Graduate Fellowship Opportunities

 

CSRC Resources
Friends of the Center Undergraduate and Graduate Awards
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Support for students attending internationally-oriented programs in religion, conflict, and peacebuilding.
 
 
External Resources
Acton Institute
www.acton.org
Awards, fellowships and scholarships for those studying interrelatedness of economics and theology or religion.
 
American Association of University Women (Grad Women Only)
www.aauw.org
Fellowships, awards and grants are offered to support women in academics, activism and (male dominated) professions.
 
American Council of Learned Societies
www.acls.org
Fellowships and grants are offered in a number of areas of study on humanistic approaches.
 
The American Studies Association
www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asainfo.html
Many grants and fellowships for social behavioral, humanities and science-based research.
 
Charlotte Newcomb Fellowships 
www.woodrow.org/newcombe
Offers dissertation fellowships, with $25,000 stipend and tuition waiver, to study ethical and religious values in humanities and social sciences.
 

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship
www7.nationalacademies.org/fellowships/fordpredoc.html

Predoctoral fellowships, with 3 years of support, for grad students getting Ph. D or Sc. D.
 

Fulbright-Hays--Group Projects Abroad Program
www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsgpa/index.html

Provides grants to support overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies.
 
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation: 
Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm
Supports individual projects that increase the understanding of violence and ameliorate urgent problems.

Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/about/fellowships
For recent graduates of law schools or graduate programs in journalism, international relations, area studies, or other relevant disciplines from universities worldwide.
 
Institute for Humane Studies
www.theihs.org
Offers Summer grad research fellowships plus film and journalism scholarships to research humane studies.
 
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program
www.gwu.edu/~fellows/javits.html
For masters or doctoral studies in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
 
Louisville Institute
www.louisville-institute.org
Offers summer stipends, dissertation fellowships and a variety of grants for academic and professional work in religion.
 
Luce Fellowships
www.hluce.org/3scholfm.html
Provides stipends and internships to study in Asia.

Rotary International: World Peace Fellows
http://www.rotary.org/rotarycenters

Awards up to 100 fellowships to study peace or a related field at one of seven partner universities.  Master’s and Professional Development Certificate available.


Social Science Research Council
www.ssrc.org/fellowships
Fellowships for multidisciplinary research and dissertations on contemporary topics within the social sciences.
 
US Institute of Peace: Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowships 
www.usip.org/fellows/scholars.html
International peace and conflict management.
 
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
www.woodrow.org
Dissertation fellowships in Religious Studies and Ethics.