NSF Dissertation Grant Deadlines

SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SBE DDRIG)

Full Proposal Target Date:  January 15, 2012

Research on Science and Technology Surveys and Statistics

January 15, Annually Thereafter

Full Proposal Deadline Date:  February 1, 2012

Science, Technology, and Society

February 1, Annually Thereafter

Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 9, 2012
Biological Anthropology

Program Guidelines: NSF 11-547

The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake ...
More at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13453&org=SBE

Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) Student Competition

To enable humanities and social science graduate students to conduct preliminary research and prepare dissertation research and funding proposals, the Social Science Research Council offers Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowships. Fellows participate in two proposal preparation workshops and receive up to $5,000 in support of research during the summer of 2010.

The fellowship competition is open to all second and third-year graduate students in any discipline of the social sciences and humanities who are currently enrolled full time in a PhD program at an accredited university in the United States and whose research projects and dissertation proposals fit within one of the six research fields listed below.

Students awarded fellowships must participate in two four-day workshops led by leading scholars of different disciplinary perspectives in each of the fields. Workshop dates are June 3-6, 2010 in San Diego, CA and September 16-19, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA. The fellowship covers all
necessary costs of travel, meals, and lodging for the workshops.

2010 Research Fields:

After Secularization: New Approaches to Religion and Modernity
Vincent P. Pecora (University of Utah, English)
Jonathan Sheehan (University of California - Berkeley, History)

Discrimination Studies
Samuel R. Lucas (University of California - Berkeley, Sociology)
Lisa G. Materson (University of California - Davis, History)

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Contentious Politics
Doug McAdam (Stanford University, Sociology)
Sidney Tarrow (Cornell University, Government)

Multiculturalism, Immigration, and Identity in Western Europe and the United States
Nancy Foner (City University of New York Graduate Center, Sociology)
Christophe Bertossi (Institut français des relations internationales, Political Science)

Spaces of Inquiry
Stuart W. Leslie (The Johns Hopkins University, History of Science and Technology)
Carla Yanni (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Art History)

Virtual Worlds
Tom Boellstorff (University of California - Irvine, Anthropology)
Douglas Thomas (University of Southern California, Communication)


For full descriptions of the research fields, eligibility and application requirements, and the DPDF program, along with links to the SSRC Online Application Portal, visit our Web site

SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL [SSRC]
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)

The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) is designed to help early-stage graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate more effective doctoral dissertation proposals. Senior tenured faculty serve as research directors who identify research fields for groups of 12 graduate students. The faculty research directors design two workshops: one to prepare students to undertake summer research that will inform the design of their dissertation proposal, held in spring; the other to help students apply their summer research experiences to writing dissertation and funding proposals, held in the fall. Working together,
research directors and graduate students help shape emerging fields in the humanities and social sciences.

The DPDF program is open to second-and third-year graduate students in all disciplines of the social sciences and humanities who are currently enrolled full time in Ph.D. programs at accredited universities in the United States First and fourth year students may, under exceptional circumstances, be eligible.

For full descriptions of the research fields, eligibility and application requirements, and the DPDF program, along with links to the SSRC Online Application Portal, visit our Web site.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 29, 2010, 6:00 P.M., EST
The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program (DPDF) is pleased to announce the six selected research fields for the 2010 program cycle:

After Secularization: New Approaches to Religion and Modernity
Vincent P. Pecora (University of Utah, English)
Jonathan Sheehan (University of California - Berkeley, History)

Discrimination Studies
Samuel R. Lucas (University of California - Berkeley, Sociology)
Lisa G. Materson (University of California - Davis, History)

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Contentious Politics
Doug McAdam (Stanford University, Sociology)
Sidney Tarrow (Cornell University, Government)

Multiculturalism, Immigration, and Identity in Western Europe and the United States
Nancy Foner (City University of New York Graduate Center, Sociology)
Christophe Bertossi (Institut français des relations internationales, Political Science)

Spaces of Inquiry
Stuart W. Leslie (The Johns Hopkins University, History of Science and Technology)
Carla Yanni (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Art History)

Virtual Worlds
Tom Boellstorff (University of California - Irvine, Anthropology)
Douglas Thomas (University of Southern California, Communication)

For full descriptions of the research fields, eligibility and application requirements, and the DPDF program, along with links to the SSRC Online Application Portal, visit our Web site.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 29, 2010, 6:00 P.M., EST

PACHS Dissertation Fellowships for 2010-11

The Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science (PACHS) invites applications for one- or two-month DISSERTATION RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS and nine-month DISSERTATION WRITING FELLOWSHIPS for doctoral students in the history of science, technology, and medicine.

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS are intended specifically for students who wish to use the collections of two or more institutions in the PACHS consortium.

WRITING FELLOWSHIPS are for dissertations in the history of science, technology, or medicine, broadly construed.

The PACHS consortium includes the Academy of Natural Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Franklin Institute, the Hagley Museum and Library, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the
Library Company of Philadelphia, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Wagner Free Institute of Science. For descriptions and links to consortium members' collections, see http://www.pachs.net/members.

The deadline for applications is 11 JANUARY 2010.

For detailed information and to apply online, go to http://www.pachs.net/fellowships.

American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Dissertation Competition

The American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) and Educational Testing Service (ETS) have announced a 2010 Dissertation Competition. The competition is open to those who have completed a dissertation between June 1, 2007 and August 1, 2009 that either focuses on Hispanics in higher education or on select disciplines by a Hispanic student.

First deadline: September 7, 2009
Details and application: AAHHE Dissertation Competition 2010