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Funding for Coursework
Critical Writing Program Graduate Assistant Writing Fellows
The Graduate Assistant Writing Fellowships are open to all Penn graduate students and Ph.Ds. in good standing. Fellows are expected to support faculty of writing-intensive courses (formerly known as WATU, or Writing Across the University) by handling informal writing assignments, reading drafts, commenting on papers and meeting with students in conferences. Compensation varies according to the number of students the fellow is responsible for: For ten or fewer students, $70 per student. For 11-15 students: $900. For 16-20 students: $1200. For each student over 20 up to a maximum of 25, $70 per student. As fellows are not TAs, they are not expected to grade papers or attend class. Graduate students can also apply to work as Senior Tutors or Mentors through the Critical Writing Program.
Application Deadline: Mid-February for the Fall semester and Mid-September for the Spring semester.
David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship
This fellowship sponsors U.S. graduate students who wish to pursue specialization in area and language study or to add an international dimension to their education. Boren Fellowships support students pursuing the study of languages, cultures, and world regions that are critical to U.S. national security but are less frequently studied by U.S. graduate students, i.e., areas of the world other than Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. U.S. citizenship required. There is a service component upon graduation.
Application Deadline: late January.
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities
This three year fellowship supports U.S. citizens in a doctoral program. It is not meant to support disseration research. Applicants must be from the following groups: Alaska Natives (Eskimo or Aleut), Black/African Americans, Mexican Americans/hicanas/hicanos, Native American Indians, Native Pacific Islanders (Polynesian/Micronesian), and Puerto Ricans.
Application Deadline: Mid-November.
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships
Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, be enrolled in a graduate program at Penn, and have research or career plans that require the use of the language to be studied. FLAS applications are available through the specific languages programs through which these courses are offered. These include, the Middle East Center, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Department of South Asian Studies, and the African Studies Center.
Application Deadline: early to mid February.
The Howard Gulliksen Psychometric Research Fellowship Program
This fellowship provides support for an academic year and a summer internship at ETS for fellows who will work closely with a research advisor on a project which correlates with research currently underway at ETS. U.S. and international students who have completed a minimum of two years toward completion of the Ph.D. are eligible to apply.
Application Deadline: Early December.
The Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program
This fellowship funds graduate study for up to two years for students in arts, humanities or social science. This includes linguistics and public policy. To be eligible, you must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident and have not yet completed your first year of graduate study.
Application Deadline: early October.
The National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
This fellowship sponsors students in their early years of graduate study (applicants may apply no later than their second year) in NSF supported fields of science, mathematics and engineering. Relevant sub-fields in the social sciences include sociology, public policy, cultural and linguistic anthropology and linguistics. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Application Deadline: November.
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
To be eligible for this fellowship, you must be (i)a naturalized American, (ii) the child of naturalized Americans or (iii) a green-card holder less than 30 years of age at the time of the application and not beyond their second year of graduate study. Application Deadline: early November.
Funding for Dissertation Research/Writing
American Education Services/Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency Dissertation
One 18 month non-resident fellowship is available to students conducting their dissertation on research on public and institutional policies intended to increase higher education participation and degree attainment, particularly among academically and financially at-risk populations.
Application Deadline: Late-April.
American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship
Dissertation fellowships are available to women who will complete their dissertation writing between July 1 and June 30 of the following year. To qualify, applicants must have completed all course work, passed all required preliminary examinations, and received approval for their research proposal or plan by Nov. 15. Open to applicants in all fields of study, except engineering. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Application Deadline: Mid-November.
The Briton Martin Fellowship
This fellowship covers stipend and fees for an ABD student in any graduate group at Penn who is within three years of their Ph.D. exams, to support the completion of a dissertation on South Asia.
Application Deadline: Late March.
Herman Kahn Resident Fellowship Program
Herman Kahn Resident Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Hudson Institute, supports Ph.D. candidates who have completed their course work and have only to finish writing their dissertations. Fellows work on their dissertations 50 percent of the time, with the remainder devoted to policy-oriented research projects assigned by Hudson Institute in their general area of interest. These funded areas include a Fellowship in Education, which is designed to support policy-relevant research in education.
Application Deadline: Early April.
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for Minorities
This fellowship supports doctoral students expecting to complete their dissertations the following academic year. Eligible applicants are U.S. citizens from the following groups: Alaska Natives (Eskimo or Aleut), Black/African Americans, Mexican Americans/Chicanas/Chicanos, Native American Indians, Native Pacific Islanders (Polynesian/Micronesian), and Puerto Ricans.
Application Deadline: Early December.
Illinois Qualitative Dissertation Award
Doctoral candidates who have completed their dissertation proposal by the first of January and who will defend their disseration by April 1st of the current academic year are ellibible for consideration for this $500 award.
Application Deadline: Early February.
Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust
Eligible students are PhD candidates who have completed all requirements for that degree by January 31, save the completion and defense of his/her dissertation. This fellowship is open to both American and foreign students enrolled at any university in the United States.
Application Deadline: late January.
The Language Learning Dissertation Grant Program
The grant is designed to cover actual expenses, up to $1,500 per grant, e.g. travel for data collection, essential equipment etc., connected with the research component of the dissertation. The areas eligible for support are described on the inside cover of the journal Language Learning. Eligible students should be at the level of "advanced candidacy" and have a dissertation proposal approved by the relevant departmental authorities dissertation. There is no citizenship requirement for this fellowship. Applications will be reviewed as they are received and recipients will be listed annually in the March issue of the journal.
Application Deadline: As Received.
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Doctoral Dissertations Grants
Dissertation improvement grants are available in various fields related to educational linguistics including cultural anthropology, human cognition and perception, linguistics and sociology. The proposal must be submitted through regular university channels by the dissertation advisor(s) on behalf of the graduate student who is at the point of initiating or already conducting dissertation research. The student must be enrolled at a U.S. institution, but need not be a U.S. citizen. Proposals from women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged.
Application Deadline: Varies depending on source, usually twice yearly in the summer and in the winter.
The Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
This fellowship supports writing of a dissertation on educational research. As such elligible students must have completed all pre-dissertation requirements by June 1st of the fellowship year. These include: course requirements, qualifying paper or comprehensive exams, official approval of the dissertation proposal, and any other program-specific requirements. This fellowship is open to international students and U.S. citizens in a doctoral program at U.S. universities.
Application Deadline: October.
The TESOL International Research Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
This fellowship supports writing of a dissertation on a priority topic in TESOL. Applicants must have advanced to candidacy with a topic that has already received dissertation committe approval and must submit a proposal that falls under either current or previous priority topics. These are 2002-03 (age issue), 2003-04 (teachers' proficiency), or 2004-05 (technology). There are no specified citizenship requirements for this fellowship.
Application Deadline: End of May.
The Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grants
These grants are awarded to individuals to aid anthropological doctoral dissertation or thesis research. Awards are contigent upon the applicant's successful completion of all requirements for the degree other than the dissertation/thesis. Qualified students of all nationalities are eligible.
Application Deadline: Early November and Early May.
Funding for Dissertation Research Abroad
American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship
This fellowship is available to doctoral candidates at U.S. colleges and 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.
Application Deadline: Early July.
American Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship Program
This fellowship sponsors travel to and research in the Scandinavaian countries.
Application Deadline: Early November.
Fulbright Grant
Fulbright Full Grants are available to more than 100 countries in Europe, the Near East, Africa, Central and South America, and the Asia/Pacific region. Applicants must be U.S. citizens.
Application Deadline: Mid-September.
German Marshall Fund of the United States
GMF offers grants for research to improve the understanding of significant contemporary economic, political and social developments relating to Europe, European integration and relations between Europe and the United States. Projects should involve either comparative analysis of a specific issue in more than one country or the exploration of an issue in a single country in ways that can be expected to have relevance for other countries. The geographic scope of the program includes Western, Central and Eastern Europe, including Russia and Turkey as they relate to Europe, but not the Central Asian countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Application Deadline: Mid-November.
German Chancellor Scholarship
This scholarship sponsors U.S. citizens who are no more than 35 years old to conduct research in Germany
Application Deadline: Late October.
SSRC International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship
The International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF) program provides support for social scientists and humanists conducting dissertation field research in all areas and regions of the world. The program is open to full-time graduate students in the humanities and social sciences regardless of citizenship enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States.
Application Deadline: Early November.
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