offers fellowships and grants in more than a dozen programs for research in the humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels. (http://www.acls.org/grants/default.aspx?id=354)
American Educational Research Association Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research. AERA will award up to three doctoral fellowships every year. Each fellowship award is for 1 year, beginning July 1 or later, and is nonrenewable. Fellowships are awarded for doctoral dissertation research conducted under faculty sponsorship in any accredited university in the United States.
(http://www.aera.net/AboutAERA/AwardsandHonors/tabid/10190/Default.aspx)
American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowships. Available to doctoral candidates at U.S. universities in all fields of study. Junior Research Fellowships 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 eleven months.
(http://www.indiastudies.org/research-fellowship-programs/)
American Jewish Archives Fellowship Program: Thirteen fellowships for students working on some aspect of the history of North American Jewish culture. (http://americanjewisharchives.org/programs_fellowship.php)
American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) Graduate Study Award: Several pre and post doctoral fellowships for graduate study in classics. (http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/admission-membership/grants/)
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies: A competitive merit award for first-year doctoral students. Eligible fields of study include classics, comparative literature, critical theory, cultural anthropology, cultural studies, English literature, ethnic studies, humanities, interdisciplinary studies, linguistics, rhetoric, and women's studies. (http://www.mellon.org/grant_programs/programs/higher-education-andscholarship/researchuniversities)
Bowling Green Center for Popular Culture Studies External Fellows: Fellows pursue their own research while utilizing the resources of the Popular Culture Library and/or the Sound Recording Archive within the Jerome University Library. Generally there are no monetary awards, but fellows are afforded access to facilities. (http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/popc/page13192.html)
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship: 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 Ph.D. candidates in these fields complete their dissertation work in a timely manner. In addition to topics in religious studies or in ethics (philosophical or religious), dissertations appropriate to the Newcombe Fellowship competition might explore the ethical implications of foreign policy, the values influencing political decisions, the moral codes of other cultures, and religious or ethical issues reflected in history or literature. (http://www.woodrow.org/highereducation-fellowships/religion_ethics/index.php)
Children's Literature Association Beiter Grant: Beiter grant funds are not intended as income to assist in the completion of a graduate degree, but as support for research that may be related to the dissertation or master's thesis. The award may be used to purchase supplies and materials (e.g., books, videos, equipment), as research support (photocopying, etc.), or to underwrite travel to special collections or libraries. (http://chla.wikispaces.com/Beiter+Grant)
Josephine DeKarman Fellowship: DeKarman fellowships are open to students in any discipline, including international students, who are currently enrolled in a university or college located within the United States. (http://www.dekarman.org/)
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships: Offers pre-doctoral and dissertation fellowships. (http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/FordFellowships/index.htm)
Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Humanities Grants-in-Aid: For research in the humanities in any field appropriate to the collections, which include the history of science, avant-garde Little Magazines, American women writers to 1920, Scandinavian and Germanic literatures, Dutch post-Reformation theology and church history, French political pamphlets of the 16th and 17th centuries, among others. (http://www.library.wisc.edu/friends/grants-in-aid.html)
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad: Provides grants to colleges and universities to fund individual doctoral students to conduct research in other countries in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of 6-12 months. Proposals focusing on Western Europe are not eligible. (http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/index.html)
Fulbright Scholar Program (http://www.cies.org/)
The Getty Research Institute for the Study of the History of Art and the Humanities Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships: Provides 22-month residencies and stipends for emerging scholars to complete their dissertations or expand them for publication. Getty Fellows are invited based on how their work relates to a specific theme chosen by the Research Institute. (http://www.getty.edu/grants/research/scholars/research_pre_post_fellows.html)
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowships: Awarded to scholars whose work can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world. Particular questions that interest the foundation concern violence, aggression, and dominance in relation to social change, the socialization of children, intergroup conflict, drug trafficking and use, family relationships, and investigations of the control of aggression and violence. (http://www.hfg.org)
Huntington Library Fellowships: Short-term residences (up to $2300/month) at the Library are available for Ph.D. students at the dissertation stage. (http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=566)
IHR Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in the Humanities: $5,000 for pre-doctoral fellows and $25,000 for doctoral fellows will be awarded for archival research in the United Kingdom. (http://www.history.ac.uk/awards/#mellon)
Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowships: Offers approximately 30 fellowships of $20,000to support dissertations bringing "fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, orpractice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world."(http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/fellowship-awards)
United States Institute of Peace Dissertation Fellowships: One-year stipend ($17,000) supports students who have completed all requirements for their degree, except the dissertation, by the start of the fellowship. Dissertation must advance the state of knowledge about international peace and conflict management. (http://www.usip.org/grants-fellowships)
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants in Women's Studies: Designed to encourage original and significant research about women that crosses disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries. (http://www.woodrow.org/womens-studies)
Woodson Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Residential Research Fellowships : To facilitate completion of dissertations or manuscripts in African American and African studies and related fields. http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/programs/fellowships.html
From Black Colleague Association (ISUBCA)
The Vincent Lionel Davis Scholarship
This scholarship was established by the Davis Family in memory of Vincent Lionel Davis, a 1981 graduate of Illinois State University who died in the line of duty as an employee of the Dallas fire department. This $1,000 scholarship is awarded to African-American students. Scholarship recipients are selected by the Black Colleagues Association, a chartered affinity network of the Alumni Association. Applications are due by May 1. Download an application.
Black Colleagues Association Scholarships
The following scholarships are awarded to African-American students by the Black Colleagues Association, a chartered affinity network of the Alumni Association. Recipients of the three scholarships listed below are chosen using the following application. Only one application is required per student and the application deadline is May 1. Download an application.
This scholarship was established by the Davis Family in memory of Vincent Lionel Davis, a 1981 graduate of Illinois State University who died in the line of duty as an employee of the Dallas fire department. This $1,000 scholarship is awarded to African-American students. Scholarship recipients are selected by the Black Colleagues Association, a chartered affinity network of the Alumni Association. Applications are due by May 1. Download an application.
Black Colleagues Association Scholarships
The following scholarships are awarded to African-American students by the Black Colleagues Association, a chartered affinity network of the Alumni Association. Recipients of the three scholarships listed below are chosen using the following application. Only one application is required per student and the application deadline is May 1. Download an application.
- Judge Russell DeBow Scholarship - Judge Russell DeBow was one of the charter members of ISUBCA and was instrumental in writing the original constitution and bylaws in 1994. Formerly known as the Black Colleagues scholarship, this scholarship was later renamed in honor of Judge Debow’s valuable contribution toward formalizing this organization. Annual donations from alumni and friends of ISUBCA fund this $1,000 scholarship each year.
- President’s Office Book Scholarship - This scholarship is sponsored by Illinois State’s President Al Bowman and has been awarded every year since 2000. The scholarship covers book expenses for two semesters, up to $500 per semester.
- Vice President for Student Affairs Book Scholarship - This scholarship is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and has been awarded since 2008. The scholarship covers book expenses for two semesters, up to $500 per semester.