Graduate Student Grant/Fellowship Blog

Length: 2 to 12 months for Core Awards; 2 weeks for German Studies Seminar and Higher Education Administrator Programs abroad.
Deadline: August 1, 2013
Comments:  Must be U.S. citizen; “Ph.D. or equivalent professional/terminal degree (including a master’s degree, depending on the field) as appropriate” typically required;  candidates outside academe (e.g., professionals, artists) with recognized professional standing and substantial professional accomplishments are also eligible, as specified in the award description” but doctoral candidates should apply to the Fulbright Student Program; new awards in the program for 2014-2015 include Fulbright Flex Awards, Fulbright Postdoctoral/Early Career Awards, Salary Stipend Supplements and Teaching English as a Foreign Language Awards.

URL: http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards/

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Deadline: June 3, 2013
Length: typically 6-12 months, up to maximum of 18 months
Comments: these fellowships enable doctoral students enrolled in modern foreign language and area studies at U.S. institutions to conduct dissertation research overseas; must be citizen, national or permanent resident of U.S.

URL: www.G5.gov, scroll down to e-Application packages; for more information, see http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/applicant.html

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Length: 1 year, with possible renewal for 1 more year
Deadline: posted 3/15/13, open until filled
Comments: “The Fellow must normally have received the PhD by July 1, 2013, and within the last three years, and not have held a tenure-track position. Candidates should be conducting research that requires demonstrated expertise in the use of Digital Humanities in their scholarly field.”
URL: https://jobs.dickinson.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1366043015593 

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Deadline: May 13, 2013
Length: Award for research to be carried out at some point during the next five academic quarters from June 10, 2013 to September 28, 2014.
Comments: Doctoral students may be in any year of their program; six $5000 fellowships will be awarded, and can be used for travel or or other expenses related to research projects such as books, software, copying costs, temporary lodging, costs of recording devices or cameras, etc.; proposals should be for projects that can be carried out at some point during the next 5 quarters – between June 10, 2013 and September 28, 2014 ; funds can be used to support travel or other expenses related to research projects such as books, software, copying costs, temporary lodging, costs of recording devices or cameras, etc.; proposals related to faculty-directed human rights projects (The Crisis of Humanitarianism; Health & Human Rights; Human Rights at Home; and Rights and Duties) are particularly encouraged.

URL: http://humanrights.uchicago.edu/awards.shtml

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Length: 2 years
Deadline: December 15, 2012
Comments: Candidates must have received a PhD between July 1, 2009 and July 1, 2013; “Preference given to candidates in late Edo, Meiji and/or Taisho periods, with a focus on gender/queer studies, colonialism, visuality, ethnography, media or translation studies. Competence in another East Asian literature is desirable”
URL: https://career.wellesley.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=139440

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Length: 2 years
Deadline: March 27, 2013
Comments: “The program will place 20 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector”; “Prospective applicants should read through all the positions listed below and be ready to choose one when beginning the online application process”; applicants must have received PhD between January 2010 and deadline (March 27, 2013); must not have applied to any other ACLS fellowship programs in the 2012-13 application year;  applications accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org).
URL: http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows/

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Length: 2 years
Deadline: February 1, 2013
Comments: Two Postdoctoral fellowships sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies; to be housed in the Departments of History and English, respectively;  for “scholars of early modern studies (16th through 18th centuries), broadly defined, whose expertise includes but is not limited to book history, history of the material text, and history of print cultures in Europe and beyond”; “Applicants should have received their doctorates in the last six years (no earlier than July 1, 2007 and no later than September 30, 2013).”
URL: http://www.c1718cs.ucla.edu/content/postdoc-sup.htm

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Deadline: January 15, 2013
Length: at least 90 days
Comments: “Must be a U.S. citizen”; “Must have a Ph.D. or be a doctoral candidate who has completed all Ph.D. requirements with the exception of the dissertation”; “Must wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance in two or more countries outside the United States, one of which must host a participating American overseas research center (ORC).”
URL: http://caorc.org/programs/multi.htm 

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Deadline: February 15, 2013
Length: two years
Comments: “for a recent Ph.D. in any field of East Asian studies, with extensive expertise in the digital humanities or qualitative digital data management in the social sciences. The fellow will be expected to assist faculty, students, and research affiliates, as described below, and assist specific digital projects, including the Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 disasters (www.jdarchive.org).”
URL: http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/fellowships/postdoctoral.php

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Deadline: applications accepted between November 12, 2012 and January 21, 2013
Length: 1  year
Comments: open to candidates who wish to spend time in the UK carrying out archival research for their dissertations; “Fellowships will last for one year and will run concurrently with the academic year, i.e. from 1 October 2013 to 30 September 2014″
URL: http://www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/junior

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